Josiah K. Lilly Collection, Sales I-X plus prospectus, soft covers without prices realized but those are available on the Siegel website. Clean condition throughout with a few very minor crayon or pencil markings on fronts. The 10 sale catalogs are illustrated in large quality black and white plates, size 6.75" X 9.75". Part I - US Postmasters' Provisionals, 19th Century Postage and Officials. 465 lots. Part II - British Commonwealth; Great Britain, Aden through Mauritius. 1069 lots. Part III - Canal Zone, Cuba, DWI, Gaum, Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico & Confederate States of America. 407 lots. Part IV - Benelux; France & Colonies; Germany, States & Colonies; Scandinavia and Switzerland. 1124 lots. Part V - US Proofs, Encased Postage, Fractional Currency, Carriers, Locals and Sheets. 995 lots. Part VI - European Countries and their Colonies. 626 lots. Part VII - US 19th & 20th Century. 775 lots. Part VIII - British Commonwealth; Malaya to Zululand. 859 lots. Part IX - US Envelopes, Revenues, Match & Medicine and Telegraph stamps. 780 lots. Part X - Latin America, Asia and Africa. 620 lots. This is an outstanding set that is rarely available. Click for title page. Click for inside sample of Lilly catalog.  $150. Shipping cost TBD, but Media Mail is reasonable.

Josiah K Lilly Jr. (1893 to 1966) amassed a collection that took ten sales over an almost two year period to sell by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, 1967-68. It included some of the rarest and most prized items contained in a single holding. It is one of the name sales in philately. Lilly was an industrialist and businessman who for five decades headed up the pharmaceutical company his grandfather founded – Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly was a collector of many things, not just stamps. He assembled world renowned collections of jewelry, manuscripts, books (including a Gutenberg Bible), coins, military miniatures, and antique weaponry. Today, his rare books form the Lilly Library housed now at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His coins were acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.