Sale 85: The Westpex Sale

Lot 2880 /o   

Switzerland, Canton Basel & Geneva Revenue Collection, 1860-1983, neatly mounted and written up on pages in Scott album; Basel has 781 stamps including Police (300), Bill of Exchange (68), Berdereaux (23), Stempelmarken (59), Betreibungsamt (103), and 134 municipals from 17 different towns, Geneva 733 stamps including effets de commerce (353), lettre de voiture (137), bourse (63), personnelle tax (41), emolument (78); a total of 1514 revenues with 1999 Gainon catalog value 11,640 Swiss Francs.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $725

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Lot 2881 o   

Switzerland, Luzern Revenue Collection, 1878-1958, of 476 revenues, many selected for cancels, and 50 documents, neatly mounted on quadrille pages in Scott album, 1999 Gainon catalog value 2,194 Swiss Francs, nice condition throughout.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $400

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Lot 2882    

Switzerland, Basel 1917-65 Street Car Stamp Collection, of 262 different neatly mounted & written up on quadrille pages; includes monthly issues (175) and weekly stamps (87), unlisted in any catalog and a difficult collection to duplicate.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $270

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Lot 2883    

Switzerland, Back-of-the-Book Collection, 1878-2000, all used collection of semi-postals, airmail, postage dues and officials neatly arranged chronologically in a stockbook and quite complete for the period, including souvenir sheets B80, B130-2, B144, also C2-15, C4a-12a, J1-20, J26a-27a, J28, 201-30, 301-26, 701-20 etc., review recommended, owner's Scott $12,600+.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $900

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Lot 2884 /o   

Thailand, Collection, 1883-1920, of various mint and used issues mostly on stockcards; includes complete first issues used as well as a few other later used sets and high values, other used including a nice section of train cancels including a full boxed cachet strike (Ban Khmer) on a block of six, section of 10 1889-90 surcharge issues including Frajola/Ostlie listed varieties and seven mint 1920 semi-postals (all with APS cert.), etc.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

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Realized: $1,300

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Lot 2885 /o   

Timor, Collection, 1885-1973, mostly mint collection in mounts on album pages, features Scott 1-33, 34//43, 44-134, 156//182G, 223-5, 245A-K, 246-89, C1-23, J1-36, also various varieties etc., hard to find this nice, owner's Scott $3,100+.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

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Realized: $700

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Lot 2886    

Tonga, Covers, 1935-45, 15 early period Tin Can Mail covers, great franking and multiple markings on each, these early period are much scarcer.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $475

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Lot 2887 o   

Turkey, Postmark Collection, 1861-1920, approximately 1,500 stamps mounted on album pages with postmarks identified; includes early 1860-80's issues with sections including oval circular and rectangular cachet types, negative seal handstamps, a host of circular townmarks, grid handstamps, nice section of Turkey in Asia issues, etc.; with many scarce to rare items, a nice array material and an excellent foundation to build upon.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $850

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Lot 2888    

Turkey, Postal History Collection, of approximately 175 items from early stampless through to the 1920's with a wide range postmarks; nice showing of early stampless including 1854 Edirne, 1745 Cospoli to Venezia, 1877 Izmir official court cover, 1859 Isparta to Istanbul with green cachet, later franked usages including 1919 5pa on 2pa surcharge issue on local Istanbul cover (believed to be the only known single franking of this stamp), 1892 issue combination franking in registered cover tied by Angora cds's, 1880 20pa issue in scarce early maritime mail cover, etc., also including postal and post card usages, telegrams and some interesting incoming mail; condition varies with many nice town strikes throughout.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $2,400

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Lot 2889 /o   

Turkey, Remainder Balance, four large boxes filled with albums and stockpages, includes some unused albums and supplement pages, stocks, large amount of material, etc., anything could be here; inspect for full evaluation.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $1,000

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