Carl Kilgas Collection of China Part II
August 23-24, 2023
We are proud to present Part II of the Carl A. Kilgas collection of China, with 762 lots to be sold on August 23-24, 2023 at 10:00 A.M. each day, at our Teaneck, New Jersey Galleries.
Mr. Kilgas authored a number of articles for the China Clipper from 1976 to 1985. As a member of the Collector's Club of New York, he presented in the CCNY journal, outlining China's postal history, with illustrations of stamps and covers of from his own collection to tell the story. In 1984, he was selected to lend some of his rarities to the 1984 ROCPEX exhibition in Taipei. Carl's few proteges who are still alive (the youngest of whom is now 73) remember him as a very private person, who was embarrassed that his collection had become legendary. He was regarded by his peers as an expert in Chinese Philately. Almost forty years later, we continue to offer selections from Carl's extensive holding of his Large and Small Dragons, Dowagers, Chinese Imperial Post Coiling Dragons, Republic and Nationalist Issues, as well as Japanese Occupation and selection of Alien Offices. All of the collecting areas of the Kilgas collection contain important items, including some that have never been listed, even in specialized catalogues. Many of these "new discoveries" have in fact been hibernating in this collection for over 80 years, mounted on personalized type-written pages, with minimal annotations in pencil.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #4706 CHINA Meng Chiang 1941 5c Dah Tung SYS, watermarked with small type I overprint (Ma unlisted), unused, one pulled perf. at lower left and some gum toning, otherwise sound and fine (*) | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #4707 CHINA Meng Chiang 1942 10c on 20c HK Martyr, watermarked (Ma unlisted), unused, fresh and v.f. (*) | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #4708 CHINA Meng Chiang 1942 Half-Value $1 on $1 Chung Hwa SYS Die I (Ma NC750), unused without gum as issued, v.f., (*) Catalog #2N66b Catalog Value $ 660 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4709 CHINA Meng Chiang 1943 Post Office Fifth Anniversary set (Ma NC800-801) imperf. horizontal pairs on ungummed watermarked paper, v.f. (*) Catalog #2N94-95var | Unsold |
 | Lot #4710 CHINA Meng Chiang 1944 (ca) Five Pagodas Temple, master die essay (18x22mm), value tablets and inscriptions blank, engraved in sepia, on bond paper (43x31mm), v.f., with 2023 Frumkin certificate P | Unsold |
 | Lot #4711 CHINA Meng Chiang 1944 (ca) Five Pagodas Temple, 3c Die Proof with inscriptions mostly filled-in (19x23mm) photo-lithographed in reddish-brown on bond paper (79x96mm), v.f., extremely rare, with 2023 Frumkin certificate P | Unsold |
 | Lot #4712 CHINA Meng Chiang 1944 (ca) Mongol Princes Residence, large master die proof in blue, value tablets blank (18x22mm) die sunk on card (95x117mm), v.f., extremely rare, with 2023 Frumkin certificate (Mengjiang, was an autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being under the nominal sovereignty of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, also a puppet state. It has also been called Mongukuo, an analogy to Manchukuo, with the capital in Kalgan under the nominal rule of Mongol nobleman Demchugdongrub. The territory returned to Chinese control after the defeat of the Japanese Empire in 1945) P | Unsold |
 | Lot #4713 CHINA Meng Chiang 1945 unissued Kalgan Martyrs & SYS series, all-different, selection of 10 perforated singles, 5 imperf. horizontal pairs, also $20 imperforate single on unwatermarked ungummed wove paper with impressions of 20c & $20 on reverse, fine-v.f. (*) | Unsold |
 | Lot #4714 CHINA Meng Chiang 1945 1c on Half-Value 1/2c on 1c HK Martyr (Ma NC1051), a great rarity, dull gum as always, h.r., fresh and well centered, v.f., with 2023 Frumkin certificate * | Price Realized $575.00 |
