Hongkong - Treaty Ports: 1862/84 (approx.), very comprehensive killer postmark collection, including
1862/84 (approx.), very comprehensive killer postmark collection, including B62 with red "AMOY PAID" cds, Amoy A1 and D27, Canton C1, Hankow D29, Hoihow D28, Ningpo N1, Swatow S2, Foochow F1, Yokohama Y1 and Shanghai S1, with a good number of better stamps including multiple 96c and a number with wing margins (including one wing margin...
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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Lot #12427 - Hongkong - Treaty Ports
Lot #12428 - Hongkong - Treaty Ports
Hongkong - Treaty Ports: 1863/1937, extensive collection of Treaty Ports cds, including many earlier
1863/1937, extensive collection of Treaty Ports cds, including many earlier types such as Amoy SG type C, less common postmarks of Ningpo and Weihaiwei oval etc., sorted in great detail, a number of stamps with complete wing margins, a very good range (SG Cat. value approx. £20,000).
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Lot #12429 - Hongkong - Treaty Ports
Hongkong - Treaty Ports: Shanghai: 1882/1907, QV and KEVII, group of covers (6) and franked picture
Shanghai: 1882/1907, QV and KEVII, group of covers (6) and franked picture postcards (7) used to overseas, inc. 1894 7 C. rate to London, 1896 5 C. ultra block-4 company cover (creased) "ULLMANN & Co." to Switzerland w. LIGNE N transit, 1903 registered cover to Kobe/Japan HSBC at 32 C. rate etc. 13 entires, estate.
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Lot #12430 - Hongkong - Treaty Ports
Hongkong - Treaty Ports: Amoy: 1896, QV 10 C. carmine on lilac tied "AMOY FE 19 98" to cover to Japa
Amoy: 1896, QV 10 C. carmine on lilac tied "AMOY FE 19 98" to cover to Japanese consulate at Lyons/France, transits "HONG KONG FE 20 98" (on reverse) and french postal steamer "LIGNE N 26 FEVR 98 No. 9", arrival March 28. Unevenly opened at left. With contents. - Plus QV stationery cards 4 C. grey (2) used "HONG KONG C" 1899 to Tokyo/...
Lot #12431 - Hongkong - Treaty Ports
Hongkong - Treaty Ports: Tientsin, 1904/12, group of five entires with KEVII stationery envelope 4 C
Tientsin, 1904/12, group of five entires with KEVII stationery envelope 4 C. uprated 1908 to Germany, three picture post cards (Tientsin Club and Astor House Hotel, Bazaar); and KGV 2 C., 8 C. on 1915 cover to USA with seal and embossed flapp "Collins&Co., Tientsin".
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