Other countries continued... Liberia continued... Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 4094 */o/pair Collection; Fourth tranfer printing 1868: Unused and used collection with four very rare used 6 c. red cancelled by "MONROVIA / LIBERIA" handstamp in blue or "HARPER / LIBERIA" in blue (2) and black. Further 6 c. red unused (11) incl. different shades, perforations and paper types as well as a scarce horizontal strip of three and a pair, both with sheet margin at base or top respectively, 12 c. deep dull blue unused (5) with different shades and perforations and one example on watermarked paper, 24 c. dull yellowish green, unused (3) incl. an example on watermarked paper and a scarce horizontal strip of three with corner margins at top left. A rare and useful selection in good condition (20 items). Note: When in February 1868, just weeks after the issue of the fourth transfer 6 c. red the Liberian treasury was burgled, all stamps were withdrawn from use. The new 12 and 24 c. stamps hadn't yet been issued at this point and so are not known in used condition. A handful of used examples of the 6 c. that had been available at Post Offices for a few weeks survive, though no usage on cover is known (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4095 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 1 c ultramarine (2, faults) used in combination with 6 c. reddish violet on 1882 entire from coffee planter E. Verdier, Cape Palmas to merchant and shipping firm C. Woermann in Hamburg, each cancelled by black six-bar obliterator with Harper (16 Feb.) despatch cds at left, carried by British packet with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 9 MR. 82 / 3A" on obverse, London (10 March) and Hamburg (11 March) arrival on reverse. Some overall ageing and two vertical file-folds to cover, nevertheless a fine and attractive franking to an uncommon destination. Note: Founded by Hamburg merchant Carl Woermann in 1837 C. Woermann & Cie. first made its name exporting linen and pottery to the West Indies. As early as 1849 Woermann sailed a first merchantman, the Thérèse Henriette, to Liberia, with which it soon entertained important trading links. A steambat service along the West African coast was established in the late 1870s. From 1885 onwards the Woermann Line (now an independent company) ran a regular steamer service between Hamburg and West Africa, later expanding to include lines to East Africa, and by the eve of the First World War had become one of Germany's largest and most important shipping firms. Reference: Recorded in: John Sacher, "Liberia - Prepayment of Mail in the 19th Century", The London Philatelist, Vol. 119, June 2010, p. 164. Provenance: Heinrich Köhler sale 262, October 1988, lot 5863; Collection Henry Chlanda (private sale) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 16+17] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4096 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. deep carmine and 6 c. reddish violet used on 1885 cover from Bassa to Accra, Gold Coast endorsed "Per first Mailsteamer" and subsequently "S/S 'Cameroon'", each stamp tied by clear strike of black six-bar obliterator with "BASSA / LIBERIA / OCT 26 1885" despatch cds at right. Some soiling, minor wrinkles to adhesives and envelope somewhat roughly opened, nevertheless a rare and interesting cover; the first recorded usage to the Gold Coast. Reference: Recorded as the earliest known entire to the Gold Coast in: John Sacher, "Liberia - Prepayment of Mail in the 19th Century", The London Philatelist, Vol. 119, June 2010, p. 164 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4097 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. deep carmine and 6 c. reddish violet used on small 1882 cover to Philadelphia, each lightly cancelled by black six-bar obliterator with clear strike of "MONROVIA / LIBERIA / MAR 29 1882" cds additionally tying the 6 c. adhesive, carried by British packet with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 12 MX 82 / 5B" on obverse and Philadelphia (25 May) arrival on reverse. Only the slightest of aged gum spots, a superb and rare usage (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4098 cover Fifth transfer printing 1881: 2 c. deep carmine and 6 c. reddish violet, both of remarkably fresh and delicate colour, used on 1881 cover to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, each most attractively cancelled by a clear strike of black six-bar obliterator with Monrovia despatch cds (26 March) at left, carried at 8 Cent UPU rate by British packet with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 13 AP 81" transit on obverse and Philadelphia (25 April) arrival on reverse. 2 c. small tear at base and 6 c. with missing perf. at top right, still a rare and splendid usage of outstanding freshness. Reference: Recorded in: John Sacher, "Liberia - Prepayment of Mail in the 19th Century", The London Philatelist, Vol. 119, June 2010, p. 164 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4099 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. carmine and 6 c. deep reddish violet used on 1881 entire from Harper to Baltimore, Maryland, each lightly cancelled by black six-bar obliterators with Harper (17 Nov.) despatch cds at left and additionally struck with scarce "HARPER / LIBERIA / PAID" (Cockrill: Type CP.13A), also in black. Carried by British packet at the 8 Cent UPU-rate with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 9 DE. 81 / 5B" transit on obverse, "NEW YORK / PAID ALL" duplex and Baltimore (Dec 22) arrival on reverse. 6 c. with slight wrinkle to top left corner and the minutest of toning, a superb and most unusual usage in combination with the "PAID" handstamp. Provenance: Collection Floyd E. Risvold, Spink Shreeves sale 121, New York, Jan 2010, lot 1258 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4100 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. deep carmine and 6 c. reddish violet used on 1881 cover to Anselm Larisch in Frankfurt, Germany, each lightly cancelled by six-bar obliterator in black with clear strike of Monrovia (18 Oct) despatch cds at left, carried by British packet at 8 cent UPU-rate with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET 10 NO. 81 / 2E" transit on obverse and Frankfurt (12 Nov.) arrival on reverse. 6 c. small tear at base and the usual slightest perforation irregularities not detracting from a fine and rare entire. Reference: Recorded in: John Sacher, "Liberia - Prepayment of Mail in the 19th Century", The London Philatelist, Vol. 119, June 2010, p. 164 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4101 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. carmine and 6 c. reddish violet (perforations trimmed) used on 1881 cover sent registered from Monrovia to Heidelberg, Germany, cancelled by black six-bar obliterators with "MONROVIA / LIBERIA / MAR 11 / 1881" despatch cds at right and two strikes of octagonal "REGISTERED / MAR 11 1881" (Cockrill: Type CR.1) also on front. Carried at 8 Cent UPU-rate with registration fee paid in cash, by British packet to Liverpool with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 6 AP 81", Liverpool (6 April) and London (7 April) transits on obverse, thence via Ostend and German Verviers-Aachen-Cologne TPO who applied "Vom Auslande über / Bahnp. 10 Verviers-Cöln / Eingeschrieben" entry registration label, to Heidelberg with undated arrival on reverse. The earliest recorded registered letter from Liberia; an exhibition item of considerable significance. Reference: Recorded as the earliest registered letter in: John Sacher, "Liberia - Prepayment of Mail in the 19th Century", The London Philatelist, Vol. 119, June 2010, p. 164. Provenance: Robson Lowe sale 4096, London September 1976, lot 1635; Collection Barbara Fosdyke-Ray, Schuyler Rumsey, San Francisco April 2011, lot 2582 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,000.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4102 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 2 c. rose used in combination with Inland rate 1882 3 c. black, perf. 10½, in a horizontal pair on small cover from Monrovia to Bellwod, Pennsylvania, the adhesives lightly tied by two neat strikes of black six-bar obliterator with Monrovia (Feb. 10) despatch cds at left, reverse with "NEW YORK / PAID ALL" duplex and and Bellwod (14 March) arrival. Light overall soiling not detracting from this scarce and charming mixed franking at the 8 cent UPU rate (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 17+21] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4103 cover Fifth transfer printing 1880: 6 c. reddish violet used on 1882 registered envelope 10 c. blue (Higgins & Gage: 1) to Anselm Larisch in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lightly cancelled by black six-bar obliterator with Monrovia (28 April) despatch cds at lower left with adjacent octagonal "REGISTERED / APR. 28 1882" (Cockrill: Type CR.1) and a clear strike of the very rare "GENERAL POST OFFICE / LIBERIA / 27 APR 1882" cds (Cockrill: Type CP.7) at upper left, carried by British packet with red "PAID / LIVERPOOL / BR. PACKET / 20 MY 82 / 3A", Liverpool (20 May) and London (21 May) transits, all on obverse, thence via Ostende and by German Verviers-Aachen-Cologne TPO who applied their "Vom Auslande über / Bahnp. 10 Verviers-Cöln / Eingeschrieben" entry registration label to Frankfurt. 21 May arrival on reverse. Slight overall ageing and insignificant defect to envelope at lower right, still a fine and rare postal stationery usage with several points of interest, being both one of two recorded usages of the very rare GPO LIBERIA cds and the only registration stationery envelope used in the year of issue. Provenance: Collection Henry Chlanda (private sale) (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 18] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4104 (*) Lots & Collections Post-production Die Proof study (20th century), comprising 25 examples from defaced dies, including the 1 c. to 24 c. values. A specialised and visually striking group featuring Die Proofs taken from the original defaced dies used for the 1860-1880 Liberty issues, printed on India paper and very white paper, including later 20th-century impressions, complete range from 1 c., 2 c., 6 c., 12 c. to 24 c., in multiple colours and formats, clear examples showing defacement lines across the design, Imprints of D. Feldwick, Engraver, 16 Holborn E.C., and Dando, Todhunter & Smith, notable inclusion of four examples of the Feldwick 3 c. “Arms” issue, variations in font, imprint style, and paper, illustrating different Proof printings, grouped and annotated across exhibition pages, explaining the continued use of the Dies into the 20th century. An important reference group (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia Proof 16/20] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4105 */o/pencancel Fifth transfer printing 1880: The collection on leaves with shades and inking variations, unused multiples including 1 c. dull ultramarine and 2 c. carmine red (Scott 16+17) in blocks of six and an extensive cancellation study with 1 c. in a rich royal blue shade with pen cancellation in brown ink, octagonal registration handstamps (Cockrill: Type CR.1), circular date stamps of Bassa, Buchanan with faint outer rim, Grennville, Harper and Monrovia, bar obliterators of Bassa and Monrovia or Le Hâvre entry mark on 6 c. reddish violet. A fine and interesting collection (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 16/20] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4106 bof Fifth transfer printing 1880: Extensive Cancellation Study, comprising nine exhibition pages with over 100 stamps, including singles, pairs, pieces, and three blocks of four, illustrating a wide range of manuscript, circular datestamp, and barred obliterations. A highly detailed and scholarly assembly documenting the complex usage of the 1880 issue, including early circular datestamps from Monrovia with dates ranging from the early 1890s onward, cancelled-to-order material using official Monrovia datestamps (Cockrill: Type CP12), extensive date ranges and multiple strikes, evidence of back-dating and favour cancellations, with examples spanning the 1890's through to 1916-1921 usage, groups showing multiple dates from identical handstamps, suggesting organised CTO production, blocks of four and multiples cancelled with large Monrovia cds, illustrating sheet usage and favour cancellation, a specialised section of barred obliterators, including various bar types (thick, thin, oval and circular forms), attributed by the author as locally applied and not recorded on cover. A small group of forgery or fabricated cancellations, included for study and comparison. Notations referencing research by Philip Cockrill and others, including earliest recorded dates and rarity observations. The collection provides compelling insight into the postal and philatelic handling of the 1880 issue, highlighting the transition from genuine postal use to favour and CTO cancellations, and the scarcity of properly used material. A fascinating and instructive study, ideal for the specialist in Liberian philately or West African postal history (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 16-20] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4107 **/*/bof/(*) 1860/80: Liberty Issue specialised study collection. A substantial and highly specialised study of the classic “Liberty” issues from the First through Fifth Transfers, presented on album pages and loose study sheets, with a strong emphasis on reconstruction, plating characteristics, and usage, much of the material originating from or formed in the tradition of Cockrill’s research. The collection comprises a detailed working study, including reconstructed settings of ten and larger multiples, positional pieces, and groupings arranged to illustrate transfer types and plate positions. Many items are mounted on annotated pages, with manuscript notes identifying positions, transfer characteristics, and comparative features, reflecting careful analytical work rather than simple accumulation. The material is predominantly unused, with additional sections devoted to used examples, including a useful and visually interesting study of cancellations and small postmarks, arranged to show types and distribution. Several pages display reconstructed or partial sheets, alongside reference examples of issued stamps and transfer settings, offering insight into the production methods and plate layout of the early Liberia issues. Also included are specialised elements such as Die Proofs (incl. silky paper), colour trial Proofs, imperforates, marginal pieces and positional multiples, together with comparative studies of shades and printings and forgeries. The presence of annotated reconstructions and working layouts suggests the collection was formed with research or exhibition intent, and it retains considerable value as a reference group. A serious and thoughtfully assembled body of material, offering both depth and structure, and providing an excellent foundation for further research or expansion (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 41) (Image 42) (Image 43) (Image 44) (Image 45) (Image 46) (Image 47) (Image 48) (Image 49) (Image 50) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,000.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4108 o Forgeries 1860/80: Forgery study of the Liberty issue on ten exhibition pages, comprising over 100 stamps, a specialised and well-classified collection illustrating the principal known forgers and types. An instructive assembly including: multiple identified forgers (Nos. 1-20 some gaps), including François Fournier, Spiro types, and other classic productions, classification following the Roy Mackal (1996) scheme after Cockrill, examples showing frame lines vs. no frame lines, separation lines, and diagnostic design differences, range of papers (thick, thin, very thin, brown paper) and shades, numerous forged cancellations, including "Monrovia", barred obliterators, cork cancels, and fabricated cds strikes, groups illustrating "facsimile" back markings, size differences (noted for Fournier), and production characteristics, scarcer items noted, including only recorded or very few known examples (e.g., F57, rare wash types), comparative material across denominations from 1 c. to 24 c. A clear and methodical reference collection, ideal for the specialist seeking to understand the complex field of Liberian Liberty forgeries (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia (1/20)] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4109 cover Inland postage 1881: 3 c. black, well centred and of deep, rich colour, lightly tied by black six-bar obliterator to 1892 cover to merchant Adolf Hartmann in Rosedale with "MONROVIA / LIBERIA / JAN 19 1892" cds at lower left. A fresh and very fine inland single usage. Signed Lange and Ray. Provenance: Collection Barbara Fosdyke-Ray, Schuyler Rumsey, San Francisco April 2011, lot 2605 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 21] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4110 cover/bof Inland Postage 1881: SpecialiSed collection on leaves with defaced Die Proof in purple on thin white paper with 'D. Feldwick Eng.r & Desig.r, 16 Holborn E.C." imprint at base, colour trial in orange red unused and used in Buchanan (1898), unused examples of all ten transfer types including a very rare block of twelve, a block of six and a block of four as well as eight used single examples including transfer type 8 with heavily displaced vertical perforation, a range of cancellations such as six bar mute obliterators and Grand Bassa, Harper or Monrovia cds, a scarce local usage of a single example on mourning cover from Monrovia to New Bavaria, a strip of four used on cover front from Monrovia to Freetown, Sierra Leone and a strip of three and additional single example used together with 1894 5 c. globe & Crumen imperf. (Scott 52) on local cover within Monrovia. A rare and useful group with many rare large multiples and usages on cover (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4111 cover Numeral Issue 1882: 8 c. blue, Die I, perf. 12 used on 1883 cover from the United States Legation in Monrovia to Weldon, North Carolina, lightly tied by black six-bar handstamp with clear strike of "MONROVIA / LIBERIA / APR 7 1883" despatch cds at left, "NEW YORK / PAID ALL" duplex on reverse. Cover slightly reduced at left and with small tear well clear of adhesive at right, still fine. Provenance: Collection Barbara Fosdyke-Ray, Schuyler Rumsey, San Francisco April 2011, lot 2612 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 22] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4112 cover Numeral Issue 1882: 8 c. blue used on “Executive Mansion / Monrovia” printed envelope sent from Monrovia to Antwerp, Belgium, dated 7 June 1884, cancelled by six-bar obliterator in black, with “MONROVIA / LIBERIA” cds. alongside. Addressed to President of the Royal Geographic Society, endorsed "Via England". Reverse with "ANTWERP" arrival backstamp in black (26 June). Minor tone spots and sealed tear at top left, otherwise fine and attractive. A scarce official usage to an unusual destination. Provenance: Collection Barbara Fosdyke-Ray, Schulyer Rumsey, San Francisco April 2011, lot 2609 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia 22] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 4113 cover Numeral Issue 1882: 8 c. blue, Die I, perf. 12 in a fresh, vivid shade used on 1884 cover from Sinoe to shipping firm C. Woermann in Hamburg, Germany, cancelled by clear strike of black six-bar obliterator with very rare "SINOE / LIBERIA / DEC. 28 1884" cds. at left, carried at 8 cent UPU-rate on German Woermann Line steamer to Hamburg and struck on arrival with two clear strikes of rare boxed "Aus West - Africa / mit / Hamburger Dampfer" ("From West Africa by Hamburg Steamer") handstamp in black, Hamburg (11 Jan.) arrival on reverse. The earliest recorded use of this rare Woermann Line cachet on an item of mail from Liberia and incidentally one of less than five recorded strikes of the rare Sinoe circular date stamp on cover. An extraordinarily rare and important entire in fresh and very fine condition. Note: Founded by Hamburg merchant Carl Woermann in 1837 C. Woermann & Cie. first made its name exporting linen and pottery to the West Indies. As early as 1849 Woermann sailed a first merchantman, the Thérèse Henriette, to Liberia, with which it soon entertained important trading links. A steamboat service along the West African coast was established in the late 1870's. From 1885 onwards the Woermann Line (now an independent company) ran a regular steamer service between Hamburg and West Africa, later expanding to include lines to East Africa, and by the eve of the First World War had become one of Germany's largest and most important shipping firms. Provenance: Collection Barbara Fosdyke-Ray, Schuyler Rumsey, San Francisco April 2011, lot 2608 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Liberia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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