1929, UPU 1£ black, used with central cds., very fine
Heinrich Köhler 384 Auction – Day 2 Single Lots & Airmail and Zeppelin Mail – inclusive the collection of the Sieger family
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Heinrich Koehler Auktionen Heinrich Köhler 384 Auction – Day 2 Single Lots & Airmail and Zeppelin Mail – inclusive the collection of the Sieger family
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16 – 18 September 2024 Monday to Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
19 – 20 September 2024 Thursday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
23 – 27 September 2024 Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
28 September 2024 Saturday starting 8.30 a.m.
Auction Schedule
Thursday, 19 September 2024 09:00 CET 1001 – 1522 Single Lots: Europe and Colonies
Thursday, 19 September 2024 14:00 CET 5001 – 5471 Special Catalogue: Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia – The "P.G." Collection
Friday, 20 September 2024 09:00 CET 1523 – 1883 Single Lots: Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries, Olympics, Thematics, Literature, Numismatics
Friday, 20 September 2024 13:00 CET 5501 – 5991 Special Catalogue: Airmail and Zeppelin Mail – inclusive the collection of the Sieger family (part II)
Monday, 23 September 2024 09:00 CET 1884 – 2441 Single Lots: German Empire 1872 – 1945
Special Offer: German Reichspost – Shield Issues 1872–75 – The Dr. Dietmar Kipping Collection
Special Offer: German Empire – The Issues 'Pfennige' and 'Pfennig' – The "Baghira" Collection
Monday, 23 September 2024 14:00 CET 6001 – 6394 Special Catalogue: German Reichspost – Shield Issues – The Michael Rehme Collection (part III)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 09:00 CET 2442 – 2600 Single Lots: German post offices abroad and colonies
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 10:00 CET 2601 – 3359 Single Lots: German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Saar, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, Germany after 1945: Control Council, Soviet Occupation Zone
Special Offer: Memel Territory 1920–1939 – The Dr Heinrich Hirschfelder Collection
Wednesday, 25 September 2024 09:00 CET 3360 – 3932 Single Lots: Germany after 1945: GDR, Berlin, Saarland, Bizone, Federal Republic of Germany
Special Offer: GDR Special Collection with Booklets
Special Offer: Berlin – Frankings and Se-tenants
Special Offer: Definitive Issue Posthorn 1951 – Specialised Collection (part II)
Wednesday, 25 September 2024 14:00 CET 10001 – 10500 Country Collections: Europe: Aegean Islands – Romania, including Great Britain and British Commonwealth
Special Offer: Germany, Europe and Overseas – The Dr Jürgen Wiedemann Collection
Thursday, 26 September 2024 09:00 CET 10501 – 11712 Country Collections: Europe: Russia – Yugoslavia, Overseas
Collections and Lots: General collections All World / Europe / Overseas, Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematic collections, Picture Postcards, Literature, Coins
Collections Germany: German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies, German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, General collections Germany, Germany after 1945
Friday, 27 September 2024 09:00 CET 3933 – 4395 Single Lots: German States Baden – Wuerttemberg, North German Confederation
Special Offer: Local Collection Mannheim
Special Offer: Thurn and Taxis – 'The Thuringian principalities' – The Heinz Peter Wenzel Collection
Friday, 27 September 2024 12:30 CET 6501 – 6615 Special Catalogue: Grand Duchy of Baden – Frankings and Postal History – The Klaus Peter Geis Collection (part II)
Friday, 27 September 2024 13:30 CET 7001 – 7362 Special Catalogue: Heligoland – The Hans-Jürgen Borowski Collection (part I)
Friday, 27 September 2024 17:00 CET 7501 – 7591 Special Catalogue: Kingdom of Saxony – 'Frederick Augustus' – The Michael Schewe Collection
Friday, 27 September 2024 18:00 CET 7601 – 7681 Special Catalogue: The Gustav Strunk Collections (part III): The Principalities of Lippe, Germany, Europe – Collections and Single Lots
Saturday, 28 September 2024 09:00 CET 8001 – 8366 Special Catalogue: Germany from 1849 – Austria from 1850 – The "American" Bruce Wright Collection (part I)
Breaks when appropriate. We expect to auction off 80-120 lots per hour, depending on the area.
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Lot #1548 - Great Britain stamps
1929, UPU 1£ black, with left sheet margin, used with almost central cds., very fine
Lot #1549 - Great Britain stamps
1929, UPU 1£ black, from the lower left sheet corner, used with oval cds., very fine
Lot #1550 - Great Britain stamps
1929, UPU 1£ black, from the upper right sheet corner, used with oval cds. “REGISTERED GUERNSEY 10 DEC 30”, very fine
Lot #1551 - Great Britain stamps
1929, UPU 1£ black, tied by oval cds. “REGISTERED” to piece, very fine
Lot #1552 - Great Britain stamps
1929, UPU 1£ black, tied by oval cancel “REGISTERED” to small piece, very fine
Lot #1553 - stamps official stamps
I.R. OFFICIAL 1 £ green, BC, fresh deep colour, unused with large part original gum, light corner crease and some gum bends, violet handstamp shining through slightly. An overall fine copy of this rare stamp. Certificate BPA (2024)
Lot #1554 - stamps official stamps
BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1902, Edward 5 d., neatly cancelled "KIRKHILL SP 24 03". Colour of value tablets slightly faded, still very fine. Certificate BPA (2024)
Lot #1555 - Great Britain Postal stationery
1840, "Mulready" postal stationery letter sheet 1 pence with red MC and date stamp "PD JY.3.1840" to Barnes with arrival mark, inside with printed advertisement "The Envelope Select Advertiser", i.a. for musical instruments and composers. Due to opening inside right with small missing part, otherwise fine
Lot #1556 - Great Britain United Kingdom - Used abroad
“C51” St. Thomas on three 1870, 1/2d rose, plate 11, and 1875 1sh green, plate 12, 1876, on folded letter datelined Mayaguez, Porto Rico, 22 September, to Genova, Italy, blue commercial datestamp of Farbe & Co, postmarked with Mayaguez / Porto Rico / Paid c.d.s. (23 Sep), endorsed “via Inglesa” in manuscript, with red London PAID transit (16 Oct), c.d.s. arrival backstamp (18 Oct), pressed filing folds, a most attractive and scarce usage...
Lot #1557 - Great Britain United Kingdom - Used abroad
“C51” St. Thomas on 1864 1d rose red , plate 125, an horizontal strip of four 3d rose, plate 5, on 1870 folded letter, datelined St. Thomas, July 28, to Hamburg, Germany with London transit, Hamburg machine arrival backstamp (8 Aug), horizontal fold clear of adhesives, an impressive double rate letter, fine.
Provenance: André Bollen (Heinrich Köhler1983)
Lot #1558 - australian states New South Wales
1846 (8 Jan.), letter sheet from Sydney to London and re-addressed to Bonn (Prussia), marked "p. William Metcalfe", rated "3" in red and "8" and showing "PAID SHIP LETTER/SYDNEY". Upon arrival in London, forwarded by Coutts & Co (cachet at left), marked "via Ostende" and re-rated "20" (decimes) and "5½" (groschen). This is the second earliest recorded cover from the Australian Colonies to Germany.
Lot #1559 - australian states queensland
1855, Queen Victoria 6d. deep blue, horizontal pair with wide margins all around and four adjoining neighbours, fresh colours, used, extremely fine
Lot #1560 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, Ham Printings, 3d. blue, unused, without gum, well-centered within four balanced margins, delicate pale shade, small thins not detracting from the fine and fresh appearance of this extremely scarce unused stamp.
Lot #1561 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, Ham Printing, 1d. dull rose, vertical pair, showing frameline at top, cut into on other sides, without gum, crease through lower stamp, yet with good colour, and a rare multiple, one of only a small number recorded.
Lot #1562 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, 1d. bright pinky red, Ham Printing, unused, with part original gum, showing cut transfer at foot, repaired tear at top and other small faults as often seen, but a presentable example of this scarce variety.
Lot #1563 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, 1d. bright pinky red, Ham Printing, three unused examples, displaying slight shade variances, two without gum, each showing the so-called “white veils” characteristic of this printing, margins close to into design in places as typical, small flaws and/or repairs, but a fine-appearing trio.
Lot #1564 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, 1d. bright pinky red, Ham Printing, unused, without gum, portion of frameline at top and bottom, and clearly showing the so-called “white veils” distinctive of this printing, touching or into design at left and right, fresh colour, a pleasing example.
Lot #1565 - australian states queensland
1851, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, Ham Printing, 1d. pale drab, unused, without gum, heavy hinge remnant, margins good to slightly into design in places, small faults, surface abraison at lower left, light crease near hinge, despite its flaws, of good colour, and a presentable example of this difficult stamp.
Lot #1566 - australian states queensland
1855, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, Campbell & Fergusson printings, 1d. pink, unused, without gum, good margins on three sides, barely touching at left, trivial small thins, yet of pleasing deep colour and fine appearance.
Lot #1567 - australian states queensland
1854-7, Queen Victoria “Half Lengths”, Campbell & Fergusson printings, three 1d. singles, unused, without gum, in shades of pink to rose, one a particularly deep shade, one showing short transfer most noticeable at lower left, each with some degree of fault, rose shade with corner crease, but a useful reference group of chiefly fine appearance, showing the characteristic poorer quality impressions of this printing.
Lot #1568 - australian states queensland
1856-8, Queen Victoria on Throne, 1d. yellow green, block of four, large part original gum, clear to good margins all around, the upper left stamp with traces of extraneous red ink, vertical folded through centre margin, small spots of gum toning, but a scarce multiple; handstamped Gilbert.
Lot #1569 - australian states queensland
1856/58, Queen Victoria on Throne, 1d. yellow green, imperforate, two singles with part original gum, chiefly clear to good margins and fresh colour, and 6d. bright blue, rouletted, three unused singles, one with part original gum, typical centering, some small flaws, chiefly fine.
Lot #1570 - australian states queensland
1898, 2-1/2d rose, lower right corner block of thirty six, hinged in places, leaving the majority of stamps never hinged, three stamps showing the “damaged N” to first N of PENNY variety, bright colour, a fresh and desirable positional block.
Lot #1571 - australian states queensland
1899, 2s. turquoise-green, watermark “Crown Over Q”, Type II, perforated 13, left margin block of eighteen on Cowan paper, showing the “flaw on ball of lower 2” variety, and left margin strip of seven on whiter De La Rue paper, most examples on the Cowan paper block never hinged, a fine comparison of these two paper types.
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