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France, The Ultimate High Quality Mint Collection, 1849-1965, A comprehensive and specialized quality mint collection housed in five packed albums on neatly described pages also with several hundred dealer and auction lot sheets on Vario black pages with singles, sets, booklets, and booklet panes valued up to and over $2,000. Each, a veritable treasure trove for adding to your existing collection or sale at public or online auctions due to the scarcity and quality of this collection. Almost every stamp or set was acquired individually with some early N.H. material purchased at full Scott and over. This is truly an exceptional collection with most of the early imperforates being four margins and many o.g. and a few even N.H. The perforated issues are also of the highest standard as the collector was meticulous throughout. Words cannot do this collection justice as it must be viewed to fully appreciate its size and scope. It does include some 1849 issue stamps, nice selection of the 1862 Re-issues, 1862-1870 perforated Napoleon 1¢ to 80¢ including shades, 5fr (used),Bordeaux Perf and Imperf, excellent selection of Type Sage values to 1fr., with Types I and II plus some gutter pairs, booklet pairs and complete booklets, Sower Type, commemoratives complete, souvenir sheets plus stamps from the sheets Scott 226,226b, 241 and 241a + b, PEXIP with six used or unused, Reims Cathedral complete also 5fr, 10fr.,and 20fr. With all dyes and types Scott 247-254A, Semi-postals with Orphans B3-B10, Industry and Agriculture types I, II, III, B27, Smile of Reims complete booklets, plus a pane, looks complete to 1958 with Red Cross booklets occasional proofs, Air Post all there except C3-C4, includes some deluxe sheets, C6b "E.I.P.A." two copies with one N.H., C8-C14, C15 plus C15a, Postage Dues with many better, Officials, Pre-Cancels, overprinted "Annule" and "Specimen", Military stamps overprinted "F.M.", Wonderful Newspaper and Legion souvenir sheet imperf and on cover! St. Nazaine on cover, Semi-Official Air Post, material including more booklets and more B.O.B., Condition is Fine to Very Fine o.g. or N.H. with several covers present, few faults mainly on the 19th century but overall, far superior to most collections in quality, Scott value plus the Scott unlisted material should easily reach $170,000. or more. ex-Windsor. Estimate $30,000 - 40,000.
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Realized: $40,000