Second Chance Auction.
Lot 639:
Description
A Stanley Gibbons Strand stamp album containing a collection of international postage stamps. The collection includes issues from China, comprising Republic of China Sun Yat-sen definitives and People’s Republic of China 1963 Butterfly series. French Colonies and territories are represented by issues from Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, and French Equatorial Africa, featuring France Libre and Tchad overprints. The Hungary section contains early 20th-century historical and architectural types, a birds of prey thematic series, and the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics commemorative set. The stamps are primarily perforated and mounted using hinges on printed and quadrille pages. The collection contains a mix of mint and used examples, with several used stamps featuring circular date stamp cancellations.