T.B. Morton & Co. / Danube & Black Sea Line Steamers 1870: 1 pi. red, perf. 12½, used on small piece with 1872 surcharged LETTER in red on Journal 10 pa. black & red on grey-blue, tied to small piece by PD in diamond grill in red. An extremely rare and very fine piece Mi = € 400+.
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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.
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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 #6244 - europe Turkey
Lot #6245 - europe Turkey
T.B. Morton & Co / Danube & Black Sea Line Steamers 1870/72: Journal Stamp 10 pa. black & red on white, perf. 12½, a soiled unused example, a fine used example with part PD in diamond grill handstamp in red and a superb used example, similarly cancelled, imperforate on all sides; a scarce group Mi = € 360.
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Lot #6246 - europe Turkey
T.B. Morton & Co. / Danube & Black Sea Line Steamers 1870 (Oct): 3rd issue, 1 pi. red and 1872 6th issue 10 pa. black & red on blued, imperforate and showing portion of adjoining stamp at top, used on February 29, 1872 entire letter from Constantinople to Galatz, Romania each tied by PD in diamond grill in red. The cover marked "Franco" in manuscript underneath the 10 para, the 1 pi. with slight surface scuff mentioned only for...
Lot #6247 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 1875: Die Proof for the 10 c. value on thick white card paper hand-painted in brown, pale blue and Chinese white, imperforate and attached to piece from the De La Rue Day Book, showing differences to the finished design: the flag being larger, the flagstaff not touching the circle at base and the vignette being on a solid background. There is a sheet marginal example of the finished stamp above and manuscript...
Lot #6248 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 1875: Die Proof for the 10 c. value printed in black on glazed cut-down white card, affixed to piece of the De La Rue Day Book with manuscript date "Feb 20th" in black ink and endorsed as supplied in red ink "March 24th" diagonally. Slight rubbing but a splendid and unique Proof.
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Lot #6249 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 1875 (March): Die Proof for the 10 c. value in black on glazed white card, dated 'Feb. 18 1875' and endorsed BEFORE HARDENING in black. Rare and very fine.rnProvenance: George Alevizos, Marina del Ray, 17 Dec 1985, lot 257
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Lot #6250 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: De La Rue Die Proof for the 10 c. value, printed in black on glazed white card, dated "Feb 19, 1875" and endorsed AFTER STRIKING in black. Minimal soiling but very rare, this example illustrated in Ringström & Tester 'Private Ship Lettertamps of the World' on page 130.
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Lot #6251 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: De La Rue Die Proof for the 10 c. value, printed in black on glazed white card, dated "Feb 19, 1875" and endorsed BEFORE HARDENING in black. Rare and very fine.
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Lot #6252 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co 1875: 10 c. rose-carmine, a complete unused sheet of 30 subjects (6 x 5) with full sheet margins all round, fresh and very fine, large part or unmounted og. Superb Facit = 15'000 skr.
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Lot #6253 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: 10 c. rose, perf. 12½, a used example cancelled by large part oval "ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET Co. / CURACAO AGENCY / SIGISMUNDO WEIL & Co." cachet in blue. Rare.
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Lot #6254 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: 10 c. rose, perf. 12½, a used example tied to piece by complete strike of oval framed "JOH KOCK & Co. / LLOYD'S AGENTS / PTO. CABELLO" in black and further cancelled by part 'Curacao' datestamp in black. Extremely rare with complete full strike.
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Lot #6255 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: 10 c. rose, perf. 12½, a used example cancelled by small part circular "ADMON. DE CORREOS DE SAMANA" in black, small faults to stamp but of great rarity nevertheless.rnProvenance: Collection Julius Steindler, RL, Basel, 14 March 1972, ex lot 591.
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Lot #6256 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: 10 c. rose, perf. 12½, used examples (5) with two cancelled in manuscript and three examples with partial strikes of "JOH KOCK & Co. / LLOYD'S AGENTS / PTO. CABELLO" in black, one slightly discoloured but with small part 'Southampton' cds at base. One example illustrated in Ringström & Tester 'Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World' on page 131. A rare group.rnProvenance: Collection Julius...
Lot #6257 - europe danish west indies
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1875: 10 c. rose, perf. 12½, the famous usage on small envelope addressed to a Monsieur Léonard Tizon in Gonaives, Haiti tied on despatch by oval framed "FRANCO" in black applied in Santo Domingo. A remarkable and very rare cover, there being but three examples of this stamp recorded on letter: one ex the Jan Berg collection ex Puerto Cabello (lot 6077) and the other a cover from Haiti illustrated in Ringstöm...
Lot #6258 - europe danish west indies
Clara Rothe / St. Thomas - Puerto Rico 1866/69: Two album pages with imperforate Proofs for 4 c. value in red-brown and 2 r. in blue, 2 c. black on green coloured paper Proof perforated 10½, the unissued set of four: ½ r. blue, 1 r. orange-red, 2 r. mauve and 4 r. green, and the same four values all printed in black; these originals being printed by Stern in Paris and very scarce. The collection continues with 1st Forgery in black perf. 13 or...
Lot #6259 - europe danish west indies
Hamburg American Packet Co / HAPAG 1875 (May 21): Entire letter from La Guayra to Bordeaux endorsed "p. Lotharinga" struck in transit with Danish P.O. ST THOMAS cds (June 2) and reverse with circular AUS WESTINDIEN / HAMBURG DAMPFER / ÜBER CÖLN in black (June 18) and thence via Paris to destination where charged '8' décimes handstruck due in blue. Rare.
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Lot #6260 - europe danish west indies
Hamburg American Packet Co (HAPAG) 1875: 10 c. black, blue-green & yellow, a horizontal strip of four used on piece, originally separated and returned to it's former glory, each stamp cancelled by large circular "P" in circle struck in blue. Creased between each stamp not greatly affecting the appearance, an exceptional and rare multiple and very possibly one of the largest recorded.
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Lot #6264 - europe danish west indies
Hamburg American Packet Co (HAPAG) 1875: 10 c. black, blue-green & yellow, a used example on 1877 entire letter from St. Thomas to Caracas endorsed 'pr. Vandalia', cancelled by concentric circle obliterator in black with ST. THOMAS cds adjacent (Jan 9) in black. Vertical file fold crosses the adhesive but a very rare stamp on letter.rnProvenance: Heinrich Köhler, sale 165, Wiesbaden, March 1961, lot 198.
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Lot #6265 - europe danish west indies
Hamburg American Packet Co (HAPAG) 1875: 10 c. black, blue-green & yellow, a used example on 1877 entire letter from La Guayra to St. Thomas endorsed 'pr. Rhenania', with two oval cachets - that of the sender F.J. WALLIS & Co. / LA GUAYRA and that of the Forwarding Agent with oval "HAMBURG AMERICAN / PACKET COMPANY / Blohm Valentines & Co. / La Guayra" also struck in blue. Circular undated CORREOS / LA GUAIRA in black at right and...
Lot #6269 - europe danish west indies
Hamburg American Packet Co (HAPAG) 1875/79: 10 c. black, blue-green & yellow, the collection of 34 examples, with unused (4) incl. a toned example without central embossing, used range with Postal or Agent's handstamps incl. St. Thomas concentric ring cancels (4) on two singles and a pair, double oval "Captain H. Milo" cachets in blue (2), one very fine on piece; Haiti with G. Keitel of Gonaives and White Hartmann & Co. of Cayes (2),...
Lot #6312 - europe danish west indies
The 'Paquete' Post of St. Thomas - La Guaira - Puerto Cabello 1868: Jesurun en Zoon ½ r. green, perf. 12½ x 11½, Transfer Type I, a used example with compound perforation, cancelled by undated 'Correos / Caracas' datestamp in black. Believed unique Facit LG19v2 = 1K.
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Lot #6315 - europe danish west indies
The 'Paquete' Post of St. Thomas - La Guaira - Puerto Cabello 1868: Jesurun en Zoon 2 r. rose-red, perf. 12½ with white gum, Transfer Type I, used on 9 July 1869 large part cover from Caracas to Bordeaux, fragile along folds, tied by Caracas undated circular handstamp in blue. Sent via London (July 30) with red cds on reverse and framed 'GB / 1F 60c.' Accountancy marking applied in black. Charged at double rate on arrival with '20' décimes...
Lot #6316 - europe danish west indies
The 'Paquete' Post of St. Thomas - La Guaira - Puerto Cabello 1869: Jesurun en Zoon 2 r. vermilion-red, perf. 10 with brown gum, Transfer Type IV, used on 1 Dec 1869 entire letter from St. Thomas to Curacao, fragile along folds, tied by "CAMERON, MACAULEY & Co. / ST. THOMAS" oval Agent's cachet in blue. CURACAO arrival cds (Dec 4) in black alongside. A remarkable and extremely rare entire - the earliest recorded usage of this adhesive....
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