1840/1890, old "Illustrated stamp-album by Alwin Zschiesche" (twelfth edition of 1893) with gilt-edged pages in excellent condition, including a mainly cancelled (some mint and mint never hinged) COLLECTION "ALL WORLD" with extraordinary values. The collection contains only the early issues until 1890 (about 6000 selected examples) and was assembled over several generations. All continents are very well endowed with some great rarities, excellent expanded with more than 170 covers from all over the world. Because of the quantity of material it is impossible to highlight the best (therefore view the pictures). The outstanding factor - here the top quality of the valuable rarities - is remarkable. The determining factors for the collection are "superb" and "very fine" items. This is also proved by over 100 (!!!) certificates (all "genuine and very fine") as well as many expertized values. The present object is based on high quality and be (Image)

1840/1900 (ca.), ALL WORLD COLLECTION IN 2 ANCIENT RED YVERT ALBUMS - THICK AND HEAVY are not only the albums but also the included stamps. As always at old-time collection like this varied condition; some stamps have been included into calculation very cautiously. The overseas countries have been collected rather sporadically; we would like to mention the following: Australian states, NZ, Fiji, Philippines, Hawaii, Brazil Bull's Eyes, Canada, Chile, Colombia, China, Japan and a marvellous section USA from 1847 5 c. used and a wonderful selection of EARLY UNUSED material. While the completion of overseas areas apparently lacked of the necessary endurance, the European countries are the more impressive. Germany and especially German states showing a lovely array of better stamps of almost all countries, Austria from 1st issue, Belgium from epaulettes, Denmark incl. essays, Italian states, an enchanting Spain, Finland, France, a convincin (Image)

1841-1970 ca.: PAPER-FOLDS and VARIETIES: Comprehensive and impressive specialized collection of more than 1000 stamps showing paper-folds, starting with a lot of classic issues from British Commonwealth, Overseas, Europe and German States there are spectacular items, also multiples, early covers and many more. Also several hundred stamps with varieties and plate flaws were included, as perforation errors, surcharge varieties, flukes, colour errors, etc. An extraordinary, and scarce collection. Find the complete collection for download on www.stamp-auctions.de ÷ QUETSCHFALTEN / PAPER-FOLDS und Abarten: Große, umfangreiche Spezialsammlung mit über 1000 Marken, die Quetschfalten aufweisen, beginnend mit klassischen Marken aus dem Britischen Commonwealth, Übersee, Europa, und aus den Altdeutschen Staaten finden sich bis zu wenigen Ausgaben der 'Moderne' zahlreiche spektakuläre Stücke, auch viele Einheiten, frühe Briefe und vieles mehr. Dar (Image)