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Eastern Rumelia & Southern Bulgaria, Collection, highly specialized collection and study housed on various pages with additional study material on stockpages in binders; starting with a section "Bilingual Town Cancels on 1881-84 Issues" showing cover and card usages of nearly all of the 32 towns from Abrachlare to Yamboli with many items rare to extremely rare (many are ex-Hitzler and with his certificates), also a study of Early Mail With All Cyrillic Town Cancels with rare to very items including usages from Bourgas & Clisoura, also a study issues starting with the 1880 "R.O." overprint issues including trial overprints with issued stamps on and off cover, multiples, inverted overprint, etc., 1881 issues including rare high value multiple, a rarities page with 1pi color error (black & olive), 20pa strip with 10pa error at center, Turkish 1pi strip with Eastern Rumelia 1pi at center, other item include specimens, large multiples, essay blocks, etc., Southern Bulgaria 1885 Lion overprints quite extensive including 5pa block of 12 showing red trial overprint on reverse, inverted overprints, specimens, large multiples (some being the largest known multiple) on cover items, various Lion overprint types, 5pi used on piece (only recorded on piece, no covers known), other trial overprints, excellent section of stationery starting with the 1880 Provisional cards and later formula card types including some very rare used, and much additional items including unique to extremely rare (some ex-P.T. Ozand) and study with dozens Hitzler certificates; inspection a must (See webiste for images).Estimate $30,000 - 40,000.
AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION AND BELIEVED TO BE THE SECOND FINEST EVER FORMED.
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Realized: $25,000