| COLLECTIONS & ACCUMULATIONS — Dr. Charles Rothwell Collection |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| | | Lots 872-1024 are from the collection of Charles E. Rothwell. Dr. Rothwell built his collection over the past 25 years primarily through purchasing large stocks, advanced country collections and smaller lots with specialty items from auction houses in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. To display his collection he constructed his own pages using country specific specialized catalogs and literature obtained from the APS library. These pages run to 1960 and have the look and feel of a Scott Specialty Album page, but contain spaces for shades, paper and perforation varieties, overprint errors and varieties, etc. as per the specialized catalogs. To help ensure consistency of presentation and to facilitate the incorporation of new material, Dr. Rothwell cut mounts for most spaces, whether or not he had the stamp. Please keep in mind while viewing these lots that empty mounts do not necessarily indicate incomplete sets, as they are commonly placeholders for minor varieties and they do not indicate removal of a stamp as these collections are being offered intact. Dr. Rothwell was a stickler for quality, constantly upgrading the centering, freshness and NH condition of his stamps so NH will be found for many of the best values and even in the 19th century. The result is advanced, nearly all mint, collections of exceptional quality. Dr. Rothwell did not finish making albums for the entire world and there are a few used stamps or faulty items. These exceptions will be by and large denoted in the description.
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| 922 |  | Seychelles a largely complete colony that needs mostly only shade and overprint varieties to fill the vacant mounts. | Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 923 | | Sierre Leone an advanced collection with many desirable items. The 19th century is highlighted by a possibly unique block. Its 1982 SPA cert states, “it is Scott Sierra Leone Nos. 33, 33a and 33d unused, OG, that it is genuine in all respects; including “PFNNY” variety row3/1. Shows signs of double overprint on all stamps”. The KGV issues run to the 10sh or £1, the Wilberforce issue is complete. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00 |
| 924 | | Solomon Islands country essentially complete. The only empty mounts are for Gibbons listed shade varieties. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 925 | | Somaliland Protectorate colony is complete including all the Official stamps and has some better overprint varieties such as S.G. 3a and 12a. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $1,400.00 |
| 926 | | South Africa nice lot with plenty of value in better setenant pairs. As with many of these collections there is a nice sprinkling of specialty items like booklet panes, shades and overprint varieties. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 927 | | South West Africa attractive with many better setenant pairs. Largely complete from 1931-1940. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 928 | | South Australia a hundred or so stamps, many with very high catalog value are spread out over 22 pages. Much of the value is in the popular “Long Toms”. Includes 41 stamps with denominations of three p to three £. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00 |
| 929 | | Sudan country is largely complete for major numbers and has some additional minor varieties. The 1905 Army official stamp has a 1924 RPS cert. | Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 930 | | Tanganyika country nearly complete and includes the 1916 “N.F.” and 1917-1922 “G.E.A.” overprints. | Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 931 |  | Tasmania early imperfs contain a couple used and a few mint stamps generally with clear to nice margins. There is a smattering of 1864-1889 perfed issues. The most impressive period is 1891-1899. The 1891 surcharge is there in both shades and both spacing, plus a pair with double surcharge, one inverted. The 1892-1899 key type issue is complete. Ends with the views, including varieties of the lithographed and typographed printings and a few postal fiscals. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00 |
| 932 | | Trinidad and Tobago valuable lot that begins with a page of 24 Tobago stamps. The Trinidad Britannia issues are very strong and include six used pin perfs. From 1879 onward, it is essentially complete with additional shades, perf varieties and a watermark error added in. | Cat. Value: S.B. 3,750.00
Price Realized: $4,250.00 |
| 933 | | Victoria a truly valuable collection that looks a little sparse because of the detail put into the album pages. There are a few choice used stamps to 1858, then it is predominately mint. Many shade, perf and watermark varieties. An excellent lot for the serious collector/dealer of Australian states. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,700.00
Price Realized: $2,800.00 |
| 934 | | Western Australia a few dozen stamps with nice perf and shade varieties. Also includes a few postal fiscals. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 935 | | Zanzibar a great start to this popular country. Mostly better singles and partial sets early on, then mostly complete sets starting in 1922. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 936 | | Asia a box with various smaller countries mostly mounted on black stockpages. Afghanistan has a few tigers and lots of imperf sets. Another binder has PRC and a nice selection of China locals, Shanghai and Tibet. Lastly are a group of Manchukuo, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and a Bushire stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,150.00
Price Realized: $950.00 |
| 937 | | China a collection of hundreds on black stockpages in a binder. Some nice small dragons and four red revenues to start things off. Several souvenir sheets and a wide variety of overprinted issues to play with. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00 |
| 938 | | Japan outstanding collection begins with four 1871 used dragons. The Koban issues are mint. From 1900-1960 many good regular issues and the commemoratives and souvenir sheets appear complete and mostly NH. Several better airmail sets and the good 1934 souvenir sheets are NH. Ending the collection is a nice selection of offices in China and Korea. Also an envelope holding the souvenir sheet folders. | Cat. Value: S.B. 4,250.00
Price Realized: $6,500.00 |
| 939 | | Korea a couple hundred stamps and souvenir sheets on black stockpages housed in a binder. It looks a bit sparse in places but a lot are NH and the value really adds up. | Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 940 | | Philippines the early Spanish Administration is a little sparse but is fairly complete 1887-1898. Some nice singles and sets in the US Administration and the Republic issues are fairly complete. The BOB and Japanese occupation issues are quite nice. | Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 941 | | Thailand a mixed mint and used that has some nice singles and sets scattered throughout. A great start to this country. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 942 | | Albania two used and one mint double headed eagle overprints and some interesting Michel listed “locals”. From 1913-1960, the collection only lacks about a half a dozen sets and a few singles to be complete. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00 |
| 943 | | Austria a few used stamps in this collection, primarily the 1850-1864 issues, but the vast majority are mint. The regular issues show a high degree of completeness, some perf varieties and imperfs present semipostals feature NH Renner sheets and have only a few holes. The BOB has value throughout including a page of Franz Joseph Military stamp proofs. Ends with a solid selection of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Cat. Value: S.B. 4,500.00
Price Realized: $4,000.00 |
| 944 | | Baltic Sates impressive, valuable collection of this popular area. The Latvia is strongest and includes good definitives and all the better commemorative issues both perf and imperf. Estonia and Lithuania have lots of value and Karilia and North Ingermanland are complete. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00 |
| 945 | | Belgium this is possibly the finest Belgium collection we have ever offered. The 19th century up to about 1870 is primarily used but all mint afterwards. All the sets and souvenir sheets one would expect in an advanced collection are here. It is the presence of the specialty items such as the imperfs, booklet panes, tete-beche pairs, miniature sheets, private overprints, baggage stamps, telegraph and telephone stamps, advertising labels and deluxe sheets coupled with top notch condition, much NH, that sets this collection apart. Careful viewing is a must. | Cat. Value: S.B. 10,000.00
Price Realized: $9,500.00 |
| 946 | | Belgian Colonies both Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi are largely complete for the basic stamps and both colonies are augmented with specialty items. The early Congo has some perf 15 varieties. Congo also has the Paysage issue booklet panes and some overprint errors. The UPU miniature sheets footnoted in the Scott catalog are present, as are several “TAXES’ handstamped dues. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00 |
| 947 | | Bulgaria outstanding collection where the only empty spaces appear to be for minor varieties or errors. A few used stamps, one of which is the rare 1884 black surcharge which may or may not be good. The vast majority of sets from 1902-1960 are NH. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,200.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00 |
| 948 | | Czechoslovakia superb collection that is largely complete. The Music sheets are NH with folders. Numerous 1919 overprints on Austrian and Hungarian stamps. A couple (B70, B97) are doubtful but most, including the scarce 10 kronen black violet (B21b) appear real. The BOB features nice Czechoslovak Legion Post, Slovakia, Bohemia and some Sudetenland. The Eastern Silesia is nearly complete and has valuable black overprints and overprint errors. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00 |
| 949 | | Denmark and areas Danish West Indies holds a lot of value. For Denmark proper, the 1851-1863 arms issues are mixed mint and used. The numerals are all mint and a lot of “a” varieties are present. The 19th century is nearly complete with some Facit listed varieties added. The BOB is similarly strong. The collection ends with Faroe Islands 2-6, NH, with certs. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00 |
| 950 | | Eastern Rumelia a tremendous start to this difficult and under appreciated country. There are five “RO” overprinted stamps, 23 of the various lion overprints. The last page has an attractive formular card. Huge catalog value. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 951 | | Finland a highly specialized that begins with 11 very nice roulettes (some used). . Nearly complete 1889-1960 and has numerous Facit listed varieties. Much the material is NH. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,900.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00 |
| 952 | | France a very meaty collection with mixed mint and used 19th century and virtually all mint after 1871. Most of the big ticket 20th century items are present, including the 1929-1933 high values (Scott 247-254A). Specialty material includes some compete booklets, proofs and a nice group of parcel post stamps. Be sure to check out the envelope of unmounted imperfs on the last page. | Cat. Value: S.B. 7,500.00
Price Realized: $5,500.00 |
| 953 | | France (offices) many hundreds of stamps from the different offices. Offices in China contain the most value, but Egypt, Turkey and Zanzibar are strong as well. | Cat. Value: S.B. 3,500.00
Price Realized: $2,800.00 |
| 954 | | France (Reunion) aside from overprint errors and varieties there are not too many spaces to fill. A really nice collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 955 | | French Colonies 26 colonies in two volumes. Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Comoro Islands, Algeria, Indo-China plus Wallis and Futuna are the best. These books are loaded with specialty items so please examine carefully. | Cat. Value: S.B. 5,000.00
Price Realized: $6,000.00 |
| 956 | | Andorra (French) some holes but not many. Very nice lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 957 | | Cameroun starts with 11 values of the 1915 “Corps Expeditionnaire” overprints and is about 75% after that. Of special interest is the imperf airmails, especially the Chad to Rhine issue where only 250 were issued. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 958 | | French Congo a fairly comprehensive grouping of French Congo and Middle Congo issues. Also present is the 1981parcel post stamp with a nice cds. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $475.00 |
| 959 | | French Equatorial Africa collection which doesn’t need too many more to complete. The UPU, Victory and Chad to Rhine imperfs are a nice addition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $475.00 |
| 960 | | French Guinea complete except for three stamps from the navigation and commerce issue and some minor varieties. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 961 | | French India a very nice collection with strength in the “France Libre” overprints. Don’t miss the imperf sets in the back. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 962 | | French Morocco a very nice well balanced. Will not take that many more stamps to complete. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 963 | | French Polynesia only a couple Tahiti stamps present but the French Polynesia proper lacks only three navigation and commerce issues to complete the major numbers. Also NH pairs of the Chad to Rhine airmails. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 964 | | Gabon starts with a few nice singles in the 1886-1889 period. Has nice value around the turn of the century and is nearly complete 1912-1933. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 965 | | Guadeloupa most of the basic stamps are present. Also some nice font type varieties on the 1903 issue and imperf airmails. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 966 | | Lebanon a very nice collection especially for someone who wants to specialize in this area. Quite a few varieties as described in the 1936 Yvert used to make these pages. Numerous imperfs, some 1936 Franco-Lebanese treaty commemoratives, as well as loads of complete mint sets. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00 |
| 967 | | Madagascar the dependencies, Diego Suarez, Nossi B’e and Ste. Marie de Madagascar have some nice surcharged stamps and impressive navigation and commerce issues. Madagascar proper also has some nice early issues and is nearly complete from 1908. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 968 | | Martinique starts out strong with good surcharges on French colonies issues then has only a dozen or so holes from 1892-1947. Imperfs include the 1947 pictorial issue and a few more stamps. | Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $425.00 |
| 969 | | New Caledonia desirable with good stamps throughout. In addition to the normal stamps, there are inverted or double overprint varieties and some nice imperfs (UPU, Victory, Coffee, Chad to Rhine). | Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 970 | | St. Pierre and Miquelon a valuable lot that has desirable material throughout. Some very nice “France Libre” sets or singles and the Chad to Rhine set in imperf NH pairs (only 250 stamps issues according to 1966 Sanabria). | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00 |
| 971 | | Somali coast the 1894 views are complete to 2 francs and very few major number items missing from 1899 onward. A few specialty items for the 1902 issue and four or five modern imperf sets. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $850.00 |
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