1934-78 mint collection housed in three albums contained in a carton, many hundreds, including 1934-46 1/2c. to 60c., 1935 Relief fund, 1940 surcharged set, 1946 1g. to 10g., 1947-48 5c. to 60c. and set in blocks of four, 1949-51 5c. to 10g., 1949 U.P.U. set in blocks of four, 1950 Culture, 1950 Bombed Churches, 1950 University set in blocks of four, 1951 Culture, 1951 Air Birds 15g. and 25g. (both unmounted mint), 1952 I.T.E.P., 1953-71 10c. to 10g., 1956 Rembrandt, 1956 Europa, a fine and largely complete range of later issues with booklet panes, coil strips, miniature sheets, etc., original gum with many unmounted mint, chiefly fine £800-1,000
Norway |
1868 (1 Feb.) envelope to England franked 1863-64 8s. rose-pink (2) and 1867-68 2s. buff (all applied upside down) with Bergen cancellations and red London Paid (12.2) alongside, on reverse Christiania transit and Nottingham arrival datestamps; vertical filing fold at left, a little roughly opened and the adhesives with a few stained perfs., fine and an attractive two issue franking. S.G. 17, 23. Photo £250-300
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1900 (25 July) Spitzbergen letter card, addressed to Sloane Street, franked 1ø, 2ø, 3ø, 5ø and 10ø with Christiania cancellations (27.7.00), marked "Retur" and with Nordkap (18.7.01), Spitzbergen (6.8.01) and Tromso (6.9.01); faults but scarce £100-120
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x 1925 "Trans-Polar Flight expedition", special card to Christiania franked United States 2c., returned to New York and franked on the obverse Norway 5ø and Amundsen 25ø with Kings Bay cancellation; small faults £80-100
Portugal |
Postal Orders: 1909 100r. to 5,000r., Specimen set of seven, all complete with the two perforated counterfoils slips, each numbered 000;000; some minor creases; fine and believed to be unique. Photo £500-600
Note: Postal orders were introduced in Portugal in November 1909, to be known as Model Nr. 006, each denomination in Reis with a different colour and showing the Royal arms in relief and an additional tax of 20 Reis. This issue was replaced in 1913 by a new set denominated in Escudos.
Russia |
x 1858 20k. lilac and green, perforated colour trial on imported Prussian, watermarked, imported paper, with gum, light horizontal gum crease, fresh colours, fine and rare. Only one sheet of 100 recorded. Michel 3P2b. Photo £350-400
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x 1858-65 mint and used collection (33) on pages, 1858 imperf. 10k. (3 with good to large margins, one with pencross cancellation), 1858 perf. 12 1/2 10k., 20k. and 30k. part original gum, 1863 St. Petersburg local 5k. four singles, block of four, block of six (3x2) with horizontal interpanneau margin, single on piece with red postmark, 1864-65 perf. 12 1/2 1k. (single, blocks of four and nine), 3k. and 5k.; fine £1,500-2,000
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x 1858-82 mint and used selection (45) on stockcards, including 1858 perf. 12 1/2 10k. and 30k. part original gum, 1866-75 vertically laid paper 20k. (4) original gum, 1875-82 20k. (4, one the variety misshapen "T" at foot"), 1883-88 vertically laid paper 7r. unused, etc., chiefly fine £400-500
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x 1861-1976 selection of thirty-three covers and cards, including 1861 perf. 12 1/2 10k. (2) on separate entires, 1864-65 perf. 14 1/2 x 15 10k. pair on entire to Pernau, 1895 14k. postal stationery envelope, registered to the United States additionally franked 2k., 4k. and 10k., 1944 two Censored envelopes addressed to "Friends of the Soviet Union" South Africa with 50k. or 80k. meter frankings, etc., mixed condition £300-400
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1866-1988 mint and used collection housed in two albums contained in a carton, many hundreds, including some early issues, 1935 Spartacistic Games set (except 15k.), the second volume devoted to Space stamps from 1957 with 1961 (17 Oct.) Cosmic flights 1r., Cosmonaut signed covers with Yuri Gagarin, Herman Titov, Valery Bykovsky and many others, Space thematic issues from other countries, etc., chiefly good to fine £150-200
Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire |
x 1900-1910 mint and used collection (60) on pages, including 1900-10 10pa. on 2k. to 70pi. on 7r. 1909-10 Jaffa 5pa. on 1k. to 70pi. on 7r. (2 mint sets and some varieties), used set, Jerusalem mint set, 7pi. on 70k. value omitted, also Post Offices in China (25) and Italian Post Offices in Jerusalem 1909-11 set (20pi. on 5L. signed A.D.), 20pa. on 10c. unused postal stationery card, etc., fine £250-300
Spain |
1870-1960 mostly mint selection (160) in a small green stockbook, including 1930 Railway 4p., 1949-53 Franco 4PTAS (3), 1952 Air Isabella 2p. 30 (8), 1955-56 Air 50p. (4), Cape Juby 1926 Red Cross 1c. and 2c. (4 each), Ifni 1951 Isabella 5p. (10), 1952 Ferdinand 5p. (4), Spanish Guinea 1952 Ferdinand 5p. (4), Spanish Sahara 1951 Isabella 5p. (9), 1952 Ferdinand 5p. (4), etc., mixed condition but many fine unmounted mint £150-200
Switzerland |
1945 PAX set in unmounted mint blocks of five; fine. S.G. 447-459, £1,375, Zumstein Sfr.2,250. Photo £200-300
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1948-91 post office presentation sheets, collection (270+) housed in four red or blue Lighthouse albums contained in a carton, including 1948 Imaba and 1959 St. Gallen miniature sheets, Pro-Juventute, Pro-Patria, International Organisations, etc., cancelled, fine £50-80
Syria |
1934 Republic Postage 10p. to 100p. in blocks of four, all from the top of the sheet,
Air set, unmounted mint, fine. S.G. 285-299, £546 £120-150
Vatican |
1929-2000 mint collection housed in two albums contained in a carton, including 1933 Holy Year, 1934 surcharge set, 1935 Juridical, 1936 Catholic Press, 1951 Council of Chalcedon, a fine and largely complete range of later issues, Air Mails with 1948 Tobias, 1949 U.P.U., 1951 Gratian, etc., chiefly fine with many unmounted mint (many hundreds) £500-600
Philatelic LiteratureGreat Britain |
Postal History selection of six items contained in a carton, including "The History Of the Postmarks of the British Isles" by John G. Hendy (1989); "Les Bureaux de Poste Anglais" by André de Cock (1940); "The Postmarks of Great Britain and Ireland" by Alcock and Holland (1940); "British Post Office Numbers" by G. Brumell (1946), etc., also "Godden's Gazette" (13, between Oct. 1934 and Feb. 1936) and "Illustrated Philatelic Record" (4), generally fine £80-100
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"The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840" by Chas. Nissen (1922), text and plates privately bound; fine and an invaluable reference £500-600
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Selection of five items contained in a carton, comprising "A History of the Adhesive Stamps of Great Britain" by Wright and Creek (1899), text and plates bound separately; "The Stamps of Great Britain" by J.B. Seymour, parts 1 and 2, privately bound, "Kohl's Handbook" (binding faults) £100-120
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"The British Post Office" by C.F. Dendy Marshall, bound in red cloth with Gold embossing; very slight cover wear £50-60
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"The Mayfair Find of Rare Stamps" by Fred. J. Melville, with plates; fine. Also Stanley Gibbons Part 1 catalogues for 1911 and 1933 £60-80
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A miscellaneous selection in a carton, six books including Allis and Stevenson Cape of Good Hope, Bailey Barbados and Kellow Victoria; auction catalogues (16) with Gibbs Double Heads and Admirals, Baillie (6) and Ishikawa USA, and a couple of others £100-120
Auction Catalogues |
"Collection de M. Ferrari de la Renotière", the Gilbert sales I-XIV and with the index/addendum, bound in four volumes, with printed prices realised and pencilled prices realised; superb. Only a small number of complete runs have survived. A rare and most desirable key item for collectors of literature £1,200-1,500
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Great Britain "J.B. Seymour" Sales I-VI (1951-52), privately bound in three volumes with prices realised and pencilled prices realised; also "The History of the British Post Office", The world famous Collection formed by the late C.F. Dendy Marshall (December 1945), privately bound with prices realised and handwritten prices realised £80-100
Omnibus Issues |
x 1935 Silver Jubilee mint and used collection on pages, some with varieties (a few as yet unlisted in S.G.) and including Ascension 2d. dot by turret, Bahamas 6d. dot left of chapel, British Honduras 3d. scratch left of flagstaff, Gibraltar 2d. with hairline, K.U.T. 20c. (used) diagonal line by turret, Mauritius 5c. dot next to conical tower, Northern Rhodesia 1d. line by turret, Virgin Islands 1 1/2d. kite and horizontal log, and range of the 1937 Coronation issue, generally good to fine £300-400
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x 1948 Royal Silver Wedding part set in horizontal pairs which includes Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Gibraltar, Jamaica, K.U.T., Malayan States, Northern Rhodesia, St. Vincent, Swaziland and others; also 1945-46 Victory set complete in pairs; unmounted mint with a few showing gum tones £300-350
Air Mail Crash Covers |
1929 (14 Dec.) Paris to Hanoi flight, crashed near Syrte (Tripolitania), envelope registered from Tours to Annam, franked France Pasteur 1f. 50 and Merson 10f., "courrier accidente" cachet; usual faults for this. Fine. Nierinck 291214. Photo £150-200
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1935 (3 Nov.) Chile to France flight, crashed near Aracaju, envelope (stamps floated off) from Montevideo to Houbaix with violet "courrier accidente au bresil/le 3 novembre 1935" cachet; usual faults. Nierinck 351103. Photo £150-200
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1936 (22 Aug.) "Scipio", crashed making a forced landing at Mirabella Bay, envelope (stamp floated off) from Jerusalem to Bavaria, on reverse German four line explanatory label; usual faults. Nierinck 360822u. Photo £100-120
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1956 (24 June) Kano, the B.O.A.C. plane crashed into a tree just after take-off with the loss of twenty-six lives, airletter charred around the edges together with its ambulance envelope bearing "england letter salvaged from/air crash at kano (24-6-56)" cachet in violet. Fine. Photo £150-200
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1974 (20 Nov.) Frankfurt to Johannesburg flight, crashed on take off from Nairobi, envelope from Rotterdam to Johannesburg franked 25c., 35c. (2), magenta bi-lingual "retrieved from air crash on 20/november 1974 at nairobi" cachet; fine. Nierinck 741120a. Photo £100-120
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x 1974 (20 Nov.) Frankfurt to Johannesburg flight, crashed on take off from Nairobi, envelope from Rotterdam to Johannesburg franked 10c. and 2g.50, magenta bi-lingual "retrieved from air crash on 20/november 1974 at nairobi" cachet; fine. Nierinck 741120a. Photo £100-150
ThematicsForgeries |
A collection of stamps and covers arranged in a stockbook including Bechuanaland, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, New Republic, Orange Free State and Zululand. An interesting lot worthy of close inspection. (hundreds) £600-700
Olympics |
1992-2006 collection of Great Britain medalist Benham silk covers, mostly signed, housed in two albums, contained in a carton, including 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta with (Sir) Steve Redgrave, Denise Lewis, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Ainslie, 2000 Sydney (Sir) Chris Hoy, Kelly Holmes, 2004 Athens (Sir) Bradley Wiggins; also Commonwealth Games including 1998 Kuala Lumpar, 2006 Melbourne. Generally fine. (152) £300-400
Postal History |
1598-1909 selection of thirty three entires, including four items ex the Corsini correspondence (two with guild markings), 1749 entire letter to Marseilles with small "de/toulouse", 1787 entire letter with small "b" fleuron, etc., mixed condition £250-300
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1869-1920 (c.) selection of approximately 140 covers and cards, chiefly to or from India and Burma, including an unusual correspondence from Bavaria to Rangoon (12 covers), a variety of frankings and markings with Seapost, etc., mixed condition £400-600
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1939-46 British Asia WWII range of covers, comprising censored mail from Brunei, North Borneo (2), Sarawak (3, one with label) and Straits (3), incoming from England to Sarawak with "no service/return to sender" cachet and from Ireland to North Borneo with censor labels, "undelivered for reason stated/return to sender" and "no service" handstamps, F.P.O. datestamps (4, one from returning internee) and Australian related items (4, two with Australian manufactured "brunei/brunei" datestamps), mixed condition £150-200
Limited Edition Covers |
A collection of Queen Mother Benham/Westminster commemorative covers (69) housed in eight albums, contained in a carton, some with mint stamps and others incorporating coins to £5 £100-150
Collections and Ranges |
1937-51 used George VI collection housed in two albums contained in a carton, including Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Burma 1937 15r., 25r., Official 1937 10r., Ceylon, Cyprus 1938-51 £1, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Hong Kong, Kenya, etc., also an album of 1937 Coronation mint, mixed condition £150-200
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A mint and used accumulation arranged on album leaves, loose, etc., including mint Northern Rhodesia 1938-52 1 1/2d. carmine-red and 2d. yellow-brown blocks of four, 1953 to 20/-, Nyasaland 1953-54 to 20/-, Postage Dues 1950, Southern Rhodesia 1953 to £1. Generally good to fine. (hundreds) £150-200
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A duplicated mainly unmounted mint selection of overprinted issues arranged in a stockbook including South Atlantic islands with British Antarctic Territory 1971 (15 Feb.) Decimal Currency surcharges to 50p. on 10/-, Falkland Islands Dependencies 1944-45 1/2d. to 1/- with selected 6d. blue-black centres, South Georgia 1971-76 Decimal Currency surcharges to 50p. on 10/-, original printings, St. Helena 1864-80 5/- used. Generally fine. (hundreds) £150-200
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A duplicated predominately mint collection of War Tax Stamp overprints arranged in two volumes including some in blocks or larger and a couple of Antigua envelopes. Generally fine. (hundreds) £150-200
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x A collections of the Rhodesias in a stockbook, etc., largely 20th. Century with an accumulation of Southern Rhodesia mint multiples commencing with 1937 Coronation 3d. £200-250
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x All World mint and used selection housed in four stockbooks and loose, contained in a carton, including British Antarctic Territory, Denmark, Germany, Guernsey with values to £5 and 1969 Postage Due set, Hungary, Iran with an unusual selection of modern errors (missing colours, misplaced colours, inverted centres, etc.), Jersey 1969 to £1 and 1969 Postage Due set, United States picture post cards, unused and used, mixed condition £200-250
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Foreign countries selection in two small stockbooks, including Danzig, Germany 1924 Charity, 1927 I.A.A., Allied Occupations, British and American Zones 1948-50 Buildings 2pf. to 5Dm. horizontal pairs, Hungary 1935 Rákoczi set in blocks of four, Liechtenstein 1930 3r. to 2f., Luxembourg 1933 and 1934 Child Welfare, 1939 Princess Charlotte miniature sheets (2), etc., chiefly fine £200-300
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A mint and used All World accumulation of overprinted issues housed in fourteen volumes and loose pages, etc., contained in a carton, comprising mainly Foreign countries including France and Colonies, German Occupation areas with mint China and Morocco, Iraq with British Occupation; also postal history and postal stationery. (thousands) £200-300
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Selection (29) on stockcards, including Great Britain 1855-57 6d. unused, 1883 or 1884 6d. unused, 9d. used, Edward 2/6d., 5/- and 10/- used, Cape of Good Hope, Mafeking, Leeward Islands 1921-32 10/- perforated "specimen", etc., mixed condition £250-300
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x A selection of War Stamps, comprising Antigua (3), Bahamas (3), Barbados, British Honduras, Ceylon (5), Dominica (3), Fiji (2), Jamaica (2), Malta, Montserrat, St. Helena, St. Kitts-Nevis (2), St. Vincent, Turks and Caicos Islands (2) and Virgin Islands (2), all handstamped or overprinted "specimen"; a couple without gum and one thinned though of generally fine appearance. Cat. £900+ for those complete sets £250-300
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An All World accumulation housed in thirteen assorted volumes, plastic tub and loose, etc., contained in two cartons, including British Empire with Cape of Good Hope 1863-64 deep brown-red used, 1d. red, Falkland Islands 1904-12 3/- mint, Nova Scotia 1851-60 1d. red-brown used pair, etc. £250-300
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A selection of miscellaneous postal history and memorabilia, contained in a carton, comprising mainly West Africa with General Post Office document for mail going to Fernando Po, Foreign Office 1892 for "Diplomatic and Consular reports on Trade and Finance - Africa" pamphlet, The Dempster Line memorabilia with letters, photographs. picture postcards, etc., Biafra banknote selection and cheque books unused (2); also four early engraved prints. An interesting lot with viewing recommended £300-400
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