Tannu Tuva. Accumulation ★★ 1994-1995. The modern Tuwa issues not accepted by the Russian authorities, the holding of the late Anders Backman who was a Tuva specialist and made his own catalogue for the area. Three copies of his catalogue is included as well as some other literature. The stock comprises of not all but several of the issues, e.g. 95 imperf and perf sets Horses incl s/s, 40 s/s + some sets Dalai Lama, about 100 sets perf+imperf Khoomey Symposium, about 50a sets oper+imperf WW2-victory, some interesting proofs (and few imperf stamps for the Wild animal set., 19 complete sets of the NOT(in Mr. Backmans catalogue) LISTED OVERPRINT on the Union with Russia issue with another 80 extra oveprinted 200 on 40 and 250 on 50R stamps, further about 140 s/s, about 700 (!=7% of the issue) imperf and 200 perf sets (with extra 75Rs) of the Union with Russia sets. Fnally more than 550 perf and 750 imperf sets (!) of Triangular definitives, 330 perf sets of the silver overprints, about 300 perf sets of the gold ovpts and 31 sets of the IMPERF set of gold ovpts (all on the Triangular definitives). Also some varieties on these sets. The catalogue value according to Mr. Backman for this material is in the order of EUR 32000 and despite not being listed in the ordinary catalogues it is indeed scarce material!