VORPHILA - 1819, folded cover with enclosure "On account Interest of Bengals six per cent loans - Bombay castle" and red double line "Postage to London Not Paid" to London and forwarded to Scotland with different cancels and endorsements, partly of flipside repaired, otherwise fine Catalog Price 200.00
30th International Auction
By: Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG
Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG 30th International Auction
Christoph Gärtner is holding a large and diverse auction with Rarities and gems. The auction starts with all world Single Lots with the usual stronger ASIA, Middle East, Africa Americas and all European countries. Germany, German States an German colonies including interesting items. Thousands of Collections are on offer as well as other type of philatelic material in over 16000 lots spread over four days. ASIEN - ASIA ÜBERSEE - OVERSEAS: A - Z THEMATIK - THEMATICS FLUGPOST, ZEPPELIN & SCHIFFSPOST EUROPA - EUROPE: A - Z ALTDEUTSCHLAND - GERMAN STATES DEUTSCHES REICH - PRIVATPOST DT. AUSLANDSPOSTÄMTER - KOLONIEN - ZENSURPOST DEUTSCHLAND vor 1945 - GERMANY before 1945 DEUTSCHLAND nach 1945 - GERMANY after 1945 ANSICHTSKARTEN - PICTURE POSTCARDS NACHLÄSSE, WUNDERKARTONS – COLLECTIONS
Lot #730 - indien
VORPHILA - 1836 (Dec 1): Entire letter from Camp Dreg at Muttra (North Western Provinces) to Ireland, struck on reverse with scarce framed "MUTTRA / P.P. PD" in black (HG 1 THE LATEST RECORDED DATE OF USAGE) with postage noted at 14 annas, transit of fine framed "Calcutta / GPO / Ship Letter" (Dec 17) in black, red Dublin datestamp (May 5) and Parsonstown arrival cds of the following day. Obverse with fair "INDIA LETTER / LIVERPOOL" in black...
Lot #731 - indien
VORPHILA - 1839, Folded cover dated 17. Nov. 1839 on board of the "Furgusson", sent to London, with black boxed "INDIA LETTER / LIVERPOOL" on front, red doubly circled "B/25AP25/1839" arrival d/s on reverse. Catalog Price 60.00
Lot #732 - indien
VORPHILA - 1845 (28th July), Entire from Bareily (red framed 'Paid' h/s) to MADEIRA via Calcutta (red framed 'Shipletter' d/s) and London 'Per Overland Mail', detained for postage at London with "DETAINED" exploratory postmark "Returned for Postage" in red deleted (at lower right) and "INDIA/PAID" also deleted, with London 'Paid' transit d/s (7 Oct 45) and black "160" (Reis) Portuguese rate h/s. A remarkable cover from 1845 when the maritime...
Lot #733 - indien
VORPHILA - 1846, Cover (mourning back) from Benares to England endorsed 'Via Bombay and Southampton./British Postage Prepaid.' bearing red boxed "INDIA/PAID" and red circled "PAID/11MA11/1846" arrival cds on front, and trisected rect. framed "BENARES STAn/184 JAN 21/PAID" h/s (Giles 12) with '12 as / ½ Anna' in m/s on reverse, fine. Catalog Price 60.00
Lot #734 - indien
VORPHILA - 1848, Entire letter from Agra (July 8th) to Simla (july 11th), redirected to Mussowlee (July 12th) with related trisected 'Bearing' datestamps filled by charge marks in m/s, and with unusual boxed "U.P.O./Bearing" h/s on reverse. A fine letter with uncommon postmark. Catalog Price 60.00
Lot #735 - indien
VORPHILA - 1849-63, Four entire letters to Bordeaux, France from Calcutta (1849 and 1863) or Bombay (1859 and 1861), with various postmarks (incl. Calcutta Unpaid, or Suez transit), one with GB exchange diamond, and with various tax marks. The oldest one stained, fine else. Catalog Price 80.00
Lot #736 - indien
VORPHILA - 1849, Mourning cover to Inverness, Scotland with red "INDIA" in oval on front, circled London Crown cds, further transit cds and black '7 June 1848' arrival datestamp on reverse. An attractive and fine small mourning cover. Catalog Price 60.00
Lot #737 - indien
VORPHILA - 1850 "MADRAS SHIP LETTER POST PAID 5 AU 1850" clear red strike (with manuscript 1 anna paid) on cover send to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per ship "Royal Saxon". Backstamped "Ship Letter Sydney 25.10.1850" and 3 pence postage due on arrival. A RARE EARLY COVER TO AUSTRALIA. Very Fine. Catalog Price 400.00
Lot #738 - indien
VORPHILA - 1851 (9th May), Duplicate of a letter from Madras to Mauritius endorsed 'Overland Steamer via Galle for transmission to Mauritius', with superb strikes of red trisected Madras despatch d/s, "INDIA PAID" in crescent, black "Ship Letter" s/l and Mauritius arrival Crown cds (6th June) all on face. An unusual and most attractive letter with superb postmarks. Catalog Price 220.00
Lot #739 - indien
VORPHILA - 1852 ca: ''JEYPORE / Paid.'' rectangular hand-stamp in red (Giles #2; see 1996 Suppl.) even on three small-sized folded letters of a correspondence to Neemuch, the first two dated May 19th/20th charged 2a, the last one (May 28th) charged 4a. Good/clear strikes of this scarce hand-stamp - a fine cover trio. Catalog Price 250.00
Lot #740A - indien
1852, Scinde Dawk ½a. white, used with fine strike of dotted handstamp, cut square, with sharp embossing, remnants of letter on reverse, fine. (SG £2250) Catalog Price 800.00
Lot #740 - indien
1852, Scinde Dawk ½a. white, cut square, used on piece, cancelled 8x8 diamond of dots (Hyderabad?), with horizontal creases at foot but still a good example with clear embossing used on part of native letter. B.P.A. certificate. (SG from £2250) Catalog Price 1200.00
Lot #741 - indien
1852, Scinde Dawk ½a. white, cut square, used with 8x9 diamond of dots, with a vert. crease at left and slightly stained, remnants of the letter adhered to back, still good with clear embossing. (SG £2250) Catalog Price 700.00
Lot #742 - indien
1852, Scinde Dawk ½a. scarlet on part cover from TATTA, cancelled by diamond of dots (8x8), and with boxed "TATTA / (POST) OFFICE" h/s in red. The stamp with usual cracks and minor marginal chippings but still a good example of this scarce stamp on an original part cover. The postmark indicates the original use of this stamp, which is difficult (or impossible) for most of the Scinde Dawks. AN IMPORTANT ITEM OF THE SCINDE DAWK ISSUES AND OF...
Lot #743 - indien
1854, Lithographed ½a. blue, 1a. red, 2a. green and 4a. blue & red as complete set, fine used, with complete to huge margins, fine. Catalog Price 200.00
Lot #744 - indien
1854, Complete set of the four lithographed stamps ½a. blue, 1a. red, 2a. green and 4a. blue & red (head die III, frame die II) all cut square, the 4a. with part incomplete outer frame-line at foot otherwise good/very fine, plus ½a. blue on small native letter (was folded) with red Calcutta datestamp on back. Catalog Price 300.00
Lot #745 - indien
1854-55, Group of 22 used lithographed stamps: 10 singles ½a. blue (shades, various dies incl. Die II), 6 singles of 1a. red (shades, dies incl. Die III), 3 singles of 2a. green, and 3 singles 4a. blue & red, with two cut-to-shape copies from 2nd printing in blue and indigo, resp., and a cut-to-shape copy from 4th printing in deep blue. A few stamps with minor faults but still a good group of almost good/fine stamps. Catalog Price 300.00...
Lot #746 - indien
1854-55, Group of 12 used singles of lithographed ½a. from all dies, with almost different colour shades from pale blue to deep blue, various plate flaws and retouches, and interesting cancellations like Madras type numerals of Alleppey (C/131) and Negapatam (C/150), NWP "173" numeral of Landour, of Bombay type "104" of Kurrachee, all with four (close to huge) margins, two or three with thin spots or other small faults, still good to very...
Lot #747 - indien
1854, ½a. blue, Die I, horizontal pair with sheet margin at right, unused as issued, fine. Catalog Price 100.00
Lot #748 - indien
1854 ½a. blue, Die I, with major chignon retouch, tied by diamond of dots to large part folded cover from Hyderabad, with part of red rectagular framed Hyderabad d/s and part of red "G.P.O. ..." cds on survived parts of reverse. Catalog Price 100.00
Lot #749 - indien
1854, ½a. blue, Die I, tied by diamond of dots to small cover 1855 to Amritsar, with indistinct despatch d/s (27 Oct 55) and red "UMRITSUR/28 ..." double-ring d/s on back. Cover opened roughly at right otherwise good, bearing a good stamps with four margins from a worn state. Catalog Price 80.00
Lot #750 - indien
1854, Small cover bearing fine ½a. blue, Die I, tied by two strikes of diamond of dots, on reverse with an unrecorded rect. framed datestamp reading "PUGHWARAH/AUG 4 1855/FEB" with P.O. name inverted (???), and red double ring datestamp (Aug. 1855) alongside. A little part of back of cover missing, but a fine stamp and a very interesting cover with a mysterious datestamp. Catalog Price 90.00
Lot #751 - indien
1854, GB-INDIA COMBINATION COVER: India 1854 ½a pair (Die I) for inland charge of re-directed cover from Great Britain to Bombay via Marseilles, originally franked by embossed 1847-54 1s green (Die 2) and 10d both cut to shape, re-directed from Bombay to Almorah, with red GB despatch cds's (7th/8th March 1855), rect. framed Bombay d/s and cds (6th April), further transit cds's (Nyneetal and others), and Almorah arrival cds (18 Apr 1855) all...
Lot #752 - indien
1854, Lithographed ½a. blue, Die II, top right corner block of 24 with corner ornament and marginal inscription, unused as issued, with a somewhat creased top margin otherwise fresh and fine. Catalog Price 4000.00
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