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1954 (March) 5/- Booklet containing KGVI 1d and 2d panes and four QEII panes (½d inverted watermark), fine and scarce. S.G. H6, £1,000. Photo on Page 18. £180-220
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1968 (May) 6/- Machin booklet, PVA gum, fine. S.G. QP37, £450. £100-120
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1961 (Oct) and 1964 (Dec) 10/- Booklets, both fine. S.G. X2, X9, £900. (2). £180-220
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1935-1970 Predecimal 6d - £1 Booklets with KEVIII 6d, 2/-, 3/- and 5/- booklets, better QEII booklets including 2/- NP31, 2/6 F26, 5/- H7, £1 Stamps for Cooks stapled, etc., all fine. S.G. £6,000 (approx). (136). £500-800
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1971-1998 Booklets including Prestige, Greetings and Christmas booklets, high face value, all fine. (530). £200-300
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1971-2012 QEII Stitched and folded booklets (face value £795+), also various c.1980-2015 unmounted mint stamps (face value c.£380), all fine, total face value c.£1,175. £400-500
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c.1972-2003 Prestige booklets including 1972 Wedgwood (3), all fine, face value c.£900. £400-500
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c.2000-2015 Red folded booklets including Greetings, Christmas, 1st Class, 2nd Class and E booklets, all fine, face value £1,600+. £600-800
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Mint and used selection including Army Official 1d lilac Controls (3) and 1887 6d mint; Government Parcels 1d lilac block of four mint, 1883 6d, 9d, 1/- plate 13 (2) used; Office of Works 1900 ½d green, 1902 2d used, etc. Also I.R Official 1d lilac covers (3, one registered), and Board of Trade perfins (17, with two pieces bearing KEVII 1d + 9d or 2d block of four). (104 + 3 covers). Photo on Page 6. £350-450
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Government Parcels. 1883 9d Dull green used with "BRORA" single arc c.d.s, good colour, fine. S.G. O63, £1,200. Photo on Page 6. £100-120
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Government Parcels. 1883-1902 Stamps used including 1883 1½d, 1/- plate 13 and 1/- plate 14, 1887-92 4½d (4), 9d (6), 1/- green (3), 1900 1/- green & carmine (2), 1902 9d and 1/-, etc., most with parcel or roller cancels but otherwise fine. S.G. £5,000+. (37). £200-250
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I.R. Official. 1900 QV ½d Green Control R corner block of six unmounted mint, light marginal crease just crosses the corner of the lower right stamp, corner marginal fold, othewise fine and scarce (S.G. £350 for a mounted Control single), and another unmounted marginal block of six. Also 1887 4d corner marginal pair, KEVII ½d yellowish green block of ten and 1½d block of four (one creased), and 1d Control B corner strip of three, all unmounted. S.G. £950+. (30). Photo on Page 12. £150-180
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1865-67 Stamps, the collection well written up on pages comprising Aberdeen (30) with ½d yellow-brown, ½d slate-blue block of 27; Clarke & Co of Edinburgh (8, with corner block of six); Edinburgh & Leith Circular Delivery Co (62); Edinburgh & Leith Parcel Delivery Co (183) with four blocks of fifteen of first issue 2d, second issue 2d imperf blocks of 18 and 42, 2d rouletted block of nine, 3d imperf block of 54; Glasgow (132) with ¼d black pin perf sheet of 66 (three with cracked plate variety), ½d scarlet imperf block of 12, pin perf block of 54 (two with damaged plate variety); Liverpool (206) with ¼d perf 13 block of 98 (just one stamp removed from sheet), ¼d imperf block of twelve, ½d block of 72; London (210) with ½d blue error of colour (crayon cancel), pin perf ¼d block of 65 (just one stamp removed from sheet), imperf ½d greenish grey sheet of 66 (divided into seven blocks), ½d purple pin perf sheet of 66; Metropolitan (89) with ¼d block of eight showing pre-printing paper fold across four stamps, ¼d block of 54, ½d block of 18, ¼d orange error of colour (or a proof) with double perfs at right; London & Districts (10) with perf 13 ½d claret block of six, three with ¼d error; National (89) with ¼d green, ½d block of 77, ¾d block of ten; also a few forgeries. A fine collection, with many plate varieties identified, shades, etc. S.G. £24,000 (approx). Photo on Pages 12 & 38. £2,800-3,200
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1865 (Nov 24) Printed circular for "J.E Vernon, 54 Leith Street, Edinburgh, Magic Lanterns & Slides at Reduced Prices. Dissolving Views Exhibitions conducted in Town & Country at a moderate charge ..... large lanterns & slides lent out. Terms on Application. Reduced prices to schools", addressed to "J.F Pillans Esq, 7 Tentallan Place, Grange". Franked by Edinburgh & Leith perf 11½ ¼d dull mauve (S.G. CD10a, fault at base) cancelled "R.B & Co", endorsed "This was delivered at my house yesterday afternoon fastened by a wafer, J.F Pillans, 24th Nov. 1865", the inside lettered "B", a few pin holes, otherwise fine. This circular was used as part of the Post Office evidence in the 1867-69 court cases that led to the suppression of the Circular Delivery Companies. Illustrated in "Farthing Delivery" by D.S Patton, which mentions "a 20th February 1866 report from the Secretary to the Post Office, Edinburgh, referring to a Circular enclosed in an envelope fastened with gum and delivered at Mr Pillans house in The Grange". Very rare, ex Patton and Willcocks. Photo on Page 14. £1,200-1,500
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1867 Cover with "Brown & Tregilgas, Clothiers, Edinburgh" embossed on the flap, addressed to "J. Gonsalez Esq, G.P.O", bearing Edinburgh & Leith rouletted ¼d black on yellow (S.G. CD14a), uncancelled as usual, envelope with hole at upper left corner, fine and very scarce. Similar envelopes with printed circulars enclosed probably delivered without addresses to many houses, subsequently delivered to the G.P.O and possibly used by them in their court cases against the Circular Delivery Companies. With R.P.S Certificate (2001). Photo on Page 14. £500-600
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1866 (Dec 8) Envelope with "Ladys Circular" printed on the front, containing a printed circular for "The Edinburgh Mourning Warehouse, Extensive Arrival of Goods Adapted for the Season at Gowans & Goodlet's", the envelope franked by Edinburgh & Leith perf 11½ ¼d green (S.G. CD6, horizontal perfs misplaced, stamp repaired) cancelled "R.B & Co", endorsed at right "Closed against inspection & delivered at my house 24 Warriston Crescent this day at 10.30am W.C Smellie, 8 Dec / 66", the enclosed circular initialled "W.C.S". This circular was used as part of the Post Office evidence in the 1867-69 court cases that led to the suppression of the Circular Delivery Companies. Illustrated in "Farthing Delivery" by D.S Patton, ex Patton and Willcocks, very rare. Photo on Page 24. £800-1,000
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1867 Cover sent within London, addressed to "Messrs Heath & Co., 5 St. Pauls Ch. Yard, E.C", bearing Metropolitan ¼d rose-carmine (S.G. CD38), uncancelled as usual, the envelope with a few pin holes, possibly used by the Post Office in their court cases against the Circular Delivery Companies. Fine and very scarce, with R.P.S Certificate (2001). Photo on Page 24. £600-700
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1855-64 1d Revenues including Draft or Receipt stamps mint (16), postally used (5, one on cover), on documents (9, one bearing 15 stamps) and imperforate Imprimaturs (4, creases); Inland Revenue stamps with attached Samuel Allsop labels fiscally used (6); and an unusual piece of blued paper with fourteen impressions of the single lined Anchor watermark and "Inland Revenue" in the margin. Also Inland Revenue 3d, vertical perforations apparently double, postally used with Portsmouth c.d.s. (55). £200-250
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Postal Fiscals. 1855-81 1d Stamps comprising 1855 Draft or Receipt mint single with inverted watermark and strip of four with upright watermark on blue glazed paper (S.G. F5); 1856-57 Draft or Receipt imperforate Imprimaturs (7, S.G. F6); 1864 Inland Revenue 1d imperforate Imprimatur (S.G. F12); and 1881 Inland Revenue 1d colour trial in claret (S.G. F23). S.G. £3,130. (14). £350-450
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Game Licences. c.1872 £2 Game Dealers Licence and Gamekeepers Licence both in brown, £2 Licence to Kill Game No.2 in green and No.3 in mauve, similar £3 Licence to Kill Game No.1 in red, all unused with attached counterpart at left, the last four with oval embossed "GAME / INLAND REVENUE" stamps, apparently produced as colour trials, an attractive and scarce group. (5). £220-260
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Cinderellas including Post Office Saving Bank deposit slips (3) bearing postage stamps, and various 1916-70s National Savings stamps (100, with School Specimen overprints and savings card bearing eighteen 1941-44 issue 6d stamps); an unusual KEVII 1d label inscribed "Postage Specimen 1d"; 1906 British Olympic Committee, Franco-British Exhibition labels in an imperf proof strip of three; also Army Telegraphs 10/- used in South Africa; 1911 postcards to Germany bearing "Union for Philanthropic Philately" Coronation labels (3), etc. (143). Photo on Page 6. £180-220
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1923 Air Mail 1d Mercury Stamp Essay produced for the London Air Post Exhibition, 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. £600-700
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1923 Air Mail 1d Mercury Stamp Essay produced for the London Air Post Exhibition, 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. £600-700
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1740-46 Bonds with embossed revenue stamps (3); 1814 (June 14) Printed "General Order" from the Commander in Chief ordering an announcement to be made that all letters from N.C.Os or soldiers presented to officers for 1d rate postage must be written by the soldiers themselves and not by other people; and 1874 (Mar 7) printed four page pamphlet advertising mines, minerals and mining rights under the Swinedough Estate (with a map of the Estate) to be sold by auction, posted at Bolton franked 1d. (5). £100-120
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1741-1835 Entire letters (6) and fronts (2) including 1741 letter from Samuel Squire at St. Johns (College) with "CAM / BRIDGE" handstamp; 1798 O.H.M.S letter sent free to the Earl of Breadalbane, Colonel of the 4th Fencibles at Taymouth, with enclosed printed form listing the strength of the regiment; 1834 printed wrapper headed "Uniformity of Weights and Measures, Act 4 and 5 Will. IV cap. 49" prepaid 7d, etc. (8). £120-150
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1766-1940 Covers and entire letters (25) and a piece comprising 1869 cover with fine Azemar machine and 1884 piece with rare "LONDON / OFFL PAID" Hoster; c.1940 parcel wrapping to Lloyds Bank in Elland endorsed "Via Triangle - Elland Bus, To be met at Town Hall Terminus, Elland" and bearing a 3d Halifax Corporation parcel stamp; 1766-76 handstamps of Halifax (3) or Leeds, etc. (26). £120-140
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1785-c.1930 Entire letters, covers and cards mainly from Oxfordshire, Sussex, Westmoreland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire or Yorkshire, with useful prestamp, undated circles (40), 1847 Huddersfield and 1851 Northallerton travellers, later skeletons (10), Penny Posts (7), distinctive Brighton Maltese Cross (5), Dudley "293" numeral error (2, one in blue), Bewdley "68" numeral in blue, also 1857 (Dec 31) London 74 Cresswell duplex (last day of use?), 1906 London E.C hammer datestamp, Cork English type spoon, etc. (142). £350-400
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1786-1865 Entire letters, entires and covers including 1840 (May 30) 1d Mulready lettersheet stereo A69 used from London to Potternewton Hall, Leeds; 1844 1d red (4 margins) tied by No.6 in Maltese Cross; 1854 entire letter from London to Scotland bearing cut square embossed 6d (3 margins) + 1d, presumably registered (splitting to file fold), etc. (14). £140-160
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1807-1911 Entire letters, covers, etc., including 1807 letter with embossed borders and yellow edges, produced by Dobbs, posted from London; 1816 entire posted within London with octagonal framed "To be / delivered / Free"; 1826 letter from the Edinburgh P.M.G to Francis Freeling forwarding a list of distances from Carlisle to post towns in Scotland; Official covers (10) and drawings or proof impressions of Official handstamps, from the Post Office Official Correspondence book (3); 1901 illustrated cover depicting the angel of prosperity flying over the City of Birmingham (with similar enclosed Christmas card) franked 1d; 1906 "Deans Postal Toys lettercard" used, etc. (51). £300-350
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Inspectors Marks. 1815-36 Entire letters with red Crown handstamp of Dublin on letter from Derry to the Chelsea Agents Office in London; scarce red "sputnik" type mark on a letter to Chelsea Royal Military Asylum, or a red Star, all very fine. (3). £120-150
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1850-79 Line Engraved covers and wrappers addressed abroad, various unusual rates including 1d printed matter rates to France (3) or USA (2); covers to France or Bavaria only franked 1d and surcharged; covers to USA franked 1d, treated as unpaid (2); letter to France paid 8d in cash with a 1d red probably paying a late fee; cover from USA to London redirected to Italy paid 1/- in cash with a 1d red to pay the late fee; part newspaper to USA franked 2d, etc. (16). £220-260
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1878 Stampless Inland Revenue O.H.M.S cover to the Stamp Office at Cullompton, unusual oval "INLAND / 28 MAR 78 / REVENUE" cachet and printed signature. Also 1937 O.H.M.S covers franked 1½d to USA both with enclosed letters concerning stamps currently available and the lack of a Philatelic Department. (3 + 2 letters). £50-60
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1881-1931 Covers and cards bearing 1d lilacs, the collection in an album with die I uses, 1841 letter franked by a 1d red reposted with a 1d lilac in 1892, machine cancels, redirected and missent mail, late uses of the stamp in 1925-31 disallowed and charged (2) or delivered without charge (2), and mail addressed abroad (64) with various rates and destinations. Also a cover from Malta with a disallowed 1d lilac, charged 1d; Boer War use; and cover with a forged Ascension c.d.s. (161). £380-450
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1887-1902 Covers and cards bearing Jubilee issue stamps, the majority addressed abroad with 2½d, 5d, 6d and 7½d rates and various registered rates, 1901 Scilly c.d.s, 1895 South Western District Office S.W skeleton c.d.s, Insured Parcel C.O.P franked 2d, die I 5d, etc. (37). £220-260
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1902-11 Covers and cards bearing KEVII stamps including scarce 1½d rate registered Notice of Objection, 3d rate Jury Summons, registered covers bearing 10d or 1/- (2 covers), cards from British P.O in Salonica (3, two to Hanoi), unusual Admiralty O.H.M.S postcard franked ½d, London M.B c.d.s used on Paquebot mail, Colonsay and Coll datestamps, unusual reposted novelty postcard charged 1d with "Contains writing in / the nature of a letter", etc. (53). £300-350
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Francis Freeling. 1807-35 Letters sent to Freeling, with requests that incorrectly delivered letters be sent to the correct address, request for 19/6 postage to be refunded on a parcel intended for Horse Guards that was put into the post in error, request that Freeling forward a letter by express, recommendation of an applicant as a mail guard, agreement from Robert Leslie R.A to paint Freeling's portrait for 100 guineas, 1832 pass to visit the new Post Office at St. Martins-le-Grand written and signed by Freeling, etc. (12). £100-120
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Post Office Notices & Circulars. 1889 (Jan.) Small Post Office Notice (138x217mm) "Inland Letters and Parcels, Rates of Postage"; 1872 P.O Notice "Mail for New Zealand" (faults); various complete or part Post Office Circulars with details of Ship Letters, telegraph offices at special events, 1900 Parcels to P.O.Ws in Boer Camps, etc. (9); and 1927 notice on the official collection of postal packets in London. Also 1922 (Sep 29) Post Office memo concerning the proposed issue of a 1½d postage due label for foreign surcharges, and a part 1922 Post Office Circular announcing a minimum charge of 1½d on underpaid mail from abroad. (14). £140-160
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1911-48 First flight and flown covers and cards on pages, including 1911 First UK Aerial Post cards (2), 1923 London to Berlin or Amsterdam, 1924 Liverpool to Paris (Apr 1, first day of Imperial Airways), Berlin or Cologne, etc. (15). £150-180
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1919 (Oct 1) Cover from Newcastle on Tyne to the Orient Line in London franked 1½d + 1/- (2), flown by emergency government air service during the railway strike, backstamped in Newcastle and London (Oct. 2, 3.30pm), flown on October 2nd, the first day mail was flown from Newcastle to London. A little soiling to edge and reverse and small edge tears but scarce and clearly commercial, the majority of surviving flown covers having been sent by philatelists. £100-120
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1921 (July 5) Printed postcard headed with an aeroplane and "American Express Co Travel Department, Agent for Air Services London - Paris and other Aerial Routes, written while en route by Aeroplane", the card written en route from London to Paris describing the flight; and 1921 (July 7) Six Guinea ticket (in booklet form) for a single flight by Imperial Airways from London to Paris. Also a picture postcard of the Paris to London plane at Bourget Aerodrome. Scarce early aviation ephemera. (3). £100-120
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1932 (July 19) Cover from Ashford to Buenos Ayres franked 8/- for French air service from Toulouse via Dakar, bearing 6d + Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6 + 5/-, an attractive cover with Toulouse and Buenos Ayres backstamps. £140-160
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Provincial Airways - West Country Air Service. 1933 Covers, postcards, letters and ephemera, including proofs of the 3d air stamp (6), mint sheets of four (6, shades, all four printings) and stamps on covers (14) flown from Croydon to Plymouth (4, one signed by the pilot S.W.A Scott), Croydon to Southampton, Plymouth to Croydon (2), Southampton to Croydon (3, one signed by Scott), Southampton to Plymouth (2), or Croydon to Plymouth and back to Croydon (2). Also letters concerning the forthcoming service (2, one bearing a mint air stamp); postcards of aircraft (2, one signed by Scott); luggage label; letters to A. Phillips or John Davis concerning the sale of mint air stamps or stamped covers, etc. (11); flight ticket; advertising brochures or time-tables (8); an amusing series of letters from the G.P.O to George King concerning detained flight covers which contravened "Poste Restante" rules (4); and letters from the pilot S.W.A Scott (2), a fine group. (57). £600-700
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1935 Timetables for internal airlines, comprising Western Airways Express, North Eastern Airways, Northern & Scottish Airways, Railway Air Services, Highland Airways, Hillman Airways, Spartan Air Lines, Jersey Airways, Portsmouth Southsea & I.O.W Aviation Ltd, Crilly Airways (2), and Aberdeen Airways. Also an original photo of a Railway Air Services plane. A scarce group. (13). £250-300
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1911 (Sep 9) Violet London to Windsor postcard with the printed text "Souvenir of the First United Kingdom Aerial Post". With the Compliments of the Founder. This Post Card was carried in the First Bag and on the First Journey from London to Windsor", signed by Walter Windham, addressed to "Hedges Butler Esq., Royal Aero Club, Piccadilly" and redirected to 155 Regent St., a KEVII ½d tied by the London Aerial Post c.d.s code "4". Hedges Butler was the founder of the Royal Aero Club, and had his own printed advert card sent by the 1911 Aerial Post. A few very minor edge soils, otherwise a fine and scarce card produced for Walter Windham. Photo on Page 24. £700-1,000
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1911 (Sep 9) Brown London to Windsor postcard sent to H.E Perrin at the Royal Aero Club, London Aerial Post c.d.s code "1", the reverse with the illustrated advert for F. Hedges Butler, founder of the Royal Aero Club, celebrating ten years since the club's foundation, very fine. £120-140
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1911 (Sep 9) London to Windsor postcards with adverts printed on the reverse for The Molassine Company (also with red overprint on the front), Remington Typewriter Co., Wright's Coal Tar Soap, and Schweppes Ltd. Also cards handstamped "D.H EVANS & Co" or "BENETFINK & Co LTD, JEWELLERS, CHEAPSIDE, E.C" on reverse. The two store cachet cards with faults, the four printed advert cards all fine. (6). £180-220
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Brazil. 1911 (Sep 9) Green postcard to Rio de Janeiro bearing two KGV ½d stamps each cancelled by the London Aerial Post c.d.s code 2, a third strike unusually alongside, arrival c.d.s (Oct 2) on the front. Corner and edge creasing, pinhole and tear at upper edge below the left stamp (with old tape stain on reverse and stamp a little stained), still a very reasonable looking card to a scarce destination. £140-160
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Sweden. 1911 (Sep 9) Red-brown postcard to Sweden franked KGV ½d + 1d pair cancelled by London Aerial Post code 3 datestamps, Goteborg backstamps (Sep 14), light crease at right, otherwise very fine and a scarce destination. Photo on Page 24. £150-180
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Maltese Crosses - Greenock. 1842-43 1d Pink envelope and an entire bearing a 1d red (just four margins), and single 1d reds (4, faults) all cancelled by the Greenock distinctive Maltese Cross. (6). £160-200
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QV Covers and cards, pieces and stamps, various cancels including numerals and duplexs, squared circles, London offices, etc. (1000s). £200-250
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