FOREIGN SINGLE COUNTRIES continued...

Collection of 1000s of stamps housed in four volumes including two albums, mostly mint and virtually all one of a kind, starting in the 19th century with some of the 1897 series, leading on to a useful range of imperial dragons mint, including the customs overprints, through junks and hall of classics, to the Martyr issues with hundreds of different through the 1940s with a good range of completion with many impressive pages. Post 1950s/60s includes complete mint never hinged series such as 1971/72 dogs (#1740/1749), porcelain series I (#1758/1762), 1972 philatelic exhibition souvenir sheet (#1775), 1972/73 rulers (#1791/1798), New Year 1973 (#1810/1811), porcelain series III (#1817/1821), 1973 scroll series (#1835/1840), horses (#1856/1863), etc, etc. Also much back of the book inc. airposts #C11 to #C40 complete mint, postage dues series and much more. There is considerable 'work in progress' here waiting to be incorporated into the main albums. A thoroughly recommended viewing, with much here to discover when viewed carefully page for page.

A fabulous, well researched survey of 19th and early 20th century originals, reprints and forgeries, on manila stockpages, album leaves as well as written-up quadrille pages in one volume, loaded with challenging classic imperfs in methodical studies, issue by issue. There are well over 1000 stamps here, starting off with a useful range of United States of New Granada issues both 1860s and 1861s, including dangerous forgeries with Speratis very probably among them, then the first issues of herself with page after page of imperfs, colorful 5 pesos and 10 pesos values including well-executed forgeries on glossy paper, followed by Liberty heads, as well as excellent Antioquia inc. genuine imperfs, then 1879/80 Bolivars in great detail, leading on to Cundinamarca, Tolima, etc, as well as provisionals of Carupano, Popayan, Tumaco, through to range of Sobre Porte eagles, Cordoba also seen, even more Antioquia classics awaiting categorisation and work in progress even some remittance notes, and further needing some research. A very exciting lot for collectors or dealers, with much potential here and will certainly reward the specialist.

Mint and used collection, housed in a Scott specialty album, highly complete with no empty spaces outside the Guanacaste section, starting off with first issues complete mint (#1/4), 1881/82 surcharges complete inc. 10cts on 2r scarlet mint and 20cts on 4r green UPU o/p unused (#7/15), followed by 1883 General Prospero Fernandez series complete mint (#16/20), leading on to President Alfaro issues with the 1889 10 pesos black unused (#34), 1892s complete, 1907 personalities complete with the 2 colones top value superb used (#59/68), etc. Then 1911 surcharges on telegraph stamps with the scarce 1ct black surcharge on 10cts blue used (#87) and 2cts on 10cts blue unused (#94), then continuing virtually complete through to the 1970s, followed by good back of the book with airposts including 1931/32 series (#C11/C13), 1940 Pan-American Health Day o/ps with top two values signed (#C46/C54) and all the rest, Officials complete including the very scarce 10cts orange #O17 with blue o/p used, through to the Guanacaste provincials with the first o/p type complete mint (#1/6), and 1889 complete mint (#55/67), etc. This is a very pleasing virtually complete collection with much more here to research, please inspect.



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5 well filled Lighthouse hingeless albums and, as ,with the other collections in this auction from the same collector, this represents the highly specialized in depth collection, mint and used, ,often focusing on non-Scott and non-Michel material, incorporating postal history in every album. The first volume begins with the definitives including 'Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska' postal stationery used with shield o/p and regular definitive applied, also the key mint series small shield Michel #24-38 mint never hinged, all signed (cat 900&euro,). Further studies including p/cards, registered letters, postage dues etc. Then the 1941 pictorial definitives including all tete-beche, various perforation errors including imperf between, constant sheet varieties, blocks of 4 imperf, and much more including more complete sheets offsets etc and , this is all in the ,1st ,album. The ,2nd ,album continues in the same way, this time with illustrated FDCs, complete sheets, commems with red cross 1941, onto the 1942 airmails with the complete series Michel #70-#73 in sheets of 25 and 24 respectively, the latter with the red cross in center replacing the ,25th ,stamp, then imperfs, varieties, color trials, etc, etc. The 3rd album similarly with complete sheetlets, , further postal history including limited number presentation booklet, signed, as well as extensive perforation studies of the President Pavelic definitive issues of 1943 including color varieties, imperforates, censor mail, , followed by more commems in blocks of four of the June 1943 personality issue imperf, etc. The ,4th ,album inc the July legion issue color errors, imperforates including 'double images' pair, different colors etc. Also the 1943 the stamp expedition Zagreb study, with of course m/s, with and without o/ps and much more. , Then follows further red cross, the 1944 propagandas including fascinating proof sheets, color trial sheets, , more imperfs, well filling the album. The final ,5th ,album begins with the stormtroopers mint never hinged expertise, superb used, , both on and off cover, , dated the ,20th ,and ,21st ,January respectively, as well as all the other issues through to the final days of WW2, leading on to an extensive back of the book range with color trials and imperfs galore, as well as 'doprinos' including more postal history and errors etc. A wonderful , important collection very difficult to find such today, highly recommended.

This collection is from the same collector that formed the specialised Croatia 1941 -1945 collections also in this auction. Certainly, this the 1918 period was a very challenging task to collect in such depth and of course goes way beyond the remit of Scott and Michel. It is housed in 3 lighthouse albums, mint and used, above all very well researched and written-up including material that is seldom seen or available on the market. Starting with the first series, the November 1918 set of 4 complete mint and used (Michel cat. 240&euro,), the mint all individually signed and the used with the ten fil and the 45 fil on piece signed, then the color trial 25 , fil in red signed, followed by different papers of the same series of each denomination, followed by pairs imperf. proofs in their final colors, again all signed. Then , the definitive 'HRVATSKA SHS' o/ps with for example the 6f which sets the template for so much of the other definitives with many kinds of misplaced overprints, overprints from subsequent series erroneously applied on various denomations, some of these are listed in Michel at 100&euro, each, yet most of them are not even listed at all including inverted overprints, double overprints, offsets and different types etc. Also there are some spectacular very visual items such as the imperforate 2f orange newspaper stamp in a sheet of 100 of which 8 are completely missing the overprints and another 8 have only partial overprints and another 6 have overprints on the reverse of the sheets! , Then the 2f olive and red with all kinds of errors, the Hungarian war help o/ps including the fantastic looking bluish paper mint block of 4, as well as white papers inverted overprints and double overprints on the 15f plus 2f violet, the 40f plus 2f rose overprint etc. Then follows key values white numbers Michel #62 the 10f red mint (cat 2000&euro,), an even scarcer double overprint of which one is inverted of the same stamp, minor toning on a few perfs mentioned only for accuracy&rsquo,s sake only, not detracting from the fact that this is a rare stamp. Then Michel #63 white numbers including a block of four of the 15 fil (cat 720&euro,), a very rare inverted overprint (signed), a double overprint again signed and also the cogwheel o/p from the 'Karl und Zita' issue. This continues with the crown definitives 'filled in' numerals, followed by an extensive study of the regular 1916/18 definitives including large multiple format showing the different settings and of course phenomenal errors of virtually every kind, interspersed with postal history, , similarly on the 'back of the book' with the postage due overprints on Hungary, including vertical overprints instead of horizontal etc. Then the 1919 January definitives in depth with several dozen imperforates spread over a range of different denominations cataloguing several thousand euro in this section alone. However, it is all the material not listed in the catalogues that gives this collection its essential character, a wonderful opportunity for the Croatian specialist.

"I have the simplest taste" said Oscar Wilde, "I am always satisfied with the best". As with this specialised and mint Croatian collections in this auction, this is Croatia almost, if not complete used, again housed in a lighthouse album. , However this is a better album than the mint as there is postal history included, over and beyond the completion of this used collection, including commercial postal stationery with and without regular definitives for additional postage. Highlights include the stormtroopers miniature sheet Michel Block 8 cat 2200&euro, and the basic series #170 to #172 cat. 500&euro,, both on covers, the former with concentric circle ,9th ,of January 1945 cancel and the latter ,10th ,of January 1945, the sheet with expertisation signatures and cert from Romnerskircher and Dr. Boehne respectively. There are no empty spaces, in our opinion, , used is far more difficult to find than mint and the postal history too makes this well worth spending time on, page for page.

"I have the simplest taste" said Oscar Wilde, "I am always satisfied with the best". As with the used and specialised Croatia in this auction, this is Croatia almost, if not complete mint, virtually all never hinged including the scarce 1941 small shield o/ps, (April ,21st ,issue), cat 900&euro, in Michel as well as the stormtrooper miniature sheet Michel Block 8 cat 2000&euro,, signed and also the mint series of the same, Michel #170 to #172 cat 650&euro,. , No empty spaces, all housed in a lighthouse album, perfection.

100s of mostly pre-1930 mint and used stamps, virtually all different, as well as some interesting postal history. Highlights include &lsquo,Scout Posts&rsquo, used on piece with 'NV' concentric circle cancels superb, the Hradcany issues with extensive perforation studies varieties, as well as imperf errors 10h green and 20h red used, useful range of 'Posta Ceskoslovenska' o/ps semi-postals incl first series 3kr carmine rose on plain paper mint, Masaryk defins highly specialised and organised by watermarks, 1925 Olympics and 1926 Sokol o/ps complete mint, etc. Also plenty of misperfs and similar material, then postal history includes correspondence up to the 1938 Masaryk m/s, as well as the 1937 Bratislava m/s and various stamps registered from Bratislava to the same addressee, Sudetenland, etc, with unusual material that has not seen the light of day for many years. Please inspect carefully, you will not be disappointed.

Old-fashioned collection of hundreds of stamps from 1918 to the mid-1920s housed in one album, starting with the Scout Post with the pair used on piece as well as two further series mint, followed by extensive Hradcany castle types with around 100 varieties all different, packed on the album pages with strength especially in the interesting private perforations, all kinds of permutations here, from sewing-machine perfs through to a neat roulette on the 300h blue green, also seen imperfs , inc. 10h green and 20h red etc. , Following these there are science and agriculture, Masaryk defins mint and used to investigate again especially for perf varieties, followed by the 1925 Olympics , semi-postals complete mint, 1926 Sokol semi-postals complete used one &ndash, with unusual light blue o/p variety &ndash, as well as two further series mint, through to an interesting range of back of the book with postage dues with no empty spaces. Also seen Czech Forces in Siberia including lion issues, followed by lots of non Scott listed 'T' o/ps on Hradcany imperfs and perfs, as well as same with Austrian issues inc. express stamps etc. , At the very end a good collection of Eastern Silesia with a useful range inc. 1h brown with black o/p and 200h with red o/p both mint and signed Gilbert, plus the Masaryk high values mint, again signed. An old-time grandfather collection with sleepers well worth viewing.



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An exciting highly specialised collection of several hundred Hradcany issues housed on quadrille pages, with an extensive and extremely informative write-up. Each denomination is covered in turn, with the constant plate varieties on the imperfs, identified against large arrow and photo reproductions with detailed analysis reflecting the different sheet varieties mostly constant, as well as a comprehensive study of the perforations with a table detailing 26 different types, both official and semi-official. For example, on the 3h there are firstly multiples including an unusual full sheet imperf, then nine different plate varieties, followed by perforations inc. zig-zag, hole and line roulettes, line perf type 'R' in block of four, etc. Then as with the other values a section for trial proofs, papers, shades and cancelations. Some of the highlights include 25h blue showing printing from a severely damaged plate, different private perfs on the 30h leading to the 400h purple with four different private perf types, 20h red and 30h violet imperf errors, etc, etc. This represents the result of a lifetime's investigation into these challenging Hradcany issues.

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Pleasing collection of several hundred stamps of the Hradcany and early 1920s issues, with the vast majority on cover or on piece, well displayed on homemade hingeless pages, housed in two albums. The collection runs chronologically, denomination by denomination, with the first series of imperfs to the 1000h and then the second series. There are many attractive combinations with the chain-breaker, carrier pigeon and allegory issues, often on cover inc. advertising, as well as constant plate varieties with lots of marginal numbers on piece showing the plate positions, as well as private perfs. The second volume is devoted to the chain-breaker issues, detailing the different types and main plate varieties, with lots more colorful registered covers here and advertsing in both Czech and German inc. 'Ceska Graficka Unie', 'Bill &, Co. Ingenieur-Bureau', 'Max Blaha Sagewerk', to give just a flavor of the postal history and primary sources here. There is even a most attractive bilingual advertising cover with 20h strip of five showing the 'white hand' error and signed accordingly. Virtually everything here was selected by the collector for visual appeal, no doubt yielding much more when viewed carefully page for page.

An extraordinary collection of errors and misprints on the Hradcany issues, displayed on album pages, denomination by denomination from the 1h through to 400h. There are 130 stamps here, with reversed impressions, double prints, multiple colours, offsets, etc, virtually all one of a kind, including examples of the 75h dark green and 400h purple on thick paper, both with signatures. Some of these may of course have come &lsquo,out of the back door&rsquo, in the scramble to print their first independent issues, as a result of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire into separate nation states. , However there is much to be appreciated here in this excellent range of Hradcany types, certainly with proofs from the printers' archives, etc. Visually these are so spectacular that this collection is quite stunning, the potential here is , enormous.

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