1479, Candia to Venice: Entire folded letter of 3½ pages, RR & VF-Sup
Auction #77
By: Collectio (Alexandre Galinos)
Collectio (Alexandre Galinos) Auction #77
Our 77th Collectio Public Auction will be held in Athens on January 18th, 2015.
This is a very interesting auction featuring more than 4,000 lots, including unique items, many rare & important or just interesting lots of stamps, postal history, postal stationery & postcards from the Balkans, Levant Post Offices, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Americas, etc...
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Lot #2387 - Crète greece crete - pre-stamp period mail
1817, Canea: Entire folded letter written in Italian by an Jewish (Moise Franco), with dateline "Canea al 7:setembre 1817", the text concerns the oil production of the island "...la nostra prosima ricolta di oglio e perfeta in tuta la isola..." etc, sent to Venice via Smyrna "per via smirne, in venecia". Cretan mail of this period is very rare, possibly disinfected upon arrival, RR & VF
Lot #2388 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1900: Vlastos [2] / Hellas [2], 5λ 1900 in deep blue, perforated SPECIMEN, thick paper without gum, Sup
Lot #2389 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1900: Vlastos [10-14] / Hellas [10-14], complete set with red overprint 'ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΝ', with 'diamond' perforation (without gum), R & Sup
Lot #2390 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1900: Vlastos [4] / Hellas [4], 20λ 1900 brown on cream carton, proof, VF -some foxing
Lot #2391 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1900: Vlastos [5] / Hellas [5], 25λ 1900 in deep green, perforated SPECIMEN, thick paper without gum, Sup
Lot #2392 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1905: Vlastos [25] / Hellas [24], 2λ 1905 in red, color essay in thick paper without gum, Sup
Lot #2393 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1905: Vlastos [26] / Hellas [25], 5λ 1905 in carmine, perforated SPECIMEN, in thick paper without gum, Sup
Lot #2394 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1905: Vlastos [30] / Hellas [29], 50λ 1905 in red-carmine, color essay in thick paper without gum, VF
Lot #2395 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) essays and specimen
1905: Vlastos [32] / Hellas [31], 3δρχ 1905 in red-carmine & black, perforated SPECIMEN, in thick paper without gum, Sup
Lot #2396 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1900: Vlastos 10 / Hellas 10, 25λ overprinted ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΝ (provisional) in red, canceled by ΧΑΝΙΑ 1.ΜΑΡΤ.1900 (Hania, Canea), First Day of Issue (FDC), R & F
Lot #2397 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1900: Vlastos 10-14 / Hellas 10-14, "Red Provisional Overprint" Issue, two complete sets of five values, one mint, the other used. Both sets with the usual centering, the mint with hinged original gum. In the used set, the 2δρχ was canceled on the first day of issue, the key 5δρχ is backstamped twice. Overall F-VF
Lot #2398 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1900: Vlastos 15-19, 18A / Hellas 15-19, 18A, 25λ-5δρχ 1900, complete set with black ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΝ overprint & marginal copy of 2δρχ 1901 (re-issue), used, VF-Sup
Lot #2399 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1901: Vlastos 23 / Hellas 20, 25λ locally overprinted ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΟΝ, 8 copies as follows: 1 unused copy hinged, an unused pair without gum, 2 used copies, 1 unused copy hinged with variety “shifted overprint”, 1 used copy with variety “printers bit before Π” and 1 used copy with variety “damaged N” [Feenstra, see p. 149, fig. 213], R & VF-Sup
Lot #2400 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1904: Vlastos 25-33 / Hellas 24-32, Presentation card "Direction des Postes Cretoises, Timbres-Poste de la nouvelle emission 1904". The stamps of the 1905 engraved issue, affixed on decorated thin cardboard printed by the Cretan Government's printing house. It seems that the Bradbury Wilkinson & Co stock ran short and the Cretan Postal Administration printed locally a small quantity, RR & VF-Sup -folded
Lot #2401 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1908: Vlastos 51, 53 / Hellas 36, 38, small "ΕΛΛΑΣ" overprints, 1λ (2 copies) & 5λ with overprint varieties, used, R & VF
Lot #2402 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1908: Vlastos 57 / Hellas 41, 25λ “small ΕΛΛΑΣ” vertical marginal pair (with part of printer's name), without gum, VF
Lot #2403 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1908: Vlastos 59 / Hellas 43, "Small ΕΛΛΑΣ Overprint" on Cretan stamps of 1900-07, the key 1δρχ value, Post office fresh, nicely centered, mint never hinged, VF
Lot #2404 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1909: Vlastos 63-68 / Hellas 48-53, "1909 Provisional Surcharges" Issue, two complete sets of six values each, one mint and one used. Both sets are fresh, nicely centered, the mint with hinged gum (key 5λ on 20λ rose value is lightly hinged), the used with nice cancels (key value centered to bottom but with clear design). Very useful, F-VF
Lot #2405 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1909: Vlastos 69-76 / Hellas 55-62, "Gothic ΕΛΛΑΣ Overprint" complete set of eight values, well centered and nicely canceled. Key value backstamped twice and signed in pencil, F-Sup
Lot #2406 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1909: Vlastos 69-76 / Hellas 55-62, "Gothic ΕΛΛΑΣ Overprint" complete set of eight values, well centered, mint hinged, some with remnants, key value is bacstamped five times, F-Sup
Lot #2407 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1909: Vlastos 73 / Hellas 59, "Gothic ΕΛΛΑΣ Overprint" on Cretan stamps of 1905-08, the 1δρχ green and black value of 1907, Post Office fresh, very well centered, mint never hinged, VF
Lot #2408 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps
1909: Vlastos 79 / Hellas 64, 2λ “large ΕΛΛΑΣ” 1909-10, copy bearing smaller “ΕΛΛΑ” overprint and different "Σ" [see Feenstra p. 179, fig. 250 & 251], Sup
Lot #2409 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) postage due stamps
1908: Vlastos D10-18 / Hellas D10-18, "Small ΕΛΛΑΣ Overprint" on 1901 postage dues, complete mint set of nine values, some overall toning, usual centering for these, F-VF. The key 1δρχ centered to the left, well clear of the design (position 32 of the sheet), mint original gum with hinge remnant, signed in pencil and with 2003 Karatzas certificate of genuineness.
Lot #2410 - Crète crete - independent state (1900-1912) stamps - postal rates
2 lepta rate: Second issue (1905) 2λ, canceled ΡΕΘΥΜΝΟΝ 13.ΦΕΒΡ.1906 (Rethymno), open cover with faint violet ΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΡΕΘΥΜΝΟΥ (Trade Society of Rethymno, showing Flying Hermes) sent in town, returned to sender. Printed matter rate, R & VF
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