244th Auction Rauhut & Kruschel

3 Pfge. green, pink gum, in luxury block of six from lower left sheet corner with year "1863", the corner pair with year mint never hinged! A rare and decorative unit from the Boker collection, certificate Berger

3 Pfge. green, white gum, cancelled from left sheet margin with rare incorrect row number "01" (instead of "10") and practically missing perforation at left, signed Engel, Pfenninger

3 Pfge. green, white gum, from bottom margin with full year "1864" on superb letter fragment (top a slightly toned perforation tongue, insignificant) with K1 "Bremen"

3 Pfge. green, white gum, rare marginal block of four with row numbers "4" and "5", particularly nicely centered K2 "Hoheneggelsen", typically slightly shifted perforation, this complete on three stamps and partly within the scissor separation, only top left stamp has some scissor separation at left, otherwise flawless. Decorative and rare unit (Mi. 1000,- ++), from the Boker collection.

3 Pfge. green on thin satin paper, unused bottom margin piece with year "1865" in position II, signed Engel, rare!

1/2 Gr. black, pink gum, single on cabinet letter collection cover with K2 "Göttingen" to Hasenwinkel near Reinhausen, certificate Berger

1 Gr. pink in bottom margin pair on cabinet letter piece with K2 "Fallingbostel", left with year "1863", right stamp with clear plate flaw "Ausbruch oben…

1 Gr. pink on cabinet return receipt with K2 "Hannover", 6.1.1866, to Andreasberg, and from there back with K2 of 8.1., ex Boker

1 Gr. pink, flawless bottom margin piece on letter folded twice outside with K2 "Hannover" of 3.3.1864. This is the earliest known use of this stamp! Krötzsch speaks of an appearance "early July" 1864, at Kohl at least 14 March 1864 is cited as first day and Mr. Berger has attested 7.3.1864 as earliest known use (lot 981 of the 167th Rauhut & Kruschel auction 2015). A very unusual "first day"

1 Gr. pink, 12 different bottom margin pieces (a strip of three from the lower left sheet corner) with all different years (!) in often good, somewhat…

1 Gr. pink from right sheet margin with row number "6" as redirection franking on Saxony postal stationery 3 Ngr. red-brown, coat of arms, from "Leipzig" to Bremervörde and…

2 Gr. blue, pair from the lower left sheet corner (minor faults such as creases) with year "1864" in position I, as well as a cabinet lower margin piece with the same year but in position II and a stamp with plate flaw III, rare in this form (certificate Jäschke-L.)

2 Gr. matte blue, thin paper, of this stamp rare lower right sheet corner on cabinet letter piece with K2 "Einbeck", photo exp. Berger

3 Gr. ochre brown, cabinet piece with rare auxiliary Ra2 from Aerzen with spaced letters

3 Gr. ochre brown with right sheet margin (row number "4") on luxury letter piece with K2 "Alfeld" centered, ex Metzer, photo exp. Berger

3 Gr. brown, almost complete used left margin strip with row numbers "1" to "12", without "11", complete, such a rare offer!

3 Gr. brown, almost complete cancelled right margin strip with row numbers "1" to "12", without "2" (this "only" from left margin), complete ("7" Mgl.), including both sheet corners, rare offer!

3 Gr. brown, each cancelled bottom margin piece with year "1865" in position I and III (this one on the right slightly scissor-separated)

3 Gr. light brown, bottom left sheet corner with row number "12" and year "1864" (position II), scissor separation at the expense of both adjacent stamps (!), together with left margin piece 2 Gr. blue (Rz. "8") on beige foreign cover from Hanover 1865 to London. With a year sheet corner of this stamp on letter in my opinion a unique item, in completely original condition, from the 19th Rauhut auction 1994. Certificate Berger "flawless"

Hanover postal stationery section 1 Gr. pink with added franking Taxis 1 Sgr. red, with part of the handwritten railway post dispatch and Prussian train L3 "Minden-Berlin", flawless and unusual, photo expert Sem

1852, L1 "Helgoland" on letter (inside at edges slightly cracked) to Stolberg/Harz, inside with complete content and decorative colored island view, as postcard precursor

2 Sch. red-brown, luxury pair with wide margins, clear bar cancel, signed Engel, Werner, Thier, rare unit. Mi. 1500,-

2 1/2 Sch. lilac-pink, very wide margins, on cabinet letter piece with bar cancel, small marginal split in the outer margin. Mi. 1200,-

1/2 Sch. green, 1 Sch. red-orange (slightly cleaned) and 1 1/4 Sch. reddish-brown, decorative three-colour franking on invoice COD letter. Rare