Four volume collection with strength in Third Reich issues with a high proportion unmounted including 1933-36 Hindenburg, 1934 Airmails, 1935 Costumes & Skiing, 1936 Olympics and 1938 Nurburgring etc, also WWII Occupations including Bohemia & Moravia 1939 Overprints with guarantee handstamps, Croati
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Potential treasure chest with a stamp collection including lots of pickings especially in the States, a batch of pre-stamp mail, several hundred Postal Cards from States to 1930s including commemorative issues with a high proportion commercially used (about half of which have filing holes), excelle
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1875-1997 in carton with Bavaria including imperfs and Officials, Empire, Hyper-Inflations, Hindenberg booklet stamps used, General Government, Berlin to 1990 with 1948-49 overprints in Black to 5mk mint, and in Red to 2mk used, 1951 Freedom Bell mint, Clapper to Right used, and Clapper to Left mint
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1928-33 Zeppelin Airmails complete sheets of 50 of South America Flight 2mk x12 & 4mk x13, Polar Flight 1mk x12, 2mk x13 & 4mk x13 and Chicago World's Fair Flight 1mk x12, 2mk x12 & 4mk x11, each unit with 'Privater Nachdruck' [= private reprint] on the reverse. Ex Australian Philatelic Wholesalers.
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1930 Graf Zeppelin Süd-Amerika-Fahrt 2mk & 4mk Mi 438 & 439 marginal examples from the upper-left of the sheets, unmounted, Cat €3500 minimum. Superb. (2)
Grade A+
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Neatly presented collection remainders with 1890s Overprints mint sets 'Kamerun', 'Marianen', 'Marshall-Inseln' (mint or unused), 'Samoa' & 'Deutsch/Neuguinea' (used), also Samoa Ships to 5mk, SWA 3mk used, a group of GRI Overprints from New Guinea & Cameroun, and some unused Postal Cards, condition
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Largely unsorted array with lots of pickings including Vorlaufer (= forerunners) from Marshalls & Samoa (10pf block of 6 with Friedrich Steuer Certificate, and large piece with 20pf x10 & 50pf pair), early Overprints to 25pf & 50pf values mostly mint but including Carolines & Marshalls sets on cover
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Stockpages with a range of Marshall Islands including 'Marschall-Inseln' 20pf 25pf & 50pf, 'Marshall-Inseln' mint & used sets and another set on faulty oversize registered cover to NSW, Yachts to 5mk x2 and WWI Japanese 'chop' in red on 5pf x2 10pf & 30pf; plus New Guinea Overprint sets mint & used,
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MARSHALL ISLANDS: 1918-19 Lozenges Watermark 5mk Mi 27Bi upper-left corner block of 4, well centred, unmounted, Cat €600+, for singles. Superb.
Grade A+ B1
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POSTAL CARDS: Unsorted array of issues from Africa, the Levant and the Pacific, probably all basic types but generally very fine unused, CTO or philatelically used with postmark interest especially from Cameroons & Togo. (possibly 200 or so)
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POSTAL HISTORY: Interesting batch of commercial mail including 1893 Vorlaufer from Cameroun with 20pf pair tied by 'GROSS-BATANGA' cds & 'LIBREVILLE/CONGO FRANCAIS' transit (tragically with a third stamp excised), 1899 from Jaluit to France with late use of German 20pf, 1905 registered from Constant
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1910-1923 Notgeld, German States, and Reichbank Hyper-Inflation collection in box including from Berlin 1923 20 million mark, Duisburg, Dusseldorf Phoenix 5 million mark, Frankfurt 1922 Chemilche Fabrik Briesheim-Elektron 500m, Sagan 1922 500m, Trossingen Weiss AG, Ulm J. Eckhardt & Sohn, etc, colou
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1918 (4th April) Darlehnskasse Ost 50 mark Pick R132, State Loan Bank East Kuanas, serial 'D 917324', light aging, Uncirculated. Circulated in occupied Lithuania until August 1922.
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