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461

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Central & Eastern German States, early 19th century/1875, stampless postal history collection, comprising over 120 items, showing a wide geographic range of straight-line, boxed and early circular datestamps alphabetically arranged by town, noting a Rhineland–Palatinate group with thirteen items from Borken, Düsseldorf, Kirchen, Kirchheimbolanden, Montabaur, Neustadt (R.2 and c.d.s.), Soest and Worms, as well as twenty North Rhine–Westphalia items including Arnsberg, Bonn, Crefeld, Essen, Eberfeld, Dülmen, Lippstadt, Rees and others with boxed, curved-top and circular datestamps in red and black, together with a particularly strong section of forty-seven former Prussian territories now in Poland offering Breslau, Bromberg, Brieg, Cammin, Coeslin (six, five boxed), Stettin (thirteen, ten boxed and two c.d.s.), Stolp, Stralsund, Swinemünde, Wollin and smaller offices such as Dobigniew, Beuthen, Pollnow and Pribbernow, further representation from two Ukrainian offices (Czernowitz and Mariupol), as well as forty Berlin folded letters (mainly circular datestamps with some boxed types) and four Brandenburg covers including Potsdam boxed and oval and Marienwerder boxed with curved top, minor duplication retained for differing types or destinations, a broad and well-balanced lot and a useful study of postal markings across central and eastern German regions extending into modern Poland and Ukraine. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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462

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Central German States, 1830s/1860s, stampless postal history collection by state, comprising over seventy items,showing a broad range of straight-line, boxed and early circular datestamps mostly in black and blue, noting a strong Hesse section of over thirty items from administrative and commercial centres including Cassel, Frankfurt, Fulda, Giessen, Hanau and Wiesbaden, with several blue c.d.s., R-rated strikes such as Bischofsheim R.2, and two turned covers from Hausen and Altenstadt including one with oval Postablage handstamp, as well as a Thuringia group of nineteen items from Eisenach, Erfurt, Hildburghausen, Altenburg, Meiningen and others, several bearing Nachnahme (cash-on-delivery) endorsements with crisp straight-line or circular datestamps, together with ten Saxony items from Dresden, Leipzig, Düben, Lengenfeld and Neumark including boxed and two-line types and two original postal forms, and eleven Saxony-Anhalt covers from Dessau, Halle, Wittenberg, Zerbst and Freyburg R.1 along with Halle R.3 examples, minor duplication only for differing handstamp or colour types, a diverse and fine lot and a useful study of inland postal networks of Central Germany before unification. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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463

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Northern Germany, 1820s/1860s, stampless postal history collection by state, comprising over sixty items, showing a varied range of straight-line, two-line, and boxed town handstamps mostly in black and blue with several in red, noting a Lower Saxony / Hanover section of thirty-one items including Braunschweig, Göttingen, Lüneburg, Stade, Uelzen and Verden, with ten covers from Hanover alone showing four circular datestamp types in blue and black together with straight-line and boxed markings, as well as a strong group of twenty Hamburg and Bremen items consisting of sixteen from Bremen with multiple boxed types, two-line framed and unframed strikes, and both large and small circular datestamps, plus four from Hamburg showing boxed, circular, two-line and single-line types, together illustrating the postal markings of northern Germany’s principal maritime centres, with additional representation from Mecklenburg through nine covers from Butzow, Demmin, Grimmen, Rostock, Stargard, Wustrow and others, and from Schleswig-Holstein through two covers including Reinfeld and a letter with contents from Mindorf, minor duplication only for differing type or colour strikes, a diverse and fine lot and a useful study of northern German pre-unification postal markings. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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464

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Württemberg, c.1868/1874, postal history collection of “Postablage” oval handstamps, comprising over forty items,showing two-line oval strikes pairing main post offices with their rural postal agencies on stampless folded letters and covers, noting examples such as Aalen / Hüttlingen, Böblingen / Aidlingen, Ellwangen / Ellenberg, Tübingen / Entringen, Vaihingen / Enzweihingen and many other combinations from across Württemberg, as well as several turned covers and a wide range of supporting transit and receiver markings, the material chiefly from the early 1870s the final years before Imperial postal integration in 1875, minor duplication only where differing strike quality, routes or associated markings appear, a diverse and fine lot and a useful specialist study of Württemberg’s rural postal agencies in the last phase of their operation. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Great Britain

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465

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Great Britain, early 1900s/1940s, topographic postcard collection comprising over 375 items, housed in a large postcard album and offering a broad representation of town and countryside views across the United Kingdom, mostly mint with some used examples, featuring landscapes, historic sites, castles, churches, bridges, hotels, hospitals and railway stations among other themes, the majority in black-and-white or sepia with roughly one-third in colour, and with noticeable emphasis on smaller towns and rural scenes, condition very fine overall with only occasional light corner or edge wear, an appealing and wide-ranging assembly with potential for discovery of scarcer views from lesser-known communities. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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466

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Great Britain, early 1900s/1940s, topical postcard collection comprising about 350 items, neatly arranged on album pages by theme and spanning humorous subjects, royalty (British and foreign), famous personalities, trains and railways, portraits of women including attractively tinted examples, World War I British Expeditionary Force scenes, armed forces and patriotic cards, and children’s imagery with rabbits and farmyard animals, the themes overlapping in places and reflecting the breadth of early British postcard production, both mint and used examples present with condition generally sound and only minor faults noted, broad appeal for thematic collectors. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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467

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Great Britain, 1820s/1850s, stampless folded letter collection comprising over 80 items, mostly with contents, noting twenty-six transatlantic letters to the United States with manuscript directional and ship endorsements together with a variety of rate, paid and receiving handstamps including Br. Packet Boston, New York Ship, and related British markings, as well as further continental destinations including several to France, one to Austria, and a small group to Ireland, together with domestic U.K. usages chiefly bearing dated circular town datestamps complemented by selected straight-line strikes such as Glasgow, Southampton, Aylsham, Market Hill, Falkirk, Liverpool, Leeds, Wolverhampton, and Burton W., plus Penny Post markings including Woolwich O, Queens St., and Canterbury Lane, and a variety of free and paid types offering rich scope for rate and route study across the pre-adhesive period, condition mixed to generally fine with expected edge wear, a wide-ranging and desirable lot. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Hungary

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468

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Hungary, World War I, prisoner-of-war postal history collection, comprising approximately 100 items, showing covers sent during the First World War, nearly all addressed to the Red Cross POW offices in Copenhagen and originating from prison camps within present-day Hungary together with examples from regions formerly within the Austro-Hungarian Empire such as Slovakia, the majority stampless and bearing a wide variety of censor markings with only a few stamped examples present, a genuine collector-assembled lot with strong potential for further study or expansion. (Video) (Image 1)

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469

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Hungary, 1872/1981, postal history collection comprising about 98 items, housed in a stockbook and strongest in the 1870s–1940s period, the early section showing numerous commercially used postal stationery cards with well-struck town postmarks, followed by a varied selection of commemorative postmarks, commercial covers, registered and censored mail, airmail usages, a parcel-post receipt, cacheted First Day Covers (mainly 1960s), postcards, a postal money order and a number of auxiliary markings of interest, with destinations and rates suitably varied to support detailed research, generally sound with small faults as typical, an eclectic and wide-ranging assembly. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Italian States

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470

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Italian States, c.1820s/1850s, stampless folded letter collection, comprising about 100 items, a diverse group, with most retaining contents and displaying straight-line or c.d.s. town handstamps in black, red and blue together with useful auxiliary markings including VIA DI MARE, administrative and ecclesiastical handstamps, and both manuscript and hand-stamped rate notations, noting chiefly inter-Italian correspondence with additional mail to France, Germany and Switzerland and an early 19th-century correspondence to Steyr, Austria, as well as representation from Verona, Torino, Rimini, Genova, Roma, Napoli, Lodi, Fermo, Vigone, Firenze, Grosseto, Novara, Pistoia, Alba, Massa, Foligno, Arona, Cosenza, Perugia, Panicale, Concordia, Viterbo, Gaeta, Chivasso, Milano, Narni, Venezia, Cesena, Lucca, Bologna and Casalmaggiore among many others, providing coverage across Lombardy-Venetia, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States, Tuscany and the Two Sicilies, a clean and wide-ranging lot offering a strong foundation for route, rate and marking studies and appealing equally to the postal historian or dealer. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Italy

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471

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Italy, 1870s/1930s, postal history collection to Alsace-Lorraine, comprising over 100 items, showing covers and postal stationery primarily franked with Humbert I issues on commercial envelopes, many with illustrated and non-illustrated corner cards including watchmaker advertising, noting registered mail usages, squared-circle cancellations and multiple frankings, the correspondence largely addressed to the historically contested Alsace-Lorraine, condition generally sound with light toning or soiling on a few examples, a fascinating lot and a useful study for further expansion. (Video) (Image 1)

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Mauritius

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472

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Mauritius, 1838/1880s, incoming mail collection, comprising thirteen mostly stampless folded letters, all sent to Port Louis or St. Denis from a variety of origins, including Paris (1838), La Rochelle France (1838), Calcutta (two, 1845/47), Cape of Good Hope (four,1859/1880), Galle, Ceylon (two, 1860 and 1869), Reims, France (1864), Bordeaux, France (1872), Pondicherry, India (1880), several with continents, all with some faults including stamps removed, pen markings, etc., close inspection necessary, but a number of desirable markings or useful attributes. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8)

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New Zealand

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473

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New Zealand & Dependencies, 1870s/1970s, postal history and FDC collection comprising about 240 items,showing strength in the 1930s–1960s with covers broadly grouped by issue and including multiple frankings, registered mail, postal stationery cards, airmail usages, foreign destinations and an attractive run of cacheted First Day Covers of the 1930s, among them Coronation sets and other complete sets on cover, together with special-event items bearing appropriate cancellations, noting Health stamp semi-postals with a good showing of cacheted FDCs (some duplication for design or cachet varieties), New Zealand Government Life Insurance issues, and a complementary section of former dependencies with complete sets on philatelic covers from Western Samoa (Apia), Cook Islands (Rarotonga/Avarua), Niue (Alofi) and Tokelau Islands (Fakaofo), as well as New Zealand origins from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, Nelson, Timaru and smaller towns, with airmail and overseas mailings, generally fine with typical mixed examples though strikes and cachets are mostly clear, a wide-ranging lot, ideal for the dealer or collector seeking breadth by issue and cachet. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Poland

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474

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Poland, 1903/1995, postal history collection comprising about 127 covers with additional commemorative material, housed in a stockbook and arranged chronologically with particular strength in the 1920s–1950s, supplemented by 33 commemorative covers (1979–1995) honouring the victims of the Auschwitz–Birkenau Concentration Camp, many bearing the inverted red-triangle emblem historically associated with political prisoners; the main grouping encompassing a broad range of commercial covers, postal stationery, registered and airmail usages, patriotic cards, a parcel-post receipt and various philatelic items, together with a 1948 Tour de Pologne souvenir folder bearing stamps postmarked along the race route and several items from the General Government (German Occupation) period, as well as twelve Feldpost covers, some with original letters, with postmarks including Lissa (Wartheland), Kattowitz, Breslau 2 and Ohlau, generally sound with small faults as expected, a diverse holding. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Scandinavia

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475

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Scandinavia, 1870s/1970s, postal history collection of about 335 items, housed in a stockbook and three-ring album and spanning the 1870s to the 1970s (with a few later), the great majority pre-1940 and predominantly commercial correspondence, comprising early postal stationery cards, multiple-franking covers to varied destinations, registered and censored mail, airmails, aerogrammes, and a selection of First Day Covers (chiefly Norway); the first volume with over 200 covers including a strong section of Denmark with numerous early postal stationery cards, followed by Finland with several interesting frankings, material from Greenland and Iceland, and a substantial representation of Sweden; the second volume with just over 100 items including early stationery, postal forms, and a well-presented run of 1940s–1970s First Day Covers, many registered to the United States and showing attractive cachets, an extensive and well-balanced assembly. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Solomon Islands

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476

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British Solomon Islands, 1910s/1980s, cover and postal document collection comprising about 180 items, housed in two albums and spanning early George V through the 1980s, including over a dozen George VI covers with strong representation in the 1960s commercial period, together with stampless Official mail, numerous commercial and airmail usages and only a small proportion of clearly philatelic items; origins include Tulagi, Lunga, Honiara, Auki, Yandina, Kirakira, Munda, Gizo, Gracioso Bay and other offices, many showing the distinctive oval Postal Agency handstamps, with destinations predominantly to Australia and also to the United States and domestic addresses, and many covers bearing multi-stamp frankings, supplemented by an appealing group of postal forms including Post Office memoranda, registration and telegraph receipts and related material; a substantial and seldom-offered Pacific-area assembly, ideal as a foundation collection. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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South America

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477

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Latin America, early 1900s/1970s, postal history collection comprising about 440 items, housed in two stockbooks, with strongest concentration in the pre-1945 period, the material largely commercial correspondence showing a broad range of airmails, multiple-franking covers to varied destinations, censored and registered mail, Special Delivery usages, postal stationery envelopes, cards and wrappers, and aerogrammes; the first volume, about 280 covers, arranged alphabetically and including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela, condition generally sound with typical commercial wear; the second volume devoted entirely to Cuba from the 1920s–1970s and featuring predominantly 1950s philatelic material including numerous cacheted First Day Covers, many with the AZPECO Chemical Company cachet, and highlighted by a 1951 First Day Cover of the Antonio Gutiérrez Holme souvenir sheet, some covers showing topicalisation or toning, but a wide-ranging and varied Latin American assembly. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Spain

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478

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Spain, 1819/1840s, commercial correspondence to London (Frederick Huth & Co.), comprising over forty items, showing a broad range of Spanish origin markings and French transit routes on stampless folded letters, most retaining their original contents, noting material from Bilbao (including VISCAYA), Asturias, Sevilla, Cádiz, San Sebastián, Navarra, Galicia, Ribadeo and Madrid, as well as French exchange-office markings such as boxed ESPAGNE PAR BAYONNE, ESPAGNE PAR OLÉRON and ESPAGNE PAR ST. JEAN DE LUZ, together with London receivers including F.P.O. (string-of-pearls) and red circular datestamps on reverse, a clean and consistent mercantile correspondence illustrating early 19th-century postal routes from Spain to Great Britain, a fine and useful study. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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479

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Spain, 1906/1907, early postcard collection to Australia, comprising approximately 90 items, showing mostly undivided-back postcards from a turn-of-the-century philatelic postcard service that sent subscribers cards franked for international destinations, noting a wide range of topographical and other contemporary subjects mailed from Bilbao, Barcelona, the Canary Islands and additional towns, chiefly addressed to Sydney and typically franked on the front with 2c and 5c Alfonso XIII definitives together with multiples of the ¼c issue, condition generally sound with some usual toning, a scarce and substantial group seldom encountered in this quantity and an appealing group for the specialist collector or dealer. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1)

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480

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Spain, 1936/1940s, Civil War and early wartime postal history collection, comprising just over 100 items, showing covers and postal stationery cards organised on black pages in a Lighthouse album, the majority from the pre-WWII period with a wide range of frankings sent chiefly within Europe, including to the United Kingdom and Ireland, with additional destinations such as Australia and the United States, noting numerous Spanish Republican military censor handstamps often accompanied by Barcelona or Sevilla censor tape and further markings from Bilbao, Madrid, Málaga, Zaragoza, San Sebastián, Burgos, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Mallorca and other towns, several items bearing local Civil War charity labels, as well as WWII-period material with Franco issues, military censors and wartime censor tape, a historically rich and diverse lot with strong potential for further study or expansion. (Video) (Image 1)

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