Auction Detail
January 2023
Our January 2023 sales include the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part VIII, as well as a general sale of United States and worldwide stamps, covers, and collections.
color proof in gray blue, perforated 14½, mounted on small piece of cardboard with small pencil note "2" beneath the stamp, fine, attractive and scarce, signed Ludin BPP with his 1982 certificate (Michel 113P1)
color proof in Russian green, perforated 14½, mounted on small piece of cardboard with small pencil note "7" beneath the stamp, fine, attractive and scarce, signed Ludin BPP with his 1982 certificate (Michel 113P1)
color proof in deep blue, perforated 14½, mounted on small piece of cardboard, fine, attractive and scarce, signed Ludin BPP with his 1982 certificate (Michel 113P1)
never hinged color proof in blue, block format, perforated 14½, color code "R 11178 blau 30350" noted in pencil, fine and attractive, signed Ludin BPP with his 1980 certificate (Michel 113P2)
never hinged color proof in pure blue, block format, perforated 14½, color code "R112116 Reinblau 30475" noted in pencil, some pressure cracks along impression of printing plate, otherwise fine and attractive, signed Ludin BPP with his 1982 certificate (Michel 113P2)
never hinged color proof in dark gray-green on imperforate proof paper, very fine (Michel 113P3)
color proof in dark gray-green on imperforate ungummed proof paper, from the upper left sheet corner with eagle imprint at top, very fine
color proof in dark gray-green on imperforate proof paper, block of four from the upper left sheet margin, showing arrangement of the sheet margin printing deviating from the final issue, mint with some adherence from presentation cardboard, fine and attractive item, 1999 Jungjohann BPP Certificate (Michel 113P4)
never hinged color proof in greenish-blue, block format, perforated 14½, color code "grünl. bläul. 7635" noted in pencil, fine and attractive, signed Ludin BPP with his 1981 certificate (Michel 114P2)
never hinged color proof in green, block format, perforated 14½, color code "R 11178 blau 30350" noted in pencil on contemporaneously-attached sheet margin, parts of sheet margin missing, otherwise fine and attractive, signed Ludin BPP with his 1980 certificate (Michel 114P2)
never hinged color proof in gray-olive, reduced from block format, perforated 14½, margins at left and right, very fine, signed Jakubek and Ludin BPP with the latter's 1980 certificate (Michel 114P2)
ungummed proof in gray-violet on imperforate proof paper, vertical pair with lower sheet margin with inscription "Staatsdruckerei Wien I/2", very fine