Harmers International's May 14th, 2022 sale of United States, British Commonwealth & Foreign includes the Dr. Guy Dillaway Award Winning collections of Cape of Good Hope (280 lots) and Great Britain (177 lots). In addition, the sales offers a specialized section of the U.S. 1847 5c Issue (36 lots) with interesting selections of French Colonies, Japanese Occupation of British Colonies, Thailand plus more, and let's not forget over 120 lots of Harmers Famous "Collections & Various" including the Britannia Ltd. Stock. The sale is very strong in Postal History. Also videos of all large lots; worth careful inspection. A Printed Catalogue is available upon request.

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In closing we look forward to continued service to your philatelic needs in these unusual times.

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First Session May 21, 2022, Lots 1 to 630 Second Session May 22, 2022, Lots 1000 to 1447 All bidding on Stamp Auction Network ends on Friday,May 20, 2022, at 6:00 PM Eastern Time.

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Worldwide Air Post stamps and postal history, Zeppelin Flight items, philatelic rarities of the World.

Please note that the Sale will not be supported by video nor audio.

The Auction contains 1526 lots and represents the property of 43 owners.

The Sale offers:

• Worldwide Air Post stamps and covers section containing 195 lots;
• 114 lots of Worldwide Zeppelin Flights;
• United States - Classic stamps, proofs, modern imperforated varieties, and color errors;
• Excellent selection of Great Britain and British Commonwealth, with:
  • Beautiful Collection of British Occupation of Batum,
  • Rare Stamps, Proofs and Errors of British North America and Canada,
  • Valuable items of Hong Kong, Ireland, and North Borneo,
  • Country Collections of Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Tristan da Cunha, and Turks and Caicos;
• Rarities of PR of China, including Mei Lan-fang souvenir sheet, several Culture Revolution items, and Golden Monkey stamp in pair and a single;
• Strong German area material, including Occupation of the World War I and II, Russian Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945-46;
• beautiful Italian items, including Occupation of Ionian Islands;
• valuable Liechtenstein lots with multiples of the important issues;
• Most impressive Russian Imperial material with Romanov Dynasty Proofs from the Tsar Collection;
• The Soviet Union large die proofs from the Postal Archives, rarities of the 1930s, Semi-Postal, Air Post, and various back of the book items;
• Great range of single lots from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Baltic States with rare stamps, positional pieces, and collections;
• Classic Ukraine includes a strong range of Trident Overprints from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Katerinoslav, Odesa, and Podilia, beautiful Local trident items representing material from Dr. Seichter, Dr. Zelonka, and other renowned Collections;
• Countries of the World presented with valuable items from Albania, Austria and Bosnia, Greece, Greenland, Indonesia, Korea and North Korea, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Poland, Portuguese Colonies, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Tannu Tuva, Thailand, Vatican City, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and many more;
• Worldwide Section includes Karl Lewis Illustrated covers, Thematic Philately, and the Fournier Forgeries Album.

• British Commonwealth, including a large assortment of KGVI issues
• Asia, with strength in China and Japan
• Europe, including a nice selection of France
• U.S., including many with graded certs
• U.S. and foreign literature lots, including further selections from the library of the late Stanley M. Piller

• UNITED STATES, There are (141) U.S. lots with several nice Classics and Pictorials (22) highlighted by a no. 1 Franklin and the 24¢ Declaration of Independence and 30¢ Shield. Also, there are several Banknote issues (18), a $1, $2, and $4 Columbian and a few Exposition lots (27), with nice several Trans-Mississippi and 1890s Regular issues. There are (48) lots of Washington/Franklins and late 1920s issues, which includes a 579 Plate Block of 6 and the White Plains Souvenir Sheet of 25. In the 1930 to Date section (22), there are (5) graded stamps with PSE certificates.
• COVERS, There are (59) Cover lots - an interesting selection of (14) Commercial and (45) First Day Covers. There is an interesting circa 1845 New York stampless cover, Paquebot covers, an STS-8 Flight Cover and a C15 flight cover. There are also a couple of beautifully hand-painted FDC's.
• AIRMAIL AND BACK OF BOOK ISSUES, Contains (56) total lots consisting of (15) Airmails with a complete set of Graf Zeppelins (LH); and (41) Back of Book issues, including an unused copy of PR106 newspaper stamp.
• ERRORS, FREAKS & ODDITIES, (41) Lots of EFO's are offered. A variety of mis-perfs, different shades and color shifts, under inking, etc. Great selection that includes several multi-stamp lots. Special attention is called to Lot 288, a true rarity, the MAJOR ERROR of the 13¢ Butterflies issue, no. 1715b.
• GENERAL FOREIGN & COLLECTIONS, includes (189) lots; (91) from about three dozen different countries; Australia, Canada, Peoples Republic of China, Falklands, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, and on to Zanzibar. There are (10) U.S. collections, (17) Foreign Country lots that includes a quality Italy collection and a nice clean Surinam collection; there are a few World Wide lots and (6) Topical collections, including the Olympics and Elvis.
• AUTOGRAPHS & MISCELLANEOUS, There are (10) Autograph lots with signatures of notables in various fields, e.g., Art Carney in entertainment, Chris Evert/Pancho Gonzales/Bobby Riggs of tennis, and very famous names on the 1940 Olympic Committee poster stamp sheets. There are (6) Remarqued postage stamps, (4) Exposition lots, and a couple in Literature and Memorabilia.
• DUCK AND CONSERVATION STAMPS, PRINTS (Federal, Junior and State) contains about (179) lots. There are (10) Junior Duck stamp lots with a JDS1 Imperforate Block of 4 to consider and (12) Duck Stamp Plate Number Single lots. We hope you find the one to complete your collection! There are (129) Federal lots with singles, plate blocks and a few Graded issues, with an RW10 Lower Left Plate Block of 6, very nice! You'll find (6) Mini-sheets; (4) Graded with PSE certificates. There are (15) Duck Error lots this auction, mostly shifted colors. For the Press sheet collector, we have a selection of (11) lots of various configurations, including a scarce RW72 center top gutter block of 4. Also, we have (35) Artist Signed Federal stamps to help fill out your signature collection. A small variety of State duck stamps (21), Governor's Editions (48), with about two dozen hand-signed by various Governors. Also, there are (20) Conservation and Fishing stamp lots. To finish the sale, you will find a half dozen prints: (1) Federal - RW44; and (5) First of State Duck Prints from Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island and West Virginia.