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Feature Lot.
Lot 3216 -
Insurance Stamps, 1916, First Issue, 5m green (Michel 3), complete sheetlet of 4, o.g., never hinged, post office fresh; minor separation, Very Fine. Michel €1,400 as singles ($1,510).....Estimate $1,000-1,500
Currently US$ 500
The Bernard "Bud" Hennig Collection of German Submarine Mail of WWI - June 17, 2026
Periscope up! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to obtain material from this exhibition-worthy collection of the German submarine Deutschland and its postal history. The sale begins with a number of Insurance Certificates (both unused and
used), followed by First and Second Issue stamps including sheetlets of four, with the bulk of the sale offering covers from the submarine, most all following the order in which they are presented in Hennig’s German Submarine Mail of World War
I, (German Philatelic Society Handbook No. 10). A stunning achievement, nearly impossible to duplicate today.
Bernard A. Hennig (1917–2014)
Bernard A. “Bud” Hennig dedicated his life to philately for more than 60 years,
impacting his local Chicago collecting community and beyond. He was the lead author of the first edition of the American Philatelic Society’s Manual of Philatelic Judging, as well as serving for 12 years on the APS Judges Accreditation
Committee.
In the early 1980s Hennig was the president of the Collectors Club of Chicago and the Chicago Philatelic Society. He was the chairman of the AMERIPEX ’86 international philatelic exhibition.
Hennig’s exhibiting expertise
included a gold medal-winning exhibit of Danzig at the Fifth International Philatelic Exhibition in 1956 in New York City. He also exhibited material including German Air Mails, German East Africa, Vatican City, and Guatemalan Air
Mails.
Hennig was a member of the board of the American Philatelic Research Library from 1975 until 1997. The Bernard A. and Dolores Hennig Room at the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, PA is named in his honor through a donation fund
created by him and his wife.
In 1982 he signed Great Britain’s Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. He was elected to membership of the Royal Philatelic Society London in October 1957, named a Fellow in November 1969, and remained a member
until December 2007. In 1982 Hennig was awarded the APS John N. Luff Award for service to the American Philatelic Society. He also received the Smithsonian Institution’s Philatelic Achievement Award in 2008, the Hunt Memorial Award of the German
Philatelic Society, the Hans Lagerloef Award from the Society of Philatelic Americans, the Saul Newbury Award from the Chicago Philatelic Society, and the Medal of Honor of the Philatelic Federation of Germany.
(Source APS at
www.stamps.org)
Sale Session Information:
Session 1: (Lots 3201 - 3294) Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT
For more information please contact us at:
Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
P.O. Box 220
Bethel, CT 06801
Phone: 203.297.6056
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