1857, entire letter from Sulina, carried by private ship to Syros, with arrival mark. Taxed upon arrival with "10" lepta. Small ink erosion on front, still fine and very scarce.
Heinrich Köhler 388 - Day 1 Croatia 1940–1945, Russia No. 1, Great Britain and British Commonwealth
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Heinrich Koehler Auktionen Heinrich Köhler 388 - Day 1 Croatia 1940–1945, Russia No. 1, Great Britain and British Commonwealth
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| 23 – 27 March 2026 | Monday – Friday | 8.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. |
| 28 March 2026 | Saturday | starting 8.30 a.m. |
Auction Schedule
| Friday, 20 March 2026 | 09:00 CET | 1001 – 1516 | Single lots: Europe and Colonies: A–Z Special part: Croatia 1940–1945 – The Prof. Dr. Shaul P. Ladany Collection |
| Friday, 20 March 2026 | 13:00 CET | 7001 – 7077 | Special catalogue: Russia No. 1 – The "Elin" Collection (part II) |
| Friday, 20 March 2026 | 14:00 CET | 1517 – 1860 | Single lots: Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries, Ship mail, Airmail and Zeppelin mail, Olympics, Numismatics Special part: Ship Mail to 1945 – The Friedrich Steinmeyer Collection (part II) |
| Monday, 23 March 2026 | 09:00 CET | 1861 – 2816 | Single lots: German Empire from 1872, Private Mail Special part: Horseshoe cancels – The Jens Kuhn Collection (Part I) Special part: Weimar and the Third Reich with variants, proofs and essays – The Nils Schmidt Collection Special part: German private posts 1873–1914 – The Pol Wijnants Collection |
| Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 08:30 CET | 2817 – 3167 | Single lots: German foreign Post Offices and Colonies |
| Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 11:30 CET | 7501 – 7638 | Special catalogue: German East Africa – The "Waldersee" Collection |
| Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 13:00 CET | 3168 – 3749 | Single lots: German Occupation WWI & WWII, German Areas and Plebiscites, Germany after 1945 |
| Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 17:00 CET | 10001 – 10361 | Collections: Country collections: Europe, including Great Britain and British Commonwealth |
| Wednesday, 25 March 2026 | 08:00 CET | 10362 – 11553 | Collections: Country collections: Overseas General collections All World / Europe / Overseas Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematic collections, Picture Postcards, Literature, Coins Collections Germany: German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies, German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, General collections Germany, Germany after 1945 |
| Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 09:00 CET | 3750 – 4329 | Single lots: German States Baden – Württemberg, North German Postal District, Alsace-Lorraine Special part: Grand Duchy of Oldenburg – The Jens Kuhn Collection (Part I) Special part: The stamps of the North German Postal District during the era of the German Empire from 4 May 1871 onwards – The Hansmichael Krug Collection |
| Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 15:00 CET | 8001 – 8156 | Special catalogue: Hamburg 1857–1867 – The "St Georg" Collection |
| Thursday, 26 March 2026 | 16:30 CET | 8501 – 8716 | Special catalogue: Kingdom of Saxony – King John – The Michael Schewe Collection |
| Friday, 27 March 2026 | 08:00 CET | 5001 – 6048 | Special catalogue: The "Mare Balticum" Collection – German war and post-war areas WWI & WWII |
| Saturday, 28 March 2026 | 09:00 CET | 6049 – 6420 | Special catalogue: The "Mare Balticum" Collection – Baltic States from 1918 |
| Saturday, 28 March 2026 | 12:00 CET | 9001 – 9347 | Special catalogue: Germany from 1849 – The "American" Bruce Wright Collection (part III) |
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Lot #1302 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
BRAILA: 1843, Entire letter to Constantinopel, upon arrival struck with all Arabic negative "An Canib Posta-i Deraliyye 257" greenish handstamp. Very rare; just 5 entires from this early period have been recorded.
Lot #1303 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"HIRSOVA", all arabic double-circle, clear and complete strike in blue on 1869/71, 1 pia. yellow. Extremely rare. Certificate Nakri AIEP (2019). Ex Kuyas.
Lot #1304 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
KALAS (GALATZ), "AN CANIB-I POSTA-I KALAS", blue negative seal cancel, nice clear strike on tatar postal document from Shumnu, Bulgaria, to Galatz. Very rare.
Lot #1305 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"MACIN", all arabic double-circle, clear and complete strike in blue on 1869/71, 20 pa. green. Extremely rare. Certificate Nakri AIEP(2019). Ex Mellon.
Lot #1306 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"MECIDIYE", all arabic double-circle, clear and complete strike on 1870, postage due 20 pa. Extremely rare. Certificate Nakri AIEP(2019). Ex Mellon.
Lot #1307 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
“KÖSTENCE” all Arabic double-box, clear and almost complete strike on 10 Pa. revenue stamp (for Postal receipts). Very rare
Lot #1308 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"TULCA", all arabic double-circle, clear and complete strike in blue on 1869/71, 1 pia. Extremely rare. Certificate Nakri AIEP(2019).
Lot #1309 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
BRAILA: 1853, entire letter endorsed on front “Braila” and “Galazi”, written in Braila and routed via “GALATZ 1853 APRIL 8” (Tchilinghirian Type 4; Dobin-Nr. 1.03) to Odessa with double-framed “POLUCHENO 10 APR:” arrival marking. A very fine and attractive entire; the letter refers to the accompanying remittance of 1,500 Ducats (!) and kindly asks the recipient to wait for the next post for the remainder of the payment. A delightful entire...
Lot #1310 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1826, "BUKAREST" Cyrillic straight-line (Tchilinghirian Type 1), an exceptional strike on reverse of an entire letter written in Greek and addressed in French to “madame Alexandra de Soulzo la postelnitzesse à Kisnowe”. The letter disinfected with rastel marks, very fine. Probably the earliest recorded used of this elusive postmark, predating the Russian occupation of the city, and an early disinfected cover from the Danubian Principalities....
Lot #1311 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1830, “BUKAREST” Cyrillic straight-line (Tchilinghirian Type 1), a rather faint but complete strike with additional handwritten date “21” on reverse of an entire letter addressed to Jassy, the cover disinfected with rastel marks. A fresh and very fine entire from the period of Russian occupation of the city. Very scarce
Lot #1312 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1833, "BUKUREST. OKTIABR 12 1833" Cyrillic two-line handstamp (Tchilinghirian Type 2, this very strike being illustrated), on reverse of an entire letter to Jassy, endorsed “N100” on front, very fine. Rare
Lot #1313 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
BUCHAREST: 1857, Postal receipt from the “BUCHAREST POST OFFICE" for a parcel sent from the Imperial Russian Consulate to Novocherkask, dated 29 November 1857; the receipt lightly folded as usual, very fine. Rare
Lot #1314 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1858, “Reçu le 1er Avril”, French two-line Bucharest arrival handstamp (Tchilinghirian Type 5, this very mark illustrated), fair strike on an entire letter written in Greek with reverse oval postmark “MOSCOU AVRIL 4”, dated inside 3 April 1858, on front endorsed in crayon “32K(opek)” (correct rate), very fine. A very rare entire
Lot #1315 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1859, “BUKAREST OTPR(avleno) 8 MAIYA” Cyrillic two-line (Tchilinghirian Type 4), a very fine strike of the despatch mark on reverse of an envelope from “KRONSHTADT APRIL 1859”, addressed to the ruler of Moldavia and Wallachia, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Slight toning, otherwise very fine. A delightful, historically significant, and rare item.
Lot #1316 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
BUCHAREST INCOMING MAIL: money letter with undated framed “BALTA” (Kamenets Podolsk province) despatch on reverse, sent to Bucharest and regarding the sum of 30 silver roubles and 90 kopeks, extremely fine. A very scarce usage
Lot #1317 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
CONSTANZA: 1875, entire letter with full content endorsed in Greek script on the inside “Constanza 15 sept. 1875”, sent by steamer franked with Russian Levant 3 k. green and 5 k. blue as (horizontal pair) all struck on arrival with cds “ODESSA 17 CEP. 1875” repeated alongside; the entire with light vertical archival fold of no significance, very fine. Extremely rare, signed and certificate Holcombe (1992) (Michel-Nr. 7x, 8y)
Lot #1318 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1846, “V GALATZ 1846 MAIYA”, Cyrillic two-line (Tchilinghinrian Type 2, Dobin-Nr. 1.01), a very good strike in red on the reverse of a large part lettersheet to Bucharest, red crayon “30” rate marking; despite the minor part missing still fine Russian abroad mail from this Moldavian port on the Danube. A very rare handstamp with only a few recorded
Lot #1319 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1846, “V GALATZ 1846 NOV. 30”, Cyrillic two-line (Tchilinghinrian Type 2, Dobin-Nr. 1.01), a very good strike in red on the reverse of an entire lettersheet to Odessa, very fine, also an entire letter dated inside “Galatz 15/27 Maggio 1828” to Odessa with disinfection rastel marks and slices, fine. A delightful duo
Lot #1320 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
GALATZ: 1869, “GALATZ 19 MAI. 1869” (Tchilinghirian Type 6) in blue, fine strike (repeated on reverse) with additional blue dotted lozenge tying a Russian Levant 10 k. carmine/green to lettersheet to Taganrog via “ODESSA 20 MAYA. 1869”. Minor peripheral toning of no significance, very fine and visually appealing. Very rare and desirable combination, featuring both the Galatz cds. and the Retta cancel, from the known Svorono correspondence (...
Lot #1321 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
ISMAIL: 1843, “ISMAIL APRIL 2() 1843” Cyrillic two-line despatch handstamp (unrecorded in Tchilinghirian), fair strike on reverse of entire letter to Odessa with alongside cachet from the Vice Consul from Sardinia, dated inside “Ismail lo 14 Aprile 1843”, fine. Very rare
Lot #1322 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
ISMAIL: 1846, “ISMAILA OTPRAV MARTA 8 1846” Cyrillic two-line despatch handstamp, excellent strike to reverse of a free frank official letter from the Azov military regiment to Tavabeyuev, vertical archival fold of no importance. Very fine, and very rare
Lot #1323 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1839, “YASSI” Cyrillic handstamp in slanting capitals (Tchilinghirian Type 1, Dobin-Nr. 1.02), a very fair strike on reverse of an official entire letter from the Kharkov Court to Yassi, endorsed both inside and on the back flap “Kharkov 15 September (1839)”. From Jassi the cover was forwarded to Bucharest via the weekly mail service linking the two cities, with manuscript dockettings “6 October” (reverse) and “10 October” (inside), very fine...
Lot #1324 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
JASSY: 1844, Postal receipt from “JASSY POST OFFICE" for a brief sent to Bucharest, dated 10 February 1844, alongside black negative official seal. The receipt lightly folded as usual; very fine and rare, signed and certificate Mikulski AIEP (1994)
Lot #1325 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1850, “YASSI 1850 5 OKTIAB”, Cyrillic foliate-ornament datestamp (Tchilinghirian Type 7), very good strike on the reverse of an ecclesiastic envelope to Constantinople; some wrinkles, still very fine. Very rare, and one of only three covers known from this correspondence




























