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Public Auction #410

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended November 18, 2011 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated November 18, 2011 at 6:24pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS GENERAL FOREIGN BY AREA — Eastern Europe
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1331*oEastern Europe collection in three bulging Minkus albums with thousands of stamps. Includes, in relative order of value, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Albania. Begins with the earlies and moves with great coverage up into the 1970’s. Pages continue up into around 2000 with only light coverage. The owner filled the spaces with mint and used, sometimes CTO sets and singles, often in the same space. Plenty of varieties are here to be seen. Needs close inspection to determine the correct value.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $600.00
1332*oEastern Europe accumulation filling two large cartons. Although lacking in power it does contain many thousands of stamps. Highlights include two volumes of Russia on Scott Specialty pages 1960-1990, a beginner Czechoslovakia collection in two Minkus albums, boxes of accumulated glassines with Russia and stockpages holding Hungary. A good start toward collecting this area of the world.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $650.00
1333*oEastern Europe collection in three stockbooks. One each for Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. The Russia is the best with thousands of useful stamps. The others are extensive, too, with many mint, and CTO sets included. Catalog value sure to be many times the estimate.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $700.00
1334*oCVEastern Europe collection/accumulation in ten diverse disheveled stockbooks. Best by far is Czechoslovakia and area, then Poland General Government plus various other German and Russian occupations, nearly all including covers. Anything from recurring familiar stamps to better or interesting items may appear while turning the stockpages and album pages. Time spent working on them will be rewarded.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
1335*oEastern Europe collections of Hungary and Czechoslovakia in five clean Scott Specialty albums up to 2000. The strength is in the many mint modern sets (1957-2000) that fill them. Many intermediate value sets with an occasional surprise. Easily broken down or suitable for continuation.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $900.00
1336*oEastern Europe six Minkus album collection with hundreds of stamps in each. Mint, used and CTO all to be expected. Includes Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary (which is the strongest). Good starter collections to about 1980 in clean reuseable albums fit for the general collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $260.00