1865, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre plate proof in black on white paper with vertical network, without gum, scarce, fine, sign. Prof. Winterstein, Pohl
373rd Heinrich Köhler auction - Day 1
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Heinrich Koehler Auktionen 373rd Heinrich Köhler auction - Day 1
Viewing times of the 373rd Heinrich Köhler auction
Viewing in our office in Wiesbaden.
17 - 20 March 2020 | Tuesday to Friday | 9.00 a.m. to 5 p-m. |
23 - 27 March 2020 | Monday to Friday | 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
28 March 2020 | Saturday | starting 8.30 a.m. |
You may also view at other times by appointment.
Due to a high number of visitors we recommend viewing the collection lots before the auction week.
Auction Schedule
Tuesday, 24th. March 2020 | from 9:00 a.m. | Lot 1 - 1016 |
Single Lots: Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland, Europe and Colonies: Belgium - Yugoslavia, including
Special offer: From Odessa via Constantinople to Mont Athos Special offer: Ireland - The Path to Independence – The "Dublin" Collection (part III)
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from 3:00 p.m. | Lot 6001-6216 |
Special Catalogue: Private Ship Letter Stamp Issuing Companies up to 1900 – The Jan Berg Collection
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Wednesday, 25th. March 2020 | from 9:30 a.m. | Lot 1017-1342 |
Single Lots: Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries, Shipmail, Airmail, Zeppelin, Olympics, Thematics and Literature
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from 1:00 p.m. | Lot 4001-4443 |
Collections: Europe: Albania - Vatikan, incl. Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries
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Thursday 26th. March 2020 | from 9:00 a.m. | Lot 4444-4892 |
Collections: General collections All World / Europe / Overseas, Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematic collections, Coins, Literature, German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies
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from 1:00 p.m. | Lot 4893-5431 |
Collections: German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, General collections Germany, Germany after 1945
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Friday, 27th. March 2020 | from 9:30 a.m. | Lot 1343-1809 |
Single Lots: German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, including Special offer: Germania Sarre – The
Karlheinz Menges Collection
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from 1:30 p.m. | Lot 1991-2616 |
Single Lots: Germany after 1945: Local issues after 1945, Allied Forces issues, Soviet Occupation Zone, German Democratic Republic, Berlin, Bizone, Federal Republik of Germany, including the „George Marshall“
Collection (part IV)
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Saturday, 28th. March 2020 | from 10:00 a.m. | Lot 2617 – 3124 |
Single Lots: German Empire 1872 - 1945,
German post offices abroad and colonies
German States Baden – Württemberg, North
German Confederation, Alsace-Lorraine
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Lot #6020 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre plate proof in blue on white paper with vertical network, without gum, scarce, fine
Lot #6021 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 10 para red/blue, block of 12 in fresh and nice shade with sheet margins on three sides, without gum, an attractive multiple, signed Gilbert & Köhler
Lot #6022 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1866, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre, single in a deep and fresh shade with wide, well balanced margins tied by blue double cds. "COMPAGNIE RUSSE DE NAVIGATION SMIRNE 1865 JUN 26" to folded lettersheet to Mersina, a fine and rare entire
Provenance: The Agathon Fabergé Collection (Harmer's of Bond Street, 1940, lot 173)
David Feldman (November 1982, lot 20909)
Lot #6023 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre, two singles in distinctively different shades from different printings, both with good margins all around, tied by blue cds. "COMPAGNIE RUSSE DE NAVIGATION SMIRNE 9.4" to envelope (reduced at right) to Tripoli, extremely fine and rare franking of the same value from two different printings, certificate Mikulski (1999)
Provenance: Caspary
The Agathon Fabergé Collection (Harmer...
Lot #6024 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 10 para horizontal strip of four in fresh colour and wide margins all around tied by black retta to folded lettersheet from Samsun to Trébizonde, the strip with tiny wrinkles of no importance, a fine and rare entire, certificate Mikulski (1999)
Lot #6025 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre, three singles, mostly good margins, only one stamp touched at left, all tied by blue indistinct Smyrna cds. to folded lettersheet to Mersina, right stamp affected by vertical filing crease, a trifle stained, otherwise fine, an attractive and scarce cover, signed Alberto Diena and Holcombe with certificate (1993)
Provenance: The Agathon Fabergé Collection (Harmer's of Bond Street, 1940, lot 194)...
Lot #6026 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1865, Steamer and Eagle 2 piastre, deep and fresh shade with wide, well balanced margins in combination with Imperial Russia Coat of Arms 10k. brown/blue, tied by blue retta to folded letter from Messina to Taganrog with cds. "РОПИТ КОНСТАНТИНОП. АГЕНТ. 27 II 68" on reverse, a very fine, rare and attractive combination cover, signed Faberge, A. Diena, Giulio Bolaffi and certificate Holcombe (1990)
Provenance: The Agathon Fabergé...
Lot #6027 - levant Issues of ROPIT, Ship Mail
1867, Steamer and Eagle 10 para, block of four in deep fresh shade and good margins all around, used with four clear strikes of blue retta, upper two stamps with ironed out horizontal creases (basically invisible on front), small pre-cuts between stamps, a very attractive and rare multiple, signed Pfenninger
Provenance: The Agathon Fabergé Collection (Harmer's of Bond Street, 1940, lot 212)
Russian Ship Mail...
Lot #6028 - levant Issues of the ImperialPost, Ship Mail
FIRST PRINTING: 1863, For dispatch under Wrapper 6 kopeck light-blue, fresh colour and good margins all around, used clear strike of blue boxed "Franco", a truly beautiful used copy, certificate Mikulski (1995)
Provenance: Baron Philipp Ferrary de la Renotière (Sale 8, November 1923, Lot 229)
Caspary (H.R. Harmer, March 1958, Lot 271)
John R. Boker
Lot #6029 - levant Issues of the ImperialPost, Ship Mail
SECOND PRINTING: 1863, For dispatch under Wrapper 6 kopeck gray-blue, complete sheet of four with wide margins all around, unused without gum as issued, few thins and horizontal crease through lower stamps, otherwise fine, a visually appealing and scarce multiple, in addition an unused single
Lot #6030 - levant Issues of the ImperialPost, Ship Mail
SECOND PRINTING: 1863, For dispatch under Wrapper 6 kopeck gray-blue, fresh colour and good margins on two sides, slightly touched at upper left and right, used with clear strike of cds. "КОНСТАНТИНОПОЛ 4 MAR 1864", absolutely insignificant corner crease at lower left, an attractive copy of this rare stamp in used condition, signed Pfenninger and Köhler
Lot #6031A - levant Issues of the ImperialPost, Ship Mail
1863/65, interesting group of 7 stamps and one phantasy stamp including ROPIT Mi.-Nr. 1 unused without gum and three Wrapper stamps 6 kopeck unused, some faults, some signed
Lot #6031 - levant Issues of the ImperialPost, Ship Mail
THIRD PRINTING: 1863, For dispatch under Wrapper 6 kopeck dark-blue on glaced paper, complete sheet of four with wide margins all around, mint never hinged, small corner crease at upper left, some small wrinkles, otherwise fine, a scarce sheet, signed Kosack and Richter
Lot #6032 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
"BELL'S ASIA MINOR STEAMSHIP Co. SMYRNA AGENCY" perfectly struck blue four-line handstamp on folded letter to Triest with adjacent cds. "SMIRNE 4/2 71", once the cover was received by the companies agent in Izmir it was transferred to the Austrian Lloyd Company where the cover was charged with "20" (soldi) as postage due, reverse with arrival mark, a very fine entire showing a perfect strike of the very rare handstamp of which only two are...
Lot #6033 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
"THE ASIA MINOR SCREW STEAMSHIP Co. ADALIA AGENCY" three-line handstamp on folded letter from Adalia to Chios, an attractive entire with very rare blue strike of the three-line handstamp, certificate Vachat (2010)
Provenance: The Pasha Collection of Islamic Stamps and Postal History (Spink 2011)
depicted in S. Ringstrom and H.E. Tester "The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World - Part 2" page 25
Lot #6034 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
"THE ASIA MINOR SCREW STEAMSHIP Co. SMYRNA AGENCY" perfectly struck blue three-line handstamp on folded letter to Triest with adjacent cds. "SMIRNE 4/2 71", once the cover was received by the companies agent in Izmir it was transferred to the Austrian Lloyd Company where the cover was charged with "20" (soldi) as postage due, reverse with arrival mark, a very fine entire showing a perfect strike of the rare handstamp
Lot #6035 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 1 piastre black on green glazed paper, cut into at top, but showing part of adjoining stamp at bottom, used, an attractive example of this rarity, signed Schlesinger and certificate Scheller (2009)
Lot #6036 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 1 piastre black on green glazed paper, fresh colour close margins to slightly touched, unused without gum, small surface scratch at bottom, otherwise fine, believed to be the sole unused copy, certificate Scheller (2009)
Lot #6037 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 1 piastre black on green glazed paper, fresh colour and good margins, used with four-line cancel, tiny and unimportant corner bend at lower left, a fine example of this rare stamp, signed Diena with certificate (1986) and certificate du Vachat (2010)
Lot #6038 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 2 piastre black on green glazed paper, fresh colour with superb large margins, used with part of well readable 'Joly' handstamp in blue, minor thin on reverse, otherwise a fine example of this rare stamp, signed Calves
Lot #6039 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 2 piastre black on green glazed paper, fresh colour with superb large margins, used on small piece with part of 'Joly' handstamp in blue (Mr. Joly presided over the Company), a fine example of this rare stamp, certificate du Vachat (2010)
Lot #6040 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
1868 Lithographed 2 piastre black on green glazed paper, fresh colour close margins to slightly touched, tied by four-line cancel "BELL'S ASIA MINOR STEAMSHIP CO. SMYRNA AGENCY" to large part of folded lettersheet to Makri-Fethiye, the stamp lifted for inspection, a very rate item with only 3 covers recorded, signed and certificate Scheller (2009)
Lot #6041 - British Commonwealth Trinidad and Tobago, Ship Mail
1847, Lady McLeod (5 cents) blue, fresh colour and close to large margins, without gum, a fine copy of the most iconic of all private ship letter stamps and also the first adhesive stamp issued in a British Colony, certificates PF (1957), A. Diena (1973) and Brandon (1996)
Provenance: H. R. Harmer, 1957
"The David Melat Collection of Postage Stamps of the World" (John W. Kaufmann Inc., 1985)...
Lot #6042 - Venezuela Privat Ship post issues, Ship Mail
1864, The 1st. Centavo Issue, Streamer "Robert Todd" ½ centavo black, horizontal strip of four with good to large margins all around, printed from Stone II, positions 13-16, unused without gum, fine, signed Roumet
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