AUSTRIA Specialized collection of Austro-Hungarian Empire stationery in homemade album; incl varieties of each issue & good selections of Empire-wide postmarks (Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Czech, Ukraine); incl Postal cards: (39) 1871-76 first design w/ diff sizes & languages; 1876 2kr (22) w/ diff languages & (2) 5kr to Belgium & Swiz; (34) 2kr & 5kr Eagles w/ diff languages; 1890-1917 Kaiser diff types (111); 1908 Kaiser (6) incl 5h reply; 1916-17 issues (13); various types of the Republic 1919-34 (45); Entires: (8) Empire; also several wrappers, private envs, (20) letter cards & more; also Hungary (18) used & unused cards; overall a few w/ stamps added, most used w/ some unused (some foxing); several w/ corner flts from corner mounting & age, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $200-300 L

CHINA-SHANGHAI Collection (34) diff unused postal stationery on homemade annotated pgs incl entires, postal cards, wrappers & letter cards; incl (3) types embossed "Postage Paid 1 Cent" entires, (3) diff half cent wrappers, couple cards w/ Jubilee Ovpts; several w/ printing varieties not mentioned in Higgins & Gage, diff papers & sizes; also (4) cut squares; a few w/ light foxing, o/w F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $250-350 LE

GERMANY Accum (62) items, mostly postal cards but also letter card, wrapper, entire, reply; several w/ stamps added, good variety of cancels incl cds, boxed town, railway, a few postage due, foreign destination (Finland, US, El Salvador, Switz), a couple unused (pneumatic, regular postal card); more; good overview of pre-WWI Empire; gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $200-300 B

GREAT BRITAIN U1 Unused 1d black Mulready env, F-VF (Image)

Cat. $400 SE

GREAT BRITAIN (5) Parody envs, designs reminiscent of the Mulready design, both humorous & serious; teetotaler design w/ space for stamp at UR, left side showing effects of drink on life (pawnbroker, illness), the right side w/ a happy successful couple w/ child, header "Intoxicating Drinks are the Bane & Curse of Society"; humorous designs of military & Gen. Napier w/ several idiomatic phrases; two different promote "Ocean Penny Postage" w/ ships, canal, train, Triton & an engraved faux stamp similar to Penny Black frame "Ocean Postage," humorous one w/ pictures of various society types all writing letters, incl Britiannia & the lion writing at top, text "For we'r all writing / write write writing"; attractive & in good shape, VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 LE

GREAT BRITAIN Collection of PHQ postal cards in special Royal Mail album; fairly cplt 1997-2001 incl Millennium, children's books, Royals, Christmas, etc; VF

Est. $80-100 L

POLAND Collection of unused commem postal cards 1981-89, appears cplt, in mounts on homemade pgs; VF; seldom offered (Image)

Est. $80-100 A