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ORDER OF SALEDay Two - Friday 28th September 2018 - to be sold at 12.00 noonWorld & British Empire - Mixed Lots, Omnibus Issues, Thematics 1000-1048
Wreck Mail, Crash Mail 1049-1081
Worldwide & Africa Air Mails, including Gladstone Airways & South Africa Flights 1082-1183
East Africa World War One Military Mail & Occupation of G.E.A Postal History 1184-1303
Aden - Bechuanaland 1304-1325
Belgium & Belgian Congo 1326-1350
British Levant - Bulgaria 1351-1358
Burma 1359-1427
Canada, Ceylon 1428-1437
China - The Laurent Vandendriessche Collection 1438-1498
Cyprus - Estonia 1499-1507
Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Finland 1508-1524
France & Colonies, including Royal Autographs 1525-1550
Gambia - Iceland 1551-1576
India & States 1577-1629
Iraq - Japan 1630-1654
KUT, including Tanganyika Stamps & Postmarks 1655-1681
Korea - Norway 1682-1715
Nyasaland 1716-1727
Pakistan - Poland 1728-1738
Portugal & Colonies 1739-1750
Rhodesia, including Northern & Southern Rhodesia 1751-1773
Roumania - Sierra Leone 1774-1785
South Africa, including Boer War, Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa 1786-1884
Spain & Colonies 1885-1889
Sudan - The John Scott Collection 1890-2005
Swaziland - Zanzibar 2006-2024
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Various G.B and foreign stamps, covers and cards in a box including Edwardian picture postcards (107, some to or from members of the Longman publishing family), two very poor 1d blacks, QEII predecimal G.B, etc. Also philatelic literature (9) including "Robertson Revisited" by C. Tabeart, Robson Lowe Encyclopaedia volume 1 on Europe (1952 2nd Edition), April 1909 British Post Office Guide, etc. £100-120
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An album of war related stamps, mainly occupation or military administration overprints and surcharges or Victory issues, also Egypt British Forces seals with 1935 Jubilee 1pi mint, etc. £100-120
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A large accumulation of world stamps including British West Indies, G.B KEVII-QEII mint and used, pre-decimal Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Island apparently complete mint, etc. (1,000s). £150-250
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G.B, South Africa and world stamps in four albums including 1d black with four margins used on piece, a few earlier USA, etc, also two albums of G.B or South Africa First Day Covers. (6 albums). £100-120
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Europe. Mint selection including Liechtenstein 1931 Zeppelin 1f and 2f unmounted; Germany with 1872 Large Eagle 1/4g and 1g, 1935-40 unmounted issues including 1935 Apprentices Vocational Contest 12pf with horizontally ribbed gum, 1935 Winter and Summer Olympics sets, 1939 Brown Ribbon of Germany 42pf + 108pf, 1940 Brown Ribbon Race and Hitlers Culture Fund 42pf + 108pf, etc. S.G. £1,190. (27). £80-100
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Balkans. 1866-1988 Mint and used issues on pages from Serbia; including 1914 3d yellow mint, German Occupation; Montenegro; Yugoslavia with 1918 overprints and surcharges including S.G. 37 used, S.G. 60 and D88 mint, miniature sheets with 1949 Railway Centenary sheets perf and imperf both used, 1951 Zagreb Philatelic Exhibition sheet used; Croatia including 1945 Croatian Storm Division 50k + 50k and 70k + 70k mint; Trieste Zone B with 1949 Railway Centenary perf and imperf miniature sheets mint; Slovenia with Italian and German Occupation issues. S.G. £3,600+. (100s). £160-200
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Middle East. 1910-75 Mint and used stamps, mainly Saudi Arabia including 1916 perf 12 1/2pi, 1925 red Hejaz Government, 4th October 1924 overprints on 1916-17 roulette 13 1pa - 1/2pi and 2pi (S.G. 66/8, 71, 74), and blue overprints on 1921 1/2pi or 1pi dull violet both also with 1340 Hashemite Kingdom overprints (S.G. 84/5) all used; and 1968 Army fund obligatory tax stamps from Lebanon (4, including 5p on 30c red-brown unused without gum, S.G. T289, £600) or from Syria (7). Also India 1854 4a used, cut to shape and rebacked. S.G. £2,200. (61). £120-140
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Middle East. 1866-1990s Extensive mint and used collection in seven albums comprising Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Egypt, Fujeira, Israel, Jordan, Manama, Palestine (including Jordanian Occupation and Egypt Occupation of Gaza), Ras Al Khaima, Sharjah, Syria, Umm Al Qiwain, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. (1,000s). £200-250
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South America. 1843-2005 Extensive mint and used collection in six albums comprising Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, with imperf classics, etc. (1,000s). £250-300
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Central America. 1856-c.2000 Extensive mint and used collection in four albums comprising Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama, with imperf classics, etc. (1,000s). £250-300
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Africa - Post Independence Issues. The extensive mint and used collection on pages comprising Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Congo, Dahomey, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Malagasy Republic, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia and Upper Volta, many countries complete or virtually so to c.2000, many miniature sheets, etc. (1,000s). £400-500
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Laos & Cambodia. 1951-1997 Laos collection on pages, mainly mint, including 1952 miniature sheets (26), 1954 Golden Jubilee set mint, 1962 Philatelic Exhibition imperf miniature sheets joined together from the souvenir booklet, etc.; and Cambodia 1951-2001 mint and used collection on pages with miniature sheets, etc. S.G. £2,000++. (100s). £150-180
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Nepal & Bhutan. 1949-2000 Mint and used Nepal collection on pages including 1949 set mint, 1956 Coronation set mint, 1957 set mint, 1960 5r mint, etc; also extensive 1955-c.1970 Bhutan issues, many only mentioned by S.G. in the appendix, with some miniature sheets. (100s). £80-100
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Locals & Cinderellas. Album containing various locals and bogus issues, many modern but some earlier locals included from Germany and Scandinavia, steamship issues for St. Thomas & La Guayra or St. Thomas & Porto Rico (5, probably forgeries), also some 1937-65 British Empire omnibus issues. (100s). £100-120
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c.1800-1950s Covers and cards (19), also a few stamps, pieces and ephemera, including 1946 O.A.S cover from H.M.S "Indomitable" to South Africa with violet "BRITISH FLEET MAIL / 23" c.d.s used at Aden (not seen by Proud), 1915 stampless picture postcard from India to South Africa with violet "Service of Prisoners of War / Colonel / Supt. Civil Camp, Belgaum" and "PASSED / CENSOR BELGAUM", G.B 1850 piece bearing a large wafer seal "SINCE THE FLIGHT OF THE / POPE FROM ROME / 70,000 COPIES / of the BIBLE have been sold in / that City / - Gardeners Chronicle" (one other example recorded, illustrated on page 69 of "British Wafer Seals" by Champness & Trapnell), Rhodesia 1d Double Head with T.P.O Down c.d.s, etc. (24+). £140-160
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c.1860-2000 Covers, a large quantity with many 1960's FDCs and commercial covers from smaller British Commonwealth countries, G.B, etc., some useful earlier items including Pitcairn Island N.Z Postal Agency (2) and 1944 cover from Australia to Pitcairn with arrival c.d.s, WW2 censored and military mail, 1942 cover with Somaliland stamps cancelled at E.A A.P.O 62. etc. (100s). £250-350
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c.1880-1980 Empire and foreign covers and cards including WW2 P.O.W covers from Australia (2), Jamaica and Libya, Denmark used in Faroe Islands, Ireland, etc., also 1882 New Year card from the Cologne Post Office. (176). £150-180
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1893-1944 Covers and cards sent to or from Cecil Townsend who lived and worked in Russia prior to World War One, enlisted as a Lieutenant in the 1st Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1915 and saw service in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Italy and South Russia. Included are World War One covers and cards to Townsend in Egypt sent from Russia (36), Switzerland (5) or G.B (8), and stampless O.A.S covers and cards mostly from Townsend (45), some items with enclosed letters. Also earlier 1914-15 covers sent from or within Russia, a number from or to Issaevo in the Caucasus (59), 1918 registered weekend telegram envelope with enclosed telegram from Tehran, express covers from Italy to G.B (11), etc., condition very mixed but an interesting correspondence. (c.200). £250-300
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1839-1990 Covers and cards including 1839 Ship Letter from London to Cape Colony redirected with boxed "POST PAID", Orange Free State formula stationery cards with stamps tied by shield overprints used (5), Cape 1892 1d reply card to Austria uprated 1/2d + 2 1/2d and 1886 cover to USA franked 1/2d + 1d + 6d, South West Africa stampless 1918 O.H.M.S rainfall report form with violet "ONDONGA" c.d.s, 1843 entire letter from Zante to Corfu, 1851 New South Wales cover franked 2d, 1980-88 South Africa or S.W.A first day covers hand illustrated in watercolour (7), 1917 G.B cover bearing "Nothing German" label, etc. Also a block of 1915 G.B. Anti-German labels, 1718 legal document on vellum from Jersey, and WW2 Safe Conduct Pass for Russians serving in the German army who wish to desert. (50). £160-200
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Scandinavia. 1879 Covers to Lower Ince, Wigan, one from Sweden with a fine advert for the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, on the reverse depicting the hotel and harbour, bearing 20ore tied "PKXP No 34" c.d.s, the other from Norway bearing 1877 3ore, 5ore and 12ore tied "BUREAU REEXPEDIANT / CHRISTIANIA" c.d.s, an attractive three colour franking. (2). £100-120
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Combination Frankings. 1909-70 Covers and cards with stamps of two countries including 1909 postcard to China strangely franked Tasmania 1/2d + Australia 2d postage due; 1912-14 cards with stamps of Australia + N.S.W (3), Tasmania (2) or Victoria; 1920 cover with Colombia Scadta + Panama stamps; 1934-37 covers from Poland or Greece with Swiss stamps paying special delivery (2); 1940 cover from G.B to Sudan with Sudan 10m added to pay internal air fee; 1926 cover from Larache with Spanish Morocco stamps + Spain Air stamp; 1938 covers from Austria with Austria + Germany stamps (21) or from Sudetenland with Czechoslovakia + Germany stamps (3); uprated reply cards, etc. (43). £200-250
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Combination Frankings - Poste Restante. 1924-75 Covers to Poste Restante addresses in another country, all with postage or postage due stamps applied upon arrival to pay the Poste Restante fee, including items to Argentina (2), Brazil, Bulgaria (2), Czechoslovakia, Greece (2), Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco (4), Poland, Spain (3), Turkey, Yugoslavia (2), etc. (36). £150-180
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1940 (June 1) Cover from England to the Red Cross in Switzerland with April 1945 Geneva backstamp and red "Parvenue en Suisse: Avril 1945"; and 1940 covers from Australia (part reverse cut away) or Brazil (torn) both to Holland with April 1948 arrival datestamps and the label "Amsterdam Maart 1948 / Door oorlogsomstandigheden / met vertraging ontvangen", very unusual. (3). £100-120
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1941-45 Covers to or from the USA, all detained by the U.S Censors for the duration of the war, including 1941 (Oct 7) covers with U.S.S Algorab first day cancels (6) and other covers (2) all handstamped "RELEASED / BY O.N.J" and "SEP 5 1945" or "SEP 7 1945"; and covers to the USA from Senegal, Sweden, Barbados, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, USA to Mexico or Sweden, or Alaska to mainland USA, all handstamped "THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN HELD / BY THE OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP" (various types), six with 1945 backstamps. (21). £300-350
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1941-43 Covers from France (3), Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden or G.B all to the USA, or from Mexico to France, all handstamped violet two line "HELD BY BRITISH CENSOR / RELEASED JANUARY 1946", seven also handstamped "RELEASED", one with a "CONDEMNED" handstamp crossed out, very unusual. (8). £200-240
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1854-1949 Mint and used stamps including Canada 1930-31 set, 1942-48 war effort set, 1949 O.H.M.S set, 1906-28 1c, 4c, 10c postage dues and 1933 postage due set all mint; British West Indies mainly mint with Montserrat 1884 2 1/2d red-brown (2, shades), Tobago 1896 1/2d on 4d fiscal variety space between " 1/2" and "d", also St. Lucia, Virgin Island, Bermuda, Grenada, St. Kitts, Nevis 1871 1d (apparently perf 14), British Honduras, a few Falkland Islands, etc. S.G. £2,630. (75). Photo on Page 232. £340-380
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1927-70 Selection including Egypt 1935 Jubilee 1pi forces letter stamp fine used with red cancel, the others all mint with South West Africa 1927-30 10/- pair, Rhodesia 1970 2c postage due printed on the gummed side, air mail stamps of Newfoundland, New Zealand and Cook Islands, also 1989 South West Africa minerals and mining set in imprint corner blocks with both versions of the 18c. S.G. £650+. £100-120
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1937-39 KGVI and pre-decimal QEII issues, countries from Niue to St. Helena, all lightly mounted in an S.G. New Age Album, most sets complete with some additional shades and perforations, including North Borneo with 1939 set to $2, 1939 postage dues and all 1941-63 issues; Northern Rhodesia 1937-63 issues complete with postage dues; Nyasaland 1937-64 complete including postage dues; Pahang; Pakistan with all 1947-68 Official issues; Penang; Perak with 1938-51 set to $1; Perlis; St. Kitts 1937-69 issues complete; St. Helena, etc., condition very fine throughout. S.G. £8,500 (approx). (100s). Photo on Page 238. £700-800
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1947-83 Unmounted mint issues in a stockbook, mainly Independence overprint issues including Malta 1947 Self-Government set of 21 (fifteen values corner marginal including 6d - 10/-), Cyprus 1960 Republic overprint set of fifteen, etc. S.G. £500 (approx). (455). £100-120
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Atlantic Islands. c.1864-1980 Mint and used collection on pages from Ascension with 1922 2/- mint, 1924-33 3/- mint, KGVI definitives to 10/-, 1956 set mint, etc.; St. Helena with 1903 set mint, 1922-37 5/- used, 10/- mint, etc.; and Tristan da Cunha apparently complete mint. S.G. £2,200+. (100s). £200-250
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Falklands & South Atlantic Islands. 1936-69 Philatelic covers with some F.D.Cs from the Falkland Islands (53, with 25 1936-37 covers) or South Georgia (3), and five 1982 war stampless forces air letters with interesting messages from Sapper Baker, 3 Troop, 9 Para Sqn R.E written on the QEII or the Falklands (with a photo of the writer). Also covers from St. Helena (40) with various sub-office datestamps and 1952 card bearing Ascension stamps; Ascension (12); or Tristan da Cunha (23, one with Gough Island c.d.s and cachet); a few unused St. Helena postcards, and 1969 St. Helena Post Office notice announcing the April set of four stamps commemorating mail communication with the island. (143). £250-300
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Pacific Islands. 1886-1990s Mainly mint collection on pages with British Solomon Islands including 1907 1d - 5d and 1/-, 1908 set; Cook Islands; Gilbert & Ellice Islands with Tuvalu and Kiribati; Nauru including 1916-23 2/6, 10/-, 1924-48 set (mixed papers); Niue with 1931 2/6 - £1; Norfolk Island; Penrhyn; Pitcairn; Samoa; Tokeleau; Tonga, mainly fine. S.G. £3,200 (approx). (100s). £300-350
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British West Africa. 1880-1913 Mint selection from Gold Coast (15) including 1902 1/- - 10/- and 1907-13 1/- - 5/-; Sierra Leone 1896 5d - 5/- (5); Gambia Cameo issues (14); and Lagos 1887-1902 3d - 10/- (11, 5/- stained), mainly fine. S.G. £1,200. (45). £160-200
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British Africa. 1870-1919 Mint and used selection comprising Transvaal (6, with 1872-74 6d and 1/- roulette used, 1883 1/- mint, etc); Rhodesia Double Head 2d, 4d, 10d mint, Admirals (3, with die II perf 14 2/6), all mint; or Zululand (8) with mint 1888-93 3d, 5d, 9d and 1/-, 1893 6d and 1894-96 4/-, all fine. S.G. £1,300. (20). £200-250
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British Africa Postal Stationery. KEVII-QEII Used and unused postcards, registration envelopes and air letters including Southern Rhodesia KGVI 4d size H2 registration envelopes used (2) or unused, Northern Rhodesia KGV 4d size H2 registration envelope with Specimen overprint, Seychelles KGVI 20c size H registration envelope used, 1924 South Africa 4d registration envelope used from Mafeking, etc. (37). £170-200
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Postal Stationery. 1887 Printed letter from McCorquodale & Co Ltd in London, "we have the honour to submit for your inspection the accompanying samples of linen-lined Registered Envelopes, similar to those we manufacture and supply to the Imperial Government .... they are made in the following sizes, F, G, H, H2, I, K. We shall be pleased to quote prices to your Government", with samples of registration envelopes in the six sizes, each overprinted "SPECIMEN" and the size in red, the flaps perfined "MC.CORQUODALE & Co / LIMITED / SPECIMEN", the six envelopes joined together by a circular metal staple in the upper left corner. A rare set of specimen sample envelopes without embossed stamps on the flap; this format used for 1883-93 envelopes of Great Britain, and also various colonies including Cape of Good Hope and Bechuanaland. Photo on Page 156. £1,000-1,200
| Omnibus Issues
(Also See Lots 102/4, 113, 670, 672, 690, 707, 716, 786, 886, 1435/7, 1563, 1772, 1880) | |
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1935 Silver Jubilee stamps perfined "SPECIMEN", comprising British Solomon Islands set each with the usual missing top pin in "I" of SPECIMEN"; Gambia set of four unmounted, the 6d with two parallel vertical hairlines to left of Round Tower (plate 1, 8/2); and Somaliland 1r with dot above Winchester Tower variety (plate 6, 10/3). S.G. £260++. (9). £100-120
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1935 Silver Jubilee mint singles (26) or blocks of four (5) and used stamps (4) all with varieties, identified by plate and sheet position, some listed by S.G. including British Honduras 3c lightning conductor, Dominica 1 1/2d dot by flagstaff, Malta 1/2d short extra flagstaff, Mauritius 5c diagonal line by turret, Nigeria 2d kite and vertical log, St. Helena 1 1/2d diagonal line by turret, Turks & Caicos 1/2d kite and horizontal log, all mint, and Sierra Leone 1d extra flagstaff used, many unmounted. S.G. £770 (for listed varieties). (51). £300-350
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1937 Coronation First Day Covers from 58 countries, S.W.A set on two plain covers and the Gilberts cover plain, the other 56 covers all illustrated, Hong Kong cover with faults, otherwise all superb. (59). £300-350
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1948 Royal Silver Wedding complete set of 138 stamps unmounted mint, superb. S.G. £2,250. (138). Photo on Page 238. £800-1,000
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1948 Royal Silver Wedding First Day Covers (51, eleven illustrated) from 48 countries including Northern Rhodesia, etc., also another 59 covers all from differing countries with sets cancelled on later dates, some illustrated, all fine. (110). £2,800-3,200
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1949 Universal Postal Union sets on covers from 73 countries, virtually all illustrated covers, 54 posted on the first day of issue. (73). £700-800
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1953 Coronation First Day Covers from all 76 countries, all illustrated (except Kuwait), fine. (76). £300-350
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c.1857-1970 Covers and cards, mainly G.B but including some foreign, with printed advertising envelopes, QV P.T.P.O postal stationery envelopes with "Alfred Smith, Bath" printed above and below the stamp (2) or with other stamp dealers imprints (3), 1914 London Underground cover, also meter marks, labels, cancels including 1913 "Royal Automobile Club" c.d.s on registered cover, many items with thematic interest including motor cars, animals, birds, fish, food and drink, flowers, etc. (338). £350-400
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c.1890-1990 British and foreign covers and cards, and a few ephemeral items, various themes include medical, oil industry, sports including printed advertising envelopes featuring bicycles and 1936 Olympics football ticket, also labels, meter marks, commemorative cancels, etc. (185). £250-300
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Boy Scouts. 1929 (Aug 8) Printed "Camp Post Card, Sent from the Daily Mail Marquee", given out during the World Scout Jamboree at Arrowe Park and posted from the Jamboree to South Africa bearing P.U.C 1/2d (2) + 1d (4) to pay the 5d air mail rate, arrival datestamps of East London and Port Elizabeth, the stamps all cancelled at Birkenhead. A Post Office was open at the Jamboree from July 25th until August 20th, but only used its own skeleton c.d.s on registered mail, all other items being cancelled at Birkenhead. A scarce card postally used. Photo on Page 156. £150-200
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Trains - Share Certificates. 1912 Brazil Railway Company £100 and £500 share certificates printed by Waterlow & Sons, and 1924 certificate for £100 of shares in the Canadian Pacific Railway Co printed by British American Bank Note Co., with British or Dutch embossed revenues, all headed with fine illustrations featuring steam trains. (3). £60-70
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Trains. 1969-73 G.B Covers all attractively handpainted by N. Bowden with coloured illustrations of trains, postally used, mainly with railway related special cancels, well done and a unique group. (20). £100-120
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Universal Postal Union - Reply Coupons. 1907 Great Britain first type 3d International Reply Coupon with October 1st Albert Square, Manchester c.d.s. A rare use on the first day of the International Reply Coupon scheme. Photo on Page 158. £200-250
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"Eider". 1892 (Jan 21) Cover franked 5c from New York to London endorsed "Str. Eider", from the final voyage of the "Eider" which stranded on the Atherfield ledge near St. Catherines Point on January 31st and subsequently sank. All passengers and some mail were landed on the Isle of Wight on 1st February; this cover was undamaged and so received no explanatory cachet. £80-100
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