1 zl., Type II, variety double overprint, unmounted mint, very fine. An extremely rare stamp, with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Heinrich Köhler 389th Auction - Day 1 - Special catalogue: Lombardy-Venetia – The “Kronlande” Collection, Russia No. 1 – The “Elin” Collection, Europe and Colonies & Great Britain and British Commonwealth
By: Heinrich Koehler Auktionen
Heinrich Koehler Auktionen Heinrich Köhler 389th Auction - Day 1 - Special catalogue: Lombardy-Venetia – The “Kronlande” Collection, Russia No. 1 – The “Elin” Collection, Europe and Colonies & Great Britain and British Commonwealth
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Auction sequence
| Day | Time | Lots | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 17.09.2026 | 09:00 | 7001–7250 | Special catalogue: Lombardy-Venetia – The “Kronlande” Collection (part I) |
| Thursday, 17.09.2026 | 11:30 | 1001–1584 | Single lots: Europe and Colonies: A–Z |
| Thursday, 17.09.2026 | 15:00 | 7401–7489 | Special catalogue: Russia No. 1 – The “Elin” Collection (part III) |
| Thursday, 17.09.2026 | 16:00 | 1585–1753 | Single lots: Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries |
| Friday, 18.09.2026 | 09:00 | 1754–1918 | Single lots: Airmail and Zeppelin Mail, Thematics, Olympics |
| Friday, 18.09.2026 | 10:15 | 1919–2470 | Single lots: Germany after 1945 |
| Friday, 18.09.2026 | 14:30 | 20001–20510 | Coins, Medals and Numismatic Literature: Featuring items from the estate of the late Bernt Ahlström |
| Monday, 21.09.2026 | 09:00 | 2471–3198 | Single lots: German Empire from 1872, Private Mail |
| Monday, 21.09.2026 | 14:00 | 7501–7989 | Special catalogue: A Plunge into the Abyss – Currency Devaluation in the German Empire up to the End of 1923 – The Claus Claussen Collection |
| Tuesday, 22.09.2026 | 09:00 | 3199–4388 | Single Lots: German Related Areas, First and Second World War — with special sections Weimar Republic/Third Reich (Nils Schmidt, Part II), Erich Meerwald, Se-tenants, Machine Cancellations |
| Wednesday, 23.09.2026 | 09:00 | 4389–4652 | Single lots: German Foreign Post Offices and Colonies |
| Wednesday, 23.09.2026 | 11:00 | 8001–8939 | Special catalogue: German Foreign Post Offices and Colonies – The Nikolaus Krings Collection |
| Thursday, 24.09.2026 | 08:00 | 10001–11104 | Collections: Country Collections: Europe, General Collections, Airmail & Zeppelin, Thematics, Picture Postcards, Literature and Germany |
| Friday, 25.09.2026 | 08:00 | 11105–11424 | Collections: German Occupation WWI & WWII, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, Germany after 1945 |
| Friday, 25.09.2026 | 11:00 | 4653–5350 | Single lots: German States Baden – Württemberg, North German Postal District, Alsace-Lorraine |
| Saturday, 26.09.2026 | 09:00 | 9001–9280 | Special catalogue: The Hartmut C. Schwenn Collection – The Kingdom of Bavaria – The Kreuzer Era (part I) & The Kingdom of Hanover |
| Saturday, 26.09.2026 | 12:00 | 9501–9896 | Special catalogue: Germany from 1849 – Austria from 1850 – The “American” Bruce Wright Collection (part IV) |
The auction will be held at our premises in Wiesbaden.
Heinrich Köhler Auktionshaus GmbH & Co. KG, Hasengartenstr. 25, 65189 Wiesbaden
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Lot #1403 - Local Issues 1944/45 Wegrów (C)
2 zl. on 16 gr.-24 gr., Type II, unmounted mint, extremely fine. A scarce trio, each with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Lot #1404 - Local Issues 1944/45 Wegrów (C)
3 zl. on 30 gr.-3 zl. on 40 gr., together with 5 zl. on 60 gr., Type II, unmounted mint, very fine. A scarce trio, each with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Lot #1405 - Local Issues 1944/45 Wegrów (C)
3 zl. on 50 gr., Type II with navy blue overprint, unmounted mint, extremely fine. A scarce stamp, with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Lot #1406 - Local Issues 1944/45 Wegrów (C)
5 zl. on 30 gr., Type II with navy blue overprint, unmounted mint, extremely fine. A scarce stamp with a printing run of 50 only, with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Lot #1407 - Local Issues 1944/45 Wegrów (C)
10 zl. on general Gouvernement 1 zl., Type II with navy blue overprint, unmounted mint, extremely fine. A very scarce stamp with a printing run of 31 only, with accompanying Opinion Rzadkosz (2025)
Lot #1408 - europe Portugal
1853, Maria II. 25r. light-blue, fresh color and good to wide margins all around, tied by oval cancel “MADEIRA” to small piece, the usual embossing-imperfections, an attractive and scarce item, certificate Ehrig BPP (2026)
Lot #1409 - europe Portugal
1853, Maria II. 50 r. green, vivid and fresh color, good to wide margins all around, neatly used with blueish-green barred numeral “52” of Porto, hardly visible embossing crack at lower left, very fine, far nicer than usually encountered, signed Thier and certificate Ehrig BPP (2026)
Lot #1410 - europe Portugal
1853, Maria II. 100 r. lilac, vivid and fresh color, wide margins all around, neatly used with barred numeral “61” of Guimaraes, hardly visible embossing crack at left, very fine, far nicer than usually encountered, signed Köhler and certificate Ehrig BPP (2026)
Lot #1411 - europe Portugal
1895, Antonius 2½-1000 r., good colour and very good perforations, used with central clear cds., except 25 r. and 1000 r., those a few nibbed perfs., an attractive set, otherwise very fine
Lot #1412 - portuguese colonies macao
1911, Emergency Issue for domestic mail and mail to Hong Kong 1a. black/blue, with blue signature of the postmaster d'Almeida, used on picture postcard with adjacent cds. “DIRECCAO DO CORREIO DE MACAU 22 AGO. 11” to Hong Kong, reverse with rusty paper clip stain, otherwise fine
Lot #1413 - portuguese colonies macao
1911, Emergency Issue for domestic mail and mail to Hong Kong 2a. black/blue, with blue signature of the postmaster d'Almeida, used on small envelope with adjacent cds. “DIRECCAO DO CORREIO DE MACAU 22 AGO. 11” to Hong Kong, with rusty paper clip stain, otherwise fine
Lot #1414 - europe Romania
1879, Prince Carl 50 b. yellow-olive on light chromish yellow, tied by cds “BUCAREST 16 NOV 82” to small registered envelope to Paris with matching framed “RECOMANDAT”, on reverse transit and despatch Paris (November 21), the adhesive with a few imperfections, still fine; together with a second registered envelope to Paris bearing 50 b. (partly stuck on the reverse) tied by “BUCARESTI-FINANCE 25 DEC 82” with adjacent straightline “RECOM” in...
Lot #1415 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"GALATZ MOLDAVIE", blue c.d.s. with dotted frame, as arrival mark on letter sheet from Constantinople with Napoleon 10 c. and 40 c. , tied by GC "5083" also same arrival mark on letter from Syros via Constantinople and 2 unpaid letters from Syros and ?
Lot #1416 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
GALATZ: "4008" PC in blue on 1853/54, Napoleon 40 c. and 80 c. (slightly touched)
Lot #1417 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
GALATZ: "5085" GC in blue on Napoleon 10 c., 40 c. and strip of three 80 c. on piece and Siege 40 c., partly small faults
Lot #1418 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
KUSTENDJE: "5139", GC in blue, clear and central on Siege 40 c. orange. Some short perfs, and "5087" IBRAILA in blue on 40 c. Napoleon laure
Lot #1419 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1868, lettersheet with manuscript "v Galatz" without further dispatch mark, via Vienna and Triest (transit marks on reverse) to Corfu, here franked with 1868/69, cleaned plates 10 l. and 80 l., tied by Kerkyra c.d.s. Very scarce.
Lot #1420 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1875, cover with blue c.d.s. "CALAFAT 15 FEB 75", via Orsova and Triest to Athens, here franked with 1868/69, 80 l. carmine and 20 l. blue (small corner fault), tied by dotted "1". lower backflap missing, otherwise fine and scarce.
Lot #1421 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
1879, cover with c.d.s. "JASSY 12 MAY 79", via Triest to Athens, here taxed with "60" lepta and postage due stamp 1876/90, 60 l. applied, tied by dotted "1". Little cleaned.
Lot #1422 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
"IBRAILA (BΛAXIA) 11 JUIN 60" clear c.d.s. in blue on entire letter to Syra, with arrival mark, taxed on front with "100" lepta. Very fine and rare
Lot #1423 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
“BUKAREST 23 JUNI 1842” Cyrillic straight-line, a fine strike applied on transit on reverse of an entire letter addressed to Jassy, endorsed on the inside “Quarantain Guirgevo” (present-day Giurgiu); some minor surface aging, still fine. A scarce entire
Lot #1424 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
“V GALATZ 1846 NOV. 22”, Cyrillic two-line (Tchilinghinrian Type 2, Dobin-Nr. 1.01), a fine strike in red on the reverse of a lettersheet to Bucharest, red crayon “30” rate marking; on front some negligible tears due to the fragility of the paper, still a very fine Russian abroad mail from this Moldavian port on the Danube. A very rare handstamp with only a few recorded
Lot #1425 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
JASSY: 1850, Postal receipt from “JASSY POST OFFICE" for a letter sent to Bucharest, dated 9 March 1850, alongside black negative official seal. The receipt lightly folded as usual, and a small part excised at upper left, otherwise fine and rare; together with a smaller format 1862 postal receipt from Jassy for a sending to St Petersburg, and the larger format used in 1859 for a sending to Odessa. Mostly fine, an exceptionnally scarce trio...
Lot #1426 - Romania Foreign Post offices in Romania
JASSI INCOMING MAIL: 1844, lettersheet with two-line framed “KISHINEV 28 JUNE 1844” despatch marking on reverse and addressed to Jassi, very fine. A scarce destination




























