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Controls. 1937-41 KGVI Perf type 6B Control blocks of six all with cylinder numbers unrecorded in this perforation type, comprising ½d dark green B37 cylinder 31 no dot, 1d scarlet C38 cylinder 18 no dot, 1½d red-brown B37 cylinder 71 no dot, E39 cylinder 135 dot, E39 cylinder 144 dot, F39 cylinder 150 no dot, E39 cylinder 156 no dot, 2d pale orange R45 cylinder 40 dot, 2½d light ultramarine L42 cylinder 104 dot (2, one unmounted), L42 cylinder 113 dot (mounted), M43 cylinder 131 no dot. A rare group, mounted in the margin only, otherwise fine. (12). Photo on Page 62. £300-400
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First Day Cover. 1948 (Apr 26) Silver Wedding 2½d and £1 on an illustrated pictorial First Day Cover, sent by registered mail, both stamps cancelled by Cambridge Parade Twickenham c.d.s. Photo on Page 64. £120-150
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1952-2012 QEII Collection in 18 albums, apparently complete unmounted mint with all commemoratives and definitives, miniature sheets and small size sheets, 1st and 2nd Class and Prestige booklets, Post & Go issues and regionals, many stamps in multiples, both De La Rue and Waterlow printings of the 1955-59 St. Edwards Crown Castles stamps, Wilding issues with inverted and sideways watermarks, 1962-67 phosphor issues, four sets of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics sheetlets, also gutter pairs and blocks in two further albums, additional stamps in packets, and various 1988-2009 Royal Mail Special Stamps books (18 different, between numbers 5 and 26). An extensive lot, all superb, high face values. (20+ albums). £1,500-2,000
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1952-76 QEII Issues, the mainly unmounted mint selection with 1952-54 set in blocks of four, the others all with listed varieties including 1972 Architectural 5p with gold omitted, many omitted phosphors, inverted watermarks, plate flaws, etc. Priced by a former dealer at £2,900+. (c.180). £500-600
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1973 3½p Olive-grey Machin, two phosphor bands, imperforated horizontal pair, superb unmounted mint. S.G. X858a, £375. Photo on Page 74. £100-120
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Channel Islands/Isle of Man. 1941-2008 Collections comprising Jersey complete unmounted to 2007 and used to 1983; Guernsey complete unmounted to 2006 and used to 1981; and Isle of Man complete unmounted to 2008 and used to 1983, all superb. (17 albums). £150-180
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Reference collection in three albums and on pages, mint and used QV and KEVII stamps comprising Govt Parcels (314), Army (880), Admiralty (107), Inland Revenue (26), Board of Education (24) and Royal Household (5), showing plate varieties (many identified by sheet position) and cancellations, some faults with a few forgeries, an extensive old time lot with some better stamps. (c.1,350). £1,000-1,500
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Inland Revenue. 1887 (Mar 11) Registered cover from Chester to Macclesfield endorsed "Probate of the will of Nathaniel Wright", 2d registration + 1½d postage paid by three ordinary 1d lilacs + ½d blue I.R. Official tied by oval Registered datestamps, large opening tear at right clear of the stamps. An exceptional combination of official and ordinary stamps, the Chester Inland Revenue Office having presumably run out of 1d I.R overprinted stamps. Photo on Page 64. £250-300
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1937 KGVI 2/- Booklet, issue number 393, ½d pane with inverted watermark, fine. S.G. BD11, £1,100. £100-120
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1938 KGVI 2/- Booklet, issue number 422, all panes with inverted watermark, fine. S.G. BD12, £1,100. £100-120
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1940 KGVI 2/6 Booklet with scarlet cover, issue number 3, fine and scarce. S.G. BD13, £1,700. £160-180
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1937 KGVI 5/- Booklet, issue number 18, 1½d pane with inverted watermark, front cover with "20/6" written at upper left in ink; and 1942 (Feb) KGVI 2/6 Booklet, issue number 91, minor cover creases. S.G. BD15, 23, £2,975. (2). £150-180
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1937 KGVI 3/- Booklet, issue number 334, two 1½d panes with inverted watermarks, small hinge scrapes on back cover, otherwise fine and scarce. S.G. BD21, £1,900. £160-180
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1938 KGVI 3/- Booklet, issue number 355, fine and scarce. S.G. BD22, £1,900. £180-220
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1940 KGVI 5/- Booklet, issue number 10, fine and very scarce. S.G. BD25, £2,000. Photo on Page 92. £200-240
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1942 (June) KGVI 5/- Booklet, issue number 20, very fine and scarce. S.G. BD26, £2,000. Photo on Page 92. £200-240
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1961 (Oct.) and 1964 (Dec.) 10/- Booklets, and 1968 (May) 6/- Booklet with PVA gum, all fine. S.G. QP37, X2, X9, £1,350. (3). £100-120
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c.1970-95 Mainly decimal booklets, including "1st" stamps (approx 200), face value £300+. (c.170). £120-150
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Postal Fiscals, etc. QV-KGV Stamps and cinderellas including 1855 Draft or Receipt 1d mint single (inverted watermark) and strip of four (upright watermark) on blue glazed paper (S.G. F5, £930), Imperforate Imprimaturs of the 1856-57 Draft or Receipt 1d (7, S.G. F6, £1,750) or 1864 Inland Revenue 1d (S.G. F12, £240), and 1881 Inland Revenue 1d colour trial in claret (S.G. F23, £210); Post Office Savings Bank 1911 1d (2) and 1920 1d (2) used on four pieces; two pieces of paper watermarked "SPECIAL POSTAGE PAPER / LONDON" with trial perfs or roulettes, each 208x239mm; two further pieces of Block Cypher watermarked paper, 444x321mm or 222x250mm; Parcel Post labels (11); telegraph stamps (14); POSB deposit slips with five KEVII 1d + five KGV 1d stamps, etc. (100). £300-400
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Security Overprint. 1875 (July 31) Cover from Liverpool to Bangor bearing 1d red plate 160 with "Wm Dawbarn & Co / Liverpool" security overprint reading downwards, scarce on cover. Photo on Page 64. £150-180
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Perfins. 1881-1936 Collection in three stockbooks with railway companies (256), shipping companies (52), complete names and words, single letters, numbers, fancy designs, crowns, various identified perfins, stamps to the 5/- value. An interesting lot. (964). £280-350
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1901 (Oct 4) Cover posted within Epsom bearing ½d green surrounded by eight 6d labels for "The Captain", a monthly magazine for boys and old boys, a further four labels on the reverse, the Epsom c.d.s tying one of the labels. One label partly torn away, otherwise fine and very unusual. Private labels were not permitted on ½d rate mail and this should have been surcharged as a letter. Photo on Page 64. £140-160
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Novelty Shaped Postcards. 1909-12 Cards with fold-out views inside, which could be sent as book post at the ½d rate without any message, cards with a separate address tag attached by string (23) and cards with the address and stamp applied directly to the card (7), with cards in the shape of a policeman, Welsh lady, train, camera, pillar box, car, hands, the Lincoln Imp, a side of bacon, a fish, oyster shell, pill box, bottle of Bass Pale Ale, a telescope, crab, mermaid on rocks, aeroplane, lifeboat, cheddar cheese, lifebuoy, Puss in Boots, sailing boat, ice skater, donkey, teddy bear, etc., fourteen postally used. An attractive and unusual collection. (30). Photo on Page 64. £750-1,000
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Novelty Shaped Postcards. 1909 Cards with address tags attached by string, H.M.S "Dreadnought" in an oval shaped card posted from Southend on Sea, and a circular biscuit posted from Liverpool, both franked ½d but endorsed "letter" and charged 1d postage due, unusual. (2). £120-150
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Brighton/London - Royal Mails. 1903-05 Picture postcards depicting the last journey of the London to Brighton Parcel Post coach (2), the new London to Brighton motor coach on its first day (3, one a superb real photo with Post Office staff), the new London motor mail car, and sorting mail at Mount Pleasant (2) or St. Martins-Le-Grand. (9). Photo on Page 64. £120-150
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Trams. 1903-12 Picture postcards depicting the opening of new tramways with fine real photo cards of Mexborough and the first Sale to Moor Village train, also cards of Darlington, Ipswich, London (2) and Colchester. (7). £110-130
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Railway Stations. 1904-14 Picture postcards with fine real photo cards of Didsbury, Heaton Mersey, Cotherstone, Hethersett, Forncett and Fallowfield, also coloured cards of Didsbury, Barnoldswick and Alderley Edge. (9). £150-180
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Silks. 1904-18 Cards with rare 1904 Bradford Exhibition woven silk card which opens up to show two further woven views of the exhibition (one silk on the reverse of another, the third with a plain reverse), and another woven silk "Comin thro' the Rye", both cards by W.H Grant of Coventry, also WW1 embroidered silks (11) with various regimental badges. (13). £300-350
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1904-14 Topographical views, mainly real photo cards including Manchester tram decorated for a royal visit, cars, lorries, horse drawn carriages, Doncaster races, Pinner Fair, shop fronts, Post Offices, markets, street scenes, army cyclist display team, roller coaster at South Shields, public houses, Portsmouth Dockyard entrance, etc. A good lot, many interesting and well taken views. (21). Photo on Page 66. £300-350
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Aviation. 1909-21 Real photo cards with flying at Hendon (2, one with Anna Pavlova in an aeroplane with Louis Noel), 1909 Doncaster Air Meeting (posted at Doncaster, with message about the air meeting), monoplanes at Aldershot or Weybridge, captured German biplanes, and Croydon Aerodrome. (7). £140-160
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Accidents. 1908-15 Real photo cards comprising tram accidents at Warren Vale (1908) or Dewsbury (1915), railway crashes at Tonbridge (2) or Kirkby Stephen, fatal landslip at West Wylam (1910), all fine cards. (6). Photo on Page 66. £200-240
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Photographs. c.1880 Photographs depicting market day at Stockton-on-Tees with a steam tram, carriages, etc., mounted on card of J.T Clarke of Stockton; and a card of a lady and gentleman on a two seater four wheeled bicycle (two large side wheels and small front and back wheels, similar to a double Penny Farthing) on card of J. Hinley of Wisbech. Two exceptional early photos. (2). £100-120
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Fire Engines/Delivery Vehicles. c.1910-13 Real Photo cards of a fire engine with firemen (and girl guides lined up behind), Eccles Corporation fire engine, and a fire station, a horse drawn hearse, "Evening New" horse drawn delivery cart, and "Macfarlane Lang & Co Biscuits" delivery van, all very fine. (6). Photo on Page 64. £180-200
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c.1905-10 Real Photo cards, topographical views and cards of social interest, including a band playing at Haslingden market place, women crane mill winders at Haslingden Mill, steam engine at Wigan, laying tram lines at Haslingden, Mill outrage at Church, Castleton Canal, Oldham Wakes Fair, water chute at Manchester "White City", triumphant arch at Trafford Park, Manchester electrical exhibition, etc. A fine lot, all very well taken pictures of interest. (11). Photo on Page 66. £220-260
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Trams. 1904-14 Real photo cards with street scenes featuring trams at West Didsbury (3), Chorlton-Cum-Hardy or a busy West Street, Manchester, also a card of Fallowfield Village, all fine. (6). £100-120
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1653 (Oct 25) Entire letter from George Gilbourne addressed "for his very loving friend Mr Symon Romney at his house at Dunton". The short letter mentions the Court for the Manor of Shoreham. A little soiled, otherwise a fine Commonwealth period letter. £200-240
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c.1712-1996 Entire letters, covers and cards, the large accumulation including 1904 "Deans Postal Toy Books" lettercard containing the illustrated story "Puss in Boots"; 1860 entire letter to Bermuda; 1907 Nottingham R.L.O envelope with printed "½d Postage Due for Return to Sender"; 1907 London E.C hammer type c.d.s; an album containing KGV covers with highly franked covers to Czechoslovakia (3) and a study of coil stamps; QV 1d lettersheets (8, mostly from Waterlow & Sons); postage due mail; Shropshire; Sheffield; Line Engraved covers addressed abroad with printed matter rates and underpaid mail; Cumbria with entire letter from Burso Bridge to Cartmel endorsed "P. Coach, 11 Nov 1800", etc. (c.440). £350-450
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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. Also an unused lettersheet with printed address panel "Missent and Redirected letters. / His Majesty's Postmaster General / London", and a correspondence of 1917-18 covers (9), three with Royal Flying Corps flaps (18). £180-200
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1768-1908 Entire letters, covers and cards including 1840-41 covers bearing 1d blacks (2 covers, both three margins) or a 1d black pair (SG-SH, SG three margins and crossed by file fold, SH fine), 1d Mulready lettersheet (edges slightly reduced), 1855 cover to France bearing 1d red block of four with red "INSUFFICIENTLY / STAMPED", 1864 cover to India with embossed 10d (cut to shape), etc. (122). £200-250
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1786-1951 Covers and cards including undeliverable mail; redirected covers; Oxford 613 duplex errors (2); 1916 cover from London to France but missent to Toronto, Canada; 1917 Army Form C.398 envelope sent by despatch rider with Army Telegraphs despatch and receipt datestamps; 1916 O.A.S cover to USA with violet "CENSORED ON BOARD /H.M.T - Z75"; etc. (30). £100-120
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Late Posting Datestamps. 1858-70 Entire letters and covers with "Posted Since" datestamps of Edinburgh (6) or Liverpool (3), the Liverpool items all entire letters with "POSTED-SINCE / LIVERPOOL / 8.30 LAST NIGHT" c.d.s, one in brown on a letter to New York "p. America", all fine. (9). £200-250
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1865-1917 Covers and cards, with H&K Packet backstamps (6), 1901 stampless cover sent within London with red "POST OFFICE / EXPRESS" label tied by Aldermanbury c.d.s, 1907-09 postcards cancelled at Liverpool with "POSTED ON / "LA MARGUERITE"" applied in violet or blue, 1915 cover and card with R.M.G.C (Royal Marine Garrison Cromarty) or Northern Patrol censors, and 1917 card from R.N.A.S Vendome. (12). £140-160
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Forwarding Agents Labels. 1865 Entire letters to Ireland, the first written from Vichy, the second written on a ship between Corsica and Sardinia en route to Malta, both privately carried to England and posted in London franked by 1d reds, with "FORWARDED BY / SMITH, ELDER & Co. / 65 Cornhill, London" labels on the reverse. Fine and very unusual, few forwarding agents labels are recorded. (2). Photo on Page 66. £120-150
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1909-39 Covers and cards sent from, to or within G.B, all with explanatory cachets, many returned to the sender, including 1928 "INCONNU" label applied in Syria, 1916 bilingual "Returned to England without / a reason for non-delivery", 1929 cover to China with "UNCLAIMED", "RETURNED TO WRITER" and "REBUT INCONNU" applied in Peking, 1925 "Returned for / better address / fresh Postage / necessary", 1921 cover to "British troops in France" with "PLACE OF DESTINATION / REQUIRED" and "FRESH POSTAGE / NECESSARY", "Found without contents" (2), cover with attached form about missing contents, 1922 label "RETURNED - INADMISSABLE / PANEL MUST FORM INTEGRAL / PART OF ENVELOPE", 1935 Air Mail covers to H.M.S "Revenge" with boxed "INSUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED FOR / TRANSMISSION BY AIR MAIL / SPECIAL FEE REFUNDED BY BRITISH / POST OFFICE ON APPLICATION" (2), etc. (35). £180-220
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1914 (June 4) Cover from Russia to "P. Vival, S/S Rio Iguassu, c/o British Consul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", 3k + 7k cancelled on Novosokolinki to Vindau T.P.O, the address crossed out and the cover sent to London with arrival c.d.s (July 28) and violet boxed "Returned / Seamans letter / G.P.O / LONDON" applied to both sides, very unusual and scarce. Photo on Page 66. £100-120
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1920 (May) Covers with printed return address of "The Victory Club, 26 King Street, St. James, S.W.1" (2) or with manuscript inscription "The enclosed was a list of drawings of the Victory Bond Club, a scheme of Bottomley's & the drawing took place in France", and a 1930 (Nov 12) cover to Hospitals Trust Ltd in Dublin, all posted in London franked 1½d, with Returned Letter Section Officially Sealed labels and violet boxed "Detained, opened, and forwarded / to addressee by order of the / Secretary of State". The Victory Club was a fraudulent lottery run by Horatio Bottomley M.P, who was found guilty of 23 counts of fraud in May 1922; the 1930 cover probably contained sweepstake tickets. An unusual and scarce cachet; lottery and betting correspondence was prohibited from being sent by inland post. (4). Photo on Page 70. £180-220
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1910 (Aug 12) Picture postcard franked KEVII ½d, cancelled by "LANARK / GRAND STAND" c.d.s, used at the second Aviation Meeting in Britain (the temporary P.O open 6-13 August). Fine and scarce. Photo on Page 70. £150-180
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1926-82 Covers and cards including 1926 cover flown from S.S "Homeric" to New York by Alan Cobham initialled "AJC", 1936 APEX autogiro flown card and other covers or cards with the APEX cancel (3, one signed by the PMG Kingsley Wood), 1935 (May 7) Silver Jubilee set on F.D.C with "Wilton Road Hudsons Place" datestamps carried on first direct London to Lusaka despatch (dropped by parachute, about 20 covers flown), 1952 Flying Boat "Princess" first flight cover signed by the crew, etc. (10). £130-150
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1929-38 Covers (47) and postcards (4), all commercial mail with KGV stamps sent by airmail with letter rates from 1½d to £1, with covers to Chile (6, two carried by Zeppelin on 1932 1st South American flight franked 4/- or 1934 1st South American flight franked 12/-, two others flown by Lufthansa franked 12/- or 20/-), also covers to Uruguay (2, Air France or Lufthansa), Colombia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Iran, etc. An interesting collection in an album. (51). £250-300
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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). £550-600
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