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 #2117
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS - Hawkins Collection ITALIAN COLONIES
1895-1940 advanced collection in four Marini hingeless albums, with Aegean Islands, Italian East Africa, Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Libya, Oltre Giuba, Somalia, Tripolitania, with regular issues, Air Post, Postage Dues, Parcel Post, Vaglia and more, practically complete (missing only "Coronchina Servizio di Stato" and a few others), with dozens of better items, errors and varieties (inverted and double overprints, part perf. and others), l.h. or n.h., mostly fine-v.f., many signed by Italian experts, with few certificates included. A nice and clean collection of Italian Colonies, seldom offered in such a degree of completeness, huge catalogue value
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Price Realized
$24,000.00

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