VERY FINE-EXTREMELY FINE. A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A SIGNIFICANT WORLDWIDE COLLECTION OF POSTAL CARDS AND POSTAL REPLY CARDS.
The only item to be removed from this lot is a Hong Kong Postal Card, offered as lot 2553 in this sale.
| Lot | Sym. | Lot Description | Est/Cat | Realized |
| 2574 | |
19th Century Worldwide Postal Card Collection. Comprehensive
old-time collection of over 1,100 unused and used Postal Cards and Postal
Reply Cards housed in four volumes and neatly arranged by country, the
collector's basis was "A List of Postal Cards" by Albert A. Norris,
1879 edition, which is also included with the collection (somewhat worn),
handwritten varieties have been annotated in the volume, the collection
itself starts with Argentina and contains a wide range of countries incl.
Austria, Germany and German States, Canada, Ceylon, Cape of Good Hope,
Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Hawaii, Hong Kong incl. Nos. 35A and 35B
unused, Japan, Shanghai Local Post, Switzerland, Turkey, many others
represented, condition overall is quite pristine VERY FINE-EXTREMELY FINE. A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A SIGNIFICANT WORLDWIDE COLLECTION OF POSTAL CARDS AND POSTAL REPLY CARDS. The only item to be removed from this lot is a Hong Kong Postal Card, offered as lot 2553 in this sale. |
E. 5,000-7,500 | 2,500.00 |