Sale #44 Collections Overseas, Europe

Schiffspost Alle Welt: 1845/1935, collection of apprx. 83 covers/cards arranged on written up album
1845/1935, collection of apprx. 83 covers/cards arranged on written up album pages, showing various sea lines like North Sea, West Indies, West Africa, East Africa, North and South America, Asia/Australia, mainly German sea post. Included are several better and intresting pieces like HAPAG West Indies service, 1887 Liberia uprated registered stationery envelope via Hamburg to New York (very unusual routing), two covers with boxed "AUS WESTAFRIKA", 1906 Liberia via Funchal to Windhuk, 1904 Columbia with stewart's straight line "ALTAI" via New York to England, 1889 "DEUTSCHE SEEPOST LINIE NEW YORK h" to Germany (stated to be one of 13 known with "h"), 1888 cover from Adelaide "DEUTSCHE SEEPOST MITTELMEER-LINIE" (stated to be one of 20 known), 1905 card New Guinea via Hongkong to Japan with combination franking Germany-Japan, 1890 uprated German stationery envelope 10pfg. "DEUTSCHE SEEPOST OST-ASIATISCHE HAUPTLINIE", 1908 China via Yantse line steamer Mei-shun etc. In addition several related documents (e.g. 1852 transport contract for a family from Baden via Strasbourg and Le Havre to New York).
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