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1870-1900 Mint or unused QV issues on pages including 1870 1/2d (7) and 1 1/2d (23, one with Specimen overprint), 1873 3d plate 11, 1876-80 2 1/2d rosy mauve (3), 1880-83 2 1/2d blue plate 23, 3d on 3d plate 21, 4d grey-brown plate 18, 1/- orange-brown plate 14, 1880-81 1 1/2d venetian red and 2d pale rose, 1883-84 1/2d - 1/- set of nine, 1887-1900 Jubilee set (the £1 green with faults), some possibly regummed or without gum and a few faults, a useful lot with some fine and better stamps. (90). Photo on Page 157. £500-600
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1872 (Mar 16) Reverse page of "The Illustrated London News" posted from Thetford to Dereham franked 1/2d plate 9 (S.G. £850 as a stamp), a very unusual use of this scarce plate on a newspaper. £200-240
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1873 Entire from Manchester to Mexico bearing 1873 1/- plate 8 and 1867 2/- blue, French transit datestamps and a "4" charge mark of Mexico. Light horizontal file fold, the 2/- with a few upper perf faults, an attractive example of the 2/- on entire. £140-160
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1880 2/- Brown IE used with a London numeral cancel clear of the Queen's profile, wing margin at left, an attractive example of this uncommon stamp. S.G. 121, £4,200. Photo on Page 157. £400-500
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1880-1900 QV Unmounted mint issues including 1883 1/2d blue block of six and 2d lilac (2), 1889 1 1/2d, 2 1/2d, 4 1/2d and 9d block of four and 1900 1/- green and carmine block of four. S.G. £1,800+. (213). £150-180
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1882 £5 Orange, AI fine used with a Southampton c.d.s of 1st Jan. 1900. S.G. 137, £4,750. Photo on Page 159. £1,200-1,500
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1883 2/6 Lilac on blued paper, fine used with a light Liverpool Packet c.d.s. S.G. 175, £1,500. Photo on Page 159. £300-350
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1883 10/- Ultramarine on white paper fine mint. S.G. 183, £2,250. Photo on Page 159. £400-500
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1884 £1 Brown-lilac, watermark Imperial Crown, fine used with boxed G.P.O cancel and a Warrington c.d.s. S.G. 185, £2,800. Photo on Page 157. £500-600
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1888 £1 Brown-lilac, Orbs watermark error, ED used with two London numeral cancels. A good example of this scarce stamp. S.G. 186, £4,250. Photo on Page 157. £700-900
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1887 10d Dull purple and carmine pane of twenty, setting 2 with horizontal marginal lines (pane B), two small areas of paper adhering in the margin, otherwise superb unmounted mint. S.G. £1,900+. Photo on Page 162. £500-600
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1902-92 KEVII-QEII Mint and used collection in five albums, much mint decimal face. (100s). £150-250
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1902-13 KEVII Issues mint with most listed shades present, including 1902-10 De La Rue 2/6 (3), 5/- (2), 10/- (tiny thin) and £1 (2, one a little stained), 1911 Harrison 1/2d - 4d with 1/2d bright green, 1d aniline rose, 1911-13 Somerset House issue with 10d dull reddish purple and aniline pink, 2/6 (2), 5/- and 10/- (2), a useful collection, mainly fine S.G. £15,000 (approx). (88). Photo on Pages 157 & 159. £1,800-2,200
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1902-13 KEVII Issues mint, various shades and printings, comprising 1 1/2d (12), 2d (13), 2 1/2d (18), 3d (7), 4d orange (18), 4d green and brown (8), 5d (9), 6d (12), 7d (10), 9d (7), 10d (7) and 1/- (7), all fine, many unmounted. S.G. £4,200+. (128). £350-450
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1902-13 KEVII Issues, used collection with many shades including De La Rue 2/6 (5), 5/- (3), 10/-, Harrison issues, Somerset House 2/6 (5), 5/- (4), 10/- (3) and £1, mainly fine. S.G. £7,000+. (217). Photo on Page 157. £700-800
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1902-13 KEVII Issues used, an extensive duplicated accumulation in three stockbooks to the 5/- value, De La Rue, Harrison and Somerset House printings with many shades, also a few officials and mint stamps. (100s). £400-500
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1911 KEVII Harrison printing 1d aniline pink, a little off-centre, otherwise fine mint, with B.P.A Certificate (2015). S.G. 275, £750. Photo on Page 157. £160-200
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1911 Downey Head 3d small format half tone essay by Slater and Palmer in black on white proof paper with "SP/4" above, 52x58mm, very fine. S.G. £350. £100-120
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1911 1d Downey Head, imperforate plate proof block of four with upper margin, in carmine on unwatermarked chalk surfaced paper, fine unmounted mint. S.G. £1,120. Photo on Page 160. £300-350
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1911-36 KGV Definitives mint with Downey Heads including no cross on crown varieties (2), 1912-24 set with some shades, 1913 Multiple Cypher 1/2d and 1d, Seahorses comprising Waterlow 2/6 (2, both shades), 5/-, 10/- and £1 (stained), De La Rue 2/6 (4, all listed shades), 5/- (2, both shades), 10/- (2, faults), Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6 (4, all listed shades), 5/- and 10/-, 1934 re-engraved set of four, 1924-26 and 1934-36 sets with some shades, also Wembley and Silver Jubilee issues. Some faults, mainly to the Seahorse issues but still a useful lot with some better stamps. S.G. £12,000+. (128). Photo on Page 159. £1,000-1,200
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1911-36 KGV and KEVIII Used collection with Downey Heads including no cross on crown varieties, 1913 Multiple Cypher 1/2d and 1d, Seahorses with Waterlow 10/- indigo-blue (light c.d.s) and £1 green (c.d.s cancel, 1mm tear), De La Rue 2/6 - 10/- (two of each value), Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6 (5) and 5/-, all other definitive sets with shades, P.U.C £1, etc. S.G. £6,500 (approx). (310). Photo on Page 159. £700-900
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1912-26 Mackennal Heads mint with many control singles and blocks, 1920 perf 14 6d Q.20 control block of six, 2d coil pair and coil join strip, etc., all fine, many unmounted. (275). £200-250
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1912-2012 Mint collection in two albums, apparently complete from 1964 with all issues unmounted from 1976-2012, includes booklet panes, phosphors, self-adhesive stamps, Post and Go issues, postage dues, all very fine with much decimal face. S.G. £5,000 (approx). £500-600
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KGV-QEII Mint and used accumulation including KGV controls, 1958 De La Rue 2/6 - £1 mounted mint, 1958 Graphite line issue 3d mint with misplaced Graphite lines (two at left, a third in the margins, S.G. 592a, £550), pre-decimal booklets and booklet panes, 1 1/2d Graphite lines booklet pane of six (inverted watermark, mounted on one stamp), etc. £200-250
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1913 Waterlow 2/6 and 1918-19 Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6, 5/- and 10/- mint, all mounted. S.G. £1,260. (4). Photo on Page 159. £150-180
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1913 KGV Waterlow £1 Dull blue green, lightly mounted mint, a few slightly short perf tips at lower left, otherwise fine, well centred and attractive. S.G. 403, £3,500. Photo on Page 159. £500-600
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1924-2014 Mint Collection with commemorative issues largely complete and mostly unmounted in five albums, also London 2012 Olympics Team GB Gold Medal Winners stamp folder containing 62 booklets and three miniature sheets (5 albums + folder) £250-300
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1929 P.U.C Set of five on a piece cut from the Specimen ledger of the Goa Post Office, each stamp handstamped "Especimen" in black, applied in Lisbon to Specimen stamps received from the U.P.U for distribution to the Portuguese Colonies, the £1 value also with the red Bradbury, Wilkinson "SPECIMEN" overprint. A rare Specimen set. Photo on Page 160. £1,000-1,200
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1929 P.U.C 1/2d - £1 Set of five lightly mounted mint, the £1 well centred and very fine. S.G. 434/8, £765. (5). Photo on Page 159 £250-300
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1937 (June 9) Long cover from London to Pernambuco, flown by Lufthansa from Germany to Brazil, the 28/- rate paid by KGV 6d, re-engraved 2/6 and 5/- and P.U.C £1 (creased prior to use) each tied by violet London F.S Air Mail c.d.s, with a blue By Air Mail label, red Deutsche Luftpost cachet and an arrival backstamp (June 12). An attractive and unusual high air mail franking. Photo on Page 150. £450-550
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1934-36 Photogravure issue mint including control and cylinder blocks with 1/- Z36 cylinder 5 blocks of six or nine (3, two with bars below and at sides of Z36 control, S.G. £760), also booklet panes. (392). £200-240
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1952 Wilding 2 1/2d carmine unmounted mint block of twenty (2 x 10), margin at top showing part central arrow, all printing completely omitted from the central block of six (rows 4-6) and from the lower two thirds of the two stamps in row 3 with some loss of colour to the six stamps in rows 1, 2 and 7, a spectacular error. Photo on Page 162. £1,200-1,500
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1952-59 QEII Definitives mint with high values including 1955 Waterlow 2/6 (3), 5/-, 10/- (2) and £1 and 1959 De La Rue 2/6 (2) and 10/- (3), 1963 Bradbury Wilkinson sets with £1 (28), etc., many in blocks, some with plate numbers, all superb mint, most unmounted. S.G. £1,100+. £100-120
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1960-71 QEII Issues mint, a large accumulation in a box. £100-120
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1971-90 Decimal issues with commemoratives, definitives and regionals, virtually complete, all superb unmounted mint, in a Lighthouse album. £100-120
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1988 Proof impressions of a St. Edwards Crown in red, blue or red, gold and silver, embossed on paper. Framed (21x20mm), the reverse with an attached copy of a Buckingham Palace letter to Post Office H.Q granting permission to use the crown in the emblem of Royal Mail letters. The St. Edwards Crown was used in watermarks from 1955. An interesting item, that fits well onto an album page and would form a striking and interesting first page to any collection of QEII. £200-250
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c.1999-2012 Mint commemoratives (mostly six sets of each), definitives, miniature sheets, booklets and prestige booklets in three albums, very high face value. £500-600
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Postage Dues. 1914-71 Mint and used postage dues in a stockbook, the used issues complete, also 1951-52 and 1959-63 sets mint, and a few railway stamps, etc. S.G. £665. £100-120
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Postal Fiscals. Mint (21) and postally used (15) Inland Revenue, Receipt or Draft stamps including embossed 3d pink (S.G. F29) and 1/- vermilion (S.G. F52) both used, 6d reddish lilac mint (S.G. F17) or used (S.G. F11, watermark inverted), etc., a few faults but including some useful stamps. (37). £180-220
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Telegraph Stamps. Post Office telegraph stamps to the 10/- value, overprinted Specimen (8), mint (30) or used (73) including 1/- green block of eight used, 5/- and 10/- (creased) mint. Also Military Telegraphs overprints on Cape (3), private telegraph stamps (35), National Telephone Co. stamps (17 including used 1d block of six), etc., some faults. (123). £200-250
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Perfins. Official perfins comprising Board of Trade "Crown / B.T" on KEVII 1d tied to a 1904 postcard from the Board of Trade in London to Belgium, and on single QV or KEVII stamps (11); Stationery Office "S (crown) O" on KGV and KGVI stamps including covers (5, one unusually with perfined PUC 2 1/2d, sent to Switzerland); also various private perfins including shields, crowns, flowers, patterns, words, etc., three on cover. (9 covers + c.140 stamps). £180-220
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Isle of Man and Channel Islands, 1969-2010 Mint collection in six Lighthouse albums, virtually complete from 1970 with stamps to the £10 values. (100s). £200-240
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1853-73 Stampless entire letters or entires (one with a stamp removed) mostly from South America or the Caribbean, thirteen to France with Anglo-French Accountancy Marks, ten with British Post Office datestamps comprising double arc datestamps of Porto-Cabello, Islay (2), Panama, Vera-Cruz, Callao, Buenos Ayres or single ring c.d.s of Jacmel (2) or Buenos Ayres (2), also three G.B prestamp letters. (19). £110-140
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G.B Stamps used in Central or South America or the Caribbean including "C88" of Santiago on 1867 2/- blue (S.G. Z31, unpriced by S.G., small thin but rare), "C87" of St. Domingo on 1875 1/- plate 12, "A45" of Grange Hill, Jamaica tying 1856 6d to piece, "C63" of Tampico on 1868 4d plate 11, "C30" of Valparaiso (8) with 1873 Spray of Rose 6d plate 12 and 1877 4d sage-green plate 16, other cancels including "C56", "C58", "C60", "C81", "C82", "C83", "F69", etc., also 1875 Spray 6d plate 15 (perfs trimmed at right) with part Antofagasta boxed cancel in blue. S.G. £1,500 (approx) for 15 fine stamps, also 16 other stamps with faults. (31). Photo on Page 157. £350-450
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Argentina - Buenos Ayres. 1865-71 Issues cancelled "B32" comprising 1865 Emblems 1/- plate 4 and 1867-71 Spray of Rose 3d plate 5, 6d plate 9, 9d straw (2), 1/- plates 4 and 5, 2/- blue (a couple of pulled perfs), mainly fine. A good lot, the 1865 1/-, 1867 9d and 2/- all uncommon. S.G. Z6, 14, 20, 24, 25, 27, £1,145. (8). Photo on Page 157. £200-240
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Haiti. 1880 4d Brown plate 17, watermark Large Garter with "E.53" cancel of Port-au-Prince (S.G. Z46, £325) and watermark Imperial Crown pair with central "C59" cancel of Jacmel (S.G. Z13, £110), the Large Garter 4d scarce used abroad. S.G. £435. (2). Photo on Page 157. £110-130
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Porto Rico. 1867-75 Issues comprising Large Garter 4d plates 9 and 13, Spray of Rose 10d brown and 1/- plate 12 on piece all cancelled "C61" of San Juan, and Large Garter 4d plate 14 cancelled "F88" of Ponce, (S.G. Z69), all fine, the 10d an uncommon stamp. S.G. Z90, 102, 105, £490. (5). Photo on Page 157. £120-140
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Vigo. 1850 Entire to London with a good "VIGO" British P.O. double arc datestamp, charged 4/4. Two pressed file folds, otherwise fine. £80-100
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c.1800 Printed posters headed "BOLT-IN-TUN, Sussex Tavern & Family Hotel, Fleet Street, London, Royal Mails and Post Coaches", or "OLD BELL and BULL INNS and General Coach Offices, Holborn. The following safe and expeditious Post Coaches depart and arrive at the above Inns", both giving details of coaches, including departures for Birmingham, Brighton, Dover, Holyhead, Liverpool, Bath, Bristol, etc. Two fine and attractive posters. (2). £160-200
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Ephemera and letters collected for their content, including printed letterheads and bills, shipping notices, legal documents, newspapers with 1807 report of the capitulation of Copenhagen and 1820 reports of the death and funeral of King George III, 1824 letter from J. Sewell (Chief Justice of Lower Canada) talking of rebuilding Quebec and of showing a model of a steamboat wheel to Mr Brunel, etc. (54). £200-240
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