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Lots (1008)
ERITREA: 1903 40c brown King Victor Emmanuel III mounted mint large part original gum with hinge remains, light tone, SG 25. Cat £800.
Eritrea: 1935 (1 Dec) Ala Littoria printed airmail envelope Assab to Bengasi Cyrenaica with colony adhs 25 pair & 25c pair tied ASSAB / ERITREA. Typed addr, only 10 covers flown, very fine. Type 35 VKE.
Somalia: 1935 (22 Dec) Ala Littoria printed airmail envelope Magodisco to Sirte Tripolitania with colony adhs 5c, 10c, 20c & 75c tied MOGADISCO / CONCENTR. MILIT. Typed addr, only 10 covers flown, very fine. Type 35 WGB.
Somalia: Postage Due 1906 30c & 40c mint, fine and sound, scarce, SG D201/2. Cat £346.
1860 Entire Scansano to Livorno bearing Tuscany 10c brown neatly cut (margins in places) tied at top left with neat SCANSANO 30 LUG 60 cds, applied twice, folded with two incomplete transit / arrival backstamps. Couple of minor tones otherwise nice looking cover.
Modena: 1858 Entire Letter sent locally bearing 1852-57 5c green with period after value fine 4 margin example tied dated 12.APR barred cancel, very fine.
Naples: 1858 Entire (3 Apr) locally sent wrapper in Naples to Ceglie bearing vertical pair of 1Gr pale lake with very good margins tied two ANNULLATO framed boxed h/s. Very fine.
Sicily: 1859 2g pale blue fine used with three good margins, touching along bottom, nice looker, SG 3b.
1897 OHMS tatty printed Public Works Dept cover to USA bearing OFFICIAL 1d rose pair and 3 singles tied KINGSTON / 21 / AU 20 / 97 cds cancels. Folded and faults but impressive combination, SG O4. Plus 1896 OHMS Duplicate Register printed card (tones) bearing ½d green official tied Spanish Town cds.
1899 Registered cover Yokohama to Shanghai bearing 3s x 3 tied YOKOHAMA JAPAN cds cancels with SHANGHAI / I.J.P.O. cds on reverse.
1906 PPC of Tsingtau China bearing Chinese Imperial Dragon defins 1c & 4c tied CHEFOO bi-lingual cds's addr to USA alongwith SHANGHAI 3 SEP bi-lingual cds, and SHANGHAI I.J.P.O. 5 Sep cds, minor bends.
1909 PPC of The Great Pier Dairen bearing Japan 4s rose tied DAIREN / I.J.P.O. cds in violet addr to Belgium.
