Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1867 Spray 2/- dull blue fine used wing margin with neat 'Royal Exchange Glasgow MY 7 72' cds. (SG 118) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1867 Maltese Cross 10/- greenish grey used, slightly heavy postmark but a good, sound example. Cat £3200 (SG 128) £200-250
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1867 £5 orange fine used with neat 'Edinburgh' cds. Brandon Cert. Cat £4750 (SG 137) £1500-1800
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1867 £5 orange fine used with 3 crisp 'Manchester Accounts' cds. Cat £4750 (SG 137) £1250-1500
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1867 £5 orange fine used with 'Glasgow AP 23 95' cds, traces of blue crayon, an attractive example. Cat £4750 (SG 137) £1000-1250
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Folder 1867 Circular Delivery Company 'Liverpool' 1/2d slate lilac in irregular block of 62 mint, the upper right 4 stamps trimmed by over 1/2 but with stamp 1/18 showing blank impression. Very scarce [complete stamp cats £950, believed only 8 recorded examples]. (SG Cd24a) (Ex Mike Holt) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1872 6d pale buff pl 12 mint wing margin, regummed, attractive. Cat £3300 (SG 123 (12)) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 2 1/2d rosy mauve pl 13 fine mint, original gum. Cat £500 (SG 141 (13)) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 2 1/2d rosy mauve pl 8 mint, og, light gum bend. Cat £500 (SG 141 (8)) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 2 1/2d rosy mauve pl 9 fine mint, original gum. Cat £500 (SG 141 (9)) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 3d rose pl 16 fine mint, original gum. Cat £425 (SG 143 (16)) (Ex Mike Holt) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 3d rose pl 20 mint wing margin, hinge remainder, original gum. Cat £800 (SG 143 (20)) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 6d grey pl 17 fine mint, original gum. Cat £950 (SG 147 (17)) £200-250
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 1/- green pl 12 fine used wing margin with superb 'Elgin JU 14 76' cds. (SG 150 (12)) £60-75
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 1/- green pl 8 mint, original gum, blunt perf at base. Cat £800 (SG 150 (8)) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Spray 1/- green pl 8 with full strike of 'Suez FE 16 74' cds of Egypt, a lovely example. (SG 150 (8)) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Large Garter 4d vermilion u/m o/pt Specimen. Cat £400+ (SG 152s) (Ex Mike Holt) £125-150
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Large Garter 4d sage green pl 15 fine used with large part 'Ballymena AU 8 77' cds. Cat £325+ (SG 153 (15)) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1873 Large Garter 4d sage green pl 16 on cover to Tampico [Mexico] tied London duplex, 'Vera Cruz' arrival cds on reverse, a fine cover, scarcer destination. Cat £600 (SG 153 (16)) (Ex Mike Holt) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Large Garter 4d grey brown fine used with neat 'Manchester JU 23 81' squared circle cancel. Cat £525 (SG 154) (Ex Mike Holt) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Large Garter 8d orange fine used with 'Leatherhead DE 2 78' cds. Cat £350+ (SG 156) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1873 Large Garter 8d orange fine used with lovely full strike of '149' of Coleraine. Knopke Cert. Cat £350 (SG 156) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1873 Large Garter 8d Colour Trial in pale orange yellow marginal imperforate with large margins [side marginal at right], o/pt Specimen. (SG 156s) £150-175
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Folder 1879 Perkins Bacon Tender Essays on Hagner, 18 different 1d types either perforated or imperf, comprising 1d blue in strip of 5 [different designs], strips of 3 in blue, beown and rose pink, singles in purple, yellow green, deep blue and lilac. (Ex Mike Holt) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1880 1/- orange brown pl 14 fine used with lovely 'Guernsey JA 23 83' cds, a superb example. (SG 163 (14)) (Ex Mike Holt) £60-75
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1881 1d lilac fine mint 'printed on both sides'. Scarce. Cat £900 (SG 173a) £350-425
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Single 1883 2/6d lilac mint, hinge remainder, fine and fresh. Cat £600 (SG 178) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1883 5/- rose mint, an attractive, fresh example with several hinge remainders. Cat £1100 (SG 180) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1883 5/- crimson fine mint, merest trace of a mount, a lovely example. Cat £950 (SG 181) £250-300
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1883 10/- ultramarine mint, lightly mounted, a fine and fresh example. Cat £2250 (SG 183) £400-475
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Single (Photo) (plate 24) 1883 10/- ultramarine fine used with 'Limerick' cds, a fine example. Cat £525+ (SG 183) £125-150
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1883 10/- ultramarine fine used with lovely 'Hastings MY 25 95' cds, a super example. Cat £525+ (SG 183) £125-150
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1888 Orbs £1 brown lilac fine used with neat 'Cork DE 26 89' cds, a superb example, scarce in such fine quality. Cat £4250 (SG 186) £1000-1200
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1883 1 1/2d Colour Trial in lilac on buff on gummed, unwatermarked paper, a fine example. Cat £550 (SG 188 Var) (Ex Mike Holt) £125-150
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Single 1887 range of u/m Jubilee issues on card comprising marginal pairs of 2d, 2 1/2d, 4d, 5d, 6d, 9d and 1/- [green and carmine], also 1 1/2d and 10d marginal singles. Cat £1000+ (SG 198/214) £200-250
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1887 Jubilee 2 1/2d purple on blue fine used with inverted wmk, not one that comes along very often and a fine example. Cat £1250 (SG 201wi) £500-600
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Folder 1887 Jubilee 4 1/2d green and carmine in pane of 20 u/m [crease in upper left margin affecting one stamp]. Cat £450+ (SG 206) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1887 Jubilee 4 1/2d green and carmine in marginal blk of 4 fine used with single 'Darlington MR 14 93' cds. Superb! (SG 206) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1887 Jubilee 5d dull purple and blue Die 1 mint, toned. Cat £800 (SG 207) £80-100
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1887 Jubilee 5d dull purple and blue Die 1 mint, a little gum toning. Cat £800 (SG 207) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1887 Jubilee 1/2d blue green u/m, a corner marginal example with the most spectacular misperforation [caused by diagonal corner fold]. Amazing! (SG 213) £250-300
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Single (Photo) (Back Cover) 1887 Jubilee 1/2d blue green imperforate mint, 4 margins, without gum, very scarce [only a handful recorded]. RPS Cert. Cat £7000 (SG 213b) £800-950
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Single 1890 Printed [both sides] 1d pink advertising 'Brown, Gould and Co' Stationery envelope mint, fine and scarce. (Ex Mike Holt) £60-75
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Folder 1895 Post Office Presentation card celebrating 25 years of Post Office Telegraphs, with statistics highlighting the growth of the service and depicting the various luminaries connected, including all the Postmasters General from 1870 to 1895. Fine and scarce. (Ex Mike Holt) £100-125
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Folder 1902 1/2d blue green on colour printed 'Scultze Oldest and Besr Sporting Powder' envelope to Stirling tied London cancels, depicting a typical pheasant shooting scene. A lovely [if not very 'PC'!] cover. (SG 215) (Ex Mike Holt) £100-125
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Single 1902 set of 15 values to 1/- u/m, taken as basic [cheapest] types, although most are DLR. (SG 215/314) (Ex Mike Holt) £250-300
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1902 DLR 1d intense bright scarlet lower marginal u/m, a lovely example of this most striking shade with Hendon Cert. (SG 219 Var) £250-300
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1902 DLR 1d scarlet in Control E5 corner strip of 3 u/m, stamp R20/12 with 'Pin repair'. Cat £275+. SG M5ha. (SG 219 Var) £100-125
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1902 DLR 1d scarlet with inverted wmk u/m o/pt Specimen ['Horseshoe' type 17]. Cat £350+ (SG 219s) £150-175
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Single (Photo) (plate 25) 1902 1d red in top right marginal vertical strip of 3, with the most spectacular of misperfs and double perfs, due to paper fold prior to perforation. It appears the piece was then unfolded and reperforated to give double horizontal perfs and wide upper margins. Creased (which is inevitable with such a variety). Superb. (SG 220 Var) (Ex Mike Holt) £200-250
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