GREECE » LARGE HERMES HEADS » 1871-76 MESHED PAPER ISSUE continued...
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30375 |
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10L Orange showing control figure “0 inverted,” very large to huge margins, superb and scarce
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30376 |
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10L Orange mint bottom sheet marginal, MISSING CONTROL FIGURES variety, a tiny paper airhole not detracting from this extremely rare showpiece with excellent colour and impression A very fine example of this variety which in unused
condition is of the greatest rarity, cert. Tseriotis
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30377 |
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10L, the four distinctive shades in superb used pairs with 40c and 40d showing plate flaw “open cross” in the right stamp
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SOLD for € 170.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30378 |
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10L, the four distinctive shades in superb used examples
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SOLD for € 75.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30379 |
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10L Red-Orange, two examples with double impression, one showing double print of the frame and the other showing a upper right double print with 0.5mm separation, very fine and scarce
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30380 |
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10L Red-Orange, vertically BISECTED (defective at the bottom) used together with two 20L Deep Blue (same issue, faults), tied to cover from Levadia (11.1.1874) to Syros, with Athens and Syra bs. Although we believe that the cover is
genuine, we can not explain this 45L franking. According to the contents, the cover included three letters of exchange, and thus would have been overweight An extremely rare postal history document and exhibition showpiece Provenance: Photiades,
Maximus
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30381 |
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10L Red-Orange mint showing INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES, very fine and an extremely rare unused variety, an important showpiece
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30382 |
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10L Red-Orange with INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES mint, very fine and very rare (Coundouros 52.4 states that “it is very rare in mint condition…”)
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30383 |
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10L Red-Orange mint, very good to enormous margins, showing INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES variety, small thins, very rare (Coundouros 52.4 states that “it is very rare in mint condition…”)
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30384 |
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10L Red-Orange unused, barely clear to good margins, with INVERTED CONTROL FIGURES at the back, very fine and rare
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30385 |
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10L Red-Orange used pair, bottom stamp without figures at back (top stamp with inverted figures as is always the case), top example just touched and with small tear, otherwise superb and of the greatest rarity in pair with normal
(40Np,40Nm) Provenance: Maximus (1985; realised SFr. 6’325)
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30386 |
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10L Red-Orange used, with good to very large margins, showing MISSING CONTROL FIGURES variety, plus additional horizontal line printed from the bottom of the printing plate, superb and very rare, the only one that we have ever seen, ex
Tseriotis
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30387 |
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10L Red-Orange used bottom marginal with control figures omitted, three good to large margins and one clear to small, rare
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30388 |
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10L Red-Orange pair, good to large margins, showing MISSING CONTROL FIGURES at the back, tied on small cover from Piraeus (6.2.1874) to Gytheion. The stamps, which have been lifted for examination and replaced, are pos.141-142 and show
tiny portion of the control cachet at the back, ex Binos, cert. Tseriotis A fine item of the greatest rarity, as this is the only known pair on cover
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SOLD for € 2,500.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30389 |
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10L Orange-Vermilion on lavender in a very fresh colour, mint, three large margins and one clear to fine, showing variety “open cross on three crosses,” a very rare shade in mint condition
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SOLD for € 950.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30390 |
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20L, seven distinctive colours all in superb condition, used
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SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30391 |
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20L Sky-Blue used strip of three with fine to large margins, minor thinning in the middle stamp
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SOLD for € 65.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30392 |
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20L Deep Blue used showing clear partial double control figures, good to large margins, nearly invisible thinning on top otherwise fine and rare
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30393 |
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One of Only Two Known Mint Blocks 20L Dull Blue mint BLOCK OF FOUR, top stamp of right pair with a tear, and bottom one with frame-line touched at right and some creases (Hellas n° 41d, unpriced in block form) An important unused multiple
and a great rarity
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CLOSED
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |
30394 |
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20L Blue used pair showing plate flaw “distant frame line” on the left stamp and “close frame line” on the right, very large margins and very fine
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SOLD for € 40.00
Closing..Apr-30, 12:00 PM |