1918-57 Worldwide Boy Scout collection of postal history, stamps and ephemera assembled by a leading collector with a discerning eye some years ago, with many better, rare and quite valuable items, Italian cover addressed to Lord & Lady Baden Powell in U.K. (he is noted as "Chief Scout"). The five albums, which constitute the heart of the collection, include stamps, occasional essays & proofs, freaks & errors, various interesting ephemera, such as souvenir booklet for 1920s International Jamboree London, scores of postal history pieces, dating all the way back to 1918, rounding out the lot are neat group of early Scout post cards (including Iceland Scouts in Denmark 1924). There are many highlights, with United States "National Jamboree" cachet from 1937, "classic issues" from France, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Netherlands, Netherlands Indies and others. There are special labels on covers and cards from Poland, Latvia, China, Japan, imperforate deluxe sheetlets from Vietnam, Telegram from Belgium, numerous early cachets on covers from United States (1934 Boy Scouts of Canal Zone, 1934 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Paul A. Siple, Leader, discovers extinct volcano, plus many others), Australia, Austria, New Zealand, covers signed by Paul Siple (an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928-30 and 1933-35, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout), special flights, labels, some unused stamps (Cyprus souvenir sheet, Great Britain perfins, other items). An interesting and comprehensive group of elusive Boy Scout material (Image)

Est.$2,500