Europe continued... Montenegro Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1597 cover 1896: 4th printing 2 nkr. yellow, perf. 10½, 3 nkr. yellow-green, perf. 10½ and 15 nkr. pale brown, perf. 11½ all used on 1896 registered cover from Dulcigné to the Italian Consulate in Alexandria, Egypt neatly tied by ULCINJ cds's (Dec 15) in black. Galata (Constantinople) transit at top (Dec 23) and reverse with further strike alongside Alexandria arrival (Dec 27). File fold away from adhesives but a fine cover to an unusual destination (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro 8/IIIA+9/IIIA+13/IIIC] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1598 o/piece/cover 1874/1901: The cancellations of the first post offices of the Principality of Montenegro, a collection commencing with an early entire from the Lloyd Agency in Antivari (Bar), then 100 postmarks on stamps and pieces plus eight covers, supplemented by a working stock of 130 cancels on piece, many from the smaller second and third class offices including Rijeka, Virpazar, Ulcinj, Danilovgrad, Kolasin, Grahovo, Njegusi, Zabljak, Savnik, Velimlje, and Pristane, all of which are scarce. Postmark types and sub-types are assigned to the six printings of the first stamp issue. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1599 */o/cto/bof 1874-1903: Prince Nicola, a comprehensive collection of primarily unused adhesives incl. Die faults, essays, imperforated examples, double prints and other varieties, also forgeries described as such. Starts with Group I (1 May - Dec. 1874) issues, several examples of all values incl. 10 n. pale blue unused (3) and used (4), 15 n. yellow-brown unused (7) and 25 n. grey-purple unused (6) and used (1), written up on 9 sheets (87 stamps). Group II (1876-1881), all values, with 10 n. pale-blue (p.12x10½) unused (1) and used (2), 15 n. yellow-ochre unused (5) and used (4), on 9 sheets with 94 stamps. Group III (1883-1898), all values with several compound perfs., 7 n. dull purple unused (4) & used (2), 25 n. brown with all perf. varieties,19 sheets with 204 stamps. Group IV (1893), all values with 25 n. perf. 11½ x 10½ on 24 sheets with 100’s stamps and multiples. Group V (new values, Feb. 1894) with all values and perfs. on four sheets with 35 stamps and 13 blocks of four, several multiples. Group VI (colours changed, May 1898) with all values, mostly in blocks of four, usual perf. aberrations, also examples of the ‘T’ watermark and examples of favour cancellations on blocks of 4 (13 sheets, 57 blocks of 4, 12 blocks of 6, 15 with ‘T’ wmk). Also 38 full sheets of 100 examples from Groups V and VI. A strong and detailed collection, knowledgeable written up. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 800.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1600 cover 1880/1944: Fine lot devoted almost entirely to Montenegro, including regular issues up to 1914 with postal stationery, Italian and German occupation issues (including the National Administrative Committee), local issues with SHS overprints (signed Klein), and an interesting selection of Austro-Hungarian occupation revenue stamps (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1601 */o/bof 1893/1906: Comprehensive Collection of the definitive and commemorative issues of Montenegro, incl. 1893 (25 July) 400th Anniversary of the introduction of printing into Montenegro with vatieties, 1894 Postage due with all three perforations unused and used as well as imperforated, 1895 Acknowledgement of receipt also in blocks of four, 1896 (1 Sept.) pictorial issue Bicentenary of the Dynasty of Petrovich Njegusi with range of printing errors, shifted prints and frames, double, inverted centres etc all plus a ange of Fournier forgeries with three sheets from the Geneva Fournier Forgery Reference Collection; 1902 (July - October) New Currency issues of Prince Nicholas, postage due, and acknowledgement of receipt; 1905 (5 Dec.) Constitution issue with stamps of 1902 overprinted, in large multiples and sheets, peforation and overprint varieties; Issue of 1906 (16 January) Constitution with four distinct overprint types on stamps of the 1902 issue, also in full sheets, one sheet with 3 examples of the 1905 and 1906 overprints se-tenant; and finally 1906 Overprint on Acknowledgement of receipt stamp of 1902 stamps. An in-depth collection, to be studied. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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 [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 600.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1603 cover 1888/1913: Postal stationery selection of postcards, letter cards, envelopes, wrappers and parcel post, primarily unused, few cancelled-to-order, collected specialised with regard to displaced overprints and typographical errors, card colour ... presented chronologically and referencing H&G catalogue numbers, well suited for referencing and documentation (160 postal cards, 64 letter cards, 21 envelopes, 18 wrappers and parcel post (3), in total 266 items). Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1604 cover 1888/1913: Montenegro postal stationery, a sound collection of used postcards, envelopes, wrappers, and letter cards, incl. a Prince Nicholas display of material commercially used, incl. among others unrecorded use of bisected 2 n. yellow adhesive to make up the 3 n. postcard rate to Austria; 1888/89 2+2 n. reply-paid card to Belgium with added 3 n. (2) and 7 n. to make up foreign rate of 5 n. plus registration fee of 10 n.; 1893, 3+3 n. reply paid card with add. 2 n. and 10 n. values to pay the registered rate to Belgium; proof print of 2 n. postal card on greenish instead of buff with added 1 n., 5 n. and 7 n. to Bavaria with pink registration label of Cettigne. Plus a fine selection of 67 stationery items from 1888-1913 incl. two registered ones, one with an 1892 2 n. card proof print uprated with adhesives for registration, and pink registration label of Cettigne. In total 97 used stationeries. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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 [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,000.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1605 cover 1893/1913: Postal History Collection, incl. among others 1893 registered cover at double rate to German with boxed handstamp "R CETTIGNE" and 5-colour first issue franking, picture postcard with combination franking of Austrian 2 kr. and 2 n. Nicola adhesive; 1910 postcard from Cetinje to Moravia, the 10 pa. adhesive tied in addition in Trieste by two-line "VAPORE / D’ALESSANDRIA" handstamp; 1914 registered cover from Cetinje to San Francisco bearing on reverse 1913 Kindom 50 pa. adhesive with a plethora of transit and arrival cds's from Bari, London, New York, and San Francisco. Also a group of 28 picture postcards sent abroad, also from smaller villages and 18 usages of the 1902 new currency issues of Montenegro, 1902 and their overprints of 1905/06, mail directed to / coming from Otto Bickel and Leonie Berger with one cover to Banjaluka with Bosnia being an unexpectedly rare destination from Montenegro. In total 59 postal history items. The lot includes in addition two groups of picture postcards, one with topography topics, the other showing Prince / King Nicola, the 'father-in-law of Europe'. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Montenegro Exil Goverment Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1602 1914/18: Government in exile, the Montenegrin Government in Bordeaux issued ‘Slobodna Crna Gora’ – ‘Free Montenegro’ overprinted adhesives, never issued with stocks destroyed, while some found their way into the market. One of the finest collections assembled and a veritable gold mine for the addicts of varieties and errors, a collection to be studied carefully. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Montenegro Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Netherlands Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1607 **/* 1924: International Stamp Exposition, Gravenhage, 10 c. - 35 c., 50 sets in two complete sets of full sheets, the adhesives in primarily unmounted og condition, some marginal perforation separation and hinges, one set with few spots. Mi = € 12'500 for unmounted og condition (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1608 cover Cachets d'Entrée 'Hollande / Holland' & 'Pays-Bas / Netherlands' / French entry markings; 1754/1857: Fine collection of 23 prephilatelic covers from the Netherlands to France sorted along "Noël - Marques et Cachets d'Entrée en France en Provenance d'Europe 1800-1881" starting with curved "D'HOLLANDE" on 1754 cover from Rotterdam to Tonneins, 1804 Napoleonic times Marques de Passage HOLLANDE on cover from Leer to Bordeaux, 1838 cover from MEPPEL to Bordeaux struck by framed "HOLLANDE / PAR / VALENCIENNES" in red, and NEUENHAUS, Hannover to Bordeaux struck by framed "HOLLANDE / PAR / THIONVILLE" in red. An attractive group. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (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) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Netherlands Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 100.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 9539 cover Unfallpost 1936 (30.4) Flugzeugkatastrophe 'Rigi-Kaltbad', nicht eingeschriebener Brief aus den Niederlanden mit 10 c. + 2½ c. mit rückseitigem Maschinenstempel "LUZERN 2 BRIEFVERSAND.." sowie zwei R-Briefe ebenfalls aus den Niederlanden, je mit rückseitigem L2 "Verspätet Flugzeugunfall" in violett. Der nicht eingeschriebene Brief und einer der beiden R-Briefe sind im Luftposthandbuch abgebildet. SLH = CHF 4'000 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-26, 11:59 PM Netherlands 1852 King William III Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1606 cover 1864 (Feb 12): Folded Cover from Haarlem to London bearing a horizontal strip of four 1852 Willem 10 c. rose-carmine, a fine and fresh multiple with clear to huge margins, each adhesive tied by clear framed FRANCO handstamp, HAARLEM despatch and "LONDON PAID" arrival (Feb 15) cds's in red on top. A late usage of the First Issue in 1864, the letter rates between the Netherlands and GB were reduced from 40 cents to 15 cents not earlier than in October 1864 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Netherlands 2] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1609 cover 1852: Willem frankings with 5 c. blue (5), 10 c. rose-carmine (6), and 15 c. orange, better shades such as pair 5 c. milky blue from plate IV, a lot of 13 covers, twelve inland with halfrond datestamps from AMSTERDAM, BOLSWARD, (WORM)ERVEER, MASTRICHT, and UTRECHT, including four late 1862/63 usages with the adhesives tied by framed FRANCO handstaps. Lot includes and 1856 cover with four single adhesives of 10 c. rose-carmine tied by AMSTERDAM halfrond datestamp, directed to the Swedish consul in Liverpool (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 2736 cover Clipper sailings 1852/55 - Via Cape of Good Hope; 1856 (Feb 13): Folded cover from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Sydney, New South Wales bearing 1852 King Willem III 5 c. blue, margins at places and 15 c. orange-yellow, strip of four, close margins all round and a pair, margins close to touching, neatly cancelled by "ROTTERDAM / FRANCO" datestamp prepaying 95 c. for a ship letter to New South Wales. “1d” handstamp in red credit to Great Britain for carriage by a Victorian clipper and with Sydney arrival datestamps on the reverse. Some cover deterioration along the horizontal fold, otherwise fine and very attractive. Cert. Nederlandse Bond Van Filatelisten-Verenigingen (2000). A fabulous rarity from the Netherlands to the Australian Colonies. NVPH 1j+3b. Route: Departed Rotterdam 13.2.1856 by steamship to London, England 15.2; by rail to Liverpool. White Star Line—Victorian contract clipper: Departed Liverpool 22.2 per “Spray of the Ocean” to Melbourne 24.5. Private steamship: Departed Melbourne 28.5 per “City of Sydney” to Sydney, New South Wales, arriving 30.5.1856. (106 days). Rarity: Just two Netherlands first issue covers are recorded to the Australian Colonies. Provenance: Collections Gerrish (1979); Dreikurs (1999); Collection Luis Alemany Indarte, Corinphila Veilingen sale 227-228 (March 2017), lot 259 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Netherlands NL 1+3] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 6,000.00 Closing..Nov-23, 11:59 PM Norway Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1615 **/*/bof Lots & Collections 1863/1909: Selection of unused sets and better values starting with 1863 Lion issue 8 skill pale rose unused block of four, 1867/68 8 skill carmine and posthorn 1872/75 1 skilling blue-green also in an unused blocks of four, unused single value of 1882/85 posthorn 10 ö. rose with horizontal wmk. (Facit 40 AVM2) and 25 ö. dull violet unused block of four, 1886/93 5 ö. grey-green unused mint block of four as well as 1909/10 King Haakon VII the compl. set of three in unused blocks of four. Facit No: 9+15a+34-36+40A+52+90-92 = SKR 298.500 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Norway Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 2,000.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Norway 1909-1945 Issues Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1616 **/* 1914/1943: Lot with better sets and values, all unused, incl. Constitutional Assembly (2), 1928 Ibsen in unused blocks of four, 1926 Lion issues,1930 North Cape (2), 1940 Nansen sets (2), 1941 'Victory' set including rare watermarked 20 ö., 25 ö. and 50 ö. with cert. Moldenhauer, stampbooklet (Facit H27) as well as 'London 17/5/76' overprinted set of six, all marginal o.g. and never hinged (certs. Moldehauer 1992 and Enger 1995) Mi. = Euro 4'000+ (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Norway Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Norway 1st Issue Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1611 cover 1855 (March 27): Cover from Christiania to Drammen bearing 1855 4 sk. blue, large to huge margins all round, neatly tied by 11 bar obliterator in black, CHRISTIANIA cds in blue alongside. Light vertical fold well away from the franking, small tear at top, nevertheless a fine and fresh cover. Facit 1 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Norway 1] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1612 cover 1856 (18. Sept.): 4 sk. blue, fine used example with large even margins showing 'cracked lower corner' variety, used on 1856 outer lettersheet from Sandosund to Christiania. Facit 1 V1 A9 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Norway Skilling Oscar Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1613 cover 1856/57: Oscar 2 sk. orange and vertical strip of three 8 sk. pale rose (Facit 2+5), fresh and fine adhesives tied by light TRONDHEIM despatch cds (Aug 11) in black to 1863 Entire letter to St. Brieuc, France, a clear information strike and framed PD in red alongside as well as neat French "NORVEGE - QUIVRAIN AM" entry cds (Aug 19). SANDØSUND and PARIS transit, French "PARIS - BREST" ambulant and "St. BRIEUC" arrival (Aug 21) backstamps. Attractive franking to pay the 26 sk. rate from Norway to France (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Norway 2+5] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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