244th Auction Rauhut & Kruschel

1/30 Th. black/raspberry red, complete top margin strip with all row numbers "1" to "10", "6" and "10" touched, "2" with plate flaw I, which is not common for this stamp!

1/30 Th. black/raspberry red, six different bottom margins with row numbers "2", "5" (cabinet letter piece with K2 "Schüttorf", certificate Berger), "6", "8", "9" and "10" (cabinet sheet corner)

1/30 Th. black/raspberry red, wide margins, together with 1/15 Th. black/grey-blue slightly touched at bottom left on pretty lady's cover with Ra3 "Hannover" to Vienna-Mariahilf, in very fine original condition

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue on luxury letter piece with rare blue L1 "Brinkum", K2 alongside

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue, complete top margin strip with all row numbers "1" to "10". Condition varies, but the top right sheet corner is e.g. in cabinet condition (photo certificate Berger)

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue, two unusually wide-margined examples on luxury letter pieces, black K2 "Lüneburg" resp. blue Ra2 "Meppen" (from the right margin, bottom subsidiary mark), signed Berger resp. Engel

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue, almost complete bottom margin strip with row numbers "1" to "10", without "4", complete. Condition varies somewhat, but e.g. both sheet corners are flawless

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue (wide margined, only in the upper margin small split) and 1/15 Th. black/blue, both with the same rare partial printing plate flaw "scratch through the lower inscription band" (as well as other field characteristics) as evidence for the continued use of the printing plates of the first postal union issue for the second. This plate flaw is the most distinctive and rarest (Mi. 700,- = undervalued!)

1/15 Th. black/grey-blue, wide-margined lower left cabinet sheet corner with plate flaw "broken foot of the left 2 and dent in the border line at bottom right" (3rd printing), photo certificate Berger

1/10 Th. black/yellow, large lower right sheet corner with K1 "Hildesheim" on cover (side flaps not quite complete, insignificant) to Leipzig.

1/10 Th. black/yellow, wide-margined upper right sheet corner with row number "10" on cabinet cover piece with Ra3 "Hannover", sign. Williame

1/10 Th. black/yellow, large upper right sheet corner on cabinet cover piece with K1 from Hildesheim, photo exp. Berger

1/10 Th. black/yellow, almost complete upper margin strip with row numbers "1" to "10", without "8", complete, "5" touched, both sheet corners flawless and with Berger certificate

1/10 Th. black/yellow, almost complete lower margin strip with row numbers "1" to "10", without "9", complete, including "6", flawless, on small cover. Condition varies from good to minor defects, the lower right corner flawless with photo exp. Berger

1/10 Th. black/yellow, plate flaw "1 with hook" wide margins unused on un-cancelled piece, rare even in this unused condition, expert. Berger. Mi. "-.-"

3 Pfge. lilac-rose, superb item with oversized margins and sheet margin at right, row number "10", Ra3 from Hanover, signed Berger

3 Pfge. lilac-rose, very wide margins, at right sheet margin and row number "5", on superb piece, expert. Berger

3 Pfge. lilac-rose, oversized margins, at left sheet margin and row number "7", on superb piece with K1 from Osnabrück, certificate Berger

3 Pfge. rose, wide margins, at left sheet margin with row number "11", on magnificent original piece with full K2 "Leer", signed Köhler, Pfenninger

3 Pfge. pink, cabinet pair on complete newspaper "Theater-Chronik" 1855 with centered K2 "Harburg", newspaper with usual storage traces.

3 Pfge. lilac pink in pair from right sheet margin, row number "2", on cabinet letter piece with centered K2 "Hage"

3 Pfge. lilac pink, three clearly cancelled left margin pieces, row numbers "1" (crease trace from printed matter use), "3" and "4" (cabinet, signed Berger)

3 Pfge. dark lilac-rose, wide-margined unused showpiece with almost complete original gum (minor foreign gum in a few places), a rare stamp! Signed Bühler and certificate Berger

3 Pfge. dark lilac-rose, colour-fresh luxury pair with a centred K2 "Harburg" on complete newspaper "Theater-Chronik" 1855. The most beautiful pair of this stamp on newspaper! Hammer price Köhler 1989 DM 17500,- + fees, certificate Berger. Photo see catalogue back cover