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Public Auction #421

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 22, 2014 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated August 22, 2014 at 6:14pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS & ACCUMULATIONS — Switzerland
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1219*oCVSwitzerland terrific accumulation of classic material. Formed from a dubious Geneva 2L1 on cover through a handful of Rayons past dozens of Sitting Helvetias up to a page or two of Standing Helvetias ending around 1904. A small bunch of covers from the same era round out the lot. Huge catalog value in mixed condition. Needs to be viewed.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,600.00
Price Realized: $1,700.00
1220*oCVSwitzerland “Soldier’s mail” collection. Includes a few WWI stamps and a comprehensive collection of WWII stamps and covers. Owner’s count of 2,800 stamps not all different, 100 different sheetlets and 98 postcards and covers. Includes four stockbooks, two complete “Locher” WWII albums with a few hundred of the counted stamps mounted in the correct spaces, a cover book plus three catalogs and magazines. Great addition to any Swiss collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
1221*oSwitzerland collection/accumulation containing hundreds mint and used stamps having a diverse backup. Includes an interesting collection on blank pages and in clear mounts in two binders from 1862 to 1995 having fascinating BOB. Highlights are mint 1Ø1-1Ø8 and 5Ø6-5Ø25. Also a three volume Safe hingeless collection from 1938 to 1995 and three large stockbooks of mainly used stamps from 1850 to 2010. Moreover a small stockbook contains around 40 souvenir sheets plus 45 mint and used stamps mostly different in singles and sets that the collector removed from the collections for safe keeping. Highlights are mint #226, B105, B206, B143 (3) and #302-305 (2) and used (2). Far better than normally encountered. Do not let this one slip by.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
1222*oCVSwitzerland accumulation in two European stockbooks. Best items are #C2 used with certificate 1996 and a mint NH Pax set. Also includes a strong run of charities with duplicates and covers. Lots of fun for the collector in this holding.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $600.00
1223*oCVSwitzerland accumulation in five stockbooks of various sizes. Mainly in Scott order to 1975 with just a few classics, but plenty of intermediate sets in duplication. Has been rendered for most of its power but enough catalog in semipostals to give it possibilities. Also includes a book of around 120 covers mainly FDCs and cards from 1948-1978 with duplication.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $550.00
1224*oSwitzerland small accumulation in a remaindered folder collection, old brown stockbook, 55 “102” sized cards with “better” singles, and four stockpages of duplicates. Condition very mixed especially in the classics sections where forgeries, fakes, dubious cancels, pulled perfs, missing hunks, etc. need to be navigated. Very little modern. Plenty of intermediate sets and singles to fill spaces in the albums of not so discriminating collectors.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $550.00
1225oSwitzerland used blocks of four accumulation in a broken up stockbook on 22 pages. Mainly charities beginning with #B37 moving through many complete sets with likable duplication to #B291. Filled with only easily read CDS cancels prized as premium in Zumstein. Pleasing with hundreds of examples.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $160.00