1616/1845, compelling collection of 28 covers, strength in the 17th and 18th centuries, many interesting and scarce items like 1696 Anvers Messenger marks "IB", "IC" (Harlant-Nr. 1-2), 1708 military mail with one line "AR:DE FLANDRE", numerous postal fees annotations, postmarks and transit marks with "HOLLANDE PAR HAMONT", "NAMUR PORT PAYE", circular bluish "DAB", red two-line cursive "D Pal de la Poste Dép. de la Hollande", 1793 red "MALINES", etc., together with two maps; very fine throughout, a highly specialized connoisseur´s assembly
Belgium pre-philately |
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1648/1730 (ca.), group of five folded entires, mostly sent to or from Anvers, various postage annotations, fine to very fine
Belgium pre-philately |
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1826, folded letter from Johnstown, Ireland with red "PAID 7 JU 7 1826" to Toscana with red "30 GIUGNO" on reverse
Great Britain pre-philately |
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"D(e) L´. (armée) de Flandre", in manuscript on entire letter to Dijon, France, written and dated inside in French "au Camp de Corbek le 13 avril 1705", postage annotation "15", fine and very scarce mail sent during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701/13), certificate Roumet RSP (2015)
Belgium pre-philately |
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"ARM DECONTI" (Lenain SA48), fair strike on undated military lettersheet without content to "Monsieur de Marville, lieutenant general de Police" in Paris, with postage notation "5" Sols overwritten. Some slight aging, still one of the finest examples known of this rare marking from the French troops used in 1746 during the Flanders Campaign. Certificate Van der Linden AIEP (2010)
Belgium pre-philately |
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"De NAMUR" early cursive, very fine strike on 1710 entire letter from Namur to Anvers, served by Pajot and with postage due annotation "3" Sols fee; very fine and unusual Spanish Succession War mail during the French occupation of the city (1701/12)
Belgium pre-philately |
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"ARM:DE FLANDRE", very fine strike on folded entire to Nancy, handwritten on the inside "au camp de herental en Brabant le 19 mai 1746", additional manuscript "armé de flandre" on the back flap and postal annotation "16" Sols fee, fine and scarce French military mail during the Austrian Succession War (1740/48)
Belgium pre-philately |
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"NAMUR", fine strike on 1774 entire letter from Givet, France via Namur to Verviers, together with handwritten “franco Namur” to indicate the prepayment to Namur and 5 Sols fee for the distance Namur – Verviers, very fine
Belgium pre-philately |
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"B:OP:Z:" BERGEN OP ZOOM (unrecorded in Herlant), superb dry strike as a transit mark on 1773 entire letter from Steenberger to Aalst, with red postage notation "2" and final total "6" Stuiver fee, handwritten "Steenb" on the backside, extremely fine and very scarce
Belgium pre-philately |
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"NINOVEN", in manuscript on 1618 entire letter on parchment with full content from Ninove to Anvers, endorsed on the backside "Port", fine and very rare early usage from this village in East Flanders
Belgium pre-philately |
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