David Feldman - Europe & All World Collections Thursday, December 6, 2018, at 10:00 CET

229 Geneva, December 6, 2018 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate ( € ) UNIQUE USE OF RED BOXED “LONATO” CANCEL OF LOMBARDY 51336 F 14E+13Db 1863 Cover to Soresina (Brescia) sent from Lonato (22 DIC 63 cds) franked by 5c Light Yellow Green (1862 print) and 10c Bistre (1863) cancelled by rare red boxed Sardo-Italian cancel in red - the only known use on these two values. Stamps with ample margins, and shows transit on reverse of Treviglio (24 DIC 63), very fine showpiece, signed A. Bolaffi, G. Bollaffi (1950), Raybaudi & Enzo Diena (cert. 1991) 6’000 Sicily 51337 P P40 1859 1/2Gr Proof in carmine on card, horizontal pair, very rare, cert. Diena (Sass. € 27’000) 2’800 51338 CC C H G F J DCE DFE Collection / 228, 230 1859 Attractive and valuable assembly of unused and used singles and multiples, plus a fine array of covers, including 1/2gr. unused single and used vertical pair, 1gr. unused pairs showing double impression, used block of four, 2gr. unused single, strip of five, blocks of 24 and 25, used three pairs, one on fragment, 5gr. unused blocks of ten and twelve in different shades, used two singles, block of four, 20gr. unused marginal bloc of four, covers showing 2gr. six singles on cover, 2gr. pair + 5gr. on 1859 cover to Naples, 1gr. + 5gr. on insured cover and 1gr. + 2gr. + 5gr. two singles all on part cover, a wonderful group for the specialist (21 items), many with certificates 20 - 30’000 51339 L Collection / www FORGERIES: Specialist’s reference collection of well over 100 stamps, written-up in an album, with the Ferdinand II heads from ½gr orange to 50gr brown with many different types of forgery on each denomination. A great opportunity for the Sicily collector to acquire a working reference collection with the high likelihood of genuine present 300 - 500 Tuscany 51340 F / 230 1835 Disinfected letter from Firenze to Roma with neat “NETTA DENTRO E FUORI”, “FIRENZE” pmk, Roma 07.05.1835 cds on reverse, disinfection slits, very fine, scarce 100