375th Auction
16-21 November in Wiesbaden
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1945, mint never hinged/unused and used collection with Michel Nr. 1-2 once and Michel Nr. 3(2; from different printings, with both overprint types combinations) in a sheet of 50, Michel No. 4A in a block of four with HAN, Michel No. 4B in a block of 16 with HAN, some forgeries etc.
1945, mint never hinged/unused and used collection with mostly varieties such as Mi.-Nr. 2DD, 4ADD(2), 4BDD(2), 2K, 3K(2), 4AK, 4BK also shifted overprints, offset and Mi.-Nr. 4BDD F as vertical pair, some items depicted in "Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland" by Wilhelm van Loo (2016)", some signed van Loo BPP etc.
87 PHOTOS
1944/45, interesting collection of 23 field post covers, mostly with full content, one card and one cover Lativan soldier in the Wehrmacht
24 PHOTOS
GERMAN CANCELLATIONS: DONDANGEN-WINDAU, very interesting collection with 7 stamps/pieces, 14 addressed envelopes, cards and 11 money orders, covers and postcards, including Mi.-Nr. 1-4A/B on cover with railway cancel "LIBAU-HASENPOTH 21.4.45", all written up, very rare assembly
33 PHOTOS
LATVIAN CANCELLATIONS: ALSVANGA-ZIRA, very interesting collection with 16 stamps/pieces, 15 addressed envelopes, cards and 8 money orders, covers and postcards, all written up, very rare assembly
FORMS: 1944/45, interesting collection of 9 cards and documents like fieldpost from a latvian soldier, Newspaper official matter form the postal branch "Spare" to the "Dienstpostamt Windau", reverse with receiver cachet "ZEITUNGSSTELLE WINDAU", Application for radio licence, fieldpost money order, Radio license document, Pension insurance card with 6 fiscals, a permit for the allocation of food ration cards, Purchase book for goods etc., many items depicted and described in "Postverkehr Kurland" by Wilhelm van Loo (2016)
1941, small collection with 5 covers and Mi.-Nr. 2 as complete sheet, fine
1941/43, interesting collection of 66 cards, covers and forms with many interesting items such as use of official stamps, postage free mail, "Postsache", postal stationery, airmail, registered mail, mixed franking Ostland-stamps with Deutsches Reich and Stelle "C" etc., in addition some large format cover(fronts) from the Ostland Öl-Vertriebs GmbH, mostly fine
48 PHOTOS
1941, unused/mint never hinged and used collection with multiples, paper folds, Hitler 5 Pfg. as complete sheet, se-tenants including strips of 11, small handbook for Latvian postal workers and more than 25 covers including registered and censored, "Deutsche Dienstpost Ostland", Official mail with official stamps, all in two albums
38 PHOTOS
POSTAL STATIONERY: 1941, with more than 60 cards (few envelopes) with many interesting items like Latvian tourism postcard and many Advertising postcards including three used ones
196 PHOTOS
CANCELLATIONS: Very extensive collection with approx. 600 items of "Deutsche Dienspost Ostland" postmarks "BRENE-WINDAU", Riga machine cancellations, amended Latvian and Sovjet Latvian postmarks, German postmarks for Latvian post offices, dumb cancellations, provisional cancellation, different r-labels and cancellations etc.
97 PHOTOS
CANCELLATIONS: Interesting collection of more than 100 cards and covers plus loose stamps and pieces, German and Latvian cancels, "Deutsche Dienstpost" cancels and meter marks, adjusted Russian cancels, 2nd. class post offices for instance "Hasenpoth-Kloster über Hasenpoth", provisional cancellation including manuscript, railway, muted fieldpost cancellations with one cover depicted in "Lettland vor dem und als Teil vom Generalkommissariat OSTLAND", page 184, Harry von Hofmann (2001), all written up in 4 volumes
57 PHOTOS
1941/43,very interesting collection with more than 60 cards and covers, with marking "taken from the mailbox with changed address", postage due with different markings, "address unknown retour", "zurück unzulässig", "Zurück z. Zt. keine Postverbindung", label "Covers with stamps not in proper place will not be carried in the future", "Ansichtskarten unzulässig", "Zurück Absenderangabe fehlt ungenügend", "Überprüft! Keine Bedenken" etc., meist gute Erhaltung
31 PHOTOS
REGISTERED MAIL: 1941/43, very interesting collection with 46 cards and covers, showing re-used latvian r-labels, provisional r-label and german r-labels, german receipts, Sovjet Latvian receipt (depicted in "Lettland vor dem und als Teil vom Generalkommissariat OSTLAND", page 240, Harry von Hofmann (2001)), mostly fine
38 PHOTOS
TELEGRAMS: 1942, very interesting collection starting with 19 telegrams and 5 corresponding envelopes, in addition five GREETINGS TELEGRAMS and five corresponding envelopes, mostly good condition
23 PHOTOS
PARCEL CARDS/FORMS: 1941/44, interesting collection with 29 forms containing International COD form, Notification for a package, usage of sovjet forms, emergency parcel card etc., fine
22 PHOTOS
MONEY SERVICE: 1941/44, interesting collection with 24 various forms, postal giro letters, postal savings book, identity cards and return coupons, good condition
TELEPHONE SERVICE: 1941/44, interesting collection with 19 various forms, phone book announcements, telephone bill envelopes, telephone bills, telephone accounting slips, radio subscriber card on Lithuania postal stationery, receipt book for radio license fee, receipt for PO Box fees, various pieces illustrated in the handbook
28 PHOTOS
SPECIAL SERVICES: 1941/44, interesting collection with 31 various forms like notification for a package, Newspaper purchasing permits, newspaper subscription order cards, delivery slips, letter bundle slips, waybills, identity cards etc., various pieces illustrated in the handbook
INCOMING MAIL: Interesting collection of 12 cards and covers including censored and registered, airmail cover with meter mark, field post with handstamp "Zurück z. Ut. keine Postverbindung", postcard written in latvian with marking "Zurück an den Absender unzulässig" etc, mostly fine
RESETTLEMENT MAIL: Interesting collection of 9 cards and covers including pre-printed envelopes "Volksdeutsche Einwanderer-Beratungsstelle", cachet "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle" and "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Umsiedlung Lager Nr. Villa Werneck", card with request to provide additional information on the replacement of the property left behind etc., good condition
UNAUTHORIZED USE OF OSTLAND STAMPS: 1942/43, interesting group of 15 cards and covers included registered, mostly transported un-rejected
FISCALS: 1942/43, very interesting group of 9 documents including one passport, fine
38 PHOTOS
1942/44, interesting collection with 40 cards and covers, with registered mail, Latvian in the Wehrmacht, mail posted in civil post offices including one cover with railway mark, SS-Fieldpost etc., all written up