383rd Auction

1856/1910s, a powerful and specialized collection with many desirable items, note selection of approximately fifty items 1856/72 issues, mix of mint and used, noting better examples including 1856 3c mint pair, 1872 4c blue imperforate and imperforate between pairs, note one with partial New York cancellation, study of 1873/1902 Coat of Arms issues, over four hundred stamps, many mint, often carefully identified by the AFA catalogue, including frame types, inverted watermarks, plate flaws, etc, with some mint multiples including 1c block of four, 3c block of nine, and 5c block of four, these also noting postmark interest including St. Jan, steamship cancels, etc, fulsome twentieth century issues noting 1905 Christian IX set mint and used, 1905 Harbour set mint and used, including a mint set in blocks of four, 1905 surcharge set mint and used, 1907 Frederick VIII mint and used including some shade varieties, useful Postage Dues including 1905 set in imperforate singles and pairs, over forty stamps with British Post Office cancellations, strikes of varying quality, a nice selection of 1906/16 “Julien” labels, private ship mail with RMSP, Rasco, 1864-9 St Thomas – La Guaira – Porto Cabello, two mint HAPAG issues, showing both types, etc, note a handful of items with certificates from S. Gronlund or Helge Witt, varied condition as expected, though assembled over many years with great diligence, with many difficult items included, chiefly fine, an impressive and in-depth holding that could form the basis for a significant specialized collection.

Balance of postal history collection, 1850s/1910s, replete with desirable items, noting multiple stampless examples to France, mostly via the British Post Office, one with forwarding agent mark, United States 10c brown Bank Note 1870 single franking from St. Thomas to Baltimore, French frankings with 1fr olive on 1877 cover from Bordeaux to Veracruz, another on 1878 cover from La Guaira to Bordeaux,  two 80c Napoleon imperforate pairs of France on 1858 cover from Dax to Mexico via St. Thomas (ex Hogensborg), examples from the British Post Office including multiple 4d vermilion frankings, one 1sh plus 3d on 1869 cover from St. Thomas to Copenhagen, range of Arms issues including 4c bisects, 5c single franking on 1880 cover to Mexico, 3c single frankings on postcards to France and Denmark, 8c on 10c surcharge on 1889 cover to Copenhagen, 12c single franking on 1879 cover front to Sweden, 1c uprated 2c stationery cover 1895 domestic rate usage to St. Thomas, 3c and 5c uprating 2c stationery cover 1891 usage to Hamburg, 1905 Christian IX multi-franking part cover with ship CROATIA straight-line, 10bit single franking on 1906 postcard to Germany, fresh 50bit grey & yellow single franking on 1917 registered cover to Denmark, 1907-8 Frederik VII issues with choice 10bit red single franking postcard to New Jersey, 5bit uprated 5bit postal stationery card to Germany, some scarcer used stationery including postally used 1 CENT 1901 overprints on 3c stationery cards, one with attached reply card, 1891-5 Type 3c red stationery cover used from St. Jan to St. Croix, 1910-11 “Dansk Vestinden / Julien” labels on cover, incoming registered mail from Austria and Peru, 1915-16 Christian X frankings on parcel cards, and much more, varied condition as expected, but many fine items in this powerful holding, approximately 70 items, a superb opportunity to begin a study of this challenging but popular area.

Postal stationery, 1877/1910s, a mostly-mint collection, neatly organized on pages, showing a wide range of postal stationery cards and covers from the early 1870s examples onwards to the later cards of King Frederik VIII, showing a range of printings, covers with various watermark types, the odd used example, noting a most unusual 1896 usage of an indicia from a 3c entire trimmed and affixed to an envelope from Frederiksted, 1904 usage from St. Jan to St. Thomas, examples to Denmark, 1909 usage of 6c violet card to Salzburg, etc, with unsorted including nearly 20 2c/3c stationery covers showing a range of flap fold types and indicia shades, one 1891-5 3c domestic usage from Frederiksted, unused 1891-5 Type IV, stationery cards with scarce 1CENT 1902 overprint used from St. Thomas with attached reply card, 1913 5c green used from Frederiksted to St. Thomas, over 150 items included, an exceptional group for further study and expansion

Postal Stationery to foreign destinations, 1880s/1900s, with 30 items, many scarce, noting usages of 2c blue stationery cover including 1883 to Norway, 1885 to New York, and 1886 to Hamburg with St. Thomas paquebot transit, range of 3c Arms stationery types, noting postage due to Denmark, 1884 usage to St. Kitts, 1887 to Canada, 1890 to British Guiana, 1892 to Dominica, 1893 usages to Paris, and Denmark with French paquebot transit, another endorsed “per Royal Mail Steamer”, 1894 usage to Haiti and from Christiansted to Leipzig via St. Thomas, 1896 3c stationery cover to Oppeln, 1905 Type 5bit+5bit postage due to Denmark, with attached reply card, 1905 Type 10bit card to Switzerland, Netherlands, and to Denmark, 1909 to Hannover with attached reply card, some faults to be expected, yet a rare and diverse assembly with many desirable destinations, much being fine and quite scarce.