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Royalty. 1815-41 Letters, etc., comprising 1815 letter written and signed by Ernest, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover, and 1834 letter from the Duchess of Kent (mother of Queen Victoria) to her cousin (neither postally used); 1841 cover from Queen Adelaide posted within London; also two 1817 mourning cards for Princess Charlotte. (5). £120-150
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Royalty. c.1840-1939 Covers, letters and ephemera including covers signed by Duke of Cambridge (3, one bearing a 1d black which does not belong), letters from Princesses Helena, Victoria, Beatrice, Alice of Athlone, Margaret of Connaught, covers initialled by the Duke of Connaught or Albert, Prince of Wales, 1862 cover from Princess Helena posted to Germany, also In Memoriam cards for Princess Alice (3) and Prince Leopold (2), and unused invitation cards to the funerals of Duke of Cambridge or Princess Louise. (21). £250-350
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Royalty. 1842-1980 Covers, also some letters and ephemera, with QV covers from or to Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle or Balmoral (22), stampless covers with cypher cachets of KEVII, KGV, KGVI or QEII, cachets of Privy Purse, Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, KGVI funeral tickets, etc. (135+). £400-500
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Royalty - Prince Albert/Queen Victoria. 1861 Prince Albert Mourning cards (7), and woven silks (3, one a bookmark depicting Albert, Rosenau and Windsor Castles); 1901 Queen Victoria In Memoriam cards (23), mourning picture postcards (21), funeral service programme and invitations (2), and a few other related postcards. (71+). £500-600
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Royalty - Queen Victoria. Undated mourning covers addressed in Queen Victoria's handwriting with her crest on the flap, to The Lord Bishop of Rochester or The Duchess of Edinburgh, Grand Duchess of Russia both signed "The Queen", or to The Lady Southampton or Viscount Bridport both signed "The Q", all hand delivered, the first with R.P.S Certificate (2013). (4). £300-350
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Royalty - Queen Victoria. 1880 Mourning cover with VRI crest on the flap and royal seal, addressed in Queen Victoria's handwriting to Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig Holstein at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, registered from Baden bearing 10pf pair on the front and another 10pf pair on the reverse. Photo on Page 58. £150-180
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Royalty - Queen Victoria. 1901 Printed fancy mourning envelopes "In Memory of our Beloved QUEEN VICTORIA", with coloured flags applied in the upper left corner, one posted from Nova Scotia to India franked Canada 2c, the other posted from USA to London franked 5c, very unusual and attractive. (2). £80-100
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Royalty - King Edward VII/Queen Alexandra. 1901-25 Covers, letters, ephemera and picture postcards including a letter written and signed by Alexandra, 1912 cover with KGV cypher and hand delivered cover to Queen Mary both addressed in the handwriting of Alexandra, many KEVII picture postcards for the Coronation, royal visits, In Memoriam, funeral, etc (c.200), printed In Memoriam cards for Alexandra or King Edward VII (10), funeral and memorial service programmes (10), Windsor Castle funeral or memorial service invitations (6), unused India pictorial mourning envelope, 1910 (May 20) cover posted within Harrogate with black borders around a 7d stamp, etc. A good collection. (c.260). £800-1,000
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Royalty - King George V/Queen Mary. 1910-53 Covers, letters, ephemera and picture postcards including KGV In Memoriam cards (8) and postally used covers (18), Queen Mary funeral programme and invitation, KGV funeral programme and Special District Orders, picture postcards (67), 1937 registered cover from Windsor Castle with enclosed note from Queen Mary, also 1935 Silver Jubilee pictorial envelopes (4), etc. (128). £250-300
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Royalty - King Edward VIII. 1936 Stampless covers with boxed "ERI / VIII" cypher (5), other 1936 covers with KGV cypher or cachets of Privy Purse (4), Lord Steward (2) or Lord Chamberlain, etc. (30). £250-300
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Personalities. 1826-1936 Covers and letters written or signed by politicians, nobility, etc., including 1884 letter from Randolph Churchill, covers signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury (5), 1862 letter concerning the death of Sir Stamford Raffles (faults), etc. (60+). £200-250
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Duke of Wellington. 1852 Embossed mourning card, initiation cards to the lying in state and the funeral, printed notice for persons going in the funeral procession or service at St. Paul's, and printed "Lines on the body of the Duke of Wellington lying in state". (5). £180-220
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Politicians, etc. 1843-1923 In Memoriam cards for Stanley Earl of Derby, Disraeli (2), Gladstone (4), Bonar Law, thanks for sympathy card from Mr & Mrs Lloyd George, unused printed envelope showing Gladstone cutting off the Queens head, ticket to funeral of Palmerston, mourning covers signed by Stanley (2) or Palmerston or to Disraeli, also In Memoriam cards for Alfred, Lord Tennyson, etc. (20). £220-260
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G.B & Germany In Memoriam Cards - Wartime Casualties. 1899-1945 In Memoriam cards and death notices for British casualties from the Boer War (3), WW1 (8), or WW2, or German casualties from WW1 (32) or WW2 (13, five postally used), also an 1899 card for a soldier who died in India. (58). £120-150
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Royal Navy - In Memoriam Cards. 1870-1925 Cards for 500 sailors lost in H.M.S "Captain" in 1870 (also a printed verse on the loss, sold on behalf of the relief fund), 1893 card to a sailor drowned by the foundering of H.M.S "Victoria", 1900 Brighton naval boating disaster, 1910 card to a sailor killed on H.M.S "Bellerophon", 1914 card for sailors lost on the Submarine A1, 1916 cards for Lord Kitchener lost on H.M.S "Hampshire" (7, also six postcards, memorial service programme and invitation), 1925 card for sailors lost on Submarine M1. Also a 1905 postcard of the funeral of a sailor from Submarine A8, 1931 postcard to the crew of submarine "Poseidon" sunk off Wei-Hai-Wei and a postcard commemorating the submarine H.M.S "Thetis" sunk in Liverpool Bay in 1939. (30). £200-250
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In Memoriam Cards. 1859-1932 Cards for unusual incidents or disasters, or to individuals who died in unusual ways, including WW1 air raids (2), drowning and shipwrecks (9), fires (2), colliery accidents (8, also three handbills), loss of the R101 airship, 1904 Hull fishermen fired on by the Russian Navy (2), Titanic Disaster, Tay Bridge Disaster, Regents Park disaster caused by breaking ice, 1928 Thames flood, industrial accidents (4), deaths at sea (2), policemen killed on duty (2, also three postcards), accidentally shot, killed by a lion, murdered (2), etc. An exceptional group, all carefully selected. (48). £400-500
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In Memoriam Cards. QV-QEII In Memoriam cards, the extensive collection including silk types, fine embossed cards, some with postally used envelopes. (480+). £500-600
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1855-1930 Lettersheets with printed death notices or funeral invitations, mainly QV, nearly all postally used. (27). £100-150
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1824-1951 Letters, invoices, business cards, etc., from undertakers, cemeteries, monumental masons, coffin makers, mourning warehouses, etc., some fine letterheads, some postally used. (74). £200-250
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QV-QEII Ephemera including Thanks for Sympathy cards, unused mourning cards and stationery, picture postcards of graves, 1895 card advertising a harmonic concert at a public house to raise funds to pay for a child's funeral, etc., some postally used. (250+). £300-350
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Famous People. Covers, postcards and stamps on cover, all mourning famous people including Presidents, Kings, Popes, etc., with French postal stationery, Thanks for Sympathy cards for President Kennedy or Princess Grace of Monaco both postally used in official envelopes, etc. (c.175). £100-150
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1876-1975 Lettersheets with printed death notices within black borders, from many countries, mainly Europe, most postally used (62). Also various ephemera, mourning cards, etc. (c.108). £150-200
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1868-1961 Mourning envelopes from various countries including Morocco Agencies (8), Gold Coast with 1933 Le Havre Paquebot, Southern Rhodesia, S.W.A., K.U.T, Gambia 1951 cover with Kunta-Ur c.d.s, Palestine, Malaya, Mauritius, Ceylon, China, Japan, Israel, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, also 1808 cover from G.B to Ceylon franked 1d + 1/-, 1892 cover from G.B to Shanghai, etc. (84). £200-250
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Europe. 1858-1960 Mourning covers from Bulgaria (10, one 1943 cover from the royal household with "Palais Royal Sofia" c.d.s), Czechoslovakia (45), Greece (27), Poland (9), Romania (18, three from the King or Queen), Yugoslavia (13), Croatia or Latvia, some with enclosed cards or letters. (124). £280-320
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British West Indies. 1857-1977 Covers with stampless 1857 cover from G.B to St. Kitts, other covers from G.B to various islands (6), covers from Jamaica (17, with 1901 Paquebot), Bahamas (2), Barbados (4), Bermuda (3), British Guiana (7, one 1936 cover to Barbados with two 1d postage dues applied upon arrival), Trinidad (2) or Antigua. (43). £180-200
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South & Central America. c.1868-1965 Covers, the extensive collection including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Colombia (with Scadta covers), Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico (with 1868 Guadalajara 2r), Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, etc., also some ingoing covers from G.B, some with letters, an interesting lot. (183). £600-800
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Aden/G.B. 1877-84 Covers from G.B to Aden, the first from London bearing three plate 15 2d blues, the second from Rotherham bearing two plate 23 2½d blue stamps, the 1877 cover with the flap missing, the 1884 cover to the P&O Agents endorsed "On board Mecca". (2). £100-150
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Australian States. 1864-1910 Covers from New South Wales (14), Queensland (4), South Australia (9), Tasmania (5), Victoria (20) or Western Australia (1909 registered cover from Kalgoorlie), including official covers. (53). £200-250
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Australian States/G.B. 1849-98 Covers from G.B to New South Wales (2), Victoria (6), Tasmania or South Australia, including 1849 stampless ship letter prepaid 8d in cash, 1864 cover franked 6d + six 1d reds, 1874 cover franked 3d + 6d, 1878 cover franked 6d with G.B and Victoria 1/- charge marks, other covers franked 6d (5, all differing stamp issues), etc. (10). £200-250
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Australia. 1916-46 Covers including 1930 cover to London with the stamp washed off and boxed "DAMAGED BY FIRE / ON / S.S COMORIN", some with enclosed cards or letters, also a few covers from G.B to Australia. (35). £120-150
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Austria & Hungary. c.1850-1990 Covers and lettersheets with stamps of Austria, Bosnia or Hungary, also a few stampless covers, some with contents including printed death notices, a few possibly from royalty, military mail, postage dues, etc. (c.200). £400-500
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Austria & Germany/G.B. 1852-1905 Covers from G.B to Austria (8) or Germany (21) including 1852 stampless covers prepaid 8d in cash (2), 1861-74 covers franked 3d (3), 4d pair or 6d (5), an unusual 1881 cover from Battle to Vienna franked 1d + 1½d, 1863 cover from Canterbury with oval "P.D" of Dover, etc. (29). £180-200
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Belgium. 1846-1976 Covers and lettersheets including printed death notices, WW1 German occupation overprints, 1915 registered cover from Le Havre to Holland sent via London with boxed "POSTED OUT / OF COURSE", also a few covers from G.B to Belgium. (123). £250-300
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Belgium. 1935-36 Covers and cards bearing Queen Astrid mourning stamps, and related picture postcards, KUT cover with enclosed invite to a memorial service for the Queen, first flight cover to Chad, etc., (43). Also 1934 cover with enclosed card from the Royal Palace thanking the addressee on condolences on the death of King Albert, similar 1965 covers and cards for Queen Elizabeth (2), Belgian Congo covers with King Albert mourning stamps (4), etc. (57). £120-150
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Canada. 1855-1969 Covers including stamps of Nova Scotia (2), New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland (2), prestamp mail, transatlantic, 1859 5c (2), 1868 3c, small Queen issues, etc. (121). £300-400
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Canada/G.B. 1848-1948 Covers from G.B to Canada including stampless covers (5, one with "ST. KEVERNE" undated circle on the front, another with a Paid c.d.s applied in error and deleted), 1862-75 covers franked 3d (3), 4d pair, 6d (3), 1d pair + 6d or 2d + 6d, etc. (36). £200-240
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Denmark & Iceland. c.1890-1985 Covers from Denmark (92) or Iceland (20), many with printed death notices enclosed, also covers from G.B to Denmark (13) and some death notices without envelopes. (123+). £200-250
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Egypt & Sudan. 1870-1952 Covers from Egypt (35) or Sudan (3), and covers from G.B to Egypt (5), including 1891 cover to Malta signed by the Duke of Cambridge, 1898 stampless cover from Cairo to Assouan signed by Lord Curzon, 1898-99 covers to London with enclosed letters signed by Curzon (2, one hand delivered, the other posted in London franked 1d, probably sent by diplomatic bag), Cooks Tourist Office c.d.s on covers from G.B redirected to the Mena House Hotel or returned to G.B unclaimed, etc. (43). £200-250
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Finland & Russia. 1865-1991 Covers and lettersheets from Finland (28) or Russia (29) including printed death notices, also a few ingoing covers (5) including 1879 unpaid stampless cover from Sweden to Finland charged upon arrival. (62). £200-240
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France. 1822-1979 Covers and lettersheets including prestamp, forces mail, printed death notices and cards, 1930 cover to USA with 1f50 + U.S Special Delivery 10c cancelled by Southampton M.B c.d.s, also some Monaco. (c.400). £700-1,000
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France/G.B. 1839-1941 Covers and lettersheets from G.B to France including stampless covers (4), 1859-75 covers franked at 3d (7), 4d (21) or 8d (2) rates, 1875 registered cover franked 6d grey plate 14, 1877 cover from York franked 1d and charged 5c postage due, 1893 cover with 2½d cancelled by St. Malo c.d.s with "ANG. B.M. / ST MALO" c.d.s alongside, 1894 cover franked 2½d with a 10c postage due for redirection, etc. (77). £300-350
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French Colonies. 1890-1959 Covers from Indo China (11, three first flights), Morocco (23, with military mail and Marrakech 10c local on 1900 part cover to Mazagan), Algeria (13, also two 1883 covers from G.B), Tunisia (11), New Caledonia, French Somali Coast, Reunion (3, with 1892 cover bearing 10c + 15c overprints), etc. (74). £250-300
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Germany. 1859-c.2000 Covers and lettersheets, the extensive collection including Baden, Prussia, Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Third Reich, French Zone, British & American Zone, Russian Zone, DDR, Saar, Danzig, some military, printed death notices and cards, etc. (c.400). £800-1,000
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Germany - Royalty. 1875-1929 Covers (8) and letters (6) from or to royalty including letters from Princess Louise (3, two with envelopes), also a stampless cover posted within Austria bearing a "Portofrei" label allowing free franking for the Thurn & Taxis royal family (tied by Gmunden c.d.s, with Raybaudi Certificate), 1875 cover from France franked 80c pair to Prince Gustave de Wasa in Vienna redirected to the Palace at Oldenburg, etc. Also related picture postcards or postal stationery cards. (32). Photo on Page 58. £250-300
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Germany - Hindenburg. 1934 Covers bearing Hindenburg mourning stamps including Catapult flights from the "Europa" or "Bremen" (5), 1935 (Dec. 4) postcard posted on the Graf Zeppelin third pendulum flight from Rio de Janeiro, etc. (64). Also mourning postcards for Hindenburg (3), Bismarck (13), etc. (83). £200-250
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Gibraltar/Malta/Cyprus. 1863-1936 Covers, including 1865 cover franked 6d from G.B to Gibraltar with circular framed "S" handstamp (applied to mail delivered via Spain), 1863-70 covers franked G.B 6d from Malta (2) or Gibraltar (2), 1890 cover bearing Gibraltar 25c on 2½d surcharge, etc. (18). £180-220
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India. 1867 Mourning covers from Calcutta to London, two franked at the 6a8p rate with a single 6a8p or 8p + 1a pair + 4a, the other two endorsed by Express to Bombay and franked 4a + 6a8p for the 10a8p rate, all fine, an unusual group. (4). Photo on Page 58. £250-300
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India. 1902 (Nov. 19) Cover to USA franked ½a + 1a pair each cancelled by "F.P.O No. 31" c.d.s, not recorded by Proud. Photo on Page 58. £150-180
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India. 1848-1951 Covers including 1856 cover from Calcutta to "Captain F. McFarlane, 9th Royal Lancers, Umballa" franked 1854 1a with retta cancel, 1857 cover to Scotland bearing 1855 4a on blued paper, etc. (41). £250-300
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India/G.B. 1859-1936 Covers from G.B to India including 1859-80 covers franked at 6d (3), 8d (3), 9d, 10d (front) or 1/- (3) rates, 1890 cover franked 5d + 6d late fee, 1899 stampless War Office cover initialled by General Wolseley to his son in Madras, etc. (31). £250-300
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