WORLDWIDE COUNTRY COLLECTIONS continued...

 "Back of the Book" incl useful Bohemia & Moravia plus Slovakia on Scott pages plus binder of stock sheets with premium Czechoslovakia incl B137-43 mint, C1-3 mint, 1980s/90s S/S and mini-sheets NH (incl Czech Rep. issues), etc., mostly F-VF. 

 Extraordinary accumulation with 1000s of stamps overlapping in stock cards just as formed decades ago, nearly all the mint we saw was NH and the used a mix of postal and favor/cto cancels, useful range of commems from the late 1930s, typical challenging officials and "back of the book", a handful with bit of storage issues being ever so slightly stuck down but on the handful we attempted to loosen they all popped up easily with no damage, generally fresh and F-VF, undoubtedly high Michel value and well worth a closer look. 

 Stock book with numerous elusive classics and specialty items incl (in order of presentation in the book) 1901/14 5p green imperf corner margin block NH, neat section of 1845 postal stationery cut-squares organized by type and written-up on quadrille pages incl reprints,  sheets of ten of the 1893 official reprints of the 1866/67 serpentine roulette issues - the 5p brown, the 8p black on green, the 10p black on yellow, the 20p blue, the 40p rose and the 1 mark orange brown, a group of 1866/85 Helsinki and Tammerfors locals incl reprints, mostly F-VF, nice group for the specialist. 

 Interesting old-time accumulation in six lstock books which includes various omnibus sets as Rene Cailler, some 1937 Revolution airmails mint, 1937 Exposition, 1939 NY Exposition New York, 1939, Victory, 1946 Chad-Rhine, various French overseas series from the War, Vichy etc. also useful Indochina, France classics, better semi-postals B11 NH, B249-54 used (2), B276-81 used, B285-90 used, etc., some mostly 1950s era foreign noticed as well (e.g. Switzerland 352a NH), usual mixed condition, mostly F-VF; worthwhile and recommended.

 100s nicely organized in four "smallish" stock books but with France Mersons to 20fr used, Fr. Colonies 25 strip of four used (Cochin China cancels), Fr. Antarctic C1-2 NH, useful Cameroun, French Eq. Africa,  Laos, Fr. Africa used airmails, etc., usual mixed condition, most F-VF. 

 Four stock books and incl a bit of "non-French" as well, diverse range incl various omnibus issues incl 1944 Victory and 1949 UPU NH, better French Africa and Pacific countries, Reunion, Laos, etc., mostly F-VF, view to appreciate. 

 In three albums with French issues to € period; first album an old fashioned Henri Thiaude strongest in mint 1920s/40s issues incl airmails, the second album equally old fashioned with several 100s of stamps including representations of mostly 1920s/30s colonies with  Cameroons, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Oceania, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Indo-China, Madagascar, through to Togo and even a bit of U.S., Germany and classic GB; the third album with highly complete used/cto 1990s/2000s France incl soem booklet panes and S/S, usual mixed condition, mostly F-VF, well worth a look. 

 Extensive collection, often parallel mint and used, in ten well filled Lindner albums, with virtually all the mint being NH, note the good commems and semi-postals of the 1940s/50s (1954 Portraits mix NH, l.h.), booklets/ booklet panes, precancels, miniature sheets and huge amount of "€" face value of 2001-08, generally fresh and Very Fine, outstanding foundation collection. 

Well over 200 items of postal history with much 19th century, as well as many stamps again 19th century through to WWII, the latter with an excellent range of different burelages etc. There are many good covers, especially the 19th French stamps used in the area, as well as the German shields of the same period, again with a wide variety of cancels. Every item here is a primary source with much focusing on the historical circumstances of this bi-lingual area. The pre-philatelic begins with Cernay (1812) and Thann (1835) both to Rheims, followed by Ceres heads 25cts first issue imperforate 4 margined used in St Germaine sent to Limonest, further perforated Napoleon heads sent from Boubais with combination 25cts and 10cts on company logo cachet to Markirch with horseshoe cancel, similarly corporate letters from Paris, the Napoleon heads with return correspondence from Metz, Mullhausen, Colmar etc to various parts of France. Then a section devoted to Germania definitives, often accompanied on postcards including postage due, as well as unusual cancelations and a variety of attractive illustrations in the postcards themselves dedicated to Mulhausen including Seinbachgarten, Gerechtigkeitsstrasse, the market place and of course panoramas including tryptychs of Mulhausen, etc, etc. Then the collection unfolds with 1870 regular definitives with over a dozen different covers of these, again with many attractive postmarks including circular, box, oblong and color strikes, then German yet again, often with good horseshoe cancelations, etc. Next are a selection of the regular 1870 definitives stamp themselves with mint, used and on piece examples, as well as multiples, followed by more postal history of that period including combinations, German postal stationery, feldpost, advertising mail, undelivered mail, etc etc. Finally there is a selection of fronts of Napoleon heads, as well as later registered packet cards featuring Hitler Heads and Alsace overprinted combined on various Hindenburg definitives etc, not every day items. Fantastic, once you have viewed this, you will want to own it.