Lot 53
Switzerland Reference Collection. Extensive assembly of approximately 1,200 items mounted on album pages in two binders, with a concentration on Cantonal and early Federal Administration issues; Basel issue starting with a genuine proof (RPS cert., Scott cat. $3,600), virtually every forgery type represented with a variety of cancellation types, including works of Senf, Champion, Hänsler, Fournier, etc., also a section of facsimile post cards, Geneva with a study of the 1843 Double Geneva again with almost every forgery type represented including multiples and plate reconstructions, several "on cover" items, shades and cancellations, etc., 1845 Small Eagle including genuine used and forgeries with a diverse range of types and cancels, Large Eagle issue with genuine yellow green #2L3 added on a cover (cert.) and dark green used (#2L4, faults), extensive forgery types including color and cancel variety, 1847 Crown Eagle with similar array of forgery types including multiples and hand drawn creation, 1849-59 Swiss Cross types including two genuine 5c singles with values altered to 5c (ex-Burrus), extensive forgery types including the 1851 issue with framed and unframed cross varieties, sheets, on piece items, etc., Zurich with 1843-46 Numeral issues genuine 6c values followed by a host of forgery types of both values, including multiples including sheets, study of sub-types, etc., 1850 2½r Coat of Arms type with virtually every forgery type, several early Cantonal facsimile sheets, etc., Federal issues start with 1850 black & red types with a few genuine issues (faulty or repaired) followed by forgery study including on cover creations, multiples, 1850 Rayon types with two forged combination bisect covers (ex-Burrus, one ex-Ferrary), genuine including repaired and altered items, some later Helvetia items, Officials and other dubious covers.Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.
Realized: $26,000
Lot 17
France Reference Collection. Extensive collection of hundreds of items mostly mounted on album pages in three binders; includes genuine throughout with many better on and off cover items, including first issue Ceres used reference, 1862 Re-issues and some on cover fakes and repaired items including dubious cancels, forgeries including E-1 "the ferocious concierge" with mint and used, multiples and 7 different format sheets, host of later forgery types including sheetlets, Fourier and several 1887 Granet reprints, Napoleon issues with 1852 issues including the 1862 Re-issues and E-0 forgery types, 1853-60 issues with 25c & 1fr Re-issues, 1fr reprints including forged cancels, fake 80c tête-bêche covers, section of 80c values with figures erased and 1fr values painted in, selection of forgeries mostly of the 1fr and 25c values including trial colors and fantasies, 1862-71 issues with fake 20c tête-bêche on cover and 80c off cover, 1863-70 issues with various dubious covers including Peru and Venezuela (ex-Burrus) combination frankings, selection of 5fr forgeries including genuine (faulty or repaired), 1871 10c surcharge fakes, a selection of 10 Ballon Monte covers most bearing various 20c issues, 1870-71 Bordeaux issues including a section of genuine on and off cover identified by report and position, including 20c type I on and off cover and other better mixed frankings, 20c Bordeaux "Faux de Pons" postal forgeries with single and 4 covers including one seized cover with a pair and a rarer "Faux d'Italie" type 2, 1870-73 issues including several forged bisect covers (ex-Burrus) and well as a genuine (Le Fulton) and fake Ballon Monte cover, several fake tête-bêche items, etc., section of Sage issues genuine, later issues including 1923 Congress fakes and genuine on Exposition cover, genuine Strasbourg sheet, Le Havre Exposition issue with several genuine, Dunkirk Region section including several signed covers, section of French Intelligence Forgeries including full sheets and on cover, 1941-42 French underground forgeries, back-of-the-book includes Postage Dues with genuine on and off cover as well as a selection of various fakes, F.M. military overprints, newspapers and telegraph issues, etc., other additional sections including more later postal forgeries, genuine 1914, 10c Valenciennes issue on and off cover and some French Post Offices Aboard (ex-Burrus).Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.
Realized: $23,000
Lot 7
British Commonwealth Reference Collection. Approximately 1,700 items mostly mounted on album pages in 6 binders with additional material on stockpages and in glassine; starting with Australia 1932, 2d postal forgery used (to mail bogus Irish sweepstakes tickets), Bahamas with various Spiro Bros. sheets, early Barbados issue with a selection of genuine issues, forged bisects on piece, forged perforations and a range of forgeries including Oneglia engraved, Batum with genuine and forgery issues, Bermuda with a selection of early QV forgeries including forged & bogus surcharges on genuine, uncommon British Bechuanaland forged overprints on genuine C.G.H. issues in large multiples, including used 1d value blocks with forged cancels and inverted overprint, British Central Africa with 1895 high value forgeries, 1891 £10 forged overprint, genuine 1897 £10 cleaned with forged cancels, etc., British East Africa forged surcharge items, 1890 issue forgeries including used and a 1898 20r with revenue cancel removed and forged gum, British Guiana with genuine 1852 issues repaired and put on piece with tying cancels painted in, early Ceylon issues with faked genuine items and forgeries with various scarce works of Jeffrys including on cover, Falkland Islands with 1891 genuine cover bearing a forged inverted ½d surcharge on bisect 1d and another 1891 cover with faked bisect (Raoul de Thuin), few Gibraltar items including 1889 "10 Centesimos" removed, Gold Coast with a 1889 20sh fake made by altering the 1889 2sh value tablet, Hong Kong including a stock of 1882-1902 QV issues and some Spiro forgery sheets, India with 1889 reprints of the 1854 ½a-1a issues and forgeries, the 1872 B.K. Haldar postal forgery of the 1868 8a rose, 4 examples of the 1911-22 ½a green, bogus double impression showing various shifts (a variety which still is listed in the Scott catalog!), the 1937-40 1r postal forgery used, Ionian Islands with several forged covers and the various forgeries, Labuan 1892 & 1894 forgeries in blocks, Lagos QV issues with a selection of Oneglia lithos and 1904-05 10sh KEVII forgeries on genuine CA paper, Leeward Islands 1897 Jubilee issue including a genuine set and a few forgeries, Mauritius with early genuine, altered items and various facsimile sheets, fake covers and later forged surcharged issues, Natal including genuine 3d used (RPS cert.) and 1857-58 reprints and some interesting later forgeries, KEVII high values with pen cancels removed and forged cancellations, Nevis with a set of black proofs sheets of 12 of the first four issues, Queensland including a 1881, 20sh rose genuinely postally used but had been cleaned of a fiscal cancel prior to use (ex-Burrus), St. Lucia with genuine QV issues and a few dubious covers, Tobago with QV issues genuine and litho Oneglia creations, and many other countries; a wonderful forgery collection and an excellent basis for further expansion.Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.
Realized: $23,000
Lot 65
Worldwide Reference Stock. Mix of thousands mostly housed in old stockbooks including some genuine; strength in Europe and Latin American countries including stocks of Italian States including hand drawn facsimiles, Switzerland, German Area including much States material, interesting selection of Eastern Europe, Spain and Portugal including Colonies, French Area, Austria, etc., also includes the first volume of Fournier Album de Fac-similes Genève album mostly intact with hundreds of items, cigarette cards with stamp images; worth careful inspection (no photo).Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $21,000
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Worldwide Scott Internationals, 1840-1900. 2 volumes, first is the 1930 19th Century Edition with interleaving and stuffed with an outstanding array of classics, mint & used, in far above average condition, with especially strong showings of China, Hong Kong with many premium cancels identified, France with strong Napoleon and Ceres issues to 5Fr; Austria, Belgium, Netherlands; Great Britain and extensive British Colonies from every corner of the Empire, French, Portuguese and Spanish Colonies, German Empire & extensive German States; good Latin America; this collection needs careful examination to determine the true value; the other volume is a "Brown" International for 19th Century, also quite well filled but with somewhat less impressive condition. Estimate $7,500 - 10,000.
Realized: $20,000
Lot 64
Worldwide Reference Collection. Old time collection of thousands of items arranged by country and mounted on annotated pages in 4 early albums, mostly forgeries with some better genuine; includes Abyssinia (Ethiopia) issues including Fournier album material, interesting Afghanistan forgeries, Argentine including Buenos Aires issues, Austria with journal stamp issues and Danube Steam Nav. locals, Brazil with various forgeries of the early numeral issues, early China issues including genuine, Columbia including states, interesting section of Korea with genuine, Formosa with scarce genuine 1888 issues, large section of French Colonies and P.O.'s abroad including Fournier postmark and surcharge proofs, similar German States with genuine and reprint material, Italian States, Japan first issues including genuine, La Guaira packet issues including genuine, Liberia, Netherlands & Colonies, Pacific Steam Nav. Co. forgeries, Portuguese Colonies, substantial section of Romania and Shanghai including many genuine, Uruguay, etc.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $20,000
Lot 11
Canada Reference Collection. Well over 300 items on album and stock pages in two binders; with many genuine stamps including better early classics, some of which are annotated as repaired, margins added, cancel removed and forged, fake perforations, etc., selection of forged covers including bisects of R. Thuin and fake progress die proofs and essays (several ex Burrus), 1851-57 Issues include the various forgeries as wells as a genuine 12p black proof on bond and "Specimen" on India, section of 1851-59 Issue Oneglia forgeries, Pugh type II forgeries including die proofs (ex Dale-Lichtenstein) and "Specimens", large and small Queens includes fake laid paper and bisects on piece with fake cancels, Jubilee issues with genuine high values and the various forgeries including a hand drawn $5, 1899 2¢ on 3¢ surcharges with various forged types and bogus varieties, Port Hood provisionals, 1926 2¢ on 3¢ surcharge forgeries, comprehensive section of 20th century postal forgeries including the 1953 3¢ Karsh and 1954 5¢ QE "Wilding" forgeries, the discovery example of the 1963 4¢ Cameo counterfeit, 1968 6¢ Centennial forgery in matched sets of corner blocks and on cover, 1990-92 39¢ & 43¢ Flag coil forgeries including a 43¢ on cover, 1995 45¢ Flag forgery on cover, 2000 $1.05 Deer & 2003 $1.40 Maple Leaf booklets, 2003 49¢ QEII forgery including booklets and on cover, few Columbian Scadta "Ca." fake consular overprints including a genuine 5p value used (only 50 issued), section on the 5¢ & 10¢ Nesbitt postal stationery indicias which include proofs, reprints and the forgeries, Unemployment & Liquor Excise Stamp fakes, etc.; an exceptional collection.Estimate $4,000 - 6,000.
Realized: $19,000
Lot 25
Great Britain 1872, 1sh Green Stock Exchange Forgery Collection. Remarkable assembly of 43 1sh green postal forgeries arranged by date of usage in stockbook, with dates ranging from June 3 to Oct 31, 1872; includes 42 examples from plate 5 and one example of the rare plate 6, plate 5 examples with 30 normal and 12 "impossible" letterings, many on piece with 17 in combination with genuine stamps of other denominations of similar issuance including 3d rose, plates 7 and 8, a 6d chestnut, plate 11, 9d buff, plate 4 and a 2sh blue, plate 1, the plate 6 single forgery is from the normal lettering (LE), collection additionally contains numerous genuine 1871, 1sh green examples from plates 5 & 6 including lettering matching forgeries, 11 genuine singles with Stock Exchange postmarks, multiples including block of 6, on cover including usages to India, Italy and Vera Cruz, Mexico and an additional portion of a rare plate 6 forgery on piece of a telegram form (not counted); 4 singles from plate 5 (two "impossible" letterings) with noticeable defects, collection accompanied by numerous manuscripts, articles, notes and correspondences regarding this fascinating forgery. 2001 SG £20,700 for forgeries ($32,499).Estimate $7,500 - 10,000.
In 1898, quantities of used 1871, 1sh green issues from old telegraph forms originally used at the Stock Exchange Telegraph Office in London, E. C. came on to the market. A portion of these stamps where the forgeries and where first to be discovered by the well known philatelist, Mr. Charles Nissen some 26 years after the use of these fraudulent stamps. Although no culprit was ever identified, It is believed that one of the counter clerks must have been using these forged stamps on telegram transactions and pocketing the money from his genuine stock of stamps.
Realized: $16,000
Lot 26
Great Britain Reference Collection. Assembly of approximately 480 items mostly mounted on album pages in binder;starting with four stampless covers including 1702 forged "B" Bristol Bishop Mark, a forged Royal Bank of Scotland One Guinea banknote with original 1831 folded letter from the Collector of Customs at Grangemouth to the cashier of the bank pleading for the money for the recognized forgery, a 1795 letter with "Beare" straight line handstamp to Earl Paulette at Bridgewater accompanies a 1848 letter from New York to London bearing a straight line Beer Ship Letter straight line handstamp (both handstamps forged), caricature envelopes with unused Deraedemaker imitations including Ocean Postage designs, two different Fores's Comic Envelopes (No. 3 & 5) with substituted 1d blacks, two 1d and a 2d Mulready Envelope with fraudulently added stamps and postmarks, 1840, 1d black issue including fake "first day" on piece, genuine 1841 usage with painted in guideline through value tablet, numeral "7" and "8" in Maltese cross cancel forged on stamps tying to genuine covers, forged Chard date stamp tying 1d on piece as well as other on cover creations including 1840 May Sunday dates, stamps including repaired, forged cancels with 7 different Maltese cross numeral cancels, 1840-41, 2d blue issues including forged numeral in Maltese cross cancels with cover, 1841, variety of 1841, 2d blue issues with white lines painted in to resemble the 1840 issue, a counterfeit, etc., later QV issues with repaired, painted in plate numbers, cancels removes, fake cancellations, 8 surface print singles reperfed to remove wing margin (ex-Burrus), fake bluish paper varieties, 1892 1sh Stock Exchange postal forgery used, 1880, 2sh "BH" postal forgery, 1883 9d green forgeries and other later high value forgeries, a used abroad section of 10 covers, with covers including 1873 Brazil franked cover to Paris with added 3½d, British stamp removed and U. S. 1869 2¢ brown added in combination with Peru 1868, 1d green on cover, genuine 1866 Jacmel, Haiti and 1868 La Guayra, Venezuela stampless covers with 1865, 4d vermilion added, used in Jamaica including 1d block of 6 on piece, genuine 1868 Panama cover with 2sh added and tied by fake C35 barred oval, etc., KEVII £1 with genuine used and Lowden forgery on piece, stamps including forged Turkey and M.E.F. overprints, other items with 1935 1d-2d KEVII German propaganda forgeries, 1991 24d Machin postal forgery including 4 on piece items and mint block and a diverse section of forged Official overprints; a rare assembly of material with little duplication throughout.Estimate $4,000 - 6,000.
Realized: $18,000
Lot 192
Woodward, T., The Postage Stamps of Japan and Dependencies. 1928, 2 volumes, limited edition no. 37 of 100, printed on hand-made vellum paper, 573pgs, full calf gilt, in custom slipcase. A magnificent set in original condition.Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Sold for £3,060 in Christie's Robson Lowe sale of 16 October 1991.
Realized: $12,000