Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History (Auction number 49) Day 1
Auctioneer: Argyll Etkin Limited Location: London
Contact: Tel: 0207 930 6100 Fax: 0207 494 288
Date: 10th March 2022 Time: 10:30AM
Details: Please contact the office for sale details.
Please note new locations: Great Connaught Rooms,
61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA
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Auction Lots - Page 12
551
Click to view full image... Stalybridge. 1906 Picture postcard posted within Stalybridge with a KEVII ½d tied by "X / MAS" cancel, fine and very scarce, just 2,400 items posted in 1906. Photo on Page 92. £300-350
552
Click to view full image... Stockport. 1908 Cover to Disley with a KEVII 1d tied by fine "X / MAS" cancel. c.30,000 Items posted in 1908. Photo on Page 92. £120-140
553
  Wakefield. 1903 Cover posted locally, a KEVII 1d tied by the oval Advance Posting cancel, code "W.F." in red, the lower lettering unclear. 7,053 Items posted in 1903. £120-150
554
Click to view full image... Walsall. 1903 Picture postcard sent locally with KEVII ½d tied by oval Advance Posting cancel code "W.L." in red, superb quality. The only year this scheme operated at Walsall, 11,618 items posted. Photo on Page 94. £200-250
555
Click to view full image... Warrington. 1904 Cover to Five Crosses near Frodsham with KEVII ½d tied by oval Advance Posting cancel, code "W.A.". 8,022 Items posted in 1904. Photo on Page 94. £150-180
556
Click to view full image... Warrington. 1907 Cover to Five Crosses near Frodsham with KEVII ½d tied by a fine "X / MAS" cancel. 17,600 Items posted in 1907. Photo on Page 94. £150-180
557
Click to view full image... Widnes. 1906 Picture postcard to Salford with a KEVII ½d tied by the "X / MAS" cancel, a couple of letters at the base off the card and repair to lower edge, otherwise fine and very scarce, just 2,200 items posted at Widnes in 1906. Photo on Page 94. £180-220
558
Click to view full image... Wigan. 1903 (Dec 21) Picture postcard sending Christmas greetings from Hindley Green to Wigan, the KEVII ½d tied by a "HINDLEY GREEN" c.d.s, with oval "POSTED IN ADVANCE / W.I. / 1903 / FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY" alongside. The only item we have seen posted at an ordinary office not operating the Christmas posting scheme but then transferred to the Christmas delivery scheme by the office of delivery. A remarkable card, exceptionally fine, 9,020 items posted in advance for Christmas day delivery in Wigan in 1903. Photo on Page 94. £500-600
559
  Wigan. 1909 Cover sent within Widnes, a KEVII ½d tied by the "X / MAS" cancel. 23,800 Items posted in Wigan in 1909. £100-120

Exhibitions, Congresses & Special Events

560
  1929 U.P.U Congress. Covers (11) and a postcard bearing PUC issues all cancelled by the "POSTAL UNION CONGRESS / LONDON" double ring c.d.s (11) or violet single ring packet datestamp, two registered covers with Postal Union Congress registration labels, one a May 10th F.D.C franked ½d, 1½d and 2½d also bearing the Congress cachet. Two other May 10th F.D.Cs each franked 2½d, eight covers with embossed or printed Congress flaps, one with an enclosed letter on an embossed Congress card, also a cover with a forged cancel. (13). £300-350
561
  1936 (Oct 7) Registered cover and a telegram with envelope both to Canterbury, sent from the first G.B Mobile Post Office located at the Marden Fruit Show, the registration envelope with the Mobile Post Office A c.d.s on the stamp and registration label. Also three contemporary newspaper cuttings and the first G.P.O leaflet on the Mobile Post Office. (3+). £80-100

1890 Penny Postage Jubilee

562
  "Account of the Jubilee of Penny Postage", 1891 first edition (331 pages) signed by Sydney Beckley, one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Post Office Committee; and "The Penny Postage Jubilee and Philatelic History" by Phil, published in 1891, leather bound, binding faults. The first fine, and a unique association copy of this book. (2). £160-180
563
  "Instructions for Postal Duty to be performed in connection with the Uniform Penny Postage Jubilee Conversazione at South Kensington on Wednesday 2nd July 1890", 16 pages, the large South Kensington Penny Postage Jubilee c.d.s on the front cover, damp staining to the right edges of all pages; and "Celebration by the Corporation of the City of London of the Jubilee Anniversary of the Introduction of Inland Uniform Penny Postage at the Guildhall, London, 16th May 1890. Reports of the Controller of the London Postal Service and the Electrician", 13 pages, unusually with 2nd July large c.d.s and 1d Tube Post handstamps on the front, minor damp staining to the edge of the cover and first couple of pages, otherwise fine. Two scarce official publications. (2). £200-250
564
  1890 Conversazione at the Guildhall, invitation ticket featuring a VR 1d black, numbered 2655, unnamed. Also miniature imitation 1d Guildhall stationery card with a printed U.S address, message reading "I send you by this mail a number of these new issue special postcards with your name printed thereon. Please acknowledge receipt and let me know if you could use more", etc. (7) £180-200
565
  1890 Conversazione at the Guildhall, invitation ticket with illustration of Rowland Hill and a VR 1d black, numbered "56", unnamed; and 1890 Post Office Christmas cards with illustration of the Guildhall postcard and postmarks and the South Kensington envelope and postmarks, the two versions of the card (with "1890-91" date in black or grey), also the "Bray" forgery. The ticket with very minor soiling but scarce and attractive, one Christmas card with minor edge creasing, otherwise fine. (4). £180-200
566
  1890 Conversazione at the Guildhall, invitation ticket with illustrations of Rowland Hill and a VR 1d black, numbered "746", unnamed, scarce and attractive. £160-180
567
Click to view full image... Printed red linen tie-on mailbag label, "V. (crown) R. / PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE / From GUILDHALL Post Office, / To---", unused. A spectacular and rare item. Photo on Page 94. £400-500
568
Click to view full image... Guildhall 1d postal stationery card, the reverse with a printed message of thanks from the Guildhall Conversazione Committee, signed by the five Committee members including F.E Baines and R.C Tombs. A fine and scarce card, sent to Post Office officials. Photo on Page 94. £250-300
569
  1890 Guildhall 1d postal stationery cards comprising an unused card; card cancelled to order with the rubber Guildhall datestamp without code for May 16; postally used cards with the steel Guildhall datestamps for May 16 (code "8" inverted) or May 17 (code 4); and a card cancelled to order with the steel Guildhall datestamp for May 16 (code "8") and the South Kensington large c.d.s of July 2nd. Two a little toned, one card with light crease, the last card very unusual with C.T.O cancels of both events. (5). £120-150
570
  Sheet of Post Office notepaper with twelve proof impressions of the 16 May Guildhall steel datestamp with large code "12", and Post Office envelope with three proof impressions of the 17 May Guildhall steel datestamp with very small code "12". Very unusual. (2). £200-250
571
Click to view full image... 1890 (May 16-19) Covers and cards with Guildhall cancels, postally used items with steel datestamps (8) including a cover unusually franked 10d, 1841 letter reposted in 1890 franked 1d lilac (original 1d stamp sadly cut out), newspaper wrapper and postcards (2); and the rubber datestamp without code cancelled to order on postcards (6), one the unusual 3d card, one also with 2 July South Kensington c.d.s, another reposted at the 1966 G.B.P.S Guildhall Exhibition with similar type cancel. Also another 1966 cover. (15). Photo on Page 96. £220-260
572
Click to view full image... Guildhall Exhibit label card with the printed heading "V.R / PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE / AT GUILDHALL 1890" between the Royal and Corporation of London arms, in black, 184x118mm, the plain white octagonal portion cut out and the frame applied to paper bearing the 2nd July South Kensington large size c.d.s and blue "GR" handstamp, a May 16 Guildhall rubber datestamp on paper also applied, minor toning, very attractive and unusual. Photo on Page 96. £120-150
573
Click to view full image... Printed red linen tie on mailbag label, "V. (crown) R. / PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE, / From / SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM Post Office, / To (Paddington)". A rare and spectacular item, just two other used examples of this bag label recorded by Davies (one in the Postal Museum). Photo on Inside Back Cover. £600-700
574
  1890 (July 2) Covers and cards with South Kensington datestamps, postally used items comprising printed William Lincoln postcard, 2d + 2d reply card, newspaper wrappers (2) and 1d envelope with boxed "Found in N.W. / without contents", all with the large c.d.s; also cancelled to order items (5) including a plain envelope with all six differing handstamps (a little staining), 1890 1d envelope and a 1d pink envelope each with three differing handstamps, three of these with the 1d and 3d Tube Post handstamps. (10). £200-240
575
Click to view full image... 1890 (July 2) Cover posted within London, bearing a 1d red plate 212 cancelled by the large South Kensington c.d.s, very unusual. Photo on Page 96. £150-180
576
Click to view full image... Gold wrapper band for the 1d Jubilee envelopes, applied to card, the lower portion of the wording cut out and "South Kensington Museum" written in, with proof impressions of the South Kensington large c.d.s applied at either side. The first example we have seen of these datestamps applied to the envelope wrapper band. Photo on Page 94. £120-140
577
  1890 Post Office Notice, "Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage Conversazione at South Kensington Museum on Wednesday 2nd July 1890 ..... Special Postage Jubilee Envelope", announcing the issue of the special 1d stationery envelope with correspondence card, to be sold at 1/- each, the additional proceeds to go to the Rowland Hill Benevolent Fund. A fine Post Office Notice, 216x336mm. £120-140
578
  1890 Penny Postage Jubilee 1d envelope, postally used examples including registered covers franked 2d from Liverpool, Birmingham or London (used 1894), July 2 First Day uses from Liverpool, Earls Court or the South Kensington Exhibition, etc. (11). £150-180
579
Click to view full image... 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee 1d envelopes posted from Edinburgh to Singapore franked 9d, with "PENANG - TO - SINGAPORE" backstamp; or from Cricklade to Bombay franked 4d with "SEA POST OFFICE" and Bombay backstamps. Two unusual highly uprated uses to Asia. (2). Photo on Page 96. £180-220
580
  1890 Penny Postage Jubilee 1d envelopes registered to Germany, franked 2d + 2½d with unusual "57" single numeral cancel and red Registered Chiswick cancel on the envelope stamp; 1d + 2½d cancelled by Registered Lothbury c.d.s; or 1½d + 2d (on reverse) cancelled at Compton St. East, Eastbourne. The first with part address erased and edge faults at base, otherwise fine and unusual. (3). £140-160
581
Click to view full image... 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee envelope insert cards postally used, on 3rd July 1890 from London to Weymouth franked 1d, or registered on the day of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (22 June 1897) from Birmingham to Switzerland franked 3d with a message refering to the Jubilee, this card very unusual. (2). Photo on Page 96. £150-180
582
  1890 Penny Postage Jubilee 1d envelopes and caricatures including unused envelope with the gold wrapper band, envelope used in 1906 with the insert card bearing a printed message from the County Fire Office Ltd, envelopes posted at the 1912 Jubilee Stamp Exhibition or in 1929 franked P.U.C ½d; Furness caricature envelopes with insert cards (3), one with "Presented with the Christmas Number of the Stamp Collectors Fortnightly, December 15th 1906" printed on the reverse, one insert card sent with the compliments of John Walker & Co, publishers of the envelope, bearing their cachet, also a faked use of this envelope to Italy; Elliot caricature envelopes (3, two with inserts), etc. (24). £200-250

Philatelic Congress of Great Britain

583
  1911 Birmingham Congress. Covers (2) and postcards (2) comprising postcard to W.S Lincoln franked ½d with a bisected 1d and five overprinted Argentina stamps (3 bisected), card from W.T Wilson to Germany, cover franked 1d (2) + 1½d, and cover with 1d + Vienna Philatelic Exhibition label, all stamps and labels tied by the Congress c.d.s. Also Congress label in green imperf and in a blue strip of three imperf between vertically. (6). £150-180
584
  1911 Birmingham Congress. Unused set of twelve postcards (eight with faults); banquet invitation card and programme; Circular Delivery stamps with private Congress overprints (12); Congress label proof in green and black; and a cover to "W. T. Wilson, Congress Banquet, Grand Hotel, B'ham" bearing Congress labels in four colours, one tied by the Congress c.d.s. Also an invitation card to the opening of the 1913 Congress in Edinburgh, named to Mr Wilson. (29). £250-300
585
  1912 Margate Congress. Covers (3) and cards (3) all with the Congress c.d.s. including souvenir postcards (2, one with printed L. Leon Adutt greetings), cover franked KEVII 1½d + 2d + KGV ½d + 1d with six triangular Congress labels (one just tied by c.d.s), and covers with uncancelled Congress labels (2), also two unused labels. (8). £150-180
586
  1913 Edinburgh Congress. Covers (4) all with the Congress c.d.s, including printed Congress envelope franked 1d and bearing a Congress label (just tied), 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee envelope used to USA with insert card bearing handwritten greetings from W.T Wilson, and cover from Wilson to the USA bearing an uncancelled Congress label. Also two 1913 unused labels, and a London 1914 Congress label proof (as used on the front of the Congress programme). (7). £140-160
587
  1920-29 Covers and cards (20) all with Congress cancels, including 1920 cover (letter enclosed) with 1½d and Congress label both tied by the Newcastle c.d.s, 1921 Mulready type souvenir cards (2), similar 1922 card bearing four Congress labels and KGV 1d (the Bath c.d.s tying one label), 1922 1d postcard with additional Congress label on reverse tied by the c.d.s, 1924 card with Empire Exhibition 1d and uncancelled label, 1927 card from R. Goodfellow, etc. Also a quantity of 2011-18 Congress ephemera, cancels, postcards, etc. (20++). £250-300
588
  1927-28 Congress flight covers, comprising 1927 (June 21) covers from the Nottingham Congress franked 3½d to Prague or Abadan, both with "Air Mail" and "Special despatch for Phil. Congress" labels, backstamps of Berlin or Basrah, Buchire and Abadan; and a 1928 (June 26) Air Mail cover franked 4½d from the London Congress to Tangier with arrival datestamps of the Moroccan and British Post Offices. Scarce, few covers flown. (3). £120-150

1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition

589
  Ephemera, postmarks and covers written up on pages, including the exhibition catalogue, request for donations, receipts for exhibit space or insurance (2), admission ticket, awards list, proof strikes of the exhibition cancel without time slugs (5 strikes on 3 pieces, two strikes also with incomplete year), covers and cards with the exhibition cancel with various dates or times (7), exhibition auction catalogue, printed "Philatelic Club" envelope with Ideal Stamp posted from the exhibition, press pass, paper watermarked "MADE AT THE / JUBILEE INTERNATIONAL / STAMP EXHIBITION / OCT 1912", 1912 "Stamp Lover" magazines (6), letter from F.J. Melville on J.P.S notepaper, also various research notes. A fine group, ex Francis Kiddle collection. (29+). £450-550
590
Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image... 1912 Ideal Stamp. The exceptional display collection on the design, production and printing of the "Ideal Stamp" by the J.P.S at the 1912 exhibition, with newspaper articles announcing the competition or showing the winning designs; rare essays and proofs for the issued design with blocks in red or black showing a lined background, red block of six with additional lines across the harp, similar but larger photographic essay in yellow, reduced size photographic proofs in the issued design in black and an imperf black proof with the issued stamp on piece signed by the engraver R.A Harrison; and many perf or imperf labels including complete sheets of 240 (5 sheets), imperf and perforated blocks of 80 and 108 in black, other multiples including control blocks, all colours including rare magenta and green (5), varieties with 1d black block of twelve perforated on the outer edges only, imperf between pairs, misplaced perfs, printed on both sides, dry prints, offsets, printed on gummed side, etc. Also leaflet requesting feedback on the design, stamp used on 1927 Brighton Philatelic Society dinner menu, 1913 Printex Co Ltd leaflet depicting the Ideal Stamp and Paris exhibition label, with examples of the Paris labels (6) and the Ideal Stamps printed for Paris (16, larger size than the original 1912 labels), later reproductions, etc. A fine and scarce lot, with some research notes, ex Kiddle collection. (c.2,000 labels or other items). Photo on Page 78. £1,800-2,200
591
  Ideal Stamp Picture Postcards, sold by the J.P.S at the 1912 exhibition, cards printed in various differing colours or on differing colours of card, unused (29) or used from the exhibition (7), the majority different, one card with a totally blank reverse (one of two recorded, a proof or printing error), also two cut down cards. A fine lot on pages, ex Kiddle collection. (36). £500-600

1923 Air Post Exhibition

592
  1d Mercury Stamp Essay, sheet of 120 printed by De La Rue & Co., in purple on silk, control A-23, the signatures of F.J Melville, E.D Bacon and Charles Nissen embroidered in the lower margin. A remarkable and unique sheet, just three sheets all in differing colours (and differing plate numbers) believed to have been printed on silk, framed. £900-£1,100
593
Click to view full image... 1d Mercury Stamp Essay, sheet of 120 printed by De La Rue, in brown on silk, control L-23. A remarkable and unique sheet, just three sheets all in differing colours and with differing plate numbers believed to have been printed on silk. Photo on Page 98. £750-1,000
594
  1d Mercury Stamp Essay, sheet of 120 printed by De La Rue, in red on silk, control D-23. A remarkable and unique sheet, just three sheets all in differing colours and with differing plate numbers believed to have been printed on silk. £750-1,000

Late Fees
(Also See Lots 668/9)

595
  Edinburgh. 1841-43 Entire letters with 1d postage and a late fee prepaid in cash, handstamped with red boxed "PAID / 1d EXTRA" or "PAID / 6d / EXTRA", the scarce 6d late fee for posting between 6.30pm and 7pm. (2). £150-180
596
  Glasgow. 1856 Entire letters to Paris both with a late fee paid by a 1d red, the postage unpaid, charged 8 decimes upon arrival, both with small undated "GLASGOW" late fee handstamp, one with a fine "159 / GLASGOW" Madeleine Smith cancel, the other incorrectly handstamped "INSUFFICIENTLY / STAMPED" in London, the 1d red paying the late fee being mistaken for part payment of the postage, both fine and unusual. (2). £150-180
597
Click to view full image... Glasgow. 1856 Entire letter to New York with 1/- postage paid in cash and 3d late fee (for posting within ten minutes of departure of the mails) paid by a 1d vertical strip of three, small undated "GLASGOW" late fee handstamp, a fine and very scarce 3d late fee on a transatlantic letter. Photo on Page 96. £150-180

Maritime Mail
(Also See Lots 313/4, 316/7, 320, 322/3, 735, 745, 1152, 1208)

598
  Cross Channel Mail. 1846 Entire from Boulogne to London with tiny "Par paquebot particulier" cachet in green, usually applied to indicate carriage on the Mobile Box service, this letter however posted into the French Post Office with a Boulogne c.d.s and red "SHIP LETTER / LONDON" datestamp. Also a 1911 Jersey picture postcard with KEVII 1d cancelled at Carteret, handstamped "PAQUEBOT". (2). £100-120
599
  Ship Letters. 1820-43 Entire letters (7) and entires (10) all from Cuba, with ship letter handstamps of 17 differing ports including Cowes, Dartmouth, Folkstone, Devonport, Gravesend, Hastings, Penzance, Romney, Swansea, etc., a good group. (17). £400-500
600
  1864-71 Covers from the Cape of Good Hope to England sent by private steamer at the 4d ship letter rate, with 1864 cover franked 4d triangular (cut into), backstamped "PLYMOUTH / SHIP LETTER" c.d.s (Rob. S9, MY 20 1864, four years later than recorded); and 1871 cover endorsed "per private steamer "Sprite"" of the Cape & Natal Steam Navigation Co, carried to Gravesend franked 4d with red "PAID / LONDON SHIP LETTER" c.d.s (Rob. S53), two unusual covers. (2). £120-150
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History (Auction number 49) Day 1
Auctioneer: Argyll Etkin Limited Location: London
Contact: Tel: 0207 930 6100 Fax: 0207 494 288
Date: 10th March 2022 Time: 10:30AM
Details: Please contact the office for sale details.
Please note new locations: Great Connaught Rooms,
61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA
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