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Foreign General Collections

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 2189		/o Foreign Collections, Mostly 20th Century Dealer "Want to Be" Stock, In 13 boxes in about 60 three ring binders sorted and identified, no heavy dupl. to 1970s, strength in Europe with France cat. $13,000, Belgium cat. $7200, Italy $6200, Germany separate lot, incl. additional loose material and on pages not counted, no heavy dupl., scattered 19th Century faulty cat. reduced (sometimes drastically) to take into account condition, cat. to $300++, very few questionable, generally Fine to Very Fine. 2011 Scott $73,000+ (Owner's). Estimate $8,000-10,000. View details	Unsold
Lot 2190		/o Foreign Collections, Dealer's "Want-to-Be" Retail Stock, In 70 binders on Harco or Hobby sales pages, old pricing, countries incl. Japan (2 vol.-cat. $1600), France (3-cat. $5625), Belgium (cat. $3900), Greece (2-cat. $2800), Germany (7-cat. $9900+), cat. few dollars to $200++, complete sets and individual values, some 19th Century but no expensive "sliders", higher cat. for some for 2012, 19th Century mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine. 2011 Scott $54,575+ (Owner's). Estimate $6,000-8,000. View details	Realized $6,900
Lot 2191		/ Foreign Collections, Western European Stock, Dealer stock of France, Italy and Portugal and their Cols., very clean, virtually no dupl., lots of mint sets and singles, many n.h., cat. value (as per tapes in each box) is France & Cols. $17,012, Italy & Cols. $7,232, Portugal & Cols. $2,447, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $26,656 (Owner's). Estimate $5,000-5,500. View details	Realized $4,140
Lot 2192		o Foreign Collections, 3 Volume Scandinavia Used Collection, on blank pages to 1975, separate volume for Norway starting #1, mostly complete used to 1967, mint after that, incl. back of the book, Sweden (weakest) with Gustav coils, later booklets, Finland with excellent early "teeth" issues, #176FK imperf pair, Semis complete mostly mint, Greenland complete mint or used, Iceland complete except #4, 33, 33A, 53, 56-57, 60-64, 65C, and incl. #30 used, few dups, later complete sets mint, missing few Airs, Officials complete mint or used except #O1, 1930 set complete mint, 19th Century slightly mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine, fresh throughout with only occasional fault, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $4,000-6,000. View details and photo	Realized $3,565
Lot 2193		/o Foreign Collections, Mint and Used Oldtime Stock, in 66 binders to n.h. 1980s, and two 20th Century mostly mint oversized folders incl. booklets, souvenir sheets, Germany and France separate lots, mint and used, old pricing, strength in Europe and Scandinavia, also Japan, UN in 7 binders, Spain, Greece, and Russia in 3 binders, complete and incomplete sets, retail pricing to $65+, classics mostly used, 19th Century mixed condition, 20th mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $2,500-3,500. View details	Realized $3,565
Lot 2194		/o Foreign Collections, Oldtime South America Collection, hundreds of mint and used to 1920s in homemade album (no Bolivia, Colombia or Venezuela), value in extensive showing of classics with dupl. for shades and cancels to early 1900s, Argentina incl. Buenos Aires issues (some look genuine!), #8-9 used, Brazil used incl. #1-3 fine impression, 1a-2a intermediate impression, 12-13, back of the book, early Chile used, 83-97, 98-112 mint, and Uruguay with 7-12 used, lovely oldtime collection, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $2,500-3,000. View details and photo	Realized $3,450
Lot 2195		//o Foreign Collections, Group of Better European Mint, n.h. to l.h., plus a few used, noted Vatican #19-34, E3-4 n.h. (1lire l.h.), Spain C123-124 n.h., Switzerland 244-246, 293-305, B145 n.h., Sweden 227 used, Italy QY5-11 n.h., C42-47 n.h., Germany B49-57 (20pf is B55a) n.h., Württemberg 8N28-37 used, Denmark C1-5 l.h./n.h., Greece 556-567, C5-7 n.h. and Austria C54-60 n.h., couple not counted (Bavaria #1 used, Roman States #11 used), great group for stock, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $2,000-2,300. View details	Realized $2,645
Lot 2196		/o Foreign Collections, Accumulation in 4 Banker Boxes, thousands of mint and used on album pages, in albums, on stockpages and in glassines, strength in Europe, noted better Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, also Latin America, dupl., great lot for breakdown, needs a close look, mixed condition. Estimate $1,500-2,000. View details	Realized $1,610
Lot 2197		Foreign Collections, Scandinavia 1940s to Modern, n.h., incl. Faroes with #2, 6 o.g., 1970s-80s year sets (cat. $464+), Norway 1940s and later sets (cat. $1400+), Semi-postal sets (cat. $440), Aland (cat. $652), Finland 1980s-90s year sets (cat. $600+), modern new issues (cat. $1300+), slight dupl., Finland modern booklets (cat. $580), clean, Fine to Very Fine. Scott $6,360+. Estimate $1,200-1,500. View details	Realized $1,150
Lot 2198		/o Foreign Collections, Mostly 20th Century Retail Group, Hundreds in 12 priced binders, strength in Europe with mostly 1940s and later complete sets incl. Spain, Netherlands, some heavy dupl. on cheap values, few questionable earlier, Fine to Very Fine overall. Scott $12,000 (cat./retail) (Owner's). Estimate $1,200-1,400. View details	Realized $1,150
Lot 2199		/ Foreign Collections, Group of Better Mint Sets, mostly n.h., some with light to moderate tone lines on reverse (mostly Italy), noted Belgium #B256-263 n.h., Liechtenstein 130 n.h., Greece C22-30 n.h. (2), Italy 324-328 l.h., 345-348 n.h. (2), 349-354, C79-83 n.h. (2) and San Marino 181-184 n.h., inspect, Fine to Very Fine appearance. Scott $4,000+. Estimate $600-700. View details and photo	Realized $834
Lot 2200		/o Foreign Collections, Scandinavia Accumulation, hundreds of mint and used on album pages and in albums, noted groups of Sweden on pages, collections in Scott specialty album and Lighthouse albums (3) with value in Denmark, inspect, mixed condition. Estimate $500-700. View details	Realized $460
Lot 2201		o Foreign Collections, Latin America Kiloware Lot, tens of thousands of on paper mix filling numerous small boxes in 4 large boxes, mostly 1960s to 1980s, nice variety of countries (no Mexico) and issues, sorted by country, several months of fun here! Estimate $600-800. View details	Realized $604
Lot 2202		/o Foreign Collections, Scandinavia Collections, 19th & 20th Century mint and used in 2 albums, 2 stockbooks and album pages, also stockbook with Switzerland all in large box, better items throughout, review recommended, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $345
Lot 2203		/o Foreign Collections, Europe Mint or Used Collection, thousands in unidentified album on quadrille pages, H-Z to 1950s, incl. classics, etc., nothing expensive but interesting, generally Fine. Estimate $400-600. View details	Realized $374
Lot 2204		/o Foreign Collections, Japan and Manchukuo Interesting Accumulation, Mint and used, incl. early Manchukuo album, carefully filled by meticulous collector, also stockbook with Japan, featuring some better issues, also plastic bag filled with hundreds of early issues and other modern items, worthwhile group, careful inspection recommended, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $350-500. View details	Realized $719
Lot 2205		/o Foreign Collections, Faroe Island, Greenland and Iceland Selection, incl. Faroes #1, 6 used, Greenland 19-21 o.g., Iceland 195-98 n.h., 273 n.h., C9-11 o.g., inspect, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details and photo	Realized $460
Lot 2206		/ Foreign Collections, Mostly New Issues, From 1960s, many hundreds of sets incl. Greece sorted in glassines with dupl., balance unsorted worldwide, few incomplete sets, needs inspection, clean, Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $265
Lot 2207		/ Foreign Collections, Bavaria and Montenegro Mint Postal Stationery, both collections mounted and written up on lovely homemade pages, 34 mint pieces from Montenegro and 33 mostly mint from Bavaria incl. commemorative items, all appear different, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $75-100. View details	Realized $75
Lot 2208		o Foreign Collections, Latin America Accumulation, Thousands of mostly used 20th Century on homemade album pages separated by country in file folders in a banker box incl. Brazil, Columbia, Bolivia, Chile and others, mixed condition. Estimate $100-200. View details	Realized $207

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