U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 19-20, 2017

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Lot #1396
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Boy Scouts
1918-57 Worldwide Boy Scout collection of postal history, stamps and ephemera assembled by a leading collector with a discerning eye some years ago, with many better, rare and quite valuable items, Italian cover addressed to Lord & Lady Baden Powell in U.K. (he is noted as “Chief Scout”). The five albums, which constitute the heart of the collection, include stamps, occasional essays & proofs, freaks & errors, various interesting ephemera, such as souvenir booklet for 1920s International Jamboree London, scores of postal history pieces, dating all the way back to 1918, rounding out the lot are neat group of early Scout post cards (including Iceland Scouts in Denmark 1924). There are many highlights, with United States "National Jamboree" cachet from 1937, "classic issues" from France, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Netherlands, Netherlands Indies and others. There are special labels on covers and cards from Poland, Latvia, China, Japan, imperforate deluxe sheetlets from Vietnam, Telegram from Belgium, numerous
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Unsold
Lot #1397
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Boy Scouts
1918-80s Worldwide Boy Scouts, group of varieties, including Bhutan imperforate sets, Czechoslovakia Scout Mail, Djibouti imperf. Color Errors, France, Dahomey Proofs, double overprints (sheet of 25), Argentina, Togo, Mali imperforate sheets, Trucial States errors and special issues from Sharjah, commemorative cards from Brazil and much more. A wonderful group of Boy Scout thematics, with excellent selection for a specialist, substantial retail value, ex-Serebarakian
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Unsold

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