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Sale 114
Lot 1899
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Italy, Offices Abroad and Colonies, virtually all 20th Century predominantly mint collection of thousands housed in a well-worn Scott album, the Italy proper is quite complete and all mint from 1901-57 incl. #76-91, 111 and most other better sets of the period, Semi-postals from 1923-41 compl., Airpost from 1917-48 quite complete, Parcel Posts with Q17-19 and other back-of-the-book, useful Offices in China with 1 tied to piece, mint 22, 29, Tientsin 5-14 except 9, Crete complete mint or used, Offices in Turkey with E4, Aegean Is. complete, plus the individual island issues nearly complete, with some first issues being used, Occupation of Albania and Montenegro, Castellorizo complete, Corfu compl., Cyrenaica nearly complete, Eritrea nearly complete mint or used from 1923 incl. 24 unused, 27, 103a, J1c and J13, Fiume with 117-21 tied to pieces, 134-48, B4-15, E4-5 mint and tied to pieces and J1-3, the Italian Colonies complete, East Africa compl., Libya highly complete incl. 14, 16, 20-31, B48-54, C14-18, Oltre Giuba compl. except Postage Dues and Parcel Posts, useful Somaliland incl. B38-51 and J12-22, Tripolitania nearly complete and more, overall a very clean and powerful collection, occasional small fault and some off center as usual, vast majority o.g., l.h. or used, fine to very fine.
Sassone €88,000+.
Estimate $6,000-8,000.
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