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Public Auction #404

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended May 21, 2010 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated May 21, 2010 at 4:33pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS — Europe
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1269*Europe accumulation of about 6,600 diverse poster stamps and labels filling several stockbooks in no particular order. Subjects include many sets of famous places, people and things petaining to all sorts of exhibitions, events, causes, official seals, etc. Since there are a few scattered US items, and significant duplication in a few places, some organization would be useful to fully appreciate the scope of what is here.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,750.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
1270*oEurope with over two dozen country collections mounted on Scott pages with material going into the 1970’s. Stronger areas include Germany, Austria, Iceland, France, Netherlands, Vatican and Finland. Super clean with many mint sets. Attentive viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,500.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00
1271*oEurope dealer stock of mint and used singles and sets worked up on new salespages in 11 small salesbooks. Includes material from nine major European countries that would supplement your stock to varying degrees due to uneven coverage and duplication. Also condition is very mixed and not everything is original, so a complete survey is recommended to appropriately discount the owner’s retail.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,800.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
1272*oEurope accumulation in a shoe box with several hundred mostly used stamps and souvenir sheets well organized in glassines. Better countries are Liectenstein, Saar, Austria, Switzerland and Danzig. A nice lot with many delightful stamps that would fill many holes in a world collection.Cat. Value: S.B 2,600.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
1273*oEurope over twenty priced and neatly packaged bourse dealer’s country collection lots. Most are mounted and cataloged and the most valuable all totalled are the Germany and areas. Also valuable Italy and areas, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium and Norway. Would be profitable to sell at some percentage of the existing retail.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,200.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00
1274**oEurope group of five clean matching KABE country albums. Best are Greece and Italy, with quite good Finland, Isle of Man, and Poland. Generally well populated with mixed mint and used starting after the classic period to 1962 and solid NH to 1992, including sets, booklets, BOB, and some related areas. Nice enough to continue collecting or easy enough to extract for stock.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,300.00
1275*Europe accumulation of thousands of mostly WWI era military, patriotic, and propaganda vignettes in seven assorted stockbooks. The bulk are Delandre seals, mostly French, German and Italian, with some other producers and countries. We noted sets, duplicates and a dizzying variety of full color designs as we browsed through these books.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
1276*Europe selection of about 275 mostly different poster stamps mounted in three volumes of small salespages. While Esperanto is the most prevalent topic, they advertise all kinds of expositions, events, causes, products, etc., often from a century ago. Many are from Germany, with some other Western and Eastern European countries interspersed. The variety should encourage flipping through every book.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,350.00
Price Realized: $900.00
1277*oEurope an old mounted collection on Scott pages to the early 1950’s. Better counties are Norway, Sweden, Greece and Finland. Very clean, fresh material with better sets throughout. A solid opportunity.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,250.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
1278*oEurope in five mostly 1960’s Scott Specialty albums that are generally well populated with familiar stamps. Strongest is Benelux and colonies, then Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Czechoslovakia again, plus Hungary. Carefully built original collections of fresh material in need of a new home.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,150.00
Price Realized: $750.00
1279*oEurope twenty albums or stockbooks plus three smaller boxes of glassines, album pages, etc. Well segmented consisting of Benelux, Russia, Germany and areas, Balkans, Italy, Vatican and Austria. Several of the albums are quite serviceable ready for expansion from the contents of the smaller boxes.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00
1280*oEurope grouping of several dozen country lots in various forms. Best collections and stocks include Benelux, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Faroes, Iceland and Italy. A lot of useful material from all eras to finish working up.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $950.00
1281*oEurope accumulation containing thousands of stamps. Includes good Benelux countries, Switzerland, auction remainders and loose material. A fair share of mint sets will be found. Needs further inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
1282*Europe collection of almost 1,300 mostly different early poster stamps touting companies, products, exhibitions, and causes of all sorts. Neatly lined up on stockpages in no apparent order, with the occasional US or modern label. They make an artful array to browse through.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $425.00
1283*oEurope accumulation of several dozen surprisingly eclectic items. Stockcards and pages hold interesting better items from many countries. A few with certs and some that are dubious. However, most of the bulk is parcelposts and Christmas seals from Greenland. Careful viewing of the individual items is required.Cat. Value: S.B 750.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
1284*oEurope ravished mostly used collections of twelve European area countries in two heavy Schaubek albums to the early 1950’s. Best are Great Britain, Switzerland and Denmark, then Italy, France and seven others. A lot of stamps and useful sets, so take a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $450.00
1285*oEurope two cartons filled with starter or remainder collections, stockbooks, etc. Thousands of stamps with a wide variety. A little stronger in Germany and Hungary.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00