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Worldwide Collections

Lots 2877-2886 Lots 2887-2896 Lots 2897-2906 Lots 2907-2916 Lots 2917-2926 Lots 2927-2932

Lot 2877 /o   

Worldwide, Old-time Estate Collection, 1840-1957, An important intact estate comprised of more than 80 countries all neatly housed in 14 Scott Specialty albums and 4 Schaubek albums, includes many thousands of singles, sets and souvenir sheets in very well filled albums, often with parallel mint and used pages, Germany exceptional and features a comprehensive showing beginning with a Schaubek album of German States with many stamps into the 100's each, followed by Germany proper starting with the 1872 issue plus a showing of the scarce inflation issues used and much more, another Schaubek contains strong offices and colonies with dozens of the yachts, plebiscites and occupies territories, a final German album is an exceptional collection of zusammendrucke issues, collection was clearly a life's work as the collector also went beyond the printed album pages and created many hundreds of specialty pages to mount shades, perf varieties, imperforates, papers and more for many of his favorite countries, Italy well represented beginning with Italian States, a plethora of better issues from the first issue of 1862 up through the airmails and back of the book is noteworthy, also included in this Scott Specialty album is a decent showing of colonies and territories, Portugal has better early and later issues with extra pages for paper and perf varieties of the 1870-1894 issues, plus the colonies are represented from Angola to Zambia and we note Macao includes #162-163 ($1000+), additional countries include Great Britain (huge Scott value), Belgium (another favorite with many extras), Belgium, Congo, Austria, Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Crete, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Gibraltar, Finland, DWI, Cuba, France, Turkey, Cilicia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, plus Antilles, Curacao, Surinam, Norway, Yugoslavia, Karelia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Danzig, San Marino, Serbia, Poland, Spain and Colonies, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, wonderful Russia, Azerbaijan, Far Eastern Republic, Tannu Tuva, Ukraine, Fiume, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vatican; very few collections of this size and quality are available intact, an ideal lot for online sale by country or to breakdown into singles and sets, some mixed condition and no gum mainly on the early issues.
Estimate    $40,000 - 60,000.

Realized: $34,000

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Lot 2878 /o   

Worldwide, Dealers Stock, thousands of quality sets and singles neatly mounted with Scott numbers and catalog values on several thousand sales cards, all put together for future sale and apparently unpicked, includes some souvenir sheets and booklets, primarily mint with much never hinged, a few European countries include above average classics, such as German States, in which we note Colonies, Empire, and post-war, a box of Italy and Colonies is noteworthy and holdings of Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Monaco and much more, much of the value is in the mid-range material of the 20th century, quite clean overall as we noticed very few faults, fresh and ready for easy online sales with the work done, owner's Scott $81,839.
Estimate    $7,500 - 10,000.

Realized: $8,000

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Lot 2879    

Worldwide, Collection, 1840-1940, on Scott International part one pages, so jam packed with stamps and added pages for extra items and covers that it now fills 3 large blue Scott binders, strong across the board, with many pages totally filled, good Great Britain, including #1 used and another on cover, good British colonies throughout, Germany and area, China, Greece, including n.h. 1933 Zeppelins, strong Central and South America, Iceland, Ireland, France and colonies, Portugal and colonies, Russia, Italy, Ivory Coast and on and on; unusually nice collector-built collection on these pages, must inspect for full appreciation.
Estimate    $4,000 - 6,000.

Realized: $9,000

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Lot 2880 /o   

Worldwide, Stock, massive collector's stock alpha arranged and identified in glassines housed in seven large boxes, no doubt in the 100,000's of stamps of mostly common to slight better, nearly all the world represented including some British Commonwealth, Great Britain alone with used 1840 1d black x5, later QV 2sh6d issues in pleasant duplication used, QV 1884 5sh x6 used, etc., noted a mint Iceland Zepp set with other good material scattered throughout, some heavy duplication at times but the sheer mass of material is truly impressive, many months of rainy days could be devoted to this incredible holding, inspect for full evaluation.
Estimate    $2,500 - 3,500.

Realized: $5,000

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Lot 2881 /o   

Worldwide, Collection, in 17 bulging Scott International albums, with pages arranged alphabetically; among the stronger countries are Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, China including PRC, DWI, Ecuador, Falklands, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Poland, Russia, etc., mix of used and unused with some n.h. in mounts; please inspect.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

Realized: $4,250

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Lot 2882 /o   

Worldwide, "C" & "D" Countries Collection, 19th and 20th Century to about 1940 in a Scott International album augmented with quad and stock pages, the collector meticulously annotated Scott numbers below each stamp, set or souvenir sheet, and added additional material on printed pages throughout, better countries represented are British Columbia, Canada, Cape Juby, Cape Verde, Castellorizo, Chile, Cook Islands, Curacao (Netherlands Antilles), Diego Suarez, Dominican Republic etc., interesting old time group with better material, worth careful review, owner's Scott $29K+.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

Realized: $2,300

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Lot 2883 /o   

Worldwide, Collection, housed in 15 blue International albums with issues into the 1970's; tens of thousands of stamps mostly modest value with some good British Commonwealth mint sets in the 1940-60's, some early material mixed condition, some China noting the 1962 Palace Museum Paintings set, useful to good Russia, lots of Latin America, also includes 20 circuit books and some stock in glassine box; worth proper evaluation.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

Realized: $1,800

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Lot 2884 /   

Worldwide, Souvenir Sheets, 1934-2013, mostly mint from Aitutaki to Yemen, 13 counter books filled with mostly mint souvenir sheets but also a large amount of booklets, blocks and se-tenant pairs and strips, lot of material over the $40 range and even much better, such as Canada #C4 (n.h. block), Cyprus 226a (n.h.), Hungary 486 (hinged), Luxembourg 279a (n.h.) and Norwegian n.h. booklets 307a, 408a, 420a; catalog well over $10,000.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $1,150

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Lot 2885 /o   

Worldwide, Collection, housed in five Scott International albums; majority of value in 19th century starting with U.S. including early mixed classics and later with high value banknotes, Columbians including used $2, Trans-Miss complete to the $1 used, etc., Austria with multiple first issues on with some nice cancels throughout, Useful German States, China with a few early classics and a nice section of Treaty Port issues, Brazil from 1843 30r on, Canada with some early, Queens & Jubilees including $2-$3 used, useful G.B. and various Commonwealth, similar French Area issues, also some useful to good 20th century issues; inspect.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $3,750

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Lot 2886 /o/   

Worldwide, Balance, mix of material including Italian States with mixed condition better and Colonies, book of good British Commonwealth including C.G.H. triangles in slightly heavy duplication, Sweden & Iceland stocks, couple better Spain issues, Brazil including Bull's Eyes issues and later invert, etc.; worth review.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $1,700

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Lots 2877-2886 Lots 2887-2896 Lots 2897-2906 Lots 2907-2916 Lots 2917-2926 Lots 2927-2932

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