244th Auction Rauhut & Kruschel

1/2 Sgr. green, excellent giant-margined luxury piece with parts of neighbouring stamps on all four sides, signed Kruschel

1 Kr. green, three-sided full-margined, on folded letter with blue NS "205" and Neben-K1 "St. Goarshausen" to Camp. The stamp represents only the delivery fee on an otherwise postage-free letter (ms. "Wfco 0/1" and "ins Haus 1"). Postage rarity!

15 Kr. purple, exceptionally wide-cut horizontal cabinet pair with parts of neighbouring stamps on all sides and NS "220" (Frankfurt a.M.). In this cutting quality a remarkable unit, photo certificate Bühler

30 Kr. orange in mixed franking with pair 1 Kr. green and 9 Kr. ochre-brown on overseas cover with NS "220" and Ra3 "Frankfurt Postexped. No. 5" 1867 to New York

1/2 Sgr. red-orange, excellent cutting giant with seven neighbouring stamps on all four sides, lightly cancelled and flawless. Photoexp. Sem

1/2 Sgr. red-orange, luxury cutting giant from the bottom margin, all other sides with larger parts of all neighbouring stamps (!), on lady's cover with NS "298" and K2 "Schleiz" to Ebersdorf near Lobenstein. A collector's piece, Photoexp. Sem

1/4 Sgr. black, vertical pair on luxury letter piece with centred NS "348" (Gräfentonna), signed Opitz, Drahn, Sommer. Mi. 1800,-

2 Sgr. blue, well perforated on three sides, small irregularities at top, single on rare Taxis last-day cover of this stamp with NS "240" and K1 "Neustadt a.O." dated 30.6.1867, Mi. 1600,- +

2 Sgr. light blue, exceptional copy on fresh luxury letter piece with NS "273" (Gotha), scissors separation left and right with parts of adjacent stamps, rarely found in this quality! Mi. 700,- +

Postal stationery 1/2 Sgr. orange, large format, rare cabinet cover with K1 "Detmold" to Lemgo, rare as large format in this beautiful condition, Mi. 1400,-

3 Kr. black/yellow, upper left sheet corner on cabinet letter piece with full cancel "Schorndorf"

6 Kr. black/blue-green, exceptional cut giant, wide to huge margins on all sides, adjacent stamps left and right (!), on luxury letter piece with K2 "Künzelsau"

Korn's proof in carmine pink (color of the later 9 Kr.) on thick cardboard paper with embossed coat of arms. Tiny spots in the left outer margin, otherwise in flawless condition. Very rare, photo certificate Thoma

18 Kr. blue, showpiece with clear K2 "Stuttgart", small part of sheet margin at bottom, full to wide margins all around, rarely seen. Mi. 1700,-

1 Kr. brown, extremely wide to over-margined luxury piece with centered K2 "Aalen", exceptional item from the Boker collection, signed Thoma and photo expertised Heinrich

18 Kr. dark blue, wide to over-margined luxury piece with centered K2 "Cannstatt", from the left sheet margin. Signed Thoma, Unverferth and certificate Irtenkauf "flawless", rare in this condition. Mi. 1500,-

18 Kr. blue, unused, well-perforated gem with original gum, from the lower sheet margin, fresh condition with the usual slight gum bends. Prominent printing variety on "8" of right "18". Certificates Irtenkauf and Thoma ("flawless"). Mi. 4000,-

18 Kr. dark blue, luxury piece with centered K2 "Ebingen", well-perforated on all sides and extremely rare in this good condition! Certificates Irtenkauf, Thoma. Mi. 2500,- +

18 Kr. orange (bottom slightly re-perforated) single on decorative folded letter with K2 "Stuttgart" 1864 to Bologna/Italy (6 Kr. postal union, 6 Kr. Switzerland and 6 Kr. Italy). Signed Krause and certificate Irtenkauf "A beautiful and decorative letter, with rare single franking, in good condition". Mi. 2500,-

3 Kr. pink, two pairs (one with small corner crease) on magnificent letter fragment of forwarded letter in combination with France 10 C. yellow-brown and 20 C. blue, Napoleon, with K1 "Esslingen" or NS "322", signed Thoma

3 Kr. pink (bottom, due to mounting, min. perforation wrinkle) together with pair and single 7 Kr. blue on magnificent letter of 2nd weight with K1 "Stuttgart" 1869 to Bologna/Italy. Curious overfranking, instead of the 24 Kreuzer affixed, 20 Kr. would have sufficed since 1.4.1869. Ex Vollert, photo exp. Irtenkauf

7 Kr. reddish grey-brown, photo-like lithograph of the hand-drawn stamp design for the "Eirund" issue 1869. This served in May 1868 for the production of model cards for the postal directorate (cf. Köhler/Sieger, p. 101, and Brühl/Thoma, p. 72). Certificate Heinrich "Of great rarity!"

70 Kr. brown-purple, sheet field 3, wide-margined luxury piece with centered K2 "Esslingen", deep-colored and decorative, in this beautiful condition an exceptional piece, from the Trost collection, Prof. Diers. Certificates Heinrich, Thoma. Mi. 7000,-

20 Pfg. grey-blue, perfect single example on purple cover (central fold) from Wangen 1906, very rare commercial usage, certificate Winkler. Mi. 2000,-