375th Auction

INCOMING MAIL: 1921/39, interesting group of 24 covers to Latvia, including registered mail from Russia, registered cover paid cash, mail from Danzig, German Empire, Denmark, Lithuania, Hungary, Iceland, Spain, Sweden, Poland and Japan and New Zealand, mostly written up, in addition some covers with punch holes resp scissor cuts, mostly good condition

SHIPMAIL: 1921/39, interesting group of 14 cards and covers travelled by ship or addressed to Crew members, including 4 covers from Riga to New York with U.S.S. PITTSBURG, WHIPPLE and BILLINGSLEY, "Paquebot" boxed mark on card to Aarhus resp. cover to Kopenhagen, "Fran LETTLAND" on card to Stockholm etc, all written up on pages, mostly fine

MAIL FROM DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS: 1925/38, interesting group of 6 covers, mostly pre-printed envelopes, fine

FOREIGN CANCELLATIONS ON LATVIAN STAMPS: Interesting group with stamps and covers, starting with Lithuanian Railway cancel RYGA-KYBARTAI on several cards/covers and loose stamps, "PASTO VAGONAS 1-2" on card to Nürnberg, "KLAIPEDA-KYBARTEI PAST VAG 14" on cover to Liepaja, "STOCKHOLM" as arrival mark on shipmail card with adjacent "Fran Lettland", Card to St. Gallen with swiss rhomb on reverse franking and "KAUNAS G.K" on card to Heilbronn", all written up, mostly fine

1919/39, very interesting collection with more than 500 cards and covers, mostly collected by postage periods with many interesting and better items, censored mail, registered mail, provisional cancellations, different forms, wrappers etc., 

1920/42, interesting group of 165 cards and covers, all individually priced, including railway incl. registered mail and Ostland, censored mail, airmail, postage due markings, pre-printed ESPERANTO envelope, parcel cards, shipmail, machine and postal slogan cancellations, Ostland with 2nd class post office cancellations etc., mostly fine

POSTAL HISTORY FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR: 1939/41, impressive collection in 20 albums with close to 600 cards and covers, collected until the German occupation in June 1941. All neatly arranged in chronological order with a wide array of covers and cards, including numerous specialities such as foreign censorship, air mail, meter marks, special cancellations Daugavpils on 10s. on postcard, registered mail, railway mail, illustrated envelopes, slogan cancellations, telegram, Resettlement mail, complete book for registered mail, bilingual cancellations, chemical censorship, SU field mail in Latvia etc., often written up with additional informations,   

MISCELLANEOUS: Interesting group of 36 cards/covers including 16 Artist post cards and 7 illustrated envelopes and several picture postcards etc, fine

NON PHILATELIC MATERIAL: Interesting group containing identity card, exile papers, banknotes etc., 

VIGNETTES: 1921/39, interesting group starting with single vignette for the Riga Fair 1921, than many city views "Visit Latvia" including several cards and covers, mostly good condition

PROVISIONAL CANCELLATIONS: AIZPUTE-ZLAKAS, very interesting collection with 20 cards and covers, including better and interesting items, in addition more than 300 stamps and pieces, mostly fine

CANCELLATIONS: Ordinary postmarks, few provisionals, JAUNLATGALE-ZUBITES, very extensive collection with more than 1700 items organized by Harry von Hofmann numbers, on covers, cards, postal stationery, different forms, picture postcards and larger pieces etc.

CANCELLATIONS: ABAVA-ZVADE, extensive collections with more than 4600 stamps and pieces, all written up in 6 albums

SPECIAL CANCELLATIONS: 1920/40, interesting group of 25 cards and covers and 38 stamps and pieces, cards and covers including "300 LIEPAJA 300", registered cover with multicolored labels (and rare special registered labels) and cancel  "IX DZIESMI SVETKI", "SKAUTU NOMETNE", mostly fine

RAILWAY: Interesting collection with more than 280 cards and covers and many loose stamps or pieces, mostly very nice strikes

PROVISIONAL CANCELLATIONS: 1921/39, interesting group of 15 cards and covers and several stamps and pieces, mostly fine

MACHINE CANCELLATIONS: 1921/39, interesting group of more than 300 cards and covers and few stamps and pieces, mostly fine

METER-MARKS: 1920/40, interesting collection with more than 140 covers including registered covers, special usages, specimen printings etc., 

INSTRUCTIONAL MARKS: 1920/40, interesting collection with more than 125 forms, 28 covers and more than 220 cards/covers not yet sorted, including many interesting items, mostly fine

INTERNAL CANCELLATIONS: 1928/40, interesting group of 11 cards/covers and forms including three forms franked with fiscal stamps, mostly fine

MISCELLANEOUS: 1918/36, interesting group of 7 covers and some pieces with corrected or missing date bridge, in addition 4 volumes with cancellation collection trying to show every day of the 1st Republic, mostly fine

POSTAL SLOGAN CANCELLATIONS: 1936/40, very interesting collection with many different slogans on 23 cards and covers including registered covers, foreign destination etc., in addition 2 volumes sorted by Juris Mars research with a total of 136 cards and covers (few fronts)

CANCELLATIONS ON FORMS: 1918/40, very interesting and extensive collection with close to 2000 items, collected on the different postal forms in use

FISCALS: 1915/40, interesting collection with more than 60 documents starting with 5 documents from Imperial times resp. Postgebiet Ober-Post, containing 7 passports, better fiscals, interesting mixed frankings etc., mostly good condition

REVENUES: 1916/43, interesting collection housed in 4 albums collected by Barefoot catalog, beginning with Russian period, wide array including Postgebiet Ober-Ost high value up to 50 M., than Estonia starting with some Provisionals, National Government, few stamps with PROOV overprint, Latvia with better high-value stamps, multiples, different perforations, issues from the Railway Medical and Entertainment Department including some proofs on multi-colored paper, also a good part Ostland and in addition some Revenues of Estonia and Lithuania

FISCALS: 1921/39, very interesting lot of 10 letters or cards franked with fiscal stamps, often with postage due marking, but partly also delivered unrecognized, very scarce assembly

RAILWAY STAMPS: 1926/29, unused/ mint never hinged and used collection including multiples, some with control numbers, blank fields etc., mostly good condition

1940/41, Railway Newspaper Stamps, small used and mint never hinged collection containing Dz14-15 as singles and Dz15 as block of four, fine

1919, small, mostly used collection with 6 stamps/pieces with red overprint and 2 pieces with blue overprint, some signed Mikulski a.o., fine

1919, unused and used collection with 10 pieces including three pairs of 25k. on 3k. including a tête-bêche, mostly signed Mikulski, Winterstein, Rucins, Hoffman BPP, good condition

CANCELLATIONS: Extensive collection with approx. 750 covers, cards, postal stationery, forms, illustrated envelopes etc.

1945/90, extensive collection with more than 1900 items like fieldpost and censored mail, provisional cancellations, use of old latvian cancellations, postal stationery, registered mail, illustrated envelopes, special cancellations, waybill, forms, official mail, meter marks, machine cancellations, telegramms, illustrated telegrams etc., many items ex Harry von Hofmann collection

MAIL IN EXILE: 1945/91, interesting collection of covers including Advertising letters and cancels, special envelopes, one album with vignettes as singles, multiples sheets and on covers, all in 4 albums

1991/2001, postfrische Sammlung inkl. Mi.-Nr. 313-16 im Dreierstreifen, dabei die mittlere Marke ohne Aufdruck, Mi.-Nr. 315 im Dreierstreifen mit und ohne Aufdruck auf Brief, außerdem einige Markenheftchen

1991/2005(ca.), very extensive collection with forms, waybill, international reply coupons, express shipments, provisional franked forms on lost shipments/covers from various cities (41 ), advice of receipt, cash on delivery, additional charges, Russian forms used up in Latvian time and the first Latvian telegrams. Furthermore machine cancellations (185), single frankings (157), mixed frankings (84), meter marks (107), special cancellations (100) also airmail etc.. All in all a large collection of modern Latvian postal history with more than 2500 items

CANCELLATIONS: Extensive collection with approx. 2000 covers, cards, postal stationery etc.