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1924 KGV ½d - 1/- Block Cypher issue with Specimen or Cancelled overprints, comprising Specimen type 23 on ½d, 1½d, 2d, 5d, 9d green, imperf 1d, 10d, 1/-, type 30 on ½d, 1½d, Cancelled type 28 on ½d, 1d, 1½d, type 33 on 1d, all fine mint, some unmounted, some types scarce. S.G. £1,650. (14). Photo on Page 149. £450-550
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KGV-QEII Mainly used collection in a stockbook with specialised shades, Downey Head no cross on crown varieties, inverted and sideways watermarks, etc. (100s). £300-400
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1937-47 3d - 1/- Overprinted "SPECIMEN" (13x2mm), no gum and some with a little paper adhering as though removed from an archive page, the 4d - 6d and 10d stamps with some soiling, the 7d - 1/- all with corner creases or wrinkles. This specimen handstamp is unrecorded by Samuel or S.G. and the status of these stamps is therefore unknown, though they have the appearance of genuine specimen stamps removed from an archive, offered "as-is". (10). Photo on Page 149. £400-500
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1951 Festival of Britain 2/6 - £1 overprinted "SPECIMEN" (13x2mm), no gum and a little paper adhering to the reverse, 2/6 and 10/- with small corner creases, the specimen overprint unrecorded and their status unknown, though they have the appearance of genuine specimen stamps removed from an archive. An interesting set, offered "as-is". (4). Photo on Page 149. £300-400
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1951 (May 3) Festival of Britain 2/6 - £1 on separate illustrated First Day Covers, each cancelled by a neat oval Southampton Registered datestamp. (4). £300-400
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KGVI and QEII Issues mint, presentation packs and F.D.Cs, many minor listed varieties, also some Commonwealth, 1953 Coronation omnibus, two older albums of world and some earlier G.B. A huge accumulation in 18 albums. £300-400
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1952-99 Mint definitives, commemoratives and postage dues in three Lighthouse albums, virtually complete with 1958 De La Rue 2/6 - £1, inverted and sideways watermarks, all phosphor issues, much decimal face value, specialised machins, mostly superb unmounted, a good lot. £800-1,000
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QEII F.D.Cs and souvenir covers (60), some signed including 1967 Gypsy Moth 1/9 with special Plymouth c.d.s signed by Francis Chichester, others signed by the designers including David Gentleman (2) and Arnold Machin, also various KGVI and QEII predecimal stamps mint. £100-150
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QEII Mint in a stockbook, mainly decimal postage, also booklets including £6 deluxe booklets (6), 1981 Collectors Pack, a few presentation packs, etc. £80-100
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Officials. 1901 (July 3) General Order from the Inland Revenue advising that I.R Official and Govt. Parcels overprints of the lilac and green issue, also the 1882 I.R 6d grey and 1883 Govt. Parcels 1/- orange-brown, have all been demonetised and are no longer available for use, and remaining examples should be returned to Somerset House. An unusual printed order relating to official stamps, with manuscript "Copy for Stanley Gibbons, No. 130". £300-350
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1950-78 Booklets with Dec. 1950 KGVI 5/- booklet (BD28 (49)), QEII predecimal booklets comprising 3/- Dec. 1962 (M53), 5/- May 1965 (H73), 6/- January 1968 (2, QP32), and decimal booklets including 1972 £1 Wedgwood (3, DX1, all with fine ½p side band stamp) and the scarce 70p booklets with selvedge at left showing Thatching or Dry-Stone Walling on the cover, (FD3A, FD4A, £250 each), all fine. S.G. £1,135. (11). £250-300
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Booklets. 1974-92 Decimal booklets in two albums, some with cylinder numbers, including 13 prestige booklets. Also a WW1 1/- booklet containing 24 ½d War Seals intended to benefit disabled servicemen. (194). £120-150
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Channel Islands/Isle of Man. c.1969-2012 Mint stamps, presentation packs and F.D.Cs of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Isle of Man, a large quantity in a box. (Many 100s). £150-200
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Isle of Man. 1974 Sir Winston Churchill Centenary miniature sheet in an uncut se-tenant pair with marginal guidelines on three sides, unusual and very scarce. £120-150
| PICTURE POSTCARDS & EPHEMERA | (Also see lots 142-151, 572, 775, 807, 1085)
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c.1895-1920 Cards, a carefully selected group including real photo cards of Lorraines biplane at Alum Bay in 1910, train crashes at Etchingham and Colchester, a ship wreck at Lowestoft, a fire at Aldershot, motor racing on Saltburn beach, the River Fowey at Polruan with many yachts, Zeppelin wreck at Cuffley, etc., royalty, early court size cards, shipping with "Titanic" memorial card and a superb poster type card for the Newhaven to Dieppe service, also a few foreign cards including Paris floods (5) and the Messina earthquake. (46). Photo on Page 146. £100-150
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1902-10 Picture postcards, all used with KEVII stamps. (Approx 1,200). £100-150
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A large quantity of mainly early nineteenth century ephemera, also a few earlier and later items, with many partly printed invoices and letterheads, most of which relate to London or Devon. Also 1867 £5 share certificate in The Rhyl Winter Gardens, Aquarium, Land & Building Co. Ltd; illustrated signed letter from Tom Sansom, composer, song writer and singing comedian; auction notices; auction catalogues for a stock of manufactured furs and Astrakhan skins (2); coaching inn bills, etc. (Approx 120). £120-150
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c.1750-1822 Entire letters with distinctive type town handstamps including "B / ris / tol" or "B / RIS / TOL" (BS 12, 18), 1757 circular framed "BIR / MING / HAM" (BM 35, poor but recognisable and very scarce), 1799 "UNDER / LINE / NEWCASTLE" (ST 419), 1822 dotted Bristol c.d.s (BS 83) and various Stockport marks (CH 736, 742, 744, 746, 761). (10). £220-260
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1769-1840 Entire letters with various town datestamps including tiny 1784 "RUGBY", very large 1788 "HAY", scarce 1769 concave "WHITCHURCH", circular "WEM" without bars, circular "WOODSIDE" with fleuron erased, boxed "Stoney Cross" with penny post erased, red boxed "SUNNY HILL", oval framed "ANCOATS / MANCHR", etc., one 1787 entire letter from Salisbury to London with superb "FEBY 22/B" experimental datestamp (Jay 4b), all selected for their quality or unusual type. (32). £250-300
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1776-1862 Entire letters and covers with 1776 entire letter from Lisbon concerning lemons carried on the "Farmer", sent with the goods, endorsed "By the Farmer, Capt Wishart, Q.D.C" and handstamped "DOVER / SHIP LRE"; 1839 Free entire letter signed by William Ley but the enclosed letter from G. Chair; 1846 entire letter from USA to France carried on the penultimate voyage of the S.S "Great Britain" to Liverpool; 1862 letter from Lord Frederick Cavendish (murdered in Phoenix Park in 1882), etc., also an 1844 front signed by Lord Lonsdale. (6). £150-180
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1788-1831 Entire letters (42) and a front with mileage marks (39) or mileage removed types (4), including distinctive 1794 curved "NOTTINGHAM / 127", first type mileage marks of Bangor, Oxford and Worcester, boxed "LEEK / 150" (front) or "LEEK /154", Coventry fleuron type, 1829 Sheffield datestamp with mileage replace by three dots, etc. (43). £200-250
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1824-45 Entire letters with fleuron datestamps of "DAVENHAM", "WOORE", "BILSTON", "LEAMINGTON" and "POLPERRO", the first two a little overinked, otherwise generally fine. (5). £150-200
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Mainly prestamp and QV stamped covers and entire letters including surface printed issues on cover, "Postage Not Paid to London" (2 types), 1847 entire letter with printed heading of the Halstead Union, 1896 wrapper showing the Irish Linen Warehouse of Robinson & Cleaver used with red Belfast Paid c.d.s, etc. (100+). £180-220
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QV-QEII Covers and cards including 1884 1d lilac bisect on cover to Germany, 1878 front franked 6d grey pair + 3d + nine 1d reds to pay a 2/- rate to Germany, 1887 boxed "Late Fee / Paid" of Belfast, unused 2d Mulready envelope stereo a199, 1922 2d + 3d registration envelope used in Belfast, other postal stationery, perfins (36, nearly all identified by senders details), advertising envelopes, T.P.Os, 1891 ½d postcard to Russia franked by a ½d wrapper cut-out, 1927 U.S Sea P.O S.S Leviathan machine on G.B 1½d with violet "PAQUEBOT", 1942 Germany cover to a P.O.W on the Isle of Man with oval "HEADQUARTERS, POST OFFICE / INTERN. CAMPS, DOUGLAS, I.O.M.", etc. (81). £300-400
| Air Mails - See lots 35, 47-55, 80, 126, 140-194, 208, 217, 247 | Early Letters(Also see lots 469, 1148-1152, 1291-1304, 1633)
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1440 (Sep 25) Receipt on vellum signed by Richard Curson, Captain of Honfleur, acknowledging a payment from Pierre Baille, Receiver-General of Normandy, of 1221.7.11 Tournois for himself, 8 footmen and 30 archers. Honfleur had been Henry V's invasion port in 1415 but was lost to the French in 1435; it was recaptured by the Earl of Dorset in October 1440 after a six month siege, one of the last notable English victories of the Hundred Years War. This document was written just a few weeks before the end of the siege and the surrender of the town to the English. A remarkable document from the Hundred Years War. Photo on Page 153. £1,800-2,200
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1585 (Oct 20) Entire letter from Gianfilippo Dorco in Antwerp to Bartolomeo Corsini in London, endorsed "Pqa", with a "3½d" charge mark of the Merchant Strangers Post. Also a coloured 1603 Ortelius map of Flanders. A fine letter with a postal charge. Photo on Page 153. £240-280
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1586 (May 10) Entire letter from Giulio Nessi in Lisbon to Bartolomeo Corsini in London, written in Italian with an accompanying translation. The letter starts "Magnificent and honourable Sirs, by the chief letter-carrier at length this letter is written", and includes news of the arrival of the ship Balanizera with 22 pieces of baize and two cloths from Kent. Also a coloured 1603 Ortelius map of Portugal. A fine letter. £160-200
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1590 (Dec 5) Entire letter from Alessandro Roche in Hamburg addressed to Bartolomeo Corsini in London, endorsed "Pqa L". Written in Italian, with an accompanying translation; it lists the details of nine ships and their Captains bound for Livorno and requests help if any are arrested "by the ships of that most serene Queen" (Elizabeth I). Also a coloured 1603 Ortelius map of Germany. A fine letter. £180-240
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1591 (Oct 8) Entire letter from Bartolomeo Corsini & Co. in London to Stefano Patti in Venice, written in Italian, with an accompanying translation. The interesting letter includes "Your galleon with muscat wines should by now have left Candia ..... as for providing a return cargo for your galleon we cannot promise you anything because no grain can be exported. We have not even the hope of getting a license, because Her Majesty has lately had a very strict proclamation published, by which none can be had from her Kingdom.... 140 barrels of caviar are available for export.". A fine letter from London, one of just eleven letters in the Corsini correspondence sent by Corsini from London to his cousin in Venice. £300-350
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1594 (Sep 10/24) Entire letter from Bartolomeo Corsini & Co. in London to Stefano Patti in Venice, written in Italian, with an accompanying translation; the letter refers to a shipment of wines. Also a coloured 1609 Bertius map of Venice. A fine and scarce letter from London, one of just eleven letters in the Corsini correspondence sent by Corsini from London to his cousin in Venice. Photo on Page 153. £300-350
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1599 (Aug 21) Entire letter from Redde di Filippo Luchini in Cologne to Bartolomeo Corsini in London, written in Italian, with an accompanying translation. The letter concerns the bankrupt Gian Francesco Poepe with details from Bartolotti of Middelburg. Also a coloured 1618 Bertius map of the Cologne area. A fine letter. £150-180
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Ireland. 1619 (April 1) Entire letter from Lismore addressed "To my worthy Unckle Christopher Brown at Detford", written by Sir William Fenton. He talks of "my cosine speedy jorny toward Dublin and mine towards Corck". A fine and scarce early Irish letter. £240-280
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1639 (Dec 27) Entire letter from Johann Staden in London to Juan van de Bequen in Antwerp, with a "2s" postal charge. Written in Dutch, with an accompanying translation; Staden encloses another letter, and asks if it can be forwarded to Madrid. A fine letter from London sent via Dover. Also a 1627 Van den Keere map of Kent. £150-200
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1855-62 Advertising pages for D.G Berri, die sinker, stamp and seal engraver, both showing examples of Post Office handstamps which he has produced. The first sheet with seven handstamps illustrated including oval "AMERICA" datestamp; "16 CENTS" accountancy mark and a "REGISTERED" handstamp with crown above; the second with twenty handstamps including octagonal "LONDON / MB" datestamp, "(crown) / REGISTERED", circular "(crown) / REGISTERED / LETTER / OFFICE / LIVERPOOL" and "POSTED OUT / OF COURSE / AT G.P.O", "LIVERPOOL / COL. PACKET" c.d.s, "G.B / 1f80c" and "38 / CENTS" accountancy marks, "DEFICIENT POSTAGE 3d / FINE 6d / 9d", boxed "LON. & HOLYHEAD R.P.O / IRISH-DAY-MAIL", etc. Folds, otherwise fine, two highly unusual pages that display well. (2). Photo on Page 243. £580-650
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Liverpool. 1856 (Mar 26) Piece with a 1d red 'stars' tied by the Liverpool experimental datestamp with code "RI" below the date, the town name and the three arcs at the base entirely composed of dots, one strike virtually complete with small portions of two further strikes. A rare cancel, only known used as a cancellation for a few days at the end of March 1856. Photo on Page 145. £170-200
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Liverpool. 1856 (Mar 28) Entire letter to London with a 1d red tied by the same experimental datestamp, arrival backstamp, a rare cancel. Photo on Page 153. £400-500
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1866 Cover (with enclosed letter) from Canonbie to Langholm with a 1d red plate 83 tied by two crossed strikes of a "1" charge mark in black, despatch and arrival backstamps. Horizontal fold clear of the stamp, otherwise a superb example of this scarce and unusual cancel of Canonbie. Photo on Page 153. £200-250
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Squared Circles. 1880-1910 Covers and cards all with squared circle cancels, mainly differing cancels with little duplication, most very fine. (100). £100-120
| Maltese Crosses | (Also see lots 874-879, 916, 1011, 1438)
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1843 Entire to Scotland bearing an 1841 2d blue with four margins, close at lower left corner, tied by a fine number 6 in Maltese Cross. S.G. £2,250. Photo on Page 153. £450-550
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1844 Entire to Ayr bearing a 1d red (four margins, pressed vertical file fold at right) tied by a fine strike of the Kilmarnock distinctive Maltese Cross, a second partial strike alongside, backstamped at Kilmarnock and Ayr. Central vertical file fold, otherwise fine. S.G. £5,500. Photo on Page 153. £1,300-1,500
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Birmingham. 1861 Cover to Stafford bearing six 1d reds all cancelled by the "75" roller cancel, fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 155. £200-250
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Liverpool/Manchester. 1867 5/- Rose plate 1 cancelled by the "466" roller of Liverpool, and a 1d red stars cancelled by "498" roller of Manchester, also a c.1950 piece with a proof impression of the "498" roller in violet, two rare cancels. (3). £80-100
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Liverpool. Stamps cancelled by the three differing types of Liverpool "466" rollers comprising horizontal numeral on a 2d blue pair or in blue on 1873 1/-; horizontal numeral with boxed "466" on 24 stamps including 1d red strip of three, 1867-80 3d (2), 6d, 9d straw, 1/- plate 5 (10, with a block of six), 2/- deep blue and 5/- rose plate 1 (6, with a strip of three); and vertical numeral with "L" above on 5/- rose plate 1 (2). A scarce group, the last type very rare. (S.G. £6,775 as stamps). (29). Photo on Page 149. £2,000-2,400
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London Newspaper Branch. 1871 Long Book Post cover with 1870 ½d and 2d blue cancelled by "N.P.B. / 1" roller, folded to fit onto an album page, otherwise fine and very scarce, only one other cover believed to have been recorded with this roller cancel of the London Newspaper Branch. £120-140
| Exhibitions & Special Events | (Also see lots 156, 171, 1027, 1330-1332)
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1906 (Nov 16) Picture postcard with KEVII ½d tied by "TRADES EXHIBITION / PLYMOUTH" c.d.s, four days earlier than recorded by Pearson in "Special Event Postmarks of the UK". £100-120
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1924 Long stampless cover with red "EMPIRE EXHIBITION WEMBLEY PARK GT. BRITAIN / 26 NO 1924 / PAID ½D / 1" c.d.s used on bulk postings, vertical fold at left, otherwise fine; and a postcard with two B.E.E 1d stamps, one stamp cancelled by four impressions of the exhibition machine with a further inverted machine below, the other stamp then cancelled by two strikes of the c.d.s. (2). £120-150
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1929 PUC Congress, mint corner block of nine registration labels, numbered 71-73, 81-83, 91-93, each inscribed "London / Postal Union Congress", some split perfs, very unusual. Photo on Page 155. £200-250
| Express Mail | (Also see lots 135, 185, 208, 329, 330, 1140)
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1891 (Aug 1) Cover with "Post Office" embossed flap sent from London to Harrow-on-the-Hill, endorsed "per Express Post" by the sender, franked 3d and bearing a red "POST OFFICE / EXPRESS" label, inscribed "Posted at 1.30 p.m., Received at 3.55 p.m". The initial express service began in 1891 and operated within London only with letters being carried entirely by express messenger; on August 1st the service was extended to the provinces with mail being carried by post to the nearest office to the destination and then being delivered by express messenger. A remarkable first day cover of this second express service, probably sent by the Post Office to test the new service. Part flap missing and two small pieces torn from the upper edge upon opening, but probably a unique first day of service cover, backstamped at Harrow. Photo on Page 155. £150-200
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1916-18 Express covers from London to Switzerland franked 5½d (11) or 6d (2), seven with stamps perfined "WM" (William Malcolm & Co), twelve with red Post Office Express labels (various types), eight with oval "EXPRESS" cachets, all censored, one with the censors number in manuscript. (13). £150-180
| Maritime Mail | (Also see lots 514-516, 611, 802, 844, 1227-1290, 1333-1429)
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1905-15 Covers and cards comprising 1905 postcard of R.M.S "Ophir" franked G.B 1d with violet "PAQUEBOT" of Newcastle on Tyne; 1909 picture postcard of the "La Marguerite" addressed to France with G.B 1d cancelled at Menai Bridge and violet "POSTED ON / "LA MARGUERITE""; 1915 card with France 10c tied by London 148 c.d.s; and 1915 cover with S.S "Demerara" cachet and G.B 1d tied by London F.S Krag machine with "PAQUEBOT" in one die and "PAID" in the other die, both with the date omitted. (4). £120-150
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