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Explanatory Handstamps. 1858 (Mar 10) Cover from Sydney to Glasgow franked NSW 6d, the reverse with a Glasgow c.d.s and octagonal boxed “RECEIVED OPEN / & RE-SEALED / AT P.O GLASGOW”, small part Glasgow P.O wax seal, very unusual. Photo on Page 102. £150-180
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Returned Letter Office. 1873-1913 Covers (20), labels (3) and a front including undelivered covers with scarce double oval “RETURNED / GLASGOW / LETTER BRANCH” (2), red explanatory handstamps Insufficient Address (2), Insufficiently Addressed (2), No Such Street in Glasgow (3) or Firm Not Known (2), crowned oval Glasgow Returned Letter Branch datestamps (5, two on “Re-issued Free from R.L.O” parcel labels), R.L.B envelopes (6), etc. (24). £160-200
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1871-1979 Covers, cards and parcel labels, many sub-office datestamps including duplexs from Govan, Hillhead and Partick, registered mail, Parcel Post labels (18), boxed “LATE FEE / PAID” (2) and “MISDIRECTED TO”, postage dues, block of six Glasgow Circular Delivery Co. perf 10½ one farthing black stamps, etc. (96). £100-150
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Christmas - Advance Posting. 1904 Picture postcard posted within Glasgow, a KEVII ½d tied by superb oval Advance Posting cancel code “G.W”. 21,423 Items posted in 1904, the only year the scheme operated in Glasgow. Photo on Page 102. £200-250
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Europe. 1824-1901 Entire letters, entires, covers and cards with prestamp and stampless letters to Belgium (2), Denmark, Portugal (2), Russia (2), Spain (2), Switzerland or Malta, stamped covers including 6d rates to Gibraltar, Spain (3) and Sweden (2), 8d to Spain, etc. (32). £160-200
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France. 1787-1892 Entire letters, covers and a front with prestamp and stampless letters (11), stamped letters franked 4d (11, one underpaid), 8d (3), 1/-, 3d rate cover with 1½d pair, 3d + ½d pair paying a 1d late fee, 1d printed matter rate, etc. (37). £180-220
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Germany/Austria. 1839-1900 Entire letters, covers and cards, including 1839-40 prestamp covers (2), stamped covers franked 6d (5), 1d and 2d printed matter rates, etc. (29). £100-120
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Italy. 1831-75 Entire letters and covers comprising prestamp and stampless letters (4), 1860 cover franked 1d + 4d + 6d, other covers franked 6d (3, one with 1d strip of six) or 1/-, and a Book Post wrapper with five 1d reds. (10). £120-150
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Syria. 1861 Cover to Beyrout “via Marseille pr. French Packet” franked 6d strip of three, an unusual destination. £100-120
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West Indies. 1791-1875 Entire letters comprising prestamp and stampless letters to Grenada or Jamaica (2), 1856 letter to Barbados with 6d embossed (cut square, four margins but may not belong to this letter), and letters franked 1/- to Antigua (2) or Curacao. (7). £140-180
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U.S.A. 1774-1888 Entire letters and covers, the display collection on 35 pages with prestamp and stampless letters (30, one from U.S.A) including 1848 retaliatory rate cover with tiny circular late fee handstamp and 1849 restored rate, covers franked 1/- (5, one with Madeleine Smith cancel), 1/2½ rate to California (4), 1854 entire with embossed 1/- pair (cut square, touched), etc. (44). £350-450
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Canada. 1836-73 Entire letters and covers, the display collection on 26 pages with prestamp and stampless letters (18, six with boxed Hope Street or Sauchihall handstamps on the front), stamped covers franked 4d, 6d (5), 8d, 1/2, 2/-, 1d printed matter rate, etc. (29). £250-300
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South & Central America. 1866-88 Entire letters, wrappers and a front including 1874 letter to Guatemala franked 1/- cancelled by Glasgow - Carlisle Sorting Tender duplex, 1868 letter to Brazil franked 6d + 1/-, etc. (5). £120-150
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Peru. 1852 (Mar 30) Entire letter to Lima franked embossed 1/- pair, cut square, right stamp just touched at right, otherwise unusually fine, Coatebridge, Glasgow and London backstamps. Photo on Page 102. £150-200
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Asia/Mauritius. 1851-90 Entire letters and covers comprising 1853 stampless letter to Penang prepaid 1/-, 1851-77 stampless letters (2) and cover franked 1/- to Mauritius, 1868-70 covers to Ceylon franked 9d or 1/-, and 1860-90 covers to India franked 6d, 9d or 5d. (9). £150-180
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Australia/New Zealand. 1858-1900 Entire letters and covers to Australia franked 6d (3), 10d, 1/- or 3/-, or to New Zealand franked 6d or 2½d. (8) £120-150
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Cricket. 1904-98 Covers and stamps including a few Edwardian picture postcards; 1916 cover from John Wisden & Co cricketing depot; an album of cricket themed stamps with some minor varieties; “Denis Compton’s Cricketing Days Film Strip” in original box; 1970-98 mainly British commemorative covers (117), 98 signed by cricketers including county and international teams with 1995 West Indies touring team (2, just ten covers signed), 1990 New Zealand team, 1982 and 1986 England tours to South Africa, 1992 England and South Africa teams; also other signed photos and cards, ephemera, etc. (100s). £400-500
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Cricket. c.1950-2003 Signed miniature cricket bats, including India 1952, Australia 1956 and Pakistan 2003 teams, the others signed by county teams including Yorkshire (3), Leicestershire (3), Surrey (2), etc, one unsigned. (17). £300-400
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“Black Gold - Oil and Our Society”. The superbly written up display collection on 176 pages with numerous stamps, booklets, postcards, meter marks, postal stationery, proofs, advertising envelopes, picture postcards, etc., including 1866 French cover with petrol refinery cachet, 1903 registered picture postcard from the Teheran to London via Baku, Curacao 1942 5c vignette die proof, 1883-88 U.S.A advertising stationery envelopes depicting oil drums, 1840 1d Mulready envelope posted within Edinburgh, Italy lettercard advertising “Lampo” superior Benzine depicting a racing car bearing 40c BLP overprint stamp, China red band envelope with Standard Oil advert, 1936 Hindenburg Zeppelin flown card advertising Tycol lubricant, etc. Also many additional stamps and covers including Calpurnia crash cover with cachet, Afghanistan cover with oval “Shirkat Petrol” cancel, etc. (100s). £500-800
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Eiffel Tower. The thematic collection well written up on approximately 400 pages including early picture postcards, cachets from the summit or various stages of the tower, first flight covers, Concorde flights, labels, German Occupation, etc., also additional postcards and other cards of Versailles or Paris, an attractive collection. (100s). £250-400
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“Keeping in Touch”. The 80 page collection on the history of communication, well written up, illustrating the spoken, written and printed word, postal methods, telecommunications and the word in war. The collection includes 1884 Witu ½r, Zaire free letter with braille writing, 1947 Kings Flight cachet on cover flown from South Africa to G.B during the royal visit, Mafeking 1d deep blue used (S.G. 18), 1900 Cape postcard carried by camel from Mier, South Africa and India Pigeon Post covers, Austria NDL “Bremen” catapult cover, 1939 Tonga Tin Can Mail cover to Sweden returned due to the war with “NO SERVICE” cachet, G.B 1969 Queen Elizabeth 5d grey omitted, 1840 1d black cover from Worcester, 1941 “L.P.R / 6 AUG 41 / LONDON C.O / MOBILE P.O / No. 1” Blitz P.O c.d.s on registered cover to Argentina (& C.O.P), India 1935 stampless Quetta Earth Quake cover with cachet, 1942 registered cover with Madagascar stamps tied by S.A A.P.O 51 c.d.s, 1943 wreck cover from G.B to South Africa, 1969 Great Bitter Lakes cover from S.S “Talthybius”, 1925-37 South Africa railway letters (3), 1934 G.B railway cover sent express, 1888 cover from Balmoral Castle with Caledonian T.P.O c.d.s, 1945 soldiers cover from Texas with “DAMAGED BY FLOOD”, 1911 First U.K Aerial Post card, Australia 1940 Flying Doctors flight cover pilot signed, 1969 Concorde Filton to Fairford first flight, 1900 Boer War cover with Army Telegraphs c.d.s, 1870 Paris Pigeon Post messages on celluloid panel, 1900 Japan postcard from China with German Feldpost c.d.s, WW2 cover from British P.O.W in Taiwan, 1940 G.B 2d bisect from St. Martins Guernsey, 1944 V. Mail form “Not Suitable for Filming” so posted to G.B, etc. (100s). £1,000-1,200
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c.1870-1910 Ephemera including three early booklets containing coloured facsimiles of stamps; a French carte de visite depicting U.S stamps with red Stafford Smith and Smith, Bath, label on reverse; a bakelite stamp wallet produced by the New England Stamp Co. with an imitation £5 orange stamp; early trade cards of stamp dealers (6) and other firms depicting stamps (8), etc. (29). £200-250
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1879-1995 Ephemera comprising 1896 three page detailed report by W.J.W Miller on the first two meetings of the Plymouth Philatelic Society 1896-97 session; other notes by Miller on the stamps of Greece, Queensland and Austria; 1902-09 letters from Walter Morley (3); 1915 letter signed by Prince Carl of Sweden concerning Red Cross stamps; and various covers and cards from stamp dealers, etc., also a folder of 1980s ephemera collected by Raife and Hilary Wellsted at various exhibitions. (100+). £200-250
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1898-1940 Poster stamps from various philatelic exhibitions and events, mainly U.S.A but including France, Germany, Italy 1898 label on cover, etc., also some stamp dealers labels with “The Postage Stamp in War by F.J Melville” (10), etc. (c.300). £100-150
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c.1880-1970 Poster stamps, the extensive worldwide collection in three large Scott albums including advertising, exhibitions and events, patriotic, fund raising, philatelic exhibitions and congresses, etc., mainly from U.S.A and Europe, many other countries also noted, a good lot. (1000s). £1,000-1,200
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c.1880-1980 Poster stamps from Belgium, Netherlands, Italy or Austria, mainly sorted into packets by country and year, many from the 1913 Ghent exhibition, etc. (Many 100s). £300-400
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c.1880-1960 Poster stamps including 1912-15 mainly German stamps in an album, also France, South America, Scandinavia, etc., with advertising, exhibitions, WW1 anti-German propaganda, etc., a good lot. (100s). £300-400
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1889-1968 Poster stamps for exhibitions and events, most on pages, from U.S.A, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, etc., nearly all pre-1940, a good lot. (Many 100s). £800-1,000
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1900-25 Covers and cards bearing poster stamps, mainly from France including “poste-timbres” showing advertising around the postage stamps (4, for champagne, anti-alcohol or “God Protect France”), aviation meetings (6), exhibitions and festivals. (20). £200-240
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Germany. 1887-1930 Poster stamps for various exhibitions and events, sorted by year into plastic folders, the 1913-30 stamps very extensive, a good lot. (1000s). £1,000-1,200
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Germany. 1895-1912 Exhibitions and events, poster stamps on Hagner pages in two albums, the extensive lot sorted into date order, much duplication but with hundreds of differing stamps, a good lot. (1000s). £800-1000
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Germany. c.1896-1950 Poster stamps in a large Scott album and loose, advertising, exhibitions and events, Berlin Local Post, etc., a good lot. (Many 100s). £500-600
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G.B. c.1870-1919 Covers and cards bearing poster stamps including c.1870 cover to the Society of Diplomed Foreign Tutors with stamp of the “Society for Promoting Knowledge in Foreign Languages”, 1898 covers with “Norwich Union Fire Office Centenary” or “India Docks London” labels, and WW1 propaganda labels with Red Cross, “Don’t Forget the Safe Arrival of this letter is due to the British Navy”, etc. (10). £120-150
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G.B. c.1870-1950 Poster stamps including “Georgina Weldon Lunacy Laws & Musical Reform” (2), “The Regiment” proof in green on card, “The Tomahawk Price Twopence”, “George Le Selleur of Jersey Guarantee Stamp” (2), “Dunlop Tyres” (2), “Charles Lyons London Tailor”, “Ewarts Lightning Geyser”, etc., also later advertising stamps, 1895 letter from N. Lloyd & Co printers illustrated with examples of labels and poster stamps (including Sunlight Soap in 1d lilac design), and booklet from The British Poster Stamp Association. (c.150). Photo on Pages 16 & 18. £200-300
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G.B. c.1875-90 Advertising labels with designs imitating postage stamps including “The Balloon, The New Farcical Comedy” (block of four), “Delia, Horace Guy’s Opera company”, “S.F Goss Limited Guarantee label” (2) and “John Gosnell & Co 1d paid for the return of empty receptacles to their London Works” (2) all in designs similar to the 1d lilac, others similar to 1d red or 1½d rose-red stamps, also a larger label for “The Garland, Every Wednesday” and an advert for Sunlight Soap both based on the 1d lilac stamp. A rare group. (17). Photo on Pages 24 & 32. £200-250
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G.B. 1893 “The Jacobite, 1/6 per annum” stamps issued by The Jacobite Society to advertise their journal, mint block of fifteen and singles (4), and 1893 cover from London to Bedford with 1d lilac (upside down) and Jacobite label both cancelled by London N.W squared circles, the enclosed letter including “I see you only turned one of the stamps on your letter upside down; you should have turned both”. The cover with opening tears and upper corner of the Jacobite label torn away but very scarce. (19 + cover). Photo on Page 102. £200-250
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G.B - Scotland. c.1880-1957 Poster stamps, nearly all pre 1914 including “Dundee Lock Out 1897”, “Mid Lanark Election Fund 1894 One Penny” (2), “Hannan Watson & Co of Glasgow”, “C.W Wilson & Co of Aberdeen”, “Treron et Cie, Sauchihall St Glasgow”, exhibitions including Glasgow 1901 (14, with Exhibitor label on cover) and 1911 (13), Electrical Exhibition Glasgow 1913, Edinburgh 1908, etc. (58). Photo on Page 16. £150-200
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G.B - Ireland. 1869 (June 14) Cover with embossed Dunville & Co flap, posted from Belfast to Shrewsbury franked 1d tied by Belfast duplex, an advertising stamp for “Dunville’s Old Irish Whisky, Belfast, Equal to Brandy” in violet in the upper left corner, also similar unused labels in green and blue, the cover with some staining but very scarce. (3). Photo on Page 16. £100-150
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G.B - Ireland. 1907 International Exhibition Dublin, die proof of the type I stamp in black die sunk on laid paper, 59x93mm; also unused type I stamps (3, one overprinted for White Steam Packet Co. Cork) and type II stamps (4, re-engraved with “1907” in fancy script). A rare proof. (8). Photo on Page 30. £120-150
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U.S.A. 1864 Lincoln Subscription stamps for 2, 3, 4, 10 or 12 cents on differing coloured papers, 3c with some surface loss, a couple of others with minor faults, very scarce. (5). Photo on Page 108. £100-150
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U.S.A. c.1900-60 Poster stamps in a Scott album and on pages with additional stamps loose, mainly advertising products, some for exhibitions and events, also six Stampkraft story books, many fine and attractive poster stamps. (Many 100s). Photo on Page 108. £600-800
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c.1800 Plaster cameos of classical figures and scenes, mounted in two wooden frames, all identified in the main catalogue of James Tassie of Glasgow, one of the principal manufacturers of such cameos, popular collecting items during the period of the “Grand Tour”. Very fine. (46). £200-250
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1837-50 Entire letters or covers bearing wafer seals, posted in G.B (11), Germany or Italy, or on hand delivered U.S.A covers (2), including 1848 “The reason why beans and peas produce flatulence is, not so much in their nature as in the heat, butter, meat, peppers, vinegar, and mashing, and softening, which are added. Dr. Alcott”, Cheltenham College, British Geological Association, etc., also five later covers with similar paper seals. (20). £200-250
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c.1840 Card box (233x100x10mm) with two coloured prints of huntsmen on the lid, the interior divided into sections containing dozens of wafer seals, including mottos, days of the week, etc. £100-120
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c.1840 Card Wafer Seal boxes (23, two broken), seven boxes apparently with complete or virtually complete contents, the seals with heart or club playing card symbols, mottos, famous buildings or Prince of Wales feathers and motto, nine other boxes with some seals remaining, seven boxes empty. (23 boxes, 100s of seals). £400-500
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Local stamps including Wenden (10), Great Barrier Island (4), Central American Steamship Co (4), New Hebrides (6), Land Tirol (11), bogus Sedang issues (7), D.&B.S.L.S, various Germany, etc., some forgeries and faults. (c.170). £100-120
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China. c.1890 Mint and used postal stationery from Chefoo (3), Chinkiang, Shanghai (10); also covers bearing stamps of Chinkiang, Shanghai (2) or Wuhu C.T.O or to Baron de Gunzburg, all fine. (18). £70-80
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China - Wei Hai Wei Courier Post. 1898 2c Black on scarlet used with manuscript cross cancel, and 5c black on scarlet unused, the 2c with a couple of tiny thins, the 5c fine and scarce with just 329 stamps printed. S.G. 1/2, £5,400. (2). Photo on Page 16. £1,000-1,200
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China - Wei Hai Wei Courier Post. 1899 Perf 11¾ 2c Scarlet and 5c emerald mint, the 5c with a few short perfs, otherwise fine and scarce. S.G. 3a, 4b, £1,300. (2). Photo on Page 16. £300-350
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Egypt - Suez Canal. 1868 1c - 40c Stamps, virtually all forgeries, various types, some “used”. (308). £150-200
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