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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 282

Heligoland A collection neatly mounted and written-up on 43 pages, contained in a boxed album, covering a wide range of issues stamps, reprints, forgeries, fake cancellations, covers and postal stationery, etc.; included are 1867-68 1sch., 2sch. and 6sch. with diagonal manuscript "specimen", 1/2sch. (3), 2sch. (2) and 6sch. (2) unused, 1/2sch., 1sch. (3), 2sch. (5) and 6sch. used; 1869-73 perf. 13 1/2x14 1/2 1/4sch. (4, one the error of colour), 1/2sch. (7, one on quadrille paper), 3/4sch. (4), 1sch. and 1 1/2sch. (3) unused, 1/2sch., 1sch. (2, one on quadrille paper) and 1 1/2sch. used, together with 1 1/2sch. on 1874 envelope to Dessau; 1875-90 range of unused (33) to 5m. with 1890 perf. 11 1/2 1m. and 5m., used (34) to 1m. and thirteen values on cards/envelopes (9, three registered and one a three-page card advertising Heligoland as a Bathing Resort); Reprints (134); Postal Stationery cards (3, used) and an unused Certificate of Posting; condition varied throughout with a few of the earlier issues with roulettes trimmed off, a few of the unused with gum, a large number with Lemburger handstamps and seven with B.P.A./R.P.S./Brettl Certificates. Generally of good to fine appearance and a fine basis for further expansion. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 provenance: Lord Vestey, October 2011

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