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1444

Finland, Attractive Mint and Used Collection of Postal Cards, 1871-1953, a whopping 476 cards presented on stockpages in five binders, all identified by Norma number (#1//117), with a fair number present parallel mint and used; essentially all clean with a solid range of printing and paper varieties (12 sides of minor numbers of #1 alone!), shades, postmarks, auxiliary markings, Reprints, and more; an interesting window on Finland's political history, with early cards in Finnish only, followed by trilingual Finnish-Swedish-Russian, bilingual Finnish-Russian, Russian only and back to Finnish; note 1881 10pen (Norma #16) with double printing of the indicia (1995 Philatelic Federation of Finland certificate), uprated cards, two 1901 "Mourning Stamp" design cards (one mint, one sent from Helsinki), a censored card, an attractive set of Anti-TB Semi-Postal cards with different designs on reverse, a Military card, and more besides; also included is a handy concordance of 1983 vs. 2002 Norma stationery numbers; generally fresh and sound, Fine to Very Fine with better, an amazing compilation; see it all online. Shipping charges apply - weight 20.4 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
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1445

Finland, A Legion of Lions Collection, 1917-18, in three binders plus additional, a varied and semi-specialized compilation of the Saarinen and Vaasa Lions, including proofs (normal plus one UPU for an unissued value), reversed watermarks, offsets, plate flaws, cancels, overprints, blocks and larger multiples (including marginals), full sheets of Saarinen issue to 50pf (some duplication, but sheets show different order numbers), some perforation flaws, and more; nice mix of mint and used and a boon for the specialist; initial review suggests all sound, but expect the occasional flaw as usual in a lot this size; owner's catalogue value on two binders totals over $4800, Fine to Very Fine with better throughout, see a sampling online. Shipping charges apply - weight 9.4 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $425.00
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1446

Finland, Wide-ranging Cancels Collection, several hundred stamps from the Serpentines to about the early 1940s, along with a few stationery items, presented on a variety of pages in a springback album with additional loose pages in a glassine, offering a broad array of Finnish cancels; the album begins with a strong 14-page (!) holding of Railway cancels including a couple on incoming Swedish stamps and a nice mix of night run cancels; Swedish "Fra Finland" and Stockholm cancels on Finnish stamps, one noted "shipwreck", Roman-only and mixed Russian-Cyrillic cancels, etc.; the loose material includes alphabetical towns (H-Å), Åland cancels, boxed "FRKO", a few low boxes, "ANK", grids, quartered and segmented cork, colors, crossroads, circles-of-wedges, and much, much more; attractive holding that generally appear sound, but as usual, faults should be expected, Fine to Very Fine with better, fully imaged online. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.2 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $500.00
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1447

Finland, Collection of Russia Used in Finland, 1904-16, 153 items (singles, pairs, blocks and larger multiples, pieces and covers/fronts) neatly arranged and annotated on quadrille pages in a blue springback binder, comprising the 1889-1904 Coat-of-Arms issue (no 7R value), 1909-11 Coat-of-Arms, and 1913 Romanov Issue (to the 25k value); each item is identified by location, with a solid range of towns represented; covers and cards include Registered, domestic and foreign destinations, numerous wartime Censors, and more; an intriguing look at this relatively brief period of Finnish history, Fine to Very Fine with better, see it all online. Shipping charges apply - weight 3 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $425.00
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1448

Åland Islands, Complete Mint Collection in Premium Album, 1984-2012, A beautiful complete collection in a like-new hingeless Palo album with additional sheetlets and an accompanying binder with complete booklets, gutter pairs and franking labels, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 8.2 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $100.00
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