Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
January 14-15, 2020

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #426
FRANCE
1849 40c orange, Type II ("4" retouched) horizontal pair, splendid color, grid cancels, expertly repaired (margins added at right and bottom), fine appearing example of this extraordinary rarity, with 2002 Roger Calves and 2017 Calves & Jacquart certificates (YT 5f, Maury 5g, €68,500)
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Catalog #7f
Catalog Value $42,000
Price Realized
$2,500.00

Lot #427
FRANCE
1850 40c orange, horizontal pair Types I+II, light grid cancel, margins all around, showing part of red arrival pmk at upper right, horizontal crease, bright color and fine appearance, signed Maury, Calves, also with 2017 Calves & Jacquart certificate (YT 5e, €13,000)
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Catalog #7c
Catalog Value $12,500
Unsold
Lot #428
FRANCE
1853 1fr deep lake, light postmark, margins all around, canceled on piece, v.f., signed Calves, Buhler, etc., with 1998 Soluphil certificate (YT 18a, €4,500)
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Catalog #21c
Catalog Value $3,400
Unsold
Lot #429
FRANCE
1862 15c green, Re-Issue, h.r., large margins all around, beautiful color, fresh and v.f., pencil signed (YT 2e, €850)
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Catalog #2d
Catalog Value $560
Unsold
Lot #430
FRANCE
1862 Re-issue, 15c bright green, unused large part original gum, h.r., v.f., with 2016 Sismondo certificate
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Catalog #2d
Unsold
Lot #431
FRANCE
1862 1fr deep lake, Re-Issue, h.r., margins all around, splendid color, with handstamped initials, v.f., with APS and Calves & Jacquard 2017 certificates (YT 18d, €2,400)
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Catalog #21c
Catalog Value $1,500
Price Realized
$750.00

Lot #432
FRANCE
1871 10f on 10c bister, unused without gum, good color, fine, signed Brun (catalogued as unused without gum)
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Catalog #49
Catalog Value $700
Price Realized
$280.00

Lot #433
FRANCE
1924 Paris Olympic Games complete set with complete set, First and Last Day of Games, Olympic Village datestamps on coverfront, also straight-line "Colombes-Village Olympique" and "Colombes-Stade Olympique" handstamps and further square "Jeux/ Olympiques Ma a Juillet/1924", also smaller two-line "Colombes/Olympique" handstamps, vertical folds away from stamps, still very fine and rare, a key item to an Olympic Games collection
Catalog #198-201
Price Realized
$800.00

Lot #434
FRANCE
1924 Olympics imperforate deluxe sheetlet, mounted on cardboard due to its delicate nature, some creases and somewhat reduced in size, quite fresh overall, unusual to find intact, a rare key Olympic Games item, fine-very fine, signed Calves, Maury
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Catalog #198-201P
Catalog Value €5,850
Unsold
Lot #435
FRANCE
1937 Pexip Exhibition, five souvenir sheets of four, hinged in margin, one with some black album page offsets, stamps mostly n.h., fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #329
Catalog Value $1,800
Price Realized
$250.00

Lot #436
FRANCE
1942 International Exposition "Le Bolschevisme Contre L'Europe" two leaflets, one showing Marshal Petain shaking hands with Hitler, with French stamps canceled by the Exhibition pmks
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #437
FRANCE
1949-64 Centenary of the first French Postage Stamp, se-tenant sheet of 40, also two sheets of 10, n.h., folded between stamps, one with various First Day cancels, plus PHILATEC sheet of eight, n.h., v.f.,
Box **O
Catalog #615a,624a,1100
Catalog Value $1,440
Unsold
Lot #438
FRANCE
1988 Thermal Sprints, 2.20fr error, inscriptions red instead of blue, n.h., v.f., with Calves & Jacquart certificate (YT 3556a)
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Catalog #2136var
Unsold

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