LOT OF FORGERIES OR REPRINTS: Old album page with 30 Condor stamps, and 3 "Challas" in a plastic envelope, all forged or reprints, some very well made, very interesting lot for the specialist!
Auction #1949 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: End-of-year general auction
By: Guillermo Jalil - Philatino
Guillermo Jalil - Philatino Auction #1949 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: End-of-year general auction
Last general sale of this year, with a great selection of good lots of Argentina and Worldwide, including classic stamps, varieties, covers, flights, proofs and essays, thematic material, lots and collections, and much more, with starts for all budgets. Plenty of interesting items to be found and with very convenient starts!
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Lot #840 - bolivia general issues
Sc.40/46, 1894 Coat of arms, lot of stamps printed on thick paper (Paris printing, fraudulent), that were eventually accepted and valid along with the other stamps printed on thin paper in London. There are some used examples with genuine cancels, others with forged cancels, also a couple of IMPERFORATE PAIRS, all of very fine quality!
Lot #841 - bolivia general issues
LOT OF FORGERIES: Small lot of 3 stamps with forged overprints and a block of 4 of Sc.113d (imperforate and center inverted), apparently forged, VF quality, interesting lot for the specialist!
Lot #842 - bolivia general issues
Sc.128/137, 1923/7 Coats of Arms printed by Perkins Baco & Co., cmpl. set of 8 values in strips of 18 or 20 from the lower part of the sheets, with printer imprint, MNH, excellent quality (in some, 2 stamps have minor perforation defects), very fresh and attractive, rare lot!
Lot #843 - bolivia general issues
Sc.244, 1948 15c. Modern industries, PROOF IN NEGATIVE in the original color, complete sheet of 100 printed on paper affixed to card, recent find and unique, great rarity!
Lot #844 - bolivia general issues
Sc.248, 1948 75c. PROOF IN NEGATIVE in the original color, complete sheet of 100 printed on paper affixed to card, recent find and unique, great rarity!
Lot #845 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C13, 1930 Zeppelin, pair of 10c. with BROWN overprint instead of blue, mint very lightly hinged, with a tiny crease of little importance only visible on back, superb front, extremely rare, catalog value US$5,000
Lot #846 - bolivia airmail
Sc.14a, 1930 Zeppelin 15c. with variety: INVERTED OVERPRINT, excellent quality!
Lot #847 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C15, 1930 Zeppelin 25c., complete sheet of 50 stamps, the 25 on the left with shifted overprint (to the right), the rest with normal overprint, MNH, excellent quality, only one known!
Lot #848 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C19 + C19a, 1930 Zeppelin 5c., normal and inverted overprint in METAL INK, the first one superb, the latter with part gum, rare, catalog value US$320.
Lot #849 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C24 + C24a, pair, one with INVERTED OVERPRINT (tete-beche of overprints), mint very lightly hinged, excellent quality, rare!
Lot #850 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C24a + C25a + C26a, 1930 Zeppelin, cmpl. set of 3 values with INVERTED overprint, mint no gum, VF quality, very rare, catalog value US$1,025
Lot #851 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C24, corner pair, IMPERFORATE at right, MNH (with tiny hinge mark in the top margin), superb, rare!
Lot #852 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C25, block of 4 with variety: shifted perforation (it looks as if it were imperforate vertically in the center), mint (2 stamps MNH), VF appearance (the right stamps with light crease not visible from the front), very nice, catalog value US$320 (for 4 'normal' stamps)
Lot #853 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C26, pair with spectacular variety: Left overprint shifted to the right, partially over the neighboring stamp (whose overprint is correctly applied!), MNH, excellent quality!
Lot #854 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C32, ESSAY of 1B. with the vignette of the 2B. value (airplane and river, ship, mountains), mint with gum, crease, very good appearance, rare!
Lot #855 - bolivia airmail
Sc.C35/C41, complete set of 7 values on a registered cover sent to USA on 12/JUL/1947, VF!
Lot #857 - bolivia Postage due stamps
Sc.J1/J6, 1931 Complete set of 6 values, MNH, 25 COMPLETE SETS of excellent quality (of some values there are even more stamps), catalog value US$1,200++ (Scott gives estimates for hinged stamps, but these are MNH, therefore they require a surcharge!), good opportunity!
Lot #858 - bolivia postal history
Folded cover dated 14/JA/1864 sent to Salta, with excellent strike of "FRANCA - TARIJA", very nice!
Lot #859 - bolivia postal history
24/MAR/1928 Doolittle first experimental flight La Paz - Santiago, arrival backstamp, the postage stamp is damaged, else excellent quality!
Lot #860 - bolivia postal history
30/JUL/1930 First airmail Bolivia-Brazil via Syndicato Condor, good cover with very nice multicolored postage, arrival backstamp, VF quality!
Lot #861 - bolivia postal history
12/AU/1930: Cover with beautiful multicolor postage, sent from La Paz to Germany, flown by LAB to Brazil and from there by Condor, VF quality!
Lot #862 - bolivia postal history
16/AU/1930: Potosí - Cochabamba first airmail, arrival backstamp, fine quality!
Lot #863 - bolivia postal history
16/AU/1930: Potosí - Sucre first airmail, with arrival backstamp, VF quality!