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1708 NO CHARGE a fine entire from London to Amsterdam with no charge marks. £40/£45
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1824 ENTIRE to Macclesfield boxed 'Altrincham PO' cachet on front, interesting message related to Macclesfield canal shares. £35/£40
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1826 ENTIRE to London appears to be written at Chorlton (Manchester) unusual 'Ardwick Manchr' oval cachet on reverse, alongside unframed Manchester cds, contains long message. £45/£50
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1830 ENTIRE to Ormskirk, Lancashire, written at Alconbury, Huntingdon unframed dumb cancel on reverse with 'Too Late' boxed cachet, oval 'Missent to Manchester' cachet on front. Neat item. £65/£75
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1831 ENTIRE posted 9.9.31 from Manchester to Rochdale 'Too Late/NP' (night post) cachet on front. £50/£60
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1840 MULREADY 1d wrapper Stereo A54 used locally with red MX and Dorchester cds couple of folds but fresh appearance. £100/£120
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1840 SOUTHWOLD PENNY POST (Suffolk) superb strike of this Italic MS on entire franked Penny Black tied red MC, address to Halesowen endorsed paid. A very early usage. £300/£320
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1841 April Bridgenorth cds on obverse of small env franked 4 margin 1d red tied crisp black MC. Early and attr. £40/£50
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1841 RAILWAY - Historically Important entire franked Penny Black written by William Turnbull whom had a vision of building a NATIONAL Railway extending up into Scotland. Extensive contents re Railways written at the stamp office in Pe
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1842 WALES - remarkable entire (articulate writing re taking a family to America) written at CROSS HANDS franked 1d imperf carried to Swansea (cds) with Too Late hs addr to Reverend (brother) in Aberystwyth. Fine. £60/£70
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1842 WOLVERHAMPTON Paid 1d handstamp on an entire to Birmingham with cds cancels both with the same dated. £30/£35
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1844 HULL SHIP LETTER Cachet in green (type Q) on very fine entire. £60/£65
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1845 HULL SHIP LETTER Cachet in black (type Q) on very fine entire together with agent cachets and Newcastle CDS on fine flint glass works printed entire to Copenhagen. £60/£65
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1852 UNUSUAL EMBOSSED ENVELOPE with ornamental frame, crown and the words 'free' with stamp mounted inside (like a picture frame - top right) with imperf 1d red tied Irish duplex and with Banagher and Carrickfergus backstamps. Superb.
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1856 IMPROVISED large format newswrapper franked 1d star tied 35 (London) duplex containing USEFUL EMPLOYMENTS newspaper with interesting jobs, label of jobs affixed to wrapper as advertising, inc Rats and Mice - how to paralyze them!
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1859 WRAPPER from Birmingham to Lisbon, franked 4d and 1s no corner letters, transit and arrival marks on reverse. £80/£100
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1871 SHREWSBURY two different printed newspaper wrappers in excellent intact condition each franked ½d midgets and each wit ha diff Shrewsbury cancel. Exceptional and attr pair. £80/£90
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1875 TO ORDER 1d penny pink envelope uprated with 4d impression cancelled CAMBRIDGE duplexes LOCALLY sent. Most unusual 5d rate. £50/£60
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1876 WRAPPER to Vera Cruz, Mexico franked 1d tied NPP (newspaper) dumb cancel, via Liverpool hs agent cachet. Exceptional pp rate to Mexico ex Lady Mairi Bury. £150/£180
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1891 JUBILEE ½d (vermilion) single franking on superb Ruhamah New Welsh Baptist Chapel, Bridgend illustrated letter sheet depicting the church and order of service canc Bridgend duplex. Exceptional. £50/£60
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1895 RAILWAY carried mail mourning cover endorsed special railway post franked 1d lilac together with South Eastern Railway 2d stamp both tied London hooded cds. Fold clear of stamps, attractive. £80/£85 {Photo}
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1908 ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY LONDON cachet on superb 1d regd env uprated with 1½d VFU to Holland. £30/£35
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1918 PRISONER OF WAR printed cover to USA from Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, 'Opened by Censor' label on reverse. £60/£70
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1931 FABULOUS John Knox engraved panel illustrated envelope with 1½d affixed both tied Haddington cds addr to USA (carried under cover) excellent religious item. £45/£50
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1933 PROVINCIAL West Country Airways 3d on a fine env with Provincial Airways Plymouth cds, 1951 Isle of Scilly to London with Lands End BEA air label, 1958 env with 'BEA' to Guernsey 11d label with plus 1d hand stamp. A fine group of
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1934 Rocket trials at Isle of Harris cover franked ½D tied CDS, special green rocket label, special DAMAGED BY EXPLOSION cachet, trial firing cancel etc. £80/£90
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1940/45 RED CROSS MESSAGE SCHEME an interesting lot of 15 covers from all over UK to Geneva, Switzerland with interesting stamp combinations (inc Edward 7th!), rates, registered, news wrapper. Very fine more unusual items here.
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1941 COVER from Germany to Rushen Camp, Isle of Man and women only camp, address crossed out, re-directed to an address in Halifax, 'Women's Internment Camp' cachet on reverse, German and GB censor labels. Interesting cover.
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1941 UNUSUAL wartime cover, many cachets whilst travelling to India inc typed labels FOUND OPEN OR DAMAGED/OFFICIALLY SECURED, similar cachet and many instructional handstamps inc 'No Trace'. £60/£65
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1840/60's YORKSHIRE INTEREST with better items 1851 single franking 1d Buxton to Doncaster, 1846 entire with 4 x 1d imperfs, 1845 entire sent to Wragg Razor Manufacturers Sheffield, A rare mis-sent to Sheffield blue boxed hs on 1
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1860 (circa) news wrapper (intact) used to Bombay, India franked single 2d (plate 9) tied 42 London duplex, endorsed via Southampton agent cachet, exceptional ex Lady Mairi Bury. £120/£140
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AEROGRAMMES with MAJOR ERROR Winston Churchill with missing dark blue leaving only Churchill's image. 120 aerogrammes unused with many modern pictorial air letters. £80/£100
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BRIDLINGTON YORKSHIRE - an extensive postal history collection written up in an album with many interesting items 1790 to 1907 period. 48 covers/cards, very good quality noting 1790 Brid/lington, circular type on solicitors lette
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DERBYSHIRE - binders with collection of chiefly earlier postcards and cancellation interest with Bakewell (40+ items) and Chesterfield (110+ items) neatly arranged. £75/£80
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FORCES OVERSEAS registered envelopes QEII inc 1/- uprated 1/6d uprated, 3/- uprated 15p uprated, 20p uprated, 75p uprated and £1 uprated with a variety of FPO cancels 10 covers. £70/£80
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FORCES OVERSEAS registered envelopes unused with values from 1/- to 2/- and 15p to £1 each different inc FRP 10 inc K2, scarce FRP 11 a fine collection stc £255+ (18 covers). £80/£90
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MIDLANDS - most interesting lot in homemade album of selected covers and postmark pieces arranged by towns with much early and many stamps with neat cancels, Stafford 1946 RAF Station reg cover, cds pmks from QV, Penny Pink envelo
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PRIVATE COMPANY ENVELOPES ½d KGV the Croydon Gas Works 1950 KGVI 2d Esso, 1959 Heinz, WD & HO Wills with Todays cigarette is a Bristol on the reverse, The Mining Engineering Co. Interesting lot of 38 envs. £40/£50
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PRIVATELY carried mail early 17th century entire to Lothbury in London, 1732 entire from Lord Essex in Turin to a relative about his servants being starved on the ship over to Italy. 1975 Colmbo two endorsed covers by bag diploma
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Queen Victoria 1840 2d Blue on entire 4 margins close at top right, imperf Penny Reds with MC cancels (4) imperfs Reds with Scottish cancels (3) with a variety of marks on their reverse, an interesting group of 17 covers.
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RAILWAY POSTAL HISTORY the Edinburgh/Scotland sorting tenders of QV to 1950's. Extensive postal history study detailed on pages in album over 70 dine items supplemented with maps, postcards of stations, photos etc fine covers wit
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REGISTERED ENVELOPES early QV RP3 to RP5 with different size RP3 size F, G, RP4 size F, G, RP5 size H, very fine for age unused. £120/£150
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REGISTERED ENVELOPES Edward a good selection inc RP24 unused and used size F, RP25 unused, RP26 size F unused and used, third size G uprated. 7 covers. £25/£30
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REGISTERED ENVELOPES KGV a good range of 14 inc 4 with dual values, 2d + 2d, 3d + 1d, 3½d + ½d and 4d + 1d with different values and types, interesting group. £120/£140
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REGISTERED ENVELOPES of KGVI FRP 3 both with FPO regd labels, FRP 7, 8 and FRP 9 uprated with QEII 2½d (2) stc £205. £60/£70
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REGISTERED KGVI envelopes a good range of 18 covers inc RP53, RP63 size H, RP66 size G, RP72 size G, stc £150 fine used. £60/£70
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THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS OF WWI - a remarkable postal history study detailed on pages with series of letters written by a pilot inc observations of a colleague shot down by a Fokke Wolfe and camp life 175 page collection extensively
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Very unusual QEII covers/cards still in the batches with seal labels reg'd env. 12 size "G" 43/-, 10 envelopes 4d size "B" 4/4d, 10 single post cards 3d 3/-, read env. Size "F" 2/1d 12 at 26/6d, nine batches. £50/£60
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WALES - fascinating old collection in an album with covers, cards and postmark items with much if an earlier nature (200+ items) arranged by towns with early cds pmks, 1867 1d on entire wit h58 duplex of Beaumaris, postcards with
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WEST BROMWICH 'Paid One Penny' handstamp on entires 1845 to Tewkesbury and 1846 to Stourbridge. £40/£50
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