244th Auction Rauhut & Kruschel

3 Sk. light green on cabinet letter piece with clear K1 "Stockholm" from 1856. Stamp with special feature "large white spot on left upper 3", certificates Obermüller-Wilen, Bühler. Mi. 4000,- +

Zürich 6 Rp. black, horizontal red line underprint, bottom right slightly "magnifying glass margin", otherwise wide-margined and flawless, on half letter with better secondary K2 "Winterthur" and black rosette, signed Weid and certificate Marchand. Mi. used 1500,- ++

Basel 2 1/2 Rp. black/matt greenish blue/red carmine, 2nd edition of the so-called "Basler Täubchen" unused with non-original gum structure (slightly light). The colour-typical and well-printed stamp is slightly touched at top right, otherwise wide to over-margined (! three sides neighbouring stamps) and in unused condition significantly rarer than used. Mi. 15,000,-, signed Richter and new certificate Neumann

Genf 5 C. black/yellow green, for this difficult stamp unusually very wide-margined on all sides cabinet piece with centred red rosette. Position 49 of the 100 sheet, rare in this cutting quality! Certificate Rellstab. Mi. 1700,-

Vaud 5 C. black/red, full at bottom, otherwise wide margins, on completely original, complete cabinet postal stationery from Geneva (K1 of 12.11.1851 and federal lozenge). Sign. Nussbaum and certificate Rellstab. Mi. 3000,-

Pro Juventute precursor 1912 complete on cleanly cancelled piece, cancelled rare issue! Certificates Renggli and Liniger. Mi. 6100,-

Ship mail, 1859, Turkish Steamship Co., folded letter (somewhat stained) with rare ship mail stamp "Porto-Piastre", handwritten "2", with complete content from Constantinople to Brousse, certificate RPS

1 Din. yellow-green with K2 "Lima", largely full to wide margins, in mixed franking with two pairs Great Britain 4 P. orange-red (one stamp creased, as stuck around letter edge) and 6 P. violet, these with English NS, on (opened for presentation) ladies' cover 1870 to France

"Achern", K2 on luxury piece with mixed franking 3 Kr. pink and 1 Kr. green

"Adelsheim", 1801, the rare first L1, and 1806 L1 "ADELSHEIM R.2", on two letters, Feuser 15-1 (500,-) and -2

"Baden in Baden", 1874, K1 clear with two secondary L1 "Brieflade" on somewhat faulty correspondence card with "7" Kr. (!) additional postage to Stuttgart

"Baden", 1785, ms. posting "De Baden", together with L1 "DE RASTATT", on letter to Besigheim

"Baden", ms. railway post posting, together with railway post K2, clear on 9 Kr. brown postal stationery to Grenoble

"Basel Badischer Bahnhof", secondary K2, stamp cancelled with clock-wheel "3", on folded letter (from Brombach 1873) with perfect 3 Kr. pink

"Bischofsheim", 1796, rare L1 "DE BISCHOFSHEIM" on letter with contents, Feuser 500,-

"Brennet", Billet-Ra2 as stamp cancellation, clock wheel "17" alongside, on letter 3 Kr.

"Brennet", clear Billet-Ra2 on cabinet letter piece with strip of three 1 Kr. black, as well as on postal stationery 3 Kr. pink

"Bretten", 1855, serrated Ra1 on value letter

"Bruchsal", (1732), early ms. posting "de Brouchsal" on letter to Hanover, as well as the first L1 "DE BROUCHSAL" in soft red on nobility letter 1753 with contents

"Bruchsal", (1747), first L1 "DE BROUCHSAL" in clear red on noble cover

"Bruchsal", 1849, red L2 and L1 "Brieflade" on twice-used letter

"Carlsruhe", 1785/89, first L1 "DE:CRUHE" on two letters, the former an early foreign letter "fro. Cöllen" to London

"Carlsruhe", 1803, local printed postal order of the Imperial Post

"Constanz", station L1 and railway post K1 "Constanz-Basel" clear on 3 Kr. pink postal stationery (slight crease at left margin)