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  • Lot# : 762 France

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    1863/70: Laureated 10 c. bistre, single example used on 1869 blue "Télégramme Privé" envelope tied by 2082 gros chiffres in black, with corresponding 'Lons-Le-Saunier' cds at left (Nov 12) and, on reverse, 'Lons-Le-Saunier' Telegraph datestamp. A charming and scarce usage.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 763 France

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    1867: Laureated 10 c. bistre used with Siège 10 c. bistre on post Armistice 1871 cover to Toulon tied by Paris Star '6' in black with 'Paris / Senat' cds at right (Jan 31). Reverse with Toulon cds of receipt (Feb 11). A most unusual mixed issue 'same value' franking.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 764 France

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    1870 (Sept 18): Cover and complete original contents mailed from Paris to Nice, either a letter smuggled from Paris (lettre passée par passeur) as Paris was completely surrounded by this date but more probably carried on the 1st Ballon 'Neptune', franked by pair of laureated 20 c. blue for double rate with PARIS / R. ST. LAZARE cds in black (Sept 18). Reverse with 'Nice' arrival cds (Sept 24, third levée) in black - the 'Neptune' arrivals are recorded between Sept 23-25. Opening tears at top but a rare entire.
    Starting bid : 4,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 765 France

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    1863/67: Laureated 30 c. brown and 80 c. carmine, overlapped by 1871 Siège 20 c. blue used on 1871 entire letter from Le Havre to Lima, Peru tied by '1769' gros chiffres in black.  Framed PP in red alongside 'Le Havre' despatch cds (Sept 1) in black, the cover endorsed by Steamer 'Elbe'. Reverse with Lima arrival cds (Oct 1). A fresh and very fine entire. Signed Calves.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 766 France

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    Affranchisement Composés 1871: Entire letter from Mirecourt to Lamarche, Vosges franked by 1870 Siège 20 c. blue tied by 2370 gros chiffres, up-rated by 5 c. for the newly introduced 25 c. rate of September 1, 1871 with framed "P.P." in red struck in lieu of a 5 centime adhesive to denote full cash prepayment. Mirecourt cds (Sept 15) at right and reverse with Lamarche arrival cds. Extremely rare.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 767 France

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    1871: Siège 40 c. orange used with Cérès 1871/75 80 c. rose horizontal pair on 1873 entire letter endorsed VOIE DE BORDEAUX / ET MAGELLAN tied in black with PARIS / GA. L.F. DU SUD-OUEST despatch at left (Aug 22) and framed PP in red. Bordeaux transit cds on reverse and struck on arrival with '25' (centavos) due marking in red. A fine and attractive entire.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 768 France

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    1870/71: Bordeaux 20 c. type II, report 3 in the extremely rare ultramarine shade, a fresh block of four with large margins on three sides (shaved at bottom left, three minute thins), a desirable multiple in unused condition. Signed Roumet; cert. Behr (1999) Maury 45/IIIf = € 150'000/Yvert = € 140'000.
    Starting bid : 20,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 769 France

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    1871/75: Cérès 1 c. bronze on green (a staggering 22 examples) used with 2 c. red-brown (2) on 1876 'window pane' franking addressed rto Geay, Charente all tied by '2608' gros chiffres of La Roche-Sur-Yon in black with despatch cds alongside (Feb 27). Reverse with arrivals and manuscript 'Inconnue à Geay' with circular 'Mairie de Geay' cachet in blue adjacent. Some minor edge wear and 1 centime overpaid but a remarkable and most attractive franking.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,200 CHF

    Lot# : 770 France

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    1871/75: Cérès 2 c. red-brown, ten single examples used on 1875 cover from Valenciennes to Bléharies, Belgium (paying the 20 centime reduced 'border' rate), all tied by '4078' gros chiffres with Valenciennes despatch cds on front (June 3). Reverse with 'France / Midi I' cds (June 4) and Antoing cds. Some edge wear but a most attractive usage.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 771 France

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    1871/75: Cérès 30 c. pale brown vertical pair used with 80 c. carmine single and verticxal pair, on 1875 cover to Vera Cruz, Mexico endorsed 'Vapeur Anglais, via Southampton'; tied by Paris Star handstamps in black. Paris despatch cds (March 31) and framed 'P.P.' on front in red, thence via London to Vera Cruz where charged with "35c." due marking in black.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 772 France

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    1871/75: Cérès 80 c. carmine - no less than 155 examples - including a block of 39 and another of 38 stamps, used with 5 c. green, 10 c. brown on rose, 15 c. bistre and a pair of 25 c. blue all on 1874 large registered front of cover to London, cancelled by '6316' gros chiffres of Lyon (Les Terreaux) in black for a rate totalling 124 francs 75 centimes (!). Red framed 'rate box' of despatch and oval 'Registered / London' arrival in red (Oct 16) Many stamps with defects and heavily creased and folded but a truly astonishing franking for the connoisseur of Postal History.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,000 CHF

    Lot# : 773 France

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    1871/75: Cérès 25 c. blue, Type II, a wonderful example with full sheet margin and central 'North, South, East, West' blue guideline (Croix de Repère) in margin, used on 1874 cover to Archigny, Vienne tied by Paris Star with 'Paris / R. Milton' cds alongside (Feb 13).Envelope trimmed at top but exceptional and, as far as we are aware, a unique usage on letter.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 775 France

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    1877/90: Type Sage 50 c. pale carmine on rose, Type II ('N' under 'U'), an unused horizontal pair, of fine colour, typical wrinkle on unmounted og. Maury = € 660.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : 130 CHF

    Lot# : 776 France

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    1949: UPU, the set of three values unused, variety 'Imperforate', fresh and very fine, unmounted og. Maury = € 800.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 777 France

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    Circuit of Mediterranean Flight 1926: Cover carried by French Pilot Hirschauer in a Morance-Saulnier 122, franked with Sower 40 c. cancelled in Paris on May 20, thereafter each stage marked by adhesives from different countries: Rabat, Morocco (May 27), Algeria, Tripoli, Libya (June 21), landing at Aboukir on June 25 with Egypt 1923 15 m. blue tied by 'Continental Savoy / Cairo' cds (June 26), Beirut, Lebanon and Turkey with 10 g. tied by Aya Stefano cds. Reverse with Meuon arrival cds (Aug 30). A rare and most appealing cover with just 10 items flown. Certs. F. Longhi (1997), Toselli (2000).
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,600 CHF

    Lot# : 778 France

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    Survey Flight to Madagascar 1926: Cover flown on Survey Flight by Seaplane carried by, and signed by the Pilot Guibault, with Pasteur 1 fr. 50 c. blue tied on despatch by Berre cds (Oct 11) and circular 'Aviation Maritime / Berre' anchor cachet at left. Framed cachet VOYAGE AÉRIEN / FRANCE-MADAGASCAR in violet at top and the complete route under-taken shown by individual datestamps of Tangier, Casablanca, Las Palmas / Canarias (16/10), Port Etienne, St. Louis / Senegal, Bamako, Segou, Gao / Soudan Français (Oct 29), Gaya, Lokoja / Nigeria (Nov 4) - where the Seaplane broke down. The flight continued in January 1927 and reverse struck with Lokoja cds (Jan 19), Fort Archambault, Bangui, Lisala Kindu, Albertville (Feb 1), Mwanza, Jinja, Malakal, Dongola from where Guilbault turned North again with further transits of 'Winter Palace / Luqsor', Alexandria, Beyrouth, Fethie, Constantinople, Argostolian, Malta and 'Saint Raphael / Var' eventual arrival cds (March 7). An astonishing cover with 27 different cancels and extremely rare with just 7 items flown. Muller 162.
    Starting bid : 1,200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF

    Lot# : 779 France

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    1929 (Feb 19): Airmail registered cover carried on Paris-Hanoi Flight, franked by Sower 50 c., 1 fr. and Merson 10 fr. all tied by 'Poste Aerienne / France-Indo Chine' datestamps in black. The plane was involved in an accident and the mail returned with three line 'RAID INTERROMPU / PAR ACCIDENT / Retour à L'Envoyeur' in violet. Reverse with sender's address ringed and Paris datestamps of return (Feb 27 and 28).
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF

    Lot# : 780 France

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    1900/30: Lot eight unused stamps incl. type Merson 2 fr. (2), 5 Fr., 10 fr. and 20 fr., as well as Sourire de Reims and Pont du Gard. Fresh colour and well centered, unused og. Maury = € 2'400+.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : 180 CHF

    Lot# : 781 France

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    Catalogue# : 353/56-Block 3
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    1936: PEXIP-Exhibition in Paris, lot three souvenir sheets in mint condition as well as three fine used ones MI = € 3'000.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 782 France

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    1849/1979: Collection several hundred stamps used/unused or in mint condition, incl. some useful items in the classic section, various airmail stamps, full sets, issues for the Council of Europe and the Unesco, good condition and housed in two albums owner's cat = € 10'000.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 783 France

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    Telegraphs 1868: The wonderful imperforate group, with unused, without gum, irregular blocks / strips: 25c. rose in a block of 36 with one used with blue datestamp (Maury 1 = € 13'670), 50c. green in a superb corner block of 11 (Maury 2 = € 3'740), 1fr. orange in a strip of 11 (ten + one) and 2fr. violet both marginal from top of sheet (Maury 3 = € 14’300 and Maury 4 = € 14’300), with complete original and contemporary envelope explaining the reason for the multiples (the translation follows: “These stamps are very rare - all are definite authentication. They have been given to me about 1880 by Hericart de Thury, previous head of the Accounts Office of the Telegraph Administration, who received them formerly for giving specimens to foreign Administrations who had asked for them and who saved them from the pillage of the Siege and the Commune 1870-71 (Signature)”. An extraordinary set - as far as we are aware, the sole recorded examples of interpanneau strips of this issue, as the sheets were separated prior to being supplied to the Posts & Telegraph Offices. Unique Maury (2017) = € 63’025.
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 11,500 CHF

    Lot# : 784 France

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    1819/1946: Small group of St. Malo Postal History with 1819 entire from Guernsey to Paris with SAT. MALO straight line, 1833 entire from Guernsey to Nantes struck with fine GRANDE BRETAGNE / PAR ST. MALO in black, 1842 covers from Guernsey with 'Outremer / St Malo' entry markings in red, 1870 cover with France 1867 20 c. and 'St. Malo' Convoyeur datestamp, and a range of postcard usages (together with a group of un-related postcards).
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 785 France

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    1870 (Oct-Nov): Well written up collection of five Ballons Montés incl. 'L'Armand Barbès' (2), 'Général Ulrich', 'Jules Favre No. 2' and 'Ville d'Orléans' with Gazette des Absents No. 9 Maury = € 2'275.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 786 France

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    1854/72c: Collection 38 covers and two pieces displaying the large variety of obliterators and datestamps on Napoléon stamps in Paris incl. Bureau principale 1854 local cover with "Affranchie de Paris pour Paris" cds, further on Roulette d'étoiles, Petite étoile, Pointillé fin, Cercle de points, railway station lozenges, bureaux des quartiers, levées exceptionelles, in addition Marques commerciales of steamship ELBE and marques de passage (3) as well as ambulants (3).
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 787 France

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    1810/1912ca.: Interesting Lot 190 covers, postcard and stationaries incl. 1810 cover Paris to Fribourg Switzerland, 1841 Forwarder cover New Orleans to Austria given to the postal services in Le Havre, 1854 French PO in Alexandria Egypt with 90 c. to Zürich, 1863 same provenance with a mixed franking of Napoleon 80 c. imperf. and 10 c. perf., 1864 Napoleon perf. four-colour franking tied by blue Anchor handstamp on Mediterranean Shipmail cover to Lyon with 'Carmel' ship cds alongside, 1871 cover with Napoleon 5 c. green in block of four, 1871 cover front from Paris to Puebla Mexico with Napoleon laureated 80 c. (3) and 30 c. (2), three 1871 September covers with diff. stamp combinations, value letters, Bordeaux issue frankings, mail abroad, primarily to Switzerland, 1888 stationery postcard despatched on French vessel nearby Aden, 1892 registered cover to Argentine with Avis de reception, 1891/96 Russian Imperial visit stationery, items from French colonies such as China with Hankeou and Shanghai Local Post, Tonkin 1900 Nam-Dinh red band cover, 1912 Tuyen-Quang registered cover to Switzerland with mixed franking, and 1903 Port Said Egypte postcard. To be examined.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 788 France

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    Florange Ch., Messageries et les Postes d'après des documents métalliques et imprimés, précédées d'un essai numismatique sur les ponts et chaussées, chez Florange et Ciani, Paris 1925, softbound, a very fresh example and rare.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 790 France

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    Castellorizo 1920: ONF (Occupation Navale Française) 20 pi. on Merson 5 pi. blue & chamois, used on cover to Mersina cancelled by CASTELLORIZO / CORPS D'OCCUPATION cachet in violet and by bilingual 'Mersina' arrival cds in back. Cover with file fold away from adhesive but scarce. Signed Baudot.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 260 CHF

    Lot# : 791 France

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    Castellorizo 1920: ONF (Occupation Navale Française) Sower 25 c. blue, two examples, one with variety 'Surcharge Inverted', used on 1920 registered cover addressed to Smyrne tied by CASTELLORIZO / OCCUPATION FRANCAIS circular Anchor cachet in violet. Registered label in red at lower left and reverse with repeated strike of the cachet alongside 'Tresor et Postes / 528' Field Post Office datestamp (Sept 20) with 'Rhodes / Turquie D'Asie' cds below. Rare and attractive cover. Signed Baudot.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 792 France

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    Castellorizo 1920: OF (Occupation Française) Sower 25 c. blue and Merson 1 fr. wine red & olive, used on registered cover to Smyrne tied by CASTELLORIZO / CORPS D'OCCUPATION circular Anchor cachet in violet. Red registration label at lower left and reverse with two strikes of 'Tresor et Postes / 528' Field Post Office arrival datestamp (Sept 3). Couple of insignificant faults to the envelope but an outstanding and extremely rare cover. Cert. Behr (2012).
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF

    Lot# : 801 France

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    French Levant 1862: 10 c. bistre - 51 examples used on 1864 Levant Line cover from Constantinople to Aix, Bouches du Rhône, with 40 c. orange - 17 examples - paying a 11 franc 90 centime rate and probably just one single 10 c. bistre missing, all cancelled by dotted Anchor lozenge and one 10 c. cancelled by pen cross; with PELUSE Paquebot datestamp (March 3) in black (Salles fig. 810) with two strikes of framed PD alongside and framed PAQUEBOTS / DE LA / MEDITERRANEE in red. Reverse with part flap missing but with Marseille entry cds (March 9) and Aix-en-Provence arrival cds (March 10). Despite myriad faults a truly astonishing French Levant Maritime franking.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,800 CHF
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