Cook-Inseln: 1986, Christmas complete set of three with different Rubens paintings with silver overp
1986, Christmas complete set of three with different Rubens paintings with silver overprint 'FIRST PAPAL VISIT TO SOUTH PACIFIC – POPE JOHN PAUL II / NOV 21-24 1986' in an investment lot with approx. 5.000 (!) sets mostly in complete sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1132/34, € 85.000,-- +
52nd Auction - Day 5
By: Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG
Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG 52nd Auction - Day 5
52nd AUCTION at 11. February and 7 - 11 March 2022
Was the racing reporter perhaps a philatelist?
Or perhaps the recipient of the pictured cover from China, Jarmila Haasová?
Most philatelists would say: Philatelically influenced cover! when they see the arrangement of the stamps on the cover and the squiggly written address. The sender was the author Egon Erwin Kisch, also called "Der rasende Reporter" (The racing reporter), who stayed in China in 1932.
The result of this trip was the last book that was allowed to be published in Germany before the Nazis came to power, entitled "China geheim" (China secret). The addressee of the letter was his friend and translator Jarmila Haasová, who translated his works into Czech. "Egonek", as he signed his letters, also quite squiggly, was already a "crazy dog". Among other things, his book "Landing in Australia" and its prehistory are also well known.
Kisch was on his way to Australia with the British passenger ship Strathaird. Here, however, he was officially banned from entering the country (Haven't we seen similar things in the press in recent weeks?) Not because of a pandemic, but because it was feared that as a representative of the anti-war conference in Melbourne would spread communist ideas. Kisch was certainly not athletic, but his landing in Australia: He broke the entry ban by jumping off the ship, broke his leg, was arrested, then released under public pressure and was able to attend the conference.
Now back to the cover. Neither Egonek nor his translator Jarmila Haasová collected stamps - otherwise the correspondence and the contents of Kisch's books would have provided information about this. He probably "composed" the stamps on the envelope as carefully as he wrote his texts. Because he was not quite "racing" when writing. It is known that he himself submitted small stories and text passages to his wife Gisela and Jarmila for criticism and proofreading, and then revised them up to twelve times.
The pictured cover was found in the estate of Jarmila Haasová, which was auctioned last year by a Berlin auction house, which does not specialize in philately - and fell, how could it be otherwise, into the possession of a philatelist.
In our spring auction in March, you will not have to look through non-philatelic estates to find something for your collection. We have a rich and varied offer of unique lots and collections, to fulfil every collector’s desires.
I cordially invite you to the viewing and to the auction days and already today I wish you much success.
Yours
Christoph Gärtner
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Cook-Inseln: 1987, Christmas complete set of three with different Rubens paintings with silver overp
1987, Christmas complete set of three with different Rubens paintings with silver overprint 'HURRICANE RELIEF +50c' in an investment lot with approx. 3.000 sets mostly in complete sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1223/25, € 28.200,-- +
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Cook-Inseln: 1988, Christmas complete set of four with different Dürer paintings in an INVESTMENT LO
1988, Christmas complete set of four with different Dürer paintings in an INVESTMENT LOT with approx. 2.570 (!) sets mostly in complete sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1264/67, € 35.980,--
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Cook-Inseln: 1989, Christmas complete set of four with different Rubens paintings in a lot with 672
1989, Christmas complete set of four with different Rubens paintings in a lot with 672 sets in part or complete sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1286/89, € 7.392,--
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Cook-Inseln: 1990, 150th Anniversary of the One Penny Black complete set of four showing different p
1990, 150th Anniversary of the One Penny Black complete set of four showing different paintings (Terborch, Holbein, Gainsborough and Dürer) in an INVESTMENT LOT with approx. 1.950 sets mostly in complete sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1299/1302, € 27.300,--
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Cook-Inseln: 1990, Missionaries and religions on the Cook Islands (LMS Mission, Roman Catholic Churc
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Cook-Inseln: 1990, Olympic games 1992 in Albertville and Barcelona complete set in a lot with about
1990, Olympic games 1992 in Albertville and Barcelona complete set in a lot with about 1.000 (!) se-tenant strips of three mostly in complete sheetlets and additional 38 miniature sheets, mint never hinged, Mi. 1307/09+Bl. 202, € 16.684,--
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