Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

1861/81: 'The Peter Holcombe Greece Collection' in two volumes, showing all album pages of his formerly owned collection in high quality colour copies on thread-stitched pages and hand bound in full red crushed morocco, manufactured 1980 as a facsimile edition with some later added photocopies. An impressive collection as a reference for future collectors and experts.

First scheduled Airmail Service Budapest - Szeged and Szombathely 1920/21: Group of more than one hundred covers/cards showing diff. frankings and usages with many sent from the 'Ràkos Airfield 1920 Nov. 7th', incl. 27 items to Györ, 45 items to Szombathély and seven items Papa, further 15 stationery card usages of which three with LÉGI POSTAVAL overprint in black, further some stationery envelopes and wrappers. A fine assembly, all franked...

Justice for Hungaria 1932 (April/Oct.): Selection of six covers and cards together with a small group of memorial vignettes, incl. two covers of Budapest-Rome Memorial flight, three souvenir cards and one envelope with diff. vignettes in Memorian of the pilot Georges Endresz and his radio operator Bittay, who both died after a crash landing on their Budapest - Rome flight 1931.

1933 Hungarian Mediterranean Circular Flight with "GERLE" HA-AAI (Feb.19 - March 24): Group of 25 postcards sent from Budapest to Oran, Tripolis, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and vice-versa, of which twelve bearing special label "HUNGARIAN MEDITERRANEAN CIRCULAR FLIGHT and special handstamps in magenta or bluegreen, including mail from Budapest (11) with one to Athens forwarded via Alexandria to Shanghai, China, card from Oran to Budapest, two...

1930/37: Lot 25 interesting airmail covers, incl. better overseas destinations as 1937 registered envelope from Gönc to Upernivik, Greenland, cover to Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, further six acceptances to German Catapultflights to Southamerica, one LATI usage (1941), Air France Southamerica Transatlantic flight 1936 (Jan. 5) as well as some first flights as 1930 Budapest-Rome and first flight to Venice (1931), both flights vice-...

1917/27: Lot 120+ early airmail covers/cards, starting with early picture postcards and 1917 Military Airplane Exhibition Budapest, further 1920 10 c. stationery card to Sopron, 1921 Szomabathely- Budapest flight, 1922 CFRNA first flight to Paris, 1924 flights to Esztergom (16), 1924/25 airmail to Zurich Switzerland, 1925 Budapest-Szeged (40), 1927 airmail to Belgrade, Berlin, Frankfurt a.M. and Warszaw as well as 1924/27 Budapest-Györ flight...

1871/1955: Comprehensive collection of Hungary on stock book pages, starting with the 1871 lithographed issues. Pre-war issues, both used and unused. From around 1945 onwards, the collection is mostly unmounted, featuring notable souvenir sheets such as the Chain Bridge and UPU 1949. Additionally, there are added similar collections of Slovakia and Czechoslovakia, both of which also contain several better issues.

1925: Views set of five values complete, the 7 aur. with somewhat typical rough perfs., otherwise all fresh and very fine, unmounted og. Scott 144/148 = $ 900 / Mi = € 700.

1922/68: Collection on preprinted pages 1922-45, used and unused (unused dominate), clean mounted large part og, what concerns the unused. Another collection up to 1968 rather used and a box containing stock cards,  booklets, commercial mail plus a small stockbook densely filled with duplication.

1850: Carta a mano 10 c. grigio argento type Ia, plate I from the first print run 'prima tiratura' with vivid colour and good to large margins all round, from the sheet margin at left, cancelled by clear double-circle "VERONA 1 / 9" datestamp. Signed Oliva & Paul Ferchenbauer; opinion Babor (2002); cert. Ferchenbauer (1989) Sassone = € 2'875 / Ferchenbauer 'silbergrau' = € 750.

1859: Newspaper stamp 1 Kr. black, type I, a well margined example showing the complete frame-line of the neighbouring stamp on the right tied to the magnificently illustrated front page of the Leipzig "Illustrierte Zeitung" by a small fiscal "I.R. UFFIZIO DI COMMISURAZIONE" used in Verona. Some very minor ageing not detracting from the appearance of this rare franking, Albert Matl estimating the number of surviving newspapers bearing a full...

1850/64: Selection 150 stamps / pieces and ten covers, primarily from the first issue, collected with emphasis on shades and postmarks, stamps and strikes with over average quality, incl. 1850  5 c. orange (3), one with "DA VENEZIA COL VAPORE", 10 c. black (3), one with a pre-use paper fold, another with a prominent variety 'missing eagle's head, 15 c. red showing large sheet margins (4), and one on underfranked cover from Milano to Lugano....