1726 Entire with writing inside sent from Cairo to Venetia with arrival handstamp 'Ven Da Mar' featuring the Lion of St. Mark. With red seal, rare item.

1852 (14 Sept) Entire Letter to Ostende sent with '3' manuscript mark and U.P.A3eR. handstamp alongside in black, variety of backstamps incl Coeln / Verviers handstamp in black, vertical filing fold otherwise fine, interesting and busy cover

1865 Hamburg: Entire with 1¼s grey St. P.A. Hamburg cancel, (machine cancel from Hamburg city post office). Addressed to Garding with boxed instruction on reverse.

1872-1938 Ancient album pages with an unpicked mint & later UNMOUNTED MINT collection including 1899 to 30pf, 1902-21 basic set to 5m, huge range of inflation issues, 1924 Eagle set of 7 to 50pf orange, 1924-27 1m & 2m, 1924 UPU set 4, 1926 Air set to 50pf, 1926 Portraits set, 1926 Welfare Fund set, 1927 Welfare set, IAA set 3, 1928-32 Portraits 13 of 19 vals, 1928 Air 2m Zepp, 1928/9 Welfare sets, 1931 Welfare Fund set, 1932 85th Birthday set, 1932 Welfare set, 1933 Potsdam set, 1933 to 100pf 12 of 14 to 100pf, 1934 Air set to 2m, 1934/5 Welfare set, 1936 Summer Olympic Games set, 1937 Hitler Fund M/S's, 1938 Winter Relief set U/M, 1939 Nurburgring set 3 U/M, 1939 Postal Employees set U/M, 1939 Winter Relief set U/M, 1939 stamps of Danzig ovptd incl top two vals U/M, 1941 Postal Employees top vals U/M, etc, extensive lot with enormous catalogue, great lot for expansion with many later sets Unmounted mint.

1873-80 Seven Entire Letters mainly to Venlo bearing interesting range of postal markings including 1873 1gr on E.L. from Dulken near Vnlo (Netherlands) 1874 UEDEM (near Venlo Netherlands) bearing 2gr blue (3 E.L) tied boxed cancel and each with FRANCO h/s in black. 1875 nice combination 1gr & 2gr tied M(Munchen) GLADBACH CDS cancels regd 597, 1878-80 20pf x 2 on two E.L. both to Anvers from Coln with trade cachets, etc, intr group. (7).

1874 9 on 9kr brown superb premium CDS very fine used, expertised on reverse, superb! SG 30.

1880's A selection of approx. one hundred and seventy postal stationery 5pf postcards and with 5pf stamps. Tremendous postmark interest includes Steinach, Schleusingen and Dornburg.

1911 Munich Ottmar Zieher PPC of Bavaria stamps and portrait used to Leipzig tied 5pf adhs nice machine cancel. Pretty.

1914-1918 approx 45 World War I postal stationery postcards with no stamps but varied interesting cancels.

1923 800T on 500m yellow-green scarce key value with decent CDS cancel, no expertising marks but very genuine example, SG 300 cat £2500.

1923 800Tsd on 500m yellow-green the very SCARCE fine used example of this hard to find stamp, some backing paper otherwise mainly sound, Mi. 307A. Cat €2000.

1923 Relief Fund set of 3 fine used decent CDS cancels, SG 257/9.

1926 Arms set of 4 fine used same dated Berlin 3.12.26 CDS cancels, Michel 398/401. Cat €160.

1929 Arms set of 5 fine used same dated Berlin 7.12.29 CDS cancels, Michel 430/4. Cat €190.

1932 OLYMPIA - Lavishly illustrated book 142pp with a large range of photograph pictures collected and pasted to complete the book being a collection of German participants in the 1932 Olympics in black and white. (Published by Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld). Fascinating book with scuffs on the outside otherwise mainly fine.

1933 National Socialist German Workers' Party a lavishly printed book DEUTSCHLAND ERWACHT (published by Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld) with 150pp each with various pictures pasted in to the book in correct positions for each topic (Youth, Military, locals, farmers, women's groups etc) promoting the far right Nazism, shows scenes from 1920 onwards, plenty of military photos, then colour from 1925 to 1933,even has a huge pull out poster at the back showing 1000s of army in a huge stadium. Even if you cannot read Germany the pictures say it all! Fascinating historical book, very fine.

1933 Superb photographic unused postcard of the Dornier DOx. In 1931 she was the World's largest seaplane she broke a number of aviation records. Scarce item.

1934 175th Birth Anniv. of Schiller complete set of 2 unmounted mint, very fine, Michel 554/555.

1934 (Dresden) HINDENBERG - Lavishly illustrated book 125pp with a large range of pictures collected and pasted to complete the book bearing a history of Hindenberg and his history in black and white. Fascinating book with scuffs on the outside otherwise mainly fine.

1935 Saar Restoration complete set of 4 unmounted mint, very fine, Michel 565/568