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An attractive mostly mint collection of over 550 stamps, housed in an album of gold-leaf  ,pages with excellent material present. Beginning with Iraq with first series complete mint, Palestine inc. first trilingual o/ps complete mint (#15/25) and the mosques inc. 90m bister, Jordan inc. 1923 'Arab Government of the East' o/ps complete mint with the good perf on 5m orange (#53/63, Scott retail $500+), Syria Arab Government handstamps on Turkey interesting range of more than 20 mint, with signatures. Then Hejaz-Nejd with 1926/1927 pan-islamic congress handstamps complete mint and the Aziz Tughra series complete mint (#92/114), as well as the 1927 postage dues with inscription error 2pi for 1pi mint (#J22a), followed by extensive Cilicia with several dozen including all the postage dues mint (#J1/J12) and T.E.O. types to 50pi green on straw mint (#85), as well as errors inc. the good 5pa green old general post office type (#76A) with double o/p, one inverted -a , very interesting stamp as it is not listed in Scott with this error and certainly very scarce. The collection continues with better French Syria, Lebanon etc, including the first three T.E.O. o/ps of 1919 mint (Syria #1/3, Scott retail $1,075) all with signatures and O.M.F. o/ps to 25pi on 5fr olblue and buff mint (#50), as well as many more later semi-postals and airposts, again with signatures. A wonderful original collector's collection with vibrant colors and tip-top condition throughout. Please see photoplates to get a flavor of what is here. (Image 1) (Image 2)
Housed in 5 albums, this is one of the most unusual collections of its type we have ever offered. One volume is in the form of a comphrehensive catalog of worldwide air transport labels, four sections - Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia - incorporated into one, with many original examples throughout inc. France, Germany with 1936 zeppelin label signed, Qatar, Scandinavian, Taiwan, also airline anniversary stamps for example 1955 Ethiopian airlines anniversary series on special illustrated postcard, as well as other kinds of collateral material inc. Lebanon cedar illustrated customs label on Iraqi airways baggage tag 1951, route maps of the 1940s and '50s inc. ABA (Sweden, 1946) Malayan airways, Japan, etc. The other substantial volumes concentrate mainly on US airline labels with well over 400 including Hawaii, probably some here are irreplaceable today. Quality generally excellent throughout.
Superb used collection in 2 well filled Safe hingeless albums, complete as far as we can see for 1956-1980, including Luxembourg towers, Swiss PTT, Liechtenstein honeycomb, etc including the miniature sheets. For those that may not know it, used is far more difficult to find today than mint.
A last minute entry, representing an eclectic and specialized collection of Olympic games, 100s of promotion propaganda, starting off with 1912 Stockholm cinderella including Austrian Fund, Berlin 1936 present as well as the cancelled 1940 Finnish Games with interesting vignettes from Germany, England and France. Also seen American cinderella including designs from the 1948 games with accompanying write-up. The collection continues to the 1972 with more material and much more information etc. Then a large sheet folder contains seemingly complete sheet of the vividly printed, particularly given its time period for the 1932 LA vignettes, as well as complete sheets of the 1940 Helsinki games as issued by American Olympic Committee. Ideal for the specialist, with a lot of information and research on material deserving time to study.
A diverse range of UPU books, as issued by their respective countries for delegates at the various UPU conferences. There are well over 100 different examples here, from small to large format, mostly medium size, virtually all mint never hinged, not stuck down. Starts for the late 1940s with the ,majority ,from the 1960s. Please note that while there is no duplication that we saw in this large range here, not every country is represented. Some of the countries however seen at random include Colombia , Egypt, Austria, Gabon, Ecuador, Barbados, Greece, Brazil, Honduras, Botswana, Iran, Cameroons, India Canada, Congo, East Africa, , Ethiopia, Great Britain, Ivory Coast, Japan, etc, etc. Virtually everything on random check is in complete series, commemorative and definitives, a recommended viewing.
An extensive collection housed in a dozen albums, many countries represented, for example at random from each album such as ,New Hebrides, ,New Zealand, Singapore, PRC, Sweden, Albania, Lesotho, Gabon, Great Britain, Hungary, Tristan da Cunha and USA, etc. According to the vendor, the new issue subscription cost came to many thousands of dollars and it is easy to see how it adds up quickly virtually everything here is post WW2 including better se-tenants, miniature sheets, occasionally a little postal history incorporated into the collection. Some of the material seen includes, very colorful Tonga, GB decimal commemorative series, Denmark m/s, Queen Mother sheetlets Gibraltar, Portugal embroidery m/s, Chile m/s, Canada se-tenant, Ethiopia artefacts, Botswana cave drawings, Ireland railways, butterflies of Turkey, St Vincent carnivals to name but a few. There are many hundreds of different series, with dozens of themes, ideal for a topical dealer or collector looking for a substantial collection to build on (or break down). Much more here than described, a recommended viewing.