Auctions
JUNE 2013 AUCTION AT WORTHING
On-line scans are available of some Lots by clicking the blue underlined lot number. I am updating this on a regular basis.
I have had difficulty in getting an on-line bid form. To bid on-line Peter suggests you email him with the following details:
Your name, address, email address, Lot Number, short description of lot, amount bid and whether you intend paying by credit card or cheque. Peter's email address is: rozpocet@yahoo.co.uk
|
|
Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain |
|
|
|
Room Auction : Sunday 9th June 2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Closing dates: |
|
|
|
post bids : received first post Friday 31st May 2013 |
|
|
|
e-mail bids: received by 2400 (UK time) Friday 31st May 2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to my thirty - fourth auction. Please note the times and dates for postal and E Mail bids |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is a shorter auction of 100 lots to be held on the last day of the Worthing weekend meeting. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I have a selection of collections which a room auction allows a more detailed investigation before bidding. Key items include Czech Forces in Great Britain, in Siberia, Bohemia and Moravia, First Republic airmails and Austro-Hungarian revenues |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The webmaster has include a scan for each lot. As always, if you are interested in any lot and would like to see more than a single scan, just ask me - contact details on the bid sheet. If you do not have internet access, please ask for a reasonably priced copy by post. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
General notes |
|
|
|
Catalogues referred to are: |
|
|
|
Pofis Stanley Gibbons Michel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The following abbreviations are used: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
cds circular date stamp cat catalogued f forgery |
|
|
|
fdc first day cover m mint mm mounted mint |
|
|
|
ms miniature sheet opt overprint p proof |
|
|
|
pc postcard pd postage due pmk(d) postmark(ed) |
|
|
|
ppc picture postcard ps postal stationery tpo travelling post office |
|
|
|
u used umm unmounted mint |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Photocopies are available at 10p each, stamped addressed envelope please. |
|
|
|
E Mail copies are free |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pre Stamp Entires |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 pre-stamped covers well written up ready for display, with clear cancels, all shown separately. Note various Prag (earliest 1836) and one Jglau |
10.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Austro - Hungarian |
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 postcards from Austrian period, mainly of Prague. Note Bischofteinitz CDS, Pilsen - Prag TPO CDS dated late on 25.9.18 (priced at £3) and a pair of photographs on one card showing street scene with workers repairing the tram line |
5.00 |
|
|
1884 Envelope from C. k. zkusebna kommisse pro obecne a mestanske skoly v Brne with Brunn Stadt / Brno Mesto CDS and label seal on reverse |
0.40 |
|
|
1907. Eight picture postcards to Mrs Hill in London, all written in neat small Esperanto. All but one from Prague. The exception is a card from the ossuary at Sedlec. (It is still there and worth a visit if you want to see somewhere really unusual, but respectful) |
10.00 |
|
|
1913 Cover with Austrian 5 h Crown from Vienna with 30 h Postage Due cancelled in Pozsony |
2.00 |
|
|
1917. One Feldpostkorrespondencekarte with bi-lingual Semily CDS and another with Hungarian text and K. k. Landst. Inft Baon Nr 42 cachet with Kuk 420 FPO cancel addressed to Prague |
2.00 |
|
|
24 Austro-Hungarian postal stationery cards and postcards well written up ready for display, with clear cancels, often shown separately. Some mounts have become detached, but it will be a simple job to remount if you wish |
20.00 |
|
|
Austro Hungarian postcards, over 30 with a range of cancels |
15.00 |
|
|
Cover from Habsburgstrasse Wien to Grossdorf (Vilika Ves (?)) with RECON rectangular cachet and blue crayon 448 |
1.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakian Army in Siberia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czech Forces in Siberia. Four lots thrown in together. Piece with Russian text with basic set of three tied by Polni Posta CDSs, used (Some red 1928 1928 CDS. Others very neat corner cancels) perf and imperf basic set on stockcard (one 50 h imperf only at top), another stockcard with lion with and without values overprinted (catalogued CZK 4400) with one over inked, one lightly inked one almost albino and one green and magenta and finally five larger (46 x 27 mm) soldier trials in five different colours (each catalogued CZK 1500) |
200.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
East Silesian Plebiscite |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eastern Silesia PD, mainly mint. SG D46 (2), D47 used, D48 (2), D49 (1 pair and single), D50 (1 pair and single), D51 (pair), D55 and D56 |
1.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st Republic to 1925 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
15 picture postcards with stamps on picture side. All Hradcany apart from one with Posta opts. All heavily mounted, but clean fronts of a range of attractive locations |
24.00 |
|
|
1919 Hornuv opts on Austrian issues. 17 values, including four top values catalogued £40 alone. However, on removing from aged page, numerous thins were revealed on some of the lower values, although Krone values are fine |
16.00 |
|
|
1920 Rd Cross overprints. Nine mint and used of the issued set. Printer Die proofs of 40 h and 60 h Chain breakers opt Type A (as on issued Hradcany) in red and black (60 h red opt printed high) cat CZK 300 each |
24.00 |
|
|
Posta overprints on Austrian issues on hand written sheet. Includes SG 100, 105-109 (106 used), 112-118 (116 used) and 120-1. All mint except where noted. Catalogued over £300 in latest SG (about £200 in Czech catalogue) if genuine. None appear expertised, but a mixture of angles, so please look at scan carefully. Sold "as is" |
50.00 |
|
|
Registered sheetlet from Vysoke Myto to Chroustovice with PD D233 added at destination |
0.40 |
|
|
Reused Austrian postal stationary of red King Carol window envelope, covered by 100 h Science and Agriculture and Brno roller cancel |
0.80 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st Republic 1926 - 1939 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1922 to 1927 Masaryk Definitives used accumulation. Fun for the sorter of printings, watermarks, perforations and shades, with a few postmarks thrown in. 10 x 40h, 100 x 50h, 30 x 60h, 180 x 1k, 30 x 2k, 30 x 3k, 10 x 5k. The numbers are very rough, but are way on the conservative side. |
12.00 |
|
|
1926 Pc franked 20h orange canc very good divided-box railway-station agency pmk MOST / BRUX. |
3.00 |
|
|
1929 SG 293-7. Unmounted lower left corner stamp with plate number. 50 h both 1 and 2, others just 1. Catalogued at CZK 10 each |
1.00 |
|
|
1930 Airmails unmounted mint basic set plus SG 310a and extra SG 315-6 |
9.00 |
|
|
1937 50h psc canc very good divided-box railway-station agency pmk JAROMĔŘ. |
3.00 |
|
|
1937 50h psc to Olomouc canc fine bilingual divided-box railway-station agency pmk LOUČKY v KRNOVA. Slight damage to lower right |
4.00 |
|
|
1937 50h psc to Olomouc canc fine divided-box railway-station agency pmk NÁCHOD 1. |
3.00 |
|
|
1937. Smutek issue for Death of Masaryk. 32 covers, cards etc with 11 different locations of cancels, ignoring any varieties in cancels such as the small "a" or "b" etc |
8.00 |
|
|
Printers' waste on pink paper of a block of four of SG 298 and another of same of SG 300, which also clearly shows screw heads outside printed area of sheets |
5.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sudetenland |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1938. Sudetenland - Asch. Hitler youth picture. Reverse with declaratory cachet under eagle on swastika and date of 21 September 1938. SG 363 with 1.20 opt tied by 30 IX 38 CDS |
10.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bohemia & Moravia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1941 (14/11), B&M, air mail, Velké Mezirici, to New York, OKW censor seal code (e) = Frankfurt. By Pan American from Lisbon. Franking 6.50K |
9.00 |
|
|
1941 (15/8), B&M, air mail, Praha 6 to New York, OKW censor seal code ‘e’ = Frankfurt, By Pan America from Lisbon. Franked 6.50 K. |
9.00 |
|
|
1941 (3/3), B&M, air mail, Praha 34, to San Francisco, OKW censor seal code ‘e’ = Frankfurt, Boxed cachet: “Mit Luftpost nach Nordamerika/und ab New York”. By Pan America from Lisbon. Franked 2 x 4 K |
11.00 |
|
|
1941 (5/5), B&M, air mail Praha 7, to Lincoln, Nebraska, OKW censor seal code ‘e’ = Frankfurt, Boxed cachet: “Mit Luftpost nach Nordamerika/und ab New York”. By Pan America from Lisbon. Franked, 8.00K = 2.50K surface + 5.50 K air fee/5g. Attractive eight stamp franking. |
14.00 |
|
|
1941 60h B&M linden-leaf psc to Prague canc v. fine bilingual divided-box railway-station agency pmk JOSEFSTADT / JOSEFOV (= Jaromĕř) |
5.50 |
|
|
1943 Theresienstadt Permit Stamps 7 colour trials overprinted ‘Specimen’ imperf crude printing status unknown |
5.50 |
|
|
1943 Theresienstadt Permit Stamps Block of 4 in miniature sheet imperf green crude printing. Status unknown |
5.50 |
|
|
1943 Theresienstadt Permit Stamps colour trials perf, crude printing status unknown |
5.50 |
|
|
B&M SG 27 tied by Wuhr CDS on p/c of agricultural view of Chulm |
0.40 |
|
|
B&M UMM lots. Top two rows and blocks of eight from foot of sheet of SG 108-10, lower left block of 13 of SG 26, block of 10 SG 82 and strip of four SG 102 and a stock page of various used. Now search for the varieties |
1.25 |
|
|
B&M Unused SG 82 on mint p/c with sepia photo of Pankrac, Benesova trida |
0.40 |
|
|
B&M. Well written up 27 pages of various combinations of the plate numbers or stars on definitives from SG 26 - 37. Last seven pages show covers with same. |
40.00 |
|
|
Bohemia and Moravia display well written up. Over 40 pages with many additional items to enhance the basic issues and the valuation. Note cheeky display of passive resistance for Brno 1942 Hospitality Exhibition |
80.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Slovakia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1941 (?), Slovakia, air mail Zilina 1, to Orange, New Jersey, by Pan American ex Lisbon. All-air franking of 8.50K. Slovak censor seal and red ink handstamp CENZOR 52. |
11.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakian Army at Home and Abroad |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1920 Field Post. Photo of Tiszasalamon village scene of locals postcard with Polni Posta 14 CDS dated 18 V 20 and light cachet in red Cs pesi pluk cis 4 / 11 polni ? |
2.50 |
|
|
1938 Field Post . Look like about 100 postcards and a small number of covers. Fair number not philatelic. Note Poukazka Polni Posta form dated 1928, unused, but FPO 59 1938 CDS and PP33 control number |
50.00 |
|
|
1938 Field Post postcards: FPO 21, 9, 32, 5, 3, 2, couple of Train cancels and a few others in the organisation including one FPO dated 1937 - must be an error. 14 in total, of which 6 non-philatelic |
10.00 |
|
|
Christmas postcard with photo of Prasna Brana. Inside 19 DEC 1944 date stamps opposite sketch of British soldier's helmet, rifle and satchel with Christmas greetings |
1.00 |
|
|
Czech Forces in Great Britain in WW2. 50 covers, cards and pieces with a large variety of cancels. Includes two French items - 1 June 40 CDS on French stamp and a small pamphlet with 1 May cancel which ties French stamp and additional 4 May and 21 June cancels (this with some foxing). Most priced at about £2 |
50.00 |
|
|
Czech Forces in Great Britain in WW2. This lot just got better looking through it. Starts with six French items, including one well travelled cover, then 80 covers and large pieces with a comprehensive coverage of these issues in Great Britain. Note souvenir for Manchester concert, cover with Togo stamp tied (undoubtedly philatelic), registered and censored covers. The last four pages show 17 KG VI definitives to 10/-with four different cancels on each, but there is water damage on the lowest value and cancel of each, otherwise very fine |
250.00 |
|
|
Slovakian SG9, 10 and 12 tied to unaddressed cover with Czech Forces in GB green roller cancel for 1944 postal exhibition |
0.40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakia - 1945 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1945 Liberation cover to notary in Holice v Cechach with overprinted 1.20 Hitler head tied by one Dasice v Cechach CDS dated 12 v 45 and another CDS with German name included. Very slight foxing on two or three perfs only noted for completeness |
2.50 |
|
|
1945 Liberation Issues Prerov overprints on 12 German Hitler heads - values to 80 pfg |
5.00 |
|
|
1945 Liberation Issues Ricany overprints on 12 Hitler heads. Red lion in shield 10 h, 30h, 40h, 50h, 60h, 80h and 1k. Black lion without shield on 30h, 50h, 60h, 1k20 and 2k50 |
6.00 |
|
|
1945 Pair SG 415 tied by purple Budesov nad Budisovkou / 1945 CDS |
0.80 |
|
|
1945 SG 463-4 on A5 blue card for student meeting in Litovel in November 1945 with view of gymnasium |
0.50 |
|
|
Sheetlet of 8 red Revolucni 1 Kcs stamps showing Bohemian Lion with paws over swastika of Praha Preissig design. |
1.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakia - 1946 to May 1953 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1937 Autoposta brochure with rates and SG 287 a tied by red Autoposta CDS for Bratislava |
1.00 |
|
|
1947 Slightly tatty Registered Air Mail cover to USA with two blocks of four of SG441, 448, 469 and 465 with US customs cachets and large label on reverse encouraging philatelic exchanges overseas |
0.40 |
|
|
1948 Red meter cancel for 080 on Juta business mail card, with red 1948 slet label (slight creases on stamp) |
0.40 |
|
|
1949 FDC of SG 559-566 with higher values with lower part of stamp above with name of country included. Slight foxing on 15 on 24 value |
1.00 |
|
|
1949. Four airmail covers from R Club, Jicin to UK address, three registered, two with Expres label (these CDS for Mistrovstvi CSR ve Strelbe). SG 474, 469, 470, 472, 471, 559-61 and pair 560 |
0.80 |
|
|
1950 Postcard censored at Dvur Kralove sent to DDR. Price label of £10, so a bargain for you |
5.00 |
|
|
1950 returned cover from UK with three Czech Postage Dues. Sent to Rabbi in Prague, but returned to Birmingham. Busy cover with additional three labels, various cachets and numerous manuscript markings. One for the Postage Due collector to untangle |
2.50 |
|
|
1953 Revaluation Mail. Postcard with 10 overlapping 1.50 values and cover (slightly grubby) with 20 adhesives |
1.00 |
|
|
Airmail. 19 covers from late 1940s and early 1950s with some variety of Par Avion labels |
4.00 |
|
|
SG 615-7 Five Year Plan issue on A5 piece showing photograph of large piece of Skoda machinery. One for the engineers. Just looked closer and it is the height of six men. |
0.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakia - June 1953 to June 1960 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1955 Praha 55 MS perf and imperf mounted mint, but very clean. Latest SG cat M896a / b £116 for unmounted. Same CZK 400 in Prague |
7.50 |
|
|
Green album of 1953 -1961 issues, mint and used. Note Mozart set unmounted mint and used, Trains unmounted mint, 1958 children's mint sheetlets of 10 (cat CZK 800, but note crease between third and fourth columns of each) and Butterflies set of three FDCs |
32.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic - July 1960 to December 1968 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1962. Clean postal stationary cover with 60 h printed stamp, SG 1313, additional helicopter stamp and cachet and another for FISA (International Federation of Aerophilatelic Societies) |
2.00 |
|
|
1966 Arts set SG 1619/23 UMM |
8.00 |
|
|
1968. Jsme s Vami cancels on unaddressed mail - one card and one postal stationery cover with Plzen CDS and one cover with Brno CDS. Issued during the Prague Spring with names of four leading Party leaders including Dubcek, before they were summoned to Moscow |
1.50 |
|
|
1968. Registered cover from Hradec Kralove dated 27 VIII 68 with four values overprinted Obrozeni Naroda 1968. (Translation - Resurgance of the nation) Prague Spring issue? |
5.00 |
|
|
Registered Praga 1962 cover to New York with 30th August date stamp on SG 1312, 1313 (2) and 1314 (2) catalogued £9.75 in latest SG. Three additional stamps on reverse and helicopter stamp. Over inked US cachet on front for you to decipher |
0.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czechoslovakian Federal Socialist Republic - January 1969 to April 1990 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1989-90. Complete unmounted mint sheetlets of 8 of SG 2992-6 and SG 3016 |
6.00 |
|
|
Praga 1988 - 14 cards for various events with issues tied by variety of CDS |
1.60 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Czech Republic 1993 onwards |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1993 First seven issues on official FDCs, cat CZK 660 |
8.00 |
|
|
Czech Republic. 18 cards, mainly postal stationary and one card with a "signature" of Vaclav Havel in green and a red heart - sold "as is". Note Pope's visit cat CZK 50 |
2.50 |
|
|
Miniature Sheets and extras to support issues. 1996 UNESCO MS and FDC cat CZK 120, 2001 Detem booklet used cat CZK 50, 1998 Charles 4th MS cat CZK 60, 1998 Animals PHQ set cat CZK 160, 1999 Birds and Butterflies PHQ set cat CZK 150, 1996 Nature MS cat CZK 46, 2002 Nature MS cat CZK 70, 2004 Parrots MS cat CZK 80, 2007 White Carpathian Mountains MS cat CZK 50, 2002 Czech and French Culture MS cat CZK 54 and mint and used Betlem MS |
16.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Slovak Republic 1993 onwards |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Slovak Republic Numbered black print (in blue) unissued Stefanik 40 h 1919 1939 commemorative |
2.00 |
|
|
Slovak Republic. Three mint revenue stamps: 10, 20 and 50 values with two parts |
0.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paintings; Postcards; Prints; Special Items; Black Prints; Mlada Fronta; Training Stamps; Bank Notes; Labels; Seals; etc. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 Sokol cards originally priced at £1.50 back in 1993. Only one used and one duplicate seen. Note 1920 (5), 1921 (1), 1926 (8), 1938 (3), 1947 (1) and 1948 (6) |
20.00 |
|
|
9 mint postcards from 1990s. Three cartoons of Prague views and six "humorous" cartoons. A couple of the latter that you may not wish to show your maiden aunt. |
1.00 |
|
|
Just under 100 picture postcards, mainly Prague, look pre-war and some other places. Note 1899 panoramic view that covers the area of three cards, but someone has cut it in the middle. Interesting to compare with Prague today |
40.00 |
|
|
Mlada Fronta pamphlet for best stamp in Czechoslovakia 1966 with engraved example and note from dealer. Priced at £7.50, so another bargain for you |
2.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Literature; Books; Magazines; Maps |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rather dog eared 100 page book published in Prague in 1925 by Karel Capek entitled "Anglicke Listy" (English Letters). Many humorous illustrations of his view of the British Isles amongst the Czech text, including the traffic and gentlemen's clubs |
2.00 |
|
|
Specialised catalogue Novotny 1970 |
4.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collections |
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 page stock book with 83 examples of Franz Josef revenues from 1898 and 1910 issues with values up to 50 k in 1910 issue, this catalogued CZK 480 alone. Page of Czech revenues and some Polish. Variety of First Republic issues including used 2 k Posta overprint |
32.00 |
|
|
66 covers mainly First Republic postal stationery neatly written up ready for display. Note 2 covers with Hradcany imperfs, postage due "T" on 50 h Chain breaker card, 1938 censored cover and provisional 1945 registration label for Lodenice u Berouna |
40.00 |
|
|
Bratislava 1937 MS and New York World's Fair 1940 (including Czech pavilion in green) strips of stamps and intervening label from MSs. All UMM. No need to destroy your sheets for these now |
2.50 |
|
|
First Republic Airmails. Over 70 covers with a range of destinations and rates to explore. Note First Flights for Praha Bruxelles on Sabena, Praha - Liberec - Jablonec nad Nisou and Praha - Cluj - Moscow. Note destinations such as Tanganyika, Buenos Aires (one stamp removed, so no idea of rate used) and Columbia with typed "Via SS NORMANDIE via Cherbourg", but manuscript Le Havre with airmail label via PAA and SCADTA. Finally note interesting labels on reverse of a set from Moravska Ostrava showing Jan Svat Presl, Otak Brezina and Joz Mir Hurban. Those six that I can see in specialist catalogue rated at 1700 points, which I make over £200. Generally good condition with the odd crease and foxing |
200.00 |
|
|
Just under 20 meter cancels, mainly Czech from early 1990s without address. One to Newcastle Pensions in 1959 and another from the Czech Embassy in London in 1977 to UK address |
4.00 |
|
|
Red album of mint and used issues from 1945 to 1953 on well over 50 pages, with a number well written up. Note several clean covers to enhance collection, August 1945 MS cat CZK 250, cover from Bratislava with full perforated set act CZK 250, 1947 Moyses FDC with both values cat CZK 150 (slight foxing), 1948 30th Ann FDC with both values in red cat CZK 150 and Praha 1950 block cat CZK 80 |
16.00 |
|
|
Red spring back album with about 100 covers and cards. Note four mint Slovak postal stationery items overprinted for Ceskoslovensko cat CZK 650 and 1925 Olympic postcard set of 5 cat CZK 1200, but rust markings from old paperclips. A wide range from Austrian period to more modern, with more interest in First Republic issues particularly cancels and cachets, several to Liechtenstein |
40.00 |
|
|
Tan album of over 80 pages of 1970s issues mint and used. Note 1971 UNICEF 50 h sheetlet of 10 cat CZK 60 (light creases on right hand side), 1972 Graphic issues sheetlet of four cat CZK 70, 1972 Arts sheetlet used cat CZK 60, 1972 progressive colour trials for Birds, 1975 Svoboda perf and imperf cat CZK 200 and 1977 European Peace imperf 60 h values in sheetlet of four cat CZK 250, |
16.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Postal Stationery |
|
|
|
|
|
|
100 postal stationery items mainly Benes and Masaryk issues with views |
40.00 |
|
|
1899 10 heller pneumatic card with reply card, Netto 17 cat £68 |
19.00 |
|
|
1899 mint 15 heller pneumatic letter card, Netto 6 cat £82 |
24.00 |
|
|
1918 Postal Stationery Austrian card 8h Charles 1 with overprint CS/R/-10- in 3 lines. Unused but it has the imprint of Karel Dvorak and 2 lines of writing in pencil |
20.00 |
|
|
1919 Telegram Form in Czech with imprint of 5h Hradcany unused, but crease down centre CTU1 |
8.00 |
|
|
1943 Bi-lingual Czech and German Telegram Form, unused. Uncatalogued. Faint crease at left hand side |
8.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Countries |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6pf Hitler head on window envelope from Laboratorium Dr med Wendlandt, Bad Oeynhausen |
0.10 |
|
|
GB Active Service cover to Walthamstow with roller cancel Army P O 1 / B /26 May 17 |
0.40 |
|