James R. Simon Collection
June 12, 2019
The James R. Simon collection is comprised of over 600 volumes, well researched by a historian and student of philately of very diverse areas, starting with Afghanistan and Albania, continuing with extensive Austro-Hungarian Empire, impressive Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Yugoslavia, as well as Croatia, Fiume and Trieste. There are specialized collections of Honduras, Liberia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and many others. Most of the collections are offered intact and include United States & Possessions, Independent Asia, Benelux and British Commonwealth, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Italy and Italian Colonies, as well as South and Central America, Japan, Korea, Portugal and Colonies, Turkey, Uruguay and many others. Many of the collections are highly specialized and viewing is recommended, either in person (by appointment prior to the sale) or here on our website, where additional scans are added continuously.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #4315 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UKRAINE Local Issues 1992-93 Post Independence, well researched and documented collection of stamps and postal history formed by an advanced collector, housed on hundreds of pages in six very large Elbe type albums. During 1992 and 1993 (and in some instances 1994 and 1995) various cities in Ukraine found themselves short of postage stamps or stuck with unusable Soviet stamps and stationery. Overprints in Kiev, Lviv and Chernihiv were officially sanctioned, other local post offices prepared "provisional" surcharges, usually variations of Trident and applied them to Soviet regular issues and stationery. This collection includes thousands of these so-called Provisionals, with hundreds of double, inverted and generally "fantastic" items, sheets, registered covers to the United States and much more, with descriptions and useful historical data, substantial acquisition cost   **P | Unsold |
