Lot 2975
France, Covers to Italy, 1864-1875, selection of 15 items, interesting group generally clean & F-VF, most with star or diamond cancels, please inspect.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $200
Lot 2976
France, Covers to Foreign Destinations, 1854-1872, selection of 16 items, interesting group of diverse destinations, including Peru, Messina, Buenos Ayres, Lower Alsace, Malta, Bombay, generally clean & F-VF, most with star or diamond cancels, please inspect.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $280
Lot 2977 /o
France, Collection, 1849-1973, useful collection in Scott album; mixed used 19th and predominately mint 20th century with some good sets from 1920's on, back-of-the-book including mint semi-postals, airs and a little offices mostly used.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $550
Lot 2978
France, Covers Paris Star Cancellations, 1850's-1870's, interesting group of 28 items, all with star cancellations without numbers, many imperf frankings, some overseas destinations.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $280
Lot 2979
France, Covers, 1851-1875, selection of over 50 items, franked with perf & imperf stamps, many auxiliary markings including registered, Apres Le Depart, Corps-Legislatif, PD, Packetbot Mediterrin, Boite-Mobile, Paris-Rennes, Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris, and many different town cancels; very diverse group with much value throughout.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $425
Lot 2980 /o
France, Collection, 1870-1990, displayed on pages, mostly used but include some better mint singles such as Sewers, used include wide range of generally fresh issues, many 100's, generous catalog value, very attractive.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $210
Lot 2981 //o
France, Stock, good to better sets and singles on dealer stock cards; with a selection of slightly mixed early classic issues including a couple 5fr Napoleon issues and a few Ceres issues including mint Sc. 57 block, later regular issue singles and sets cataloging in the $80-$300 range, back-of-the-book with good early semi-postal singles and sets mint, airmails C1-C2 mint x2, 50fr Banknote (C15, cat $575) as well as other better airmail issues, etc.; worth careful evaluation.2011 Scott $16,146 Estimate $4,000 - 6,000.
Lot 2982 /o
France, Collection, 19th and 20th century mint and used on Lighthouse hingeless album pages, 1849-1930 mostly used, nice showing of classic issues, including fresh well-centered copies, 20th century includes semi-postals and air mail and some back of book, review recommended.Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot 2983 //o
France, Collection, displayed in quadrille page album, most of value in 1950 and later, some interesting pre-cancelled, semi-postal booklets, Philatec 1964 sheet, much more, many present both mint & used, please inspect.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $140
Lot 2984 /o
France & Colonies, Collection, 1860-1980, in several stockbooks, value in classic period of France, Empire, Republique, later commemoratives; good New Caledonia, miscellaneous other Colonies, good value to be extracted, please inspect.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $300