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Sale 120

APS Summer Show Omaha, Nebraska

Greece to Israel

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1474		/ Greece, Collection 1861 to 2015, nice collection in 2 Scott Specialty albums plus loose pages with only some used in the earliest period, but solid run of o.g. and n.h. from 1896 to 2015 incl. both 1896 and 1906 Olympic sets, 1900-01 surcharged Olympic set, then virtually all complete sets to the end incl. nice Back-of-Book, Mt. Athos, etc., there is a substantial cat. value here incl. much value in the new issues, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $4,000-5,000. View details and photo	Realized $4,600
Lot 1475		/o Greece, Occupations and Territories, mixed mint and used on Scott Specialty pages, incl. Corfu (cat. $4700), Turkey ($3000), Aegean Islands ($1800+), Epirus ($1100), Crete ($1800+), Thrace ($1200), and Ionian Islands ($5700), few dubious not counted, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $18,100. Estimate $3,000-3,500. View details and photo	Realized $2,875
Lot 1476		/o Greece, 1861 to 1959 Mint and Used Collection, on Scott Specialty pages, more used than mint, Hermes heads missing only 2, vast majority 4 margins, then nearly complete to 1959, incl. Airmails complete to 1952, Dues less complete, Postal Tax fairly complete, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $12,000+. Estimate $1,800-2,200. View details and photo	Realized $2,300
Lot 1477		/o Greece, Mint and Used Accumulation, starting from Hermes Heads on with considerable early period, in full banker box, on stockpages, quadrille pages, incl. shades, later mint sets, 1866-88 and later Hermes Heads used incl. strips, mint blocks of 4, on old stockcards (priced around 1994), 19th Century mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine, needs inspection. Estimate $750-1,000. View details and photo	Realized $1,093
Lot 1478		Greece, Corfu and Albania Occupation 1940-1947, 5 Mint Sets, 5 mint sets, mostly o.g., consisting of Corfu #NJ1-11 (NJ4 signed A. Diena), N15-34 (no N17), NC1-12 (NC6 signed A. Diena, Raybaudi), Albania N219-228, N229-238, Fine to Very Fine. Originally in a collection format, put into sales cards for retail but subsequently given for the auction. Estimate $700-900. View details and photo	Unsold
Lot 1479		/ Greece, Regular and Airmails Complete Sets, n.h. to o.g., to 1962 on pages, incl. #556-567 n.h., 574-581, Airs complete incl. #C8-14, dupl. sets #C1-4, 5-7, fresh, Fine to Very Fine lot. Scott #344//734, etc. Estimate $350-450. View details	Realized $374
Lot 1480		Greece, 1940-1947 Italian Occupations, n.h. or o.g. and used in sets, incl. Zante, Ionian Islands with #NC1-11, N1-17, Cerigo, Paxo, Albania, Cefalonika, Isole, very high cat. if genuine, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details and photo	Realized $2,415
Lot 1481		Hungary, 1919 Occupation Issues, mostly mint collection on black stockpages in a binder, highly complete groups of 1N's-10N's issued by French, Romanian and Serbian forces plus Szeged issues, also some 1921 West Hungary, incl. a few unlisted varieties, scarce group, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $9,600 (Owner's). Estimate $750-1,000. View details	Realized $805
Lot 1482		//o Hungary, Collection to 1970, Minkus album with early used then mint o.g. or n.h. from about 1913 with many complete sets and souvenir sheets incl. better mint items such as #462-65, B1-17, C26-34, group of 1947 Roosevelt sheets (18) incl. set of 8 mini-sheets of 4 plus another set of 8 mini-sheets with tete-beche, and other better souvenir sheets from this period along with few imperf sets and souvenir sheets, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $600-800. View details	Realized $661
Lot 1483		o Hungary, 1870's Postal Money Orders, 35 on annotated pages to and from various cities incl. some on the military front, 1871 to 1875, three with added 5k adhesive, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $100-200. View details	Unsold
Lot 1484		F Iceland, Mint and Used Collection 1873 to 1982, Collection in Davo album fairly solid from the beginning with mint #1-5, 10-14 (usual mixed condition on the early items) to modern period with most of the better items present incl. 84-85 mint, 92-98 used, 108-28 used, 140-41, 143 mint, 152-66 mint, 170-75 mint, 176-87 used, plus Airmails and nice run of Officials incl. O53-67 mint. Scott approximately $18,000. Estimate $3,000-3,500. View details	Unsold
Lot 1485		/ Iceland, 1873 to 1995 Mint Collection, in mounts in fresh Scott Specialty album, mostly o.g. early, generally n.h. from 1960's, nearly complete from 1907-08 issue on with decent showing before, also incl. Back-of-Book, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $10,000 approx. Estimate $1,200-1,500. View details and photo	Realized $805
Lot 1486		Inhambane, 1912-13 Two Postcards, 2 seldom seen picture postcards sent to U.S. and Belgium, Fine. Estimate $100-150. View details and photo	Realized $104
Lot 1487		Israel, Specialized Group, very unusual holding of over 250 n.h., items of special printing and/or limited edition mini-sheets and stamps most with serial numbers, some items less than 10 exist, huge retail value (owner paid well over $100,000) with individual items at $2000-3000 each (original invoice included), Very Fine. Estimate $8,000-10,000. View details and photo	Unsold
Lot 1488		B Israel, Mostly Complete Booklet Collection, identified, incl. Bale #SB1, B1, B2a, B3 (re-stapled), B4, 4a to 2000, incl. few later cto, etc., clean collection, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $600-800. View details and photo	Realized $460
Lot 1489		Israel, Collection 1948-1989, virtually all mint collection in a Scott Specialty album, features a few better singles with tabs #24, 27, 35-6 and 55, also incl. 1-9, 31-2 tete-beche pair plus 31-32 each in tete-beche gutter pairs and small mint and used Palestine collection 1918-45 in back of album, useful collection, generally fine to very fine or better. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $546

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