1952/72: Collection with better sets and values unused and unused mint, incl. 1955 'Scientist' imperf. set of four sheetlets on white paper, 1959 'Sports' set of 16, 1961 'Tang Dynasty Pottery', 1963 imperf. and perf. 'Children' set, 'Butterflies' set of 20, 'Golden Haired Monkeys' imperforate set of three, 1964 Chinese Peonies set of 15, 'Yin Dynasty Bronze Vessels', 1971 'Centenary of the Paris Commune', '50th Anniversary of the Communist ...
Auction Series 257-264 in Zurich Day 4
By: Corinphila Auction AG
Corinphila Auction AG Auction Series 257-264 in Zurich Day 4
High-class philatelic material at Corinphila Auctions in Zurich
Rarities from all areas of philately are on offer, including the ‘Greifensee cover’, probably the most important cover of classic Swiss philately.
From 25 to 30 January 2021 Corinphila Auctions will offer for sale a very unusual range of material. The high-quality material being offered will be presented in no less than eight luxury auction catalogues.
The auction begins with high-quality offers from South American countries. The Brian Moorhouse Estate (Part 3) is notable for its wide variety of South American collecting areas from A (as in Argentina) to V (as in Venezuela). Especially impressive are the many proofs of various issues from classic to middle-period. Particularly well represented are Argentina, Brazil (including Lot 3137, the famous pair of the 600 Reis “Goat’s Eye” issue of 1844, in an unused pair from the Maurice Burrus collection, starting price CHF 5,000), Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala classics with the rarest covers and proofs, Honduras, Mexico and Uruguay.
The first part of the most important specialised collection of the first issue of Ecuador of 1865 in existence will be offered for sale under the name ‘Guayaquil’. Almost all the important items of this collecting area are in the collection. Particularly outstanding is the more attractive of only two known registered covers with the first issue (Lot 4071; starting price CHF 20,000).
A fine range of the classic issues of Peru will come up for sale in the main catalogue of the Corinphila auction series. Among these are also many stamps from the issues produced in continuous rolls on the ‘Lecoq’ printing press. Particularly appealing is an unused strip of five of the 5 centavos of 1870 showing the ‘new’ railway from Lima to Callao. The ‘Trencito’ , ‘the little train, as collectors later called the stamp, was intended for letters carried on this new railway line. To make endless rolls of the stamp, the ends of the lengths of paper were simply glued together! This is clearly visible here on the fourth stamp in the strip (Lot 156, starting price CHF 750).
Europe is represented with a wide range of material from the Pietro Provera collection. The emphasis is on Italy and France. The outstandingly good quality of the classic stamps and covers, for which this collector was well-known, is particularly impressive. For many years, "Provera quality" was a term used for top-quality philatelic material in many countries. For example, there is a cover with France’s first issue of 1849, a very rare tête-bêche pair of the 20 centimes on cover (Lot 5141, starting price CHF 5,000). Or a four-colour franking of Sicily with the extremely rare top value of 50 grana on cover (Lot 5675, starting price CHF 20,000).
Another very unusual specialised collection comes up for auction with the Gregory Frantz "Stamp Issuing Steamship Companies" collection. It includes all the private steamship lines that issued privately produced stamps for mail carried on their ships. The many small shipping lines on the thousands of lakes and the coast of Finland offer great variety, often in combination with state stamps. An example is the ‘Skärgards Trafik Aktiebolag’ (STAB) cover with the private bicoloured 25 penni ship’s stamp for delivery within Finland by the private shipping line, in combination with the Finnish state-issue 5 penni and 20 penni for onward transmission to Frankfurt (Lot 6069, starting price CHF 1,000).
Switzerland is also represented again with an outstanding range of material. This includes a postal history collection "Franco-Prussian War - Impact on Swiss Postal History 1866-1871". The presentation in the auction catalogue combined with historical background information is unique and is likely to set new standards for philatelic auctions. One could almost speak of a milestone of philately, on its way to being recognised as an additional historical science. A ‘must’ for every philatelist interested in history!
However, the second part of the ERIVAN collection is undoubtedly outstanding in its Swiss material. The collection of the former Tengelmann entrepreneur Erivan Haub contains the greatest rarities of Swiss philately. Now the famous registered cover from the "Notariat Greifensee" comes up for sale. Franked with Switzerland’s first two stamps, the Zurich 4 and Zurich 6, it is for many the "non plus ultra" of Swiss rarities in private hands. The provenance of the item goes back to 1900 when, in the collection of the then President of the Banque de France, Paul Mirabaud, the cover caused a sensation at the Paris Exposition. It later found its way into the collections of Diem-Saxer of St. Gallen (1934), the Swiss shoe magnate Iwan Bally (1964), and then the ‘HELVETICUS’ collection (1991) before finding a new home in the collection of Erivan Haub for almost 30 years. The starting price of the Greifensee cover being offered as Lot 7003 is CHF 300,000.
All the material being offered can be viewed at www.corinphila.ch.
Further information and catalogue orders at: Corinphila Auktionen AG, Wiesenstrasse 8, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland, Telephone + 41 (0)44 389 9191, Fax + 41 (0)44 389 9195, Email: [email protected]
Illustrations
Brazil 1844, “Goat’s Eye” 600 reis in an unused pair with the best provenance: Maurice Burrus collection (1964)
Ecuador 1865, a pair of the 1 real green on a registered cover. Only two registered covers of the first issue are known. Top cover from the Ackermann (1937), Homan (c. 1960) and E.M. de Bustamante (1996) collections.
Peru 1870, 5 centavos ‘Trencito’ in a strip of five with the fourth stamp showing the paper join.
France 1849, 20 centimes, a rare tête-bêche pair on cover.
Sicily 1859, four-colour franking with 50 grana top value to Genoa.
Finland 1880, private ship’s stamp in combination with stamps of the state Post Office on cover to Frankfurt.
Zurich 1843, registered cover from the Greifensee notary’s office with the first two stamps of Switzerland.
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Lot #1438 - Overseas People's Republic of China
1955/72: Collection with better sets and values unused and unused mint, incl. 1955 'Scientist' imperf. set of four sheetlets on white paper, 1960 'Chrisanthenums', 1961 'Tang Dynasty Pottery', 1963 imperf. and perf. 'Children' set, 'Butterflies' set of 20, 'Giant Pandas' and 'Golden Haired Monkeys', each in imperforate sets of three and 'Hwangshan Landscapes' set of 16, 1964 'Chinese Peonies' set of 15, 'Yin Dynasty Bronze Vessels', 1971 '...
Lot #1439 - Overseas People's Republic of China
1955/72: Collection with better sets and values unused and unused mint, incl. 1961 'Tang Dynasty Pottery', 1964 'Chinese Peonies' compl.set of 15 with Mi. 577/582 in two compl. sets, further two compl. sets of 1971 'Centenary of Paris Commune', '50th Anniversary of the Communist Party' including the rare 'triptych' as well as 1972 'Chinese Merchant Shipping' set of four and two complete sets of '30 Anniversary of Publication of Yenan Forum'...
Lot #1440 - Overseas People's Republic of China
1960/80c: Lot hundreds daily use covers from the PRC, a large variety of items incl. FDC's and commemorative issue frankings.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1441 - Overseas Ethiopia
1911: Dirre Daoua Manuscript Provisionals, the superb set of seven values overprinted "AFF EXCEP / FAUTE TIMB" with values in manuscript, a fine and fresh set tied by Dirre-Daoua datestamps (Oct 5, 1911) in blue to registered envelope to Harrar, cover returned to Dirre-Daoua. Corresponding R handstamp in blue alongside and two transit and return strikes of Dirre-Daoua (Oct 8 & 12) on reverse. Horizontal file well away from stamps and...
Lot #1442 - Overseas Ethiopia
1943: Restoration of obelisk and 13th. Anniv. of Coronation of Haile Selassie 5 c. - 30 c., five surcharged values, each in a block of ten in mint condition. Mi 207-211 = € 5'000.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1443 - Overseas Ethiopia
1947 (May 23): Roosevelt & Haile Selassie issue, the set of five values, all in complete sheets of twelve, fresh and fine appearance, typically browned unmounted og. Scarce and attractive Mi = € 1'200.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1444 - Overseas Ethiopia
1894/1973: Predominately mint collection housed in an Album beginning with a specialised section of Menelik II stamps, with its many different overprint-types. 1911 Mi A46-G46 are included on piece, but as is. Catalogue value according to vendor over 3,300.- EUR.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1445 - Overseas indonesia
1948/54: Lot 60+ mint stamps incl. 1948 INDONESIA ovpt. Dutch definitives, 1949 Temple definitives, 1950 RIS ovpt. definitives and 1954 Riau Lingga ovpt. definitives. Mi = € 2'500 following the consignor.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1446 - Overseas iran
1870/1989: Mainly mint/unused four volume collection with few used and on cover, incl. Lion issues, 1870 1 s - 8 s, 1875 1 s - 8 s, 1876 imperf. 1 s black and 1 s gray to 4 k. 1878 1 k. - 5 k. violet and gold, 1882/84 10 Fr. unused, many provisional handstamped overprints 1898-1921, good to fine condition, arranged on Farahbaksh pre-printed album pages and the whole packed in a box.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1447 - Overseas iran
1881/1980c: Lot hundreds stamps used / unused incl. 1930s Airmail stamps, definitives, official and fiscal stamps, in addition small sections of other Asian countries such as Israel, Palestine, and Mongolia, in four albums.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1448 - Overseas Israel
1948/90ca: Collection hundreds primarily unused stamps, primarily in multiples incl. eleven compl. sets of the 1948 Doar Ivri first Coin set of nine values, in blocks of four with and without tab, two sets on souvenir pages of the Israel Postal Administration during 1948 IMABA stamp show in Basel, varieties such as imperf. between or wrong tab, later commemorative issues such as 1949 souvenir sheet 1, Jewish Holidays in blocks of four with...
Lot #1449 - Overseas Israel
1948/92: Lot some thousand stamps used/unused or in mint condition, few better values from the beginning, modern blocks of four, a bunch of business or daily mail and plenty of FDC's, early issues partly somewhat tacky otherwise in good condition, nicely arranged in total 12 albums and stockbooks, the whole packed into a Bananabox.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1450 - Overseas Japan
1875, Wild Goose 12 s. rose, Syllabic 3,with top sheet margin on envelope dispatched from 'YOKOHAMA 11 APR 1885' via 'BRINDISI 27 GIU 85' to Dresden/Germany with datestamp for arrival 30 May 1885 on reverse. The adhesive is cancelled with 'Y' type xC (Nishino handbook), but unfortunately not tied to the cover. The BPP expert for Japan, Florian Eichhorn, can not confirm the original use of the 12 s. Wild Goose stamp on the cover, and therefore...
Lot #1451 - Overseas Japan
1916 (Dec 23): Registered cover from Kyoto to Basel, Switzerland, a well decorated envelope bearing 1914-25 20 s. claret, tied by Japanese cds with bilingual Yokohama Transit cds in violet (Dec 24) alongside and two diff. types of registration labels from Kyoto and Yokohama, opened in transit by the French censor and and closed with the matching strip, reverse with Basel arrival cds (Feb 5, 1917). An appealing cover.
Catalogue 257:...
Lot #1452 - Overseas Japan
1871/97: Collection used/unused with some better sets values with a strength in the semi-modern period with airmails and after war issues as single value of 1948 Philatelic Week 5 y. brown , 1950 airpost set unused, 1949 Japan Foreign Traid Fair imperf. sheet of 20 as well as 1949/53 National Parks miniature sheets, mounted in an original Japanese postage stamp album 1946/58.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1453 - Overseas Japan
1871/1965: Collection with better sets and values used/unused starting with 1871 mon issues, 1872 Cherry Blossom to 1876/86 Koban issue with many signed by F. Eichhorn and of cancelation interest, further National park sets and miniature sheets up to 1948 Nagano Philatelic Exhibition, 1949 8 y. postal week, all unused, condition of the classics varies, otherwise fine.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1454 - Overseas north korea
1948/68c: Lot 80+ mint stamps and one souvenir sheet with political and topical issues. Mi = € 1'157 following the consignor.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1455 - Overseas north korea
1946/59: Lot few hundred stamps unused and mostly ungummed as issued, showing single items, pairs, strips and part-sheets, housed in a stockbook, in addition a presentation folder with better stamps as well as 14 commercial illustrated envelopes.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1456 - Overseas South Korea
1947/74c: Lot 50+ mint stamps and eleven souvenir sheets with political and topical issues. Mi = € 1'088 following the consignor.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1457 - Overseas libya
1960/75: Selection modern Libyan Philately with total 270 envelopes, mostly showing multicolour frankings composed with various topics and addressed to Germany, also some FDC's, diff. cancellations, few parcel cards and more, housed in three albums.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1458 - Overseas libya
1950/70: Lot 240 envelopes, mostly showing philat. frankings and addressed to Germany, in between also some business mail and a wealth of diff. cancellations, in addition a selection of stamps used/unused or on piece, furthermore a bunch of envelopes showing meter band advertising and a tourist map. Housed in three albums.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1459 - Overseas Nepal
1881: 1 a. milky blue on European paper, an imperforate block of six (2 x 3) positions 10-11/18-19/26-27, probably from Setting 1, with large margins all round and of excellent clear impession and fresh colour, unused without gum as issued. A superb and rare multiple Gi = £ 1'350.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1460 - Overseas Nepal
1901/14ca.: Two stampless official covers carried by courier to Kathmandu showing fine strikes of large ornamental transit marks from the Tibet border administration in Kerong and Kuti (Tibet towns under Nepalese jusrisdiction), one registered with 'Shri Adalata Kuti' Court seal, other with 'Shri Adalata Kerong' Court seal. Fine.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
Lot #1461 - Overseas Nepal
1930 (Aug--Dec): Sri Pashupati Redrawn Issue Recess Perkins Bacon & Co, London 8 p. scarlet perf. 13 ½ on ungummed wove paper in a spectcular complete sheet of one hundred with nearly compl. sheet margin, only three tabs of upper margin missing, minimal marginal tear at bottom right, showing '8 PICE' imprint on lower left Gi. = £ 2'700.
Catalogue 257: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
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