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Medicine Duty. 1823-1941 Issues with various manufacturers names, also unappropriated stamps including 1911 issue imperf proofs from the De La Rue archives (6) and 1904-16 1 1/2d mint pane of six stamps. (37). Photo on Page 125 in printed catalogue. £240-280
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Paper Duty. c.1821-61 Pieces of paper handstamped crowned "PAPER / CHARGE / MAKER / 23" (or similar, number "1390") or "CHARGE / MAKER / 27.12.60 / PAPER / DUTY", one with large part paper duty stamp (Barefoot 1c), very scarce. (3). £130-150
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Probate. 1858-1902 Issues including 1860 3d - £5 ultramarine and imperf 2/6 proof all overprinted "SPECIMEN", 1878 5/- - £6 in used pairs and singles perfined "crown / PROBATE", also a piece bearing 5/-, 10/-, £1 (3) and £5 (2), a fine lot. (48). Photo on Page 125 in printed catalogue. £160-200
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The remainder of the collection written up in an album, virtually all differing stamps, including Admiralty Court (11, with 1858 set of six overprinted "SPECIMEN"), Bankruptcy (62), Board of Agriculture 1889 set of six with additional £1 overprinted "SPECIMEN" (1d - 10/- with some colour loss), Civil Service (15, one "SPECIMEN"), Coffee 1882 1/2d (2) and 1d labels overprinted "SPECIMEN", Common Law Courts (17) with 1866 set of seven overprinted "SPECIMEN", Companies Winding Up (14), Contract Note (77), Copyhold & Commission (7, six "SPECIMEN"), District Audit (19), Estate Duty (9 + 1919 receipt), Excise Revenue (32, one on 1917 ticket), Foreign Service (17, five on piece with Kuwait cancels), General Duty (98, six 1882 "SPECIMEN"), Health & Pensions Insurance (20), Income Tax (14, one postally used on 1932 cover), Ireland (46, various), Judicature Fees (51), Land Commission set of six overprinted "SPECIMEN", Law Courts (16), Marine Policies (67), Match Tax unissued block of four, National Health Insurance (112), County Courts Northern Ireland (10), Patent (20, two on document), Playing Card wrappers (2), Police Courts (22, six "SPECIMEN"), Public Records (22, seven "SPECIMEN"), National Savings (27) with proofs or Specimens (14) and two 6d stamps on 1950 cover, Transfer Duty (42), Travel Permit (2, one on 1940 permit), Unemployment Insurance (23), etc. (c.1,000). £700-1,000
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Various typographed and embossed revenues in three stockbooks including mint Inland Revenue issues with 6d (18, S.G. type F10) and 1d stamps (50+, S.G. types F4, 8, 11, 12), also Consular Service, Customs, Mayors Court, etc, and documents (100+, mainly cheques, receipts or contract notes). A useful lot, some faults. (100s). £200-250
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Cypher Seals. Collection in two albums of the cypher seals applied over the ends of the tin strip used to apply embossed revenue stamps on paper to documents and therefore prevent stamps being unstapled and reused. Stamps include the very rare first type William III Cypher of c1701, both dies with Queen Anne Cypher (4, two on documents), and all later George I - George V types. A fine collection comprising single seals (45), pieces (160) and complete documents (14), a few seals unused including VR strip of four, some pieces bearing two cypher seals. (219). Photo on Page 125 in printed catalogue. £250-350
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Licences. 1804-1991 Collection of licences showing payment of taxes, a fine lot in an album with licences for armorial bearings (3), assessed taxes (3), Northern Ireland general licence, auctioneers (2), to brew for domestic use, to retail beer and tobacco, carriages (7), male servants (3), horse or mule (2), business licences allowing trade in gold & silver plate or as a paper maker, game duty or gamekeepers (5, with rare 1804 licence), guns (2), licence to kill game (4), dogs (5) and exemption from dog duty, race horses (2), motor cars (13), to keep petroleum (3), publicans licence to retail spirits (4), to deal in wines (also 1843 entire letter regarding such licences), sweet retailers, tobacco dealers (3), to keep a bull (2 + related forms), to produce milk, to dredge for oysters, wireless and T.V (3), citizens band radio, also 1862 registrars certificate. An interesting collection, some very scarce. (79+). £700-800
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1661 (May 8) "Act for Preventing of theft and rapine upon the northern borders of England", six pages, printed in 1662 by John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, a few small edge faults not affecting the printed text. The act allows J.Ps to raise a body of men, numbering up to thirty in Northumberland or twelve in Cumberland, to pursue and apprehend criminals and bring them to trial. £80-100
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Prince of Orange. 1688 (Nov 28) Four page printed pamphlet "The Prince of Orange. His Third Declaration, given at our Head Quarters at Sherburn Castle", an interesting piece of Protestant propaganda produced whilst the Prince of Orange was marching towards London and before King James fled to France. £100-120
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Newspapers. 1798-1842 Newspapers including "The London Gazette" and "The Morning Chronicle" all with newspaper stamps, mainly 1 1/2d value, various types. (16). £70-80
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Royalty. 1831 "Ceremonies to be observed at the Royal Coronation of King William the Fourth and Queen Adelaide", 18 pages, well rebound; and other Coronation tickets or ephemera including 1836 blue and white tickets for the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey named to The Miss Limonds or Colonel Sir James Limond (both tickets with vertical folds), 1902 KEVII Coronation ticket to the Royal Household Stand in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, etc. (7). £100-120
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Royalty - King George V Autographs. 1916-34 Documents appointing Henry Holman Gregory recorder of the City of Bath (1916), Bristol (1925) or London (1934) each with an embossed 10/- revenue stamp, each document signed "George R.I" by King George V. (3). £120-150
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1673-1705 Entire letters, mostly privately carried but three with Bishop Marks, many to noblemen including 1705 entire letter "For Mr John Stewart underkeeper of the Great Seal at Edinburgh", 1703 entire letter to "The Right Honorable the Earl of Cromarty Principall Secretarie of State for the Kingdome of Scotland to be found at his lodgings at Whitehall London England", etc., some possible interesting content with one 1673 letter apparently concerning books on witchcraft and ghosts. (17). £250-300
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1772-1894 Entire letters and covers, mainly prestamp items, postal marks include Bishop Marks, unusual stockport mileage marks (2 types), curved "MORETON / HAMPSTEAD" (2), 1796 entire letter to "Major Lee, 2 L.D, Weymouth Camp", 1845 entire with boxed "No. 1" handstamp with a 1d red then applied over this and cancelled at Wells, etc. (27). £120-150
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1840-45 Entire letters (3) and covers (2, one with enclosed letter) to Rev. Thomas Dick, the scientific writer and anti-slavery campaigner, at Broughty Ferry or London, and 1840 (Sep 19) entire letter bearing a four margin 1d black plate 4 written from Glasgow by Thomas Dick to his wife in Broughty Ferry, the contents describing an anti-slavery meeting which was disrupted by chartists until the police were called, the meetings of the British Association, news of an excursion of geologists to the Isle of Arran with the Duke of Hamilton, and seeing a lunar rainbow. (5). £400-500
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1842-73 Covers all with enclosed letters to P. Ainsley, including 1844 entire letter from Henley on Thames to Belgium with red boxed "Returned for / 1/6 Postage" and "Return'd / for Postage", reposted after postage was paid, 1843 cover with enclosed letter on notepaper with a fine engraved view of Bath, undated circles, wafer seals, etc., a few stamps missing and some faults. (c.140). £120-150
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1860 Stampless cover from London addressed to "Mr Henry P. Hope, Official Assignee, Leeds, Hope I must have back my house & furniture what you robbed humbuged and swindled me out of. H. Armstrong", charged 2d, despatch and arrival datestamps. Very unusual. £100-120
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1902-12 KEVII Covers and cards all addressed abroad including 1912 cover to Persia via Russia, registered mail, 1 1/2d on postcard to New Zealand, perfins, Harrison & Somerset House stamps, etc. (22). £140-160
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1936-42 Air Mail covers with enclosed letters to Bushire (4, 1936-39, backstamped at Basra and Bushire) or to India (15, 1941-42). (19). £100-120
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Freeling Letters. 1811-20 Letters to Francis Freeling, the first from John Foster asking for copies of time bills for mails from London to Holyhead sent via Shrewsbury or via Chester, and asking if any alterations have occurred since last looked at by the House of Commons committee, or whether any further information has occurred or anything suggests itself for consideration prior to reviving the committee; the second from Dr Leach at the British Museum enclosing a returned letter "the contents of which are in all probability not worth the postage and may perhaps be destined for the museum". (2). £100-120
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1919 (Oct 1) Stampless registered O.H.M.S cover to Coventry with London A.S registration label, boxed "MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS / OF WAR / 1 OCT 1919 / WHITEHALL PLACE" and large "BY AIR POST" with "Birmingham, Castle Bromwich" added in manuscript. Flown by the government emergency air service on the first day of the six day railway strike. Private letters were flown between six cities for an additional charge of 2/- per oz but the service also carried official mail, very little of which was kept; we have recorded fewer than six flown official stampless letters of which this is the only registered example. Very scarce. Photo on Page 123 in printed catalogue. £600-650
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1911 (Sep 11) Brown London to Windsor postcard used with KGV 1/2d tied by London code "2" c.d.s, the card with advert for Arding & Hobbs, the reverse depicting their Clapham Junction store. A good example of this scarce and attractive advert. Photo on Page 123 in printed catalogue. £100-120
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1911 (Sep 16) Dark brown emergency printing London to Windsor envelope unusually flown in the opposite direction from Windsor to London, KGV 1d tied superb code "2" Windsor c.d.s. Minor edge tones and flap missing but very scarce, just 408 envelopes were posted by the public at Windsor, very few of which were from the emergency printing intended for use from London. Photo on Page 123 in printed catalogue. £140-160
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1911 (Sep 16) Brown London to Windsor card with printed message of thanks from the organising committee, unusually flown in the opposite direction from Windsor to London, KGV 1/2d tied superb code "2" Windsor c.d.s. Photo on Page 123 in printed catalogue. £150-180
| Cancellations
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Cancellations on stamps and pieces in a stock book and mounted in six books of lined writing paper, mainly numerals and duplexs but including 1867 1/- green plate 4 with red Calcutta c.d.s, scroll datestamps with London V.R (5) and Irish types, circular datestamps, squared circles, parcel cancels, NPB, T.P.Os, military, triangular, roller cancels, Paquebots, "Grenadier Steamer / 666" double ring c.d.s (2), rubbers, registered, "Landing Stage Liverpool", etc., also some covers with 1874 questionnaires on Westmoreland roads all bearing 1870 1/2d (29), 1948 registered cover with "Landing Stage B.O Liverpool 3" c.d.s, 1918 postcard to an Officer with No. 11 Chinese Labour Co. in France, 1831 entire letter from Hamburg to London disinfected at Stangate Creek with "SHIP LETTER / QUEENBOROUGH" handstamp, etc. (1,000s). £200-250
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1841 (Apr 27) 1d Pink envelope to Totnes cancelled by the distinctive Maltese Cross of Exeter, an Exeter double arc datestamp alongside, very fine and scarce. Rockoff & Jackson record just eight covers with this cancellation, used between April 1841 and January 1842. Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £180-220
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1842 1d Pink envelopes to the same address in Exeter, one cancelled by the "EXETER" double arc datestamp (Aug 6), the other cancelled by the "EXETER" skeleton datestamp (Feb 26). The Ron Hake Collection contained one other example of a 1d pink envelope cancelled with the skeleton datestamp, dated Feb. 17; described as one of just two recorded this one cover sold in that April 2016 auction for £950 + premium. An exceptional pair. (2). Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £750-900
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1842 1d Pink envelope to Surrey cancelled "TAUNTON / 31 MY 1842 / PY POST", backstamped in London. Also an 1841 1d red cover and 1849 1d pink envelope with Maltese Cross or numeral cancels and the same Taunton Penny Post datestamp on the front or reverse, small stain and the cancel a little smudged but a rare and possibly unique use of this Penny Post as a cancellation. (3). Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £250-300
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1843 Entire letters to Wymondham or Great Yarmouth with imperf 1d reds cancelled by the distinctive Maltese Cross of Norwich, both stamps cut into but the cancels very fine. S.G. £4,000 each. (2). £300-400
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Numbers in Maltese Crosses. The collection originally formed by R.C Alcock with scarce small numbers in central diamond comprising "1" on stamps (31, two on 1d blacks, one on 1841 2d blue) or entires with 1d reds (3) and small number "3" on entire, three other stamps apparently with small numeral "2" or "4"; the usual large numbers without central diamond comprising "1" on stamps (3, with a pair) and entires (2), "2" on stamps (2) and entire, "3" on stamps (6, with a pair) and entires (2), "4" on stamp and entire, "5" on stamp and entires (5), "6" on stamps (3) and entires (3), "7" on stamps (8, with a pair, one a 2d blue) and entires (2), "8" on stamps (2) and entires (3), "9" on stamp and entire, "10" on stamps (3), "11" on stamp and entires (2), "12" on stamps (3, with a pair), entires (2) and a front with two 2d blues, also a forgery of "11" on a 1d black, a few stamps with indistinct central marks and various research notes and photos. A superb lot, many of the 1d reds fine with four margins (68+ stamps + 28 covers + 1 front). Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £1,000-1,500
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Number in Maltese Cross. 1844 (Jan 24) Entire from London to Dublin bearing 1841 DK-DL marginal pair each tied by number "4" in Maltese Cross, DL crossed by heavy vertical fold and touched at lower right corner, DK very close at top and base. S.G. £2,250+. Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £150-180
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1844 1d Pink envelopes to Deptford, one cancelled by Maltese Cross with Bridport datestamp alongside, the other unusually cancelled by the "BRIDPORT" double arc datestamp, an unusual pair. (2). Photo on Page 130 in printed catalogue. £180-220
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London District Numerals. 1844-57 1d Pink envelopes, the first backstamped Kingston c.d.s and "Kensington / Penny Post" with black "38" cancel; the other to H.M.S "Queen" at Portsmouth with "New-Brentford" backstamp and blue "41" cancel. These low number District Office cancels were only used on mail addressed within the district or sent by Cross Post, and are therefore scarce. (2). £200-250
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1854 Cover from London to "Poste Restante, Como, Italy" bearing embossed 1/- green (four margins) and two 1854 2d blues (S.G. 19), the 1/- and one 2d applied to the right of the cover each cancelled by Inland Branch numeral "8", the other 2d at the left of the cover apparently overlooked and later cancelled by several strikes of oval framed "P.D" in red with a further strike on the address panel, datestamps of London, Calais and Como. A very unusual and exceptionally fine looking cover. Photo on Inside Back Cover. £1,800-2,200
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Spoons/Sideways Duplexs. 1855-69 Covers and pieces with spoon cancels (4 covers + 16 pieces) or sideways duplexs (4 covers + 103 pieces), also Exeter Cresswell duplex (cover + piece) and Leeds double ring duplex on piece. (9 covers + 121 pieces). £200-240
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1857 Entire letter to Kilwinning with two 1d reds cancelled by scarce "AYR / JAN 31 E / 1857 / *" experimental datestamp with the place name and date horizontally across the circle, trace of light soiling and central vertical fold, otherwise fine and scarce, this datestamp only trialled for a few weeks in 1856-57. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £150-180
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1876 (Aug 15) Memorandum from Hugh Moore & Co, wholesale druggists in Dublin, to "The Storekeeper, General Post Office, Dublin", reading "Sir, We will thank you to send us by return of post a book containing the tariff for telegrams to all parts of the world, for which we enclose stamps 2/3 1/2". The reverse bears a block of twelve of the 1856-79 2d blue plate 15 (NA-PD) each tied by vertical barred obliterator with a capital "S" within circle, the other 3 1/2d of stamps presumably used as postage on the package to Dublin. This rare "S" obliterator is not recorded on cover and was presumably used for special purposes in the G.P.O. A unique item. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £1,300-1,500
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1882 1d Brown postcard to Switzerland cancelled "STAINDROP" c.d.s in bright blue, a Darlington c.d.s below and Swiss arrival datestamps. An attractive and unusual coloured datestamp. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £100-120
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1894 1d Postcard to Germany cancelled by "(crown) / FROM / LONDON / GPO" intaglio mailbag seal handstamp, very scarce and unusual. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £400-500
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Duplexs. c.1901-16 Mainly KEVII picture postcards all with duplex cancels, arranged in number order in a box, from "2" to "K85" with a good number of "J" and "K" numbers, also a few London cancels, some duplication, mainly fine strikes. (c.600). £150-180
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1902 Picture postcard sent within Rochdale with KEVII 1/2d tied red oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE / FOR DELIVERY / ON / CHRISTMAS DAY". This advance posting scheme trialled in Rochdale in 1902, this oval cancel only used in this one year. £200-250
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1903 Picture postcard to Timperley with KEVII 1/2d tied by black oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE / A.D.J. / 1903 / FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" of Altrincham. Scarce, about 6,500 items posted in Altrincham under this advance posting scheme in 1903. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £250-300
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1905 Picture postcard to Wilmslow with KEVII 1/2d tied by black oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE / S.C.R / 1905 / FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" of Sale, light corner crease, otherwise largely fine. £150-160
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1905 Picture postcard to Frodsham with KEVII 1/2d tied superb oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE / W.A / 1905 / FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" of Warrington. Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £200-240
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1907 Picture postcard sent locally within Norwich, a KEVII 1/2d tied by "NORWICH / X / MAS" cancel dated 1907, fine. £180-220
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1717 Entire letter from Edinburgh to "Old Mans Coffee House, London" then directed to "Whites Chocolate House or St. James Coffee House", with Edinburgh and London Bishop Marks; and 1743 entire letter from Sanquar to "Mourheads Coffee House, Edinburgh", with fine "LEAD HILLS" handstamp (unrecorded by Auckland and 69 years earlier than the first handstamp listed from Leadhills). A fine and scarce pair, the first exceptional in having three coffee/chocolate houses included in the address. (2). Photo on Page 131 in printed catalogue. £150-200
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1890 Penny Postage Jubilee, 1d money order with the South Kensington c.d.s, cards or envelopes C.T.O with other datestamps including "1d Tube Post" (3), Furness caricature envelope and card, and the 1890 P.O Christmas card. Also 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition postcard with special c.d.s to India and a study of the imperf or perf 1d labels in various colours with two postcards bearing examples C.T.O by the exhibition c.d.s (43 + 12 labels on two cards); and 1923 perf or imperf Mercury airmail labels in various colours (56), produced at the 1923 London Stamp Exhibition. (111). £120-150
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Philatelic Congress of G.B. 1909-93 Congress cancels, labels, covers and cards written up in three albums with examples of most cancels on covers and most 1910-48 labels, including 1912 Margate Congress with perforation demonstrations on paper (2), Queens Highcliffe Hotel sheets of 25 (7, various colours, some imperf or partly perforated), triangular labels with sheet of 18, Congress programme with five labels on the cover and a postcard bearing both types of label with Congress c.d.s, 1913 Edinburgh Congress label proofs in blue or red with inverted vignettes, 1914 London Congress label proof, etc. A good lot. (Approx 345 items). £500-600
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1913 (July 9) Stampless unsealed cover to Badminton House with scarce "PAISLEY / GRANDSTAND" c.d.s, used at the Royal Highland Show, and a "1" charge mark. £180-200
| Express Mail
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1912 Express cover from Hammersmith to Germany bearing KEVII Harrison 2 1/2d and 3d, the reverse with a large paper seal of "The General Deep Boring & Shafting Co. Ltd" featuring a bottle and crossed hammers. £70-80
| Frees
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