39500 Turkey supercollection 1863-1953.
£35,000Once in a lifetime specialised collection, the collector spent over 50 years on this collection, with much knowledge, patience and big finances, starting with the sought after first issue from 1863 with over 440(!!!) stamps including mint, multiples (even a bloc of 6!!), tete-beches, then the further issues very specialised including the expensive issues often more than once present, cancels, covers, varieties, proofs, blocs of 4, overprints including varieties, papers, shades, multiples, bisects, imperfs, specimen, old booklets, also great back of the book and occupation, housed in 12 albums. What a great collection, nearly impossible to find anywhere in the world!!!
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39490 Italian colonies top collection 1874-1945.
£35,000Fantastic, 99% complete, mainly mint hinged stamp collection Italian colonies 1874-1945, including many good stamps in nice quality such as (Michel no’s): Cirenaica 11-16* (Manzoni), 67-70*, 127-136*, service 1 * (!, servizio di stato), postal receipt 1-6*, Italian East Africa 1-20*, 21-31*, Tripoli 25-30* (Manzoni), Libya 1-15*, 24-35*, postage dues 1-10*, 12-24*, parcel post stamps 13*, Eritrea 4-11 (no’s 6 and 11 mint hinged), 19-29, 74-79* (Manzoni), postage dues 1-11 I* (8, 10 and 11 canceled ), 1-11 II*, postal receipt 1-6*, service 1* (!, servizio di stato), Italian Somalia 57-62 (Manzoni), parcel post stamps 16-24*, postage dues 31-41*, postal receipt 1-6 *, 7-12*, service 1* (!, servizio di stato), etc. in Borek album. Fantastic collection, gigantic catalogue value!
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35060 Great Britain and Commonwealth 1840-1970.
£47,500Very impressive collection Great Britain and Commonwealth countries, in mainly very good condition, tons of better shilling pound and dollar values, in 77(!!!) mainly very wellfilled homemade albums, lifework of a serious collector. Almost impossible to find such a wonderful collection in so many volumes for such a reasonable price!!!
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37750 Russia archive find 1909-1917.
£48,500Almost incomprehendable find of complete sheets of pre-revolution issues, has been lying dormant till the 90’s and then sold as one lot, 7789 complete sheets, values from 2 kopek to 7 rouble, 26 different issues in quantities, mainly post office fresh, unpicked on errors and varieties, many doublesheets with gutterpairs present, (ex. Scott 74/138b), catalogue value Sverev OVER $878.000,00. (inventory list present with lot). Unique opportunity to buy a part of history (or to sell them by the sheet and make a massive profit!!!)
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