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Auction: 142 - March Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 882

Worldwide massive mint collection in twelve large albums in two boxes containing literally many thousands of mint singles, sets and souvenir sheets largely of European countries and often with significant value in better sets and singles, generally each country starts with early issues that often are of the 19th century, many better issues are then found in early sets of the 20th century to the the 1960´s and then there is often a rather extensive selection of souvenir sheets and sets of the 1990´s well into the 2000´s, Western European countries are especially strong, Italian area is particularly extensive with Italy proper starting with a complete set of the1879 Series (41-45), 1901-06 Definitives are also cplt. and then there are loads of mint sets of regular, commemorative and air mail sets including never hinged, Monaco and San Marino are collected much the same way, Greece is another excellent collection starting with the 1906 Olympics cplt. and lots of better sets thereafter, Scandinavia contains nice collections of Denmark and Sweden, the later containing the 1924 U.P.U issue cplt., n.h, and other better values, plus there is a particularly valuable collection of Iceland with numerous better sets as the 1930 Millenary regular and air post issues and better long definitive sets and commemoratives with never hinged present, other countries that are collected much the same are Switzerland including comprehensive semi-postals and souvenir sheets, Liechtenstein, Netherlands and wonderful comprehensive collections of Austria and Belgium, the later having extensive semi-postals plus parcel posts, there are several volumes of Eastern Europe with better Russia, finally in addition to the European area there is a volume of Asia including modern Macau, a nice collection of India with better early sets and an especially attractive collection of Japan starting with late 19th century issues, a fair portion is never hinged even in some of the earlier issues, plus a volume of Latin America from Argentina to Venezuela with a few better sets in each country and a nice collection of Mexico, condition is uniformly collected the same throughout, early issue may have flaws and some of the 19th century are without gum, but the 20th century is very clean with o.g., never hinged is found in varying degrees in each country as the collector was able to attain them, overall fine-very fine; we have only been able to scratch the surface in relating the many valuable issues that are found in this collection, so examination is important and will reveal an important mint collection with enormous catalog value.

Sold for
$18,000