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CatNo.

Lot Description

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1221

Michel MH #26

Michel MH #26, 1932 2M Hindenburg complete booklet with black on pale red cover with numeral 18, containing one pane of nine plus an X label of the 4pf Light blue, one combination pane of four 5pf Green and six 6pf Yellow olive, and a combination pane of two 6pf Yellow olive and eight 12pf Orange, contains three sheets of interleaving with postal information, panes are well centered and pristine with full unclipped perforations, o.g., n.h., covers are crisp and clean, extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €800

SOLD for $280.00
Will close during Public Auction

1222

Michel MH #27a

Michel MH #27a, 1928 1.50M Nothilfe complete booklet with black on light green cover, containing a combination pane of five 8pf+7pf and three 15pf+15pf semi-postals plus an X label, pane is well centered and fresh with full perforations all around, o.g., n.h., covers are exceptionally clean and attractive, extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €400

SOLD for $120.00
Will close during Public Auction

1223

Michel MH #27c

Michel MH #27c, 1928 1.50M Nothilfe complete booklet with black on light green cover, containing a combination pane of five 8pf+7pf and three 15pf+15pf semi-postals plus a label reading "Benusse/eine Woche/Wohl=/fahrts=/marken", a well centered pane being fresh with full perforations all around, o.g., n.h., covers are clean and crisp, extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €450

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

1224

Michel MH #28a, 28b

Michel MH #28a, 28b, 1929 1.50M Nothilfe complete booklets with black on blue cover, two different varieties of this semi-postal booklet, one with the incorrect validity date of "30. April 1930", the other printed the same but "April" corrected by hand to "Juni" in manuscript, each contains a pane of six of the 5pf+2pf and two slogan labels and a combination pane of four 8pf+4pf and three 15pf+5pf with an X label, the panes are separated by one unprinted sheet of interleaving, all are well centered and fresh with full unclipped perfs., o.g., n.h. except for very slight gum disturbance on the incorrect booklets panes, covers are crisp and clean, very fine-extremely fine. (Image)

Michel for n.h. €950

SOLD for $270.00
Will close during Public Auction

1225

Michel MH #28c

Michel MH #28c, 1929 1.50M Nothilfe complete booklet with black on blue cover, the very scarce variety with the cover printed with the correct "30. Juni 1930" date, contains a pane of six of the 5pf+2pf and two slogan labels and a combination pane of four 8pf+4pf and three 15pf+5pf with an X label, the panes are separated by one unprinted sheet of interleaving, exceptionally well centered and fresh with full unclipped perfs., o.g., n.h. , plus especially clean and fresh covers, extremely fine; the corrected cover was produced at the very end of the run and very few booklets were produced, let alone remain intact making this one of the rarest semi-postal booklets. (Image)

Michel €3,400

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction

1226

Michel MH #34

Michel MH #34, 1933 2M Wagner Nothilfe complete booklet with black on dark green cover, containing a combination pane of five 4pf+2pf and five 6pf+4pf and another combination pane of six 8pf +4pf and five 12pf+3pf with an X label, one unprinted sheet of interleaving between the panes, stamps are fresh with fine-very fine centering and possessing full unclipped perfs., o.g., n.h., covers are crisp with one tiny corner crease on the front, very fine. (Image)

Michel €700

SOLD for $220.00
Will close during Public Auction

1227

BKS

Michel MH #35S

Michel MH #35S, 1934 2M Promotional Specimen complete booklet issued for the 1934 Hindenburg Medallion issue, being the first booklet of this design with the swastikas watermark, this is a promotional booklet similar to one issued for MH #16 (see lot 1207) all aspects of the booklet are the same as the issued booklet except for the panes themselves, including the same black on dark blue cover with numeral 2 and the four sheets of interleaving with postal instructions, the panes have 6.5mm numeral for the denomination and color of each of the issued stamp, most are combination panes of two or more values with a public service announcement in the label of the 6pf and 12pf pane, the interleaving has adhered to the reverse of each pane because of moisture and it is not clear that the panes are on watermarked paper, covers are crisp with slight opening bend and slight rust stains from the staple, otherwise very fine; these promotional specimen booklets were produced for the advertising in them with only ten to fifteen being sent to the district advertising agencies, who contracted out ads for the Reichspost, this booklet contains no private advertising but an agency may have been responsible for the postal instructions or the agency may have used this to sell private advertising in future booklets; this is a particularly rare issue of this specimen booklet because as late as at least 1991 this issue was not listed by Michel and may be the only known example. (Image)

Est. 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction

1228

Michel MH #35

Michel MH #35, 1934 2M Hindenburg complete booklet with black on dark blue cover with numeral 3, containing three combination panes of eight with various values including one with a slogan label and a pane of eight of the 6pf Dark green, also contains four sheets of interleaving with postal information, panes are well centered and pristine with full unclipped perforations, o.g., n.h., covers are clean with very minor opening bend, very fine and choice. (Image)

Michel €700

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

1229

Michel MH #37

Michel MH #37, 1937-39 2M Hindenburg complete booklets with black on red cover, a set of the four different issues of this booklet with numerals 5 through 8 on the front cover, each booklet contains the same four combination panes of eight with various values from 1pf to 12pf including one with a slogan label, also contains four sheets of unprinted interleaving, panes are well centered and fresh, only a couple of panes with the usual slightly clipped perfs., o.g., n.h., covers are clean with only very minor opening bends if any at all, very fine-extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €1,040

SOLD for $240.00
Will close during Public Auction

1230

Michel MH #39

Michel MH #39, 1939 2M Hindenburg complete booklets with black on red cover, a set of the five different issues of this booklet with numerals 11 through 15 on the front cover, each booklet contains the same five combination panes of eight with various values from 1pf to 12pf, each pane with a different slogan label, also contains five sheets of unprinted interleaving, this issue is not as uniform in design as others that have more than one issue for the same booklet, the cover of no. 11 is a dark red and the other four were issued with a light red cover, in addition the covers of no. 14 and 15 is slightly different than other three with "Deutsches Reich being longer, panes are well centered and fresh, and we note hardly any clipped perforations in all these panes, o.g., n.h., covers are clean and crisp, very fine-extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €650

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

1231

Michel MH #42b

Michel MH #42b, 1936 2M Olympic Games complete booklet with black on red cover, this being the special booklet prepared for foreign dignitaries and athletes, characterized by a dark red diagonal line on the front cover, plus postal rates in German, English, Spanish and French on the insides of the front and back covers, containing two combination panes of five 3pf+2pf and five 12pf+6pf, and five 4pf+3pf and five 6pf+4pf, one unprinted sheet of interleaving between the panes, stamps are fresh with fine-very fine centering and possessing full unclipped perfs., o.g., n.h., covers are crisp with only a trace of an opening bend, very fine and choice; this booklet was produced in much smaller quantities than the similar booklet for circulation to the general public in Germany. (Image)

Michel €600

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

1232

Sieger #427Ba var.

Sieger #427Ba var., 1936 Olympic Flight of the "Hindenburg", a necessarily large size cover franked with both complete booklet panes of the Olympic semi-postals (Michel H-Blatt #105, 106), each pane neatly tied by three strikes of "Flug-und Luftschiffhafen/Rhein-Main/Frankfurt/1. 8. 36" c.d.s., red lilac flight cachet, backstamped Berlin, very fine and attractive cover; Olympic stamps used on this flight are particularly desirable and Sieger lists and prices full sets and souvenir sheets as well as just ordinary Olympic franking but makes no mention of booklet panes which are exceptionally rare and unusual, we do not remember seeing this franking before. (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

1233

Michel MHB #1-9

Michel MHB #1-9, 1921 Germania booklet pane sheet collection of nine different plus an extra example of MHB #6, this constitutes all the sheets that were printed to produce booklets MH #14 and 15, these produced nine different booklet panes with denominations from 10pf to 60pf including five different combination panes possessing two different values, each entire sheet contains three panes containing ten panes of six and separated by gutters, condition varies because of their large size and early period, o.g., the largest portion of the stamps are never hinged but some of the sheets have h.r. that are on the selvage and in the gutter, plus some sheets have perf. separations and it is quite usual to be folded in the gutters, largely fine-very fine for these; a difficult unit to accumulate today; housed in large sheet album. (Image)

Michel for n.h. €3,710

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction

1234

Michel MHB #12

Michel MHB #12, 1932 5pf Dark green booklet pane sheet for the Hindenburg booklet pane of six stamps plus four X labels, sheet configured with ten panes laid out in two rows tete-beche end to end to each other, Han no. V 15450.31 in the bottom selvage and thus would not appear in the issued booklets, wonderfully fresh and exceptionally well centered, o.g., n.h., extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €850

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

1235

Michel MHB #14

Michel MHB #14, 1932 15pf Lilac red booklet pane sheet for the Hindenburg booklet pane of six stamps plus four X labels, sheet configured with ten panes laid out in two rows tete-beche end to end to each other, Han no. V 15450.31 in the bottom selvage and thus would not appear in the issued booklets, beautifully fresh and exceptionally well centered, o.g., n.h., extremely fine. (Image)

Michel €1,000

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction

1236

Michel MHB #16

Michel MHB #16, 1932 5pf Dark green and 6pf Yellow olive booklet pane sheet for the Ebert/Hindenburg combination booklet pane of four 5pf and six 6pf stamps, sheet configured with ten panes laid out in two rows tete-beche end to end to each other, Han no. V 12529.32 in yellow olive at left, very well centered and fresh, o.g., h.r. in top and bottom selvage only, faint trace of hinging in the top row, eight complete booklet panes n.h., extremely fine. (Image)

Michel for n.h. €1,000

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

1237

Michel MHB #17

Michel MHB #17, 1932 6pf Yellow olive and 12pf Orange booklet pane sheet for the Ebert/Hindenburg combination booklet pane of two 6pf and eight 12pf stamps, sheet configured with ten panes laid out in two rows tete-beche end to end to each other, very well centered and fresh, o.g., h.r. in top and bottom selvage, one carrying over to a booklet pane stamp, nine complete booklet panes n.h., extremely fine. (Image)

Michel for n.h. €1,500

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction

1238

Michel MHB #25-26

Michel MHB #25-26, 1932 Nothilfe booklet pane sheets, the two sheets for the Castles semi-postal booklet panes of ten including the combination pane of five 4pf+2pf and five 6pf+4pf, and the 12pf+3pf pane of eight with slogan and X labels, each sheet contains ten complete panes arranged in two rows se-tenant to each other end to end, nicely centered, o.g., n.h., very few separated perfs along one row between panes in the 4pf+2pf /6pf+4pf sheet, wonderfully fresh and very fine. (Image)

Michel €850

SOLD for $290.00
Will close during Public Auction

1239

Michel MHB #27-28

Michel MHB #27-28, 1933 Frederick the Great booklet pane sheets, the two sheets including the pane of six of the 6pf Dark green and the pane of five plus a slogan label of the 12pf Dark rose red, each sheet contains fifteen complete booklet panes in three rows, two rows arranged se-tenant to each other, wonderfully well centered, o.g., n.h., extremely fine and scarce. (Image)

Michel €2,500

SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction

1240

Michel MHB #29

Michel MHB #29, 1933 6pf Dark green booklet pane sheet for the Hindenburg Medallion booklet pane of eight, sheet configured with ten panes laid out tete-beche in two rows with two vertical rows of lined labels between the two rows of panes, very well centered, o.g., spot of gum disturbance on one of the sides selvages affecting just one pane, all the rest of the panes are never hinged, choice very fine; this sheet is for the first Medallion booklet the stamps having the scarce network watermark. (Image)

Michel for n.h. €1,800

SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction