244. Auktion Rauhut & Kruschel

"Heilbronn", 1863, clear K2 with K1 "DAMPSKIBET BERGEN" on blue luxury letter to Bergen/Norway, reverse three transit stamps from Frankfurt a.M. and Hamburg,…

1 Kr. black/brownish, top complete, otherwise extremely large-margined luxury piece with adjacent stamps on the other three sides, NS "57", photo expertisation Stegmüller

1 Kr. dark brown, complete mint never hinged reprint sheet of 20 examples. Pre-fold between 3rd and 4th rows.

3 Kr. dark brown/dark yellow, superb item with unusually wide 21mm (!) top margin, NS "121" (Säckingen), photo exp. Stegmüller

3 Kr. dark brown/dark yellow, excellent, huge margins with parts of five neighbouring stamps on luxury letter piece with NS "26", signed Grobe and photo exp. Stegmüller

3 Kr. dark brown/dark yellow, fresh block of four, each stamp with clear, centred NS "148" (Villingen). Touched at bottom and top left, otherwise partly over-margined, top left stamp small corner crease traces, otherwise flawless. Only five used blocks of four recorded, this one since the 5th Schwenn auction 1966. Certificate Stegmüller. Mi. 3200,-

3 Kr. dark brown/dark yellow or yellow, two finest luxury items, huge margins, all four or three sides neighbouring stamps. Signed Seeger or Brettl

6 Kr. black/green, huge-margined small lower left sheet corner on luxury letter piece with NS "146", signed Köhler, all margins

9 Kr. black/old pink, exceptional cut with margins on all four sides (!), signed Pfenninger, Stegmüller

9 Kr. black/pink, luxury piece with 8.5mm wide sheet margin at bottom, margins left and right

9 Kr. black/pink, luxury cut with parts of six margins on all four sides on letter with NS "19" and red K2 "Bruchsal", to Waldshut

9 Kr. black/pink, horizontal unused pair with full original gum, left stamp very wide, right as typical only slightly touched on right. Mi. 750,- +, signed Ebel, Richter and photo exp. Stegmüller "fresh colour and original, flawless condition"

1 Kr. black, luxury piece from the upper left sheet corner with up to 8mm wide sheet margin, on the right large part of the adjacent stamp, clear NS "139" (Stockach), of…

1 Kr. black, excellent giant-margined luxury piece with parts of adjacent stamps on three sides, signed Drahn

1 Kr. black, two wide to giant-margined luxury pieces, one from the bottom margin with three sides of adjacent stamps

3 Kr. black/green, used luxury cut giant, 9mm sheet margin at bottom, all other sides with adjacent stamps, an exceptional piece in this condition, signed…

3 Kr. black/green, excellent luxury cut giant, right from the margin, otherwise all other sides with all five adjacent stamps, NS "27" (Donaueschingen), signed…

3 Kr. dark green, very wide margins, 6mm sheet margin at bottom, two sides with neighbouring stamps, on luxury cover piece with NS "42"

3 Kr. dark green, two luxury jumbo-margin pieces, one with large parts of several neighbouring stamps, ditto with plate flaw II

3 Kr. dark blue, exceptional "jumbo margin" piece, full at bottom, otherwise giant margins with large parts of all neighbouring stamps on three sides!

3 Kr. dark blue, excellently giant-margined luxury piece with parts of seven of the eight possible neighbouring stamps, on luxury cover piece with NS "79" and K2 "Lahr", signed Brettl and photo exp. Stegmüller

1 Kr. black, flawless, in mixed franking with 3 Kr. pink (bumped corner), on 9 Kr. brown postal stationery (seal cut out on reverse), with good five-ring NS "164" of the railway post, handwritten dispatch "Carlsruhe" and railway Ra2 "E.B. Curs XII" on front, to Altona/Denmark. 9 Kr. postal union plus 4 Kr. Danish transit, very rare combination!

9 Kr. red-brown, deep colour, well-perforated showpiece (one perforation tip slightly toned, insignificant) on centrally folded foreign letter from Mannheim (K2) 1864…

3 Kr. pink in pair, these with NS "85", together with 9 Kr. pale brown, these with K2 "Ludwigshafen", on folded letter in completely original condition…