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Lot# : 1388 Imperial China
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Lot# : 1399 Imperial China
Lot# : 1400 Imperial China
1878: 1 ca yellow-green, 3 ca brown red, and 5 ca orange, all thin paper, first setting, good used and 1 ca green thicker paper third setting with blue "Seal Chop Peking", all with small faults and three with certificates "The Philatelic Foundation". Good Lot.Starting bid : 400.00 CHFHammer price : 550.00 CHFLot# : 1401 Imperial China
Lot# : 1402 Imperial China
Lot# : 1403 Imperial China
Lot# : 1404 Imperial China
Lot# : 1405 Imperial China
Lot# : 1406 Imperial China
1897: 1c black on 3 cents red, "Red Revenue", very fresh unused and large part original gum, 2c black on 3 cents red, "Red Revenue", fine used and 2c black on 3 cents red, "Red Revenue" with local overprint, fine unused also with large part original gum. Three attractive stamps of this desirable series. Scarce in such fine condition.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : 750.00 CHFLot# : 1407 Imperial China
Lot# : 1408 Imperial China
Lot# : 1409 Imperial China
Lot# : 1410 Imperial China
Lot# : 1411 Imperial China
Lot# : 1412 Imperial China
Lot# : 1413 Imperial China
Lot# : 1414 Imperial China
Lot# : 1415 Imperial China
Lot# : 1416 Imperial China
Lot# : 1417 Imperial China
Lot# : 1418 Imperial China
1898: 5 c red, coiling dragon, horizontal pair with narrow gutter on left in mixed franking with JAPAN 1888, 10s orange-brown on envelope from SHANGHAI to ST.AUGUSTINE Florida, USA. The letter was posted at the Chinese PO and received the large dollar chop SHANGHAI on the reverse, dated 18. Jan. 1898, then transferred to the Japanese PO. The Japanese stamp was cancelled the following day, the transit to FLORIDA via YOKOHAMA and SAN FRANCISCO is documented on the reverse. Slightly uneven, albeit usual perforations. An attractive and rare double franking from the pre UPU period.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : 500.00 CHFLot# : 1419 Imperial China
Lot# : 1420 Imperial China
Lot# : 1421 Imperial China
1903: 2 c. red, three examples on postcard to Switzerland via Siberia. The postcard of a corporal of the 'Gesandschaftsschutzwache' (guard of the embassy) mailed in PEKING on October 16, 1903, reached "SHANGHAI on October 23, and was postmarked by the Russian Post Office the same day. (October 11j). The card reached St. Gallen on November 17. Unusual mail from the German detachment in Peking.Starting bid : 120.00 CHFHammer price : 420.00 CHFLot# : 1422 Imperial China
1915: 5c rosy mauve and 3c blue green "Junk" both first Peking print on registered redband letter from SUIYUANGHSIEN Number 340, bearing transit and arrival markings SUIFHENO, KWANCHENTZE. There is minor soiling, but nonetheless an attractive an rare letter.Starting bid : 200.00 CHFHammer price : 420.00 CHFLot# : 1423 Imperial China
Lot# : 1424 Imperial China
1926: 4c blue, postage due, horizontal pair with gutter margin on letter from TIENTSIN to SHANGHAI. The 4c franking on the reverse was not accepted as fiscal staps were used, therefore an unusual locally produced postage due cachet was applied. In SHANGHAI the postage due stamps were applied and cancelled. Attractive and rare letter with only minor traces of wear.Starting bid : 300.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1425 Imperial China
1941: Japanese Occupation SHANTUNG, $1 sepia and red brown, die II, small setting, 50 c green and 13 c green (2) all large setting on postal stationery card from TSINGTAOU to a German internee on Sumatra from his fiancee in Tsingtaou. The letter is endorsed "Air throughout via Bangkok" and bears four different censor marks. According to handwritten notes the letter took around fourty days to arrive. A most unusual letter to an internee camp accross half of Asia.Starting bid : 300.00 CHFHammer price : 1,900.00 CHFLot# : 1429 Imperial China
1878/1939: Collection beginning with three large dragons, including a 1878 thin paper 1ca green fine unused no gum, a very good range small dragons mostly used, 1897 Dowager Empress with new currency overprint predominantly used with values to 30c. Later issues include the Curtis Jenny airplane issue 1921, 1932 North West Scientific Expedition unused and a range of other values. The quality needs to be looked at with a cautious eye, there are also some forgeries noted, overall a well worthwhile lot with many really good stamps.Starting bid : 1,500.00 CHFHammer price : 2,200.00 CHFLot# : 1430 Imperial China
Lot# : 1431 Imperial China
Lot# : 1432 Imperial China
Lot# : 1433 Imperial China
Lot# : 1434 Imperial China
1885/1945: Accumulation of Chinese classics with 1883 5 ca large dragon with part strike Chefoo, 1894 1 ca dowager empress, 1897 2 c red revenue, 1897 small numerals, often with minor varieties all on fifteeen stock cards. Interesting lot for the specialist.Starting bid : 750.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1435 Imperial China
1885/1950: Accumulation of the stamps of China, containing many early chinese stamps beginning with small dragons, Dowager Empress, Bean Goose, Provincial issues, civil war issues as well as a range of foreign POs in China. The lot requires a serious sorting effort, but will be rewarding with its many postmarks, letters and other philatelic items.Starting bid : 1,000.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1436 Imperial China
Lot# : 1437 Imperial China
Lot# : 1438 Imperial China
1894/1948: small collection containing a range of handy values including a fine used $10 black and green "First Peking print" Entrance Hall of Classics, as well as the changed colour second print. Later values such as unity under Chiang Kai-shek to $1 fine used, the burial of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and a great range of other values.Starting bid : 350.00 CHFHammer price : 350.00 CHFLot# : 1439 Imperial China
Lot# : 1440 Imperial China
Lot# : 1441 Imperial China
Lot# : 1442 Imperial China
1897: 1/2c dull purple/ $1 deep and pale red, lot of seventy predominantly used stamps from this difficult issue, including a number of stamps cancelled with part stike dollar chops, odd fault many fine to very fine condition. An excellent lot for the specialist.Starting bid : 200.00 CHFHammer price : 260.00 CHFLot# : 1443 Imperial China
Lot# : 1444 Imperial China
1898/1910: 1/2c brown/ $5 myrtle and green, beautiful accumulation of the CHINESE IMPERIAL POST issue, including a total of five used $5 values with a great range of postmarks and a host of other good values such as unused $1 and $2 values. Good lot for the specialist.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : 1,400.00 CHFLot# : 1445 Imperial China
1898/1912: Lot of eight larger unused blocks, many with full original gum. Noteworthy items are: 1898, 20c claret from top of the sheet with part gum and minor staining, 1912, gutter block of four, very fresh and other large units. Unusual offering.Starting bid : 150.00 CHFHammer price : 650.00 CHFLot# : 1446 Imperial China
Lot# : 1447 Imperial China
1898/1945: Impressive unused collection beginning with a fine $1 red and salmon bean goose, $10 black and green "Entrance to the Hall of Classics", "Marshall Chang Tso-lin" to $1, "Unification of China" $1, and $1 "Tan Yen-kai" to name but a few. The stamps are mostly in very fine condition with mostly large part original gum.Starting bid : 1,000.00 CHFHammer price : 1,600.00 CHFLot# : 1448 Imperial China
Lot# : 1449 Imperial China
Lot# : 1450 Imperial China
Lot# : 1451 Imperial China
Lot# : 1452 Imperial China
1915/1934: Chinese Provinces, powerful collection containing issues from Manchuria, Sinkiang, Szechuan and Yunan. We noted many high values and rare sets such as two Sinkiang $1 black and orange yellow, Yunan to $5 used, Szechuan unification of China and many others, mostly in very fine condition. Good study lot for the specalist.Starting bid : 600.00 CHFHammer price : 600.00 CHFLot# : 1453 Imperial China
1915/1934: Chinese Provinces, fine collection containing issues from Manchuria, Sinkiang, Tibet and Yunan. The outstanding item is the 1924 $20 blue and plum on piece neatly cancelled NINGYUAN SIN (KULOYA). Furthemore there is a range of perfins. Very unusual lot in mainly used condition.Starting bid : 250.00 CHFHammer price : 260.00 CHFLot# : 1454 Imperial China
Lot# : 1455 Imperial China
1898/1980: Accumulation of over fifty letters, postcards and photographs with a range of rare and unusual items of Chinese postal history. Notable items include a mixed franking between French and Chinese stamps on a postcard to France, a 1921 registered letter from WOOSUNG to Switzerland franked with twelve Junk type stamps, attractively arranged in star formation. Further items include material from foreign postal administrations, like French, German and US and an Airmail letter to France franked with 1929 "Curtiss Jenny" high values.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : 850.00 CHFLot# : 1456 Imperial China
1900/1936: Batch of ten covers including one red band letter from TAKU dated 14. Jan. 1900 to PEKING, on reverse TIENTSIN Dollar chop, a 4c olive JUNK single franking form HAIMENAN, an express letter from TSI-NAN Arsenal with Stamp cancelled bilingual LUCKOW, redirected from Germany to Austria, some incoming mail and three red preprinted messages. A varied interesting lot.Starting bid : 350.00 CHFHammer price : 700.00 CHFLot# : 1457 Imperial China
1903/1944: Batch of twenty letters and postcards relating to China, containing a number of interesting routings and originations. There are a 1912 letter to France routed via HAIPHONG Indochina, a postcard from the Austrian Marinedetachement in Peking, a letter franked German Office stamps and posted aboard a German steamer, two postcards to Belgium from Hankow, Japanese PO and a letter from DAIREN to Vienna among others. Good lot for the postal historian.Starting bid : 400.00 CHFHammer price : 400.00 CHFLot# : 1458 Imperial China
1912/80: Group of 25 covers including one German Post Office Shanghai R-Cover 1912, thereafter only Chinese issues, Republic beginning with R-cover 1913, various commercial covers including airpost, R-covers and one printed matter and further earlier Peoples Republic with Tiananmen issues etc., mostly to Switzerland.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : 1,200.00 CHF
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