Lot 20564 – 1934 World Cup: A Gold medal exhibition collection of the usages of the Italian 1934 World Cup issue
Lot 20564 – 1934 World Cup: A Gold medal exhibition collection of the usages of the Italian 1934 World Cup issue
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Lot 20564 – 1934 World Cup: A Gold medal exhibition collection of the usages of the Italian 1934 World Cup issue
Thematics » Sport and Games » Football
Price realised
22’000 EUR
Estimate
22’000 – 25’000 EUR
Auction date
Mon 13 Dec 2021 at 11:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
1934 World Cup: A Gold medal exhibition collection of the usages of the Italian 1934 World Cup issue, written up on 79 pages, ordered by internal rates, then foreign rates with destination interest, and finally Colonial usages, with registered, express, official usages, commercial mail, airmails, express airmails, unusual and rare foreign destinations incl. Italian Colonies in Africa, USSR, Angola, Mozambique, China, Egypt, Uruguay, Chile, Dutch Indies, etc., with a wide range of rates incl. high value commercial frankings of 5+2.50Lof the ordinary set, 5+2.50L and 10+5L of the airmail set, 1934 Argentina Zeppelin Flight to Chile; then Colonies issues (20 covers) incl. usages from Tripoli, Eritrea with 5L on 1934 Zeppelin to Brazil, Aegean Islands usages from Calino, Simi, Coo, Rhodes incl. 1934 Graf Zeppelin Argentina Flight to Peru, cover from Coo with six 20c, etc., with most of the rarest items in the collection provided with certificates, and in generally very good condition, a fantastic collection for the football enthusiast that has been a
lifetime’s work for the vendor and hence would be extremely difficult to
replicate with such unusual and varied usages (107 items). Catalogue
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