Postal Auction July 2025 - 358

Bids to be received by Thursday 3rd of July 2025 1:00 PM

Lots (1386)

Lot 361
Fiji

1955 P.13 1/6 ultramarine in a fine used block of 9 with light NAUSORI CDS cancels, odd wrinkle otherwise scarce multiple, SG 263a b, Cat £162.

Estimate £ 38.00
Lot 362
Finland

Military Mail : WWII 1941-44 Small group of covers (3) and cards (3) sent by soldiers including two cards showing military caricatures of soldiers; one returning home with a bunch of flowers and the other has two soldiers with their machine guns behind a barricade, one has boxed censor cachet in violet. Fine condition though the covers have been slightly reduced at the right. Unusual group (6)

Estimate £ 24.00
Lot 363
Finland

Small group of 19th Century/early 20th Century covers and Postal cards of various types mint and postally used with 1888 - 98 10p red PC used (4, 2 types, one with hole punch) 1913 10p red PC used , 4p red mint, 1890's 10p lilac 'Retour -Recepisse card mint, later 'lions' 10p red, 20p red & 40p violet PC's all mint & two covers roughly opened both 1913 bearing 10p red (Russian type). Condition is chiefly fine and will write up well (12)

Estimate £ 18.00
Lot 364
FIUME

Express: 1920 50c on 5c green overprint with backprint in black, unmounted mint; centred to the left but a difficult stamp to find. Scott E5 Cat $700 for u/m.

Estimate £ 120.00
Lot 365
France

1847 (4th Nov) Entire from Paris to Austria written up on album page (in Dutch) with Paris double ring postmark, cost mark '20 = 12' = '32' in manuscript, (kreuzers) and boxed 'WIEN/4/NOV./EXP' handstamp. Very fine cover with details of the route taken by the mails through Europe.

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 366
France

1849 1fr carmine-brown, a superb four margin example tied to paper by diamond grid cancel in black, very fine colour and neat balanced margins. SG 18.

Estimate £ 250.00
Lot 367
France

1849-1969 Mint & used collection in a quite well filled Yvert printed album (broken spine) with nice range of Napoleon imperfs with 4 margins f.u. to 80c, Ceres perf to 80c, 1876-90 Peace & Commerce incl pair used in SHANG HAI 5c pair, vals to 5fr lilac, 1898-1900 to 2f, 1900-06 Olivier & Merson to 5f, 1931 Sinking Fund 50c + 25c pale violet cds used (Cat £130), 1936 100th Flight 10f mint (thinned, cat £500), 1937 Museum set mint (Cat £220), plus dozens more to 1969. 100s, huge cat value.

Estimate £ 400.00
Lot 368
France

1849-1989 Mainly fine used collection in two Davo printed albums with a high degree of completion, just needs the key or expensive stamps noted 1849 to 40c, 1852 to 80c, 1917 War Orphans 35c+25c, 1918 Red X, 1926 War Orphans set, 1929 Sinking Fund set, 1930 Reims, 1929 Phil. Expo ovpt 2fr, 1936 100th Flight set 2, 1938 Ader, Relief Fund sets to 1950s, 1949 to 1000fr air, then dozens of commem sets to 1989. Excellent lot for expansion with albums in good condition, enormous cat value. 100s.

Estimate £ 750.00
Lot 369
France

1856 Napoleon Empire 80c carmine-red an amazing strip of 4 with uneven margins cut into at places and very fine used DS2 dotted diamond numeral cancels (Paris) plus part red PAID CDS cancel, huge 320c rate, seldom seen in such multiples. Fine, SG 69 Cat £440.

Estimate £ 150.00
Lot 370
France

1860 Attractive small cover Paris to New York bearing Napoleon Empire 80c bright rose x 2 (small margins) tied dotted diamond cancels, and a variety of PD, Am Service boxed h/s in red on obverse, plus USA arrival PAID / NEW YORK, and manuscript 6 in red crayon, few minor faults and wrinkles but impressive 160c rate.

Estimate £ 170.00
Lot 371
France

1860 Napoleon Empire 5c green on bluish very fine used PAIR with large margins on two sides, touching into on right and top left and neat 1523 dotted diamond numeral cancel, fine, SG 44 Cat £240.

Estimate £ 80.00
Lot 372
France

1863 Colour Trial 30c Napoleon in a superb block of four imperf on unwatermarked thin white paper. Very fine. Nice album piece.

Estimate £ 120.00

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