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Wiesbaden (dpa) - Several valuable postage stamps from northern Germany were auctioned in Wiesbaden on Saturday.
Some of the pieces from the collection of the former Tengelmann boss Erivan Haub achieved prices that were well above the starting bid, as the auction house Heinrich Köhler announced.
For example, an “international letter to Shanghai” from Hanover was auctioned for 115,000 euros.
The starting bid was 15,000 euros.
The letter from Hanover / Salzgitter was transported via Trieste, Egypt, with donkeys and camels through the Sinai desert and in Suez by British mail ships to Shanghai.
With this colorful five-color franking it is said to be one of the most important and rarest international letters in Hanover.
A “letter to dyke jury” from 1861 changed hands for 140,000 euros (starting bid 30,000 euros). Another unique item, which according to the information is one of the great rarities of the Bremen Philately, was auctioned for 105,000 euros. The starting price was 30,000 euros. A valuable foreign letter sent from Bergedorf in 1861 sold for 27,000 euros, 7,000 euros more than the starting bid of 20,000 is to be read.
The so-called rebel stamps from the years 1850/51 were also supposed to be auctioned on Saturday.
However, due to unforeseen bidding battles during the auction, they were three hours behind schedule, said a spokeswoman for the auction house.
The "rebel brands" were therefore not yet under the hammer by late afternoon.
The starting bid for these brands is 40,000 euros.
Due to their special history, the pieces are said to be among the most exclusive classic German stamp issues of the 19th century.
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The stamps are part of the 5th stamp auction of the collection of the former Tengelmann boss Erivan Haub.
The Haub collection has been auctioned since summer 2019.
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