Hongkong - Besonderheiten: 1880/1937, perfins: QV issues (28) and KEVII/KGV (28) all used.
1880/1937, perfins: QV issues (28) and KEVII/KGV (28) all used.
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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 #12435 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Lot #12436 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: 1880/1940 (approx.), very extensive collection of company security markin
1880/1940 (approx.), very extensive collection of company security markings and perfins in thick stock album, sorted in great details by company names and types, including a good number of high denominations and uncommon markings, very difficult to find in this volume and details.
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Lot #12437 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: 1902/37, Kowloon Branch (4, ppc) and Kowloon Tong (2, covers): "Hong Kong
1902/37, Kowloon Branch (4, ppc) and Kowloon Tong (2, covers): "Hong Kong K.B." 1902 as transit to Berlin; 1910 and 1911 cancel to England/Berlin with amazing Lau King Pee illuminated view; 1919 Proud type D4 "A" on ppc to USA. - "Kowloon Tong" on 1936 local cover by La Salle College resp. 1937 on registered FDC KGV coronation to Germany...
Lot #12438 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: Kowloon, 1916/38, larger single circle dater types: on covers (5 inc. one
Kowloon, 1916/38, larger single circle dater types: on covers (5 inc. one ppc) inc. to US and Canada (real photo ppc of Avenue KEVII, Shanghai), 1938 to England w. mixed frank of KGV 1 C., 8 C. and KGVI 2 C., 4 C.; KGV $2 single frank on reverse of air mail cover by IAL to London. Plus KGV 4 C. scarlet, a block of 32 (4x8) with left inter...
Lot #12439 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: "Kowloon Hong Kong" 1935f. and Hong Kong Air (K) Mail" special type postm
"Kowloon Hong Kong" 1935f. and Hong Kong Air (K) Mail" special type postmark on air covers 1936/37 (6): 70 C. frank on P&O illustrated letter card "S. S. Rajputana"to Copenhagen/Denmark; 10 C. (5) resp. 50 C. single both to London. - And the "Hong Kong Air (K) Mail" on commercial cover with $1 single 1936 endorsed "Per Imperial RMA /...
Lot #12440 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: "Kowloon Hong Kong", 1935f. type on covers (6) used foreign to 1949 inc.
"Kowloon Hong Kong", 1935f. type on covers (6) used foreign to 1949 inc. coronation 15 C. single frank to England, KGVI 25 C. frank "26 JY 1940" to Denmark w. censortape. - Plus two Postmans Beat (PB) covers: 1938 with 5 C. green fiscal postally used to Trocadero Hotel, Kowloon with "K2" (Proud PB12A") and "Kowloon Hong Kong 21 Ja 38" on...
Lot #12441 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: 1936/82, meter marks on cover (11): two of the Universal "midget": M1 1 C
1936/82, meter marks on cover (11): two of the Universal "midget": M1 1 C. (2) dated "15 VIII 36" on unsealed cover used local with circular framed "2", backflap return address: "The Dairy Farm / Ice & Cold Storange / Company, Ltd. / Hong Kong.". - M3 4 C., 1 C., 20 C. used "21 XII 37" to Melbourne/Australia, lacquer seal remainders...
Lot #12442 - Hongkong - Besonderheiten
Hongkong - Besonderheiten: 1939/61, branch office covers (6): 1939 Sheungwan resp. Yaumati both air
1939/61, branch office covers (6): 1939 Sheungwan resp. Yaumati both air to Glasgow; 1946 Wantsai to US, KGVI 2 C. (15); 1949 Chengchau resp. Sheungwan to England; 1961 Kowloon Hong (4) Kong to England. Six covers.
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