Sale No: 284
Lot No:1746
Symbol:Cat No:4+5

Austrian Field Post Offices in Italy 1850: Album page with 30 c. brown, two examples incl. one on piece, each cancelled by good strikes of "I.R. POSTA MILI. in I. No. 2" cds applied in Ancona, together with a registered cover to Vienna from the Commanding Officer of the 21st. Infantry regiment in Bologna franked by 1850 45 c. pale blue tied by "FELDPOST No. 1" cds with "19/4" date inverted with "RACCOMMANDATA" handstamp at top. The registration on reverse removed and the cover with closed tear at top but rare. Ex collection Keith Tranmer. (Image 1) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1749
Symbol:Cat No:4+5

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1854/56: Album page with Austria 1850/54 issue usages, with 6 kr. brown and 9 kr. blue on piece sharing superb "K.K. ÖSTE. F. P. KRAJOVA" cds in black, 6 kr. brown (2) and 9 kr. blue (2) fine single examples all cancelled at Jassy with "FELDPOST No. 2" datestamps in black; further usages in Roman and in Bucharest, these not as fine. A generally fine and very scarce group (7 items). Ex collection Keith Tranmer. (Image 1) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1850
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1854 (Aug 19): Entire letter written at Bistritz to Kis-Czell, Hungary, mailed on the following day at Hermannstadt and struck with fine "K. K. FELDPOSTAMT / No. 4" datestamp (Aug 20) in black (Tchilinghirian page 446, fig. 729 - the FPO moved South to Ibraila in May 1855). Manuscript rating '9/3' and charged 12 kreuzer due. Backstamped at Pest (Aug 25) and with arrival (Aug 27). The indication of Bistritz as the origin of this letter clears up all doubts as to the location of Field Post Office No. 4. A rare entire. Ex collection Pirotte, Keith Tranmer.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 148, 21-24 Feb 2007, lot 3373. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1851
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1855: Entire letter from Bucharest to Orzinovo (Lombardy) from a member of the Archduke Sigimondo Regiment of Infantry (docketed at top), struck with fine "K. K. FELDPOSTAMT / No. 1" datestamp (April 18) struck in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 712). Reverse with Vienna arrival cds (April 27). A fine and very rare entire. Ex collection Pirotte, Keith Tranmer.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 148, 21-24 Feb 2007, lot 3380. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1853
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1856c.: Cover to Czernowitz endorsed "p p Starostie Bottoschan" at top and "ergo retour recepisse" below, struck with fine strike of circular ".K K. F. P. BOTTUSCHAN" Field Post Office datestamp (Aug 17) in blue (Tchilinghirian fig. 726). Charged 10 kreuzer in red crayon with Czernowitz arrival cds (Aug 19) on reverse alongside almost complete red wax seal "K.K. AGENTIE GEN CONS STAROSTI BOTTUSCHAN". Rare. Ex collection Pirotte, Keith Tranmer.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 148, 21-24 Feb 2007, lot 3376. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1854
Symbol:Cat No:3

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1855/57: Austria 3 kr. red, a horizontal strip of three used on piece, margins large of three sides and clear at top, tied by two strikes of "K. K. FELDPOSTAMT / 3s. Ae. Cs." circular datestamps (Sept 19) of the Third Army Corps applied in Fokshan in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 737). Small imperfections at top not detracting from the appearance of a rare and most appealing usage. Ex collection Keith Tranmer. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1855
Symbol:Cat No:3y+5y

1856 (Sept. 24): Austria 1854 3 kr. red horizontal pair and 9 blue, fine four margins examples, tied by two clear stirkes of 'K.K.OSTER.F.P. KRAJOVA 24/9' circular date stamp in black of Austrian Military P.O. in Romania to outer lettersheet to Vienna, Austria. One of only nine covers known with this first issue franking. Fine and scarce Muller 375 pts. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1856
Symbol:Cat No:5

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1850/54: Austria 9 kr. blue, a fine four margined example used on 1855 disinfected cover to Vienna endorsed "Krajova", tied by "K. K. ÖST. F.P. KRAJOVA" Field Post Office datestamp (Feb 6) in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 735). Reverse with fine strike of circular "gereiniget b.k.k. Rastelamte / ALT ORSOVA" disinfection cachet (Feb 7) in black and Vienna arrival cds (Feb 12). Envelope with trivial imperfections but a rare and most attractive cover. Ex collection Keith Tranmer.rn (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1857
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

Austrian Occupation of Moldavia & Walachia 1854/55: Incoming cover to Hermannstadt, sensibly opened for display, franked by Austria 1854 9 kr. blue, three margins, just touched at lower right corner, tied by "Trieste" cds (July 29) on despatch, mailed via Vienna and Hermannstadt with reverse showing fair "FELDPOST No. 4" datestamp of arrival (Aug 6). Ex collection Keith Tranmer. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1860
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

1858/1941c.: Collection with Nov 1858 40 pa. pale blue used at Jassy cancelled in red, 1862 handstruck 6 pa. pale red tête-bêche block of four unused and further values of the 1862/64 issue unused or used with duplication, 1865 Cuza issue unused incl. 20 pa. red in an unused block of 12, 1871 Beard issue unused and used, 1872 Beard perf. issue, 1913 Silistria set of ten unused, 1926 definitive set in unused blocks of four and further commemorative issues unused. A useful lot. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:1861
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

1862/1970: Fine collection in a large, well filled Schaubeck album and a folder, in mint and used condition beginning with a good range of Fürst CUZA AND CHARLES I issues, pre 1914 better issues include 1906 BUCAREST EXHIBITION 1 l 50 b mauve and black used and unused (Mi 205), 1932 PHILATELIC EXHIBITION fine used (Mi Block 1), later miniature sheets, better covers including 1865 CUZA 20 p red on cover, a multiple franking 1872 15B to Switzerland and other unusual items; recommendable lot. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (Image 27) (Image 28) (Image 29) (Image 30) (Image 31) (Image 32) (Image 33) (Image 34) (Image 35) (Image 36) (Image 37) (Image 38) (Image 39) (Image 40) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:2073
Symbol:Cat No:Collection

Romania 1916/41: Group of eleven covers/cards used / unused, incl. 1916 picture postcard from Craiova to France, two envelopes franked with Scouts issue 1932 (Sibiu) of which one addressed to King Carol II, two registered covers from Bucuresti franked with Scout issue 1935 as well as two emblems / stickers, one from the Jamboree in Brasov, other from Sibiu. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image)

Romania, Dr. Magnus (Legrand, Jacques Amable) 1869; TIMBRES DE MOLDAVIE ET DE ROUMANIE, 2ème êdition, published by J.-B. Moens, Bruxelles 1869. 65 pages (first three pages loose), leather hardbound with raised spine, gold stamped spine and front. The first book dealing with Romanian philately, a very early monograph from the publishing house of Moens of utmost rarity, not in the philatelic literature collections of Garratt-Adams & Hackmey. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image)

Sale No: 284
Lot No:6694
Symbol:Cat No:6by

1858: 40 parale green-blue on yellowish white paper, a superb used example from the top left corner of the sheet, of fresh vivid colour, tied to entire letter by framed "FRANCO / GALATZ" handstamp (Kiriac fig. 308) with matching "GALATZ / MOLDOVA" cds alongside (Nov 6, 1860), both in red (fig. 277). Reverse with 'JASSY / MOLDOVA' arrival cds (Nov 9) in red. A rare and most attractive cover. Cert. Heimbüchler (1999).rnProvenance: Collection Caspary; 'Sarah' collection, 113. Corinphila sale (May 1999), lot 4017. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image)