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ORDER OF SALE
Thursday 1st October 2020 - to be sold at 11.00 amAir Mails
Cobham Autographs, Picture Postcards 1 - 30
Crash Covers - including Imperial Airways, World War Two 31 - 81
Great Britain 82 - 110
Transatlantic Flights, USA, South & Central America, West Indies 111 - 119
Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland 120 - 141
India, Iraq 142 - 166
Africa - including Cobham & Bonney Flights, KUT 167 - 213
Australia 214 - 225
Imperial Airways - First Flights & Commercial Mail, including Persian Gulf 226 - 349
Empire Air Mail Scheme, B.O.A.C 350 - 358
Wreck Mail - including World War Two 359 - 421
World War Two Postal History
General lots, British & Indian Forces Mail 422 - 433
Censorship - G.B, British Empire & USA 434 - 465
Service Suspended Mail 466 - 504
Undeliverable & Redirected Mail, including Japanese P.O.W Mail 505 - 523
China P.O.W Mail, Mail to & from Japanese P.O.Ws 524 - 535
Damaged, Interrupted & Delayed Mail, including G.B “Damaged By Enemy Action” 536 - 552
Undercover Addresses 553 - 565
Jewish Refugee Mail, Patriotic Labels & Envelopes 566 - 613
Friday 2nd October 2020 - to be sold at 11.00 amPhilatelic Literature, Philatelic History 614 - 622
Worldwide & British Empire Stamps and Postal History - Mixed Lots 623 - 653
Aden, Antarctic, Ascension, Australia, Barbados, Basutoland 654 - 666
Bechuanaland, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Guiana 667 - 691
British Occupation of Italian Colonies, British Somaliland, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burma 692 - 701
Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Cocos Island, Cyprus, Fiji, France & Colonies 702 - 752
Gambia, Germany & Colonies, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland 753 - 772
India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika 773 - 859
Korea, Leeward Islands, Malaya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Nigeria, Nyasaland 860 - 887
Palestine, Persia, Persian Gulf, Rhodesia, Russia, St. Kitts Nevis, Sierra Leone 888 - 909
South Africa - Boer War, Mafeking, Cape, Griqualand, OFS, Union 910 - 950
South West Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland 951 - 964
Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, USA, Zanzibar 965 - 973
Great Britain
Stamps, Booklets, Telegraphs & Revenues, British Post Offices Abroad 974 - 1040
Autographs, Postcards & Ephemera 1041 - 1048
Postal History - Mixed Lots 1049 - 1059
Cancellations, Christmas, Cinderellas, Exhibitions & Special Events, Late Fees 1060 - 1077
Maritime Mail - including Liverpool, Scotland, Mobile Boxes 1078 - 1121
Military & Naval, Mulreadys & Caricatures, Parcel Post 1122 - 1140
Postal Stationery, Printed Matter, Registered Mail 1141 - 1166
Royalty, T.P.Os, Uniform 4d Post, Uniform Penny Post 1167 - 1205
Channel Islands, Cumberland, Isle of Man 1206 - 1227
Lancashire, London, Sussex, Westmoreland 1228 - 1247
Scotland - including Edinburgh & Leith, Glasgow 1248 - 1270
To Be Sold on Friday 2nd October 2020
at 11.00am PreciselyPHILATELIC LITERATURE
(Also See Lots 667, 833) |
1863-68 Philatelic Journals, three bound volumes comprising "The Stamp Collectors Magazine" volumes 1-4 (1863-66) bound in one volume (covers loose); also volume IV (1866) in original blue binding with gold lettering (with Capt. L.W Crouch book plate, binding a little loose), and "The Philatelist" volume II (1868) in fine original binding. Scarce publications from the first decade of philatelic literature, "The Stamp Collectors Magazine" the second journal devoted to philately published in Great Britain. (3 volumes). £100-120
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Various 1885-1940 Publications including "The Postage Stamps of Queensland" by A.F Basset Hull (text only), "The Postage Stamps of Africa, part II" and "The Postage Stamps of British India and Ceylon" by The Philatelic Society London, Walter Morley 1895 Catalogue of the Stamps of G.B, "Stamps of the British Empire" by H. Mackwood Millington, "The Stamp Fiends Raid" by W.E Imeson, D. Field and E. Loucher catalogues of war stamps, "South African Provisional War Stamps" by B. Poole (2 editions), "The Philatelic Handbook" by Major E.B Evans, 1923 London Stamp Exhibition catalogue, "The Duveen Collection" by C.J Phillips, "The Avery Collection" by W.H Peckitt, "Philately in Bristol" by A.E Hopkins, "Origins of the Penny Post" by F.J Melville, "Old Irish Postage Stamps & Franks" by W. Morley (2), "The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago" by Pearson Hill, "Postmarks of the British Isles" by J.G Hendy, "King Edward VII Land" by A.J Sefi, "Stamps of Barbados" by E.D Bacon & F.H Napier, "Penny Postage Centenary" by S. Graveson, "Postage Stamps and their Collection" by O. Firth, "The Stamp Collector" by W. Hardy and E. Bacon, Hilckes Kirkpatrick G.B catalogue, etc., a few faults. (46). £180-220
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Forgeries, Revenues, Locals & Cinderellas. 1882-1915 Publications comprising "Album Weeds" (First Edition) by Rev. Earee, Harry Hilckes 1892 Catalogue of Reprints, A. Forbin 1915 Revenue Catalogue, Fiscal Philatelic Society Catalogue of U.K Revenue and Fee stamps, "Catalogue des Timbres Commemoratifs" by Cazin & Rochas, George Lundy 1894 Catalogue of Revenue Stamps of G.B and Ireland, Stanley Gibbons 1899 Catalogue of Local Stamps of the World, "College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge" by Rev. Cummings, Bridger & Kay 1908 Catalogue of British Colonial Revenue, Telegraph and Railway Stamps, and "The Fiscal Philatelist and Revenue Stamp Guide" volume 1 for 1892-93 bound, a few faults. (10). £140-180
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Various books on stamps and postal history, mainly general works including "The Picture Postcard and Its Origins" by Frank Staff; "Postage Stamps and their Collection" by O. Firth, 1897 (2 copies); "The Siege of Paris Par Ballon Monte" by R. Thompson, reprints of "Album Weeds" by Rev. Earee (in 8 parts) and the 1915 Forbin Revenue Catalogue; also bound copies of journals including "The Postage Stamp" for 1908-09, "Gibbons Stamp Weekly" for 1905-10, "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" New Series volumes 1-4 for 1923-27; and various books by Robson Lowe, John Easton, Adrian Hopkins, L.N. & M Williams, etc. (c.150). £120-150
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The Royal Philatelic Collection - King George VI Signed Copy. The magnificently produced volume published by The Dropmore Press Ltd, sumptuously bound, enclosed within a board case, the first page signed "George R" by King George VI, also inscribed "A Right Royal Binding JW" by Sir John Wilson, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic collection and author of the book. King George VI died on 6th February 1952, the same year this book was published; there was therefore almost no chance of getting a copy signed by the King, this copy probably being an early proof edition. The only King George VI signed copy we have recorded and probably unique, the book and case both exceptionally fine condition. £800-1,000
PHILATELIC HISTORY |
1876 Cover with "Stanley Gibbons & Co" printed flap, posted from London to Rugby franked 1d, the enclosed letter on headed notepaper of 25 The Chase, Clapham (handstamped 'Removed to 8 Gower St') originally enclosing an approval sheet of 100 stamps. An early stamp dealer letter. £40-50
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c.1880-1990s Covers, letters and ephemera concerning stamp dealers or collectors, auctions, congresses or exhibitions, including 1896 letter from William Brown on illustrated notepaper, 1889 Chicago Philatelic Society Constitution and By-laws, C.J Phillips Catalogue of U.S Departmental Stamps, 1935 and 1948 Philatelic Congress menus, 1940 Stamp Centenary catalogue for an exhibition held at Brighton Art Gallery, etc. (95). £120-140
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1915 (Mar 15) Letter written and signed by Sir Edward Denny Bacon, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection, on Buckingham Palace notepaper, to L.A. Lawrence, "I have laid your letter of the 7th inst. before the King. His Majesty desires me to thank you for your kind thoughts in forwarding the stamps. He is pleased to retain the proof impressions of the Madagascar, but as he already possesses several similar specimens of the Cape of Good Hope in his collection I return the copies of these to you. They are reprints taken in 1883 of the stamps originally issued in the colony in the year 1861". £80-100
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1933-34 Postcard posted from Croydon, and letters (3) all written and signed by Sir Edward Denny Bacon, Keeper of the Royal Collection, to the air mail dealer John Davies, concerning a Western Air Express cover purchased for the King's collection for 15/-, or declining other flight covers as the King only collects such covers if they bear air stamps. (4). £120-140
WORLDWIDE STAMPS & COVERS |
1840-c.1970 Collection in six albums or stockbooks including reasonable Hong Kong with 1863-71 4c cancelled "S2" of Swatow (straight edge), 1919-21 $10 and 1921-37 $3 used, also G.B with 1d blacks (2, faults) and 1d red plate 225 (straight edge at left) used, Hungary 1920-59 collection, etc. (100s). £140-180
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Selection of mint and used Persia including surcharges and overprints, officials, etc (100s); Italy 1938 Second Anniversary of Proclamation of Empire set of sixteen superb unmounted mint (S.G. 534/49, £130); and Japan c.1900 sheet headed "The Collection of all Old Japanese Postage Stamps" bearing 79 1871-96 issue stamps, the sixty 1871-79 stamps all forgeries. £100-120
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c.1895-1980 Mainly mint selection on stockcards including France with 1947 500f, 1954 1000f and 1957 1000f air stamps unmounted mint, Germany with Hitler Head "skull" 12pf propaganda forgery inscribed "Futsches Reich" in a miniature sheet of four, various other Europe, also a few Commonwealth with Trinidad & Tobago 1914 5/- mint, etc. (100s). £120-150
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c.1902 Lincoln Stamp album, well filled, very mixed quality but with imperf classics including G.B 1d black and Geneva 1850 5c (both very faulty), German States, Cape triangulars (4, two fine), USA 1861-62 12c and 30c, New Zealand 1865 4d rose, Western Australia 1861 imperf 4d sage-green (faults), also various locals, revenues and cinderellas, etc. (100s). £150-180
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Europe & Colonies. c.1870-1980 Extensive mint and used collection in 36 S.G. Devon albums including France and French Colonies, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, etc., also duplicates and some 1980-82 new issues in a further six stockbooks. A neatly mounted collection, 1960s-70s issues largely complete unmounted for several countries, condition generally very fine. (42 albums). £1,000-1,200
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Europe. c.1870-1930's Mint and used collection in a stockbook including German States, Danzig with 1924 10g black and brown fine used, Sweden 1862 30ore Stockholm local issue used (tear), etc., some faults. (100s). £100-120
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Foreign Countries. c.1870-1980 Extensive mint and used collection comprising South and Central America, USA and foreign countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia, neatly mounted in nineteen S.G. Devon albums, also duplicates in nine albums or stockbooks, and in packets or loose in a large box, condition generally very fine. (28+ albums). £500-600
Postal History & Covers |
c.1900-80 Covers and cards, many from Australia including military mail, explanatory marks, 1946 stampless air mail covers from Madagascar with "Taxe Percue" cachets (3), postal stationery, etc. (c.440). £180-220
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c.1905-80 Covers and cards (70) with various air mail covers including Qantas first flights, 1925 Scadta cover, WW2 flights including registered 1941 cover from Stockholm to England inscribed "By air Stockholm - Baku, by railway Baku - Teheran, by air Teheran - Bagdad - Africa - London", 1936 covers bearing Silver Jubilee sets of Bechuanaland, Swaziland or Seychelles, etc. Also some ephemera with hotel or airline luggage labels, India Coronation Durbar Central Post Office leaflet with six stamps tied by the Durbar c.d.s or machine cancels, 1930 "Bedford Record" newspaper reporting the burial of the R101 victims at Cardington, 1966 British Philatelic Exhibition cards bearing G.B stamps and signed by their designers (3, including David Gentleman), etc. (c100). £100-150
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1907-69 Covers, mainly British Africa postal stationery including Southern Rhodesia KGVI size H2 registration envelopes (3, two used) and Seychelles KGVI 20c size H registration envelope used, air letters, also a few air mail covers, 1949 cover from Trieste Zone A to Seychelles missent to USA, etc. (45). £180-220
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1933-48 Covers mainly to Mr Henry Heyburn in the USA, mounted with corners in two albums entitled "A collection of foreign covers" with an "Ex. Libris" label of Heyburn, virtually all collected to illustrate a specific aspect of the postal service or country of origin with typed explanations alongside. Noted are registered covers with C.O.Ps from Iran, Afghanistan, etc; flight covers including Zeppelins; Spitsbergen cover with Kings Bay cachets; Greenland, Iceland and Arctic regions; covers signed by the Governors of American Samoa, Canal Zone, U.S Virgin Islands, Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Philippine Islands; Yangtse Patrol cover; China and Manchoukuo; U.S diplomatic mail including U.S Consulates in Tihwa (2) Mukden, Yunnanfu, Vladivostock, Jeddah and Dhahran; French Colonies; British West Indies; 1946 stampless Aden "ON KATHIRI STATE SERVICE" cover with "SEIYUN" c.d.s; Latvia covers with 1932 air charity perf and imperf set or 1935 President Ulmanis fifth anniversary miniature sheet, etc. An unusual collection, virtually all of some interest. (121+). £700-1,000
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Maritime Mail. 1889-1967 Covers and cards (39) and a front, mainly with Paquebot cancels including Istanbul (3, Hosking 1313, 1314 on cards, 1312 on front), 1904 cover with Venezuela 50c pair cancelled "PAQUEBOT (N.Y. 2D DIV)", etc. (40). £100-120
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Train Crashes - USA / Canada. 1944-59 Covers and cards comprising 1944 (Jan 11) fire damaged cover and card to California both handstamped "DAMAGED BY FIRE IN TRANSIT / 1.15.44", 1952 (Feb 16) cover to California with "DAMAGED BY FIRE / IN UN PAC TR 5 / FB 28 1952", 1951 (Dec 21) cover from Toronto to USA with violet "DAMAGED IN RAILROAD FIRE" and enclosed explanatory note; and 1959 (Dec 15) fire damaged cover from Saskatoon to Ontario with Winnipeg Post Office letter explaining it was in a train fire. (5). £180-220
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World War One - P.O.W Mail. 1917-19 Covers and lettersheets from internees in Knockaloe, Isle of Man (3), Oiza, Japan (parcel acknowledgement card, to Shanghai) or from Stockholm to Saint-Affrique evacuee camp at Aveyron, France, redirected to "Caserne Martaux, Colonie des Etrangers, Rochefort" with Civil Interne censor. Also an India cover with Star of David handstamp, the covers all to or from Jewish internees. (6). £80-100
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World War One. 1914-18 Covers and cards including civil censors with boxed "CENSORED" or "PASSED / AEGEAN / POSTAL / CENSOR / SYRA" on covers from or to Syros, Greece; patriotic labels; forces mail with 1915 boxed "Censored / L.W Sadleir-Jackson" on O.A.S. card, 1915 O.A.S cover with "HOPITAL ANGLAIS / DE / NEVERS" cachet containing two letters from Lady Paget, sent to her husband on H.M Yacht "Eileen", etc. (77). £100-120
BRITISH EMPIRE |
1840-1935 Mint and used QV-KGV collection in an S.G. New Ideal British Empire album, condition largely fine with many better stamps and sets, including Australia 1924 £1, 1929-30 10/-, 1935 £1 all used and 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 5/- C.T.O; Bahamas 1884-90 £1, 1902-07 £1 and 1912-19 £1 mint; British P.O in Bangkok Crown CC 5c purple- brown and Crown CA 6c lilac both unused; Bechuanaland KGV 2/6 and 5/- mint; Mafeking Sgt. Goodyear 1d pale blue used on piece; Bermuda 1918-22 2/- - £1 set mint; British East Africa 1890 4a on 5d with octagonal London cancel; British Guiana 1905 $2.40 mint; Brunei 1922 Malaya-Borneo Exhibition set mint; Canada 1903-12 20c, 1908 Quebec Tercentenary set mint; Cape triangulars (8); Cayman Islands 1907 ½d and 1d surcharges, 1907-09 and 1912-20 10/- all mint; Dominica 1923-33 £1 mint; Ireland 1922 Dollard 2/6 - 10/- and 1922-23 Thom 5/- and 10/- mint; Falkland Islands 1898 5/- used; Federated Malay States 1900-01 set mint (8c used); Gibraltar 1886 4d and 6d mint; G.B 1d black and 1840 2d blue used, imperf 1d reds mint (2, faults), 1867-83 Maltese Cross 5/- and Anchor 5/- (corner creases) both used, 1877 4d sage-green unused, 1881 5d indigo mint, 1883-84 10/- used, 1883-84 1½d, 2d lilac and 4d green mint, 1/- used, 1887-1900 set to 1/- (both colours) mint and £1 used (vertical crease), 1902-10 2/6 - £1 used, 1913 £1 used, 1919 Bradbury Wilkinson 5/- mint, 1929 PUC £1 used; Hong Kong 1891 Jubilee 2c first day use; India 1865 2a orange mint, 1866 6a used, 1895 2r carmine and brown mint; Ionian Islands ½d apparently used (not guaranteed); Leeward Islands 1928 £1 mint; British Levant largely complete mint (with 1893 handstamped 40pa on ½d showing broken "S", not guaranteed but with expert marks); Malta 1863-81 Crown CC ½d mint, 1922 Multiple Script CA 10/- Self Government overprint mint; Montserrat 1880 Crown CC 2½d, 1903 set, 1904-08 set, 1908-14 set, 1914 5/-, 1916-22 set, 1922-29 set and 1932 set all mint; Morocco Agencies 1907-35 overprints on G.B largely complete mint; Natal 1857 6d green used on piece, 1870 1/- used; Nauru 10/- mint; Newfoundland imperf issues (8), 1880 5c pale dull blue unused; New South Wales 1897 Consumptive Homes pair used; New Zealand 1878 5/- used, 1906 N.Z Exhibition set mint; Niger Coast 1897 perf 14 10/- mint; Nigeria 1914 10/- (white back) used; Nova Scotia 1853 1d used (corner fault); Orange Free State 1903-04 set mint; Rhodesia 1896 3d on 5/- used, 1898-1908 3/- - 10/- and £2 mint, 1905 Victoria Falls set mint, 1910 ½d - 1/- Double Heads mint, 1913-19 Admirals ½d - 7/6 and £1 mint (3d die I, 1/-, 5/- and £1 die II, 5d die IIIA, others die IIIB, the 10d 2/-, 3/-, 7/6 and £1 unmounted, scarce S.G. 255f with small fault at base); St. Kitts-Nevis 1903 set, 1920-22 set, 1921-29 set and 1923 Tercentenary set all mint; St. Helena 1922 4d torn flag variety mint; St. Lucia 1891-98 3d - 10/- mint; St. Vincent 1899 5/-, 1902 set, 1904-11 set all mint; Sierra Leone 1912-21 £1 mint; Straits Settlements 1867 32c on 2a mint, 1867-72 Crown CC 6c, 24c and 30c mint; Sungei Ujong overprints; Trinidad & Tobago 1921-22 5/- and £1 mint; Uganda piece bearing 1896 8a (faults) + 1r pair tied by British Vice-Consul revenue cancel; Zanzibar 1896 2½a - 7½a overprints on B.E.A mint, 1896 set to 5r mint; Zululand 1888-93 ½d - 1/- mint; also 1935 Silver Jubilee omnibus issue complete mint for all colonies, etc. An excellent collection, a few defective, fiscal or forged stamps noted and the occasional unused stamp without gum, the majority however fine with many better stamps and sets, considerable catalogue value. Photo on Page 98. £8,500-10,000
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1896-1969 QV-QEII Selection including Rhodesia 1896-97 die I 8d, 3/-, 4/- and die II 4d, 2/-, 2/6, 5/- and 10/- all handstamped "Specimen" (Samuel R3, the only values from this issue recorded with this Specimen type); Tanganyika "G.E.A" 5r Specimen; Natal 1908-09 5/- and 10/- mint; KUT 1954-59 2/- - £1 unmounted; British Antarctic Territory 1963-69 ½d - £1 set of 16 (with both £1 types) unmounted; Samoa 1914 G.R.I overprint ½d on 3pf, 2½d on 20pf mint, ½d on 5pf, 6d on 50pf (on piece) used, etc. S.G. £1,715 + specimens. (52). £160-200
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1978-83 New issues unmounted mint in four stockbooks and packets, virtually complete for most colonies until 1982, also some earlier stamps. (100s). £100-120
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British Post Offices in Morocco & Levant. 1898-1950 Mint collection on pages, Morocco Agencies comprising Gibraltar overprint issues virtually complete (just missing S.G. 21/23); British Currency issues complete until 1936 KEVIII pair; Spanish Currency 1907-12 KEVII De La Rue set, 1918 De La Rue 12p on 10/-; French Currency issues complete; Tangier issues; also Levant issues (56), all fine. S.G. £2,500 (approx). (262). £200-300
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British Europe. 1885-1982 Mainly mint collections of Malta, Gibraltar, Cyprus and Ireland in four S.G. Devon albums, c.1965-82 issues complete unmounted from all four countries, some reasonable earlier issues including Malta 1922 ¼d - 10/-, 1926 set, etc., fine condition. (4 albums). £300-400
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British Africa. 1884-1980 Mainly mint collection in three S.G. Devon albums comprising Basutoland and Lesotho, Bechuanaland and Botswana, Malawi, Rhodesia, Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Swaziland and Zambia, c.1965-79 issues apparently virtually complete unmounted, some earlier issues including Bechuanaland 1955-58 set, Basutoland 1954-58 and 1961-63 sets, Northern Rhodesia 1925 2/- block of four, Swaziland 1956 set, etc., fine condition. (3 albums). £250-300
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British Asia. 1857-1977 Collection of Ceylon, Pakistan, Bahawalpur and Burma in an S.G. Devon album, with Ceylon Chalon Head issues (17), later issues nearly all mint including Bahawalpur 1948 (Apr 1) set, Burma 1937 3p-1r and 1938-40 set, Pakistan 1948-57 1r - 25r (postage and Service issues), etc., fine condition. (100s). £150-180
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British Pacific Islands. 1876-1977 Mainly mint collection in six S.G. Devon albums, issues from c.1965 largely complete unmounted, comprising Aitutaki, Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Nauru, New Hebrides, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau and Tonga (with 1942-49 set), also "Tonga" by F.J Melville, all stamps fine. (6 albums). £300-400
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British West Indies. c.1862-1981 Mainly mint collections in twelve S.G. Devon albums, c.1964-1977 issues apparently complete unmounted, also some reasonable earlier issues, comprising Anguilla; Antigua; Bahamas including 1938-52 set, 1942 set, 1954-63 sets (2); Barbuda; Bermuda including 1865 6d dull purple (S.G. 6, £1,000), 1918-22 2/6 and 5/-, 1922-24 5/- all mint; British Guiana and Guyana including 1934-51 set; British Honduras and Belize; Cayman Islands including 1938-48 set; Dominica; Grenada including 1938-50 set with 10/- perf 12½ or perf 14 (2, S.G. 163b, 163e); Jamaica; Montserrat; St Kitts Nevis; St Lucia; St. Vincent; Turks & Caicos Is.; Virgin Islands including 1938-47 and 1956-62 sets, etc., fine condition. (12 albums). £500-600
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Middle East. 1918-66 Mainly mint collection in an S.G. Devon album including Transjordan with 1939 perf 13½x13 10m (S.G. 199a, £190) and 1942 set; Aden with 1953-63 set (all listed shades) and Protectorate States issues; Qatar 1961 set, etc, fine condition. (100s). £100-150
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Indian Ocean Islands. 1858-1977 Mainly mint collection in a S.G. Devon album with Mauritius including 1904-07 set, 1910 1c-5r, 1913-23 2r50 and 10r (2), 1921-34 set (no 20c blue), 1938-49 set and all 1965-77 issues; British Indian Ocean Territory 1968-76 complete; Maldives; Seychelles 1963-77 complete, all fine. (100s). £150-200
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South Atlantic. 1883-1983 Mainly mint collection in two S.G. Devon albums comprising Falkland Islands with 1921-29 set, 1952 set, 1965-83 complete unmounted; South Georgia with all 1971-82, issues; Tristan da Cunha 1960 set and all 1966-82 issues unmounted; St. Helena 1884-94 set, 1953-59 set and 1963-82 issues complete unmounted; and British Antarctic Territory 1963-82 complete unmounted (1963-69 set with both £1 stamps), fine condition. (2 albums). £240-280
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Gold Coast & Sierra Leone. 1884-1971 Mainly mint collection in an S.G. Devon album including Gold Coast 1884-91 and 1898-1902 sets, Sierra Leone 1965-71 issues unmounted. (100s). Photo on Page 126. £120-150
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Labuan, North Borneo & Sarawak. 1880-1965 Mainly mint collection on pages including Labuan 1894-1904 issues (47); North Borneo (115) with 1904-05 4c surcharge set of twelve, 1947 set, etc.; and Sarawak (55), mainly fine. (217). £100-120
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Specimen Stamps. Various QV-KGV stamps with Specimen overprints, mainly odd stamps or part sets including Natal 1887 2d (S.G. 106s, £100), 1902 KEVII ½d - 2d, 3d - 6d, 2/-, 2/6, 5/-, £1 and 1908 5/-, 10/-; Zululand 1891 1d postal fiscal (S.G. F1s, £65); Grenada 1913-22 set of ten (no gum) and fifteen values from the 1921-31 issue; Gambia 1902 KEVII set of twelve (some gum toning); Virgin Islands 1899 set of eight (no gum); British Levant 1885 40pa on 2½d; also stamps of Ceylon, Cyprus, Dominica, Turks Islands, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, KUT, and three Southern Rhodesia sample stamps with punch holes and Waterlow Specimen overprints. A few without gum, otherwise largely fine. (95). £150-180
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Revenues. 1891-1906 Revenue documents bearing revenue or postage stamps of Rhodesia (2 documents, 1892 5/- + 1896 10/-, or 1896 5/- + 10/-), Bechuanaland (2 documents), Natal (2 documents) or Cape of Good Hope, also one G.B document. (8). £100-120
ADEN |
1937-66 Mint and used issues including 1937 ½a - 1r, 1951 surcharge set and 1953-63 set all mint, 1939 ¾a sheet of eighty used, Seiyun 1942 and 1951 sets mint and 1942 ½a - 1a mint sheets of sixty, Shihr and Mukalla 1942 and 1951 sets mint and 1942 ½a and 1a in mint sheets of sixty, etc. Also a Post Office notice listing the 1939-48 set then on sale, and 1941 notice listing the new Qu'aiti and Kathiri stamps. S.G. £1,150. (c.570). £150-180
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World War Two. 1939-43 Covers, forces mail or censors including 1941 provisional Honour Envelope with green crayon cross and handwritten inscription franked 2½a, cover with blue oval "H.M W/T STATION / 25 OCT 1941 / ADEN" and boxed "PASSED BY CENSOR", etc. (8). £100-120
ANTARCTIC |
1908 (Jan 15) Cover from Raymond Priestley, Geologist on Shackleton's 1907-09 Antarctic Expedition, addressed to his parents in England, with King Edward VII Land 1d tied by "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD. / N.Z" c.d.s applied on the "Nimrod". The first use of KEVII Land stamps and the first mail from the expedition, sent back to New Zealand on the "Koonya" from the edge of the Antarctic ice pack, backstamped at Christchurch (Jan 23) and Tewkesbury. A stamp hinge applied over a small tear at upper edge, light vertical fold and flap torn, a scarce item of expedition mail. Photo on Page 108. £300-350
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1911 (Jan 23) Cover with "BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION / TERRA NOVA R.Y.S" crest printed on the reverse (depicting a Penguin standing on Antarctica), from Raymond Priestley, Geologist on the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition, to his mother in England. Franked by Victoria Land 1d tied by the "BRIT. ANTARCTIC EXPD / N.Z" c.d.s applied on the "Terra Nova". Light vertical fold, otherwise a fine and rare item of expedition mail, only one other example of the Antarctic Expd c.d.s. with this 23 JA 11 date recorded by Robert Duns in "New Zealand Antarctic Postal History to 1941". Photo on Page 108. £500-600
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Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. 1934 (Feb 12) Covers from G.C Francis in Palmerston North, addressed to "Little America Post Office, Antarctica" franked by N.Z ½d pair or 2d, both endorsed "per Discovery 2nd", with a 1935 (Feb 22) letter from the Little America Postmaster Leroy Clark to Francis, "I return herewith 24 covers received from you via Discovery II - rules prohibit me cancelling any covers at Little America which are previously cancelled in any way"; and a further 1936 (May 15) letter to Francis "when the Byrd Antarctic Expedition was disbanded in June 1935 a few letters which had not been despatched with the rest of the mail by Mr Clark, for some reason not apparent, were discovered ..... the enclosed letter is one of them", both letters received on 8 June 1936 (the return of these covers having been delayed for 15 months). (2 covers + 2 letters). £150-180
ASCENSION |
1922-82 Mint collection on pages including 1922 set, 1924-33 set, 1934 set, 1938-53 set with additional perfs, 1956 set and all subsequent issues, unmounted from 1966, all fine. (100s). £200-250
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1938-53 Perf 14 1½d black and rose-carmine with davit flaw and perf 13 10/- with boulder flaw, both mounted, otherwise fine mint. S.G. 40da, 47ba, £780. (2). Photo on Page 126. £100-120
AUSTRALIA |
c.1880-1978 Mint and used collection in three S.G. Devon albums, comprising Australia and a few Australian States, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos Island and Papua New Guinea, apparently complete unmounted mint from c.1966. (3 albums). £180-220
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1932 2d Scarlet with "OS" overprint, die III with watermark small Multiple "Crown /A", variety watermark inverted, fine used with light c.d.s. Very scarce, with Ceremuga Certificate (2020). S.G. O125w, £3,500. Photo on Back Cover. £900-1,200
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Machine Cancels. 1902-19 Covers and cards (68, also two further 1930-31 covers) with machine cancels, all on pages, various types and offices, comprising N.S.W (21), Queensland (7), South Australia (8), Tasmania (4), Victoria (26) and Western Australia (4), includes scarce 1913 English Mail N.S.W continuous Krag, 1901 N.S.W 1d reply card used from Sydney to Melbourne with the attached half used back to Sydney, etc. (70). £180-220
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