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Auction: 173 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 498

French Colonies mostly mint collection in a bulging Scott Speciality album, thousands of stamps including from colonies including those that are less often seen, note good early mint French Guiana including #11, 13, 15 and 17, and #18-26, #32-50, then strong degree of completion to 1940s, French India including mint #21, French Polynesia with #1-12, Guadeloupe, Inini, Latakia, Martinique, good New Caledonia including #182-207 and 1941 France Libre overprints, New Hebrides, Tahiti and much more, the vast majority is mint, hinged, with a few used examples mixed in, typically fine-very fine, a good basis for expansion.


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