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x 1930 (Nov.) R.A.F. flights due to being obliged to carry out scheduled number of flying hours, envelopes from Allahabad to Delhi bearing 1a. and from Calcutta to Allahabad unfranked, both with Cheshire Regiment dated cachets in violet £150-200
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x 1931 (3 Apr.) Hollywood-Singapore by Hadley and Pratt, envelope from Calcutta to Rangoon ranked at 2a. and showing flight and delayed cachets in magenta on front and reverse, and signed by Pratt £150-200
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x 1932 (13 Jan.) Round the World flight by Halliburton and Stephens, disallowed Mount Everest Trip stage in "The Flying Carpet", envelope from Dum Dum to Calcutta signed by Halliburton and bearing 1/2a. with Calcutta c.d.s. and bearing flight detail labels and "American Flyers" cachet. Scarce. Photo £250-300
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x 1934 (2 Feb.) Bihar Earthquake Emergency flight, Muzaffarpur-Darbhanga-Dum Dum envelope to Calcutta, bearing special "Union Jack" label tied by "earthquake emergency flight" and "Delayed in Transit/Plane damaged" cachets. Photo £250-300
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x 1866 (Oct.) "service postage" on 1/2a. mauve on lilac, two vertical pairs with light pen cancellations and tied by diamond of crossed bars cancellations on small piece; the odd trace of soiling, otherwise fine. S.G. O19, £600+. Photo £250-300
Provenance: Col. Stewart, March 1956
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x 1931 (31 Dec.) "Pigeongram" envelope, complete with missive carried by "Gurumcha", from Park St., Calcutta with arrival c.d.s. and Stephen Smith endorsements and signature on reverse; offered with the official registration sheet regarding the pigeon's flight details. Rare £300-400
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x 1931 (31 Dec.) "Pigeongram" envelope, complete with missive carried by "Mumtaz", from Park St., Calcutta with arrival c.d.s. and Stephen Smith endorsements and signature on reverse; offered with the official registration sheet regarding the pigeon's flight details. Rare £300-400
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x 1933 (19 Jan.) envelopes (2) from Park St., Calcutta carried by "Queen B." and by "Sunshine", both bearing the blue on red labels with error "massage" for "message" with arrival c.d.s. and Stephen Smith signature on reverse; offered with the official registration sheet regarding the pigeons flight details. Rare £600-700
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x 1934 (30 Sept.) Saugor Island, (3 Oct.) Saugor Island, both with "Rocket" labels, 1934 (17 Dec.) "Shore to Ship" which feel into the sea and was salvaged (2), 1937 (19 May) Tokyo to Calcutta and return, and Sikkim Durbar Rocket Experiments 1935 (8 Apr.) Maharajah firing green on pale blue card and green on yellow card, both with special cachets and facsimile signature of the Maharajah. Cooper 1, 3, 7, 1, 3 £200-250
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x Bagdad: envelope (small part missing from one corner) to Calcutta bearing 1/2a. cancelled by superb "B" in square of bars and showing, on reverse, "bagdad." c.d.s. and two arrival c.d.s. £80-100
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x Basra: 1872 envelope (faults) bearing 1/2a. with "19" duplex, 1895 and 1907 (a little truncated) envelopes bearing 1/2a. and 2 1/2a. respectively, both cancelled by squared-circle datestamps, all three to Bombay; good to fine strikes £100-120
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x Muscat: 1892 envelope (complete with contents) to Bombay bearing, on reverse, 1/2a. blue-green with a fine squared-circle datestamp and with arrival c.d.s. alongside £100-120
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x Pondicherry: 1845-62 covers to France, the first with fine Madras Steamer Letter datestamp on reverse, five with "Paid" datestamps and two with "bureau de pondichery" c.d.s.; fair to fine strikes £300-400
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x Port Blair: 1901 (14 Nov.) 1a. on 1 1/2a. blue card to London, neatly cancelled by
"port-blair" c.d.s. with Sea Post Office (20.11) and London (9.12) c.d.s. alongside £100-120
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x Gwalior: 1885-97 1r. green and carmine marginal pair from the top of the sheet,
one variety "gwalicr" for "gwalior", large part original gum. Fresh and fine. Scarce. B.P.A. Certificate (1960). S.G. 34b, £1400. Photo £350-400
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Indore: 1940's Holkar Receipt 4a. pale blue and orange and 1r. black and green, both in complete sheets of sixty (10x6) numbered "000" and each vertical row of three perforated "specimen" (P3), unmounted mint; 4a. with corner creasing affecting top right stamp and other minor faults to margin, otherwise generally fine. Unusual £300-400
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x Rajasthan: 1949 machine-printed in black, 2a. vermilion lower right corner example, variety overprint inverted, mint and mounted in the margin only. Rare as it is believed that only one sheet of twenty was released. S.G. 11a, £475. Photo £150-180
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x A mint K.G.VI collection of Convention States in stockbook which includes Chamba 1942-47 values to 10r., Official 1938-40 1r.; Gwalior 1938-48 1r. to 25r. in blocks of four plus 15r. in a top margin, interpanneau block of four, 1949 12a. (2); Jind 1941-43 set to 25r. with additional 25r.; Nabha1938 1r. to 25r. with additional 10r.; Patiala
1937-38 15r. and 25r., Official 1937-39 to 5r. A few Feudatory States with Jaipur
1932-46 Postage set of ten to 1r. in blocks of four; Orchha 1935 set to 25r. in blocks of four, plus some others. An attractive and appealing lot, either lightly mounted or unmounted mint £1,200-1,500
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1885 (c) envelope (slightly truncated) bearing Turkey 1880-84 1pi. black and blue diagonally bisected and tied by clear "postahane-i hanekin 95" (Isfila 1) negative seal cancellation; slight stains around the perfs. though and a rarity of Iraqi and Turkish postal history. Photo £200-250
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1918-51 mint and used selection (115) on pages, including 1918-21 1/4a. on 5pa. to 10r. on 100pi., 1923-25 2r. black and 2r. olive-bistre, 1927 1r., 1932 200f. on 5r., 1948-51 with values to 1r., Officials, etc., chiefly good to fine £100-150
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1934-38 King Ghazi 1d. claret upper left corner block of twenty (5x4), unmounted mint; some perf. separation, mostly in the margin, otherwise fine. S.G. 189, £1,400 £500-600
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1807-1968 selection of covers, pieces and cards (133) in blue album, including Great Britain postal stationery, registered letters, Officials, etc., mixed condition £120-150
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x An attractive and valuable mint collection in stockbook which includes 1922 Dollard values to 10d. (2) plus overprints in red, 5/-, Thom set to 1/- and wider setting set to 1/-, 1922-28 wide or narrow date with 2/6d. (3) plus right margin block of four, 5/- (2) plus two right margin blocks of four, 10/- (2) plus lower margin single and a fine corner block of four, 1922-24 set to 1/-, 1942-45 2/6d. to 10/- plus 2/6d. and 5/- in corner blocks of four, a good range of other issues to 1958 plus a few later and some Postage Dues. A fine and attractive collection with most being unmounted mint £700-900
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1839 (23 Dec.) entire letter to London with a fine strike of the Dublin "4" in black, light red arrival d.s. (25.12) on reverse; filing folds, one of which just touches the "4", otherwise fine and a rare Uniform Fourpenny Post entire. Feldman/Kane 370. Photo £300-400
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1840 (16 Dec.) One Penny Mulready letter sheet (stereo obscured) from Dublin to London, upright and central red Maltese Cross cancellation in a vermilion shade, on reverse complete, superbly detailed large red wax seal of Earl Fortescue, dated markings; fine and uncreased. Photo £280-350
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1841 (2 Aug.) Two Pence blue Mulready letter sheet (a94) to Cambridge, black Maltese Cross cancellation, dated markings on reverse with Belfast double-ring and sent via Dublin; pressed filing folds and a trifle soiled, otherwise fine and very attractive. Rare used from Ireland. Photo £700-900
Provenance: Col. B.B. Zellers
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1906 (20 Aug.) Rev. Graham envelope to Newark, bearing Edward VII 1d. and Castlederg & Victoria Bridge First issue perf. 12 1/2 2d. green Railway stamp, both with Londonderry cancellations, transit and arrival datestamps on reverse; fine. Hibernian R33. Photo £300-400
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1888 Watermark Orbs £1 brown-lilac, PD, Dublin Sorting Office June 1888 c.d.s., good colour; three slightly short perfs. at top, otherwise fine and attractive. K.A. Louis Certificate (2010). S.G. 186, £4,250. Photo £1,200-1,500
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1893 Colonial keyplate design 2 1/2d. blue inscribed "Ireland.", unused without gum; very fine for this and extremely rare. MacDonnell-Whyte Certificate (2015). Hibernian L49. Photo £1,000-1,200
Provenance: Jim Czyl, 2014
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1914 Anti-Home Rule "South Belfast" 1/- carmine block of four from the left of the pane with straight edge at left; unmounted mint, a few tiny traces of staining on reverse; otherwise very fine. Hibernian L27. Photo £500-600
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1922-91 mint and used collection in a blue album, hundreds including 1922 Dollard 1/2d. to 10d., Thom 1 1/2d. to 1/-, 1922 Harrison 1/2d. to 2d., 1922 Thom 1/2d. to 1/-, 1922 Thom wide overprint 1/2d. to 1/-, 1922-34 1/2d. to 1/-. 1925-28 2/6d., 5/-, 1937 2/6d. to 10/-, 1940-68 to 10/- (2), 1941 Easter Rising, 1953 "An Tostal", later with values to £1, £5, miniature sheets, etc., chiefly good to fine £250-300
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1922-50 mint collection (110) on pages, including 1922 Dollard 2/6d. (2), 5/-, 10/- (2), 1922-24 1/2d. to 1/-, 1925-28 2/6d. to 10/-, 1935 2/6d., 1937 2/6d. to 10/-, 1940-68 2/6d. to 10/-, etc., chiefly fine £150-200
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1/2d. green block of four from the upper right corner of the sheet with proof overprint (setting 2) in red (overprint double, one albino) without the usual backstamps, unmounted mint (hinged in the margins); a few light wrinkles, otherwise very fine and rare. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). See footnote after S.G. 9. Hibernian PR8b, 8bV2. Photo £700-900
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1/2d. to 10d., Thom 1 1/2d. to 1/-, 2/6d. 5/- and 10/-, all affixed to part of ledger sheet and each handstamped "colonias" in purple by the Portuguese Post Office in Goa;
a little tropicalised and the 1d. with surface scrapes, otherwise fine and extremely rare. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2011). Between S.G. 1-21. Photo £3,000-4,000
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1/2d. green overprint inverted used with 2 1/2d. blue and Thom 2d. Die I on 1922 (31 Mar.) envelope registered from Drumcondra, Dublin to Dorking, transit and arrival markings on reverse; the envelope with light vertical fold, otherwise fine and rare. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). S.G. 1a, 4, 12. Photo £2,400-2,800
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2 1/2d. bright blue block of four, variety overprint double, one albino, unmounted mint; fine. Believed to be the only recorded block of four of this variety. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). S.G. 4a, £1,900+. Photo £1,200-1,500
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10/- dull grey-blue with strokes over "e" of "ten" [R4/2] and "Madame Joseph" forged cancellation; fine. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). S.G. 21. Hibernian T14c. Photo £320-400
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2d. orange Die I block of twenty (5 x 4) from the lower right corner of the sheet, variety overprint inverted, hinged in the margins and on three stamps with most remaining unmounted; some wrinkles, three with slight ink stains on the gum and the eighth stamp with slightly disturbed gum, otherwise fine. The second largest block of this variety recorded and an important exhibition multiple. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). S.G. 12a, £4,000+. Photo £3,200-3,800
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1d. scarlet, variety reversed "q" for "o", tied on 1922 (6 Sept.) window envelope by "Learn Irish" slogan cancellation which leaves the variety clear; fine and extremely rare. Only one other cover bearing the error is recorded. MacDonnel Whyte (1997) and Hamilton-Bowen (2015) Certificates. S.G. 31b. Photo £1,000-1,200
Provenance: F.E. Dixon
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1 1/2d. red-brown marginal block of four in a bright shade with one showing variety corrected "pencf" [R15/12], fine mint. R.P.S. Certificate (1991). S.G. 32 var. Photo £300-400
Provenance: Col. William P. Fletcher
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2d. orange, Die II, marginal from the top of the sheet, variety overprint inverted, tied on 1922 (28 Dec.) envelope to Lytham by Dublin c.d.s.; the envelope with light vertical folds well clear of the adhesive, otherwise fine and very rare. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2015). S.G. 34 var. Photo £2,000-2,500
Note: It has long been the subject of controversy as to whether this stamp was regularly issued. This is a "proving" cover, as no postage due charges were raised
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2d. orange Die II block of four, variety watermark inverted and reversed, unmounted mint; fine and rare. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (1993). S.G. 34y, £720+. Photo £400-500
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2/6d. sepia-brown, 5/- rose-carmine and 10/- dull grey-blue blocks of four with
each containing variety "R over Se", used, good colours and mostly fine perfs.
An extraordinary set of the utmost rarity. Each stamp signed DF. The 2/6d. with Hamilton Bowen (2015), the 5/- and 10/- with MacDonnell (2005) Certificates.
S.G. 44-46, £7,600++. Photo £5,000-6,000
Provenance: Don Buchalter
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10/- dull grey-blue, variety "R over Se", tied by Merrion Row c.d.s. on 1923 (29 Nov.) envelope registered to Dublin, and endorsed at lower left "Late/29/11/23"; fine and extremely rare. Only one other example known on cover. MacDonnell Whyte Certificate (2003). S.G. 46 var. Photo £4,000-5,000
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1922-23 overprints selection of thirty-four different Control corner strips of three, values to 1/- (2) including several scarcer types, good to fine mint £300-400
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1/2d. green block of four, the second stamp variety no accent in "Saorstat", used with 3d. pale violet on 1923 (17 May) envelope registered from Castleblaney to Berkshire, fine. Believed to be the only example known on cover, and of exhibition importance. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (1996). S.G. 52, 52a, 57. Photo £3,000-4,000
Provenance: T.E. Field, June 1966
Gerald Brady, 1993
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1d. scarlet marginal block of six (3x2) from the right of the sheet, the fourth stamp variety no accent and final "t" missing , fine mint with the variety stamp superb unmounted mint. One of the legendary rarities of Irish Philately. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (1994). S.G. 53, 53a, £15,000++. Photo £10,000-12,000
Provenance: Agnew, 1938
Gerald Brady, 1993
H.E. Langemaack, 2010
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6d. reddish purple marginal block of six from the right of the sheet, the fourth stamp variety accent inserted by hand, fresh mint with the error stamp superb unmounted mint; fine and without the rubbing that often occurs on this stamp. Hamilton-Bowen Certificate (2010). S.G. 60, 60a, £850++. Photo £600-700
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9d. olive-green block of twenty (4x5), the lower right-hand stamp showing variety no accent and some others with minor varieties, mostly unmounted mint, hinged in the margins and one normal stamp; a few split perfs., otherwise a fine and a spectacular block. S.G. 61, 61a, Hibernian T56, 56b, 56g, 56-V45 £300-400
Provenance: Agnew, 1938
T.F. Field, 1966
Gerald Brady, 1993
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10d. turquoise-blue block of twenty-four (6 x 4) from the left of the sheet containing varieties raised "1" (positions 1-3) and raised second "2" (positions 7-8), unmounted mint, hinged in the margin; a few light wrinkles, otherwise fine and a scarce block.
S.G. 62, Hibernian T57, 57V46, 57V46a £420-480
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