Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World; Hawkins II - European Colonies
May 12-13, 2020

Our May 12, 2020 sale was prepared in anticipation of London 2020 World Stamp Exhibition. While the show has been rescheduled, this auction will take place as scheduled. There is an important collection of Great Britain and British Commonwealth, with many individual Colonies offered intact. In addition, there are hundreds of better individual lots of Inverted Centers of the World, French Colonies Postal History selection from the Lorenz correspondence to Trieste, excellent range of European countries, with Italy and Colonies, especially Fezzan, Poland, Russia, as well as rarities from Japan, Korea and more. There are many attractive and substantial Large Lots and Collections, often fully scanned.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1004
ARGENTINA
1910 Centenary of the Republic, 1/2c black & gray, 1c blue green & black, 2c olive & gray, 4c dark blue & green, 12c bright blue, 50c carmine & black, also 5p orange & violet, seven different, each with center inverted, well centered, generally lightly hinged, fresh, few pencil or Champion signed, v.f. This is the complete set of inverted centers from this issue, each in unusually nice condition (most of these errors were recovered from printer's waste and are usually "crumpled") (YT 148/61var, €6,300)
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Catalog #160a/173a
Catalog Value $6,200
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