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Jersey, in-depth postmark collection, pre-stamp to modern, a highly specialised study comprising over six hundred covers, postcards, postal forms, and receipts, plus single stamps, representing well over a century of postal history, showcasing the myriad types of cancellations used on the island, including squared circles with foreign destinations or uses as transit marks, a range of Parcel Post cancellations including on £1 Victoria and Edward VII stamps, various instructional markings such as "Too Late", "Undelivered", "Liable to Letter Rate", and "Contrary to Regulations", PAID markings, notably a scarce 1891 violet oval "Post Office / Express / Paid", and a 1943 usage on a newspaper, as well as an oval "PD" on an 1873 folded letter bearing three 1d red stamps to St. Malo, plus single franking covers with 4d stamps from 1859 and 1862 to St. Beziers and St. Brieuc, over 100 examples of slogan and machine cancels, a detailed study of single-circle postmarks, "Boite Mobile" Jersey/France datestamps, including a scarce 1866 usage from Dinan to Jersey via St. Malo, later paquebot postcard usages, rate markings, numeral cancels such as "409" including on a 1s Embossed cover to Naples, duplex cancels, Maltese Cross cancels including an 1840 Penny Black cover to Edinburgh, over 35 examples of double-arc cancellations, registration markings including a rare Crown registered marking on an 1860 cover from Jersey to Great Britain, an extensive study of oval registered cancellations, with scarcer origins incuding First Tower and private postal stationery usages, including 1894 and 1898 registered envelopes to Brussels and Paris, an exceptional and comprehensive study, the product of many years of diligent research and accumulation, offering a wealth of scarce and elusive material, condition somewhat mixed, particularly among earlier covers, but many are fine and highly desirable, a collection worthy of close inspection by the specialist to fully appreciate its scope and significance.

1798/1824, Jersey & Guernsey's postal links with France, group of six folded letters, comprising 1816 to St. Malo with choice strike of "COLONIES PAR / ST MALO”, 1820 to Cognac with bold "COLONIES PAR / ST MALO” and partial strike of scarce "ABONNEMENT” straight-line,1820 and 1821 examples from Guernsey to Nantes both with fine "COLONIES PAR / ST MALO” handstamps, and 1823 from Jersey to Marseille with "GRANDE BRETAGNE / PAR ST MALO” two-line handstamp, as well as a fine 1798 folded letter from Edinburgh to Guernsey to an Officer of the King's Guard (of France) in Guernsey, the odd small flaw but a chiefly fine and attractive group.

"ST. THOMAS PAID/DE 28 74/C51" duplex on pair 1864/79, 1 d., pl.175, on printed matter to Arendal, Norway. Very fine and rare.

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1861, Large Hermes head 2l. brown, two singles 5l. green and singles 40l. lilac on blue and 80 l. carmine on rose, fresh colors and mostly good margins, 40c. touched at top, applied upon arrival and tied by numeral "1” to folded letter originating in Marseille, an attractive 4-color franking, signed Bühler

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1861, Paris Printing, Hermes 5 l. green on greenish, vertical pair, fresh color and close to wide margins, used with cds., quite scarce with cds. instead of numeral cancellation, fine

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1861, Paris Printing, Hermes 10l. orange on blueish, horizontal pair, fresh color and good to wide margins all around, neatly cancelled with central numeral "32”, very fine, signed Bolaffi and Diena

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1872, Hermes 40l. green-olive on blueish, block of four, fresh color and good margins all around, unused, upper left stamp small paper break in the margin, otherwise fine, certificate Diena (1992)

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1 l., 5 copies, tied by c.d.s. "ATHENS 1/15 APR. 1897" to printed matter wrapper to New York, with arrival mark. Small transportation marks, otherwise very fine. Rare printed matter to overseas.    

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10 l. in combination with Small Hermes Head 20 l., tied by c.d.s. "ATHENS 3/28 MAR 1896"(4th day of the games), to envelope, showing on reverse seal of the German consulate, to Karlsruhe, Germany, with arrival mark. A very fine and rare usage during the games.   

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1906, Olympic Games 1 dr., tied to domestic envelope with transit and arrival marks

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1906, 2 dr., tied to registered envelope from Athens 1910 to Germany with arrival mark. Very fine and rare.

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1906, Olympic games 5 dr., die proof in rose and 2 dr., die proof in green, on carton

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2004, Olympic Summergames Leonidas Sampanis 0,65 €, laserprinting, withdrawn value, souvenir sheet, mint never hinged, fine

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1896, Olympic games 1 l. – 10 dr., all tied by (partly very weak) red Olympic committee cachet to printed sheet "OLYMPIC GAMES" with manuscript text "For Mr. Zafirion on behalf of his RH the crown prince….". Sheet with marginal faults, mounted in frame.

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1896, Olympic issue,  1923 reprints from the original dies ex 60 l. - 10 dr. three die proofs and five plate proofs in different colours     

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1896, Olympic games, 1923 reprints with the original die (with permission from the Greek government) 2 dr. reply postcard in deep blue on buff card, and 2 dr lettercard in deep red on buff paper, the later one somewhat toned, otherwise very fine and rare

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1871, Lithographed, Franz Josef 15 kr. brown, fresh color and good perforation, used with clear cds. "..ASZOMBAT 19/7 71”, fine 

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1871, Engraved, 2 kr. orange tied by oval handstamp to 3 kr green typo postal stationery envelope to Vienna. Backflap missing, otherwise fine. A scarce combination.

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