Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1858: Bull's Heads 54 parale blue on greenish blue horizontally laid paper, a fresh used example, neatly tied by part strike of "FOLTITSCHENI / MOLDOVA" datestamp (./9) in blue (Kiriac fig. 276). Margins fair at right, good to large on the other sides. On reverse at top some thinning and minor crease, nevertheless a most appealing example with this extremely rare cancellation of which only three examples are known used from Foltitscheni, all...

1858: Bull's Head 53 pa. blue on green horizontally laid paper, a used example with good margins on three sides and shaved at base. horizontal paper repair and corner repair at top right, cancelled by "JASSY / MOLDOVA" circular datestamp (14/10) in red (Kiriac fig. 279). Illustrated in Heimbüchler on page 347. A good spacefiller and not unattractive. Signed J.M. Bartels, Zoscsak, Heimbüchler Mi = € 5'000.

1858 (July 21): Bull's Head 81 parale blue on grey blue wove paper, a superb unused example without gum, with huge to enormous margins all round, a fresh adhesive of very fine appearance and without faults, an excellent crisp impression with minute spots as are characteristic of the nature of the delicate wove paper utilised and are no faults. A most attractive example of this great classical rarity, just 37 examples recorded in unused...

1858: Bull's Heads 108 parale blue on rose horizontally laid paper, a superb and fresh example in a deep shade with even large margins, tied by a clear strike of "JASSY / MOLDOVA" datestamp (18/8) datestamp in blue (Kiriac fig. 279), contrasting well with the blue design, an additional light strike alongside. A desirable example of this rare adhesive, cert. Hunziker (1966) Mi = € 16'000.rnReference: Illustrated in Handbook I on page 389, pos...

1858: Newspaper stamp 5 pa. black with intact frame on bluish thin paper cancelled by double circle 'JASSY MOLDOVA 8/3' cds in blue. Margins good to large all round, minute thins in the difficult paper, in the margin at base light paper modifications. A beautiful example of this extremely rare stamp, only 32 examples are recorded in the Heimbüchler handbook. Certs. Engel (1949), Heimbüchler (1990) Mi = € 20'000.rnReference: Illustrated in...

1858 (Nov): 5 pa. deep black on thin white wove paper, Type II, a fine example with full margins all round, rich deep shade, large part og. A choice example Mi = € 300.

1858: Newspaper stamp 5 pa. black with intact frame on white thin paper cancelled by indistinct blue-green double circle datestamp. At left 6 mm large margin, presumably from the sheet margin, good margins at right, at base and top minimally touching the stamp design. An extremely rare stamp, only 32 examples with white or yellowish paper are recorded in the Heimbüchler handbook. Cert. Heimbüchler (2012) Mi = € 20'000.rnReference: Illustrated...

1858: 40 pa. on thin bluish-grey wove paper, a used example with good to large margins all round, on 1858 entire letter to Galatz tied by bold strike of circular "JASSY / MOLDOVA" datestamp (3/11) in blue (Kiriac fig. 279). The entire crossed to denote pre-payment in blue. An astonishingly early usage: the second Bull's Head Issue was released on Saturday 1st November 1858, and this letter is clearly cancelled on the 3rd day of issue (...

40 pa. on bluish-grey thin wove paper, a deep shade with enormous margins from the base of the sheet on 1861 entire letter to Jassy, tied by framed "FRANCO / GALATZ" handstamp in black (Kiriac fig. 308) with 'GALATZ / MOLDOVA' cds (Aug 11) in black at top (Kiriac fig. 277) and crossed to denote prepayment. Reverse with ‘Jassy / Moldova' arrival cds in blue (Aug 13). Some soiling but a spoectacular usage. Signed Heimbüchler, with an additional...

1858: 40 parale blue on white-greyish paper, a lovely used example with huge margins all around, cancelled "BERLAD MOLDOVA 30/3" cds in light blue (Kiriac fig. 272). Minor imperfections with pin hole at top and tiny thin at upper right, both far away from the design, a very fine item. Signed Thier. Opinion Gmach (2020) Mi = € 220.

1858 (Nov 1): 40 pa. blue on white thin paper, an unused block of four in a rich shade, showing two vertical tête-bêche pairs, slight corner bend and scissor cut both well away from the adhesives but fine and fresh impressions, very fine, large part og. A delighful multiple. Cert. Heimbüchler (2017) Mi = € 1'600+.rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 222, May 2018, lot 4143.