| COVERS — Foreign By Country |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 671 |  | Belgian Congo covers (around 480) in twelve 3 ring binders on homemade pages. Ranges from early colonial right up to 1963. Strength in the wartime covers (many censored) along with those of the early 1950s. Interesting and colorful addition to your stock or collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00 |
| 672 | | Belgian Congo promotional miniature sheet UPU reissue set on eight covers with 1-12-50 favor cancels. Clean, with matched address. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 673 | | Bosnia and Herzegovina collection of about 65 covers 1900-1918. All are artistically mounted and fully annotated in a gilt edged Elbe album. Lovely presentation of seldom seen material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 674 | | Brazil (256, C22, C23) tied on flown zeppelin cover (Sieger #196) to Finland. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 675 | | Bulgaria covers and cards filling a large carton. Two binders of classic mint and used postal stationery entires along with a small box of “better” covers. Well over 300 useful items with limited duplication many of which have been individually selected for usage, cancels and destinations. While the cards are interesting the bulk of the value is in the covers. | Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00 |
| 676 | | Canada five better 19th century covers. Includes three from the provincial period, a six cent large Queen and a nice advertising franked with small Queens, overall clean. | Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 677 | | China an exceptional assembly of 42 mostly first flight covers. Loaded with fancy artwork and cachets, impressive seldom seen chops, beautiful color and issue combinations. A majority are Scott C6 to C10 (over twenty C6’s) with a few later issues, some duplication. There is one franked with C1-C5 set three franked with C6-C10 set. Condition is a little mixed but by in large very neat and clean. An original holding that has been tucked away for a long time. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00 |
| 678 | | China unique group of four bisect Coiling Dragon covers. All with in period cancels and domestic destinations. Condition is mixed and sold “as is”. Great lot for the specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $11,000.00 |
| 679 | | Czechoslovakia covers in a small pizza size box. Around 85 covers in total all saved for a reason. Strength is in the wartime era with scarce markings and usages. Also includes a few dubious early printers’ waste errors used on cover. An interesting addition to a Czechoslovakia collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 680 | | Finland cover collection of several hundred organized in seven binders. Includes flight covers abd zepp flights but mostly semipostal FDC’s. Also includes Aland semipostal FDC’s. Runs from the late 1920s to modern. A very desirable lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $900.00 |
| 681 | | France small group of covers in a small pizza size box. Just over 30 covers total with huge value in the classic era including three Balloon Monte covers. Covers a range of frankings with a handful of stampless and various pairs and two color usages. Of interest to a specialist in the marketing of this hard to replace classic material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00 |
| 682 | | France group of 15 early flight cards and covers, five with colorful sets of semiofficial airmails. All reflect the interest in various air events and milestones. | Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 683 | | Germany (Third Reich) cover and card holding in seven cover albums with a total of just over 350 items. All have been carefully chosen to highlight some part of the German War effort. Censored, patriotic and nationalistic, flights, propaganda including some elusive, battle scenes, military, and many other topics. Usages include prisoner of war, occupations, plus scarce destinations and origins. Good lot to go through, thoroughly figure the cost of each entity before calculating a winning bid. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,400.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00 |
| 684 | | Germany mostly different group of well over 400 primarily Third Reich covers and cards with special cancels. Most attractive are the colorful propaganda postcards that are priced and often annotated, then corner cards and cachets, then blank covers with favor cancels. Also includes some WWI and WWII feldpost picture postcards. A nice stock to finish working up for sale. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00 |
| 685 | | Germany lot of 11 concentration camp covers/letters in a binder. Dachau, Theresienstadt, Buchewald, etc. were noticed on pages with descriptions in German as well as some photos of their reverses. Also, includes single mint Polish Red Cross and a Dachau souvenir sheets and nine propaganda postcards from Himmler’s Reichsfuehrer SS office out of Berlin. Condition of covers varies. A good lot for the specialist or historian in this area. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 686 | | Germany and areas several hundred covers and cards from all eras and political divisions. Includes strength in commemorative stamps and cancels, plus commercial, first day, feldpost, flight, propaganda picture postcard, mint stationery and other familiar types of German area covers. A cross section that will interest many specialized collectors. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $800.00 |
| 687 | | Germany and area covers in a small pizza size box. Just under 100 covers in total, all saved for a reason. Includes “Gebuhr Bezahlt”, Alsace occupations, Saar, Federal Republic, and a couple zusammendrucke. Interesting group of covers with enough premium ones to make it profitable. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 688 | | German and French old time original mounted collection of covers showing the postal transition of various French towns to German towns in 1870 after the Franco Prussian War, and then back to French towns in 1918 after WWI. Includes maybe a couple thousand fully annotated SFLs, folded letters, postalcards, PPCs, and commercial covers from the mid 19th century to 1920, plus many hundred mounted stamps with similar legible cancels. Alphabetized by town in 37 original French binders, includes ordinary, provisional, dual, RPO, and HPO cancels, censored and registry markings, etc. on both domestic and international correspondences. If this labor of love interests you, go for it since you aren’t likely to another mother lode like this. | Cat. Value: S.B. 4,500.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00 |
| 689 | | Great Britain folded letters, covers and cards (around 50) in a small box. Covers the classic area with markings from 1830-1890. Three penny blacks, a bunch of penny reds, and a pair of Mulreadys are the highlights. Excitement wanes because of the condition almost all seconds or thirds with none exemplary. Good value if you’re not a stickler for condition. Offered appropriately. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $900.00 |
| 690 | | Great Britain collection of about 100 primarily postal stationery covers and cards from all reigns, generally sleeved. Split about 60/40 mint and used, includes many pieces with dual embossed frankings or other attractive combinations. Many mint show catalog numbers and could be all different, while many are used registered letters of different designs from different towns. Various overseas markings add to the interest as you flip through this nice selection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 691 | | Greece (363 pair, C5-C7) tied on reg. backstamp flown zeppelin cover (Sieger #210y), F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 692 | | Greenland bicycle advertising return envelopes with a variety of frankings and cancels from the 1960s and 1970s, from the same company in Denmark. They also show several printings over time. | Cat. Value: S.B. 44.00
Price Realized: $36.00 |
| 693 | | Iceland (C9, C11) tied on registered flown zepp cover (Sieger #114D) Friedrichshaffen transit cds. on back. | Cat. Value: S.B. 240.00
Price Realized: $180.00 |
| 694 | | Iceland group of just over 50 interesting covers. Includes FDC’s from 1955-2009, registered, first flights, packetboat, and best of all three zeppelin flight covers. Lots of value. | Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 695 | | Iran covers a mix of pre and post WWII covers and cards in a medium carton. Three binders of individual selected items along with a small box with a total of well over 225 items. Interesting destinations, rates, and markings make this a fine lot for those interested in this area. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 696 | | Israel specialized cover group 1948-1952 of 62 different covers focusing on the forerunner usages and postage dues. Lovely covers from this early historical period are difficult to find at all, let alone in a group. Highlights include forerunner covers from May and June of 1948, a few more with tete beche varieties and perforation differences, and a bunch of postage due covers originating from all over the world including Guinee, Greenland, South Africa, England, Italy, Belgium, and even Mongolia. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00 |
| 697 | | Israel covers (around 5,400) filling eight cartons. Mainly FDC from 1948-1995 along with event covers, post office openings and special cancels. Probably one of each for they were squirrelled away by a knowledgeable collector who went all out to obtain the unusual. In this case, these look pretty usual to us. What do you think? | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 698 | | Israel covers mainly first flights 1948-1974 in six 3 ring binders in a large carton. Roughly organized by date and destination this lot has more of these than we have seen in a long time. Not very powerful, but difficult to find and elusive. Perfect for the airmail aficionado. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 699 | | Italy and area group of 14 folded letters and covers from 1825 to 1885. Interesting uses and destinations including two early revenue usages. Also includes eight dubious Lombardi postal stationery entires. A wonderful addition to any Italy area collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 700 | | Italian area covers group in four binders. Three binders are of colonies and former colonies such as Eritrea, Libya, Tripolitania, Somalia, etc. with variations in destinations, transit marks and cancels. Just a few are modern while most are from the first half of the 20th century. Best of all is a binder of Papal states with a few premium items included. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,300.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00 |
| 701 | | Karelia accumulation of 56 covers featuring the WWII overprinted stamps mainly on commercial mail in a small box. Carefully included for the CDS of many different towns in the region including Rouppoja, Vitele, Paatene, Karhumaki, Jessoila, Teru, Soksu, and many others. Enough here for a jump start toward an area study. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 702 | | Lithuania small accumulation of 71 covers in a small carton. Powerful and loaded with value. Highlights include #20-26, C1-C7, 109, frankings, various flights, displaced persons camp mail, locals, labels, etc. A wealth of value to be gleaned from this intact hoard. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 703 | FDC | Newfoundland (C12) a bit of soiling and “DO-X...” written in red ballpoint at lower left. | Cat. Value: cat. 275.00
Price Realized: $90.00 |
| 704 | | Norway extensive cover accumulation in 12 cover albums of various types. Begins with a couple early classics in mixed condition (#5, 60, etc.) and then proceeds to modern time with several hundred FDC’s. Highlights include some better flight covers, a Thor Solberg flight card, and other unusual first flight covers. Also includes some semipostals on cover and a cover from Hell (Norway). A ready made specialty cover collection that would be the envy of any Scandinavia specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 705 | | Norway small accumulation of 28 covers in a small pizza size box. Powerful and loaded with value. Highlights include #1 x4, 11, 12 pair, 15, 16, 104-110, frankings 1932 Zeppelin flight to Brazil. Lots of value to the Norway collector. | Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00 |
| 706 | | Russia shipwreck cover from the Elbe in 1895. Variety of markings on the front and Bremen seal on back. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 707 | | San Marino (138, C14) tied on registered backstamp flown zepp cover (Sieger #209ID) signed by Bolaffi and Dienna, Fine. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 708 | | San Marino (148, C14) tied on flown zepp cover (Sieger #209ID), F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 709 | | San Marino (C1, C2, C13) tied on flown zepp cover (Sieger #209IC), F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 710 | | Sweden cover album with about 70 covers and cards. About half are cacheted first days from 1957 to 2008 plus flights and other events, the best being two Graf zeppelin flights to Brazil. The balance are commercial covers or uncacheted first days, most with multiple or setenant frankings. The variety here will interest a number of collectors. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 711 | FDC | Switzerland (B206) cacheted, type addressed, VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 712 | | Switzerland (Mi. #I) tied on specially prepared ppc by 3 XII. 12 Zurich cds., F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $130.00 |
| 713 | | Switzerland 20 airmail covers 1919 to 1961, mostly 1920s and 1930s. Includes C2 frankings x 2, private airmails x 7, zepp flights x 2, rocketmail (1961) x 2, etc. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 714 | | Switzerland Army cover lot of over 45 different WWII feldpost usages. Colorful and in decent condition, some have actually been mailed and not just souvenirs. An interesting and valuable group. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $230.00 |
| 715 | | Switzerland approaching 600 like new first day covers, 1948-1992, primarily PTT cacheted and sleeved. Includes mostly different sets and Geneva officials as issued, plus a few Liechtenstein that slipped in. Putting them in order will be a huge boost to a collection or stock. | Cat. Value: S.B. 290.00
Price Realized: $200.00 |
| 716 | | Vatican City (10, 14) tied on flown registered zepp card along with Italy C42. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $450.00 |
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