Mostly late 19th / early 20th century with plenty of Europea subjects, and representing one of the best collections of its type that we have had the pleasure to offer, representing about 2000 different examples, often in complete long series, housed in a somewhat battered substantial album full of character, formed 80+ years ago. The strength is in the Germany followed by Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands, even european colonies seen etc. There are many attractive printings here including embossings, line engraved, surface printed, lithograph, etc, nearly everything is multi-colored with a wide variety  ,of themes including militaria, patriotic, Expositions, propaganda, iconography, scouts, Esperanto, aviation including Zeppelins and magnificent flying machines, etc. In today&rsquo,s market, collections like this are very difficult to find as most have been split up. Please note that much of this has been collected the old fashioned way, i.e. heavy hinging as was standard in those days, some will pop-up and some will need time and some will be without gum. However the designs and themes are in such uniformly strong colors, hardly ever exposed to light, making this a much recommended lot. It is ideal material to market 'stamp for stamp', page for page on Ebay where they should sell like hot cakes &ndash, unless you decide to make this your own. Please see photoplates  ,of this impressive collection. (Photo)







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17 volumes representing a very diverse worldwide reference collection with 1000s of stamps, housed on quadrille pages and stockpages with extensive write-up, detailing the types of forgery/reprint etc, occasionally next to genuine examples for comparison, often highly informative with articles, letters from experts and opinions. South and Central Americas are strong with a volume for Chile with detail on the Valparaiso locals, first issues inc. genuine, inverted 'correos' surcharges, 5cts surcharge errors on 30cts Colon, anchor 'oficial' o/ps, etc, another excellent book is for Venezuela including a good study of the 1880s Bolivars and then page after page loaded with Guayana steamboat locals small and large, showing the different types together, fancy cancels, etc. with many genuine. Nicaragua also with a dedicated volume from Seebecks through to great detail on 1931 Managua and 1932 airposts. Also Dominican Republic classics, genuine Honduras first issues with o/ps made by the postmaster general, Panama imperfs and handstamp overprints, Mexico with lots of Hidalgos inc. dangerous forgeries on the various 8r issues, Maximilians, through to Civil War, etc. Other good areas are the Persia with a very interesting volume stuffed with 19th and early 20th century issues awaiting verification, other books with Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Japan with 19th century birds through to first airmail overprints, China, Russia, Italian States, German States especially Lubeck, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Oldenburg, Saxony, etc, Montenegro with lots of earlies, Poland with Poczta Polska o/ps, as well as Czechoslovakia with lots of 'Posta Ceskoslovenska' o/ps inc. many genuine, plus first airposts again including genuine, Turkey with military stamps, Monaco, Spain with don Quixotes, airposts etc, as well as range of Cape Juby, Saar, Portuguese Colonies, Suriname tete-beche, Dutch East Indies, etc, etc. We have only been able to scrape the surface in this description of this fascinating reference holding formed over many decades. Closer viewing, page for page is necessary to get a better idea of what is here. Some books better than others, with much stamps on stamps, making this a very challenging viewing, yet most worthwhile.

 ,One man's collection with many thousands of stamps mint and used housed in a dozen albums, very extensive, also including postal history incorporated into the collection. Every album is well filled and much is in complete series, providing the topic was consistent for that series. Some of the themes include castles, sailboats, mythology, archaeology, bridges, space (extensive) including a somewhat soiled cover of the 75 groszy purple polish stratosphere balloon (quite a scarce cover) originating from the 1938 committee, arctic exploration, volcanoes, soccer, trees, costumes, medicine, maps, animals to name but a few. Some of the countries inc French Andorra with strong religious iconography, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Korea inc m/s, lots China inc PRC from early defins, airmails through to Taiwan inc Emperors complete and better series from 1950s onwards, Spain, useful FID as well as AAT complete series, Albania inc better, Portugal, France inc , B#S 1950s, Napoleon as well as , ,19th ,century classic Napoleon to 80cts the Netherlands, Egypt, , Scandinavia from Russia Tsarist issue portraits onwards, better Austria offices abroad 1917/18 with values to 10kr, Hong Kong inc QEII to $20 Annigoni, Malaya, BC in general, Germany inc Third Reich, Thailand and much more. One man&rsquo,s collection who went to town to obtain anything  ,he could buy connected with the topic concerned, completely uncatalogued.

Housed in 8 KaBe albums, this represents one man&rsquo,s extensive collection, replete with interesting series with much off the wall non Scott listed, including plenty of series with low printing numbers, as well as other better items including the mint 1939/1964 Cuba Cohete Postal Cubano 1964 mint sheetlets with the 5 different denominations, 1,2,3,9 and 13cts complete, 1959 China, similarly N Vietnam including accompanying imperfs, plenty of Paraguay, independent French Colonies in abundance, including , their miniature sheets, good Mongolia, Eastern European strong particularly Rumania with expensive items (at least from our research in Michel), Qatar with some elusive , series hard to find today, lots of Hungary including imperfs, to name some of the many countries here. Everything from our check seems to be mint never hinged. Viewing highly recommended.

.A fascinating collection of 92 stereoscopic cards (i.e. 184 with doubles) housed in two volumes bursting to capacity, with many in color. Includes humorous Judaica, a card showing wreckage from the San Francisco earthquake, two scenes of the ruins of the Chicago Fire, series of Niagara Falls views inc. winter sports at Niagara, Windsor Castle, England with freight train in foreground, elephant laborers, Burma, WWI scenes of soldiers on the frontline, trenches during bombardment, US soldiers in Germany, submarines, battleships, diamond mining in South Africa, Alaskan expeditons with dog teams, etc, etc. This kind of material is becoming increasingly difficult to find today and these photographs are in generally very good condition. A most unusual offering, difficult to find in today's marketplace.