DUKE CHARLES I TRIPLE 50b FRANKING ON COVER - 150b RATE 1869 Cover franked with three 50b indigo on red from Bucarest to France, right stamps with large margins on 3 sides (one side partly just touching the frameline), left stamp on all sides with large margins, transit and arrival marking at back, overall very fresh cover for these difficult issues and most probably, if not the largest, one of the highest frankings known of this value and issue, paying double weight via Vienna to France Expertise: Cert. Heimbüchler (2014) Estimate: € 2'000 - € 3'000 (Image)

1871 Folded printed matter lettersheet franked 5b red to ITZKANY, BUCOVINA (Austria) bearing 'BACAU 24.5.71' cds, very fine cover Expertise: Signed Pascanu Estimate : € 3'000 - € 4'000 (Image)

Collection of Romanian Rarities 1844-79, An attractive and diverse assembly of items from different collecting areas and periods including the Ottoman period, Austrian Field Post Offices, Austrian Levant, Bull's Heads and other early classics with some useful postal history, plus a bisect usage, essay and rare postal stationery etc. Better items included are: 1844 Stampless entire from Ibralia to Constantinople with boxed "PORT.PAYE" of the Austrian Post Offices, extremely scarce 1852 Oval disinfected hs of Galatz in blue on 1852 stampless Constantinople 1858 27 Parale, cut round with clear margins, tied on small fragment by Bakeu/8.10 cds, cert. Heimbüchler, only 8 known 1858 108 Parale, unused with good to large margins, of the 20 recorded this is the only one with PART ORIGINAL GUM all the others are without gum, cert. Heimbüchler 1858 108 Parale, used, with good to large even margins, red Jassy cancel, superb, cert. Heimbüchler 1858 5 Parale, unused, close to large margins, from the original printing on white paper, only 32 recorded, cert. Heimbüchler 1867 2 Parale, used, block of six on thin paper with good to large margins, LARGEST KNOWN USED MULTIPLE, cert. Heimbüchler 1870 1 Leu red-brown, essay, only two known, cert. Heimbüchler 1871 40 bani franking to Constantinople, superb 1873 30 bani franking to Serbia, rare desitination 1879 10 bani postal card printed on black on pink, extremely rare A wonderful opportunity to acquire an eclectic and varied group of Romanian rarities (37 items in totals, with 22 covers, 37 stamps including blocks and two essays) Estimate : € 80'000 - 120'000 (Image)

1858 27 Parale black on rose, a magnificent example with broad even margins all around, cancelled by "JASSY 22/8? / MOLDOVA" double-circle ds in blue, in superb condition, Heimbüchler census no. 288/5, signed E. Diena & A. Diena, cert. Heimbüchler (Image)

1858 Bull's Head Issue, superb example of the 54p Green on blue-green laid paper, solid impression in dark colour on greenish blue paper, large to huge margins all around, "face free" GALATZ cds, tiny corner crease at top left, a wonderful example, Heimbüchler census no. 326/5, cert. Pascanu (Image)

1858 108 Parale blue on pink, a fresh unused example with good margins all around, technically a tiny abrasion spot in right margin and an insignificant paper correction in lower right hand corner but well away from the design, a lovely example of this great rarity of which only 20 unused examples are recorded (actually fewer than the 81 parale!), Heimbüchler census no. 378/2, signed Calves, cert. Heimbüchler (Image)

1858 Second issue, 40p blue : group of 5 mint singles, very fine, plus used pair (creased) (7 stamps) (Image)

1864 Issue 30Par blue (plate printing) in unused block of 12 showing 4x 90 degrees tete-beche, very fine, scarce block (Image)

1865 20 Parale red, transfer types I and II, each with full margins, tied to front or backflap of partial registered cover by simple oblique grills, with WASLUI cds of departure and GALATI bs (both ornamented), bold "RECOMANDAT" hs, unusual and important showpiece, very fine (Image)

1869 Registered incoming mail from Switzerland franked with 10c red +25c green +30c blue tied by Lausanne 19.01.1869 to Baku, arrival cds, very fine, scarce, cert. Guinand 1869 (Jan 19) Envelope sent registered from Lausanne to Bacau (modern day Romania) with Sitting Helvetia 10rp, 25rp and 30rp tied by Lausanne cds, with Romanshorn, Czernowitz, Jassy and Bakeu arrival backstamps, very fine, rare and attractive 3-colour franking to a highly unusual destination Expertise: Cert. Guinand (Image)

1871-1872 Issues: Small selection hinged & used, noted 1871 5B+10B with central BUZEU cds, 5B with central thimble CAMPINA in blue, 25B with blue RECOM straightline pmk, also 2x 50B mint hinge remainder, etc., fine to very fine group (Image)

1872 Envelope franked 10b ultramarine + 10b brown from Bucarest to Martigny (Switzerland) alongside (partly obliterating 25b) boxed 'DUPA PECARE' (= envelope arrived after mail left post office), both stamps on all sides with full to large margins, overall very fresh cover for these difficult issues and a rare item for its destination and postal marking, cert. Heimbuechler (2014) (Image)