Auction No 140 - Prestige Philately

Oct 17, 2008
Prestige Philately - Auction No 140 Page: 19
PICTURE POSTCARDS - The "Cartophile" Collection - Overseas Countries (continued)
Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
80
C
BALTIC STATES: Array from Estonia (20) & Latvia (16) plus a few from Rumania, Bulgaria & Finland,
postmark interest, generally fine to very fine. The stamps make for a colourful lot.{Page 18.1} (49)
300
81
82
83
84
C
Ex Lot 81 Ex Lot 83
CHINA: Attractive selection in plastic leaves with German types & one Russian type, many pagodas &
other buildings including European styles, also graveyard & funeral processions, Canton Railway
Station, city & port views, also a few photographs, used cards mainly with the stamps removed
otherwise generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.{Page 19.1} (50+ PPCs)
C - PPCs (mainly) into China from Italy (18), Belgium (readdressed to Japan), Natal, Straits Settlements
& Australia (7, two from Queensland underpaid but only one taxed) etc. (47)
C - Array all with Coiled Dragon frankings mostly to England but also to Belgium & Australia (2) and
some internal usages, some with transits of British, French or Japanese POs in China, many attractive
cards including "Travelling shoemaker", "Bric-a-brac shop", "Itschang Chinesische Garrison",
"Residence of the Russian General at Newchang", "Transplanting Rice", "Chinese Execution" (heads
everywhere!) etc, most are fine to very fine. Excellent lot.{Page 19.2} (68)
C - Array mostly with Junk frankings including Overprints including to Australia (3), Italy, Austria,
Denmark, Canal Zone (badly stained) & Siberia (creased), also many internal usages including to the
British Legation at Peking with 'FPO No 1' arrival cds, many attractive cards including an unused group
of Wei-hai-wei subjects, most are fine to very fine.{Page 18.2} (81)
400
250
1,000
600
85
86
CPS
Ex Lot 85
CHINA - FOREIGN POST OFFICES: Album of mostly Chinese PPCs used from the British (29, with
Hong Kong stamps), Indian CEF (5), German (28 including 'China' Overprints & Kiautschou, plus a few
unused Postal Cards), French (4) & Russian (2) Post Offices in China, some better postmarks & some
excellent cards especially in the German section, most are fine to very fine.{Page 19.3} (75)
C - Scarce group of PPCs from Manchuria/Manchukuo (7, plus a commercial cover with pictorial cds in
magenta), Japanese POs in China (5, including Dairen x3 & Port Arthur), & 1947 postcard with Tuva
25k cancelled in London, generally fine to very fine.{Page 14.6} (15)
87 C A FRANCE: c.1905 "Scenes Parisennes - La Bourse aux Timbres", unused. {Page 18.3}
50
88 C A/B
89 C A/B
GERMANY - SEEPOST: Attractive bundle mostly from ports en route to or from Australia with
'AUSTRALISCHE/HAUPTLINIE' cds with various codes, including a number of Norddeutscher Lloyd
types and several featuring ships, many messages also headed with a ship's name.{Page 18.4} (35)
GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS: Very scarce group comprising two with German captions, French
mission cards x5,Women's Foreign Missionary Society type, Fiji Postcard Co scenes of Fanning Island
x4, some minor soiling, used under cover or unused.{Page 18.5} (12)
1,500
350
300
300