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1929 Postal Union Congress £1, margin at top, superb unmounted mint. S.G. £1,100. Photo on Page 16. £300-350
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1935 Silver Jubilee booklet panes with cylinder numbers comprising 1/2d cylinder 33 (2) or 35 (with sheet no. 1201); 1d cylinder 37 (with sheet no. 1000); 1 1/2d cylinder 30, 41 (sheet number 1901), 58, 59 and 66 (2), mostly unmounted (two 1/2d and one 1 1/2d mounted), some straight edges, 1d block with variety repair below I of "SILVER", one 1 1/2d 66 with variety spot in top corner of "N". Also other 1 1/2d booklet panes with varieties spot above "9" of 1910, spot between "E" and "N", or with guillotine guide line in the selvedge. A good lot, 1 1/2d cylinder 58 pane very scarce. S.G. £2,100. (13). £400-500
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1935 Silver Jubilee control and cylinder number blocks of six (or eight), all control "W/35", comprising 1/2d cylinder 18 (4), 55 (5), 60 (4), 61; 1d cylinder 14 (5), 22; 1 1/2d cylinder 7 (5), 21 (4, one sheet no. 155505), 48 (5, one sheet no. 391642); 2 1/2d cylinder 34 (2), each cylinder number comprising different perforation types (identified on accompanying page, with no duplication), nearly all unmounted (five mounted), a few with varieties noted. Also similar Morocco Agencies blocks comprising British Currency 1/2d cylinder 55, 1d cylinder 22 (2), 1 1/2d cylinder 21 or 48, Tangier 1 1/2d cylinder 21, French currency 5c on 1/2d cylinder 18. S.G. £1,240+. (43 blocks). £300-350
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1935 Silver Jubilee stamps from advertisers booklets comprising 1/2d type II and 1 1/2d type II with cross handpunch and "CANCELLED" overprint type 28, 1d (straight edge at top) with type 28 "CANCELLED" overprint (no punch hole), and 1d type II with cross handpunch and type 33 "CANCELLED" overprint, 1 1/2d with inverted watermark and selvedge. Also marginal 1d stamp with control "W/35" and cylinder 14, with training school vertical bars cancel. The type 28 1d and type 28p 1 1/2d unpriced by S.G. (5). £250-300
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KGVI Waterlow undenominated engraved essays, imperf in violet (6, including corner block of four) or perf 14 in claret (2) or violet, all unmounted mint; and W.T Wiggins-Davies essays for the proposed high values comprising 2/6 and 20/- in red, 5/- in blue and 10/- in green. (13). £150-200
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1937-70 KGVI and QEII definitives used, a large accumulation in a stockbook including KGVI high values, QEII first De La Rue 10/- (5) and £1 (18), etc. (100s). £100-120
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1939 KGVI 10/- Dark blue used block of 16. Also mint KEVIII 1/2d cylinder 7 dot block and booklet pane with inverted watermark, KGVI 1941 2 1/2d light ultramarine "b" for "d" in value within strip with 239 cylinder number in margin, 1977 £2 and £5 control blocks of four. £100-120
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1952-2009 QEII Definitives, unmounted mint collection in a Lighthouse album complete with first and second De La Rue Castles sets, sideways and inverted watermarks, regional issues, also postage dues and some definitive miniature sheets. £800-1,000
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1957-2011 QEII Commemoratives, unmounted mint collection in four Lighthouse albums including all phosphor issues, quantity of 1st and 2nd Class booklets and Olympic booklets of six, miniature sheets and some definitives. Face value £1,000+. £600-800
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1975 Sailing 8p variety black omitted commercially used on piece with six Machin definitives all cancelled by light Milton Keynes sub-office datestamps. With R.P.S Certificate (1975). S.G. 981a, unpriced used. £100-120
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2000-2012 Smiler sheets (93) complete in three Royal Mail albums including S.G. LS2a + LS3a Christmas pair of sheets inscribed "CONSIGNIA 2001", also additional Smilers for Kids 2nd series (4), self adhesive sheets set of four (S.G. LS50/53) and 2007-12 Stampex sheets (11). S.G. LS1 - LS83. (112). £1,000-1,200
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Presentation Packs, Year Packs and Souvenir Packs, 1964-2002 definitive and commemorative issues in eight albums, probably complete, including 1964 Royal Geographical Year, Botanical Congress and Forth Road Bridge packs, various 1969-72 packs with German or Japanese inserts, 1969 Ships packs with insert for sale on the QEII, etc. (100s). £500-600
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Booklets. 1935 Silver Jubilee 2/- booklets, editions 298-304 (with additional 304) and 3/- booklets editions 294-297 (with additional 294), all complete, some panes with inverted watermarks, 2/- 300 with minor creasing to front cover and 301 with a little soiling to the front cover, creasing and writing to reverse cover, otherwise generally fine, 2/- edition 299 with selvedge dots on interleaving. S.G. £1,170. (13). £300-350
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Booklets. c.1985-2012 Decimal booklets collection in four albums with 50p, £1, £2, 1st and 2nd Class booklets including some 2012 Olympics pairs, many better booklets noted. Face value £2,000+. £1,200-1,400
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Booklets. 1972-2012 Prestige booklets complete with two examples of many booklets. S.G. DX1-52, DY1-5. (102). £400-500
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Officials. 1901 (Jan 10) O.H.M.S Cover posted locally within Honiton franked by 1d Govt. Parcels overprint tied by Honiton c.d.s. A remarkable single use of this stamp on a letter contrary to regulations, paying the 1d letter rate, the only such use of a Government Parcels stamp we have recorded. With R.P.S Certificate (2017). Photo on Page 30. £500-700
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Channel Islands. 1941-2012 Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney unmounted mint collection in four Lighthouse albums with all definitives, commemoratives, miniature sheets and postage dues. £250-300
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Isle of Man. 1973-2012 Unmounted mint collection in two Lighthouse albums with all commemoratives, definitives and miniature sheets, also 1958-71 regional issues. £100-140
| Telegraph Stamps, Forgeries & Cinderellas
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Army/Military Telegraphs. 1884-1900 Mainly mint selection comprising Military Telegraphs 1d used, 1d - 1/- (faults), 5/- and 10/- with Specimen overprints; Egypt 1886 locally surcharged 1pi on 6d and 1887 issue one dime on 1d block of four, 2 dimes on 2d strip of four and 2pi on 8d mint; Army Telegraphs 1/- used, 1/2d vermilion, 1d, 2d, 3d, 8d, 2/6, 5/-, £1 and £5 mint (also six others with faults) and 1/2d vermilion, 1d, 2d, 6d and 5/- in blocks of four. S.G. £2,675. (54). Photo on Page 16. £300-400
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World War II Propaganda Forgeries. Selection comprising "This War is a Jewish War" based on 1935 Silver Jubilee 1/2d, "Teheran 28.11.1943" based on the 1937 Coronation 1 1/2d, and KGVI definitive type 1/2d, 1d, 1 1/2d or 3d (3) with Star of David added to the crown (four with "London Special Stamp" c.d.s) or with Liquidation of Empire overprints for Barbados ( 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 2 1/2d), Jamaica (2 1/2d, 3d) or St. Lucia (2d, 2 1/2d), six of these with the Special Stamp c.d.s. Also 1d scarlet with "VV" or "Halfpenny Postage Halfpenny War-Tax" private essay overprints, and 1940 Stamp Centenary 1/2d with "Swatstika / JERSEY / 1940" overprint (all three offered "as-is"). (19) £100-120
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Post Office Training School Stamps and Postal Stationery. A collection in an album with KGV 10/- and various KGVI stamps (139) or QEII stamps (232 + 3 covers) overprinted with bars, "GPO", "School Specimen" or "Cancelled", also postage due stamps (64) and postal stationery (27) similarly overprinted, blocks of decimal dummy stamps (248) and imitation G.P.O training centre banknotes (16), an unusual lot. (730). £120-150
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Savings Stamps. A collection in two albums with 1881 Money Order Bank Ltd stamps (2), P.O.S.B slips bearing postage stamps, National Savings and National War Savings stamps (some in books) and advertising labels, National Savings Gift Token £5 stamp mint, Post Office Savings £5 mint, Electricity stamps, RBS, British Gas, Water, Vehicle Licence £5 stamps mint (3) or Specimen (2), BT £1 (8), £2 (5) or £5 (5) mint, TV Licence stamps mint, various store stamps, Green Shield stamps, etc. (100s). £200-250
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P.O Savings Bank/National Savings. 1916-17 Stamps, ephemera, etc., including 1911 and 1921 1/- P.O.S.B stamps used on pieces, P.O.S.B books (3), unused savings cards (7), c.1971 National Savings books with stamps (2), etc. (29). £100-120
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Postal Orders. 1925-2000 Postal Orders (32) including 1925 KGV 20/- order with Trinity St. Cambridge c.d.s, 1970 dual currency 1/- / 5p - £5 orders all overprinted "SCHOOL SPECIMEN" (24), also postal order gift cards (7), money orders, etc. (45). Photo on Page 30. £200-240
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Lundy Island/Herm. 1936-77 Covers and cards bearing local issues of Lundy Island (22), Herm (7) or Lihou, also a few mint Lundy presentation folders or packs, and Herm 1959 Visit of Princess Margaret imperf proofs (12, six with overprints in incorrect colours). Lundy covers include two 1936 ingoing covers bearing 1/2 puffin + Atlantic Coast Air Service 1/2d and 1942 ingoing cover with "V Spitfire" overprint 1/2 + 1 + 2 puffin stamps. (30 covers + 16 stamps/packs). £160-200
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Seven albums containing underprints, firms overprints and perfins, Post Office telegraph stamps including £1 brown (minor soiling), other telegraph and telephone stamps, local issues (for Herm, Jethou, Sark, Lundy, various Scottish islands, etc), postal stationery cut-outs, P.O labels and forms, bus and railway stamps, advertising or charity labels, P.O testing stamps, strike posts, etc. Also a quantity of empire and foreign revenues and labels in two envelopes, and an album of worldwide International Reply Coupons (86, first type coupons from G.B and Norway), Imperial (2, Malaya & South Africa) or Commonwealth Reply Coupons (12), nine revalued. (Many 100s). £300-400
| Revenues
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Collection in four volumes with embossed, printed and handstamped revenues including issues for Admiralty Court, Bankruptcy, Bill or Note, Board of Agriculture 2/6 specimen, CB licence, Civil Service, Common Law Court (with two documents), Companies Registration, Companies Winding Up, Contract Note, Copyhold Commission QV £5, Customs, Diplomatic Service, District Audit, Draft, Excise (including 1916-23 set of 13 with Specimen overprints), Foreign Bill, Foreign Service, Income Tax, Inland Revenue, Insolvency, Judicature Fees, Land Commission, Land Registry, Match Tax, Medicine Duty, Passport, Patent, Police Courts, Probate Courts, Public Records (with 1869 set of four overprinted Specimen), Receipt, Royalty stamps from gramophone records, TV Licence stamps (many on forms), Transfer Duty, Travel Permit (including complete 1942 document), also water and wireless licences, issues for Scotland Law Courts or Register House, Isle of Man, drivers licences, 1795 almanac, and a stockbook containing a large quantity of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Health & Pensions or Consular Service stamps. (Many 100s). £500-600
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London. 1869-1902 Issues for Justice Room (20, also imperf block of four and seven embossed stamps), Mayors Court (33) or scarce 2/6 Guildhall Consultation Fee. (65). Photo on Page 16. £100-120
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Local Court Fees. 1869-92 Issues for Northamptonshire (20), Southampton (28 + two Waterlow sample stamps), Sheffield 1891 1/- and 1892 2/6, Winchester 6d (faded) and 2/6 (torn), the last four scarce. (54). Photo on Page 34. £150-200
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Local Trade Associations. c.1873-1923 Issues for Liverpool Beetroot Sugar Association, Liverpool Corn Trade Association (8), Liverpool Cotton Association (19), The Tea Clearing House in London (62), or Hull Corn Exchange. (91). Photo on Page 34. £180-220
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Chancery Court. 1852-57 Issues used (81 + document) and 1857 3d - £1 set of twenty overprinted "SPECIMEN". (102). £150-180
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Colonial Office Services. 1900 1/-, 2/6, 5/- and £1 fine mint, scarce. (4). Photo on Page 16. £150-180
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Consular Service. 1885-1947 QV-KGVI Issues used including embossed issues with values in sterling (3) or dollars (9), 1887 issue with sterling surcharges (86, with two diagonally bisected 10/- stamps each tied by Manila handstamp, unrecorded by Barefoot), 1887 issue with surcharges in dollars (18), KGV corner marginal £50 block of six with Alexandria cancels, etc. (370). Photo on Page 16. £400-500
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Foreign Bill. 1871 1d - 4/- Handstamped type 9 "SPECIMEN", the 4/- with trimmed perf tips at right, otherwise generally very fine with good colour. (9). £70-80
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Life Policy. 1854-72 Imperf issues (48) and perforated issues (27), various values to the £1, one on a document. (75). £200-240
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Pedlars Certificate. 1873 6d Lilac and brown used (thin at top) or with Specimen overprint, very scarce used. (2). Photo on Page 34. £80-100
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Social Security related stamps comprising Old Age Pensions 2/6, Unemployment Insurance (159, including 18 with "Specimen" or "School Specimen" overprints), Unemployment Insurance Agriculture (3), Health & Pensions (354), National Insurance (257), Prescription Charges (40), also local council issue stamps for home help (168), O.A.P Tobacco Duty Relief (13) and a 1930 cover bearing a postally used 1/1 Health & Pensions stamp. A good lot including mint and used blocks, National Health or Pensions books and some Specimen overprints. (c.1,000). £150-200
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>General Duty. c.1855-1904 Embossed issues on perforated paper (c.800) including Specimen overprints (41, mostly the 1875-81 or dated 1882-86 issues in vermilion). Also stamps embossed on paper or directly onto documents (with 23 complete documents) and some cypher labels. (c.1,000). £200-250
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Ireland. Various revenues including General Duty, Admiralty Court 6d and 2/6 with Specimen overprints, Chancery Court (9), County Courts (10, two overprinted "Cancelled" or "Specimen"), Dog Licence (11), Judicature (38), Land Commission (6), Land Registry (2), Petty Sessions (42), Records (3), Registration of Deeds (36, including 14 QV stamps with Specimen overprints), Record of Titles 1/- green Specimen overprint, Registration of Titles QV 3d mint, also Irish Free State 1922 overprints (20), Northern Ireland issues (68 including two documents), and various QV or earlier embossed stamps cut from documents (14), an interesting lot. (264). £150-200
| POSTCARDS & EPHEMERA | (Also See Lots 216, 378, 388/93, 454, 468, 479/81, 496, 1000)
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1673-1899 Newspapers and magazines (34), most with newspaper stamps, many containing interesting military, naval or postal information. Also ephemera including 1829 handbill advertising London to Calais Packets and a card advertising "The Lord Melville" Packet, prints, illustrated notepaper, etc. (60++). £120-150
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c.1900-1930s Picture postcards with many pictures of ships, some real photo cards including fox hunting (5), etc. (c.220). £120-150
| EARLY & HISTORICAL LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS | |
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1631 (Jan 18) Entire letter from Sir George Booth at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, addressed "To the Right honble Thomas Lord Ffayrefax this dlvd". Booth thanks Lord Fairfax for his "noble entertaynment when I was with you". A fine Charles I period letter. £180-220
| Charles II Autographs, Letters & Documents
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1650 (Mar 12) Entire letter signed "Charles R" at the top, "Right deare and right entirely beloved cousin wee greet you well. These three honest men being newly come out of England to enter into our service at sea, whereof Richard Seawell hath served as master in many of the shipps of the late King our Royall father of blessed memory; John Marrow as Gunner, and Thomas Corall as an ordinary seaman. We therefore are pleased that they be immediately received and provided for in our service not doubting but that by their example many other seamen will speedily repaire to us. Given under our signet at the Hagh the 12th day of March in the first year of our Reigne". With a fine address panel "To our right deare and right entirely beloved Cousin Prince Rupert", the paper covered seal impressed with the royal arms, two contemporary filing endorsements including "Conc. Seawell and other Key Kingsayle seamen". A little light staining, otherwise a fine early Charles II letter concerning his navy, sent to Prince Rupert who commanded the fleet sent to Ireland in 1649 to aid the Royalist forces there led by the Earl of Ormonde, ex Robson Lowe Collection. Photo on Page 23. £2,500-3,000
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1650 (Jan 12) Two page letter boldly signed "Charles R" at the top, addressed "To our Right trusty and entirely beloved Cosin William Marquis of Newcastle &c", the reverse with a fine paper covered seal impressed with the royal arms. The letter confers the award of "ye most noble order of St. George called ye Garter by our most noble & victorious ancestor King Edward ye Third", and continues "considering that since ye late most horrid Rebellion in that our Kingdom many of ye Companions thereof are dead & that some others contrary to their Honors and Oaths have deserted their Allegiance & are no more worthy to be esteemed Companions of so Noble an Order and finding how necessary it is for our service & the Honor of the said order to elect others in ye places vacant who for their Nobility Courage & fidelity may be fit to be admitted thereunto, wherefore ..... with ye great & extraordinary services performed by you against ye Rebells in ye condition of Lieutenant Generall of ye North parts of our Kingdom of England under our late most Deare & Royall Father King Charles of his blessed & glorious memory ...... do herewith send you ye George & Ribband of ye Ensigns thereof by Sr John Morley Knt, the which George and Ribband wee do hereby will & authorise you together with the Garter to wear. And because it is not possible at ye present to have all other additions & ceremonies incident to ye same fully perfected wee do further will & authorise you to wear with the George and Garter or Ribband on your left legg, The Glory or Starr of Silver with St Georges Cross embroydered within a Garter on your cloak & upper garments, as likewise ye Great Collar of ye order on such days as are accustomed, to use the Garter about your Armes, and to stile your selfe Knight & Companion of ye said most Noble Order of ye Garter, in as ample manner as if you had been installed in our Castle of Windsor, where (when it shall please God to restore us to ye possession thereof) you shall formally be invested, & receive ye habit & all other ornaments of ye said most Noble Order .... Given at our Court at Castle Elizabeth in our Island of Jersey this Twelfth day of January in ye first year of our Reign 1649". A little staining but still a good looking and rare letter from Jersey with a fine address panel, seal and signature. Charles was proclaimed King in Jersey in February 1649, just 18 days after his father's execution. He landed in Jersey on 17th September, his court being there for four months until he left for Holland on 13th February 1650. Jersey was captured by Parliamentarian forces in December 1651 (see lot 149). Photo on Pages 24 & 30. £6,000-8,000
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1676 (Dec 20) Commission document on vellum, appointing William, Earl of Wigton to be Captain (in place of Sir William Hamilton, deceased) in the militia troop of horse (the location of service left blank), given at the Court at Whitehall, boldly signed "Charles R" at the top, also signed by the Duke of Lauderdale, paper covered wax seal impressed with the royal arms. Lauderdale had fought with Charles I, being captured at Worcester in 1651 and held prisoner until 1660; he was Secretary for Scottish Affairs from 1660 and became a Privy Councillor in 1673. A fine Charles II signed document. £700-900
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Occupation of Tangier. 1664 (June 1) Order for the Treasury to pay £560 to Sir George de Carteret, Treasurer of His Majestys Navy, to be spent by him on His Majestys Service in Tangier, £400 to be spent on building a bridge and ovens and £160 to be employed there for three boats and one Admiral, signed by Thomas Wristhesley, fourth Earl of Southampton (Privy Councillor and Lord High Treasurer of England), Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (Under Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer), and sir Robert Long (Auditor of the Exchequer). Tangier was given to Charles II in 1662 as part of his wedding dowry; the English destroyed the town prior to abandoning it in 1684 after it became too expensive to garrison. A scarce document concerning the occupation of Tangier. £200-250
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c.1651 Entire letter written and signed by Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, addressed to his son-in-law "For Sr right honble the Earle of Manchester". Warwick advises his son to try and get a marriage arranged between Robert (son of the Earl of Manchester and grandson of Warwick) and Mrs Massingberd who has a fortune of £10,000. Warwick founded several colonies in North America, became Lord High Admiral in 1647 and organised a new Parliamentarian fleet in 1648 after most of the existing naval ships had revolted to Charles I; his grandson Robert married the daughter of Oliver Cromwell. An interesting letter, ex Robson Lowe Collection. £200-250
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Oliver Cromwell. 1654 (June 9) Letter to the Commissioners of the Admiralty, signed "Oliver P" at the top and headed "By his highnesse the Lord Protector", "Whereas we have sent orders to the respective Governors of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey & Scilly to transport severall companies of ffoote from those islands into England, viz. from Scilly three companies to be landed at Plimouth, from Guernsey one company & from Jersey two companies to be landed at Portsmouth or Weymouth. These are so authorised & require you forthwith to appoint such shipps or vessells as you shall think fitt to goe to the said severall islands & to transport the said companies from there to the respective places before mentioned, and you are to give direction to that vessell that shall be appointed to goe to Guernsey to call at Weymouth as she goes, & there to take on board Lieutenant Wynn with the money ye lords have ready for the payment of the fforces in Guernsey. Given at White Hall the 9th of June 1654". A fine letter signed by Cromwell, concerning forces in the Channel Islands and Scilly. Photo on Page 26. £2,400-2,800
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1657 (April 22) Entire letter from St. Malo, written and signed by Sir George Carteret, addressed to "Monsieur le Chevallier Baron Browne Residente pour le Roy de la Grande Bretaigne en la Maison Jorgnant ly Jacobiers au Fauborg St. Germain, a Paris". The letter includes "I hope all this may prove advantageous to our master for now the quarell will be betwene an usurper and a lawful king. Pray it is true that the Duke of Orleans hath refused to signe the treaty made with Cromwell for so it is reported here". Carteret was previously Governor of Jersey and Controller of the Navy; he surrendered Jersey to Commonwealth forces in December 1651 and went into exile with Charles II. At the time of writing he was a Vice-Admiral in the French navy, but was imprisoned in August 1657 and banished from France in December. In 1660 he became Treasurer to the Navy and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household of Charles II. An interesting letter, referring to Cromwell having installed himself as Protector for the second time. £300-400
| Later Royal Letters & Autographs
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George I. 1716 (April) Commission document appointing William Berry a Lieutenant Colonel in the Regiment of Foot in which Francis Marquis de Montandre is Colonel, given at the Court of St. James, with royal seal and three 2/6 revenue stamps, boldly signed "George R" at the top, also signed by James Stanhope, first Earl Stanhope, Privy Councillor and Secretary of State. A little staining but a good clear George I signature. £100-120
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