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Italy. 1823-1966 Covers including Papal States, 1878 Natante Colico-Como c.d.s with "3157" cancel, etc., some enclosed letters and death notices, also covers from G.B to Italy with 1860s covers franked 6d, 8d or 10d. (176). £350-400
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Netherlands. 1840-1987 Covers and lettersheets including printed death notices, mail to Netherlands Indies, WW2, also covers from G.B to Holland (16), 1879-81 covers posted within Netherlands Indies (3), covers from Luxembourg (10), etc. (106). £250-300
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New Zealand. 1863-1939 Covers including official mail, 1936 KGV mourning covers (2), covers from G.B to New Zealand (10) with three 1863-88 covers franked 6d, etc. (36). £160-200
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Portugal. 1836-1972 Covers and lettersheets including 1908 letters on royal notepaper sent after the assassination of the King (2, with envelopes), crowned Congress cancels (2, one stampless, one bearing Congreso de los Dipitados stamp), 1872 cover to Sweden with imperf 100r + perforated 120r, also Cape Verde, etc., some with enclosed letters or cards. (55). £220-260
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South Africa. 1874-1944 Covers including 1874 cover to Robben Island, 1894 registered Transvaal cover to Germany franked 1d (3) + 3d + 4d (2) to pay the 1/2 rate, etc. (58). Photo on Page 58. £200-250
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South Africa - Boer War. 1900-02 Covers including 1900 cover from Holland to Lt. Smyth-Osbourne, P.O.W in Pretoria, covers to or from Boer P.O.Ws, Boer censor seal used by the British, cover with enclosed letter from France to the General Commandant of the Boers in Transvaal, etc. (41). £250-300
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South Africa/G.B. 1855-1936 Covers from G.B to South Africa including 1855 cover prepaid 8d in cash, 1875 covers franked at 4d or 6d (5) rates, 1891 cover to Kimberley with boxed dated "ADVERTISED / AND / UNCLAIMED", etc. (17). £150-180
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Spain. 1860-1967 Covers and lettersheets including printed death notices, civil war, postage due mail, etc. (131). £250-300
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Sweden & Norway. 1867-1961 Covers and lettersheets from Sweden (63) or Norway (17) including printed death notices, also covers from G.B to Sweden (10) or Norway (3, one 1871 cover franked 6d to Bergen). (93). £250-300
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Switzerland. 1862-1990 Covers and lettersheets including printed death notices, 1918 (Feb.) cover to USA detained by the U.S censorship until May 1919, T.P.Os, a few Liechtenstein, covers from G.B to Switzerland. (251). £350-400
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Turkey. 1864-1926 Covers including 1864 cover from the French P.O at Constantinople franked France 10c + 20c (2), 1879 German P.O cover franked Germany 20pf and 1882 cover from British P.O to USA franked 2½d, covers with stamps of British Levant (7), German P.O (3), Austrian P.O (2) or French Levant, 1898 cover with Turkish stamps cancelled in manuscript, ingoing covers, etc. (25). £200-250
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USA. c.1850-1957 Covers including transatlantic, postage dues, special delivery, R.P.Os, 1901 cover with enclosed Thanks for Sympathy card from Mrs KcKinley, some with letters or printed death notices. (240). £400-500
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USA/G.B. 1844-1942 Covers and lettersheets from G.B. to USA including stampless covers (8) and other 1862-75 covers franked 3d (7), 6d (3), or 1/- (4), etc. (104). £300-400
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1955-79 Handpainted essays (17), for Liberia 1955 native flowers (2) or 1979 Rowland Hill Centenary (7), Guinea 1959 Air set (3) or Morocco 1960 Karaouiyne University 1100th Anniversary (5); also a 1866-1975 Liberia collection in an album. (17+ album). £250-300
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1840-c.1960 World collection in three albums including 1d black on 1840 cover from London to Basingstoke, etc. (3 Albums). £140-160
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A large accumulation of world and Commonwealth stamps including 1937 Coronation omnibus issues largely complete mint and used with many First Day and other covers, some KGV Commonwealth with Bermuda, Antigua, Gilbert & Ellice, Gibraltar, Australia, useful Malta, etc. (1,000s). £300-400
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Commonwealth and world stamps in 21 albums or stockbooks with further stamps on pages and loose, mainly prewar, with many unusual and selected cancellations, varieties, forgeries, cinderellas, etc. A good lot with many better stamps. (1,000s). £800-1,200
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Cinderellas. Worldwide cinderellas in three stockbooks or albums and on pages with exhibition and advertising labels, revenues, G.B and foreign telegraph stamps, Swiss hotel posts (15) and other locals, a few railway stamps, etc. (100s). £100-150
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Maritime Cancels. Worldwide stamps or pieces with Paquebot or Sea Post Office cancels, including stamps of British East Africa, British Somaliland, Zambezia, Mozambique, Ascension, Kamerun, Falkland Islands, Papua, etc., some unusual and scarce cancels. (600+). Photo on Pages 28 & 72. £200-300
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G.B and Worldwide covers and cards including items with an oil or gas theme, Turkey postcards, etc., also G.B 1929 3/- U.P.U booklet no. 171 (S.G. £350), and some stamps. (100s). £100-200
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1822 - c.1990 Covers and cards including Orient Line mail with Paquebot handstamps (16), Canada Small Queen covers (3), 1864-72 entire letters from G.B to Spain franked 6d (6), KUT WW2 forces mail (15) and P.O.W lettersheet with "ITALIAN EVACUEE CAMP No. 1 / KENYA COLONY", etc. (135). £150-200
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1827-88 Entire letters and covers, mainly to Huth & Co in London, with prestamp letters from Bergen, Hamburg (6), 1862 cover with Denmark 4s, etc. (28). £80-100
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1856-1924 Covers and cards including 1910 Mauritius cover sent by special delivery bearing nineteen 1c stamps, 1909 Iceland postcard from Isafjordir, 1884 Heligoland postcard from the Colonial Postmaster to the Crown Agents, 1924 postcard bearing Transjordan ½pi (S.G. 122) with blue oval cancel, etc., a few faults. (15). £100-150
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Air Mails. 1909-87 Covers and cards in an album including D.O.X and Zeppelin flights, first flights, commercial covers, and commemorative covers (some signed), 1919 R34 novelty postcard with pull-out views, etc. (c.140). £150-180
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1840-1935 Mint and used collection in a well filled New Ideal album, some useful stamps noted including Bamra 1888 4a used (thin), Bermuda 1932 12/6 mint, Canada 1897 15c - 50c mint, Cape triangulars (8), Gibraltar 1886 4d and 6d overprints mint, Mauritius 1848-59 1d (S.G. 10, cut into) and 2d (S.G.8, touched at two corners and thinned but reasonable appearance) used, Nova Scotia 1841-60 1d, 3d, 6d used (faults), St. Vincent 1888 6d violet mint, etc., some faults but a reasonable collection. (100s). Photo on Page 72. £300-400
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QV-KGV Stamps and varieties, a selection including Cyprus S.G. 16ab used, Falkland Islands KEVII 1/- on piece with South Georgia c.d.s (S.G. Z19), Gambia S.G. 43a used (creased), Gold Coast S.G. 77aw used, Mauritius S.G. 117a used, North Borneo S.G. 55b unused no gum, Labuan S.G. 50b used, OFS S.G. 150a used, PF2 mint, Uganda S.G. 54a unused, etc., also a few unlisted varieties. An interesting selection, a few faults but many better stamps, all items of some merit. S.G. £7,500 (approx). (62). Photo on Page 72. £600-800
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QV-KGVI Mint and used collection in four albums including Ascension 1924-33 1d cleft rock variety mint, 1d grey-black and bright blue-green mint (3), Gambia, Falkland Islands 1938-50 set mint, Malta with 1922 5/-, 10/- and 1922-26 set mint, Maldive Islands 1906 set mint, 1935 Jubilee omnibus issues virtually complete used on pieces (just missing the Egypt forces seal) with Bechuanaland 2d short extra flagstaff and Sierra Leone 2d double flagstaff, 1948-49 Royal Wedding omnibus issues complete mint (38 high values unmounted, the others lightly mounted), etc. (100s). £1,000-1,200
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1854-1956 Mint stamps on nine pages showing the standard designs printed by De la Rue, including Perak 1936 $100 Revenue, F.M.S 1907 $1, F.M.S 1926 $250 Revenue, Nyasaland 1903 4/- and 1908 2/6, etc. (99). Photo on Page 78. £300-400
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QV-QEII Mint and used collection in seven albums or stockbooks and loose, including Australia with 1913 2/- and 1929 5/- mint, 1932 10/- and Sydney Harbour Bridge 5/- used, Rhodesia, Canada, British West Indies with Bermuda KGVI high value mint, Grenada, Turks & Caicos, etc. (1,000s). £250-300
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c.1920-80 Mint collection, with a few earlier and later issues, comprising British West Indies, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras and Canada, the 1935-80 issues largely complete, in four substantial albums with blocks and miniature sheets in two further stockbooks. (6 Albums). £600-700
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1936-52 KGVI Mint and used collection in an album including KUT with 10c black & green block containing mountain retouch, the occasional earlier stamps with Cape triangulars (2), etc., also 1910-61 South Africa collection in an album. (2 Albums). £200-250
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1938-68 Mint and used sets from Falkland Islands & Dependencies, St. Helena, St. Kitts or Tripolitania, all fine. S.G. £650. (111). £70-80
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1935 Silver Jubilee Omnibus issue complete mounted mint, including Egypt forces letter stamp, fine. S.G. £1,600. (250). £200-300
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Ascension/St. Helena. 1903-73 Collection including Ascension 1924-33 1d broken mainmast, 2d and 8d cleft rock varieties all mint, St. Helena 1922-37 issue mint to 5/-, etc. (100s). £100-150
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British West Indies. QV-QEII Collections in six albums or stockbooks and on pages with Virgin Islands mint to 1979, Montserat mint and used to 1988, St. Lucia 1937-76 in three albums, cancellations of British Guiana and Bermuda, etc. (1,000s). £100-200
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Postage Dues. 1926-51 G.B Postage dues overprinted for overseas territories, comprising Bechuanaland Protectorate set of three, M.E.F set, both Tripolitania sets, both Eritrea sets, and the Southern Rhodesia set including the scarce 4d green, all unmounted, fine. S.G. £655. (35). Photo on Page 72. £150-180
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Picture Postcards. c.1900-30 Postcards including Ascension (15), Falkland Islands (8), St. Helena (24), North Borneo (8), Pacific Islands (32), Papua New Guinea (8), etc., most unused. (228). £200-250
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Revenues. QV-KGV Revenue and telegraph stamps in an album with many scarcer stamps including Niger Coast Consular overprint 2½d and 10/-, Nigeria 1916 6d, Sierra Leone 1884 5/- on 1/- unused pair, British East Africa 1897 Judicial Fee 5r and 10r, Seychelles with Bill of Exchange 1897 5c on 40c (2) and 1921 Stamp Office 12c, Stellaland 1884-86 issues mint to £5 (7), 1903 Bechuanaland Protectorate overprint £5 block of four (Barefoot 13, a little discoloured), Ceylon, Selanger, Straits Settlements, Zanzibar, KUT, Uganda, telegraph stamps of India, Ceylon, Natal, OFS (with "FT" errors and 1900 V.R.I A.T £4 mint), etc. A good lot. (100s). £300-400
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1881-1932 Used issues on pages including c.1881-1900 covers (5) and fronts (2), 1907 Zigzag roulette lab printed on both sides (faults), etc. (64). £100-120
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1831-60 Entires (2), a cover and pieces (2) including 1859 entire franked G.B 6d (cut into) tied by "A02" numeral, 1856 cover with double arc datestamp, etc. (5). £150-180
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G.B Used in Antigua. G.B 1d Red (upper perfs trimmed) and 6d lilac cancelled "A02". S.G Z1, 5, £930. (2). £80-100
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1862-87 QV Stamps, the mint and used selection on pages including 1862 6d imperforate plate proofs (2) and proof strip of four in black from the defaced plate, 1862-67 1d (4) and 6d (5) used all apparently imperf but probably cut down from misperforated or partly perforated stamps, 1862 rough perf 6d unused no gum (light crease), 1863-67 1d mint or unused (4, all three shades, S.G. 7, 7b mint), all 1876-84 issues mint or unused (S.G. 20, 22/3 mint), all 1863-87 issues used, 1887 2½d with large "2" showing slanting foot mint or unused and used (2), also cancellations with English Harbour c.d.s (2) or "A18" (2), revenues (23) and a few forgeries. S.G. £4,500 (approx). (132). £300-400
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1882 Crown CA 2½d red-brown, variety large "2" with slanting foot, tiny tone mark to one corner perf, otherwise fine used. S.G. 22b, £1,300. Photo on Page 72. £150-180
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1886-1903 Specimen overprint stamps affixed with part own gum to two pages from the Royal Swedish General Post Office U.P.U Specimen collection, comprising 1886-87 2½d, 4d and 1/- on a printed stamp album page and 1903 KEVII ½d - 5/- set of ten affixed to a plain page with manuscript country name and date. Two unique archival pages. S.G. 27/40s, £475 as stamps. (13). £120-150
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1903-29 Mint and used selection including 1908-17 set mint, 1921-29 ½d - £1 set of 25 superb mint and used. S.G. £1,600. (79). Photo on Page 72. £350-400
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Village and Other Cancels. QV-KGV Stamps, mainly with village cancels, including 1876-94 manuscript date cancels believed to have been used at villages (22, three also with "SP" used at St. Peters), other village cancels (220) with very scarce datestamps of St. Stephens on 1928 piece, St. James on 1929 piece (4 strikes), Montpelier (4) and Pares, also Official Paid and M.O.O datestamps, Paquebots, overseas cancels (with 1903-07 5/- cancelled at Castries), Gold Coast QV 10/- cancelled at Antigua. (275). Photo on Pages 14 & 204. £400-500
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Village Cancels. 1930-36 Covers with village cancels of All Saints, Bendals, Cedar Grove, Falmouth, Green Bay, Gunthorpes, Pares, St. Marys or St. Johnstons, the last two covers registered with registration labels of St. Johns. Most philatelic but still very scarce, the Freeland & Jordan Antigua handbook illustrates another 1933 cover of Pares described as "possibly the only surviving early cover", and states only about half a dozen examples of St. Johnstons are recorded (this example possibly the only known registered cover). (9). Photo on Page 68. £500-600
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Leeward Islands used in Antigua. QV Stamps with Antigua cancels including 1890 set with additional 1/- (2), the 5/- on piece; 1897 Sexagenary overprint ½d, 2½d, 4d, 7d; and the three 1902 1d surcharges on piece. Also 1914-37 covers and cards including 1937 KGV 1d Leewards postcard franked Antigua 1d + 3d. (S.G. £775 as stamps). (26 + 3 covers). Photo on Page 78. £140-160
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1849 (Dec. 28) Stampless cover to H.M.S "Superb" at Portsmouth, redirected to Queenstown, backstamped boxed "JA 26 1850 / LIVERPOOL / SHIP", London, Portsmouth, Dublin and Queenstown datestamps, charged 8d. The enclosed letter, written from Ascension by "Black Boy Henry France" includes "I went to Captain Hutton to ask him for liberty and he would not let me come ...... the rest of the black men as well as myself would be most happy if we could see you". A fine early letter from Ascension, apparently written by a former slave, many of whom were landed on the island by the Royal Navy in the 1840s. Photo on Page 58. £1,800-2,200
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1925 (Jan. 1) Registered cover to London bearing 1924 ½d - 1/- (the nine values issued by this date), the 1/- with variety torn flag, the cancel with year incorrectly shown as "24". A scarce 1/- variety used, especially on cover. S.G. 10/7, 18b, £1,000+ as stamps. Photo on Page 68. £180-220
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