Lot 50058 – 1945-46, specialised and comprehensive collection of Soviet Occupation issues in 3 albums
Lot 50058 – 1945-46, specialised and comprehensive collection of Soviet Occupation issues in 3 albums
1945-46, specialised and comprehensive collection of Russian Zone issues in 3 albums, very well written up on typed-up pages, with mint & used stamps, plate varieties, covers and stationery cards, from very serious collector who brought this together over the past 40 years, many are signed but also all is checked by the expert Pascal Scheller and all is genuine according to him, a once in a lifetime exceptional chance to become a collection like this.
All World – Topics, Postal History: 1850-1890 “French Electric Telegraphy in The Metropolis and in the World from 1850 to 1900 “exhibition collection on 40 double pp (A3) pages in three chapters: at the service of the State and Finance – Private Territorial Telegraphy – French telegraphic activities outside France. Some highlights: telegraph stamps single franks of 50c, 1fr and 2fr on 1868-70 entires paying rates of within departement, outside departement and deposited dispatch, telegrams taxed or franked a.o. private registered at 65c rate e.g. 1875 25c Ceres and 40c Bordeaux obl. GC3982, 75c rate with type Sage 1877 from Chambery, private telegram with 10c Napoleon bistere (pair) tied GC573 to Limoges (cert. Behr 2018), reg. telegram 1869 by Empress Eugenie to writer Prosper Merimee (1803-70) plus handwritten and signed answer letter by him, 1867 autographic telegram, 1874 telegram from Macinaggio/Corsica to Marseilles, 1869 large part of cover of telegram from Senegal, Dakar-Bordeaux with general colonies 20c pair and Napoleon 10c bistre, registered telegrams from Madagascar 1899 and 1894 Benin to France, 1892 New Caledonia to Egypt with 25c type Sage, 1898 Reunion paid reply, 1889 reg. telegram with type Sage 25c pair and “Eastern Telegraph Company” mark from Zanzibar to Tamatave/Madagascar, – Plus folder of extra/reserve material and Franco-Prussian War pigeon post, telegraphs inc. viz. “Carnet de depeches aeriennes” by Gabriel Mangin, aeronaute ec. – Top object of the area, careful inspection highly recommended.
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