Lot
3090 o/
Italian Area, Italy & Offices Collection, 1862-1980, mostly used in bulging Scott Specialty album, including excellent 19th Century regular issues, complete "Advertising Tabs"; with emphasis on cancels, especially strong in earlier 20th Century commemoratives for 1920's & 1930's, very high catalog value, including #49, 57; commemoratives such as 142A-142D, 1924 "Crociera Italiana, " 1934 sets such as Soccer with airmails etc; back-of-the-book includes good "BLP" semipostal issues, 1931 airmails such as Rome-Rio trans-atlantic flight C27; Dante airmails; 1933 Zeppelin airs; Balbo used 1933 Triptycs C48-C49; excellent showing of Offices Abroad including Aegean Garibaldi sets, Zeppelin airmails set, 1932 Dante; and much more; very high catalog value, seldom seen in such depth, please inspect. Estimate $5,000 - 7,500.
Realized: $5,500