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Public Auction #429

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 19, 2016 at 7:00pm (New York time)
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Bids updated August 19, 2016 at 6:49pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — France
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
460*oFrance dealer’s stock arranged on over 600 “102” type sales cards. Good value in the classic period which contain some attractive items which are nearly all used. This is followed by mint and used regulars and semipostals sprinkled with better values and sets running to the mid 1980's. The postage dues and offices are useful as is the group of colonial general issues at the end.Cat. Value: S.B. 1600
Price Realized: $1,100.00
461*oFrance bread and butter collection in a pair of clean Scott Specialty album 1849-1992. No offices or colonies. Used classics, then mixed mint and used to 1960 then mainly mint to 1992. Includes regular issues, commemoratives, semipostals, and Airs. Well filled with mainly VF sets and singles. Huge catalog bolstered by the classics and states. Strength throughout with plenty of surprises. Variable condition with some damaged classics figured into the owner’s catalog. Few souvenir sheets and back of the book. Extensive internet photos better tell the story. Clean, useful collection ready for continuation or assimilation.Cat. Value: S.B. 950
Price Realized: $600.00
462**France new issues from 2012-2013 as received in five large glassine envelopes. Includes sets, singles, and souvenir sheets as issued by the French Post Office. An opportunity to complete your modern French collection.Cat. Value: Catalog 650
Price Realized: $450.00
463**France a well organized stock of Red Cross booklets. Includes twenty-five different from four to fifty-nine of each. Starts with B385a and runs to B592a. All are sorted and identified in envelopes to make for easy processing. Everything is NH F-VF or better.Cat. Value: Catalog 3685
Price Realized: $300.00
464*oFrance remaindered collection on Scott Specialty pages to the year 2000. Almost fills a small carton. Hundreds and hundreds of stamps with an emphasis on mint complete sets from the modern era. Enormous catalog with a few better and a few more of intermediate value still in the fold. Mostly the more usually seen that now populate this holding. Great for lists or lower end set sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 400
Price Realized: $425.00