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1954 "Drift Mail" experiment, three cards (numbers 7189, 9441 and 9453) dropped by R.A.F. aircraft as part of an oil pollution investigation, returned by the finders to Godalming and with 1 1/2d. or 2d. frankings; fine £100-150
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1925 (22 Oct.) envelope to London franked at 2d., registered in London as supposed to contained valuables and taxed by Postage Due 3d. pair; some faults though most unusual compulsory registration, also 1930 and 1933 envelopes registered from Ballyshannon and Dublin £80-100
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1923 (15 April) envelope registered and insured to Wolfen (Belgium), bearing Great Britain overprinted 1 1/2d., Map 2d. and Cross 3d. (2) with Tipperary cancellations, endorsed Insured: Value £6.0.0 and with the appropriate wax seals on the reverse; small faults though very scarce insured mail £100-150
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1940 (11 Apr.) envelope to Petts Wood bearing 1d. pair with Port Laoighise cancellations, endorsed Per Great Southersn Rlys/To Maryboro/To Be Posted on Arrival and Express Rail Fee 3d. Paid, and with "g.s.rys.kingsbridge" 1d. and 2d. labels; fine and scarce £100-120
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1940 (19 Apr.) special "To be posted on arrival" and "Per Railway" envelope to London, endorsed "To Greenore/Fee 3d. Paid" and "Dundalk/Newry, Greenore" with 2d. Map applied over Great Northern Railway 3d. green label; fine. Also Dundalk Newry and Greenore 2d. label unused £100-150
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1923-39 selection of uprated postal stationery items (14), including Great Britain 2d. + 3d. registered envelopes additionally bearing 1 1/2d. to the United States and 1d. or 2d. to Germany, 2d. letter card additionally bearing 1d. to Austria, Ireland 5d. registered envelope additionally bearing 1d. strip of three to London, 1d. and 1 1/2d. to Austria, etc., chiefly fine £80-100
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1931-40 2/- (edition 16-38), all panes with inverted watermarks, advertisers voucher with all stamps and labels punched with a triangular hole, mostly good perfs., cover folded, otherwise fine and rare. S.G. SB1. Photo £1,500-1,800
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1931-40 2/- (edition 31-1), all panes watermark upright, some trimmed perfs. at right; fine and fresh. S.G. SB1, £3,750. Photo £1,200-1,500
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1931-40 2/- (edition 19-39 with larger Harp on cover), all panes inverted watermark, good perfs., cover creased. S.G. SB1, £4,250. Photo £800-1,000
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1940 2/- (edition 23-40), all panes watermark upright, some trimmed perfs. and light staining. The rarest booklet of Ireland. S.G. SB3, £11,000. Photo £2,000-2,500
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1941-44 2/- (edition 25-42), all panes watermark inverted, some trimmed perfs. and faults; fine appearance. S.G. SB4, £2,000. Photo £400-500
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1945 2/- (edition 27-45), all panes watermark inverted, some trimmed perfs., the second 1/2d. pane with small faults; fine appearance. S.G. SB5, £2,000. Photo £400-500
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1946 2/- (edition 28-46), all panes watermark upright, both 1/2d. panes with perfs. a little trimmed; fine. S.G. SB6, £1,300. Photo £400-500
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1946-47 2/- (edition 29-46), 1/2d. panes watermark sideways, 1d. pane watermark inverted, good perfs., fine. S.G. SB 7, £650 £150-200
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1946-47 2/- (edition 30-47), 1d. and 2d. panes watermark upright, 1/2d. panes with trimmed perfs., fine. S.G. SB7, £650 £150-200
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1948-50 2/6d. (edition 31-48), 1d. and 2 1/2d. panes watermark upright, the second 1d. pane with perfs. slightly trimmed; fine. S.G. SB8, £300 £100-120
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1948-50 2/6d. (edition 33-50) (2), 1951-53 2/6d. (editions 34-51 and 36-53), 1954 4/- (edition 37-54), 1958-61 4/- (edition 39-58), 1962 3/- (edition 43-62), 1966 2/6d. (2), 5/-; chiefly fine. S.G. SB 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, £1,143 £200-250
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1923 5d. deep olive-green registered postal stationery envelope, size G, control B.R., without check letter, dated 25 Sept. 1923, from Wicklow to Liverpool, fine and rare. Photo £300-350
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Collection of covers and pieces housed in eleven albums or folders and loose contained in a carton, many hundreds, including 1952-94 first day covers (260+), cancellations, etc., mixed condition £100-150
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Selection housed in two albums, stockbook and loose contained in a carton, thousands, including overprints on Great Britain with 1922 Dollard 1/2d. to 10d., 1922 Thom 1/2d. to 1/-, 1922-23 2/6d. to 10/-, 1922-34 with values to 1/-, covers and first day covers, air mails, censored, etc., mixed condition £150-200
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Selection in green stockbook, hundreds, including 1922-34 1d. watermark inverted mint block of six, perf. 15 x imperf. used pair and strip of three, 1940-68 1 1/2d. watermark inverted block of six (2), 1d. and 2d. gutter blocks of four, exploded booklets with
1951-53 2/6d., 1954 4/-, 1956 4/-, 1958-61 4/-, etc., chiefly fine £150-200
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1489-1843 outstanding collection of official mail of the Papal States, comprising 114 entires all featuring wafer seals, mounted and written-up on exhibition pages, including about ten very scarce items from the 15th Century. The collection is accompanied by
22 engravings displaying different Popes and more than 80 Cardinal engravings.
Most unusual. Viewing recommended £1,200-1,500
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1540-1840 outstanding assembly comprising hundreds of letters contained in two cartons, including a considerable number of items from the 16th Century (this period is scarce), featuring mail from Cardinals, wafer seals, disinfection slits, and postal markings in the late period, also incoming mail including one interesting letter in Armenian to Venice dated 1691. An interesting and most unusual lot with vieiwng highly recommended £2,500-3,000
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x 1852-70 mint and used collection arranged on album leaves including 1852-64 selection to 1sc. used with bisectes on piece (3), pairs and strips to 8b., 1867 to 80c., 1868-70 to 8c. Condition very mixed with some fine. (hundreds) £700-800
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† 1862 10c. bistre from the foot of the sheet, imperforate between stamp and margin and showing marginal rule, Bari cancellation, good colour and sharp embossing, short perf. at right, otherwise fine and scarce. R.P.S. Certificate (1982), Sassone 1l, €5,750. Photo £250-300
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1877-1903 mostly unused selection (41) including post cards, reply paid cards, letter cards, official cards, a later card, also San Marino (8) with 1890 20c. letter card and Vatican (2); chiefly fine £120-150
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1919 20c. on 20c. orange complete sheet of 200 with large margins all round displaying its corresponding imprints, variety overpint shifted to right, unmounted mint; some perforations opened between both panes at top not affecting adhesives. Sassone 5ufg, €28,000 £600-750
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1893-1949 collection (250) with a few better values as well as covers (22) including an interesting early usage (1905) from Kerenm, military mail and British occupation £150-200
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1825 (Aug.) entire letter from Montego Bay to Scotland, rated "paid 1/3" (deleted) and "2/6" and showing, on reverse across join, superb "montego bay" (T4a), Kingston K2 c.d.s. (5.8) and two Scottish datestamps (24.9 and 25.9), and 1828 (30 Aug.) entire letter to Ireland showing, on reverse, "goshen/ja" handstamp (T3, crossed by tear on opening), Kingston fleuron datestamp and arrival diamond datestamp £100-120
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x 1833 (1 May) entire Wetmore letter from Guayaquil to New York, carried privately
to Jamaica and bearing, on the reverse, a good strike of circular "commercial/buildings/kingston/jamaica" 29mm forwarding agent's cachet on the flap with manuscript "Alsop & Co letter to Messrs Wetmore", manuscript "6" in red ink on the address side, no other postal markings. A fine cover bearing this scarce marking and opens well for display £100-120
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1860 1/- dull brown imperforate plate proof with good to large margins and part original gum; small mark at top. Also Tobago 1885 4d. grey imperforate plate proof (thinned and a corner crease) £50-60
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x A mint collection on stock leaves which includes a few early issues, 1883-97 CA values to 5/- (2), 1889-1901 1d. (8) and 2 1/2d. (4), 1905-11 5/-, 1921-29 Script values to 10/- (4), 1938-52 set to £1 perforated "specimen" and mint, plus Q.E. sets (3) to £1.
The earlier Q.V. with some gum disturbances, later mostly unmounted mint £250-300
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A miscellaneous collection of cancellations on a range of values, 123 items with some on pieces and including numerals, maritime, railways, telegraphs, temporary, travelling post offices, etc. An interesting group £150-180
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x A collection of mint issues in two stockbooks, earlier issues with 1888-92 1y., New Koban set of ten overprinted Specimen with additional values to 50s. and 1y., 1899-1908 1y., 1914 Tazawa to 1y. (2), and 5y., 1919 Peace, Air overprint on 3s., 1921 Post Anniversary 10s., Return of Crown Prince set in blocks of four, 1923 imperf. definitives to 20s., 1924-35 5y. and 10y., 1925 Silver Wedding set in blocks of four, 1936 Occupation of Kwantung set (2), 1946-47 50y. and 100y., 1948-52 watermarked 100y. and no watermark 30y. and 500y., 1949 Postal Week (2), 1949-52 Portraits set, 1952-68 500y. in a corner block of four, a good range of commemorative sets to 1995. A valuable lot, generally lightly mounted or unmounted mint £1,600-2,000
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1883-1970 (c.) mint and used collection arranged in twenty-nine assorted volumes, loose pages and loose, contained in two cartons, including mint a selection of National Parks miniature sheets, 1960's/70s mint sheets (several hundred), a quantity of modern first day covers. Generally good to fine. (thousands) £300-400
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x A mint collection on stock leaves which includes some B.E.A. 1895-96 values to 2r., 1897-1902 50r. overprinted "specimen"; 1903-04 set to 5r. plus 20r. and 50r. (2) overprinted "specimen", 1904-07 set to 5r. in plate number singles (top values being corner examples, several showing the sheet number), 20r. grey and stone, 1912-21 with 20r. and 50r. plus 100r. overprinted "specimen", 1921-22 script 2r., 3r. and 5r.,
1922-27 values to £1 (2) plus overprinted "specimen" with values to £3, £4 and £10, 1935-37 values to £1 (2), 1938-54 with some perf. variations with values to 10/- (4) and £1 (3) plus £1 block of four, 1946 Victory perforated Specimen and Q.E. set to top values. A very fine and attractive lot, either lightly mounted or unmounted (most) mint £2,000-2,500
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1904-07 1/2a. to 4a., 8a. to 10r., part original gum, 1r. a little stained, otherwise good to fine. S.G. 17-20, 22-23, 25-31, £770 £100-150
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1912-21 500r. green and red on green, overprinted "specimen", fine and fresh mint.
S.G. 63s, £1,100. Photo £400-500
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1919 4c. on 6c. scarlet sheet of 120 (two panes of sixty), also St. Helena 1919 War Tax 1d. + 1d. black and carmine-red sheet of sixty; unmounted mint, some wrinkles or creases £50-60
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£1, £5 and £50 with Law Courts cancellations, £4 with red embossed revenue cancellation; £5 and £50 a little stained. S.G. 95, 98, 99, 103, £1,065 £200-250
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£2 green and purple and £3 purple and yellow, both overprinted "specimen", large part original gum; fine. S.G. 96s, 97s, £400 £150-200
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x £2 green and purple, an upper right corner margin single showing part of the plate number, lightly mounted in the top margin only; some light gum toning which is usually associated with this issue. A fine stamp of great visual appeal. S.G. 96, £1,000. Photo £300-400
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£4 black and magenta and £5 black and blue, both overprinted "specimen", large part original gum; some wrinkles, otherwise fine. S.G. 98s, 99s, £900. Photo £400-450
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£10 black and green overprinted "specimen", fine mint. S.G. 100s, £700. Photo £350-400
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£20 red and green overprinted "specimen", large part original gum; a trifle stained.
S.G. 101s, £800. Photo £200-250
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£25 black and red overprinted "specimen", fine mint. S.G. 102s, £1,200. Photo £600-700
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£75 purple and grey overprinted "specimen", large part original gum; fine. S.G. 104s, £3,000. Photo £1,200-1,500
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x £75 purple and grey overprinted "specimen", lightly mounted mint. A fresh and fine example of this very poplar stamp. S.G. 104s, £3,000. Photo £1,000-1,500
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£100 red and black overprinted "specimen", large part original gum, fine. Signed Bartels. S.G. 105s, £3,250. Photo £1,500-1,800
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1935-37 1c. to £1 perforated "specimen", large part original gum (a trifle toned).
S.G. 110s-123s, £475 £150-200
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