Lot
2877 
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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