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Thematics: sport-water sports-sailing

40th Auction - June 2018 - Auction | Lot: 25629

Starting Price: 9.000 € | Hammer Price: 15.000 €

Prices excluding buyers premium and taxes.

 

FIP Grand Prix winner exhibit "THE SAILING YACHTS AND THEIR RACES - Three Centuries of Yachting". On 132 exhibit pages, the winner of the FIP Grand Prix at OLYMPHILEX 92, also had received FIP Gold Medals at Granada 92, Bangkok 93, Brasiliana 93, Fepapost 94 and Large Gold and Exhibition Grand Prix at Panamphilex, Havana, Granada 82-92 and Lagos 94, Portugal. Not exhibited for the last twenty years, it needs a new mounting to go back to big prizes. Plan bilingual English-Spanish. Texts in Spanish that the owner is willing to translate into English for the new owner. After some precedents, the exhibit describes the origins since in 1660 was held the first race recorded in History amongst two sailing "jagths" builds by the Dutch VOC presented to Charles II of England. There are a lot of covers and cards (some starting at pre-philatelic times as the double 6 Stuivers to the Cape of Good Hope of the VOC of 1792, stamps and sheets, special cancellations including some excellent fancies, philatelic studies with interesting proofs , varieties and more. All items are accompanied by instructive annotations (). Furthermore there are 14 albums containing duplicates, stamps completing series and other, 4 Books essentials for the topic, the French magazine "Timbroscopie" devoted to this collection, The Catalogue Palmares of its FIP Grand Prix and some other important documents. Please, visit this unusual collection and you will be inspired!

 

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