Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
January 9-10, 2024
Welcome to our January 9-10 Sale of U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History. The sale contains 1,508 lots and will be offered in four sessions, beginning with United States and U.S. Possessions. Worldwide sections include France, Germany, Italian Area, with many individual rarities. British Commonwealth, with a further selection of G.R.I. errors and varieties. There are solid selections from rest of the world, with additional items from the Carl A. Kilgas and Martin Stempien estates, plus nearly 200 Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized holdings and featuring a comprehensive collection of British Commonwealth (estimated to realize $100,000), multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1479 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1850-1925 large collection of many hundreds in three old Scott International albums (brown), strength in Central and South America, Europe and Colonies, British Commonwealth, Asian countries, many classic issues, some better, Hawaii, German Colonies, Monaco, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, some United States, including Revenues, plus many others, mixed condition, useful and potentially rewarding collection *O | Price Realized $5,000.00 |
 | Lot #1480 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1850-1970 dealer's accumulation on over 620 cards, all catalogued and priced by Scott, with Austria, Barbados, Belgian Congo, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Cuba, France, Italy, Mongolia, North Borneo, Poland, Turkey, United States, Uruguay and more, both used and mint, mixed condition with some faults noted, generally fine and useful lot, ready for immediate resale, owner's cat. $20,000 *O | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1481 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1850-1974 balance of a consignment, United States 1902 Special Delivery 10c, 1873 Officials, Justice 10c unused, Austria Lombardy Venezia 1850 Arms, 5c single on piece and a horizontal pair, 10c black, plus 15c, 30c and 45c multiple examples with nice cancelations, 1863 perf.14 3s green, pair on piece, 1864-65 perf. 9 1/2 15s, plus others, Azerbaijan 1919-23 unused and used, including surcharges, Armenia 1921-22 overprints, some better, including varieties, Belgium 1893 values to 1fr orange, Iran 1924-25 Ahmed Mirza 1ch, 6ch, 9ch, 1kr- 30kr, ten values in n.h. blocks of six (cat. $1,146), Iraq Revenues 1919 surcharges, some inverted, Finland 1866-67 1m brown (cat. $850), Tibet selection of 10 covers, various franking, some in combination with India, Sweden 1920 yellow, surcharge inverted (C2a, $1,100), Switzerland 1945 Pax set, with high values, also various covers and FDCs, autographed by famous people including Eisenhower, Yitzhak Rabin, Adlai Stevenson, Donald Rumsfeld, George Wallace, etc.  *O | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1482 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1851-2008 Western Europe, collection in stock books, Austria, including some early issues, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Military Issues, Liechtenstein, Italy and Switzerland, Regular Issues, Semi-Postals from each of the countries, also Officials, especially from Switzerland, Postage Dues, souvenir sheets and more, mixed condition, high catalogue value *O | Price Realized $1,800.00 |
 | Lot #1483 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1862-2007 balance of a consignment, with collections in 20+ large stock books, Afghanistan, Greece (2) with used and unused 19th Century, some better semi-modern sets and mostly complete from 1960s-2007, with occasional Occupation issues and back of book; Turkey (2), used and unused with occasional better items, back of book, etc., Korea, Lebanon, India, Russia, with Imperial and early Soviet, mostly used, also Civil War overprints, some Tannu Touva, including 5 large covers franked with Zeppelin and Triangles, sent to New York and Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, including Semi-Postal overprints, Baltic Countries (2) with Estonia, Latvia, Central Lithuania used and unused to 1939 and issues to 1998, also Hungary, with better souvenir sheets, Romania, post 1990 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Moldova, plus additional collections of Cuba, Colombia and Peru, as well as a box with uncounted FDCs, Revenues, German Inflation sheets and much more *O | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1484 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1865-1960 balance of a consignment in carton, stock books with United States, Japan, with Regular issues and used high values, some commemoratives, also Hong Kong, China, occasional Great Britain, India, Revenues, U.S. Plate Blocks and a few sheets, mixed condition *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #1485 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1890-1900 American Bank Note Company presentation album containing 133 plate proofs on card or india of issued stamps and fiscals, mostly United States and Canada (including Jubilees), Newfoundland, South American Countries, Brazil, etc., mounted on pages, with Columbian 1c-$5 complete set of india proofs (faulty), the actual page removed, also two other U.S. proofs missing, otherwise fine-v.f., occasional toned spots, with Italian "Nostre di Stampa Sottemesse Dalla American Bank Note Co. A Favore Della Proposta Italian Bank Note Co." gold embossed letters on front cover. This was a sample book prepared by the ABNCo to show the Italian government and to establish a branch office in Rome to eventually print Italian stamps. The project never came to fruition and this album is a wonderful historical document of "what could have been" P | Unsold |
| Lot #1486 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1900-1960 U.S. and foreign, balance of a consignment in carton, stock books and covers, postal stationery, U.S. sheets, Germany (few sets and better covers), British Commonwealth, Turkey with interesting cancellations, United Nations collection in a Lighthouse album, etc. *O | Price Realized $900.00 | |
 | Lot #1487 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1920s-50s Asia, accumulation of singles, sets and souvenir sheets, including Mongolia, Laos, with imperforate Malaria set of three and souvenir sheet, other imperforate sheetlets of four and booklets, also Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, etc., some faults noted, mostly fine or better *O | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1488 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1951-1998 Asia, balance of a consignment, with collections in 6 large stock books, Mongolia from 1951, with some singles, then mostly complete sets and souvenir sheets to 1978; impressive showing of Bhutan, with many 3-D and similarly exotic stamps and souvenir sheets; mostly complete collection of Indonesia 1955-1998 and a splendid showing of Thailand (2) with some early issues used, occasional better sets and mostly complete from 1960s, with special sheetlets, booklets, etc. In addition, there is a substantial collection of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, with all better items, scarce booklets, fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #1489 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 1960s-2000 Independent Africa, collection of many thousands in 10 stock books, mostly complete sets and souvenir sheets, Burundi with perf. and imperf., many high catalogue value sets (589-601, $1,287), various others (high catalogue value), plus Algeria through Zaire, with Angola, Benin, Nigeria, Somalia, Guinea, Niger, Mali, also collections of Ethiopia, with some older issues, Chad, Gabon, also Libya and many others, as well as mostly complete Dubai and Yemen. A large collection of Independent Nations of Africa, with many colorful topicals, fine-v.f., high catalogue value  */** | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1490 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS Worldwide 2009-2012 New Issues, mostly in original packaging (purchased from Kent-Research), covering Western European countries, Asia (including China PRC, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan), France and French Antarctic Territories, Andorra, Great Britain and British Commonwealth (including Australia and Canada), also Israel, with all special issues, booklets, sheetlets, etc. A large holding, housed in three cartons (banker's boxes), acquisition cost $10,000+ ** | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
