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Public Auction #440

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COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — Switzerland
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
573O*Choice dealer’s stock of Switzerland in five binders. Primarily pre-1950 singles and sets (no short sets). Includes a variety of definitives and commemoratives, as well as BOB. All items housed in clean salespages and neatly identified by Scott catalogue number and value. Minimal duplication. Ready for a new home and perfect for immediate retail sale.Cat. Value: S.B. 2400.00
Price Realized: $2,900.00
574O*Outstanding Switzerland collection from the Federal Administration period to around 1975 mounted in 3 clean homemade albums and a stockbook. Mainly used through 1862, then becomes mint with many elusive stamps. Strong seated and standing Helvetia with exceptional centering. No Cantons, but almost complete back of the book. Pretty PAX set and fairly complete semipostals. The souvenir sheets are not yet mounted but appear in the stockbook (NABA sheet x 3, etc.). Rounding out the lot are two pizza sized boxes of fairly "run of the mill" covers to add to the value. Take a good long look.Cat. Value: S.B. 1700.00
Price Realized: $4,000.00
575**No muss, no fuss collection of Swiss contemporary stamps, 1958-1999. Mounted on hingeless Safe pages and housed in two sturdy binders. Covers all stamps of the period, excluding officials. MNH, F-VF. Highlights include Scott #376-377, 406-409, and B297. Many stamps are still valid for postage. Packed with singles and sets featuring award-winning designs and topical appeal. Perfect for filling in gaps in a Swiss collection or adding to a dealer’s stock of the country.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $325.00
576O*CVCollection in a Scott Specialty album from 1850 to 1971 from the Belgian in the Carolinas estate. Comprises hundreds and hundreds of mixed mint and used stamps in full, partial set, singles, and souvenir sheets. Also includes some postal history scattered on pages. Probing might find cancellations, color, shade, and perforate varieties. A holding that might make you start to yodel.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $475.00
577O*CVCompact Swiss airmail collection/accumulation from # C1-C46. Mint and used examples of most. Includes: mint C1 x 2, mint and used C2, and 17 illustrative covers, six of which are Zeppelin flights. Easy lot to figure.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $550.00