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  • Lot# : 837 Georgia

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    1920: Large format commercial registered cover, opened for display and fragile, from Georgian script POTI 26 10 20 to Georgian script TIFLIS 28 10 20, franked 28 St George or Tamara stamps totalling 32 roubles, a very scarce high franking.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 838 Georgia

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    Catalogue# : 40b
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    1923: Ordinary letter from Tiflis to Picton, Nova Scotia with Moscow three triangle censor and Picton arrival mark, franked 10000 r. in black on 1000 r. brown, unusual destination. Provenance: Collection Andrew Cronin.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 839 Georgia

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    Catalogue# : 61B var
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    1923: Overprint 350'000 on 3 k., locally perforated 11.5, never hinged strip of seven showing variety: imperforate between vertically, fresh and fine condition.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 840 Serbia

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    Catalogue# : 8
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    1866: 2 para red-lilac-brown on lilac grey paper, second printing, the fine used example, just shaved at right, on complete front page of the Bosnian Newspaper 'Bosanski Vjestnik', printed in Sarajevo and dated 13th August 1866; tied by framed "NAPLACENO" handstamp in black as used at the Karantin (Quarantine) Racanska Post Office. "The greatest surviving rarity of the issue" to quote Mirko Rasic ('The Postal History and Postage Stamps of Serbia', Collectors Club of New York, 1979). Note: The adhesive was issued to be applied to Newspapers entering the country for onward transmission in Serbia and this item has proved to be contentious in recent years for the sole reason that the town of Raca was not supplied with Newspaper Stamps of this issue. Mail from Bosnia had been sent via Raca since 1852 and it seems spurious to expect Mail Routes to change solely when this Newspaper was posted and then revert back to the same route afterwards. Indeed, further examples of this stamp off cover have been reported and certified by various experts with this exact cancellation, the Naplaceno handstamp from Raca differs from all other Serbian Naplaceno handstamps both in size (37 x 10.5 mm) and in it's distinctive lettering. With the above item is an off-cover example of the 1st printing, position 10 on the sheet of 12 subjects, cancelled at the Belgrade Post Office for comparison, also an extremely rare usage in it's own right. It is the opinion of this describer that anyone in the 1920's wishing to create this rarity, as has been suggested, would perhaps have used a more attractive example of the adhesive, possibly with larger margins at right, stamps with large margins were, at the time eminently more sellable than covers. The inking of the cancellation is consistent with the impression as applied to a Newspaper and indeed there is some spotting from the ink on the adhesive at upper left. There is also a small part of a grey-green piece of the wrapper band at the top edge of the Newspaper to the left of the adhesive. However, the item concerned is sold "as is / tel quel" without grounds for return under our normal Corinphila guarantee. Provenance: Alphonse de Rothschild, John Boker Jr., J. J. Volny, Dr. Velizar Kardosch. Corinphila, sale XI, Zurich, 15-23 November 1928, lot 4543. D. Feldman, Geneva, 20 May 1980, lot 1107. Expertised: Eugen Derocco (Corinphila description, 1928), signed Edwin Müller, Herbert Bloch, Roger Calves and Dr. Kardosch. Royal Philatelic Socciety (1998), certificate number 171047. For further reading: Mirko Rasic, pages 33-34, Dr. V. Kardosch 'Fürstentum Serbien', pages 125-127. FFE (AIEP) Journal No. 5 (May 2002, pages 63-65). FFE (AIEP) Journal No. 7, May 2004, pages 139-141).
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 7,000 CHF

    Lot# : 841 Slovenia

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    Ljubljana 1945: Alpenvorland- Adria, the compl. set of 16 unused mint, not issued, similar to definitive Landscape issue CEI 1-16 = EUR 600, Michel not listed.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 300 CHF

    Lot# : 842 Spain

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    1805 (June 15): Disinfected entire letter from Palma to Schwitz, Switzerland endorsed "pr. Lion, Lucerne en Suisse", struck on despatch with scarce "MA / LLOR / CA" circular handstamp in black. Rastel punched and vinegar splashed for disinfection, charged due 40 kreuzer in red crayon on arrival (July 3). Scarce.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 843 Spain

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    Carlist War 1834/39: Entire letters (2) to London, with 1838 entire from Lieutenant in the British Legion, written from Pasajes and struck with red oval "S. SEBASTIAN" in red and two line "Espagne Par / St. Jean De Luz" in black with interesting content concerning an ambush "the Carlists concealed themselves under a breast work from which their fire was aimed with fatal presision ... two men killed and three wounded ... they stripped the bodies and made off with the booty", the second entire dated 1836 from Bayonne to London and re-addressed, again with fascinating content "news arrived that Gomez ... had suffered a signal defeat on the 20th by General Allis, prisoners 1394 ...". A rare pair of entires.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 190 CHF

    Lot# : 844 Spain

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    Catalogue# : 114+115+117
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    1872 (Oct 17): Cover from Cadiz via Lisbon to Montevideo, Uruguay over-franked by 1872 12 c. grey-violet, 25 c. brown and 50 c. green tied by mute lozenge of dots, Cadiz despatch cds at right and charged on arrival with framed "10 Centimos" handstamp in black. Reverse with Badajoz and Lisbon (Oct 28) transits. Slight flap tear and file fold away from adhesives but a scarce cover-overpaid by 12 centavos.
    Starting bid : 160 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 845 Spain

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    1873/75: Carlist Stamps Lot seven four margined stamps unused, including sello de devolution (1875), fresh and fine Edifil 156/161+172 = EUR 1'300.
    Starting bid : 340 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 846 Spain

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    Catalogue# : 147+149
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    1876 (March 30): UPU rate cover to London franked by 1875 5 c. lilac-grey and 20 c. orange tied by mute dotted lozenge in black, reverse with Madrid cds and London (April 3) arrivals in red. Small imperfections to envelope but a rare franking.
    Starting bid : 160 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF
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