Andorra 1931-98 collection in hingeless album, appears complete for the period , including #1-22 and back of the book issues, mostly hinged to the 1950s and never hinged from thereon, uniformly fresh color and bright appearance, lovely and fine-very fine.

Est. $500-750

Andorra 1932-73 mint collection, near-complete for the period, hinged on Scott pages, note fresh 1932-43 set, an attractive and clean collection, fine-very fine.

Est. $200-300

Austria & Austrian Levant postmark collection of several hundred stamps carefully arranged in two albums, many accompanied by detailed write-ups on the town history, assembled by a dilligent collector who sought-out stamps in superior condition with choice cancellations, note examples of postmarks Czechoslovakia, Fiume, Bohemia Moravia, Hungary, and more, a beautiful collection that would require significant searching to replicate in this quality.

Est. $500-750

British Commonwealth accumulation of retired A.P.S. circuit books, over one hundred, mix of mint and used, strong in omnibus issues, particularly King George V Silver Jubilee, which are present largely mint and with duplication, noting also British Offices in China and Morocco, Sarawak, Cyprus, a few volumes of Australia with Kangaroos, several volumes of British Africa, British Americas including Newfoundland, Barbados, and Bahamas, Pacific islands with Papua, Cocos-Keeling Islands, Norfolk Island, British Africa with Victoria through King George V issues, a worthwhile mix ideal for the reseller, a few faults, but much fine-very fine.

Est. $1,500-2,000

British Commonwealth carton of collections, mint and used, most in Scott Speciality albums, note two volumes of British Africa, with good Egypt, Cape of Good Hope Triangles to the 6d, including three-margin examples, strength in King George VI with Basutoland 1938 Pictorials complete mint, British America with 1935 KGVI Pictorials complete mint, British Honduras KGVI Pictorials to the $1, better Bermuda Keyplates, comprehensive British Offices Abroad with a high degree of completion, including Offices in China, 5/- Morocco Seahorse mint, QEII to the 10/-. British America with a good mix from Barbados to British Virgin Islands, Ascension with King George V 1934 Pictorials complete, condition varies and some part or short sets, but many nice, fresh stamps, an ideal basis for expansion, chiefly fine-very fine.

Est. $1,000-1,500

British Commonwealth carton of mint & used, in Scott speciality albums, Malta with 1903/16 Edward VII & King George V definitives to the 1/-, Barbados with useful group of Britannia issues, Great Britain with used Penny Black, strongest in Australia & States, British Africa with Cape of Good Hope including Triangles, good Egypt, Kenya Uganda Tanganyika, British Offices in Morocco, Ascension with 1922 overprints complete hinged, 1924-7 complete hinged, and 1934 Pictorials hinged, some countries more filled then others, but a solid representation of the Commonwealth, with much fresh and fine.

Est. $1,500-2,000

British Commonwealth group of better mint sets and singles, with a wide range of countries, with Bahamas, Bermuda, and Jamaica KGVI Coronation SPECIMEN perfin sets, the latter never hinged, British Honduras #84 used, Cayman Islands #50-63, India 150/67 complete save for 161A, Great Britain #122, Nyasaland #23 (slight disturbed gum), St. Helena #118-27, Malaya (Trengganu) #20-37, and Malaya J7-12, a mostly well-centered and fresh group, with many desirable items, fine-very fine. (Image)

Est. $500-750

British Commonwealth 1935 Silver Jubilee & 1948 Silver Wedding collection, nearly-complete, mint, nicely-mounted on quadrille pages, the Silver Jubilee with better including Ascension, Australia, Hong Kong, and South Africa, the Silver Wedding with Kuwait, Bahamas, Basutoland, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, the key Hong Kong set, and many more, a fresh and mostly very fine collection.

Est. $400-500

British Commonwealth King George V Silver Jubilee Omnibus collection, hinged in a special commemorative split-back album, appears complete save for Egypt, complemented with a few covers and blocks of four, some pages with toning spots but stamps are generally bright and fresh, chiefly fine-very fine.

Est. $200-300

British Commonwealth King George V Silver Jubilee Omnibus collection, never hinged, appears complete for the common design issues as well as Papua, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and South West Africa, fresh bright colors, an attractive and mostly very fine collection of these ever-popular issues.

Est. $300-400

Canada strong and desirable mint & used collection, offered as received, with many infrequently-seen items, beginning with a four-margin used #4, and progressing through to the 1938 Scroll issue, note several better including unused #8, a scarce unused #17e deep red purple, an unused #19, particularly strong Large Queens including #21v o.g. showing broken scrollwork at the upper left, used #24iii and #27ii, both being scarcer blotting paper examples, mint #28i milky blue Large Queen, #29 thin paper unused, #30iv the 15c greenish gray in a rare block of four, perhaps the largest remaining multiple, the highlight undoubtedly being a 3c bright red on laid paper, unused, with prominent laid lines, an exceptionally scarce item with fewer than ten unused examples recorded, expert pencil signed on back, Small Queens with shades including a mint 6c chestnut, and three nice mint 10c shades, Maple Leaf issue including multiple mint 8c and 10c examples, Numerals including a nice mint 6c brown block of four, mint Jubilees including a 20c, a lovely 2c Numeral on thick paper, never hinged, Edward VII issues including a mint 20c and 50c, Quebec Tercentenary including a mint lower right corner block of four, a variety of mint Admirals to the $1, mint 50c Bluenose and part-imprint block of four of the $1 Parliament, a generally sound lot, chiefly fine, but with many very fine and stamps to be found from careful inspection. (Image)

Est. $7,500-10,000

Canada King Edward VII through King George V era mint & used balance of errors & varieties, with a many dozens of items, several mounted and annotated on pages, noting 2c Scroll block of six with striking ink smear, 2c green Princess Elizabeth, sheet of 100, with Plate No. 1 inscription at upper right, showing the "Weeping Princess" variety (some separation), Mufti and War Issue plate blocks showing "cracked plate" varieties, a couple dozen used Admirals showing hairline varieties, minor plate varieties on 1c Quebec Tercentenary, King George V Scroll & Pictorial issues with "extended moustache" varieties, lovely group of seven n.h. War Issue plate blocks with varying degrees of cracked plate varieties, various KGV-era coil strips with jump strips, starter strips, etc, 1c War Issue with dramatic misperforation, and much more, a desirable and visually appealing group. (Image)

Est. $400-500

Canada QEII Errors & Varieties collection, of a couple dozen items, with several better, noting 8c Caricature imperf between block, 15c Mountie imperforate pair (typical small faults), 5c Wilding plate block showing the "cracked plate" variety, several 17c Parliament misperforated examples, one horizontal pair with a dramatic pre-printing paper crease, 8c Legion with shifted red strip, 5c St. Lawrence Seaway block of eight with red ink smear, 15c Radio Canada block with first day cancel and showing the "Bug on Leaf" variety, $1 Fundy and $2 Kluane with shifted inscriptions, 5c Wilding with dramatic misperforation, various tagging errors, etc, an ideal lot for the specialist. (Image)

Est. $400-500

Ceylon 1859/1938 mint & used collection, hinged on Scott pages, well-filled, noting 1857-9 2d green mint, 8d used, 2/- blue used (with 1938 RPSL certificate), 1872-80 16c violet mint, 1885 1r12c on 2r50c mint (pencil signed on gum), 1904 2r25c Edward VII key value mint, a few War Tax and Officials, some small faults, a chiefly fine from this desirable country.

Est. $500-750

China & People’s Republic old-time packet maker’s stock, with many thousands of mint, used, and cancelled-to-order singles, pairs, and blocks, sorted into glassines, strong in 1950s-early 1960s PRC, though note items going back to 1898 Dragons, Sun Yat-sen, and Martyrs issues, with reprints of the 1950 Flags, 1950 Chairman Mao, and 1952 Physical Exercises issues, two sets of 1955 Scientists imperforate miniature sheets, 1959 Sports issues CTO in large multiples, 1974 Arms of the Republic issues never hinged, and much more, apparently organized into back-up stock and packets that had been prepared for sale, with three large glassines noted as including 1,500 stamps, five noted as 1,000 stamps, and many smaller prepared packets of J&R Darracott Ltd, a substantial holding with exceptional retail potential, chiefly fine-very fine.

Est. $1,500-2,000

China, People's Republic, 1950s-1970s valuable holding of sheets & large multiples, predominantly CTO though also including several never hinged examples, beginning with denominations from the 1950s including multiple examples from the Gate of Heavenly Peace series, progressing through the 1950 Inauguration of the PRC (reprint), mid-1950s with a comprehensive selection of 1st 5 Year Plan and 1955 Long March, 1960s issues with three blocks of thirty used 1961 30f Gate of Heavenly Peace, 1962 Albanian Independence, various denominations of the 1963 Butterflies, 1963 Children's Day CTO set in sheets, 1963 Folk Dances, 1963 Table Tennis Championships CTO sheets, various sheets from the 1963 Landscapes including the scarce 50f key value in CTO sheet and multiple large blocks, 1966 Victory in South Vietnam in multiple CTO sheets, good representation of 1965 Mountaineering, 1965 Chingkang Mountains, an 1964-6 Buildings, CTO part-sheets of 24 of the first four values of the 1967 Mao "Our Great Teacher" issues, and many more, some condition issues expected including wrinkles, creases to selvedge, etc as typical in such a large holding, most sheets have been folded, Scott catalogue approaching if not into six figures, over 150 issues represented with many desirable items, an exceptional and important holding that would be an incredible challenge to re-assemble, chiefly fine-very fine.

Est. $15,000-20,000

China, People's Republic 1950s-60s collection, largely cancelled-to-order, many desirable items including 1955 Scientists in imperforate miniature sheets, 1964 15th Anniversary of People's Republic strip of three, 1964 Power Dam, 1964 Flowers, 1966 Lu Hsun, 1966 Athletic Games, 1967 Third Five Year Plan, 1967 Liu Ying-chun set, several examples from the 1967 Mao set, and more, a useful collection, chiefly fresh and very fine.

Est. $300-400

Egypt 1930s/70s mint & used collection, with two small stockbooks and a few envelopes of singles and sets, many hundreds of stamps, with good runs of King Farouk issues, Royal Wedding souvenir sheet, fulsome U.A.R., also extensive selection of blocks of four, largely 1960s and 1970s, purchased as new issues, an excellent representation of this era, ideal for expansion, chiefly fresh and fine.

Est. $200-300

France & Area mint & used accumulation of circuit books, with over 260 retried & yet uncirculated A.P.S. circuit books, mix of mint and used, with particular strength in back-of-the-book issues, noting B3-9 mint, B12-19 mint, B35-7 mint, B38 mint, Airmails with C8-13 mint, C23-7 mint, Postage Dues with J7-9, better Newspaper stamps, a good run of 1940s/50s semi-postals in mint and used, valuable Alsace-Lorraine issues,modern booklets, etc, a wide survey of French philately, some duplication throughout but a worthwhile accumulation with good value, the odd fault but chiefly fine.

Est. $4,000-5,000

France 1876-1900 Sage Issue specialized study, neatly arranged on seventeen black stock sheets, over 1,100 stamps, the majority with circular datestamps, many dated examples,a few with small faults but overall fine or better examples, a wonderful group for further research, ideal for the specialist.

Est. $300-400

France 1940-56 mint back of the book, on hingeless album pages, hinged, near-complete for the period, fresh, bright color, and chiefly very fine.

Est. $200-300

France carton of mint & used, in seven well-filled hingeless albums, the pre-1950s a mix of mint and used, largely never hinged after, note one album of 1951-81, second album of 1960s/70s with damaged pages but most contents appear sound, two albums covering 1970-97, near complete and fresh mint, overall good coverage of the twentieth century, including better semi-postals and back of the book, some duplication between albums and some small faults particularly among the earlier items, significant catalogue value.

Est. $1,000-1,500

France & Colonies old-time collection, mounted on old-time pages of European origin, Alaouites through Zanzibar, as well as general French Colonies issues, well-annotated and identified, mint and used, with some duplication from 1870s through to 1940s, nineteenth century imperforates being of better-than-average quality, with many with four large margins and neatly-struck postmarks, good representation with many key values included, many of the Navigation & Commerce examples with 1fr and greater values, with some present as both mint and used examples, the 1930s/40s issues with some significantly duplicate used examples, noting some attractive used pairs and multiples, a lovely assembly of good quality, worthy of close inspection, and a solid beginning to a significant collection of this field.

Est. $5,000-7,500

France & Colonies mint & used accumulations, with two French Africa Scott Speciality albums, the first Algeria through French West Africa, mostly fresh mint, well-filled from 1920s/40s through not useful Navigation & Commerce issues, the second rather sparse and mostly used, “Victoria” album with mostly used French Equatorial Africa through Tunisia, largely 1920s-40s issues, well-filled binder of New Caledonia with strength in 1940s-80s, the latter decades appear n.h., two binders of mostly n.h. Marianne and Coat of Arms issues of France, with good range of booklet panes, a couple small stockbooks of duplicate Colonies, varying condition but much is fine-very fine.

Est. $750-1,000

France & Colonies carton of albums & collections, mint and used, covering the range of largely pre-independence issues, including a significant collection in an well-filled old-time Yvert & Tellier album of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, near-complete for the available spaces from the 1920s-40s, stockbooks with solid representation of mostly 1930s & 1940s Algeria, Cameroon, Middle Congo, Senegal, St. Pierre & Miquelon, etc, large accumulation of Togo duplicates, split-back album of Morocco through New Caledonia with useful nineteenth century issues, chiefly 1930s/40s fresh mint collection of French Africa on attractive hand-designed pages, and more, some duplication and varied condition, but many attractive and useful items to further develop or enhance a collection.

Est. $1,000-1,500