| COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS — French Colonies |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| | | Lots 1012-1032 contain the entire French Colonies collection of an avid advanced collector put together over the last 50 years. Mainly mint with a few used, In hingeless mounts on homemade computer generated pages with interspersed Ceres and Yvert varieties. Each colony has been extensively researched and last cataloged in 2008 (Ceres and Yvert). Careful viewing will show extensive Navigation and Commerce often with an extra page of the forgeries (uncataloged) following a page of originals. Very complete and in better condition than normally seen. Carefully selected for as good as possible centering along with pleasing mint modern material throughout. As original as it gets. | |
| 1015 |  | Anjouan, Benin, and French Cameroun 1892-1946. Lots of long sets and a Benin #16 “unused, genuine, disturbed gum” with a 1983 cert. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €5,675
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 1016 | | Castellorizo through French Colonies 1892-1973. Includes also Chad, Cilicia, Cochin, Comoro, Dahomey. Diego Suarez and French Colonies are best. (Photo) Owner’s 2008 cat. €10,629 | Price Realized: $1,300.00 |
| 1017 | | French Congo and French Equatorial Africa 1891-1952. Value throughout. Be sure to check out the oddities. (Photo) Owner’s 2008 cat. €5,164 | Price Realized: $800.00 |
| 1018 | | French Guiana and French Guinea 1886 -1943. Value throughout especially in the Guiana classics. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €9,793
Price Realized: $1,300.00 |
| 1019 | | French India and French Morocco. Lots of better sets. Many interesting varieties. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €6,519
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 1020 | | French Polynesia 1892-1999. Over 98% complete for the pages with many desirable long sets and booklets. (Photo) Owner’s 2008 cat. €11,956 | Price Realized: $2,600.00 |
| 1021 | | French Southern and Antarctic Territories 1955-1999. Over 98% complete for the pages with many desirable long sets. (Photo) Owner’s 2008 cat. €5,447 | Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 1022 | | French Sudan through Guadeloupe 1887-1950s. Most of the value is in the two title countries along with Gabon, French West Africa, and Grand Comoro. Many $20.00 and up sets and singles along with interesting varieties. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €6,057
Price Realized: $1,050.00 |
| 1023 | | Indo China through Lebanon 1889-1952. Most of the value is in Indo China, Ivory Coast, and Lebanon although French occupations of Hungary, Inini, Latakia, and Fezzan offer value too. Many $20.00 and up sets and singles. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €9,484
Price Realized: $1,700.00 |
| 1024 |  | Madagascar and Martinique. Each with plenty of power. Don’t miss Madagascar #2 unused with 1982 cert. along with some elusive booklet related. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €7,039
Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 1025 | | Mauritania, Mayotte, Memel, Middle Congo, and Moheli. Memel is the weakest with representative collections of the rest. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €2,634
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 1026 | | New Caledonia 1881-1999. Mainly mint with many better. Booklets and complete sets that are not often seen. About 95% complete for the period. Lots of Ceres and Yvert varieties. One of the best intact collection offered here in quite a while. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €8,967
Price Realized: $1,400.00 |
| 1027 | | New Hebrides (French issues only) 1908-1979. Mainly mint with many better. Booklets and complete sets that are not often seen. Over 95% complete for the period. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €2,540
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 1028 | | Niger through St. Marie de Madagascar. Although strong Noise Be, Obock, Ile Rouad, and Saar, Reunion 1852-1974 is by far the best with around half the value. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €12,279
Price Realized: $2,200.00 |
| 1029 | | St. Pierre and Miquelon 1885-1999. Lots of complete mint sets. Many $50.00 and up sets and singles. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €14,627
Price Realized: $2,600.00 |
| 1030 | | Senegal through Togo 1887-1970. Lots of complete mint sets. Many $25.00 and up sets and singles along with interesting varieties. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €12,445
Price Realized: $1,700.00 |
| 1031 | | Tunisia 1888-1955 with Ubangi, Upper Senegal, and Upper Volta as minor players. Almost all of the value is in Tunisia with many scarce sets. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €5,353
Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 1032 | | Wallis and Futuna Islands 1920-1999. Over 98% complete for the pages with loads of value. | Cat. Value: Owner’s 2008 cat. €5,138
Price Realized: $950.00 |
| | | Lots 1033-1039 are a dealer’s clean mint O.G. and used French Colonies working stock in large professional stock books. They include organized pre independence material with room for expansion, various sets, and useful duplication. Some lots are a work in progress, but all have much material for filling orders. | |
| 1033 | | French Colonies general issues and many others that need working up. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,500.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 1034 | | Algeria and various others. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $270.00 |
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