Europe continued...

1849/1902 (ca.), engaging collection with over 50 covers and a few used, including Postage Dues, fine choice of cancellations, Paris Dotted Stars, some shades and better destinations like Finland, Mauritius, Ceylon and Brasil, noted a selection from the first Cérès issue with singles and multiple on covers, the collection then unfolds with the Napoleon Empire imperforated up to the Sage type, many interesting usages with printed matters, maritime correspondence, disinfected mails with slits or through vinegar bath, same value but two issues as well as three-colours with three-issues frankings,  etc., mixed condition, in one album

1849/1950 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, including Telegraphs, Fiscals and French Colonies, together with a group of full sheets, large multiples and a few covers and cards, mixed condition, in one album

1849/96, Selection of 66 covers including interesting postmarks, uses and destinations such as a three colour franking "Empire dentelé” 10, 20 and 40 C. (Mi.-Nos. 20-22) tied by gros chiffres "5051” to 1866 entire letter from Oran (Algeria) to Saigon (French Indochina) or 1870 "Emission de Bordeaux” 80 C. carmine (Mi-No. 44) on folded letter from Le Havre to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Slightly variying condition. 

1853/2003 (ca.), in the beginning mostly unused/hinged and later mint never hinged after 1936 in the main catalogue numbers mostly complete collection incl. Tax- and Revenue-stamps and precancels with many better sets, incl. 152 MNH, Bl. 1-3 (margins with hinges), 220-21 MNH (signed Calvés), 239 MH, 321 (regummed), 327 MNH with margin, 589-93 strip of five, 861-65 MNH, etc., in the beginning somewhat different, later in good condition, in five hingeless albums

1853/1900 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and mostly used collection up to the laureated 5 Francs, many duplicates with shades and plate flaws, nice selection of cancellations, together with a few covers, also printed matter, etc., very mixed condition, neatly mounted on album pages

1862, unused and used collection of the 20 Centimes Napoléon with circa 4000 used and over 65 covers, highly specialized with shades, plate flaws and perforation varieties, an abundance of multiples with pairs, strips and blocs, some better items with an unused bloc of four (minor gum bends), an unused  "SPECIMEN” single left sheet margin, followed by a group of used tête-bêches including one vertical pair (signed aimé Brun), two singles of the position 33 (the tête-bêche cliché), many major plate scratches and retouches including Napoléon with Horn, interesting selection of cancellations and usages with small dotted lozenge "EU” on a 1867 folded entire with cds. "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE PARIS”, 1866 usage from Constantinople with large dotted lozenge "5080”, scarce 1863 mail from the French military mission in Mexico with dotted lozenge "CEMB”, 1864 "CORPS EXPEDITIONNAIRE D´ITALIE”, etc. Some occasional faults as to be expected, a few album pages toned, otherwise mostly in fresh and fine condition, neatly mounted in two albums (Mi.-Nr. 21, Yvert-Nr. 22)

1871, Magnificent Plate Study of the 25 Centimes Cérès, with over 2500 used and circa 500 covers, representing an extensive work on panes A2, D1, D3, B2, G1 and G3, plenty of extra material including some combination frankings and registered covers, fine cancellations, an abundance of multiples with pairs, strips and blocs, some better items with two unused blocs of four and a strip of three (Type I), two single positions 131G1 (the tête-bêche cliché) one used on folded entire, etc., some occasional faults as to be expected, a few album pages toned, otherwise mostly in fresh and fine condition, neatly mounted and expertly described in seven albums. A meticulous study which would be arduous to reproduce nowadays (Mi.-Nr. 51, Yvert-Nr. 60)

1871/76, interesting group of over 30 covers and one front, incl. French Levant, Algeria and Post Office in Indochina, with an ecclectic range of usages, destinations and routes, some better items with ship mail line B postmark "COL. FR. PAQ. FR. BN°4” (Salles 1446-4), "CORR. D.ARMÉES SAIGON” (3), French Post in Algeria with small lozenge "4007” LAGHOUAT and large lozenge "5142” BOGHARI, Spanish cds. "ADMON DE CAMBIO BARCELONA 3 Ctos.” on 1873 French incoming folded entire, 1874 unofficial France-Switzerland Mixed Franking unrecognized and taxed upon arrival, 1871 folded entire to Genova with franking tied by two-line "FRANCIA VIA DI MARE”, incoming franked mail from Caracas and Montevideo, 1874 folded entire to Marseilles with mixed franking Cérès and Rivadavia, 25 centimes Cérès tied by large dotted lozenge "2387” with cds. "MONACO 16 JUIL. 74” alongside to envelope to Paris, incoming mail to Monte Carlo (signed J.-F. Brun), etc, mixed condition, in one album with some minor toning on a few pages

1871/94 (ca.), 25 Centimes Cérès collection of circa 110 covers and a few pieces and used, with a fine selection of postmarks and cancellations, some better items with special post offices dotted "ASNA” both small and large types, cds. "CHAMBRE DES DEPUTES”, "SENAT”, scarce reallocated large dotted lozenge "332” BARR used from ST ELOY, etc., many interesting usages from railway stations and travelling post offices, Paris dotted stars including some sub-types, Levées Exceptionnelles, rural postmen cachets, underfranked, postal fraud, registered mail and printed matters, along with some attractive three-colour frankings including mixed issues. Some mixed condition noted, nevertheless many fine and neatly mounted on albums pages, a useful specialist lot

1871, 25 centimes Cérès, unused and used collection with seven covers, specialized with shades and paper types, some better items with one tête-bêche in vertical pair used (certificate Scheller), etc., mixed condition, neatly mounted on album pages (Michel-Nr. 51, Yvert-Nr. 60)

1871, 25 centimes Cérès used and covers, highly specialized study of pane A2 and D1, displaying among others a fine study of the large Break (position 146) and Large Spot (position 128) flaws with various stages, mixed condiiton, expertly described on album pages (Mi.-Nr. 51, Yvert-Nr. 60)

1915/53 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, including pre-cancelled issues, a few good values together with some souvenir sheets, together with a couple of covers including a 1929 envelope from the Costes France-Indochina First Flight, mixed condition with a few dubious and regummed, in one album

1697/1880 (ca.), ecclectic group of over 90 stampless covers, many interesting and better items with a very early 1697 straightline handstamp "DE LYON”, 1859 mail from "ST DENIS ILE DE LA REUNION”, a fine selection of incoming transatlantic mail with 1855 Lima to Paris with green cds. "VAPOR LIMA 1855" and red two-line "PANAMA TRANSIT”, several entires from La Havana to Bordeaux via the United States including 1855 "FORWARDED BY NEW YORK RENAULD & FRANCOIS” and endorsed "P. Pacific”, 1858 Norway to Bordeaux, 1880 Port au Prince Haiti to Le Havre, 1876 Brazil to Bordeaux, superb octagonal "VERA CRUZ PAQ. FR. B N°3” on 1868 entire to Paris, etc., mixed condition