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Lot nr. 2650 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 1/4 ‘5c. green’, ‘10c. pink’, ‘25c. blue’ and ‘50c. reseda’, the first four values of the issue in very good condition, vf (OBP €153)

Lot nr. 2651 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 5 ‘5fr. lilac’, position 13 on the panel, fine condition and fresh, good centring, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €1.050)

Lot nr. 2652 Kwaliteit: *

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CP 1 ‘5fr. lilac’ with type A overprint ‘COLIS POSTAUX / FR. 3.50’ average centring, beautiful dark shade, Vander Marcken certificate, vf(OBP €3.100) - zie foto kaft

Lot nr. 2653 Kwaliteit: **

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N° 6 ‘5c. green’, superb item of 8 stamps in gutter, positions 4, 5, 9 and 10 of the second panel, marginal indications “5c. postage stamps” in red, rare and in fine condition, vf

Lot nr. 2654 Kwaliteit: **/*

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N° 6/10 + 13A ‘5c. green’, ‘10c. pink’, ‘25c. blue’, ‘50c. brown-red’, ‘50c. gray’ and ‘25fr. gray’ unused, with a forgery ‘50c. gray’ not issued (N° 138), vf (OBP €165)

Lot nr. 2655 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 11 ‘5fr. violet’ with new support, very good centring, rare, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €2.200)

Lot nr. 2656 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 11 ‘5fr. violet’ with 1 tooth repaired, Vander Marcken certificate, f (OBP €1.800)

Lot nr. 2657 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 12 ‘5fr. gray’, very well centred, rare, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €470)

Lot nr. 2658 Kwaliteit: (**)

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N° 12 ‘5fr. grey’, in mint condition and regummed, to be checked (OBP €470)

Lot nr. 2659 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 13 '10 Fr ochre-yellow' very fresh appearance, with certificate, tb (OBP €1,000)

Lot nr. 2660 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 13 ‘10fr. ochre-yellow’, beautiful dark shade, off-centre to the right, Tavano certificate, f (OBP €1,050)

Lot nr. 2661 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 13 ‘10fr. ochre-yellow’, slightly off-centre to the right but beautiful vivid shade, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €1.050)

Lot nr. 2662 Kwaliteit: 0

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N° 12 "5fr. gris", oblitéré "BOMA 18 NOVE 1893", certificate BCSC, b (OBP €205)

Lot nr. 2663 Kwaliteit: 0

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N° 13 ‘10fr. ochre-yellow’ with very faint pen cancellation and cancelled ‘BOMA 28 MAY 189-’, stamp probably used on a firearms license, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €630)

Lot nr. 2664 Kwaliteit: 0

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N° 13 ‘10fr. ochre-yellow’, cancelled ‘BOMA 16 JULY 18..’ (incomplete year), type 1.3 postmark in black, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €630)

Lot nr. 2665 Kwaliteit: **

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N° 13A ‘25fr. grey’, not issued in sets of eight consisting of two blocks of four separated by an interpanel, very fine and rare, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP ++€1.680)

Lot nr. 2666 Kwaliteit: *

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N° 13A/13B ‘25fr. and 50fr. grey’, unissued values, certificate by Luc Vander Marcken, vf (OBP €110)

Lot nr. 2667 Kwaliteit: 0

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CP 2 ‘5fr. violet’ from 1887 with overprint ‘COLIS POSTAUX / FR. 3.50’ type A, cancelled ‘BOMA 29 MAI’ (year outside stamps) in blue, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €1.200) - zie foto kaft

Lot nr. 2668 Kwaliteit: (*)

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CP 4 ‘5fr. violet’ from 1887 with framed overprint ‘COLIS POSTAUX/ 3.50fr.’ in type B in black, off-centre to the right, Vander Marcken certificate, vf (OBP €1.800) - zie foto kaft

Lot nr. 2669 Kwaliteit: 0

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CP 4 "5fr. violet" with in box overprint 'Colis postaux Fr 3.50' blue cancelled from Boma 4 February 1893, with certificate, vf (OBP €950)

Lot nr. 2670 Kwaliteit: **/*/0

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1886/1887 Small lot of counterfeit stamps from the 1886 (11x) and 1887 (6x) issues, including 2 Mols, one with a counterfeit overprint ‘CONGO BELGE’, vf/f

Lot nr. 2671 Kwaliteit: 0

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N° 25 ‘50c. olive’ with foreign cancellation ‘SOUTHAMPTON SHIP LETTER 17 DE 02’ in black, Mols stamps with foreign cancellations are rare, vf

Lot nr. 2672 Kwaliteit: **/*

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1894/1922 Mols-type stamps, very fine accumulation of Balasse varieties, superb research work on EIC stamps up to bilingual overprinted stamps, good values including a ‘25c. blue B4’ and a ‘1fr. carmine B5’, to be checked, vf

Lot nr. 2673 Kwaliteit: 0

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N° 24 ‘50c. green’ with right margin of sheet imperforated, rare, position 10 on sheet, Popocabacca cancellation 30 July 1896 in blue, good cancellation on beautiful rarity, vf

Lot nr. 2674 Kwaliteit: ✉

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1896, n° 24 (2x) ‘50c. green’, letter with double postage sent from Coquilhatville in December 1896 to Antwerp, transiting Leopoldville, Boma and arriving around 13 February 1897, red wax cancellation on reverse side, rare postage, f

Lot nr. 2675 Kwaliteit: ✉

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1904/1906 Two letters franked with a n° 25 ‘50c. olive’ stamp, sent from Boma on 23 September 1904 and Banana on 29 May 1906 with variety V4 (Balasse) with description noted in pencil, vf

Lot nr. 2676 Kwaliteit: PWST

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1901, EP at ‘10c.’, N° 14 sent on 29 November 1901 from Kéro (north of Lado, in the enclave), to Brussels, the entire item is cancelled by the 306-point Retta from Khartoum, sent by Lt. Henri Vande Calseyde, who was stationed in Kéro from April 1901 to November 1902, one ‘5c’ stamp missing, Vander Marcken certificate, vf/f