Spring Auction Series 2016

1896-1976 Exhibition collection neatly mounted and presented on approximately 220 album pages, showing strength in 1896 to 1936 with many complete mint sets, imperforates, Specimens, proofs, varieties, covers with a fine array of registered usages, Special cancellations, postcards, postal stationery, Special meter postmarks etc., a wonderful collection for the thematic collector (Est. € 20'000/30'000)

1900-72, VIGNETTES (130) in a small stockbook and some sheetlets from the Paris expo onwards incl. 7 different 1912 official vignettes, plus Olympic cigar labels (240 from 1964-72 from Agio cigars, etc.) and 1924 Hungarian matchbox etiquettes (307), plus headed letter from the Spanish Olympic Committee signed by Samaranch (IOC president) (Est. € 200/300)

1906-1960, VIGNETTES: A wonderful collection neatly mounted on 22 album pages, some interesting and rare labels from the early period 1906 to 1920 incl. 1912 Official vignette designed by Hjortzberg the very rare IMPERFORATE & IMPERF HORIZONTALLY, 1916 Swedish vignette in single & pair etc., plus 1900 Cigarette cards some depicting Olympic events, an attractive assembly (100s) (Est. € 700/1'000)

1920-80s, Group incl. 1920 "Netherland Sportpark" Society participant's pass for the velodrome as well as 15 various covers/cards incl. 1913 Official postal reproduction using the original "Stadion" and "LBR" cancellers, 1948 London Finnish Olympic machine cancel on cover, group of 7 1952 Helsinki covers/cards incl. Olympic machine cancel on official postcard, two 1956 Melbourne FDCs non-Olympic registered labels, group of four Greece covers...

1924-52, LITERATURE: Group of 5 Olympic books incl. 1924 "Paris / Antwerpen / Chamonix Olympiska Glimtar" (Swedish), 1932 LA official pictorial souvenir book, 1948 Official Souvenir book, 1952 Helsinki official photo card book in Finnish, 1952 Oslo official picture report magazine, plus 4 Phila-Sport mazines

1924-76, Group of 53 covers/postcards with better incl. 1925 Congress unused set of postal stationery and set on pc, 1924 Olympic machine cancel, 1924 ppc of Victory with 25c franking tied by Colombes Olympic Village cds, 1936 "Bell" meter mark, 1960 Organising Committee env. with matching meter mark, etc., some FOOTBALL and SKIING interest (Est. € 300/400)

BASEBALL: 1930s-80s, Mounted collection and accumulation of stamps, cancels, meter marks and illustrated covers/postal stationery cards in 9 variously sized albums/stockbooks, with strength in USA and Japan as well as a nice selection of Venezuela 1944 issue varieties and frankings incl. inv. ovpts, printers waste with double impressions, imperfs, imperf. between, etc., including other proofs and specimens, an interesting lot (Est. € 300/500...

1935-80, Collection of 120 Olympics and Sports covers and FDCs in 3 albums, incl. Ski Championships, World Cup, etc., 1936 Olympic Zeppelin flights, some rare cancellations, etc., ideal for further expansion (Est. € 3'000/4'000)

1944-2012, Collection and accumulation of mostly the more modern Games with a strong emphasis on 2012 London, written up on pages and hundreds of loose covers, mostly covers/FDCs and postcards with some memorabilia, including Candidate City publicity, some earlier items to look out for incl. vignettes and early ppc's, a great lot to go through with potential for the future (Est. € 1'000/1'500)

1950-1996, FOOTBALL group of 84 covers with cancels and stamps from various World Cup and European tournaments incl. 21 covers from the British Commonwealth with 1966 World Cup omnibus issues, plus a Euro 96 printed album with stamps, mini sheets and postal stationery from around the world (almost complete) (Est. € 150/200)

1956-2000, Six items incl. Beijing 2000 Olympic Games Bid Committee printed envelope, 1956 Stockholm official headed paper with Olympic stamps tied by special cds with Closing Day cachet, 1980 Moscow telegram with illustrated Olympic header, 1992 Barcelona pre-Olympic stamps on two official presentation cards tied by special cds and USA 1996 Atlanta large FDCs with Olympic Centennial sheet (2) (Est. € 50/80)