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ORDER OF SALE
Thursday 26th October 2023 - to be sold at 10.30 amGreat Britain
Stamps, Officials, Telegraphs 1 - 151
Postage Due Stamps, Revenues & Cinderellas 152 - 175
Picture Postcards 176 - 189
Postal History - Mixed Lots 190 - 207
Air Mails, Christmas, Exhibitions, Frees, Late Fees & Late Mail 208 - 233
Maritime Mail, Naval Mail, Mulreadies & Caricatures, Parcel Post 234 - 260
Pictorial Envelopes, Postage Due Mail, Postal Stationery, Railways 261 - 284
Registered Mail, Returned Letter Office, Royalty 285 - 307
Channel Islands - World War Two Red Cross Messages 308 - 329
Cheshire, Hampshire, Isle of Man, Lancashire, London 330 - 343
Suffolk, Wiltshire, Scotland 344 - 356
Thematics - Chemistry, TB, Postwar Britain, Winston Churchill, Cricket, Death/Mourning 357 - 463
World & Commonwealth, Mixed Lots - Stamps and Covers 464 - 488
Afghanistan, Antigua, Ascension, Australia & States, Austria, Bahamas 489 - 523
Bahrain, Barbados, Barbuda, Bechuanaland, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia 524 - 562
British Guiana 563 - 635
British Honduras, British Levant, Brunei, Burma, Canada 636 - 673
Cayman Islands, Ceylon, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba 674 - 710
Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic 711 - 735
Ecuador, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Finland, France & Colonies 736 - 766
Gambia, Germany, Gold Coast, Greece 767 - 797
Greenland, Grenada, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary 798 - 818
India, including Air Mails 819 - 948
Ionian Islands, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica 949 - 989
Friday 27th October 2023 - to be sold at 10.30 am KUT, with fine British East Africa 990 - 1111
Leeward Islands, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg 1112 - 1123
Malaya, featuring Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis & Trengganu from the
Gordon Peters Collection, and Air Mail covers 1124 - 1524
Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco Agencies, Netherlands & Colonies 1525 - 1548
New Guinea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Borneo, Norway, Nyasaland 1549 - 1560
Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal & Colonies 1561 - 1594
Rhodesia, Romania, Russia 1595 - 1608
St. Helena, featuring Prestamp Mail 1609 - 1659
St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent 1660 - 1701
Sarawak, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Africa 1702 - 1749
South West Africa, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Togo, Tonga 1750 - 1762
Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands 1763 - 1799
Virgin Islands, Yemen, Yugoslavia 1800 - 1863
Zanzibar 1864 - 1964
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1840-1915 Selection comprising used 1d blacks (4) and 1840 2d blue (all with faults), 1841 2d strip of three (good margins), 1891 £1 green (faults); 1915 De la Rue 2/6 yellow-brown mounted mint; also a 1905 Parcel Post label franked 1d + 6d. (11). £180-200
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1840-79 Line Engraved issues, used collection in an album including 1d blacks (7) and 1840 2d blues (2), a few later mint, some faults. (100s). £200-250
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1840-2003 Mint and used collection in four stockbooks and loose including 1d blacks (7) and 1840 2d blues (3), 1858-76 2d plate 13 mint block of four, 1870 ½d plate 14 mint marginal pair, 1918-19 2/6 and 5/- mint, 1959 2d phosphor graphite watermark St. Edwards Crown mint, decimal mint with definitives up to £5 in blocks (face value £600+), 1978-84 Collectors Packs, also 1937-2001 F.D.Cs in four albums. The 1840 stamps with faults, later issues mainly fine. (Many 100s). £400-500
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1840-2012 Used collection in five albums including 1840 1d and 2d (faults), Surface Printed with all 9d stamps, £5 orange, 1883-84 2/6 - 10/-, 1891 £1 green, 1902 KEVII set to £1, 1913 Multiple Royal Cypher ½d and 1d, 1913 £1, 1929 PUC £1, QEII issues largely complete, all postage dues, officials with I.R QV bicoloured 1/-, 5/-, 10/- (2017 B.P.A Certificate), O.W QV 5d, KEVII 2d, 2½d, Board of Education QV 5d, KEVII 2½d, R.H ½d and 1d, Admiralty, Govt. Parcels, etc. A good collection, the official overprints not guaranteed though no obvious forgeries present, mainly fine. (5 Albums). Photo on Page 14. £2,500-3,000
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1841-1986 Mint collection in two albums including 1841 1d (four margins, part gum), 1870 ½d (4) and 1½d, 1875 6d plate 14, 1882 4d plate 18, 1880-81 1½d and 2d, 1883 5d green, 1887 ½d - 1/- (both 1/- colours), 1913 Waterlow 2/6 and 10/- (2), 1919 Bradbury Wilkinson 5/-, 1961-86 Commemoratives complete. (100s). Photo on Page 12. £600-700
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QV-QEII Mint and used accumulation including Officials, KEVII mint to 1/- with shades, KGVI 11d cylinder block perf type 5 dot (S.G. £450, mounted on upper pair), etc. Also a complete coil roll of "Poached Egg" testing stamps in a G.P.O box. (100s). £150-250
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QV-QEII Mint and used collection on pages including 1867 5/-, 1902 5/- (3), 1953-89 QEII issues with many varieties and multiples, some duplication and postal history. (1,000s). £250-300
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1840 1d Black, OC plate 2 used with a red Maltese Cross, four good even margins, very fine. Photo on Page 12. £120-150
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1840 1d Black, KC plate 2, four good to large margins, cancelled by distinctive Plymouth Maltese Cross in black, scarce so fine. With B.P.A Certificate (2011). S.G. £2,500. Photo on Page 12. £500-600
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1840 1d Blacks, all plate 6, IL, QE (state 2) and SF all used with black Maltese Crosses, QE with corner crease and IL with trace of a pressed crease, all unusually fine looking stamps with four good to enormous margins. (3). Photo on Page 12. £350-400
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1840 1d Blacks, all plate 8, AI, BB and OD all used with black Maltese Crosses, all fine with four good margins. (3). Photo on Page 12. £400-500
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1840 1d Black, TE plate 8, good to large margins, superb used with a red Maltese Cross. Photo on Page 12. £160-180
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1840 1d Black, SC plate 10, four large margins, superb used with a black Maltese Cross. With R.P.S. Certificate (2000). S.G. £950. Photo on Page 12. £150-180
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1840 Large part entire (reduced at left) bearing 1d black PD-PG plate 2 strip of four each tied by a red Maltese Cross, PD with four margins, PF just touched at upper left corner, the others with two or three margins, crossed by a horizontal file fold. £100-150
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c.1840 Small cover posted within London, from the poet and art dealer Edwin Atherstone to his daughter Mary, a 1d black IL plate 5 with four small to good margins placed in the lower left corner, cancelled by a red Maltese Cross (not tied), unusually without any backstamps, offered 'as-is'. £100-120
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1840-41 Entire letter and entires (2) bearing 1d blacks, all four margins, comprising SH plate 5 on entire letter from Uttoxeter to Cheadle with red Maltese Cross (crossed by vertical file fold), CJ plate 8 on entire from London to Norwich with red Maltese Cross, and GG plate 8 on entire from London to Aberdeen, also an unused 1d Mulready lettersheet stereo A25 (vertical file fold), a few cover faults. (4). £220-260
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1840 (May 8) Small cover posted within London bearing 1d black TJ plate 1a, good to large margins, red Maltese Cross cancel and superb MY 8 datestamp on left flap (opened for display), also dated "8 May 1840" by the sender above the address, "Bond St. NO" handstamp alongside the stamp. Seal cut from the reverse and small closed file hole, an attractive use on just the third day of issue. S.G. £5,000. Photo on Page 6. £1,600-1,800
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1840 (May 24) Entire from Gloucester to London franked 1d black QL plate 1a, four margins, tied by a brown Maltese Cross, fine Gloucester and London backstamps. A fine and scarce third Sunday use, with Enzo Diena (1978) and Brandon (2004) Certificates. S.G. £6,500+. Photo on Page 6. £2,000-2,400
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1840 (Sep. 18) Printed "Statement of the number of prisoners committed to the House of Correction at Wakefield, for eight months, from January 1st to August 31st 1840", folded up with an embossed oval wafer seal "HOUSE / OF / CORRECTION / WAKEFIELD", posted to Nostell Priory near Pontefract franked by a 1d black JK plate 4, good to large margins, tied by a red Maltese Cross, matching Wakefield backstamp. Fine, an unusual printed form. Photo on Page 6. £300-350
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1840 (Nov. 27) Printed "Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the safe delivery of the Queen, and the happy birth of a Princess, to be used at Morning and Evening Service in all churches and chapels throughout England and Wales on Sunday 29th November", the attached wording of the prayer and thanksgiving now removed, posted from Halifax to The Revd Officiating Minister of Stainland Church, franked by 1d black IK plate 2 with good to large margins tied by a red Maltese Cross, Halifax backstamp. Very fine, an unusual printed letter concerning the birth of Queen Victoria's first child. Photo on Page 6. £400-500
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1840 (Dec. 16) Entire letter to Gatehouse franked 1d black, NE plate 3 with four small to large margins tied by purple maroon Maltese Cross, with boxed Newton Stewart datestamp on reverse in the same colour. This distinctive colour cross recorded from Newton Stewart by Robson Lowe in the G.B Philatelist of August 1961, with B.P.A Certificate (1993). S.G. £8,500. Photo on Page 6. £1,800-2,200
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1840 (Dec. 31) Printed entire letter announcing the liquidation of a business partnership, and the formation of a new firm with two of the previous three partners, posted from London to Hathersage near Sheffield, bearing a 1d black GD plate 5 with four large even margins cancelled by a red Maltese Cross, London datestamp on reverse, unusually also backstamped with a second Maltese Cross in red, very fine. With B.P.A Certificate (1998). Photo on Page 6. £500-600
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1841 (Feb. 12) Handwritten Valentine poem, four eight line verses to "Dear Meg", posted from Belfast to a lady in Ballymore, Ballyclare, franked by a 1d black, AG plate 8 (faults) tied by a red Maltese Cross, Belfast Late and Belfast backstamps. The 1841 Valentines Day was the only one where 1d blacks were in use, many Valentines however being posted prepaid in cash or unpaid. £180-200
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Plate 11. 1841 (Mar. 13) Entire letter from Newcastle to Berwick bearing a 1d black, PL plate 11, very fine with good to large margins, tied by a black Maltese Cross, Newcastle-on-Tyne backstamp. Also an 1841 entire from Edinburgh with matching PL plate 11 1d red (four margins) tied by a black Maltese Cross. The 1d black cover with traces of minor staining along a pressed file fold, otherwise unusually fine, a scarce matched pair, the 1d black cover with R.P.S Certificate (1975). S.G. £16,350. (2). Photo on Page 6. £2,800-3,200
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1841 (Mar. 20) Entire letter from Manchester to Preston with 1d black KL plate 9, four close to huge margins, with central distinctive Maltese Cross in black, red Manchester backstamp. S.G. £2,500. Photo on Page 6. £500-600
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1842 (Nov. 14) Entire letter from Sheffield to Wath near Sheffield bearing a 1d black, FI plate 9, the stamp partly torn away at left in an apparent attempt to remove the red cancel, the stamp still applied but recognised as a previously used stamp, endorsed "old stamp" (tying the stamp to the letter) and charged 2d, strangely without any backstamp. An unusual unsuccessful attempt at a postal fraud. With Brandon Certificate (2007). Photo on Page 8. £2,500-2,800
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1857 (Dec. 10) Cover from Edinburgh to Perth bearing a 1d black, ED plate 4, tied by straight line "HANOVER STREET" Scots local cancel type VII. The stamp separated by tearing, torn into at both sides, nevertheless a remarkable and unique use of a Scots local cancel on a 1d black. With Eichele Certificate (2012). Photo on Page 8. £600-800
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1840 2d Steel blue, plate 1, BG-BH pair with orange-red Maltese Crosses, a superb pair with good margins, this shade very scarce in multiples. With Brandon Certificate (2020). Photo on Page 12. £1,000-1,200
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1841 (Apr. 22) Entire from Kirby Lonsdale to Kendal bearing 1840 2d blue, KL plate 1 with four margins (close at foot) tied by a neat Maltese Cross, despatch and arrival backstamps in blue, light vertical fold, otherwise fine and attractive. £150-180
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1842 (Feb. 3) Registered entire from Mildenhall to Norwich endorsed "Money Letter" and "Registered", the 1/- registration fee paid in cash with red "P1/-", the postage paid with an 1840 2d deep blue, MI plate 2 with large margins cancelled by a black Maltese Cross. Side panels removed and the original address panel cut out, the entire restored with the address replaced, nevertheless a very rare use of an 1840 2d on a registered letter, very few recorded. Photo on Page 8. £1,000-1,200
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1841 1d Red-brown, PD plate 15 with four margins, close at left, cancelled by a Maltese Cross in red. With R.P.S Certificate (1979). S.G. £2,500. Photo on Page 12. £500-600
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1841-43 Cover and entires (2) with 1d reds tied by black Maltese Crosses, 1841 items from Plympton to Place House, Fowey with 1d plate 9 (four margins) or St. Agnes to Hoyle with "No. 1" and blue Truro datestamp bearing 1d plate 11 (four large to enormous margins, a superb stamp), also 1843 entire from Penzance to Hayle. S.G. £725+. (3). £120-150
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1842-53 Entire letters and covers bearing 1d reds (12, two with two singles or a pair) or 1841 2d blue, all selected stamps with four margins, including 1842 Greenock Maltese Cross, and 1845 entire letter with blue Leeds arrival datestamp struck across the stamp (cancelled by "255" numeral). (13). £200-240
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1841 (June 19) Entire letter from Dalry to Edinburgh franked 1d red, IH plate 11 with four margins (very close at base, large margin on other sides) cancelled by a red Maltese Cross, Dalry backstamp in a matching red ink with Glasgow and Edinburgh datestamps. A light pressed horizontal file fold crosses the stamp, otherwise fine and scarce, with Mike Jackson Certificate (2017). S.G. £22,000. Photo on Page 8. £4,000-5,000
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1842 (Feb. 17) Entire from Redruth to Hayle bearing a 1d red, RA plate 2 with four good to large margins, cancelled by a blurred Maltese Cross in Red, Redruth backstamp and a Hayle arrival datestamp on the front, central vertical fold, otherwise fine and scarce. With Mike Jackson Certificate (2017). S.G. £22,000. Photo on Page 8. £5,000-6,000
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1841 (Mar. 29) Entire from Kirkcudbright to Gatehouse bearing a 1d red, AG plate 20 with four margins, cancelled by superb Maltese Cross with unusual heavy outlining. This cover was illustrated in "The Maltese Cross Cancellation" by Alcock & Holland. With Mike Jackson Certificate (2017). £200-250
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1842 (Jan. 28) Partly printed letter from the Admiralty in London acknowledging a request to be appointed an agent in charge of mails in a contract vessel, addressed to Lt. Thomas in Whitehaven with a red Paid datestamp, the letter turned and posted back to London franked by a 1d red plate 18 (four small to huge margins) tied by the distinctive Maltese Cross of Whitehaven. Folded to display both address panels, both with clear Whitehaven backstamps, very rare. With R.P.S Certificate (2002). S.G. £10,000. Photo on Page 8. £3,500-4,000
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1843 (June 29) Entire letter posted within London, a 1d red-brown with four large margins cancelled by fine No. "10" in Maltese Cross, reverse endorsed "Gone Away, Not Known Where", light horizontal crease through the entire and stamp, otherwise unusually fine. £140-160
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1843 (Dec. 15) Entire letter from Montrose to Aberdeen, bearing a 1d red, LB plate 36 with four margins, cancelled by a superb Maltese Cross of Montrose. With Mike Jackson Certificate (2017). S.G. £1,100. Photo on Page 10. £250-300
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1848 (Dec. 5) Entire letter from Wolsingham to Weardale with a 1d red, PL plate 79 with four margins, cancelled by blue "WOLSINGHAM" undated circle, a second strike on reverse. Some splitting to folds, horizontal and vertical folds split and restored, a rare cancel, especially in blue, S.G. £4,500. Photo on Page 8. £600-800
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1841 2d Blue plate 3, AA-AE strip of five used with Maltese Cross cancels, margins on all sides, pressed crease through AA-AC but still an attractive strip, also TA-TF strip of six and OG-OI strip of three, some stamps cut into. (3 strips). £150-180
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1843 (Apr. 19) Long entire letter from London to Loughborough, 4d postage paid by 1841 2d blue plate 3 PK-PL pair applied at upper right, a 1d late fee paid by 1d red HJ plate 27 applied at the upper left corner, all three stamps with large to enormous margins, all cancelled by number "12" in Maltese Crosses. Pressed vertical fold, otherwise an unusually fine and attractive late fee cover, rare in this quality, with Brandon Certificate (2001). Photo on Page 10. £1,000-1,200
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1846 (Sep. 18) Part entire (side flaps removed) from Greenock to Bombay, with 1841 2d blue plate 3 LG - LL strip of six, good to large margins on all sides, paying the 1/- rate via Southampton. Cancelled by "163" numerals, pressed vertical file fold through LJ, otherwise fine, an unusual and attractive franking to India. With Eichele Certificate (2023). Photo on Page 10. £500-600
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1858 2d Blue plate 9, MA with error of watermark, used, scarce. With R.P.S Certificate (1990). Photo on Page 12. £200-250
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1870 (Oct. 1) "British Asylum for Deaf & Dumb Females" printed voting form listing seven females for possible admission to the asylum, with 1870 ½d plate 1 cancelled by London N.W c.d.s on the first day of issue, reverse with typed signed note "ex J.H Booth collection". Photo on Page 10. £600-700
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1854 Embossed 6d, cut square, four good to enormous margins, used with Irish numeral "156" of Cork, an unusually fine stamp. S.G. £1,000. Photo on Page 14. £200-250
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1848 Embossed 10d, cut square with four good to large margins, vertical crease just touching the left frame, used with a London numeral cancel, a fine stamp. S.G. £1,500. Photo on Page 14. £300-350
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1848 Embossed 10d, cut square, four good margins, used with London "74" cancel, fine. S.G. £1,500. Photo on Page 14. £250-300
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1847 Embossed 1/- pale green, cut square, four good margins, used with a London numeral cancel, fine. S.G. £1,000. Photo on Page 14. £180-200
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1857 4d Rose-carmine, watermark Large Garter, used with red oval "PD" cancel, very unusual. Photo on Page 12. £200-250
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