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Our Favourite Lot of the Week
Under the heading “Favorite lot of the Week” we will present
some of our philatelists‘ favorite lots, which will be offered in our auctions. You can look forward to an interesting and exciting preview of a different kind.
And perhaps you too will find a new treasure.
„In the world of collecting you can discover something new every day……“
Christoph Gärtner
A total of 88 provisional “1 Att.” on 64 Att. with the portrait of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) decorate this comparatively heavy-weight cover from Bangkok to London from 1895. It was sent by
2023 – Week 18 Leprosy in Norway Leprosy is one of the oldest known bacterial diseases. The Norwegian Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered it in 1873. Full scientific recognition of Hansen’s
2023 – Week 6 A quarter of a groschen for the tobacco rollers? The Duchy of Oldenburg (Grand Duchy from 1815) had tobacco factories but virtually no tobacco growing. However, there was a great demand
2023 – Week 5 Cottonreels for Miss Rose It is a unique cover to Miss Rose on the Blankenburg plantation in Demerara, franked with a pair of primitive 4c first issue British Guyana stamps. Because of
2023 – Week 4 Hero(ines) in Wilhelmine Germany Did bourgeois nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany displace women? At least not in the care of the wounded and sick. For this purpose, the Vaterländische
2023 – Week 3 A Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU (nicknamed curiously “God ‘elp all of us”) landed on bamboo mats and the pilots were knighted On 12 November 1919, Captain Ross Smith, together
2023 – Week 2 The Margrave’s water landing Marquis Francesco de Pinedo (1890-1933) was a famous Italian pilot. In February 1927, De Pinedo and his co-pilot Carlo del Prete started in Sardinia
2022 – Week 51 A somewhat premature telegram from the king Lt. Harry George Hawker, former chief test pilot of the Sopwith Aviation Company, and his navigator Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth McKenzie Grieve were
2022 – Week 49 „It’s raining here “(Shanghai February 1973) At least since Marco Polo’s travels, the Middle Kingdom has been a well-known mystery. Barely any other country is the subject of so
2022 – Week 41 Why the Queen was not Queen of England She held the throne longer than any British monarch before – 70 years and 214 days, to be exact – and was the longest reigning head of
2022 – Week 39 Lawyer’s mail from Vienna to the French Atlantic coast Remarkable frankings are often on covers of heigher weight or with special treatment (here: “recomanded” –
2022 – Week 38 Destination in the mountains The postal system of Liechtenstein, as small as the country may be, looks back on a long and eventful history. From the foot messengers that already