388th Auction

1926/70, Collection in album starting Turkey cancellations of Hodeida, first issues with 40 used stamps, few on piece, mainly good cancellations showing different types and cities, margin stamps, later issues mainly unused with complete sets, perforation varieties, many imperf issues, souvenir sheets, overprints ‘God, Imam & Country’ on stamps and S/S, air mails and Olympics, mostly very fine.

1901, UPU postal stationery card 4 ch. used from “Syen Chyun” with transit cds. “CHEMULPO 31 JUIL 03” to Paris, fine (Higgins & Gage-Nr. 2)

10 ch. neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 6 SEPT 04” to envelope to USA with reverse arrival “BOWLING GREEN OHIO OCT 14 1904”, the back flap with small closed tear, still very fine and attractive

1900, Plum Blossoms 1 ch., horizontal pair of fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 20 JANV 02 COREE” to illustrated postcard to Tokyo, interesting text in French “somewhat like Korea itself, moving at a tortoise´s pace and weighed down by the heavy masses of old baroque customs … Note that the Japanese sit on it!”, very fine

1895/98, Taegeuk 25 p. lilac-red, second printing, fresh colours, tied by bisected circle to envelope to Seoul with arrival cds. “SEOUL 29 UIL 02” alongside, the adhesive one short perf at bottom, of no importance, still fine

1 ch., horizontal pair with upper sheet margin, neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 20 JANV 02” repeated alongside to illustrated postcard to Tokyo, engaging text in French describing the Korean hairstyles and hats, negligible soiling of no importance, still very fine

4 ch., fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “CHEMULPO 20 APRIL 03” to UPU illustrated postcard to Graz, Austria with transit and arrival marks, very fine and scarce usage

10 ch. horizontal pair, used with bisected postmark repeated alongside with cds. “SEOUL 4 AOUT 3” and boxed “R SEOUL N°” to registered envelope to Bulle, Switzerland, reverse arrival cds. 18.IX.03, negligible toning on a few perf, otherwise very fine, scarce and attractive usage

4 ch., fresh colours, tied by cds."SEOUL 6 JUIN 3" with transit “CHEMULPO” and “SHANG-HAI 12 UIN 03” to UPU illustrated postcard to Paris, very fine

1901, UPU postal stationery card 4 ch. used with cds “CHEMULPO 28 SEPT 01” repeated alongside via Shanghai to Braunschweig with arrival cds., very fine (Higgins & Gage-Nr. 2)

1897, Tai Han 10 p.- 50p., orange overprints type I, together with 3 ch., neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL COREE 29 DEC 00” repeated alongside with red framed handstamp “R SEOUL N°” to registered envelope to St Petersburg, Russia, reverse transit via Shanghai and arrival cds., 50 p. light corner crease, some minor peripheral toning at top of no importance, still very fine. A rare and early UPU cover, signed with certificates Robineau (2011) and Scheller (2011)

1953/58, group of five postcards and envelopes to foreign destinations, various frankings, airmail, etc.

1951, Participation in Korean War 500 wn. complete set of 44 stamps and 22 souvenir sheets, unmounted mint as issued. 

1890/1907 (ca.), unused and used small lot with a tete beche, 3 proof blocks, used postal stationery card, etc.

1908/79, Collection on Scott album leaves, starting no.1-5, many complete sets including Yv.100-123, later issues including postage due, mostly fine.

1886, Official Stamp essay 20 c. ochre without the Official overprint, additional three imperf proofs on thick paper, one with Specimen overprint, very fine

1886, Official Stamp essays without the Official overprint, 2 c., 5 c., 7 c., 10 c., 15 c. and 20 c., all in black on thin paper, very fine

1909, Portrait Issue 1 c.-50 c. in imperforate blocks of four with lower sheet margin showing the American Ban Note Company imprint, each with security punch hole and overprint “SPECIMEN”, no gum, 12 c. light crease, otherwise fine 

1909, ‘MECQUE 6’ bilingual cancellation (Coles-Walker no.39, Uexkull Type 1) on cover Mecca to Istanbul, franked on the reverse with 1908 issue 1 pia., “Istanbul Mevrude” arrival postmark alongside, sender cachet ‘Ismail Aloff’, very fine and well cancelled exhibition piece

1878/1995, about 500-600 covers, with the focus on unused and used postal stationery envelops, in the beginning some early and better airmail and Zeppelin-mail, including varieties, in six big binders

1945/90, in the beginning mint never hinged and some unused, later mostly used collection, incl. many blocks of four, zip-blocks, souvenir sheets, booklets and complete sets, good part valid postage, in four albums

1858, Folded tissue-paper envelope bootlegged from Smyrna, Turkey to Boston, carried by Capt. Watson ‘Ship Henry Hill’ with 122 bales madder roots, ms. “Via Trieste” inside, letter with embossing and black sender cachet F.C. Blackler Smyrna on reverse. At arrival in US Franklin 1 c. blue type V tied by black “PAID” in circle to envelope and red “Boston Mass. Nov/12” arrival cds. on front. Tiny file fold, otherwise Very Fine and a scarce usage.

1951, Ho Chi Minh 2 d. brown, type I, fresh colours, tied by cds. “QUANG TRI VIETNAM” to small envelope to a city in the Quang Tri province, the adhesive revalued at 20 dong (tariff of late 1950/early 1951), alongside VNDCCH red censor “IV5”, mail seized in the interzone by French army (blue and red pencil marks), very rare usage

1956/58, four airmail covers to Germany with various combination frankings, all with departure cds. “HANOI”, mostly fine

1945, Independence Issue, 1 c., 3 c., 6c., 10 c. and 15 c. tied by cds . “HA-NOI TRUNG-UONG 8 11 46” to local envelope, fine, also a second local envelope with combination franking used with “HANOI R.P. TONKIN”, some occasional perf toning otherwise fine

1875/1959 (ca.), around 100 covers and cards, strength before the 1930s, noted an abundance of postal stationeries, some better frankings and usages throughout, in the earlier period noted Jamaica, Victoria, Queensland, Strait Settlements, some reply cards, registered mail, etc., conditions varies, an interesting lot

1978/88 (ca.), West Indies, mnh stock of several thousand cpl. motive sets (ca. 40 different) in sheets and few part sheets, sorted by issues. Mi. over 50.000,-€

1888/99, The unused collection on three leaves with, 1 d. lilac and mauve (9), 2 d. chalky-blue shades and prussian-blue (17), 4 d. purple-brown and orange-brown, 6 d. carmine, 1 s. maroon and violet-brown, 5 s. deep purple, mostly fine

1860/1910, Unused collection on 13 leaves with over 100 items, beginning with registered issue, many margin miprints, Specimen overprints, 17 blocks of four including many corner margins, strips of four and five, mostly fine to very fine
 

1853, QV 8 d. orange-yellow, horizontal pair, well margins on two sides, minimally touched at left and right, tied to foreign letter fragment by barred oval mark and three different cancellations alongside, including boxed ‘INSUFFICIENTLY/STAMPED’ and CALAIS 27/AOUT/55 cds. in black, COLONIES  & ARTiJ in orange, fresh colours, attractive and very fine.

Provenienz: H. Köhler (1993)

1871/1910, 17 covers & cards including registered mails, uprated and imprint stationery cards, cover bearing 2 c. blue 1871 cancelled Walgett 99, some different, mainly fine.

1897/99, Diamond Jubilee, New Designs the unused collection from 1 d. carmine (shades) to 2½ Prussian blue (shades), wmk. Crown over NSW, with 1 d. five blocks of four showing shades, 2 d. three blocks of four deep dull blue, ultramarine and cobalt-blue, 2½ d. purple with singles and two blocks of four, a splendid collection

1851/1910, Collection on eight self made album leaves, mostly used, starting imperf issues with duplicates, specialized with many perforation varieties and colour shades, margin stamps and watermark varieties including inverted wm., good cancellations and two stationery envelopes, one official. Some occasional faults, reprints noted and mixed quality.

1905/07, The unused collection on two leaves with, ½ d. shades and block of four, 1 d. dull rose, 2 d. cobalt-blue, 8 d. magenta, 10 d. violet, 9 d. brown and yellow-brown. A good lot.

1852, Lithographed by Thomas Ham 3 d. blue, imperforate, 3rd State of the dies, a used vertical left marginal pair with ample to large margins on three sides and showing portions of both adjoining stamps at right, touched on top, tied by barred oval obliterators in black to piece. Vertical pairs in this issue are significantly rarer than horizontal ones, very fine.