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Public Auction #428

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended May 20, 2016 at 7:00pm (New York time)
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Bids updated May 21, 2016 at 9:26am (New York time)

COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, STOCKS — German offices and Colonies
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
636*oGerman offices and colonies unbelievable collection in a clean Lindner hingeless album. Mainly mint. Packed with rare and elusive stamps many with certs. Outstanding in its completeness. Encompasses offices in China, Morocco, Turkey and colonies including New Guinea, GRI (lots of certs), East Africa, SW Africa, Cameroun, CEF, Caroline Islands, Kiautschou, Marianna Is, Marshall Is, Samoa, and Togo. The whole album is missing less than 40 stamps for completion. The owner was a stickler for condition and it shows with the overall group VF+. An occasional fault with few visible at first glance. Extensive Photos tell a true story along with an included box of dozens of certs. Huge catalog value which becomes meaningless with the excellent condition and number of certs. One of the best collections we have offered in the last ten years. A true pleasure to view and covet.Cat. Value: S. B. 5,500.00
Price Realized: $26,000.00
637*oGerman offices and colonies preposterous collection/accumulation on 90 black stockpages in two binders. Most colonies and offices represented. Sorted by town/area/ship cancels with thousands of stamps includes. Some are on piece. Rare and scarce markings abound, many of which could be single offerings in many auctions. The biggest hoard of the nicest cancels we have ever seen. It took the owner years and years to accumulate this many exemplary cancels. The stamps themselves cannot be overlooked, many singles and sets in the $100.00-$800.00 catalog range. Well sorted and annotated for easy assimilation into collections. Deserves to stay intact until another caretaker of this fine philatelic effort can be found so that the knowledge stored here is not lost. Look at the Photos and plan to view in person.Cat. Value: S. B. 2,500.00
Price Realized: $7,500.00
638*oGerman offices and colonies collection on oldtime Borek pages. The focus is on mint sets and singles. All the offices in China spaces are filled although no certificates or signed copies were found. The offices in Turkey and Morocco are missing less than ten stamps for completion. Huge catalog value. Better than usual condition. Similar rates of completion are found in the colonies with New Guinea, East Africa (no GRI or British GEA), SW Africa, Cameroun, Caroline Is., Kiautschou, Marianna Is., Marshall Is., Samoa, and Togo fully represented. Less than 30 stamps are not in spaces in this collection. A few certified and signed items in the colonies. Put together long ago and saved intact for a new generation of collectors. An honor to view.Cat. Value: S. B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00
639oGerman offices and colonies over 170 stamps on three stockpages. It’s a combination of better values, scarcer cancels and nice clear strikes. Specialist take note.Cat. Value: S. B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $850.00
640oGerman offices and colonies collection/accumulation saved for their cancels in two stockbooks. Better Offices in China, Morocco, and Turkey. Bunches of meaty cancelation groups in this lot.Cat. Value: S. B. 800.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00
641*oGerman offices and colonies. The backstock to the backstock in a pair of large manila stockpage books. Fairly sparse with not all areas represented. Here is where the odd and extra stuff went. Fake cancels, dubious identifications, part sets, mixed mint and used sets, and anything else that did not go along with his organization pattern went in these two books. Look close for there are hidden treasures in this one, too.Cat. Value: S. B. 600.00
Price Realized: $4,250.00
642oGerman offices and colonies in a small mismatched springback album. Slightly remaindered with the best bunch being the offices in China group. High catalog. A few complete sets with a couple signed high values. Along as a bonus is a pretty good group of specialized cancels and on piece stamps that are unrelated to the album. Look close for there are hidden treasures in this one.Cat. Value: S. B. 500.00
Price Realized: $900.00
643oGerman offices and colonies several dozen culled out of stockbooks for being better values and premium cancels highlighted by forerunners on offices in Turkey and Kiauchau, War dates on G.E.A., railroad and smaller towns. Around $2,500.00 just as stamps combined Scott and Michel (€=$).Cat. Value: S. B. 400.00
Price Realized: $325.00
644*oGermany and colonies leftover backstock bunch in a small carton. Highlights include over 20 retired APS salesbooks, most are decimated, a handful of stockpages with difficult to see forerunner cancels (many offices), and a hundred or so highly duplicated Germany proper zusammendrucke pieces. Perfect for individual internet sales.Cat. Value: S. B. 500.00
Price Realized: $350.00