U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
February 1-2, 2022
We are pleased to present our February 1-2 sale featuring the collections formed by Clive Metcalfe, Dr.M.K. Blumenthal and other prominent collectors. This 1,307 lot auction begins with United States and Possessions, including 19th and 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of book material. The Foreign section includes a collection of Large Dragons of Shanghai, as well as strong sections of France and Colonies, Germany and British Commonwealth. On the second day of the sale we are pleased to offer an outstanding collection of Persia and Iran, with certified rarities. This will be followed by Japanese Postal History, featuring rare covers, many not seen for decades. The sale concludes with Large Lots and Collections, with hundreds of albums ranging from single country to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and excellent cover lots. Scans of most of the lots are available on our website and additional scans are being added daily.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1181 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GUATEMALA 1845-1970 Specialized collection in two well-filled albums, one dedicated exclusively to the Provisional Surcharges beginning with 1881, showing overprint varieties such as double, shifted, inverted (including 4x1886 1c on 2c strips of five with surcharge inverted), various positions, multiples, cancels, all noted on pages; another album with 20+ stampless covers, 1871 Issue including imperfs (1c blocks of 10 and 61), 20c blue error of color (unused), various cancelations, 1873 16x4r and 6x1p dull yellow (all used), Indian Woman selection of cancels and plate varieties, trial color proofs, Quetzals with multiples, cancels, fairly extensive 1886 through the 1930s including pages from 1897 souvenir booklet, Semi-Postals, Air Post, Officials, Postal Tax, etc., also 35+ covers, some reference material noted, mostly fine-v.f. An excellent collection of Guatemala   *O | Unsold |
