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COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS BY AREA — French Colonies
	Lot	Condition	Description	Value/Bidding
			Lots 861 to 868 are one man’s thirty-five year dedicated effort at collecting marine life thematics. They are broken down geographically and geopolitically as he arranged them. Most were acquired from new issue retailers during the period he collected. Everything is NH, all different lovingly placed in mounts and arranged chronologically on quadrille 3-ring pages. The collection as a whole is extensive, goes beyond just basic stamps and souvenir sheets. Throughout are imperfs, deluxe sheets, proofs, specimens, errors, paper varieties, gutter pairs etc.
	862		French colonies in eight albums. Includes about ten countries with most of the value in (approximate order) St. Pierre and Miqueleon, French Polynesia, FSAT, Comoro Island, Djibouti, Wallis and Futuna then New Caledonia.	Cat. Value: S.B. 1450.00 Price Realized: $2,200.00