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Auction: 14USA - Spink Shreves September 2008 Collector's Series
Lot: 2827

French Colonies and Offices extraordinarily comprehensive and valuable collection of mint and used to 1940 in two Scott albums, virtually every colony and office is well represented, with particularly strong Offices in China noted, contains numerous scarce early overprints cataloging in the $100.00-$500.00 range, with some even higher, an important feature of this collection is that most of these scarce overprints are signed by noted French experts (Calves, Brun, Roumet, etc.) or are accompanied by certificates (a total of 39 certificates accompany this lot), later issues include all of the popular long definitive sets, plus there are elusive postage dues and other back-of-the-book issues, most of the mint is o.g., there are some small faults as one would expect on such a large collection, but the majority will be fine or better; overall an extremely saleable lot filled with seldom seen stamps. Estimate US$ 35,000-40,000

Estimate
$35,000 to $40,000