1878/83: Large Dragon 3 ca. brown-red, Wide Setting, a well centred used example, minor corner bend and one blunt perf. at top, neatly cancelled by part "Customs / Chungking" cds in black Gi = £ 325. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1894 (Nov 17): Dowager 12 ca. brown-orange, an unused example of good colour, fresh and fine, large part og. A scarce and elusive stamp Gi = £ 600. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1897: Dowager second printing 3 a. chrome yellow on wmk. paper with thin whiter gum in an unused block of four of vibrant colour, two hinge remnants on upper and lower pair with large part of thin original gum (some ageing), horizontal perf. line slighty shifted, otherwise of fresh and fine appearance. Only few multiples of the second printing are believed to exist. Chan 24 S. Gi. = £ 7'200. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image)

1914/19: Junk 3 c. blue-green pair and 7 c. violet pair on 1918 registered cover to Norway tied by YIYANG HUN datestamps in black with fine strike of registration cachet at lower left. Reverse with Peking cds (Feb 22) and Harbin cds (Feb 25); thereafter with British and Russian Censor Reseal strips at sides and Kristiansund arrival (Aug 19). A five month journey time due to a combination of World War and Revolution. An attractive and scarce cover. Illustrated in Edition D'Or XLV on page 36. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1921: National Postal Service issue covers (8) with 1 c. orange and 6 c. grey single frankings each tied FROM STEAMER LETTER BOX bilingual cachets, 6 c. grey single frankings (3) all cancelled at WUHU in first week of issue, 6 c. grey pair on cover to London tied by Wuhu cds, 3 c. green and 10 c. blue single frankings also tied by WUHU cds's in first week of issue. Fair to fine, a scarce group.rn (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image)

1949/46: Special selection with 33 mainly unused stamps, incl.. seven pairs, two blocks of four and a block of nine, all of fresh appeareance and showing diff. varieties as imperf., imperf inbetween as well as provincial and Specimen surcharges etc., arranged on a stockcard. (Image 1) (Image)

1878/1914: Album pages with Large Dragons 1 ca. green and 5 c. yellow used, Small Dragons set used, Dowager set (excl. 12 ca.), 1897 surcharges with 4 c. on 4 ca. (small and large) unused, rare 8 c. on 8 ca. used, 1900 CEF set of of ten, 1905 set of nine, and a page with Shanghai Local Post etc. (Image 1) (Image)

1870/1990: China accumulation of all periods including local post, Hong Kong, good French offices, overseas postal history. Worthwhile lot to break and sort. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image)

1878/1949c: Lot hundreds primarily used stamps from Large & Small Dragons, later definitives, local ovpt. issues, Shanghai local post, Korea, and Manchuria. To be studied. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image)

1898/1968: Lot with better sets and values used/unused, incl. 1921 airmail set of four unused as well as some PRC issues from 1950 onwards with some used/unused part sets up to 1967/68 part set of eight values of which five unused 4 f. 'Mount Liupan', 'Long March' and 8 f. 'Snow', 'Fairy Cafe' and 'Huichang' Gi. 412, 413, 415, 416, 421 = GB£ 3'200. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image)

1870: Cover from Shanghai to Lyon, endorsed "via Brindisi", bearing Siège 40 c. orange in mixed franking with Cêrès 1872 10 c. brown and 80 c. rose, cancelled by Gros Chiffres '5104' numeral lozenge, the Siège tied in addition by "SHANG-HAI 25 MARS 75 CHINE" cds, framed PD and "PAQ. ANG. V. BRIND. 8 MAI 75 MOD." cds, both in red alongside. Reverse with Lyon arrival (May 9) cds. Fresh and fine appearance, correct franking to pay the rate from China to France in the July 1871 tariff.rnProvenance: 148. Corinphila sale (Feb. 2007), lot 1993. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1872: Double rate Envelope from the French PO in Shanghai to Brussels, endorsed "Via Brindisi", bearing two horizontal pairs of Cêrès 1872 80 c. rose, tied by Gros Chiffres '5104' numeral lozenge with crisp "SHANG-HAI 15 AOUT 75 CHINE" cds as well as framed PD, framed APRES LE DÉPART and "PAQ. ANG. V. BRIND. MOD 2 OCT. 75" cds, all in red alongside. Reverse with transit and arrival cds's (Oct 8) from Granges and Bruxelles. Few nibbed perfs, nevertheless a fresh and fine appearance, correct franking to pay the rate from China to this rare destination in the July 1871 tariff. Signed A. Diena and Calves. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

French PO's in China 1901 (Nov 27): Envelope from Shanghai to Mananjary Madagascar, bearing Sage 25 c. black on rose ovpt. CHINE in red, tied by "SHANG-HAI CHINE 27 NOV 01" datestamp, Marseille La Reunion octogonal Shipmail's datestamp (Jan 6, 1902) alongside. Reverse with arrival (Jan. 22, 1902) cds in blue. Cover with folds and wear, nevertheless an appealing item to a destination of outmost rarity from China. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1875, Wild Goose 12 s. rose, Syllabic 3,with top sheet margin on envelope dispatched from 'YOKOHAMA 11 APR 1885' via 'BRINDISI 27 GIU 85' to Dresden/Germany with datestamp for arrival 30 May 1885 on reverse. The adhesive is cancelled with 'Y' type xC (Nishino handbook), but unfortunately not tied to the cover. The BPP expert for Japan, Florian Eichhorn, can not confirm the original use of the 12 s. Wild Goose stamp on the cover, and therefore states in his opinion (2020) "Marke und Stempel echt, Bestätigung als zum Brief zugehörig nicht möglich" (stamp and cancellations are genuine, confirmation of the stamp belonging to the envelope is not possible). The facts:rn1.) correct UPU postage rate to Germany via Brindisi.rn2.) the 'Y' type xC obliteration was used from 1884.rn3.) the 'Y' type xC can have been used together with Nishino type 4B cancellation on the same cover. and the ink of the obliterations look similar in colour as if from the same ink pad.rnThe adhesive stamp is marked in the lower left corner on the reverse by the German Expert 'R.F.Engel' (1897-1943) and shows full original gum on those parts of the reverse which are not affixed to the envelope. In addition the envelope is marked 'R.F.Engel' indicating that stamp and envelope were marked at the same time before the year 1943. Due to the extraordinary rarity of the Wild Goose 12 s. Syllabic 3 in mint condition we are convinced the 'Y' type xC obliteration to be genuine (also confirmed by Eichhorn BPP), although not recorded to date on the Wild Goose 12 s. After all the original use of the Wild Goose 12s. stamp on the envelope to Dresden seems to be very likely although it can not be proven with certainty due to the lack of obliteration tying from stamp to the envelope. Offered 'as is'. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image)

1916 (Dec 23): Registered cover from Kyoto to Basel, Switzerland, a well decorated envelope bearing 1914-25 20 s. claret, tied by Japanese cds with bilingual Yokohama Transit cds in violet (Dec 24) alongside and two diff. types of registration labels from Kyoto and Yokohama, opened in transit by the French censor and and closed with the matching strip, reverse with Basel arrival cds (Feb 5, 1917). An appealing cover. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1871/97: Collection used/unused with some better sets values with a strength in the semi-modern period with airmails and after war issues as single value of 1948 Philatelic Week 5 y. brown , 1950 airpost set unused, 1949 Japan Foreign Traid Fair imperf. sheet of 20 as well as 1949/53 National Parks miniature sheets, mounted in an original Japanese postage stamp album 1946/58. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (Image 27) (Image 28) (Image 29) (Image)

1871/1965: Collection with better sets and values used/unused starting with 1871 mon issues, 1872 Cherry Blossom to 1876/86 Koban issue with many signed by F. Eichhorn and of cancelation interest, further National park sets and miniature sheets up to 1948 Nagano Philatelic Exhibition, 1949 8 y. postal week, all unused, condition of the classics varies, otherwise fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image)

1881: 1 a. milky blue on European paper, an imperforate block of six (2 x 3) positions 10-11/18-19/26-27, probably from Setting 1, with large margins all round and of excellent clear impession and fresh colour, unused without gum as issued. A superb and rare multiple Gi = £ 1'350. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image)

1901/14ca.: Two stampless official covers carried by courier to Kathmandu showing fine strikes of large ornamental transit marks from the Tibet border administration in Kerong and Kuti (Tibet towns under Nepalese jusrisdiction), one registered with 'Shri Adalata Kuti' Court seal, other with 'Shri Adalata Kerong' Court seal. Fine. (Image 1) (Image)

1930 (Aug--Dec): Sri Pashupati Redrawn Issue Recess Perkins Bacon & Co, London 8 p. scarlet perf. 13 ½ on ungummed wove paper in a spectcular complete sheet of one hundred with nearly compl. sheet margin, only three tabs of upper margin missing, minimal marginal tear at bottom right, showing '8 PICE' imprint on lower left Gi. = £ 2'700. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1935 (Aug--Dec): Sri Pashupati Redrawn Issue perf. 13 ½, Recess Perkins Bacon & Co, London, the complete set of six vaues in large marginal part sheets, incl. 2 p. brown sheet of 95, 4 p. green two sheets of 90, rare 8 p. scarlet in a sheet of 96 with '8P-' imprint on top left corner sheet, 16 p. purple sheet of 90 as well 32 p. blue also in a sheet of 90 stamps, all with minor imperfections. Ex The Perkins Bacon Archive formely offered at Robson Lowe Dec. 1996 Gi. = £ 7'200. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

1985: 14th Eastern Regional Tuberculosis Conference Kathmandu, a complete imperforted sheet of twenty values together with a perf. sheet as issued, fine unused mint. A modern rarity. (Image 1) (Image)

1881/1930: Interesting Selection 700+ Crossed Kukris definitives used/unused with large shades and cancellation interest incl. 1881 European paper 2 a. purple imperf (2), 4 a perf, later 1886 issues on native paper such as 1 a. blue in marginal block of four with inscription on selvedge, large multiples, several tête-bêches, singles and multiples from the recut printings, also on European wove paper, pin-perforated examples, barred obliterator and telegraphic Crescent cancellations, multiples up to complete sheets of 64 examples with telegraphic cancellations, 1901 Retouched plate 1 a. blue imperf in vertical pair used, cert. Hellrigl, 1917 1 a. error of colour emerald-green instead of blue, a used marginal single and a tête-bêche pair, both with cert. Hellrigl, and 1917/30 new printings in changed colours with large multiples up to 56 examples showing blank positions. A strong lot which has to be studied carefully to be fully appreciated. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (Image 27) (Image 28) (Image 29) (Image 30) (Image 31) (Image 32) (Image 33) (Image 34) (Image 35) (Image 36) (Image 37) (Image 38) (Image 39) (Image)

1898/1998: Hundreds used / unused stamps, mounted separately for both conditions on leaves, incl. Crossed Khukris on native paper incl. colour error green instead of blue, 1899 ½ a black with clear imprint and pin-perforated, Siva Mahadeva issues up to 5 r., later definitive and commemorative issues, 1959 King Mahendra imperf in multiples, 1960 Child's Day in imperf. miniature sheet of four, 1966 National Flag with error: colour red missing, 1981 Nepalese Postage Stamp Centenary souvenir sheet showing variety imperf. and 4 a. green imprint shifted to the left, 1985 Tuberculosis in a vertical imperf. corner marginal pair, 1986 Vishnu in block of four with shifted perf., and 1987 SAARC Summit with shifted perf. and red double imprint, modern material also in blocks of four and complete sheets. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image)

1935 (Aug./Dec): Sri Pashupati Redrawn Issue, Imperforated Colour Proofs by Perkins Bacon & Co, London, Selection of various multiples as blocks of four and more and pairs, incl. 2 p. brown, 4 p. green, 16 p. purple, 14 p. orange and 32 p. blue, with some marginal items. All fresh and fine. Ex the printers archive, offered at Robson Lowe, Dec. 1996. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)