February, 2010

Christoph Gärtner Philatelic - Feb. 16-19 2010 Public Auction #13 - February 16, 2010 Welcome to our 13th auction. My trip to Israel over Christmas 2009 brought me to some of the best consignments ever for this auction. Amongst others, I was able to acquire the world's largest Einstein collection - the "Gabor Collection" - as well as the top-class music collection from Lavy Blau, a Balkan collection as well as extensive collections from overseas and Germany. For this auction we will be offering about 15,700 lots in three catalogues including a very high quality and diversity of worldwide philately.

Vol. 1: Items from overseas / Europe / thematics. The overseas section is made up of 3,699 lots, there are 3,036 Europe and thematics with 486 single items. There is much from Asia, the greater part here being China as usual, rare stamps and covers from America, India with specialties from all periods, Arabian territories with specialties, a lot of good material from Malayan States with Sarawak, as well as covers, stamps and proofs from all over the world. Hundreds of single lots "British Colonies" - including many rare unused sets - will be very apparent to all.

Vol. 2: There are some 2,881 single lots from Germany. Exceptional are the Zeppelin covers being offered, some showing unique combinations. Once again many specimens from Germany States with stamps from Baden, Bavaria and Württemberg in particular, as well as stamp booklets from German Empire and overprint issues from occupied German colonies.

Vol. 3: Some 5,500 collections and items to give an enormous variety and a lot of substance. Complement your collection with items from more than 280,000 covers and postal stationeries from all over world, most of which are being offered on a country-wise basis. Particularly outstanding are for example the collections "Portuguese India", "South Africa with New Republic", "Armenia", "India", "Finland", "Mongolia", "Saudi Arabia", "Syria", "Lebanon", "China" and hundreds of collection lots from the "British Commonwealth". Discover more pearls and other rarities in these beautiful collections of stamps and many exciting and interesting covers. Dynamic Internet Bidding at StampAuctionNetwork.

Sandafayre Ltd - Hunters 7170 - February 16th 2010 A large 4487 lot mail bid sale WITH PLENTY OF BRITISH, OVERSEAS AND USA!, featuring outstanding GERMAN COLONIES with rarities and never hinged mint issues; FALKLAND ISLANDS impressive range with good high values; ITALIAN STATES with classic rarities; COMMONWEALTH KGVI with many high values and elusive stamps; GREAT BRITAIN with large Victorian section; plus the usual ranges of collections, cartons, estate lots, worldwide sets, singles etc. Dont forget to tell them of your buying interests as they keep a really good alert system regularly updated with new stock. Bid online, fax or mail your bids, and all lots carry a full "no quibble" money back guarantee. ** SEE US AT THE LONDON 2010 STAMP EXHIBITION ** email: andrew@sandafayre.com

Van Looy Stamp Auctions - 128th Public Stamp Auction - February 19, 2010 Van Looy and Van Looy stamp auctions conducts five public auctions each year with about 4000 lots each. While the focus is mainly on Belgium and Belgian Congo there is also a wide range of better stamps and series, postal history and country collections.

For Belgium we have a terrific collection of proofs, some great classical material and postal history and very fine semi-classical stamps. For Europe and the rest of the world we cotinue to offer the top sets, and our offer gets better and better : France Airmail 14 perfectly MNH, Falkland islands 59/70, Liechtenstein 122 "Vaduz", Netherlands 6 with cancel Zaltbommel, Netherlands Telegraph 7, Austria 482/84 "Dolfuss", USA the full Columbus set and Zeppelin 13/15, ...

Van Looy & Van Looy stamp auctions was established nearly 20 years ago and has it's offices in Antwerp, Belgium. In yearly turnover and number of lots sold, it is the country's biggest auction house. All lots are accurately described and mostly scanned to accommodate bidders (more scans and/or translations are always available on request).

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Dr. Reinhard Fischer Stamp Auction - 111th Auction - February 26-27, 2010 The catalogue of our 111th auction on 26th and 27th of February 2010 is online! All descriptions are now in English, if you use the english version of the online-catalogue! Also, our online-catalogue has a powerful search-engine and also a comfortable online bidding system. For all single lots (about 7000 !) there are high-quality pictures in three resolutions, also there are pictures of all certificates (about 900) and for the most important 119 collection lots, we have about 2500 pictures online! Highlights of the auction are

• Coins: 650 lots with an extensive offer German empire, Bund with all gold coins multiple, three very good collections USA and some kg of bullion coins as well as numerous collections.
• German states: emphasis on Brunswik (50 lots), Heligoland (53 lots), Prussia (100 lots), Schleswig-Holstein (300 lots) and Thurn & Taxis (205 lots)
• German empire: 650 lots with almost all scarce items, types and colors, furthermore 115 lots of the official stamp control overprints
• Se-tenants/booklets/booklet sheets: 240 lots with 55 stamp booklets and also 55 booklet sheets.
• Zeppelins: Dissolving of a beautiful collection, altogether 220 covers with numerous rarities like Japanese mail or 41 covers of the contract states.
• German colonies/P.O.s abroad: 1070 lots with covers, forerunners, colors, cancellations, but also nearly all scarce items and standard issues. Also a nearly complete mnh collection of the colonies.
• German areas: about 600 lots, very beautiful offer of Danzig, Memel (with expensive mint never hinged sets of the Lithuanian occupation) and Saar. With Danzig one of the extremely rare 25 guilder gold coins!
• German Occ. WWII: nearly 300 lots with dissolving of big collection and an interesting offer of Sudetenland.
• German Local issues: very beautiful, extensive offer with many sought-after issues!
• West zones: 410 lots with practical all scarce items, beautiful offer of the colours and types of Kontrollrat and Bizone, wide select ion of Posthorn types and standard issues, 50 lots Notopfer
• Bund/Berlin practically all issues with in addition many varieties
• SBZ: 680 lots (!) most from dissolving of a great specialized collection with so considerable all conceivable colours, types, varieties
• DDR: 260 lots with among others DDR 512XI mnh – this item has to be considered until now as the only found item.
• Europe: Beautiful offer of Estonia, Lithuania and Liechtenstein
• Overseas: Among others very interesting offer of China and Hong Kong
• Collections: high-carat collection offer at mostly very low starting prices. We dissolve some big collections only by areas, without any take outs for single lots. Eg. the “Hardtberg”-collection with a practically complete German states collection (starting price € 8000), furthermore an extensive cancel and cover collection (mostly later used cancels), an almost indescribable lot of doubletes and different specialized collections, and others. The dissolving of the "Dortmund"-collection, the "Cuxhaven"-collection, the "Schweinheim"- collection and the "Neckar" estate are also very interesting. Also, the estate area is very interesting, we have 5 big collections of China and also a big selection of overseas collections.

FRANCOIS FELDMAN - Mail Auction - France, French Colonies and Rest of World - March 4, 2010 The Parisian Auction House FRANCOIS FELDMAN û is pleased to announce that our mail sale N° 83 closing March 4th 2010 is now online. Bids will be accepted until 12:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. This mega-auction consisting of 4000 lots offers something of interest to collector, dealers and investors alike. FRANCE. Classique, Semi Moderne, Back of the book, Occupations, Errors, Proofs, Imperfs, Covers, Fantastic advertising booklets collection, and other specialty items. MONACO, FRENCH COLONIES A-Z INCLUDING RARITIES. WESTERN EUROPE and Rest of the world, Zeppelin covers and much more.

We are also pleased to present a specialized collection of 560+ French Advertising Booklets (see special section - lots 5001-5567). This is a truly fabulous collection and a unique opportunity to obtain these seldom offered items. Dynamic Internet Bidding at StampAuctionNetwork.