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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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1937-44 AIRMAIL covers with extensive details 1937 UK to South Africa env with boxed England - South Africa first Empire airmail at ordinary postage rate in green, illustr env with exhibition stamps cancelled with exhibition cachet, 1938
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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 MAIL - extensive collection of 34 covers detailed on pages inc prob commercial usages including a fine 1962 multi franked cover carried by the People League Delivery Service, many diff carriers inc Randall Service 10
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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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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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EXHIBITION POSTMARKS 1907-11 postcards (13) diff 1907 Irish BO Dublin (2), 1908 Francis - Brit (2), 1904 Manchester Congress (2) one later canc 1934 Manchester Imperial (2), 1910 Japan (2), 1911 Crystal Palace (3) inc No 1 hand st
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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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FORCES MAIL KGVI period with a variety of insufficiently prepaid handstamps and a variety of frankings 11 covers. £50/£60
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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS first flight covers 1931/33 very fine group of five inc Cairo to Calcutta stage, scarce Irish paquebot franking flown to Burma, 8d rate to Calcutta and 1/- rate to South Africa. £80/£90
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INSPECTORS AND EXAMINERS CACHETS on entires with items dating back to 1794 with strength in pre-stamp and many diff instrumental cachets. 22 items detailed on collectors pages with numerous good CROWN types inc 1827 entire with n
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INTERESTING lot of covers on pages 8 items Derbyshire and Sheffield interest 1849/56 inc 1856 fascinating Derbyshire lead mining env with note under flap re finding a suitable woman! First Sheffield Lord Mayor covers of 1855, 185
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LATE FEE system. Collection of 13 selected covers with good QV uprated covers with additional postage applied top left, 1848 entire with Paid 6d extra boxed cachet, various covers with Late fee cachets, 1937 cover with posted wit
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MISSENT, REDIRECTED, MISDIRECTED MAILS remarkable collection detailed on collectors pages with many fine selected items 1878 MNDA cachet on stamped cover, 1925 misdirected cachet with Windermere cds, 1913 missent to New York (shou
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PENNY POSTS 1814/48 fine lot of 13 entires written up with much detail on pages with much additional postal information, 1823 Aylsham/Penny Post, 1829 Bath with boxed receiving house no 15, 1828 Beadle/Py post, 1848 imperf 1d fran
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PENNY POSTS 1841/50 with distinctive types collection of nine entires inc Basingstoke, Brighton, Chelmsford (very distinctive type), Carlisle, Guildford etc (9). £100/£120
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POSTAGE DUE - ITEMS PREPAID AT CONCESSIONARY RATES - DISALLOWED AND UNDERPAID. The extensive collection of 77 items written up on pages with much information and all selected for a reason inc Underpaid with instructional cachets
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PRIVATELY CARRIED MAIL including early messenger services. Fascinating lot of 7 items inc very early 17th century entire carried privately, 1732 family carried entire with interesting social contents, diplomatic bag carried cover
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QUEEN VICTORIA early unused telegraph forms, 1881 1/- and 1885 6d seldom seen unused. £140/£160
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RAILWAY - a magnificent collection of covers, cards, pieces all franked railway carrier stamps with many interesting and unusual items detailed on collectors pages. 38 items QV to 1972 inc use of early 2d train stamps on cover, 1
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SCOTLAND - 1840/48 UNIFORM PENNY POSTS distinctive CANCELLATIONS on entires. A good collection of 14 entires written up on pages, very interesting lot with many postal cancels inc Aberdeen, Arbroath, 1840 Aros handstruck 1 *unlis
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SCOTLAND - TOWN HANDSTAMPS on pre stamp entires (with dates) the collection of ten items detailed on pages many better cancels inc 1838 Lerwick, 1822 Glasgow, 1823 superb Paid at Glasgow, 1834 Pad at Greenock, 1837 Paid at Aberdee
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SCOTLAND PROVINCIAL POSTS - town handstamps with items dating from 1741. An exceptional collection of mostly selected entires written up on pages with extensive notes re rates and routes. 32 items inc 1761 Dundee, 1800 Huntly, 1
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SCOUT POST CARRIER MAILS using special private regional Scout stamps authorised through 1980's. Collectors extensive collection of 64 covers all franked different issues with cancellations from Porthcawl to Wirral with many comme
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SCOUT POSTS CARRIER MAILS including scarce commercial items using private Scout stamps tied special cancellations authorised by the PO, 48 diff items detailed on collectors pages inc some with post office cancels inc Chesterfield,
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TOO LATE handstamps on postal history - the collectors remarkable assembly of 36 entires and covers all annoted on pages with many selected items chiefly pre stamp and QV period. Excellent range of locations and types inc 1870 ne
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UNDELIVERED MAIL with attention to untraced and other reasons for non delivery. Fascinating collection of 85+ covers and cards written up on leaves with some remarkable selected items, many diff returned to sender cachets. 1756
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UNDELIVERED MAILS postal history study of 55 items written up on pages with much detail and many interesting and unusual items select6ed for a reason with items dating from 1830's inc undelivered cachets, Insufficiently Addressed
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WINDSOR CASTLE 1898 envs (2) with Windsor Castle embossing on reverse, head letter and illustr Arms on card. 4 items. £80/£90
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YORKSHIRE INTEREST with some very good items with notes on pages. 49 entires 1840/60's period inc 1851 single franking 1d Buxton to Doncaster, 1846 entire franked 4 x 1d imperfs, 1847 very fine MISSENT TO SHEFFIELD boxed cachet,
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ALDERNEY fine used collection from 1983 to 2000 superb quality in a SG album over 200 stamps + 10 MS and 31 booklet pane highly catalogue fine used sets. Very complete for period. £180/£200
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Stanley Gibbons printed album for Channel Island locals extensive Herm Islands inc 1949 maps, pigeon post, 1953 coronation, 1954 pictorials, 1957 Neolithic man royal ovpt set, 1958 maps, 1960 refugee year set, over 170 stamps from
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1973 ARTIST hand painted for Manx Shearwater 20p became the 50p value beautiful item to enhance a collection by J Nicholson. £180/£200 {Photo}
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1973 ARTSIT hand painting for the Manx Cat 10p definitive plus pencil set sketch of 4 different designs of the Manx Cat for the 1973 definitive issues by J Nickolson. £180/£200 {Photo}
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1973 ERROR of COLOUR 3½p grey-brown border with normal to compare SG18a UM. £50/£60
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1974 ARTIST hand painted for King Edgor on the Dee by J Nicholson 3p value became the 4½p (SG 51) superb item plus illustrated FDC signed by the artist. £180/£200 {Photo}
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ARTIST J Nicholson pen illustration of Castletown for 1973 1p plus water colour of local ship (11) on three artist paper very interesting lot. £150/£200
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LITERATURE - Isle of Man Stamps and Postal History by Dr J T Whitney (3rd ed) fine condition with dj. £30/£35
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Never hinged mint collection of 500 stamps with values to £2 cat £250, many commem sets and inc defin sets, 1973 to 1992, a fine collection. £70/£80
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PRIVATE COURIER stamps of 1971 fresh UM inc scarce "matchbox" issues for the 1971 postal strike. Fine lot of 7 inc courier post 25p, 50p + £1. Not common issues. £120/£140 {Photo}
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