1877-82 'EXPRESS' 1d to 5/-, the eight values in Reprint sheets of forty, generally very fresh and unmounted, odd hinge mark (320)
Lot 683
Estimate: $125
Realised Price : $150
1935 Definitives 2d River Scene, Watermark Inverted, SG 182aw, gum thin. Still unpriced in SG. Modern rarity
Lot 684
Estimate: $700
1935-42 Single Watermark, Arms £10 Blue, superb mint, faintest trace of hinge, no longer listed by SG, valid for postage, and a few postally used examples known. Only 290 printed
Lot 685
Estimate: $6,000
Postal History: 1912 remarkable postcard (Hesse Royal Family) carried aboard Zeppelin within Germany, thence by surface mail to Apia, bearing flight specific 10pf and Germania 5pf tied by 'Flugpost am Rhein u am Maine/Darmstadt/16.6.12' datestamp. Believed unique to Samoa, and possibly the earliest airborne item by powered means destined for the South Pacific
