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Sale 62

June 2004 Worldwide Philatelic Auction

Foreign Country Collections - German Area

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1686		/o German Area: Powerful and Extensive Collection to 1968, Thousands of mint and used in Scott albums, Empire and Third Reich virtually complete. (no inflation issues), including #1-11 used, 22 mint, 25, 28 used, #310 on o.g. (few n.h. and used), pages of booklet panes and zusammendrucke, varieties including Michel #85 IIA o.g., few covers including. 1820?s to 1865 (31) stampless, 1948 "unauthorized overprints" and inverted overprints, Building set with varieties including imperf. and double overprints, West Germany mix of n.h., o.g. and used including Posthorn set o.g., booklet panes including. #671a, 675a (2 each n.h.), coil strips, fluorescent paper blocks n.h., Zusammendrucke, Semi?s o.g. or n.h. (#B68 used) only missing #B58, extensive booklet panes and Zusammendrucke, few covers, Airs complete including Zeppelins and 1912 Semi-official issues and cards, Occupation issues, Berlin o.g. to n.h. (red overprint. set used), coils, booklet panes, few covers and First Day cards, D.D.R. complete including. souvenir sheets (#10B11 used), extensive States including separate book for Bavaria, Baden and Oldenburg complete, Colonies including Caroline Is. 1-6 o.g., 9a on piece, Morocco 19A o.g., 20-32 used (29 mint), 34-44 used (42 mint), Offices in Turkey 24 mint, 29 used, etc., overall fine. Estimate $12,000-15,000. View details	Realized $18,400
Lot 1687		/o German Area: Extensive Collection in 5 Volumes, Thousands of mint and used to 1990 in Scott specialty albums, better items throughout, with duplication for mint and used on many issues, mid 1960's on much n.h., Empire with better classics, Semi's and Airs, Third Reich with better Semi's, West Germany, Berlin including red overprint set mint, #9N33 used with GPS cert., 9NB1-3 n.h., D.D.R. including Mao set o.g., better souvenir sheets, Occupation issues including #10NB11 n.h. and used, various Zones, Colonies, States, W.W.I and W.W.II issues, must be seen to appreciate, few faulty, but overall fresh and fine. Estimate $5,000-6,000. View details	Realized $6,900
Lot 1688		/o German Area: Empire Collection to 1945, In Lighthouse album, starting with small shields mint and mostly used, including Michel #11 on piece, #24 used (fine appearance), 1889 issue with shades, 50pf gutter pair used, 1900 pfg. issue mint, mark values used, 1902 issue mint, 1905-13 including #87 Id, Bavaria 1920 issue with #138 II, inflation mint and used (some expertised), #176B mint, many Michel shades, blocks, plate flaws, #332a pair on piece, also booklet panes, Zusammendrucke, etc., perfins, #351-54 on Zeppelin flight, no Zepps, Officials with control numbers used (few expertised), 1933 Nothilfe set used, 1936 and later souvenir sheets, 1930?s and later virtually complete including. used, few covers, propaganda, Hitler including. mint multiples, etc., while no rarities, attractive collection formulated over many years with many interesting vars., cancels, excellent lot for expansion. Estimate $5,000-6,000. View details	Unsold
Lot 1689		/o German Area: Plebiscite, Colonies & Offices Collection, Extensive collection in Scott album, mint and used (considerable duplication used) with Allenstein, Belgian Occupation with covers, Flemish Legion, yachts to 5m mint and used, Danzig with Airs (Michel #202-06, 231-35 n.h.) and Dues, Occupation including Leibach (with Italian Occupation), Marienwerder, Memel, Poland, Serbia (Occupation), Upper Silesia, used Colonies not checked for better towns, attractive collection with many printing vars., mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $3,000-3,500. View details	Realized $3,335
Lot 1690		B/ German Area: Empire to Third Reich Booklet and Pane Collection, Panes n.h. to o.g., identified group starting at Michel HB#1 including HB9, HB13 also complete booklets including MH12, 13, 15, 26 (cat. €800), 35 (cat. €640), minor duplication, overall very clean and high cat., fine to very fine. Estimate $2,500-3,000. View details	Realized $2,875
Lot 1691		/o German Area: Extensive Collection to 1940, 2100+ different. used and mint in Scott specialty album, substantially complete for period, Semi's are complete except B33 (has B33a-d used), B58 (has B58a-d n.h. singles) and B68 (has B68a-d used), few Airs, Back of the Book including #OL16-21 mint, not many States except Bavaria with some better items, many noted counted including all Heligoland, Saar has Semi?s complete mint except #B15, condition much better than usually seen, overall fine to very fine. Estimate $2,000-2,500. View details	Realized $2,300
Lot 1692		/ German Area: Semi-Official, Airpost and Private Air Collection, On pages, Semi-Officials 1912 to 1924 including Michel #4, also #I-IV plus postcards (#II-IV) with various dates, Bavaria F1 o.g., SFP1 (2) used with Munich cancels, Private including Schaufliegen Feb. 5th 1919 Berlin-Weimar flight, adhesives including 1918 issue on, including regular. commercial, used sets, 1923 overprints for the International Stamp Dealer?s Convention 10pf, 40pf on cover and 2m mint, 1924 set complete l.h. to o.g. plus #344Y, also set used, stationery pieces used, #378-84 plus Markenheftchen, Zepps complete except #496, also some used on pieces, Catapult flights including Columbus, Bremen, Europa, 1934 set with #539y (Cat. €400), 1936 Issue including. mint blocks, Bundepost 1955 set, also 1942 Military including covers, Balloon covers, etc., very attractive, rarely seen this extensive. Estimate $2,000-2,500. View details	Realized $3,105
Lot 1693		/o German Area: Collection in Scott Specialty Albums, Few thousand mint and used in 2 volumes to 1959, Empire and Third Reich a mix of mint and used, value in 1950's n.h. West Germany, Berlin and D.D.R. including Posthorn set, Semi's, #9NB1-3, 9NB3a, Mao set, etc., Airs including #C39 o.g., C45 used, few Colonies, States including nice Bavaria, and Occupations, mixed condition on classics, 20th Century generally fine to very fine. Estimate $1,800-2,200. View details	Realized $2,990
Lot 1694		/o German States: Mint and Used Collection, All represented including some expertised (including German), including shades, duplication, Baden mostly complete with #1a (APS cert. but faults), #22b (APS cert-repaired), cogwheel cancels, earlies mostly used, later mint and used, Bavaria with expensive values, 1920 surcharge with Michel vars., Officials, Thurn & Taxis with Michel #18-19 with APS certs. (faults), Hanover, Heligoland, Prussia virtually complete, Saxony issues mostly complete, Württemburg with various shades, Officials, usual mixed condition on earlies but quite extensive and attractive for all of it?s vars., also group of 10 items with APS certs. (faults), high cat. Estimate $1,500-1,800. View details	Realized $2,128
Lot 1695		/o German Area: Massive States Used and Mint Collection, Over 5000 stamps on Hagner pages in 12 binders, including a few covers, some Revenues and reprints with cat. values to several hundred dollars each, usual mixed condition, but including some nice copies, average to fine, unusual opportunity to obtain an interesting intact collection. Estimate $1,500-2,000. View details	Realized $3,450
Lot 1696		/o German Area: Saar and Saarland Specialized Collection, On pages mint and used in album, 1920 overprints including listed overprint vars., color shades, 1922 plate vars. including Michel #89 III, 89 VI, 100 VI, strong Semis with mint complete sets including #104-07 n.h. and used, 135-41 used, 199-205 used, Airs complete mint with duplication. used including #255-59ZS, Block #1-2 (small faults), 291 n.h. and used, 298 l.h. and used, few Saarland covers, also 1957 Bundepost Saarland issue, including. many cancels, perfins, many items in the Cat. €10-40 range, very interesting collection, rarely seen this complete, mostly clean and fine to very fine, excellent lot. Estimate $1,400-1,800. View details	Realized $1,265
Lot 1697		/o/ German Area: Berlin Mint and Used, Cover Collection, To 1971 in Lighthouse album, including overprints duplication complete, n.h., also used set in red (some values signed), used on covers, most sets complete mint and/or used, stationery in overprints, Bells, FD's, virtually complete, few minor faults, mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $1,400-1,800. View details	Realized $1,208
Lot 1698		/o German Area: "Zusammendrucke" Collection, Hundreds of mostly used organized and identified in binder, minor duplication, usually for mint and used, Empire, Third Reich and early West Germany, plus some on cover, many diff. positions, several better items including Michel #R10a (cat. €450) and R25s (cat. €700) both used, clean, overall fine to very fine. Owners cat. Dm16,000 plus $600. Estimate $1,300-1,500. View details	Realized $1,668
Lot 1699		/o German Area: Extensive Collector's Backup Accumulation, Incl all areas, few German States, mint or used, many thousands in stockbooks, three ring binders, etc., including Zones, HOPS, inflation with sheets, 20th Century Bavaria, Saar, D.D.R., Berlin, Buildings, Italian AMG, etc., needs inspection for varieties, etc., mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $1,400-1,800. View details	Realized $1,208
Lot 1700		/o German Area: States, Empire, and Colonies Mint and Used Collection, To 1972 in somewhat battered Minkus album, all areas reasonably full, better 20th Century empire with souvenir sheets, Zussamundrucke, also Zones, Plebiscites, etc., 19th Century mixed condition, 20th generally fine to very fine. Estimate $1,000-1,200. View details	Realized $1,035
Lot 1701		/ German Area: Occupation Mint Collection, W.W.I and W.W.II mint on homemade pages, reasonably complete including Albania 1943 mint set, 1870 Alsace & Lorraine, few covers including 1944 Belgium-Flemmish Legion and sheets of 4 (Cat. €400), perforated sets (Cat. €570), Channel Islands with bisects on covers, 1918 Estonia with stationery, Laibach #1-19 signed, 29- 60, Kotor #1, 4 signed, 3Y with cert., Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland 1918 mint and used, and mint 1940?s including sheets, #125 perf and imperf, Danzig, Port Gdansk signed, Romania with fiscals, Pleskau with paper vars., private proofs, Serbia with souvenir sheets, cross gutter, Zante, etc., very clean extensive collection of this popular area. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details	Realized $2,760
Lot 1702		/o German Area: Extensive Zone Collection, Many hundreds mint and used on pages with many Michel vars., Allied Zone with many covers including censored with Michel #961, regular., commercial, also #963 IV used, American & British Zone with various papers, 1948 issue with commercial mail, blocks mint and used, inverted overprints, buildings with part perfs, imperf, printed on reverse, comb perfs, perf 14 complete, many issues with duplicated mint and used, Flugpost, French Zone with #1-7 imperf, used, Baden issue with various papers, 1949 mint and used including. blocks, extensive coverage of various plebiscites with #28-37 n.h. and used, #40-43A n.h., overall very clean and fine to very fine. Estimate $1,000-1,200. View details	Realized $1,323
Lot 1703		/o German Area: Soviet Zone Collection, Hundreds in oldtime Schaubek album, mostly mint, including city issues, overprints on Hitler heads, HOPS (Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Leipzig), singles, sets, several souvenir sheets, also noted tete beche pairs and a few covers, offered intact, many items signed, seldom seen, fine to very fine. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details	Realized $1,438
Lot 1704		German Area: 1940's Local Mint Collection, On homemade pages, most cities very well represented including Bad Nauheim, Cottbus, Finsterwilde with souvenir sheets, Glauchau (signed), Gorlitz with sheets, Grosstachen with sheets and 1946 used on Postmaster certified sheet, Lobvau, Spremberg, Stockow with min. sheets, Straussberg, incl. many Michel listed vars., identified forgeries, very clean, fine to very fine collection. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details	Realized $1,898
Lot 1705		/o German Area: Bundespost Mint and Used Collection, To 1970's in Lighthouse album, mint and used plus covers and stationery, including virtually all issues duplication mint and used (occasional fault), including Michel vars. (i.e. #116 I mint and used), minor duplication, Posthorns set (few values n.h.), booklet panes, overall fine to very fine. Estimate $1,000-1,200. View details	Realized $1,093
Lot 1706		/o German Area: American & British Zone Specialized Collection, Mint and used and mostly sorted and identified in sheet folders, stockbooks, including 1945 issue with various papers, perfs, plate flaws, plate blocks, etc., also multiples, few used, quite extensive and clean, fine to very fine. Estimate $750-900. View details	Realized $776
Lot 1707		/o German Area: Extensive Colonies Collection and Accumulation, Hundreds in Lindner album with stockpages, duplication, unchecked for cancels or varieties, good variety of issues especially yacht values, few minor faults, but overall fresh and fine to very fine. Owners cat. €4700+. Estimate $750-1,000. View details	Realized $748
Lot 1708		/ German Area: D.D.R. Mint Collection, Hundreds in 5 Scott albums and 3 hingeless albums, mostly complete with sets, souvenir sheets and scarce early First Day's, including Mao set, Karl Marx sheets, generally fine to very fine. Estimate $700-900. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1709		/ Trieste: "A.M.G." Mint Collection, On various blank pages with backup pages used, including 1L inverted ovp't., 1948 issue with missing period after "F" including Sassone #25a-29a, flaws in ovp'ts., 1948-50 set, 1952-54 set including perf vars. mint and used, gutter pairs, and town cancels of various P.O., 1953 Christmas Seal in gutter pairs, few FD?s, inscription blocks, Airs, Parcel Post, Commercial Tax, fiscals, mostly complete and fine to very fine. Estimate $600-800. View details	Realized $604
Lot 1710		/o German Area: Collector's Balance, In 2 banker boxes, including 2 albums, on pages, etc., with Private Locals, locals including Michel identified, Occupation including forgeries and genuine identified (some signed), Ersttagsblatt, sheets including inflation, Baden, States, few Cinderella, etc., better scattered throughout, needs inspection. Estimate $500-750. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1711		o German Area: 1900 to 1922 Mark Values, 1900 to 1915 1m to 5m couple hundred mostly used and identified by Michel with shades, cancels, few perfins, few mint particularly 5m values, also 1920 issue, 3 surcharge values, also Offices in China 1905 watermark values overprinted including Michel #37a-b mint and 37a used, generally fine to very fine and unusual in this quantity. Estimate $500-600. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1712		/ German Area: Saar and Saarland Mint Collection, Mostly o.g. or n.h., regular issues complete. except #38, Semi's complete. except #B9-15, Airs and Official complete., including souvenir sheets, plus some tete-beche, covers, essays, sheetlets and multiples, clean, fine to very fine, lovely collection of this area. Estimate $500-700. View details	Realized $1,265
Lot 1713		/o German Area: Interesting Inflation Collection, Hundreds of mint and used (not signed) on homemade pages in Scott binder, well annotated and written up, including errors, varieties, shades, gutter pieces and multiples, coils, booklet panes, local overprints, rotary and flat plate printings, if genuine, worth much more than our estimate, fine to very fine. Estimate $500-700. View details	Realized $863
Lot 1714		/o German Area: Large West Germany Stock, Thousands of mint and used organized in Schaubek stockbook, early issues mostly used, 1950's mix of mostly o.g. and used, later to 1966 mix of mostly n.h. and used, duplication, fresh, ready for sale, high catalog, overall fine to very fine. Estimate $500-700. View details	Unsold
Lot 1715		/ German Area: Mostly Never Hinged Stock, Several hundred sets and singles in small glassines, Third Reich to West Germany, plus few D.D.R., noted better W.W.II Semi's and early West Germany issues n.h., some duplication on more inexpensive items, worth a look, overall fine to very fine. Owner?s estimated (2003) cat. $3000. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $546
Lot 1716		/o German Area: Mini Collections Priced in Folders, Hundreds of mint and used, Empire, Reich, West Germany, D.D.R., Berlin and Cols., few faults, overall fine to very fine, high catalog. Retail prices $1470. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $518
Lot 1717		/o German Area: Selection of Few Hundred Mostly Better, In stockbook, including shields, value in early 20th Century including mint sets, souvenir sheets, #C40-42 (C42 fault), C38-39, few 19th Century mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $633
Lot 1718		o German Area: Used Colonies Collection, 100+ in Lighthouse album, strength in Offices in China and Turkey, also East Africa and South West Africa, clean, fine to very fine. Owners cat. €2000+. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $518
Lot 1719		/ German Area: Better Mint Accumulation, O.g. to n.h., on black stockpages, select group including #31 n.h. with Zenker cert. (cat. €400), Reichspost issues to 5m (#65A o.g. signed Jaschke), Germania issues to 5m, some better 3rd Reich including Semi's, noted #B70-78 n.h., better early West Germany n.h. Estimate $400-500. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1720		/ German Area: Clean Mint Group, 1934 to 1968, attractive assortment of complete. sets, singles on album pages, features Berlin, Occupation, D.D.R. and AMG, including n.h. material, generally fine to very fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Unsold
Lot 1721		German East & Southwest Africa: Mint Collections, Mounted on oldtime album pages to 1910, some duplication including a few used, East Africa #1-29, Southwest Africa #1-6, 13-21, unusually fresh, fine to very fine. Cat. $900+. Estimate $250-300. View details	Realized $276
Lot 1722		/o German Area: Collection to 1945 in Lindner Album, Several hundred with mostly used to 1933, majority mint to 1945, nice run of Semi's and Airs, including #B33 n.h. (perf. separations), Zeppelin issues, virtually all mint stamps are stuck in mounts, souvenir sheets appear loose, very high catalog, mixed condition. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $518
Lot 1723		/o German Area: W.W.II Occupation Collection, On Lighthouse pages, including Bohemia & Moravia virtually complete with 1939 set mint (signed), few covers, some duplication used, General Government with souvenir sheets, French Legion, mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $250-300. View details	Realized $403
Lot 1724		o German Area: Offices & Colonies Cancel Collection, Over 500 stamps arranged by country and Offices cancels on Hagner pages, nice range of issues including a few better items, worth a close look, average to fine. Estimate $250-350. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1725		/o German Area: Private City Post Collection, Mint and used on homemade pages, somewhat sparse but including Berlin with Lloyd, Hiedelberg, also money order, also stockpages with hundreds of private revenue labels, etc. mostly used, very attractive collection. Estimate $250-300. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1726		/o German Area: Collector Stock and Accumulation, Several thousand mint and used sorted in stockbooks and on manilla pages, nothing too expensive, but noted better Empire, early Berlin used and large group of inflation issues, unchecked for cancels or varieties, some faulty, overall fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $334
Lot 1727		German Area: Zeppelin "Private Reprint" Sets, N.h. sets in sheets of 50, South America, Polar and Chicago flights, all handstamp on reverse "Privateer Nachdruck", unusual, very fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $173
Lot 1728		German Area: Zeppelin "Private Reprint" Sets, N.h. sets in sheets of 50, South America, Polar and Chicago flights, all handstamp on reverse "Privateer Nachdruck", unusual, very fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $138
Lot 1729		/o/ German Area: 1939-45 Occupation Collection, Consists of Luxembourg, Alsace, Lothringen, Ostland, Kurland bisect April 23, 1945 on v-mail type envelope (not sent), some covers including propaganda, clean. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1730		/o German Area: 1900 to 1924 Mint and Used Collection, On homemade pages in folder, including special cancels (railroad, etc.), inflation including strips, blocks, flaws, plate vars., clean, fine to very fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1731		Italian Area: A.M.G. "V.G." Mint Collection, On quadrille pages, n.h. including Bari vars., Naples with various shades of overprinted, inverted including Sassone #11d, Airs #1b, 100L (both printings), also Commercial Tax, fine to very fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1732		/o German Area: Oldtime States and Collection Through 3rd Reich, In oldtime 1939 Schaubek album, mostly used, including few States including Bavaria 20th Century reasonably complete, including Semis, Airs, Bohemia & Moravia, Saar, Danzig, inflation including used, 19th Century mixed condition, 20th mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1733		/o German Area: Used and Mint Collection, Many hundreds on Hagner pages, mostly cancel collections from Saar, Memel, Danzig, Schleswig and Upper Silesia, average to fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $150
Lot 1734		/o German Area: Inflation Mint and Used Accumulation, Old time lot of thousands sorted in glassines, faulty to very fine. Owners cat. $4000+. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1735		German Area: Soviet Zone Saxony Sheets, N.h. full and part sheets including errors Michel #87A-91A with 88 I (2 cat. €200 each), 85-86, other possible errors exist, fine to very fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $276

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