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Auction: 14USA - Spink Shreves September 2008 Collector's Series
Lot: 1220

Impressive specialized Columbian postal history collection of 266 covers, each franked with one or more Columbian commemorative issue, housed in three binders, majority are to foreign destinations, aside from the typical countries, many better addressees include Argentina, Dutch Guiana, Japan, Cyprus, Natal, Sierra Leone, Finland, Brazil, Russia (Riga, Odessa, St. Petersburg, and one addressed to the composer Tchaikovsky in Moscow), Belize, Madagascar (returned), India, Hong Kong, several in Central America, Gibraltar, Curacao, Uruguay, New Zealand, Romania, Luxembourg, Egypt, Norway, Burma, Bermuda, Haiti, Hawaii and others; some interesting cities include Guantanamo (Cuba), Basra (Turkish Arabia/Iraq), ""Pyeng Yang"" (Korea), Jerusalem, Beirut (""Syria""), Bangkok, Canton, Tunis, Algiers, Bluefields (Nicaragua), noted a 50c single usage on registered cover used for sending photographs to Germany, advertising corner cards, mourning covers, postal cards, German Sea Post cancels, registered with labels, special delivery, Columbian postal stationery, a couple of foreign postage dues, forwarded mail, etc; various types of cancels from many different cities and small towns, even a few fancy cancels and a wide variety of postal markings, many multi-frankings but very few appear purely philatelic, overall fine-very fine group which would take years to du Estimate US$ 4,000-4,750

Estimate
$4,000 to $4,750