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Auction 62

Lot 296

Italian Area, 1862-1999, a highly advanced primarily mint collection, housed in four large binders with all stamps neatly mounted on album pages. An extraordinary collection of mint from powerful classics and highly comprehensive modern including errors, to many valuable and difficult to obtain sets from the colonies and other areas. Consider the following mint for example: Italy #20-21,24-26,37-40, 42-44, 45-51, 52-57, 58-63, 64-66, 67-72, 76-91, 111-112, 115-116, 117-118, 142A-42D, 201-210, 248-256, 268-279, 280-289, 290-305, 324-328, 331-341, 345-348, 349-354, 359-366, 367-376, 377-386, 477, 495-506, B17-19, B30-33, C3-9, E1-5, E9, E11, J25-27, P1, Q7-19, and others. Regarding certificates there are indeed some here, such as a mint 36 with o.g. (cat $4,400) and #54, also o.g. (cat $2,350). Some terrific used sets too, for example 17-20, C42-47, C62-65, C95-99, and the issues of 1901-1922 with advertising labels. The modern era is highly complete with scores of shifted perf and color varieties, virtually all of them with certificates, such as the following Sassone #'s: 1458a, 1459b, 1461c, 1461f, 1462a (block of four of the shifted head variety, these errors alone total €80,000 in Sassone), 1537a, 1540b, 1541Aa, 1541Ab, 1546c, and many more. Othere areas include Offices in Turkey (Janina) used 11 (on piece), 12 and in Salonika, mint 1-8, Eritrea (1892-1934) with mint 1-11, 47, 119-128, 168-174, B4, B12-32, C7-16, CB1-10, J1-9, J10a, J14, J15-27, Fiume (1918-1924) with mint 27-43, 172-83, B4-15, J1-12, and used 98, 100-103, 149-158, E4-5, Italian Colonies (1932-1934) with mint C13-19, C20-28, C29-35, Italian East Africa (1938-1941) with mint C1-11,C18, San Marino (1877-1932) with mint 4, 15-17, 23-24, 134-138, 139-142, 143-150, Somalia 1906-1926) with mint J1-11 (cat $5,500. High values signed), J12-22a, J2a-21a, J31-41, Q1-9, Q10-15, a highly specialized collection of Trieste Zone A (1947-1954) with gum and paper varieties, inscription blocks and gutter pairs, with mint 1-17, 18-29, 41, 58-69, 109-110, C1-6, C13-16, J7-15, J16-29, and Trieste Zone B with mint 3a, 51-65, 65a, 93-104, C17a, RA1, occupied areas, for example, the Occupation of Ljubljana N1-17, and the Yugoslavia Occupation of Istria, Sassone #22-36 (3 values with certificate), and a nearly complete mint run of all of the Aegean Islands (1912-1941). A collection to treasure, yet still room for expansion. Overall Fine to Very Fine. Shipping weigh 26 lbs / 11.8 kilos.
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000.

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