Lot
3023 
France, Incoming Mail to France, 1784-1870 (The Richard Winter Collection), an interesting group of 17 19th century stampless covers and one cover from 1784 from Port au Prince, Haiti with scarce small red "Colonies" in arc, various points of origin which include Buenos Aires, Guadalupe, Havana, Peru, Reunion, Mexico, Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, etc., a wide variety of markings and rates are noted including French Octagonal Maritime handstamp of Buenos Aires, some with boxed handstamp "Pays D'Outremer Par Bordeaux" or "Colonies Par Bordeaux" and straight line of "Martinique" & "Guyane Francaise", generally FineEstimate $200 - 300.
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Current Opening Bid: $100
Lot
3024
France, Stampless Cover Accumulation, 1833-1850, over fifty covers many with content from many different towns in France from Le Havre to Paris, very wide selection of postal marking with a good number of various rate markings, included are covers to many different destinations, of special note is an 1866 folded letter from Colmar to Russia, 1849 cover from Marseille to the Ionion Islands, an 1840 cover from Marseille to Livorno with forwarding agents hand stamp, several covers to Germany with interesting rate markings and more, condition is mixed, please inspect.Estimate $300 - 400.
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Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
3025 
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France, Strong and Impressive Collection, on Postzegel/Steiner hingeless album pages in 6 binders. The first 4 binders are filled with the regular issues to 1998 and the subsequent Mariannes to 2013, including sheets and small panes. It is missing only a handful of early stamps for completion. Earlies are mostly used, but after #137 most are mint and essentially complete. Many minor varieties are included, and condition is much better than typical. There are many thousands of dollars in catalog value on the first few pages alone. Book 5 contains the Semi-Postals and is totally complete (except for B10) up to 1998, all mint after B131. Most later issues after 1984 include full panes/booklets. Book 6 contains Airmails, Postage Dues, Military/Franchise, German occupation, WWII Liberation overprints (290+ on custom pages), and UNESCO and Council of Europe issues. Airs begin with C1, and are complete from C5 (except no C6b) to 2013. Dues are missing only a handful of earlies. The Impressive thing about this collection is the owner's addition of several hundred covers, beginning with 24 stampless chosen for sharp postmarks; then opposite every page in the album from 1 to 4 covers were mounted with matching stamps, some chosen for destinations, multi-frankings, censored, etc. not just routine covers. Fun to examine, enormous catalog value.Estimate $6,000 - 8,000.
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Current Opening Bid: $3,000
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3026 /o
France, Collection, exceptional condition, 1849-1959, a wonderfully complete collection, mostly, missing only the rarities; additionally the stamps are In beautiful condition (including the classics); highlights include the 1917 1¢ War Orphans semi-postal set mint complete (B3-B10) and the 1927 Strasbourg S/S used (#241), over $26,000; Rarely is such a high caliber collection offered intact!Estimate $3,500 - 5,000.
Current Opening Bid: $1,800
Lot
3027 /o
France, Collection, 1849-1975, hundreds of stamps housed in ten 3 ring binders showing a very high degree of completion with many better singles, sets and souvenir sheets, included are 1849-1850, 10c imperf used, 1853-1860 Napoleon III imperf set to the 1fr, perforated Napoleon III set to the 5fr used plus 1871, 10c on 10c mint, Peace & Commerce set to the 1fr used, 1924 set to the 50c mint, 1925, Philatelic Exposition souvenir sheet mint, 1927, Strasbourg Exhibition sheet mint, many better semi-postals and airmail issues, very good ranges of the postage dues and other back of the book material and more, a very clean collection, please inspect.Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
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Current Opening Bid: $1,000
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3028 /o
France, Two Volumes 1849-2002, attractive and comprehensive collection in mounts in two Scott Specialty albums, mixed mint and used to about 1960, virtually all mint and quite full thereafter, Volume one contains front of the book nearly complete through 2002, Volume two contains semi-postals nearly complete and airpost, postage dues, and officials, mint highlights including Scott #1, 38-9, 329 PEXIP s/s, B3-9, B19-39, B41-78, C6b, J12-15 etc., used #7, 9, 22-36, 37, 40-7, 64-5, 66-70, 72-6, 77-8, 80-4, 86, 88-96, 251-54A, good airs C1-2, C8-14, C15, J2, J16-22 and much more, owner's Scott $17,700+, clean and very well collected, fine to very fine or better.Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
Current Opening Bid: $1,500
Lot
3029 /o
France, Collection, 1850-1973, a selection of hundreds on stock pages or Lighthouse specialty pages with a very wide range of issues from definitive to Airmail, semi-postals and postage due issues, condition is mixed, please inspect.Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
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Current Opening Bid: $750
Lot
3030
France, Covers, 1858-1870, selection of twenty five covers all franked with Ceres or Napoleon III adhesives, included are 1861, Empire 80c imperf on folded letter from Paris to Mexico, 1858 cover with Empire 80c imperf pair from Le Havre to Charleston, S.C., Laureated 40c perforated on cover from Egypt to Lyon, French colonies, Ceres 40c imperf from Haiti to Marseilles dated 1877, Empire 40c & 80c pair tied on 1866 cover from Paris to Lima, Peru, Empire 80c perfed pair on 1865 cover from Bordeaux to Jacmel, Haiti, Empire 20c with private perfs used within France in 1861 plus others, condition is mixed, please inspect.Estimate $300 - 400.
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Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
3031 /o/
France, Specialized Sage Issue Collection, 1876-1920's, comprehensive study of mint, used and postal history on album pages in nine Safe albums; starting with the Peace & Commerce issues with off cover mostly used with shade studies, strong postal history including early formula postal cards with an array of franking including mix issue including covers, wrapper use, registered, high value frankings including several registered usages with multiple 1fr frankings and a 5fr usage, later issues including newspaper overprint stamps including newspaper usage, uprated lettercard ad other postal stationery usages, post card usages including illustrated exposition cards and cancels, foreign country mixed frankings, section of illustrated commemoration post and postal card usages, nice array of foreign usages including Russia, postage due usages, etc., later Sower type issues including some complete sheets, gutter multiples, etc., postal history in similar fashion with nice array of postmarks, interesting post card usages, postal stationery, censor mail, surcharge and military issues, booklet issues, good 1920's souvenir sheets used, pneumatic mail, etc.; a wonderful collection and ideal for further continuation.Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Current Opening Bid: $1,500
Lot
3032
France, Imperf Issues Holding, remarkable accumulation of hundreds of singles and sets from the 1950's on, with many matching marginal sets, mostly regular issues with a nice showing of semi-postals; nice fresh material throughout, surely huge total catalog when added up, inspection a must to truly appreciate.Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
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Current Opening Bid: $1,000