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Auction: 176 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Auction
Lot: 659

Worldwide elephant topical postal history collection, an intriguing accumulation of a few hundred covers, postcards, and stationery, largely from the United States but also noting Czechoslovakia, Swaziland, St. Lucia, South Africa, Ceylon, Kenya, Tanzania, British Central Africa, Botswana, Canada, Australia, Mozambique, Liberia, India, and many others, reflecting not only depictions of elephants on stamps, but also on illustrated advertising, fancy cancels, meters, and postmarks, noting some circus-themed, hand-drawn illustrations, and political campaign mail, also including several pages of elephant-themed imperforate stamps of Laos, some with minor condition issues, an attractive and charming lot.

Sold for
$290