Feature Lot. Lot 646 - 1962, Stage Art of Mei Lan-fang, Actor, souvenir sheet of $3 multicolored, size 108x147mm, facial part is extremely fresh and completely flawless, reverse side has full original gum with almost invisible horizontal stripes from an old stockbook, overall 9+ points of 10 condition, NH, VF and rare, C.v. $18,000, Est. $10,000-$12,000.... Currently US$ 5,000 (Link to this Lot in the Catalog for Bidding)

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The Sale contains 1173 lots of Worldwide Air Post Stamps, and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World. It represents the property of 23 owners.

Please note the new Starting Prices Policy. Most lots have conservative reserves, some are offered with no reserves, and nearly all lots have very low starting prices.

The Auction offers:

• 150 lots of Worldwide Air Post stamps and covers, including various Pioneer and Zeppelin Flight items;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforate varieties and color errors;
• Nice selection of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, with:
  
  • Rare valuable items of British North America and Canada, including plate proofs of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1896 and miscellaneous modern rarities;
  • Beautiful range of Kings George V, George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II definitive sets and "key" singles of different colonies;
  • Significant items from Hong Kong, Rhodesia and Sudan;
• Strong Austria and Bosnian, including modern Austrian imperforate issues
• People's Republic of China items, including Mei Lan-fang souvenir sheet in premium quality;
• Valuable Germany with the World War II Occupation lots of Kotor, Lithuania, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine and Zara, as well as several collections of Allied Occupation of Germany in 1945-46;
• Outstanding Italian area material with impressive Colonial items, many in multiples, remarkable Libyan color errors and perforation rarities, nice San Marino and Vatican City;
• Several single lots and collections from Baltic States, Tannu Tuva, and Transcaucasian Republics with rarities and positional pieces;
• Russian Area includes nice Imperial material with valuable die proofs and several very interesting Postal History Collections, notable Soviet Union representing Moscow Philatelic Exhibition "Kartonka" souvenir sheet in museum quality, nice Semi-Postal, Air Post, and Back of the Book items, some interesting Non-Postal stamps, Civil War Locals including surcharge errors of South Russia;
• The small Russian Zemstvo section includes two first-class rarities – Glazov stamp of 2k with inverted background (Schmidt #10M 1, rank RRRR and C.v. $50,000) and Lubny stamp of "Annual Subscription" in brown on vertically laid paper (Large Zemstvo Cat. #6 P, C.v. $25,000)
• Classic Ukraine representing a range of rare Trident Overprints of many postal districts; notable items from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other renowned Collections, plus a nice range of Regensburg DP Camp issues of 1947-48;
• Countries of the World presented valuable items from Belgium and Belgian Colonies, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Israel and Judaica, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and many more.

Worldwide Air Post Stamps and Postal History

• United States Lots (1-15) First Flight, Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Alexandretta Lot 16 Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Algeria Lot 17 First Flight.
  
• Australia and New Guinea Lot 18 Pioneer Flights.
  
• Austria Lots (19-20) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Austria Lots (21-22) Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Belgium Lots (23-26) Pioneers of Aviation, Pioneer Flights.
  
• Brazil Lots (27-32) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Cambodia Lots (33-34)
  
• Canada Lots (35-39) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Canada - Newfoundland Lot 40
  
• Canada - Newfoundland Lot 41
  
• China Lot 42
  
• Colombia Lot 43
  
• Czechoslovakia Lots (44-45)
  
• Danzig Lots (46-47) Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Denmark Lot 48 Postal History Collection.
  
• Ecuador Lots (49-50)
  
• Fezzan (French Occupation) Lots (51-53)
  
• Fezzan - Ghadames Lots (54-56)
  
• France Lots (57-60) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Germany Lots (61-70) Zeppelin Flights, First Catapult Flight.
  
• Great Britain Lots (71-72) Pioneers of Aviation.
  
• Greece Lots (73-77) Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Hungary Lot 78 First Flight.
  
• Iran Lots (79-80)
  
• Iraq Lot 81 Pioneer Flight.
  
• Italy Lots (82-85) Military Pioneer Flight, Pioneer Flights.
  
• Italian Occupation of Montenegro Lots (86-88)
  
• Italy - Aegean Islands (Rhodes) Lot 89
  
• Italian Cyrenaica Lot 90 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Italian Lybia Lot 91 Pioneer Flights.
  
• Italian Somalia Lot 92 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Latvia Lot 93
  
• Lebanon Lot 94
  
• Liechtenstein Lots (95-99) Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Lithuania Lot 100 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Malta Lot 101 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Monaco Lots (102-103)
  
• Morocco Lots (104-105)
  
• Netherlands Lot 106
  
• New Caledonia Lot 107
  
• Poland Lots (108-109) Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Portuguese East Africa Lot 110 First Flight.
  
• Russia and Soviet Union Lots (111-120)
  
• Russia and Soviet Union Lots (121-127) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Saar Lot 128
  
• San Marino Lots (129-131) Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Senegal Lot 132 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Spain Lots (133-134)
  
• Spanish Morocco Lot 135 Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Switzerland Lots (136-137) Pioneer Flights.
  
• Syria Lots (138-140)
  
• Syria Lot 141
  
• Syria - United Arab Republic Lot 142
  
• Thailand Lot 143 Pioneers of Aviation.
  
• Tunisia Lots (144-145) Pioneer Flight, Zeppelin Flight.
  
• Vatican City Lots (146-150) First Flights, Zeppelin Flights.
  
• Venezuela Lot 151 Zeppelin Flights.
  
  United States
  
• Classic Stamps, Proofs and Multiples Lots (152-160)
  
• Modern Errors and Varieties Lots (161-180)
  
• Modern Errors and Varieties Lots (181-200)
  
• Modern Errors and Varieties Lots (201-220)
  
• Modern Errors and Varieties Lots (221-240)
  
• Modern Errors and Varieties Lots (241-258)
  
• Error Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes Lots (259-260)
  
• Error Stamp Booklets and Booklet Panes Lots (261-272)
  
• Special Delivery stamps Lot 273
  
• Official Mail Lot 274
  
• Revenue stamps Lot 275
  
• War Saving stamps Lot 276
  
• United States Collections Lots (277-279)
  
• United Nations Lot 280
  
• United Nations Lot 281
  
  Great Britain
  
• Great Britain Lots (282-288)
  
• Official stamps Lot 289
  
  British Commonwealth
  
• Aden Lot 290
  
• Aden Protectorate States (South Arabia) Lots (291-294) Kathiri State of Seiyun, Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut, Souvenir Sheets Collection.
  
• Antigua Lots (295-297)
  
• Australian States Lot 298 South Australia.
  
• Australia Lots (299-300)
  
• Australia Lots (301-304) New Guinea (New Britain), Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea.
  
• Bahamas Lot 305
  
• Basutoland Lot 306
  
• Bermuda Lot 307
  
• British Antarctic Territory Lots (308-309)
  
• British Guiana Lot 310
  
• Brunei Lot 311
  
• Burma Lot 312
  
  British North America
  
• New Brunswick Lots (313-315)
  
• Nova Scotia Lots (316-317)
  
• Newfoundland Lots (318-320) Pence issues - Heraldic Flowers.
  
• Newfoundland Lots (321-340) Pence issues - Heraldic Flowers, First Cents issue, Second Cents issue, B.A.B.N. CO. Montreal Engraved, Discovery of Newfoundland (Cabot) issue.
  
• Newfoundland Lots (341-360) Discovery of Newfoundland (Cabot) issue, Provisional Surcharges, Royal Family issue, Classic Period Proofs, John Guy issue, King George V Coronation issue, Trail of the Caribou issue.
  
• Newfoundland Lots (361-380) Surcharges ''TWO CENTS'' and ''THREE CENTS'', Pictorial issue, ''Labrador'' First Publicity issue, Red Surcharge ''THREE CENTS'', ''Labrador'' Second Publicity issue, ''Labrador'' Third Publicity issue, First Resources issue (Perkins Bacon Printings).
  
• Newfoundland Lots (381-400) First Resources issue (Perkins Bacon Printings), Sir Humphrey Gilbert issue, Silver Jubilee issue, King George VI Long Coronation issue.
  
• Newfoundland Lots (401-412) Royal Family issue, Second Resources issue (Waterlow & Sons Printings), Princess Elizabeth Birthday issue, Air Post stamps, Postage Due stamps.
  
  Canada
  
• Pence issues Lots (413-414)
  
• First Cents issue Lots (415-420)
  
• First Cents issue Lots (421-427)
  
• Large Queen issue Lot 428
  
• Small Queen issue Lots (429-435)
  
• Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee issue Lot 436
  
• Queen Victoria ''Maple Leaf'' issue Lots (437-438)
  
• Queen Victoria ''Numeral'' issue Lots (439-440)
  
• Queen Victoria ''Numeral'' issue Lots (441-443)
  
• Imperial Penny Postage (Christmas issue) Lot 444
  
• Provisional issues Lot 445
  
• King George V ''Admiral'' issue Lots (446-458) Part Perforated Coils (Sheet Form), Imperforate issues, Provisional Overprints, Collection.
  
• King George V ''Scroll'' issue Lots (459-460)
  
• King George V ''Arch/Leaf'' issue Lot 461
  
• Grain Exhibition Lot 462
  
• Jacques Cartier Lot 463
  
• King George V Silver Jubilee issue Lots (464-467)
  
• King George V Pictorial issue Lots (468-469)
  
• King George VI issues Lots (470-473) War issue.
  
• Plate Blocks Selection Lot 474
  
• Queen Elizabeth II Errors and Varieties Lots (475-480)
  
• Queen Elizabeth II Errors and Varieties Lots (481-500)
  
• Queen Elizabeth II Errors and Varieties Lots (501-517)
  
• Air Post stamps Lots (518-520)
  
• Air Post stamps Lots (521-522) Collection.
  
• Special Delivery stamps Lots (523-525) Selection of Multiples.
  
• Registration stamps Lots (526-535)
  
• Postage Due stamps Lots (536-539) Collection on Hingeless Pages.
  
• War Tax stamps Lot 540
  
• War Tax stamps Lots (541-546)
  
• Officially Sealed stamps Lots (547-550)
  
• Revenue stamps Lots (551-552) Tobacco Tax, British Columbia Duck stamps.
  
  British Commonwealth
  
• Ceylon Lot 553
  
• Cook Islands Lots (554-556)
  
• Cook Islands - Penrhyn Islands Lot 557
  
• Cyprus Lot 558
  
• Egypt (British Forces) Lot 559
  
• Falkland Islands Lot 560
  
• Falkland Islands - South Georgia Lot 561
  
• Gambia Lot 562
  
• Gilbert Islands Lots (563-564)
  
• Grenada Lots (565-566)
  
• Hong Kong Lots (567-571) British Offices in China.
  
• India Lots (572-573)
  
• Iraq Lots (574-575) Official stamps.
  
• Kenya and Uganda Lot 576 Ship Mail.
  
• Leeward Islands Lot 577
  
• Malaysia Lot 578 Postage Due stamps.
  
• Malaysia - Selangor Lot 579
  
• Malta Lot 580
  
• Nepal Lot 581
  
• New Zealand Lots (582-583)
  
• Niger Coast Protectorate Lot 584
  
• North Borneo Lot 585
  
• Northern Nigeria Lots (586-587)
  
• Nyasaland Protectorate Lot 588
  
• Oman Lot 589
  
• Rhodesia - British South Africa Company Lots (590-593)
  
• Sain Helena Lots (594-595) Plate Varieties on the King George V of 1922-23 issue.
  
• Solomon Islands Lot 596
  
• South West Africa and Namibia Lot 597 Collection on Pages.
  
• Sudan Lots (598-600)
  
• Sudan Lots (601-608) Air Post stamps, Postage Due stamps, Army Official stamps.
  
• Tanganyika Lot 609
  
• Trinidad and Tobago Lot 610
  
• Collections Lots (611-612)
  
  Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
  
• Afghanistan Lot 613
  
• Albania Lot 614
  
• Alexandretta Lot 615 Complete Collection.
  
• Argentina Lot 616
  
• Austria Lots (617-620)
  
• Austria Lots (621-633) Semi - Postal issues, Collections.
  
• Azerbaijan Lots (634-635) Fiscal stamps.
  
• Belgium Lot 636
  
• Belgian Congo Lot 637
  
• Belgian Congo -Burundi Lot 638
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Lots (639-640)
  
• Bulgaria Lots (641-642) Errors Selection.
  
• Cambodia Lot 643 Starting Collection.
  
• People's Republic of China Lots (644-660)
  
• People's Republic of China Lots (661-667) Collections.
  
• Colombia Lot 668
  
• Cuba Lot 669
  
• Czechoslovakia Lots (670-680) Semi – Postal issues.
  
• Czechoslovakia Lots (681-691) Special Delivery stamps, Special Delivery and Personal Delivery, Postage Due stamps, Postal History Groups.
  
• Estonia Lots (692-693) Postal History Group.
  
• France Lot 694
  
• Germany Lots (695-697) Semi – Postal issues, Propaganda Picture Postcards.
  
• Germany - Dorpat Lot 698
  
• Germany - Memel Lots (699-700)
  
• Germany - Memel Lot 701
  
• Germany - Saar Lots (702-704) Semi-Postal issues.
  
• German Colonies - Cameroon Lot 705
  
• German Colonies - New Guinea Lot 706
  
• German Colonies - East Africa Lot 707
  
• German Occupation During the WWII Lots (708-720) Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia, Baltic States, France – Dunkirk, Kotor, Ljubljana (Laibach), Lithuania - Telsiai, Lithuania - Zarasai, Montenegro, Poland (Generalgouvernement), Russia – Pskov (Pleskau), Serbia.
  
• German Occupation During the WWII Lots (721-727) Ukraine - Bolshaya Alexandrovka, Ukraine - Sarny, Zara, Blance of a Collection.
  
• Allied Occupation of Germany Lots (728-731) French Zone, American and British Zone, Soviet Zone.
  
• Greece Lot 732
  
• Guatemala Lots (733-734)
  
• Iceland Lot 735
  
• Iran Lot 736
  
• Israel Lots (737-738) Proofs of Government Revenues.
  
• Italy Lot 739
  
• Italy - Trieste (Zone A) Lot 740
  
• Italy - Trieste (Zone A) Lots (741-744) Parcel Post stamps.
  
• Italy - Aegean Islands Lot 745
  
• Italian Colonies Lots (746-748) General issues.
  
• Italian Colonies - Cyrenaica Lot 749
  
• Italian Colonies - East Africa Lot 750
  
• Italian Colonies - Eritrea Lots (751-752) Postage Due stamps.
  
• Italian Colonies - Libya Lots (753-760)
  
• Italian Colonies - Libya Lots (761-767)
  
• Italian Colonies - Somalia Lots (768-769)
  
• Common Design Types Lot 770
  
• San Marino Lots (771-773)
  
• Vatican City Lots (774-780) Postage Due stamps.
  
• Vatican City Lot 781 Collection in Two Albums.
  
• Judaica Lots (782-785) Album, Jewish Artworks, History of Christianity.
  
• North Korea Lots (786-800)
  
• North Korea Lots (801-805) Collections, Postal History Group, Group of Revenue stamps, Balance of a Collection.
  
• Laos Lots (806-807) Collections.
  
• Latvia Lots (808-810)
  
• Lebanon Lots (811-813)
  
• Liberia Lots (814-817) Starting Collection.
  
• Libya Lots (818-820) Stamps for use in Fezzan.
  
• Libya Lots (821-822) Postage Due stamps for Cyrenaica.
  
• Liechtenstein Lots (823-827)
  
• Lithuania Lots (828-837) Neat Selection, Exhibition Style Collection.
  
• Manchukuo Lot 838 Officially Sealed Labels.
  
• Monaco Lots (839-840)
  
• Monaco Lots (841-844)
  
• Mongolia Lots (845-850)
  
• Philippines Lot 851 Balance of a Collection.
  
• Philippines - Japanese Occupation Lot 852 Mostly Postal History Collection.
  
• Poland Lots (853-854) Semi - Postal issues, World War II Local issue.
  
• Portugal Lot 855
  
• Portuguese Colonies Lot 856 Group of Three Definitive issues.
  
• Romania Lot 857
  
  Russia and Soviet Union
  
• Imperial Russia Lots (858-860)
  
• Imperial Russia Lots (861-880) Romanov Dynasty issue.
  
• Imperial Russia Lots (881-900) Romanov Dynasty issue, The Latest Imperial issue, Military Mailings, Ship Mail, Collections.
  
• Imperial Russia Lots (901-905) Collections.
  
• RSFSR Issues 1918-23 Lots (906-911)
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (912-920)
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (921-940)
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (941-960)
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (961-980)
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (981-1000) Collections and Large Lots, Collections of Large and Miniature Sheets.
  
• Soviet Union 1923-91 Lots (1001-1006) Collections of Large and Miniature Sheets.
  
• Modern Issues of Russian Federation Lots (1007-1017) Prestige Booklet, Collections.
  
• Semi - Postal issues Lots (1018-1020)
  
• Semi - Postal issues Lots (1021-1025)
  
• Air Post stamps Lots (1026-1029)
  
• Non-Postal stamps Lots (1030-1038) Official and Revenue Papers, Securities, World War I Charity issues, Soviet Charity for War Invalids, Soviet Child Welfare, O.D.V.F. (Society of Friends of the Air Fleet).
  
• Offices in China Lot 1039
  
• Offices in the Turkish Empire Lot 1040
  
• Offices in the Turkish Empire Lots (1041-1042) City Overprints.
  
• Russia used in Asia Lot 1043
  
• Locals of the Civil War period - Siberia Lot 1044
  
• Locals of the Civil War period - South Russia Lots (1045-1053) Rostov issue, Yekaterinodar issue, Crimea issue.
  
• Locals of the Civil War period - Yakutsk Lot 1054
  
• Zemstvo (Rural Post) Locals Lots (1055-1058) Glazov, Lubny, Nolinsk, High Quality Selection.
  
  Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
  
• Saudi Arabia Lots (1059-1060) Hejaz issues.
  
• Saudi Arabia Lots (1061-1063) Hejaz issues, Hejaz Postage Due stamps.
  
• Spain Lot 1064
  
• Sweden Lot 1065
  
• Switzerland Lots (1066-1069) Semi - Postal issues.
  
• Syria Lots (1070-1078) Group of Proofs and Imperforates, Balance of a Consignment, Fiscal stamps.
  
• Tannu Tuva Lots (1079-1080)
  
• Tannu Tuva Lots (1081-1084) Air Post stamps, Collection on Stockpages, Nice Selection.
  
• Transcaucasian Federated Republics Lots (1085-1087) Collection and Accumulation.
  
• Turkey Lots (1088-1090) Semi - Postal issues.
  
  Ukraine
  
• Trident Overprints - Kyiv Lots (1091-1099)
  
• Trident Overprints - Kharkiv Lot 1100
  
• Trident Overprints - Kharkiv Lot 1101
  
• Trident Overprints - Katerynoslav Lots (1102-1103)
  
• Trident Overprints - Poltava Lots (1104-1108)
  
• Trident Overprints - Odessa Lots (1109-1116)
  
• Trident Overprints - Podilia Lots (1117-1120)
  
• Trident Overprints - Podilia Lots (1121-1140)
  
• Trident Overprints - Podilia Lots (1141-1147)
  
• Local Trident Overprints Lots (1148-1151) Zhytomyr - Kyiv Type 1, Zhytomyr - Kyiv Type 2, Chernihiv - Kyiv Type 1, Kyiv (type H).
  
• Displaced Persons Camp Issues Lots (1152-1159) Post World War I Camps, Post-World War II Camps - Rimini, Post-World War II Camps - Regensburg, Post-World War II Camps - RADA issues.
  
  Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
  
• Uruguay Lot 1160
  
• Venezuela Lots (1161-1163) Collections.
  
• North Vietnam Lots (1164-1166)
  
• Yugoslavia Lot 1167 Post World War I Collection.
  
• Yugoslavia - Trieste (Zone B) Lots (1168-1169) Postal Tax stamps.
  
  Worldwide Collections
  
• Middle East Lot 1170 Large Unit on Illustrated Pages.
  
• Chess Competitions Lot 1171
  
• Chess Champion's Autographs Lot 1172
  
• Western Europe Lot 1173 Balance of a Collection.