Romania - Stamp Auctions

Lot 6399 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6399 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Postage Due 1862/80: Collection with covers/fronts/pieces (45 items) showing Postage Due charges, with 1860 entire from Berlad to Galatz charged '40' parale due in mss., 1871 entire from Giurgui to Bucharest with "20 BANI" Due mark struck twice in black, 1869c. cover from Caracal charged with "28 BANI" handstamp in black, stampless cover charged 60 Bani due with scarce "DIST. PRAHOVA / PL. CAMPU" despatch cds, 1868 18 b. rose on entire from Jassy to Galatz taxed '28' in manuscript (signed Heimbüchler), Austria 5 kr. stationery envelope taxed "40 BANI" due on receipt, Austria covers to London with "Weit Franco 14" in red on 1865 entire and 1874 cover franked 13 kr. from Vienna with framed "W.Fr./8x." in red, covers from UK to Trieste and Galatz taxed 25 kreuzer etc. Careful viewing recommended. Ex collection Sassower.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 750.00
Lot 6409 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6409 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1897/1915: Lot of 42 covers franked with the 'Ears of Wheat' and subsequent 'Engraved' and 'Typographed' definitive King Carol I issues, all sent to a textile company in Glarus, Switzerland, with a variety of frankings, some better with many registered usages (26) and postmark variety. 27 covers are with various PERFINS, most showing the sender company. Somewhat mixed condition as to be expected nevertheless an interesting group.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 150.00
Lot 6395 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6395 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1857/1900c.: The classic cover collection (65 items) with covers/fronts and the occasional piece with "BRAILA" two line dated cover, stampless covers from Jassy, Stirbeiu, Tintareni etc., 1858 40 pa. blue on cover from Jassy to Bucharest and charged Postage Due, 1862/64 issue covers with 30 pa. blue single frankings from Bucharest, Craiova, Galatz and Giurgiu; registered usages bearing 2 x 30 pa. or 3 x 30 pa. from Bucharest and Turnu Magurelle, 1865 Cuza issue covers with 20 pa. from Botosani, Braila, Budeu, Galatz, Giurgiu, Rimnic Sarat; registered usages with 2 x 20 pa. from Bolgrad and Ploesti; 1866/67 20 pa. covers from Budeu and Turgul Neamtu; 1868 issue 18 b. red used on covers from Fokschani, Husi, Jassy (2), Moinesti, Piatra (2), Rimnic Sarat, Turnu Magurelle, 1868 3 b. violet on 1½ bani postal stationery piece tied in Jassy partly signed by Friedl; 1868 4 bani blue pair on piece with 1869 10 b. blue, 4 b. blue on large piece and 3 b. violet on large piece/front; 1868 3 b. and 1869 15 b. red on pieces (2), 1869 15 b. red (2) on registered front, 25 b. blue & oange on cover to Berlin, 1871 10 b. yellow on cover front from Ismail and a few later items. Condition varies but much of interest with viewing recommended. Ex collection Sassower.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 2,000.00
Lot 6412 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6412 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Airmail 1920/48: The wonderful collection of Airmail and Flight covers and ephemera (260+ items), with 1920 flight covers Buc-Jassy (2 signed Odor); CFRNA advertising booklet of services, June and Sept 1923 Flight covers, range of Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish and Yugoslavian flight covers, Romanian covers do however predominate with the ubiquitous orange airmail label, 1927/30 Flights with Airmail sets used on covers/cards, CIDNA Flights from 1928 with five CIDNA advertising cards (one with French franking on picture side), Advertising Booklets for the CIDNA service with Airmail labels and a very rare Baggage Label, covers/cards utilising the service; later with 1930-40's flights to and from Romania incl. commercial covers to Argentina, Chile, Iraq, Palestine, Rhodesia, Sweden etc. An excellent assembly for the specialist. Ex collection Sassower.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 1,200.00
Lot 6405 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6405 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Railway Stations & Travelling Post Offices 1871/1918: Collection (90 items) with 1871 cover from Tekutsch to Vienna franked by 1869 25 b. with "GARA ROMAN / OFF. POSTAL" cds in blue on reverse, 1871 25 b. brown on cover from Galatz to Vienna with "Itzcani Roman" cds in blue on reverse, 1871 10 b. yellow on front of cover tied by bold "BACAU / POSTA" in black; stationery cards with some up-rated all cancelled by oval POSTA AMBULANTA markings (11), large range of circular TPO datestampüs on covers and cards, further study of "AMB" markings with numbered routes (I, III, IV, V, X, XI, XII, XIV) and the circular datestamp versions (16-20), cards with "TREN" datestamps with varriety of numbers, fine cover from 'Enterprise de Pont sur Le Danube à Cernavoda' to Paris and a card with framed "SALIGNY" handstamp in blue; Station cancellations on covers/cards, the whole with postcards of many Railway Stations. a delightful and hard to replicate lot. Ex collection Sassower.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 1,000.00
Lot 6400 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6400 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1868/1891: Collection (22 items) with the basis of Gabriel Sassower's work on the private "FRANCO" handstamps, with 1858 entire with framed Cyrillic "FRANCO" in blue, 1858 40 pa. blue used on cover from Kahul to Jassy tied by framed Cyrillic "FRANCO" in black (cert. Zoscsak, 1937); cover with 1862 6 pa. red in a strip of four cancelled "FRANCO / FOKSCHANY" to Bacau, pieces and covers with 1862/64 30 pa. blue, 1865 Cuza 20 pa. on cover from Jassy and a further example on front from Braila, 1867 18 b. red used on cover ex Braila etc. Many of the items are discussed and illustrated by G. Sassower in the London Philatelist, Volume 89, March-April 1980 pages 51-58.rn 

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 600.00
Lot 6410 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6410 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Stamp Dealer and Royal Philatelist 1907/1948: Collection of eighteen covers, cards and documents, including two small Thomas Allen Approval books which were sent directly to King Carol II, with several signature intials by the King alongside notes from the dealer, one which states; "I have just sold His Majesty King George the adjoining stamp, only 30 exisit" and "Only 8 copies exisit of which His Majesty has a block of 4 thus leaving only 4 copies", also correspondence from the 'Casa M. S. Regelui Royal' Palace to the dealer with requests for material and or confirming purchases, a few with official postmarks and or cachets, one which invites the dealer to the Palace to review the Kings collections and a number of bank payment confirmations (Midland Bank) from Bucarest to T. Allen in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, one for £1'002, as well as a Post Office Telegram from the King's personal secretary stating; "Bermuda and Gr Britain retained by His Majesty the King = Buhman", a magnificent assembly of historical importance relating to one of the most glamorous and famous, if not infamous, stamp collectors of all time - King Carol II (1893 to 1953).rnNote: Thomas Allen (1895 to 1984), was a well known dealer in British Colonial rarities, who with Charles Nissen purchased, in 1936, the Perkins Bacon stock and records; most of the records were afterwards acquired by RPSL. He was a Council Member RPSL, aslo Curator of their forgery collection, 1954-67 and a Member of Expert Committee, for whom he reorganised their vast quantity of reference photographs. Allen was a philatelist of wide experience, he was a member of the Executive Committee for the London International Exhibition 1960, and served on the jury at FIPEX, New York 1956.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 300.00
Lot 6396 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6396 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1858/1865: Collection containing the early Moldavian postmarks of the stamp period on official and cash pre-paid mail (29 items) and postal forms (14 items). It begins with a 1862 example of the Iasi Drapery postmark (Kiriac DR61, fig. 329) applied on arrival, and continues with the 'small' Moldova (M1, illustrated in Kiriac at page 81),  'large' Moldova cds (M2, illustrated in Kiriac at page 84) and a few linear postmarks. Fairly complete with much duplication, only the M1 Michaleni postmark missing, and half of the 12 M2 postmarks are present. A good lot for the specialist interested in the postmark study and the dating of their defects due to continuos use. Condition generally fine throughout.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 500.00
Lot 6413 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6413 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1962/2020: Lot containing the most important works of philatelic literature needed by a specialized 'Romania' collector. The 3 volumes of Fritz Heimbüchler's handbooks together with Edition D'Or XII showing his collection (new, with autograph); C. Marinescu "Tarifele, taxele .... 1841-2008"; Dr. Gmach "Österreichische und ungarische Posteinrichtungen in den Donaufürstentümern 1782 - 1880" (vol.I and vol. IV); Dr. Gmach "...2 par. 1866/67"; Kiriac Dragomir "Stampilografie...", Romanian catalogues 1974 and 1984; V. Tebeica "Die ersten Rumanischen Postmarken" (2 times); S. Gabureac - the catalogues of errors and varieties from 2008 and 2010; G. Racoviceanu "Stampilele folosite in Tarile Romane pana in 1881", the volume of the Munich Club from November 2010 dedicated to Mr. Heimbüchler; Russel "Romania specialised Catalogue 1918"; L. Ettre 1986 Transylvanian Hotel Posts book; Brainard, Weinbrecht, Billig forgeries catalogues in photocopies; plus 7 smaller volumes and 6 magazines. A mandatory lot for the specialist or for the very serious collector, the books are in good to new condition. 

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 150.00
Lot 6406 - europe Romania -  Corinphila Auction AG Auction  321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

Lot 6406 - europe Romania - Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1872/1900: Collection of the post-classical postmarks of the stamp period mainly on official mail (39 items) and including also (3) items bearing the rectangular Postage Due markings of the classical period. The lot contains some interesting rural markings, some of them from the classical period used later, and has also a few covers that were not accepted as official and were presumably taxed on arrival. Some nice strikes noted, including GARA RUGINOSA railway marking; and Due markings '20 BANI' and '28 BANI'. A nice starter lot for this interesting collecting area. Condition varies, generally fair to fine.

Corinphila Auction AG Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

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Price: CHF 300.00