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Lot# : 1325 Nepal
1886: 1 a. steel blue, Setting 8, a fine unused horizontal pair with tête-bêche, positions 52-53, showing cliché 52 inverted, on medium native paper. Rare pair, opinion Flack (2011) Gi 7a = £ 600 / Mi 4K = € 500.rnProvenance: Hardyal Singh Gupta collection; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1326 Nepal
1886/89: 1 a. blue, Setting 8, a fine used horizontal strip of three with tête-bêche, positions 57-58-59, showing cliché 59 inverted, on medium thick native paper, each stamp cancelled by fine strikes of hexagonal TAULIWAHA negative seal handstamp in black. Rare Gi 7a = £ 650+ / Mi 4K = € 600+.rnProvenance: Wolfgang C. Hellrigl collection, Corinphila sale 206 (June 2016), lot 3095.Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : 250 CHFLot# : 1327 Nepal
1886: 2 a. violet-blue, Setting 5, a fine top marginal pair, positions 4-5 with marginal inscription with the typical alignment of the third word 'TEKAT' (stamps) over position 4, on medium native paper. An appealing multiple Gi 7 = £ 240+ / Mi 4 = € 200+.rnProvenance: Armand E. Singer collection, displayed on page 87 of 'Nepal 1772-1961 and beyond'; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 140 CHFLot# : 1328 Nepal
1886/98: Group two multiples of 2 a. violet-blue, a right marginal block of eight from positions 37-40/45-48 of setting 6 and a lower right corner marginal block of four from positions 55-56/63-64 of Setting 8 showing the frame line at right, on medium to thick native paper. Two fresh and fine multiples. Gi = £ 1'120+ / Mi 5,8Bc = € 1'000+.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1329 Nepal
1886/89: 2 a. violet-blue, nearly blue, a fine used horizontal pair with tête-bêche, positions 20-21, showing cliché 21 inverted, on thin native paper, each stamp cancelled by fine strikes of squared barred handstamp in black. Some paper wrinkles but rare Gi 8a = £ 700+ / Mi 5K = € 650+.rnProvenance: D. Bates collection; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1330 Nepal
1886: 2 a. violet-blue, position 18 from Setting 5, printed in light blue (error of colour, printed in the ink used for the 1 anna), a fine and fresh example with fair to large margins, cancelled by barred oval obliterator. This example is in a much lighter shade than the other deep blue variety items, a most appealing colour variety wîth the cancellation leaving the tablet free. Opinion Flack (2011).rnrnNote: Hellrigl & Vignola state in their book: "The printings in Blue are extremely rare. These are undoubtly genuine errors of colour ... no postally used copies are known". The three known used examples were discovered after this book was published.rnReference: Another used example is displayed on page 87 of Armand E. Singer 'Nepal 1772-1961 and beyond'.rnProvenance: Hardyal Singh Gupta collection; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1331 Nepal
1886/90: 4 a. green, a fine used horizontal strip of three with tête-bêche, positions 54-56, showing cliché 54 inverted, on thin native paper, the adhesives cancelled by fine strikes of circular barred handstamp in black. Settings 4 to 8 contained an inverted cliché in position 54. Gi 9a = £ 1'000+ / Mi 6K = € 900+.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1332 Nepal
1897: 2 a. violet-blue, Settings 9-12, position 4, a superb used example of the famous 'Ragged Cliché', a fine example with fair to good margins of this seminal stamp, lightly cancelled leaving the cracks in the vertical framelines clear, on small piece. Slight thin, a rare and spectacular stamp, with just 15 examples are recorded, six of them used.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : 500 CHFLot# : 1333 Nepal
1891/96: 1 a. pale blue, a selection of five multiples from later Settings 9, 14 & 15, incl. 1891/92 Setting 9, a top marginal pair from pos. 2-3 and a top marginal block of four from pos. 5-6/13-14, both with marginal incription, a block of four from pos. 43-44/51-52, with tête-bêche showing cliché 52 inverted; 1895/96 Setting 14, a corner marginal block of four from pos. 49-52/57-60 with tête-bêche showing cliché 52 inverted; also 1895/96 Setting 15, a right marginal pair with frame line, pos. 63-64, with tête-bêche showing cliché 64 inverted, the last setting before the recut. An appealing group on medium to thick native paper, fine and fresh. Gi 10,10a = £ 433+ / Mi 7B+7B K = € 660+.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 1334 Nepal
1888/91: 4 a. bright yellow-green, Setting 8, sub-type B, a fine unused trimmed sheet of 64 subjects showing traces of framelines at left, right and base, trace of fourth word of the top marginal inscriptions above cliché 5, position 54 with inverted cliché and showing the consequent tête-bêche variety, blurred impression on thick rough native paper, horizontal central crease not touching the stamps, some marginal insect bite, fresh and fine. Scarce and attractive sheet.rnReference: Displayed on page 82 of Armand E. Singer 'Nepal 1772-1961 and beyond'.rnProvenance: Collection Richard Frajola.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1335 Nepal
1886/90: 4 a. green, Setting 4, a fine used strip of seven from positions 18-24, with good to large margins all round on medium native paper, tied by squared barred obliterator of Pokhara. An large and rare multiple from the parcel post Gi = £ 320+.rnProvenance: Hellrigl collection; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 100 CHFHammer price : 180 CHFLot# : 1336 Nepal
1886/89: 2 a. grey-lilac in a horizontal strip of three, Settings 9-12, a commercialy used multiple with tête-bêche, the cliché in the leftmost position inverted, cancelled by crisp squared barred handstamp of Pyuthan. A beautiful item Gi = £ 200+.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 100 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1337 Nepal
1888/90: 4 a. green, Setting 6, a fine unused block of four with large margins all round, positions 1-2/9-10 with marginal imprint on top, clear impression, printed on medium native paper. An appealing multiple Gi = £ 280+ / Mi 9Ba = € 200+.rnProvenance: Hellrigl collection, Corinphila sale 206 (June 2016), lot 3111; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 240 CHFLot# : 1338 Nepal
1886/90: 4 a. green, Setting 4, a fine pin-perforated unused block of four with large margins all round, positions 34-35/42-43, clear impression, printed on medium thick native paper. Some toning and rubbing, a rare multiple Gi = £ 600+ / Mi 9Ab = € 600+.rnProvenance: Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1339 Nepal
1898/99: 4 a. green pin-perforated, Setting 8, a very rare comercially used block of twelve, cancelled by BIRGANJ barred obliterators. An amazing parcel post usage as most multiples bear Telegraph cancellations Gi = £ 1'800+ / Mi 9Ab = € 1'800+.rnProvenance: Armand Singer collection; Richard Frajola collection.Starting bid : 750 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1340 Nepal
1886/1996: Collection hundreds stamps used / unused in six Lenser albums, incl. Crown & Kukris with a lot of shade interest, 1903 Bow & Arrows ½ anna vermillion used, Sri Pashupati also with native print in compl. sheets, also some postage-free administrative covers, later commemorative issues, FDCs and modern covers/postcards with some Everest cards, some Tibet included.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 600 CHFLot# : 1342 Quatar
Lot# : 1343 Saudi Arabia
Lot# : 1344 Somalia
1946: Rare souvenir sheet (large size variant 117 x 253mm), of the territorial council (I Consiglio Territoriale) containing both two commemorative stamps and two airmail stamps, all overprinted "FACSIMILE", unmounted in good condition, certificate Cilio (2021), Sassone = € 5000Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : 280 CHFLot# : 1345 Thailand
Lot# : 1346 Tibet
1912-1940ca. Lot of 11 covers franked with stamps of the first and third stamp issues represented, mostly in good shape for this type of postal history. An interesting formerly unfranked and taxed cover from India to Tibet with ½ Tanka in pair used "SHIGATSE..", ⅔ Tanka in strip of 4 on a cover etc. generally from commercial use, - a few possibly philatelic- a very nice group.Starting bid : 750 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1347 South Vietnam
Lot# : 1348 Yemen Kingdom
Lot# : 1507 Collections/lots Asia
Lot# : 1508 South America
Lot# : 1509 Collections/Lots Middle East
1918/1970c.: Collection with reasonable Iraq unused and used incl. 1918 calues to 5 r., 1919 Mosul, good ranges to 1935, Libya definitive set of fifteen to £ 1 unused, collection of Iran on leaves from 1879, some Saudi Arabia dn Syria incl. Miniature Sheets etc.,Starting bid : 120 CHFHammer price : 380 CHFLot# : 1510 Collections/lots Asia
Lot# : 1511 Collections/lots Asia
Lot# : 1512 Collections/lots Asia
1898/1997 (ca.): mostly used and partly unused collection in 6 albums, covering China, Brunei, Labuan, India, Sarawak, Persia, Ceylon etc., incl. some Chinese Coiling Dragons and Junk issues, PCR with some reprints, duplicates, also multiples and souvenir sheets, condition varies from poor to very fine.Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1513 Collections/lots Oversea countries
1850-2000: Accumulation of 20 stock books containing plentiful material from American, African, Asian and Australia countries in large variety, now and then some better issues e.g. von Iran and Japan, unused from USA etc. Interesting topics with the modern and a trove for cancels and watermarks with the older, in addition Yearbooks from Singapore 1991 and 1992 and a Yearbook China 1991.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 1,200 CHFLot# : 1514 Collections/lots Asia
1900/1990ca.: Convolute of various collections from asiatic countries, included are e.g. a part collection of North Vietnam containig some earlier better sets, South Vietnam with 50 sets prince 'Bao Long' unused in part sheets, a collection of Laos stamps unused on album pages 1951/76, various material on stock cards, some North Korea etc.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 420 CHFLot# : 1515 Collections/lots Asia
1882/2005 (ca.): unmounted mint, unused and used collection in 7 albums, covering China, incl. PCR with some reprints and souvenir sheets, Macau, Hong Kong, also some modern Singapore with booklets, some duplicates and multiples as well as a few covers, overall condition fine to very fine.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : 400 CHFLot# : 1516 Collections/lots Asia
1937/65: Gulf States, collection in stockbook including Abu Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar and Aden with several substates of Aden, Sarjah, Umm al Qiwain etc., mostly unused material of which the largest part unmounted, a few lightly hinged and some also used, several sets are contained twice or even 3 times. According to the owner only complete sets counted, catalog value SG = £ 6437.Starting bid : 750 CHFHammer price : 750 CHFLot# : 1517 Collections/lots Asia
1882/1992 (ca.): Large collection of Oceanien countries neatly housed in 8 albums, mostly unmounted mint and unused, some used as well, large representation from British Solomon to Wallis and Futuna, with Pitcairn, Cocos Islands, German Caroline and Marshall, Nauru, New Caledonia, Samoa, etc., very few duplicates, overall quality very fine and fresh, an extensive group of that area Mi = € 12´000 according to the consignor.Starting bid : 600 CHFHammer price : 950 CHFLot# : 1518 Collections/lots Asia
1992/2013. Tajikistan, dealer stock in 5 large folders plus one box containing thousands of stamps in full sets, souvenir sheets and minisheets, with mostly very attractive topical issues, including themes as fishs, birds, minerals, folklore etc. Owners catalog value Mi = € 36'140Starting bid : 1,000 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1519 Collections/lots Asia
Lot# : 1520 Collections/lots Asia
1884/2001 (ca.): Large unmounted mint, unused and used collection neatly housed in 8 albums, good representation from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Formosa/Taiwan and Macao, better items like China souvenir sheets unmounted mint (SG MS2922/MS3002/MS3158), some duplicates and a few covers, some occasional faults in the early issues otherwise fine to very fine, an extensive group of that area Mi = € 10´000 according to the consignor.Starting bid : 1,000 CHFHammer price : 2,000 CHFLot# : 1521 Collections/lots Asia
Lot# : 1522 Collections/lots Asia
1992/2015: Kazakhstan, Huge stock housed in four big folders with thousands of adhesives unused, mostly topical issues with interesting and popular themes in complete sets, souvenir sheets and minisheets in various quantitites, the topics are frequently animals, sports, space etc. A fine lot with the enormous catalogue value of Mi = € 36'313 following the consignor, inventory enclosed.Starting bid : 1,200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1523 Collections/lots Asia
1992/2016: Uzbekistan, Huge stock housed in 5 big folders with thousands of adhesives unused, mostly topical issues with interesting and popular themes in complete sets, souvenir sheets and minisheets in various quantitites, the topics a frequently animals, a fine lot with the enormous catalogue value of Mi = € 32'176 following the consignor, inventory enclosed.Starting bid : 1,200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1524 Collections/lots Asia
1991/2013: Kyrgyzstan, Huge stock housed in five big folders with thousands of adhesives unused, mostly topical issues (all complete) with interesting and popular themes in complete sets, souvenir sheets and minisheets in various quantities, many issues are present in perforated and imperforated variant, the topics are frequently animals, sports (soccer), space etc., there is an issue 'gold stamps'. A fine lot with the enormous catalogue value of Mi = € 39'735 following the consignor, inventory enclosed.Starting bid : 1,500 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1525 Collections/lots Asia
1890/1970: Lot 34 items, CHINA/HONGKONG, mostly picture postcards including a multiple postcard (to unfold) made of four parts, viewing the panorama of Tsingtau with 10 Cents stamp to Switzerland (13 items); JAPAN with cover endorsed 'XVe Conférence Internationale de la Croix-Rouge' 1936, censored cover to Red Cross 1943, cover from Swiss observer NNSC (Korea) 1957 via Tokyo, 2 picture postcards Russian-Japanese war etc. (21 items).
Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 850 CHFLot# : 1526 Collections/lots Asia
1900/80ca: Varied accumulation with a large batch of over 150 Japanese picture postcards (unciculated with and without stamps), circulated covers and cards from Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, North Borneo, Singapore etc, often commercial mail, a few FDCs.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 360 CHFLot# : 1527 Collections/lots Africa
1890/1963: Interesting lot 100+ items, most often picture postcards former French North Africa, including folk types, ware scenes and regular mail including censor covers; also included a bunch of items from South Africa, here rather envelopes, for mail to abroad the destination is most often Switzerland.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 260 CHFLot# : 1528 Collections/lots Africa
Lot# : 1529 South America
1876/1950: Accumulation of over four hundred letters and covers mainly 1930s and later with predominantly airmail from all over South America, with many interesting items including a sample envelope from SANTOS to Rotterdam originally containing coffee. Attractive and varied.Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : 300 CHFLot# : 1530 Collections/lots Asia
1899/1965: Batch of approximately one hundred covers and entires from many Asian countries, including Siam, Dutch Indies, Singapore, Strait Settlements, North Borneo and the Phillipines among other with a number of attractive items including a registered letter using a 20c postal stationery envelope with additional franking from TJANDI to Naples, a postcard from 'BANDOENG' to Rotterdam with framed 'NED : INDIE VIA BRINDISI', a lettercard from 'Bangkok' to 'Saigon' and many other fine and unusual items.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 460 CHFLot# : 1949 USA
/1932 (17. Mai): Dampfer 'Bremen'- Southampton, Aufgabe "Varick St. May 12" und 'Mit Vorausflug nach Southampton', Lot zwei Belege nach Waterford, Irland, dazu zwei weitere Belege, ohne Flugbestätigungsstp., davon einer ab USA, bezw. eine Zuleitung ab Irland, beide mit Leitvermerk 'Via S.S. Bremen (or Europa) Ship to Shore'. Weiter ein Beleg ab Brasilien (28.3.39) mit Katapultpost Südatlantik. Nur sehr wenige Katapultbelege nach Irland bekannt.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 2013 USA
1791 (March 4): Printed document Law / Decree No. 402 of the National Assembly with printed "La Loi et Le Roi" Crown and Flags illustration at top, concerning the status of Officers who have not rejoined their regiments and soldiers and officers who had served in the American Revolution and in other foreign armies, issued in preparation of the 'Revolutionary Wars' which commenced in April 1792; signed off at base at Chinon. Scarce and attractive. Provenance: Collection Stanley Luft.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 2052 Libanon
1862: France 80 c. carmine, four examples (Yvert 24) used on 1865 double weight cover to Tolland, Conn., USA all tied by "5082" gros chiffres in black with "Beyrout / Syrie" cds of despatch below (Feb 3), also tied by "BOSTON PAID / 30" (March 5) datestamp in red with framed "Br. Service" alongside. Somewhat roughly opened at right but scarce.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 300 CHFLot# : 2072 Madagascar
1884: Cover from the U.S. Consulate in Tamatave to New York, franked by un-cancelled French Colonies 25 c. ultramarine imperf. with triangular "T" mark adjacent, mailed through Mauritius with transit cds on reverse (June 4) and carried on the "Brindisi" via Suez to London (July 8); taxed on arrival with "New York / Due 10 Cents" duplex (July 18) in black. Sensibly opened for display, an unusual cover.Starting bid : 140 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 2073 Kamerun
Cameroun 1916/28: Collection with 1916 first overprint registered cover to Fernando Po with 5 c. (3) and single 35 c. (Yvert 56+60), registered cover to Paris at 35 c. rate with ex German registration label, covers (6) all showing usage of ex German DUALA / KAMERUN cds with one to UK, another to Ivory Coast with tax applied but not levied, a similar usage to British Cameroons, and two covers at new 15 c. rate to France; 1918 cover from Ebolona to USA, 1919 cover to Berne cancelled "Jaunde" cds, 1921 covers from EDEA (2) and KRIBI (2) to the USA, further covers from BONABERI, EDEA, N'KONG SAMBA, NYOMBE etc. Condition varies but a scarce group (36 items); together with Equatorial Africa, late 1935/1943 covers (a further 12 items).Starting bid : 250 CHFHammer price : 300 CHFLot# : 2104 Djibuti
1900: 25c. rose and blue on cover from 'Djibouti' addressed to Emperor Menelik II personally in 'Addis Abbeba'. On the reverse are two transit marks HARAR (7-8-19) and ENTOTTO (20-8-19). According to 'Payne' (Cockerill Series Booklet 17), the year slug '00' for 1900 was not available, hence '19' was used (as the next best thing). The stamp on this very fresh letter is stuck down over the edge. Nonetheless a most desirable letter of the period to a prominent recipient.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 380 CHFLot# : 2105 Syria
1919/80: Well organised stock in 3 albums. The French period in a first stock book, mostly mounted, the lesser quantities used, some no gum and some unmounted, condition generally a bit mixed. From the independence on, organised in the 2nd and 3d stock book, in the first early years,ounted and unmounted, later issues apparently completely unmounted. According to owner Michel ca. €20'000.rnStarting bid : 800 CHFHammer price : 800 CHFLot# : 2723 Angola
Angola 1877: Cover from Luanda to Lisbon endorsed "per Bengo" of Empresa Luzitana line, franked by 1870/7 Crown 50 r. green, Type I on thin paper, perf. 12½ (Scott 6), one rounded corner perf., tied by barred obliterator in black. "LOANDA" cds below (July 28) in black and reverse with oval framed "Provincias / Ultramarinas" datestamp (Aug 5) in black. Rare but the cover sadly affected by some recent water damage in the post together with the certificate by Miranda da Mota AIEP (2010).Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 2769 Mongolei
Lot# : 2770 Mongolei
1926/89: Lot 27 covers or postcards and 3 part covers, of which the majority postally circulated mail. Including cacheted envelopes, registered covers, airmail and also some FDCs. Often sent to Germany, one front from 1928 is addressed to Norway.Starting bid : 1,000 CHFHammer price : 1,000 CHF
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