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1839/49 PROVISIONAL RECEIVING HOUSES a most interesting lot of annotated entires on pages (9 items) 1840 entire ex Brighton with circled W hs, 1845 entire ex Leeds with Kirkgate hs, 1844 stampless cover with Quayside/Newcastle hs, 1846 su
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1840/46 PENNY POSTS OF YORKSHIRE a fine collection written up on pages with notes (7 entires) with distinctive penny posts inc Halifax (3 diff!), Huddersfield, Darlington and Hull. A good group. £120/£140
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1841/49 YORK paid handstamps on entires (3) all with diff types penny (2) + two pence. A fine trio. £60/£70
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1841/56 SHEFFIELD POSTAL HISTORY with penny red imperf frankings and many local village cancellations detailed on pages and items related to steel industry inc 1844 Norwood hs, 1856 Eckington UDC, 1846 Chapeltown UDC, 1851 superb env with
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1842 SCOTTISH DISTINCTIVE MALTESE CROSS (type II) fabulous strike on four margin penny red on entire to Cork, Ireland with boxed Dumbarton hs and arrival cds. Remarkable quality. £100/£120
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1842/43 RAMSGATE two entires one with handstruck 1 second with Addington Place handstamp both with Ramsgate cds on reverse, both fine covers. £60/£70
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1842/46 MIDLANDS UNIFORM PENNY POST entires (3) all with distinctive cancels for West Bromwich (2) and Wolverhampton. £45/£50
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1842/52 DERBYSHIRE LEAD MINING and other local postal history most interesting lot of ten entires with collectors notes and photocopies of articles inc 1842 letter from John Taylor (mining) to W M Wyatt, 1852 entire with mining contents,
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1843 MISSENT TO LONDON (unframed italic type) cachet on fine PAID entire from Leicester to Daventry, numerous other postal markings. £50/£60
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1844 ENTIRE with fine strike of Kirk Oswald penny post on obverse 1d franking. £50/£60
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1845 BRIXHAM/SHIP LETTER (slightly enhanced) on sugar process entire ex Brazil to London. Scarce. £75/£80
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1845 MORE TO PAY handstamp on very fine env ex Liverpool to London franked 4 margin penny red choice. £50/£60
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1848 BLACKBURN PENNY POST distinctive handstamp on entire. £50/£60
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1848 MARITIME - LIVERPOOL PACKET - a spectacular instructional entire (heavily repaired) from London to New York with endorsement within flap letter detained on account of postage not being paid with INSTRUCTIONAL CACHETS DETAINED FOR
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1854 AN INTERESTING rated 5d entire ex Glasgow to Westminster with a 1d + 2d + 2d franking early star issue assumed SG 17 + 19 fine and scarce. £100/£120
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1855 DERBY to BAKEWELL fine and early registered entire franked 6d EMBOSSED (cut square) plus 1d star canc 242 duplexes, cds and arrival cancel on reverse the embossed is rated £1900 on cover. £180/£200
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1855 SCOTLAND a redirected envelope ex London franked 2d Star redirected from Kilmarnock with handstruck 2 forwarded to Cardiff Castle, Wales, many pmks and endorsements. Unusual. £80/£90
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1856 MARITIME - AUSTRALIAN PACKET - PAID LIVERPOOL cds (red) on very fine cover ex Melbourne to UK endorsed Per Lightening very fine type 14/66. £120/£140
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1860 Registered mail - v/fine wrapper with 4d + 6d neatly cancelled 21 duplex with registered oval SG 66+70 rated £350 as a franking. £60/£70
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1861 EIGHT PENCE rate on entire to France (?) franked 2 x 4d (SG 66) neatly canc at London, Calais arrival cds etc unusually high double rate (cat £335). £80/£90
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1862-68 Three entires to Germany displaying different rates and franking 1862 1d star + 6d with England to Sachen cachet, 1865 6d single franking with Falmouth duplex and 3d paid HS, 1868 3d pair cancel London 77 duplex a fine trio.
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1863 DESTINATION ROME, ITALY with scarce 11d rate of 2d (plate 9) and rare use of 9d to Europe (SG 86 rated £875 on cover), many cancels, small faults though still attractive rate. £90/£95
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1866 SCOTLAND a wrapper from London franked 2d (plate 9) to Castle Douglas redirected to Newton Stewart showing a very fine handstruck 2, various transit cds cancels. Scarce. £80/£90
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1867 DESTINATION CROATIA - rare entire ex London to Goricza at 8d rate (6d + 1d + 1d) with Austrian and Italian transit cancels and arrival cds, soiled and folds though fine and one of the most unusual destinations we have seen.
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1875 DESTINATION PANAMA - cover to Commander Cookson, HMS Peteral (sloop serving out of West Indies station) care of British Consul, Panama, very fine cover franked pair 6d (pl 14) tied London duplexes. £100/£120
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1891 EDDYSTONE Lighthouse card fine used with special pictorial cancel very fine. £60/£70
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1900 RAILWAY - Ashford Station office cancelled cover to Kent franked 1d tied duplex and 2d Se and C and D railway stamp pen cancelled, Ashton Station office (diff type) cds on reverse. Scarce item. £100/£110
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1902 RAILWAY - envelope franked 1d lilac tied cds together with 2d MIDLAND railway stamp endorsed to be posted at Leicester. Exceptional. £100/£120
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1904 POSTED IN ADVANCE/FOR DELIVERY OIN XMAS DAY/MR 1904 oval cancel of Manchester on ½d on postcard. £50/£60
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1914/18 WWI MILITARY interesting lot of six items on pages of FREE MILITARY MAIL inc 1914 postcard with Army Letter - Free cachet, 1917 env with Posted by Wounded Solider cachet, 1916 superb postcard with boxed DELAYED/NOT/FRANKED cachet
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1925 RAILWAY - envelope Glasgow TO Fort William with 4d LNER railway stamp and 1½d postage stamp cancelled violet boxed railway cancels, arrival cds. Excellent item. £100/£120
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1933/71 AIRLINES - privately carried postal history with private stamps inc 1933 West Country air 3d stamp tied to cover, 1951 BEA 6d with Landsend cachet used from Isles of Scilly, 1955 Herm Island flight and more (7 items). £90
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1934 RAILWAY COVERS carried partially by AIRMAIL Glasgow to Liverpool and Birmingham to Southampton both franked 1½d and each with 3d rail stamps, one endorsed rail, no service (2). £100/£120
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1934 SCOTLAND - rocket post trial firing Harris to Scarp cachet on cover with Western Isles Rocket Post label tied. £60/£65
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1937 "Poached egg" test stamp used on cover with KGV 1D ex Clapton and letter asking for immediate communication of arrival ! £30/£35
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1940/47 PRISONERS OF WAR - a postal history study detailed on pages 26 items all selected with interest in instructional cachets inc 1945 German POW card with scarce recovered POW mail/from Europe cachet, 1943 POW env addr to a major to I
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1951 DAMAGED MAILS - burned window envelope with accidently damaged label and 1½d stamp both with scarce BIRMINGHAM BROKEN PACKETS cds. £50/£60
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1969/75 OMNIBUS AND TRAM CARRIED MAIL fascinating lot of COMMERCIAL mail written up on pages (8 items) all franked private postage labels and diff services inc Potterls Motor Traction 17p stamp on env to Cheadle (rare), news carried on bu
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1971 POSTAL STRIKE overseas franking covers with a variety of special courier labels and handstamps, seen Cyprus, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, Portugal to name a few. A fine group of covers each different. £50/
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2001 CONFLICT PERIOD 3 elusive covers ex Rwanda with CHECKED cachet (inspected for anthrax powder), item to BBC again inspected and cover to Afghanistan with Refused label and endorsed Border Closed. Items of the future. £45/
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ACCOUNTANCY CACHETS 1871/75 two fine overseas entires 1871 6d Sweden with large 2½d hs and 1875 to Cape of Good Hope franked 4d and large 2d hs. Very fine. £60/£70
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AIRMAIL postal history with much interesting detailed on collectors pages 14 items inc 1938 scarce NOTE THE POSTAL RATE machine cancel on cover ex Africa, 1935 Scottish airmail machine hs applied at Glasgow, 1932 multi redirected
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Album with interesting collection of covers inc KEVIII FDC's plain, KGVI original issue defins FDC;s inc on plain cover, 4d and 5d on plain cover victory set with don't waste bread slogan cancel plain cover, 1948 S/wedding set fin
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Benham covers 190+ each different inc large silk FDC's wit special cancels, highly catalogued collection with covers from £5 to £10+ unaddressed. £100/£120
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CENSORED WWI mails with interesting censor cachet and postal markings 1916 Passed by Censor HMS Imperieuse oval cachet, 1915 large boxed Passed by Censor cachet XXXX cancels, card endorsed HMS Donegal, 2nd embossed HMS Mars, 11 it
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CROSS WRITTEN LETTERS with items dating back to the 1820's where people have written one way then the other across letters, remarkable lot in two albums 32 items with many being pre-stamped entries with postal markings, some have
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Early machine cancels KEVII (2) KEVIII (3) KGVI (16) inc OHMS env and early slogans. £40/£50
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EARLY MACHINE CANCELS KEVII (2) KGV (73) inc British exhibition, 1924 Blackpool, 1918 buy war bonds, feed the guns, with a variety of different towns interesting lot. £180/£200
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EDINBURGH AND LEITH - a postal history. Collection of 27 selected entires written up with much information on pages including some very good and interesting items. 1705 bishop mark (type 4/1) on fragile entire, 1783 bishop mark
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EXHIBTIONS 1901/14 held at White City and Earls Court collection in album 60+ items nicely displayed in an album, many Pavilion cards including good Japanese items, early exhibition labels etc. An unusual lot. £100/£120
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