383rd Auction

1929/31, high-quality collection with 33 covers and cards, mostly better postage paid South America trip incl. American post multiple and Polar trip multiple, all on self-made album pages with decorative watercolour paintings. Some of the covers are unfresh, the album pages themselves are small works of art and certainly unique of their kind

1924/35, group with 3 Zeppelin covers and a catapult mail letter, including a.o. 2nd South America trip with Danzig postage paid

1929/37, comprehensive holding with emphasis from 1932 with some better flights and specialities, including winner Nos. 34e, 34i, 166c, ex 208A-F, 209ID, 238D with complete Chicagofahrt set and 2x 0352I, plus interesting part of treaty states mail with covers from Belgium, Gdansk, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Russia, Saar, Sweden and Hungary, good condition throughout, practically no excess quantities.

1924/56 (approx.), substantial group of more than 250 covers and cards, including the majority of treaty states, including Iceland, Denmark, England, Finland, Soviet Union, etc., German Reich sheet 1 (defective) on card with cancellation "FAHRT RUND UM DEN OSTSEE 1930", two registered covers each with German Reich sheets 5+6, as well as some airmail, some signed, mostly good condition.

Austria: 1928/35, interesting collection from FS-01 with many different covers and cards as well as plenty of vignettes including varieties, proofs and specials, including postal stationery envelopes, R-card and some covers from Yugoslavia, together in three albums

EUROPA: 1933/2015, interesting collection with early rocket mail covers, a.o. from Roberti, Smith (India), Schmidl and Zucker with better and interesting part of rocket research in the III Reich with fieldpost covers from Kummersdorf, Peenemünde with a.o. cancellations "Versuchskommando Nord" and sender's form "SS-Rekruten Depot Debica" as well as a card from the concentration camp "Dora Mittelbau". From the 1960s onwards, mostly decorative covers and cancellations (including from Kourou), some with signatures and proofs with, among others, Mauritania Mi.-Nr. 266-68 as imperforated colour proofs in complete sheet sets, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by the collector).

SOVIET UNION: 1965/2015, interesting collection of the various space programmes with many different decorative and special envelopes/cards with better and several signatures, including various on-board mail covers with signatures from Soyuz 39 with a.o. S7 and from TM 3 with various covers from TM5-15 as well as R-letter to Mir (22.07.93). In addition a.o. Poland souvenir sheet II, neatly on 80 exhibition pages (few covers are removed by the collector)

USA: 1933/2012, extensive collection from the beginnings to Space Shuttle programme with many different decorative and special covers, partly with autographs (mostly printed resp. with signature cancellation with i.a. "X-15" cover with e. signature of the pilot "William J. Knight" (reached a top speed of 7300 km/hour in 1965) and on-board cover STS-76 with seven signatures as well as proofs with i.o. Mauritania Mi.No. 217 as imperforated colour proof in complete sheet, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by collector)

1933/45, interesting collection with 55 entire items, including 29 rocket mail covers and cards German Reich (8 x autograph G. Zucker), 2 covers Austria, 1 letter GB, 14 covers France, 4 x Netherlands, 3 x Australia, 2 x USA, clean condition