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The fourth Zanaria Auction will start on May 5th at 11.00, with the “Nadar” Ballons Montés collection put on sale at 4.00pm. Overall we will be selling nearly 1.100 lots in the Terrace Hall at Palazzo Giureconsulti, via Mercanti 2, in the very centre of Milan.

Classical Philately and Ballons Montés

Ninety-century Italian philately is the queen of the 4th Zanaria’s public auction. Approximately 500 lots of the Old Italian States with stamps, blocks, pieces, and complete documents.

Some of the remarkable lots of the auction are: a mixed franking of Provisional Government of Modena and Sardinian State on piece (Lot 116 - starting price €3.500) , a cover with the Italian Kingdom 15c lithographied cancelled with Neapolitan Svolazzi of Casal San Michele (152 - €5.000) and

a rare 5c yellow green of the Provisional Government of Parma, used (196, €10.000); a cover of Sicily with a four colour franking including the 50 grana sent from Messina to Genova (438, €18.000).

The second part of the auction will start at 2.00 PM with Italian Kingdom, San Marino, Vatican (more than 400 lots), Zeppelin and Astrophilately (21 lots), foreign countries (60 lots), large lots and collections (68 lots). One of the many highlights is the front of cover franked with Italian Kingdom Umberto I, 5 Lire in combination with 20c and 45c from Rome to Palermo (585, €10.000)

Among other top items we can notice a “Speaking Cover” (advertising covers that could be sent for a reduced rate) franked for 20c exceptionally addressed abroad (lot 635, €20.000); the complete “Gronchi” set in complete sheets including the rare “Gronchi rosa” (lot 1040, €20.000), a collection of 4.400 covers concerning the US astronautics (lot 3019, €7.500); a nearly complete collection of San Marino from 1877 to 1980 (loy 5049, €5.000) and many others.

During the second part of the auction, at 4.00 PM, we will be proposing the “Nadar” collextion of “Ballon Montés”: documents sent by hot air balloons during the Prussian siege to Paris between 1870 and 1871, that gave birth to the Air Mail. The collection is absolutely outstanding, with many of the top rareties of this field. One example among all other is the cover item: a Neptune pli confié with red Aerostier handstamp, the first example of the Air Mail cancel. That’s the lot 2001 and its base is 35.000 Euros.

All these items are collected in two catalogues (one entirely dedicated to the Ballons Montés); both are available free of charge on demand directly to the store (via Santa Margherita 6, Milan), by phone (0039.02.805.24.27), fax (0039.02.805.11.86), e-mail (aste@zanaria.com). You can also browse them online here:http://auctions.zanaria.com/catalogues/browse/7-philately-public-auction-may-5th-2012/where you can also place your pre-bids, or download them from here:http://en.zanaria.com/download-cataloghi/

You can examine on April 28th and May 2nd at our premises (via Santa Margherita 6, 20121 Milan, from 9.15-12.30 and from 14.30-19.00); and from May 3rd to 5th May at Palazzo Giureconsulti from 9.00 to 7.00 PM (on the auction’s day till the beginning of the auction).

You can find many rare pieces or even unique in the new net sales’ catalogue signed by Zanaria.
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