Lot 40069 – Collection of Romanian Rarities

Collection of Romanian Rarities

1844-79, An attractive and diverse assembly of items from different collecting areas and periods including the Ottoman period, Austrian Field Post Offices, Austrian Levant, Bull’s Heads and other early classics with some useful postal history, plus a bisect usage, essay and rare postal stationery etc.

Better items included are:

1844 Stampless entire from Ibralia to Constantinople with boxed “PORT.PAYE” of the Austrian Post Offices, extremely scarce

1852 Oval disinfected hs of Galatz in blue on 1852 stampless Constantinople

1858 27 Parale, cut round with clear margins, tied on small fragment by Bakeu/8.10 cds, cert. Heimbüchler, only 8 known

1858 108 Parale, unused with good to large margins, of the 20 recorded this is the only one with PART ORIGINAL GUM all the others are without gum, cert. Heimbüchler

1858 108 Parale, used, with good to large even margins, red Jassy cancel, superb, cert. Heimbüchler

1858 5 Parale, unused, close to large margins, from the original printing on white paper, only 32 recorded, cert. Heimbüchler

1867 2 Parale, used, block of six on thin paper with good to large margins, LARGEST KNOWN USED MULTIPLE, cert. Heimbüchler

1870 1 Leu red-brown, essay, only two known, cert. Heimbüchler

1871 40 bani franking to Constantinople, superb

1873 30 bani franking to Serbia, rare desitination

1879 10 bani postal card printed on black on pink, extremely rare

A wonderful opportunity to acquire an eclectic and varied group of Romanian rarities (37 items in totals, with 22 covers, 37 stamps including blocks and two essays)

Estimate : € 80’000 – 120’000