Other countries continued... Tibet continued... Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 6252 cover Incoming Mail to Tibet; 1916/52: Lot 20 covers, a diverse group showing also franking combinations of Tibetan adhesives with those of other countries, incl. among others Incoming from India, 1926/1954 three combination covers from Calcutta; Incoming from China, 1926 registered cover from Peking to Tsarong Shape in Gyantse; Incoming from Great Britain, 1924 five covers to the botanist Earl Cawdor, sent to Calcutta, re-directed to Gyantse, three covers from India to the same recipient, also three 1922/38 covers; Incoming from South Africa 1942 cover; Incoming from Canada 1934 cover; Incoming from Finland, 1953 registered combination cover; and Incoming from the United States, 1953 Airmail combination cover. Lot includes a combination cover despatched 1955 at the Indian PO in PHARIJONG and directed to Lhasa (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) (All Images) Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6254 cover Second Issue 1933/59: 1 tr. lake and 2 tr. bright rose-red, used on reverse of cover tied by bilingual circular "PHARI" handstamps in black (Hellrigl T44) with superb information strike adjacent; second cover with 1 tr. scarlet in a horizontal strip of four tied by bilingual circular "SHIGATSE" handstamps in black (Hellrigl T46) and third cover franked by single 4 tr. apple-green tied by bilingual circular "CHUSHUR" handstamp (Hellrigl T40) in black - this last being rare. Provenance: Collection Tony & Pat Wheeler (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet 11B, 12B, 13B] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6255 cover Second Issue 1933/59: Selection 14 registered letters with 4-tranka frankings, showing a diversity of boxed and straight-line registration handstamps in violet, despatched from Phari, Lhasa, Gyantse, Shigatse, and Pharijong (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 [Tibet Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6256 cover Second Issue 1933/59: Lot 41 covers, incl. local 1 tr. scarlet frankings (2), single 2 tr. red frankings (3), a Lhasa cover with pair 1 tr. red, covers with two examples or pairs of 2 tr. red (7), and single frankings of 4 tr. green (28). An interesting and diverse assembly with shade and cancellation interest (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6257 cover Second Issue 1933/59: Selection 24 covers with multiple, bi- or three-coloured frankings, incl. among others 5-tranka franking in a combination of 4 tr. green and bisected 2 tr. scarlet, another 5-tranka franking with pair and bisected 2 tr. scarlet, two postmaster fraud covers using pair 1 tr. orange to pay the 4 tr. rate, 3-tranka rate, one cover paid with ½ tr. (2) and 1 tr. (2), one cover paid with ½ tr. (2) and 2 tr., five covers paid with 1 & 2 tr., insured cover with 4 tr. green and 2/3 tr. blue, 4-tranka franking with six examples of 2/3 tr. blue, two covers from Lhasa and Pharijong, 5-tranka franking with part sheet franking of five 1 tr. red, two covers with 1 tr. & 2/3 tr. frankings, cover with strip of three 2/3 tr. blue, cover with ½ tr. & pair 1 tr., 6 tranka franking with strip of three 2 tr. orange, a philatelic 'three-colour' franking of 4 tr. green, 2 tr. brown-red, and 2 tr. brown-orange, and three set franking of all five values on two paper strips and a cover. An interesting and diverse assembly with shade and cancellation interest (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6258 cover Heinrich Harrer 1939/59: Author of the book "Seven Years in Tibet", Harrer was a Sergeant in the German Army, interned in India in 1939 he escaped to Tibet where he was befriended by the Dalai Lama; the small group with a 1949 airmail cover mailed by Harrer to Germany with India 1941 3½ a. bright blue tied by "PHARIJONG / TIBET" machine cancel with return address care of the Tibetan Trade Agent in Gyantse; 1949 Essays (2) in miniature sheet format with three designs for a Tibet issue printed in black, myrtle green and brown designed by Harrer, and a 1959 cover to Arnold Waterfall in Skipton with a red rubber stamp advertising Harrer's lectures in Frankfurt on publication of his book - now filmed starring Brad Pitt (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6261 cover/bof Forgeries; 1912/33: The Bengt-Erik Larsson reference collection of Forgeries on 40 album pages from the first attempts presumed to have been produced circa 1920, with a study of the 1912 issue, the 1914 4 t. and 8 t. sheets and the extensive study of the 1933 issue; including complete sheets, forged stamps with genuine cancellations and vice-versa, covers, so-called errors of colour, covers with fabricated frankings etc. An excellent lot for the student well arranged in a red album. Provenance: Collection Bengt-Erik Larsson, DF, 5 Dec 2017, lot 20538 (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6262 bof/(*) 1912/33: First Issue, the study collection formed by Arnold C. Waterfall to display the different and numerous forgeries of the first issue, with genuine set of five unused and thereafter with genuine complete sheet of twelve of the ⅓ tr. blue with a fine clear impression, fine genuine sheet of twelve of the ½ tr. violet, genuine sheet of twelve of the ⅔ tr. deep red with the POTSAGE errors and the two known forgeries of this error (one actually being quite 'good'), and a genuine sheet of the 1 tr. vermilion; the whole surrounded by the sometimes obvious, sometimes dangerous, forgeries of the issue (63 items) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet 1/5] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,200.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM 6263 cover/bof 1912/33: The Bo Olsson reference collection of Forgeries on 50 album pages from the first attempts presumed to have been produced circa 1920, with a study of the 1912 issue, the 1914 4 t. and 8 t. sheets and the extensive study of the 1933 issue; including unused and used complete sheets, forged stamps with genuine cancellations and vice-versa, so-called errors of colour, covers with fabricated frankings etc. An excellent lot for the student well arranged in a claret album. Provenance: Collection Bo Olsson, DF, 5 Dec 2017, lot 20537 (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tibet Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,500.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM Tonga Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 2721 cover Early Ships Under Sail - Via the Pacific Ocean; 1856 (July 7): Envelope from Tonga to Sydney, New South Wales, endorsed at top left “Per Ariel” with manuscript “6”(d) in black for the inwards ship letter fee to be paid by the recipient and SYDNEY arrival backstamp (Aug 18). Fine and rare. Route - Private sailing ship: Departed Tonga 7.7.1856 per “Ariel” to Sydney, arriving 18.8.1856 (42 days). Note: The Sydney Morning Herald of the 18 August 1856 lists the arrival of the “Ariel”, a schooner operated by Captain McLeod from Tongabatoo, leaving 7 July 1856 for Sydney. Tongaatapu was the largest island in Tonga where the capital Nuku’alofa is located. Rarity: The earliest recorded cover from Tonga to the Australian Colonies (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3829 cover 1895 (Dec 12): Registered stationery envelope 4 d. bearing 1892 Arrms 1 d. pale rose, King George 2 d. olive (2) in combination with Surcharged at the 'Star' Office, Auckland 1894 (June-Nov) 2½ d. on 8 d. mauve showing variety: no stop after SURCHARGE, 2½ d. on 1 s. deep green and Surcharged at the 'Star' Office, Auckland 1895 (May) 2½ d. on 2 d. blue, some perforation irregularities, tied by scarce "HAAPAI / TONGA" circular datestamps with spelling error for Haapai struck in black, the envelope endorsed "via Samoa, S. Fr., New York" and directed to Dessau, Germany. In Apia, Samoa, a German registration label was added and the envelope struck with the rare framed "BEZAHLT / Kaiserl. Deutsche Postagentur / Apia-19-6-1895", DESSAU arrival backstamp (July 1895). Part of address erased, some toning, nevertheless a rare usage (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Tonga 10+11+23a+24+27] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM Transvaal Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 2754 cover Incoming Mail via the Indian Ocean; 1887 (Jan 7): Envelope from Pretoria, Transvaal to River Don, Tasmania bearing 1885 Transvaal 1 d. carmine, 2 d. brown-purple and 6 d. pale dull blue in a horizontal pair, each cancelled by numeral “1” of Pretoria and pre-paying 1 s. 3 d. for a 1⁄2 ounce ship letter to Tasmania. Cape Town transit on the reverse with Hobart and River Don arrival datestamps. Some minor cover opening faults at top which affects the 1 d. and reverse. Tasmania is a rare destination from anywhere in Africa in the pre-UPU period, with just a few other covers recorded from this correspondence. Route: Departed Pretoria 7 Jan 1887 overland to Cape Town (8 Jan); by steamer to Diego Garcia. Orient Line: Departed Diego Garcia (18 Jan) per “Potosi” to Adelaide (2 Feb); by rail to Melbourne (3 Feb). Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co: Departed Melbourne (4 Feb) per “Southern Cross” to Launceston (5 Feb); overland to Hobart (5 Feb); overland to Don, arriving 5 Feb 1887 (61 days) (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 166+177+182] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3788 * ´V.R. / Transvaal` 1877 (June): Celliers 1 d. bright red on stout hard surfaced paper, imperforate, optd. Type 4 in black, an unused example with large margins all round and of delicate colour, variety "Overprint Inverted", unused without gum, very fine. A very scarce stamp, accompanied by a Brandon certificate (1996) Gibbons = £ 800 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 98a] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3802 */(*) Typographed by Adolph Otto in Gustrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1870 (May 1): 1 d. (shades), clear impression, rouletted 15½-16 on thin paper, unused examples (4) including Narrow Setting brick-red and vermillion, as well as Wide Setting red-orange (2), part og. or without gum. A very fine group Gibbons = £ 720 (Image 1) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 4a, 4b, 4c] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3803 */(*) Typographed by Adolph Otto in Gustrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1870 (May 1): 1 sh. deep green (shades), clear impression, Narrow Setting, rouletted 15½-16 on thin paper, unused examples (2) in deep green and deep yellow green (tiny fault) colours, the latter showing a printing variety "part of eagle´s head missing", without gum or large part og. In addition, 1 sh. deep green, Narrow Setting, used and imperforate, slightly cut into. A scarce group Gibbons = £ 1425 (Image 1) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 6, 6a, 3] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3804 * Typographed by Adolph Otto in Gustrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1870 (May 1): 1 sh. deep green (shades), clear impression, Wide Setting, rouletted 15½-16 on thin paper, unused examples (2) with large part og. in yellow-green and emerald-green, the latter small crease, together with a used example in the deep green shade. Mostly fine to very fine. An attractive group Gibbons = £ 825 (Image 1) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 6, 6a, 6b] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3805 */o Typographed by M.J. Viljoen in Pretoria 1870 (May 1-July 4): 1 d. carmine-red, coarse impression on thin paper suplied by Otto, two examples imperforate, unused without gum and used, together with 6 d. dull ultramarine, roulette 15½-16, a fine used (Image 1) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 8b, 11] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 120.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3806 * Typographed by M.J. Viljoen in Pretoria 1870 (May 1-July 4): 1 d. deep carmine-red, coarse impression on medium paper, rouletted 15½-16, an unused pair and a single in fresh colours, showing some heavy printing due to over-inking of the plate. Very fine. A lovely and very scarce duo Gibbons = £ 600 + (Image 1) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 18b] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3807 (*) ´V.R. / Transvaal` 1877 (June): Celliers 1 d. orange-red on stout hard surfaced paper, wide roulette 6½, optd. Type 4 in black, an unused example with good to large margins all round and of fresh colour, unused without gum, very fine. A very scarce stamp Gibbons = £ 900 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 100] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM 3808 */bof Second Republic, Surcharge HALVE PENNY, 1885: ½ d. on 1 sh. green, an unused block of four with sheet margin, the upper pair showing the inverted cliché, large part og., very fine. A rare tête-bêche, accompanied by Eichele certificate (2016) Gibbons = £ 1´100 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [South Africa (Transvaal) 189a] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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