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Sale 73: The March Sale

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Mexico to Viet Nam

Lots 3066-3075 Lots 3076-3083

Lot 3066 /()   

Mexico, 1856-61 Hidalgo Issue Mint Collection, of 118 unused stamps arranged on pages on binder (62 from 1856 and 56 from 1861) showing the various district overprints with some duplication (six multiples included): 87 different in district and denomination and 27 different districts, including premium like Acapulco, Saltillo, Chiapas, Tula, Tixtla Guerrero, Huejutla, Victoria, Hermosillo, Temascaltepec, Campeche, Colima, Maravatio, Lagos, Mazatlan, Maravatio, Tabasco, etc., Nicholas Follansbee basic catalog (without premium for better districts) is about $9,000, accompanied by 19 Mepsi certs; a great opportunity to start a high quality collection with very crisp genuine district overprints.
Scott No. 1-12    Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.

Realized: $4,500

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Lot 3067    

Mexico, 1872 Issues on Cover, 19 covers; nice showing of 12c & 25c frankings including a few combinations, 25c watermark (Sc. 83) usage and a few better town cancels; inspect.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

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Realized: $190

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Lot 3068    

Mexico, 1899 Coat of Arms Issues on Cover, 90 covers, 9 fronts and 20 postal cards; covers include official rates, advertising, registered, paquetboat cancels and one with a perfin MM stamp, variety of small town cancels: Salina Cruz, Salinas, Estacion Gutierrez,Inde, C. Lerdo, Villanueva, Las Penas, San Juan de Guadalupe, Colotlan, Tlaltenango, etc., foreign destinations include London, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, US, Malta, France & Belgium, fronts include a colorful 45c wrapper registered, many of the postal cards are uprated.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

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Realized: $425

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Lot 3069 /o   

Mexico, Cover & Stationery Balance, of approximately 55 items; includes a few early usages, later Constitutionalista mixed franking, */o stationery items, express including one from Santa Barbara, etc.; inspect.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $425

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Lot 3070 /o/   

Mexico, 1914 Coach Seal Issue collection, of 72 covers and 1 front, 1 piece and several unused blocks, most are premium cherry picked from an old larger collection, included are 1c circular uses, 2c local rates, several going to the USA, mixed frankings with green Seal Sonoras, a rare 2c postal card usage, 3c government special rates, a fantastic registered cover to Ohio with 4c due paid with 4 one cent USA stamps, 6c on cover due to stamp shortage, 2 covers with private perforations, a use in Sinaloa, mixed franking with Maytorenista 5c 1910 stamp, several other US postage due, Chinese merchants covers, usage from Chihuahua, 50c used on piece and many others.
Scott No. 394-400    Estimate $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $800

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Lot 3071 /o/   

Mexico, 1875 Porte de Mar Issue Collection, housed on 46 pages with about 800 stamps; includes a sheet of the composite yellow paper unissued stamps 1st Series (NF $250), Seven complete sheets o.g. of the Large and Small Numbers (all different) from the 2nd and 3rd Series, seven 60c Large Numerals (3rd Series) stamps indicating the transfer types (NF $700), two covers with Mepsi certs (each cover without the 1874 stamp, but bearing the Porte de Mar stamps), 90+ stamps with district overprints, and several cancelled stamps, the 25c "provisional" displaced "5" stamp, 7 multiples with combination stamps, the set off the 4th unissued series including watermarked examples and a set of forgeries indicating how to detect them, extensive notes about the issue and its plating; Scott No. JX9-JX31 (except JX22), ex-Schimmer.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $3,750

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Lot 3072 /o   

Netherlands & Colonies, Collection, 1872-1984, basic fair to good completion collection in two volumes; predominately used in early issues and mint in later, includes a selection of unexploded booklets and some 1940's covers; worth a look.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $375

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Lot 3073 o   

New Zealand, QV Issue Selection, 1855-64, of 10 issues on specialty pages, with quality well above the norm with nearly all imperfs 4-margin; includes Scott #5, 8, 12 (RPS cert), 13, 14, 14e, 15, 14c, scarce 26a (sound with cert.) and 27; catalog value $3,500, a choice group.
Estimate    $600 - 800.

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Realized: $675

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Lot 3074    

Portugal & Colonies, Covers, group of approximately 85 covers and cards in stockpages in binder; interesting array of items mostly 1910-70's, includes 1943 Portugal censored with TB seal and 1911 registered 4-color franking to Belgian Congo, parcel cards, etc., usages from Macao, Angola, 1912 Portugese India to Bombay with intact Scott 260C x2 + 283B, airmail usages including Mozambique, Timor and Macau, many other interesting usages throughout.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

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Realized: $650

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Lot 3075 /o   

Portugal & Colonies, Postal Cards, group of 49 cards; most Mozambique Company issues with a selection of mostly used 19th century cards, various 1904 view cards including one to Holland, similar issues lettercards unused, various later issues, etc., other items including Portuguese India mint; condition varies, inspect.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

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Lots 3066-3075 Lots 3076-3083

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