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1827-1978 Covers and cards including Wincanton 5th Cl. Post, 1891 Eddystone Lighthouse card with special Naval Exhibition cancel, postage dues, perfins, 1934 Sussex Downs Rocket Post, 1890 advertising cover for the stamp dealer M. Giwelb franked 10d, 1927 London F.S Buy British Made Goods handstruck slogan, etc. (71). £150-200
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1831-96 Covers and cards (31), a front and pieces (6) in an album, various cancels and handstamps including number in Maltese Cross cancels (2 covers + 2 pieces), G.B used in Malta (2), postal fiscals (2), Greenock Maltese Cross, numerals in blue (2), Nottingham sideways duplex in green, Oranmore spoon, Rugby "spoon" (cover + piece), etc. (38). £200-240
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1841-1901 QV Stamped covers and some postal stationery, various duplex, numeral and squared circle cancels, 1876 cover to Beyrout and 1885-87 covers to Constantinople (2) all with British P.O arrival datestamps, inspectors and missent marks, perfins, etc. (c.500). £200-250
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1879-1936 Picture postcards (and a few earlier postal stationery cards) collected for their postmarks or stamps including ½d violet postal stationery card with printed advert and a sloper arrow cancel; 1891 Eddystone Lighthouse postcard with the special Naval Exhibition datestamp and a Pirbright Camp arrival c.d.s; 1911 postcard with a very late commercial use of a 1d red; 1938 parcel tag bearing KGV 2/6 Seahorse; WWI F.P.Os, Naval mail and P.O.W mail; WW2 Channel Islands; postage dues; 1927 Balmoral Castle c.d.s; 1924 Empire Exhibition stamps and cancels (15); 1911 postcard bearing KEVII 1d aniline-rose shade, etc., mainly fine, in an S.G. postcard album. (244). £350-450
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A huge quantity of mainly decimal period covers, most selected for their cancels or cachets including postage due mail (100s, mostly 1980-83), explanatory cachets with undelivered, delayed or damaged mail, incorrectly dated meters, postal stationery (with a box of House of Commons envelopes), articles for the blind, unusual type cancels with circular and triangular handstamps, etc., also some earlier covers dating back to KEVII period. An interesting lot. (Many 100s). £200-250
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Coffee Houses. 1809 Entire letter written from "Lloyds" (Coffee House) to Brighton, the postage rate altered from 7d to 1/4, the scarce circular framed inspectors crown with the letter "B" above the circle applied (Jay 166), very fine. £80-100
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Explanatory cachets. 1895-1977 Covers and cards, various cachets or endorsements including 'Found without contents' cachets of Brighton, Colchester or the N.P.B, 1905 picture postcard with boxed "FOUND LOOSE IN MOUNT / PLEASANT DEPOT, LONDON / EC. DATE" and a Mount Pleasant Parcel Office c.d.s, 1948 cover bearing five "Conservative & Unionist Party" labels endorsed "label resembling a postage stamp, contrary to regulations" and returned to the sender, various missent, redirected or undelivered and returned mail, etc. (105). £120-150
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Express Mail. 1896-1988 Covers and a front sent by express mail, special delivery or Swiftair, including 1900 stampless cover sent within Penzance, 1907 1d lettercard uprated 2d sent within Oldham signed inside by 22 staff at the Post Office and congratulating the addressee upon his wedding, 1957 Official Paid cover from Edward Heath, also 1937 P.O leaflet on the Railex Service. (53). £100-120
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Missent Mail. 1826 Entire from Paris to Lourdes, the address misread as London so handstamped red "ANGLETERRE", the reverse endorsed "Missent to England" with two London Foreign Branch datestamps alongside, the 1/2 charge crossed out. Very unusual. £200-250
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Newspaper Branch. 1879-1958 Wrappers and cards (24), stamps and pieces (24), various N.P.B cancels, the entires including Cork N.P.B c.d.s (2, one with scarce Dublin precancel), Limerick N.P.B c.d.s, distinctive Edinburgh single ring (5) or double ring (5) datestamps, Glasgow oval types (2) and double ring datestamps (7), also London triangular framed "NPB" inspectors mark, etc. (48). £150-180
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Parcel Post labels (31) including Wolverton R.S.O (with handstruck name) and Robin Hoods Bay Station R.S.O; 1900 Foreign & Colonial Parcel Post C.O.P bearing QV 2½d and 5d each tied by "OLDHAM / P.P" c.d.s; various parcel cancels on stamps, pieces and covers; Inland C.O.D labels (3); 1907 Undelivered Parcel label; experimental meter type parcel stamps (7); C.O.Ps, etc. £150-200
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Parliamentary/Royalty/Official Mail. 1844-1983 Covers and cards including House of Lords or House of Commons datestamps with 1913 registered cover bearing KGV 1d (3) each tied by "HOUSE OF COMMONS S.W" c.d.s and 1928 (Feb 8) 1d stationery envelope cancelled "HOUSE OF COMMONS / S.W" skeleton c.d.s (only the second recorded example, the address unfortunately deleted); Official mail including 1860 Official Paid cover to Richard Cobden M.P in Algiers; royal covers with cypher cachets, Balmoral Castle datestamps (5, one dated '90' in error for the year '09'), etc. (c.190). £140-180
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Penny Posts. 1827-50 Entire letters and covers with various Penny Post handstamps including scarce boxed "Penny Post" of Skipton in red, distinctive unframed "STOCKPORT / penny post", handstamps for Mayfield and Seddlescombe, also red Newcastle 5th Cl. Post. (17). £100-120
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Post Office Savings Bank. 1850-1967 Covers, cards and entires, and a few pieces, with P.O.S.B datestamps (3, one a strange use on a picture postcard franked KEVII ½d), stationery, Paid datestamps, and a detailed study of the Paid machine marks including slogans, also a 1926 page from a Savings book bearing the two different KGV 1/- savings stamps. A fine study, main strength in the P.O.S.B machine marks and slogans, in an F.G album. (135 covers + 117 pieces). £500-600
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Postal Reform. 1877 (April 20) Note signed at Hampstead by Rowland Hill. A fine example of his autograph. £70-100
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Suffragettes. 1919 (July 10) Cover from Rotherham to Lincolnshire, burnt at the right edge and repaired by the label "It is regretted that this packet has been accidentally damaged in the post", the label and stamp both with a Rotherham c.d.s. A pencil note on the cover reads "a memento of the days of the militant Suffragettes, when the contents of pillar boxes were set on fire by them". An interesting cover. £120-150
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Triangular Handstamps. QV-QEII Covers, cards and wrappers (75) and pieces (430), the majority with London printed matter cancels containing various London district or office initials or telegraphic codes; also inspectors handstamps (27) including "S.E" obliterating a 1d charge mark on a 1921 postcard with a stamp removed in transit, "I.S" on a 1912 card written at Dieppe with a French stamp cancelled in London, etc. An interesting collection in an S.G. album, virtually all KGV or earlier. (505). £400-500
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Undated Circles. 1833-59 Entire letters and covers all with undated circle handstamps, some in red, green or blue. (38). £120-150
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1910 (Aug 25) Picture Postcard of the Scottish International Aviation meeting at Lanark with KEVII ½d tied by "LANARK / GRAND-STAND" c.d.s used at the air show. Also a second unused postcard, both cards showing crowds alongside the official photographers booth bearing railway posters, and a stall selling aviation postcards. (2). £100-120
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1911 First UK Aerial Post, London postcards in brown, red-brown (2) or green (Sep 9, 11, 13, 15 cancels), envelope in red (Sep 14) and scarce emergency printing Windsor envelope in brown, also a real photo postcard of Hamil and Gresswell at Windsor, mainly fine, one card with printed greetings from the organising committee. Only 408 ordinary covers flown from Windsor. (7). £200-250
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1911 (Sep 9) First Aerial Post card in brown unusually bearing KEVII 1½d and 2½d and KGV ½d each tied by the special London c.d.s code 2, small corner crease otherwise fine. Photo on Page 227. £200-250
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1911 First Aerial Post cards including a green card franked KEVII ½d and KGV ½d to British Columbia with a Nelson, B.C machine applied upon arrival; green "Molassine" advert card (faults, laid on paper) unusually with both code '1' and '4' London datestamps; green Windsor to London card, etc. (4). £150-200
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1911-77 First Flight covers including 1911 London-Windsor flights (6, including card to Natal with 1d charge mark and Windsor envelope, both with faults), 1931 G.B to USA and back, Railway Air Service and other internal flights, Imperial Airways and B.O.A.C Comet flights to or from G.B, Concorde, etc. (145). £150-200
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1920-61 Commercial and philatelic flight covers, both internal and external flights, including 1920 flights to Holland franked 6½d (2, one with "AIR MAIL" cachet), 1924 flight to Germany franked 4½d with circular violet "AIR / MAIL" cachet, helicopter flights, 1934 Sussex Downs Rocket Post, etc., also a couple of photos, 1921-38 P.O Notices regarding airmail services (15), and 1931-34 Imperial Airways Gazettes (5). (85). £250-350
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Crash cover. 1936 (Nov 28) Cover from London to Bremen, fire damaged, the reverse endorsed "Beim unfall des Flugzeugs London - Berlin am 28/11.36 beschadigt". The Lufthansa plane from London to Berlin made a forced landing near Hanover and caught fire damaging part of the mail. Scarce, few items recorded from this crash. £100-120
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1941 Censored cover from London to Australia franked 1939-48 KGVI 5/- pair and 10/- dark blue block of four, a few edge faults but an unusual 50/- rate franking, the 10/- dark blue scarce on cover. £200-250
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1946 5½d Size K registration envelope from Bata Estate (located at the Bata Shoe factory in Essex) to Australia uprated by 1937-48 KGVI 3d, 4d, 5d (2), 7d (4) and 10/- light blue (4, one torn), some creasing but an exceptional 44/2½ rate. £100-120
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1947 Large registered cover from London bearing 1937-48 KGVI 1/- (4), 5/- and 10/- light blue block of seven all with light c.d.s cancels, a scarce 79/- rate. £100-120
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1947 5½d Size K registration envelope from Woodford Green to Australia uprated 1937-47 KGVI ½d, 6d (2), 2/6 (2), 5/- (3), a total of 21/6; and 1948 cover from London to Australia franked 1938-48 KGVI 2/6 green, 5/- and 10/- light blue, a total franking of 27/6. The registration envelope with some creasing, two unusual high rates. (2). £100-120
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1949 Large cover from Manchester to Australia franked 1939-46 KGVI 2/6 green (20), 5/- (6) and 10/- light blue (5) all perfined "MV/Co" (Metropolitan - Vickers Electrical Co Ltd), some creasing and folds and at least three stamps torn, nevertheless a remarkable franking totalling 130/-. £100-120
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1953-54 Covers to Australia all bearing 1951 KGVI high values, comprising 2/6 + 5/-, a total of 7/6; 10/- pair + QEII 1/- (4), a total of 24/-; or 10/- + KGVI 1/- pair, a total of 12/-, three unusual rates. (3). £100-120
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1932 (Mar 19) Cover from London to Pernambuco franked at the 3/6 rate by KGV 10d (3) and 1/- all tied by London Air Mail rubber datestamps, with two differing 1932 Graf Zeppelin 1st South America Flight cachets, backstamped at Berlin and Recife (Mar 23), very fine. Sieger 138B. £120-150
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1932 (Nov 8) Cover franked 10d from London to Bahia, carried by Graf Zeppelin with two cachets of the 8th South America Flight, redirected back to London with backstamps of Bahia and London, very fine. Sieger 189. £120-140
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1933 (June 1) Cover from Wolverhampton to Rio de Janeiro franked at the 10d printed matter rate with two differing 1933 Graf Zeppelin 2nd South America Flight cachets, the reverse with a "Responda logo Via Conder-Zeppelin" cachet and Rio de Janeiro c.d.s (June 7), very fine. Sieger 214B. £100-120
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1933 (Sep 1) Cover to Montevideo bearing KGV 1/- tied by London F.S Air Mail c.d.s, with red "Mit Luftpost Befordert, Berlin C2" cachet and three differing 1933 Graf Zeppelin 6th South America Flight cachets, backstamped at Berlin and Montevideo (Sep 7), very fine. Sieger 229B. £150-180
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1933 (Sep 29) Cover franked at the 10d printed matter rate to Pernambuco with KGV 1d and 9d tied by London F.S Air Mail datestamps, red "Mit Luftpost Befordert Berlin C2" cachet and two differing 1933 Graf Zeppelin South America - Chicago Flight cachets, backstamped at Berlin, Recife and Pernambuco (Oct 17), very fine. Sieger 238E. £150-180
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1934 (Aug 2) Cover from Norwich to Rio de Janeiro franked at the 10d printed matter rate with red "DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST / b / EUROPA - SUDAMERIKA" cachet and a Friedrichshafen c.d.s (Aug 4), the reverse with a Stuttgart c.d.s and "Responda logo Via Condor - Zeppelin" cachet, very fine. Carried on the 1934 Graf Zeppelin 5th South America Flight. Sieger 265Ab. £110-130
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(Also see lots 1165-72, 1533, 1535/6, 1547, 1570, 1577, 1832, 1836/8) | |
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Numbers in Maltese Cross. 1843 (Apr 22) 2d Blue postal stationery envelope sent from London to Worcester cancelled by a fine number "4" in Maltese Cross, London backstamp. Opening tear at left and some edge wear or soiling, nevertheless exceptionally scarce, probably as few as five or six such 2d envelopes recorded in total with number in cross cancels. Photo on Page 227. £400-500
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1856-69 Covers bearing 1d reds or 1d pink stationery envelopes cancelled by Spoons (6) including Worcester (2), Shrewsbury and Leamington; sideways duplexs (50) including Hurst Green (2 types), Lewes, Maidstone (2 types), Reigate, etc.; Scottish experimental or "Posted Since" duplexs (5), six covers backstamped with undated circles. (61). £150-200
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c.1902-40 Picture postcards (also a few covers with some earlier and later items) in a shoebox, various cancels and handstamps include duplexs, single ring datestamps, triangular missort handstamps, cachets, Channel Islands, Scottish Islands, Isle of Man, Stations, R.S.Os, hooded circles, Isle of Wight, squared circles, etc. (Approx 550). £200-250
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Rubbers. 1904-37 Rubber cancels virtually all on picture postcards including Ballygarry Station, Cobo, etc., also a few pieces. Cards include real photos of the Post Offices at Burton and Croglin, the school at Oxwich with carts outside, a collapsed building at Northwich, etc. (82+). £100-120
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Skeletons. 1844-1952 Covers and cards all with skeleton cancels, mainly 1903-27 period, the majority on picture postcards, a few earlier items include unframed "Bakewell" (1844), "Cheltenham / 3" in blue (1845), "Hurst Green / 2" (1848) and blue framed "Chipping Norton / 7" (1850) or "Blackrock / 2" (1858). Also a few pieces, mainly "Paid" types in red. One cover with "Cross in Hand / Penny Post", the postcards including a real photo of a military funeral at Dorking, etc. (133+). £200-250
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1904-07 Picture postcards posted in advance for delivery on Christmas day with KEVII ½d tied by the 1904 oval cancel for Manchester, or the 1907 'X' handstamp for Birkenhead, both fine. (2). £100-120
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1909 Cover to Frodsham, posted in advance for delivery on Christmas day, with KEVII ½d tied by "WARRINGTON / X / MAS" cancel, a little light edge staining. £80-100
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1890 (May 19) London Philatelic Exhibition menu card for the dinner given in celebration of fifty years of Penny Postage bearing unused imperf and perf 1d reds, 1d venetion-red and a 1d lilac, the original unused 1d black removed and replaced by a used example. The card lightly folded both horizontally and vertically, still a very acceptable example of this scarce and attractive menu card. Photo on Page 227. £250-300
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1890 Penny Postage Jubilee. Postal stationery cards with the Guildhall (5) or South Kensington (2) cancels, also two pieces and proof strikes on paper or an insert card. Four 1d Penny Post Jubilee stationery cards have the Guildhall cancel, two postally used, one of these written and signed by the Committee Chairman James Whitehead. (11). £120-150
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1890-1983 Covers and cards in an album and loose, including 1890 Penny Post Jubilee cancels on cards (6) and the Post Office Christmas card depicting the special cover and cancels, 1893 O.H.M.S Official Paid cover with "ROYAL COMMISSION / CHICAGO EXHIBITION 1893" cachet, 1925 Empire Exhibition Palace of Industry parcel cancel on piece, 1950 "SBAC / FARNBOROUGH HANTS" skeleton on registered cover, philatelic congresses from 1909, some Mobile Post Offices from 1937, also related postcards and labels. (c.200). £200-250
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1772-1834 Entire letters all sent free of postage, most with various London Free handstamps. (31). £100-120
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1797-1839 Entire letters, entires and covers including 1839 cover from London to Elstree with the red Free datestamp crossed out and charged 8d, handstamped by boxed "ABOVE NUMBER" in brown (Jay L828); 1833 printed O.H.M.S Treasury envelope signed by "Althorp" with enclosed letter written from Downing Street, etc. (15). £140-180
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1829 Entire with printed heading "On the business of the WATERLOO SUBSCRIPTION" signed by Freeling, sent to Pontefract with a red Free datestamp. Very unusual and scarce. Photo on Page 227. £120-150
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