1937 1/2a to 5R, mint lh, very fine (except 3 1/2a) (SG £516) (Image)

1882-1914, 26 covers on exhibition pages, showing various cancels & frankings, very fine (Est. € 400/800) (Image)

The famous FERRARY-TAPLING Mauritius Post Office “swap” stamp, being the 1880 Peshawar Special Reprint of the 1877 1 Sanar Black on thick paper, made to be sold to British officers and soldiers taking part in the Second Afghan War. It was produced in a very limited quantity, of which only two or three are known today. Originally in the Tapling collection, it was “swapped” after considerable negotiation with Baron de la Renotière Ferrary. Ferrary gave Tapling the famous Mauritius “Post Office” 2d Blue (now in the British Library) and Tapling gave Ferrary this stamp of Afghanistan, which was considered at the time to have equal value! Provenance: Tapling, Ferrary, Appleton, Boggs, Dietrich (Image)

1820 Entire to Venice with linear CATTARO / IN ALBANIA, good strike but ink smudged, from the Tripcovich correspondence (Image)

1870 Combination cover from Trieste franked Austria 1867 10kr blue with 2-line TRIESTE COL VAPORE + on arrival Turkey postage due 1Ghr with native blue Scutari alongside blue thimble SCUTARI D’ALBANIE 2.6., some usual staining otherwise very fine and from well-known correspondence (Image)

1914 UNISSUED 50Cts imperforate top margin pair of 3rd Albanese Congress, unused

1936-39 Postage due 10Q carmine with the scarce “-Taksé-” overprint, never hinged block of ten, light crease at top, scarce (Mi € 2’500) (Image)

1913-46, Mint & used advanced collection with many overprint values signed (Est. € 260/440) (Image)

1913-2005, Mint & used collection housed in 6 albums showing a great deal of completion, noted better early values incl. Mi. Nr 5-6-7-8-73, etc., including the difficult to find modern material, also Occupations, Airmails, Booklets, Dues, very fine (Est. € 1’300/2’600) (Image)

1916-1943, ITALIAN OFFICES accumulation of fieldpost covers & cards from ALBANIA only from WW I (21) + WW II (30) + 1 blank F.P. card of Albania with violet R.NAVE TESEO 9.4.39, many different cancellations and diverse card preprints, specialist group (Est.€ 260/340)

1862-1970, Clean chiefly mint collection of Antigua on pages showing a great deal of completion, good early section with duplication showing shades, varieties incl. QV 1/2d with detached triangle, later issues include KGV up to £1 (Est. € 1’000/1’500) (Image)

1897 Specimen collection in C.CARLES book “Valores Postales Argentinos” comprising 59 postal stationery and 15 stamps with MUESTRA overprints, some damage to spine and a few stains, still fine & scarce (Image)

1930 (May 10) Crash of C.G.A. plane flying from Buenos Aires to Montevideo (all but one passenger killed), cover to Germany with violet three-line hs, “Accident d’Avion / Correspondances recueillies en mer / NE PAS TAXER,” opened for display, fine (Nierinck 300510a) (Image)

1921 Second Yessayan Issue 2nd reprint in complete set mint hinge remainder + set of forgeries (5’000R missing), mostly very fine (Image)

1922-90, Virtually complete mint collection neatly mounted on pages, incl. the 1938-53 KGVI perf. varieties, gen. very fine (Est. € 400/600) (Image)

1922-90, Mint collection showing a great deal of completion in hingeless Lighthouse album, a few stamps missing in the KGVI era, very fine (Est. € 400/600) (Image)

GB 1887 4d green & brown with Ascension 21.5mm code C cds, very fine, cert. RPS (2012) (SG £450) (Image)

1924 4d Olive-Green plate 4, mint og lower right corner marginal block of four, pos.53/60, showing plate variety “distorted south east corner” on pos.60, very fine, ex Baillie; and 1924 3d olive-yellow in mint nh lower right corner block of six with same variety, fine (Image)

1935 (Dec 31) Imperial Airways crash of the “City of Khartoum” into the sea at Alexandria, Egypt; a cover to New Zealand was routed via Sydney and placed into a special ambulance cover (rumpled) along with a printed explanatory note from GPO (original cover no longer present), fine (Sanford 351231 g & p) (Image)

1850s-1910, Australian States: Mint & used collection of NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria, incl. imperf classics such as Victoria half-lengths and woodblocks, NSW Diadems, Stamp Duty and revenue usages, officials, reprints, some plate proofs, etc., very mixed condition (330+) (Est. € 400/600) (Image)

1851-1915, Australian States: Great lot of 42 covers showing a good and valuable and colourful range of frankings from all States, strength in New South Wales with many covers to North America or to Europe , Western Australia with a range of Swans, Victoria from Half Lengths onwards with covers to the US, some registered, Queensland incl. Chalons, also Tasmania (Est. € 1’500/2’000) (Image)

1855-1911, Group of 7 covers/cards from VICTORIA and NSW, better incl. 1860 envelope from Muckleford to England with 1858 6d bright blue, 1879 envelope (missing portion of backflap) from St. Kilda to England with 1867-81 8d brown on pink, etc. (Est. €70/100)

1913-74, Wonderful mint & used collection in hingeless album with great strength in the Roos period with sets to £2 (2) used and also £1 mint and used, also Specimens, later with some specialisation incl. KGV Heads with shades and plate gutter pairs, etc. (Est. € 3’400/4’400) (Image)

1970-90, Face value for approx A$1’040, very fine (Est. € 200/300)

1840 (Dec 16) Entire from Newcastle to Sydney, ms 4d rate with red “NEWCASTLE / POST PAID” boxed hs and accompanying oval ds on obverse, reverse with Sydney crowned cds, very fine (Image)