The Maurizio Tecardi Collections of 1896 & 1906 Athens Olympic Games
We are proud to announce that the Maurizio Tecardi collections have been sold. This unique offering by private treaty gives the purchaser any array of rare & important postal history pertaining to the first two Athens Games of the modern era.
These collections are as follows:
1. 1896 Destination Mail:
This collections of envelopes all bear the stamps of the first Olympic Games in a wide variety of combinations & paying a wide variety of postal rates to an array of different destinations.
2. 1896 The Olympic Year Collection:
This is a collection of Olympic stamps each with clear cancels from the First Day of the Games on March 25 all the way through the entire Olympic year to December 31, an unique museum assembly showing all 282 days of the first modern Olympic year
3. 1896 The Olympic Specialized Cancellation Collection:
An attractive assembly of cancellations mounted on 32 album pages showing a fine array of the Tameion seals, plus a fine ranges of maritime cancels
4. 1896 Olympic Issues with the 1900 Surcharges:
Collection and detailed study of the 1900 overprints including a complete sheet of the 5L on 1D blue & complete sheet of the 2D on 10D brown, plus array of all value some showing DOUBLE SURCHARGE varieties & much more.
5. 1906 Olympic Games Specialized Collection:
An attractive assembly of proofs, mint & used multiples, varieties, postal history with rates & registered usages, cancellations mounted on 46 album pages showing strength in maritime postmarks, plus Stadion & Akropolis circular date stamps etc., plus some useful fiscal documents, all mounted on 46 album pages
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