Sale 78: The Westpex Sale

Lot 2444    

Germany, Zeppelin Postcard and Ephemera Collection, in album, with 50 postcards from different German printers and ephemera including letterhead Zeppelin paper, covers, propaganda, postal stationery, letters written onboard, hotel menu, etc.
Estimate    $600 - 800.

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Lot 2445    

Germany Zeppelin Flight Covers, 1930-39, 54 covers and cards all with German frankings; with better items including 2m South America Zepp on 1930 Baltic flight cover (stamp cats $400 off cover), 1m Polar Zepp on 1932 flights (Sieger 138 & 143) and 2m Chicago Zepp on 1933 Century of Progress flight cover, several other Zepp issue usages and numerous other flights; inspection recommended.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

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Realized: $1,700

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Lot 2446

Germany, Zeppelin Hindenberg (LZ129) Interior Photo Collection, of 18 photos showing luxuries and commodities for passengers; includes in flight and interior views with dining room, promenade, reading and writing room, radio room, etc., five scenes at Lakehurst including three of her being secured to her mooring mast and two to the ground in May 1936, during construction, etc.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $250

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Lot 2447    

Germany, Hindenburg Specialized Post Card Group, of 14 unused cards; includes scarce group of 10 1938 "Verlag Gebr. Metz, Tubingen" multicolored photocards of the airships interior, also an unusual black & white realphoto card of Hindenburg in flight (summer 1936) over Atlantic passing the SS Bremen with the Queen Mary in background, and 3 multicolored "Kunstzverlag Michel & Co." cards of airship over Frankfurt (1936); some with minor flaws.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $220

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Lot 2448 /o/   

Germany, Officials, 1903-1943, an absolute mammoth accumulation of thousands upon thousands of officials neatly displayed on sheets in 7 Lighthouse albums, a lifetime collection that would be extremely difficult to recreate; mint and used arranged intelligently from issue to issue with deep duplication, rich in used items with most high-values present including Scott O3 used 23 singles and 3 on piece (did not notice O40-O46 used) includes singles, sets, multiples mint and used, on piece, over 350 covers and cards spanning the period, includes Prussia #21, Baden #16, Bavaria, and Wurttemberg, Franchise, many pages with handstamped certs etc, quite an impressive and desirable holding with owner's catalog of more than €62,400, inspection highly recommended.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

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Lot 2449 /o   

German Post Offices Abroad, Specialized Accumulation, many hundreds of single stamps from early Reichpost issues to Germania issues on stock cards and pages of clear well struck cancels and printings, sorted by city and type, with a great selection of China, a lot for the specialist; owner's Scott $7,500 +.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $550

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Lot 2450 /o   

German Colonies, Yacht Issue Collection, virtually all mint on Scott pages; Cameroun to Togo mostly in complete sets with some missing only the high values; worth evaluation.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $750

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Lot 2451    

Croatia Collection, 1941-45, well formed collection on Scott album pages; complete mint issues with additional sheets in the semi-postal issues, including scarce 1944 Storm Trooper set (no souvenir sheet), dues & officials complete; with condition above the norm throughout, a must see to appreciate.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

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Realized: $290

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Lot 2452 /o   

Germany Post World War II, Collections, 1945-89, collections of Berlin and DDR housed in four albums; Berlin mostly mint to 1989 with better early mint sets present including 1949 von Stephen, 1949 green surcharges with high value n.h., virtually complete thereafter missing only the Currency Victims souvenir sheet, three volume DDR collection to 1982 starting with a run of Soviet Zone issues, collection appears complete from 1948 Russian Zone overprint on mostly mint with occasional duplication, including 1948 Goethe & 1950 Stamp Day semi-postal sheets n.h., mostly n.h. in later.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $425

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Lot 2453 /o   

Germany Post World War II, Collection, 1960-90's, of Berlin and DDR in 8 albums; mint and used all with neat town cancels, also 1940-90s Austria in two volumes; inspect.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $150

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