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Auction: 3025 - Stamps & Covers of the World & Stamp Boxes
Lot: 1227

German States An interesting and comprehensive mainly used collection housed in a printed Lighthouse album with all States represented and many better stamps, most signed, including Baden 1862-66 18k.green and 30k. orange (repaired); Bavaria 1849 1k. black (margins touched at top right otherwise clear) and 1870-73 12k. lilac; Brunswick 1864 1sgr. yellow percés en arc 16 and rouletted 12 (repaired) and 2sgr black/blue percés en arc 16; Bremen 1856-63 5sgr. green imperf., 1861-64 percés en scie 2gr. orange (cancellation improved), 5gr. black/rose, 10gr. black and 5sgr. green, 1866-67 perf. 13 2gr. orange, 3gr. black/blue (on piece), 5gr. black/rose and 5sgr. green (2, both on piece); Hanover 1853 3pf. pale rose and 1856 "netzunterdruck" 3pf. pale rose and grey; Lübeck 1859 watermark 4s. deep green; Mecklenberg-Strelitz 1864 1s. deep mauve mint; 1859 2g. black/rose (Pfenninger certificate), 1861 1/2g. chestnut, 1g. pale blue (photocopy of Pfenninger certificate) and 3g. deep yellow; and Württemberg 1857 18k. pale blue (close to clear), 1862 perf. 10 1k. black-brown and 9k. purple; 1863 18k. perf. 10 orange, 1865-68 rouletted 10 18k. orange (damaged corner). Condition much above average with viewing essential. (hundreds) Estimate £ 2,500-3,500

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