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Bidboard # 1927
Lot # 256
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $600.00
Current Bid: $425
Germany

Non-Mainstream Motherlode. U-Haul carton packed with valuable, varied and interesting German area stamps, souvenir sheets, covers, cards and attractive sundry items. Only a smattering of Federal Republic or DDR issues noted but the lot is loaded with exactly the kind of material that will appeal to the German collector wishing to branch out into more esoteric and wide-ranging areas. Noted in the mix (in no particular order): se-tenant ex-booklet pairs and strips including propaganda labels (mostly 3rd Reich); pre-Confederation states; forgeries and facsimiles; WWI "Lost Colonies" mourning seals; 1939 Nuremberg Rally pin; WWII occupation and liberation of Czechoslovakia overprints; valuable collections of post-WWII Allied and Soviet Zone local posts (both Scott and Michel listed issues), including provisional overprints, typographed and letterpress regionals, souvenir sheets, paper varieties, etc; collections oof WWII German Occupation issues from Poland, Alsace, Luxembourg, Russia, Ukraine, Bohemia Moravia and others; Bavaria semi-postal airmail; album of covers and cards including Nazi propaganda postal stationery cards; and finally, extra WWII related material for Italy, France and other areas. Estimate =