2004, SAPOA Joint Stamp Issue s/s, mint never hinged, withdrawn before the issue, together with the 7 community issues from Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia

1855-1856, 2 p lilac imperf left margin pair, unused with gum, tiny pin hole at left stamp, fine and fresh colour, certificate RPSL (SG 36 (2), £ 1200)

6 P orange red, rough perforation 14 to 16, wm. small star, mint hinged, fresh and fine, a scarce stamp, certificate Sismondo (SG 50, £700)

QV set of nine up to 5 Sh, mint hinged, fresh, and fine (SG 89-103, £750)

QV five mint stamps, mint hinged, fresh and fine group (SG 5, 6, 8, £700)

QV 6 P rose two mint stamps, mint hinged, fresh and fine (SG 9, 9a, £1050)

1 Sh green, perf 12½, mint hinged, fresh, fine and scarce (SG 10a, £550)

Moonlanding 1969 of Apollo 11, both sheets Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King with inverted overprints! Mint never hinged in perfect condition with all margins, never folded - only 5 complete sheets each known, modern rarities

30 on 10 E Hundertwasser and complete set of all three souvenir sheets in full size 190 x 260 mm, all of them overprinted "SPECIMEN", usual creases, mint never hinged, very fine

Hundertwasser souvenir sheets, complete set in full size 190 x 260 mm, usual creases, mint never hinged, very fine

1861-1864, 2 d green unused without gum and 1 Sh slate-violet unused with part original gum, watermark Star, intermediate perf. 14 to 15½, fine (SG 20, 26)

1861-1864, 10 d dull vermilion, watermark Star, perf 12½ by De La Rue, unused with large part original gum, fine (SG 38)

HISTORY of POSTAL CANCELLATIONS of CHINA, volume I to X, by Paul Ke-Shin Chang, issued 1992-1994, self published, written bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese, the complete opus of ten volumes of this extremly comprehensive work, hardcover, like new, text clean and unmarked, very important and highly sought-after literature

CONCISE CATALOGUE of Postal Cancellations of China (1872-1949) by Paul Ke-Shing Chang, issued 1996, self published, hardcover, like new, text clean and unmarked, highly sought-after literature

CHINA-LITERATURE-BOX with catalogues and books, many of them related to air mail issues and postal history, among them "Luftverkehr in China 1928-1949" by B. Wiethoff, "Flugpionier in China" by M. Springweiler, both written in German, "Postage rates of China" by Sieh/Blackburn, "The Dragons Wings" by W. Leary, "The Chinese Air Post 1920-1935" by Starr/Mills, "Chinese Airmails & their Forgeries" and "... Sinkiang Provisional Airmal Stamps 1932-1933" both by David Lu, also "China: The Postal History of Mongolia" by Wei Gang and Zhu Qi Ongshan, a book about early picture-postcards from China and some more smaller booklets and publications

MAS ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of the STAMPS OF CHINA, First Edition, published July 1947 by Shun Chang, 568 pages, written bilingual English and Mandarin Chinese, softcover, clean and unmarked

2 c on 3 c Red Revenue, mint no gum with hinge, toned and red ink on reverse, fine, certificate CSS (Scott 80, Chan 88, CSS 97)

1912, $ 5.00 deep green & salmon, Nanking Issue, slightly re-distributed original gum, position 35, wonderful fresh colours, fine. A remarkably rare example of the 5-Dollar nanking issue overprint, this is the rarest example of the neutrality overprints with only 52 examples sold, Holcombe certificate (Sc.145; Chan 151)

1912, Provisional Neutrality Hankow, Nanking and Changsha, 16 c olive-green, large part original gum, small hinge remainder, very fresh and fine, only 200 stamps recorded as being issued (Chan 147; S.G. 187, £4500)

1912, Provisional Neutrality Hankow, Nanking and Changsha, 16 c olive green cancelled by a neat strike of HANKOW bilingual c.d.s. dated 1912 (Nov.), fine stamp, thin on top, only few are recorded used, rare and fresh