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.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1563 LITHUANIA Gardinas (Grodno) 1918 50sk surcharges on Russian Stamps, 3k-70k perforated set of eight, also 50sk on 3k red double surcharge, mostly sheet corner margin, generally n.h. blocks of four (5k lower left, others lower right), first eight showing deformed "a" in "Lietuva" (pos.24); also 50sk/1k and 50sk/5k imperforate blocks of four (top stamps h.r., bottom pairs n.h.), plus 50sk/15k imperforate horizontal top sheet margin pair (technically a block of four since complete surcharge is struck on the unprinted margin), all fine-v.f., signed Mikulski. A unique complete set of eleven blocks of four (only 20, 25 and 50 of the imperforate values were issued)  */**Catalog #L1-8,L1a,2a,4a | Unsold |
