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Singapore. 1869 (Jan 8) Cover from Ledbury to Lieut Col. Curtis, 8th Regt M.N.I, Singapore, Straits of Malacca, endorsed “Overland mail via Southampton”, franked 1867 1/- plate 4, Singapore backstamp. £100-120
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Japan. 1870 (Nov 29) Cover from Auchnacraig to Yokohama franked 6d grey plate 15 pair tied by Oban duplex, handstamped “DEFICIENT POSTAGE (2) / HALF FINE (6)” with 8d shown as due to G.B, very scarce boxed “COLONYS SHARE OF FINE (6)” applied on the Singapore-Hong Kong Marine Sorter (Proud I2) with manuscript “1/2”. Backstamped “HONG-KONG / SINGAPORE TO / HONE-KONG / MARINE SORTER” c.d.s (JA 12 18 / 77) on the P&O “Lombardy”, at Auchnacraig and the British P.O at Yokohama (Jan 28), “28 cents due” written upon arrival. A fine cover with a rare Marine Sorter postage due handstamp. Photo on Page 40. £500-600
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China. 1858 (Jan 7) Cover from Liverpool to Shanghai via Marseille, 9d postage paid by 1d + 2d + 6d tied by Liverpool spoons, London backstamps, fine and attractive. Photo on Page 44. £250-300
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China. 1861 (Oct 10) Entire letter from London to Shanghai, 1/6 postage paid by 2d (3, one with small fault) + 1857 1/-, red “1d” and Hong Kong backstamp (Dec 2), an attractive letter. Photo on Page 44. £200-250
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China. 1862 (July 10) Printed Prices Current from London to Shanghai “via Marseille”, 1/3 postage paid by 2d + 4d + 9d, red “1d” denoting postage payable from G.B to Hong Kong, backstamped at Hong Kong (Aug 17) and Shanghai British P.O (Aug 24), fine and attractive. Photo on Page 44. £400-500
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Hong Kong. 1862 Cover from Edinburgh to East Point, Hong Kong, franked 1857 1/-, and 1867 entire letter from London to The Officer Commanding 73rd Foot, Hong Kong, franked 4d + 1/-, both with arrival backstamps, fine. (2). £200-250
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Western Australia. 1857 (Sep 11) Entire letter from London to Guildford, Western Australia, bearing 1857 1/- pair, very fine, an uncommon destination. £150-180
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New Zealand. 1860-62 Covers from Bolton, Southport or Buxton all to Dunedin, franked by two 1857 6d stamps, paying the 1/- rate via Marseille (2) or Southampton, all with differing Dunedin or Otago arrival datestamps. (3). £180-220
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New Zealand. 1863 (July 24) Cover from Bolton to Dunedin “via Marseille & Suez” franked 1d pair + 1862 6d and 1/-, the 1/8 rate for a letter between ½oz and 1oz. A scarce rate only in force for a year, a similar letter sent via Southampton only costing 1/-. Photo on Page 44. £160-200
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New Zealand. 1863 (Nov 18) Registered cover from Bolton to Dunedin franked 1862 6d (corner fault) + 1/- pair and single, paying 6d registration + 3/- postage for a letter over 2oz via Southampton, with scarce “REGISTERED” undated circle applied at Dunedin and “(crown) / REGISTERED” applied in London, both in red. Photo on Page 44. £240-280
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South & Central America/Jamaica. 1866-77 Entire letters or covers to Mexico (2), Belize, Demerara, Venezuela, Argentina, Jamaica or New Granada all franked at a 1/- rate, with 1865 1/-, 1867-71 1/- (5), 1873-74 6d pair or 1/-, one 1869 cover to Mexico with Edinburgh Brunswick Star duplex, 1877 letter to Belize with hexagonal London L1 late fee duplex. (8). £240-300
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South America. 1860-75 Entire letter and covers comprising 1860 letter to Bolivia franked 1857 1/- pair with Panama British P.O datestamp on the front; 1864 cover to Uruguay with six 1862 1/- stamps (two pairs + two singles, originally a block of six) paying the 3oz letter rate (filing endorsements on front); and 1875 cover to Chile franked 6d + 1/- “via Southampton and Panama”, three uncommon rates. (3). £300-350
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Costa Rica. 1879 (Feb 1) Cover to Costa Rica bearing 1867-80 2/- milky blue tied by hexagonal L1 Lombard St. Late Fee duplex. A fine example of this very scarce stamp on cover, with B.P.A Certificate (2015). S.G. 120b, £1,500 as a basic stamp off cover. Photo on Page 44. £400-500
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Peru. 1860 (Dec 15) Entire from Dundee to Lima with two pairs of the 1857 1/- paying the 4/- rate for a 1oz letter, superb quality. Photo on Page 44. £150-200
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Canada. 1860-75 Covers and a printed circular with 1866 cover to New Bruswick franked 6d pair; 1860 cover from Falkirk to Toronto franked 1855-57 4d + 6d (filing notes on front); 1870 circular “per Peruvian” to London, Ontario franked at the 1d printed matter rate with “missent to” written alongside a “LOBO / ONT.” datestamp; two others franked 3d, one with red “PAID / DERRY / COL. PACKET” c.d.s. (5). £160-200
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Canada - Postage Due Mail. 1857-70 Underpaid covers to Canada with handstruck charges showing the deficiency in sterling and due amount in Canadian Currency, 1871 cover with manuscript charges and “NOT-CALLED-FOR”, also an 1856 wrapper franked at the 1d printed matter rate with black handstruck “1d”. (6). £100-120
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Hawaii/U.S.A. 1859-75 Entire letters, an entire and covers with 1875 letter to Honolulu “via Cork & New York” franked 1/- (crossed by file fold), 1859-67 letters franked at the 1/- rate by 1857 1/-, 1865-67 6d pair or 1/-, and an 1875 cover to H.M.S “Peterel” at San Francisco franked 3d (overpaid by ½d), a good group, Hawaii a scarce destination. (5). £200-240
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1887 Jubilee Issue. 1887-1901 Covers and entire letters (12), postcards (2) and Parcel Post labels (6), various inland rates including 2d registration envelope franked 4d with oval “EXPRESS” handstamp, 3d Notice of Objection rate, registered covers sent at 3d, 3½d, 4d or 5d rates, Parcel Post labels franked 4d, 5d, 6½d, 7d or 11d, etc. (20). £140-160
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1887 Jubilee Issue. 1888-1901 Covers bearing Jubilee issue stamps, to various overseas destinations mainly in Africa or the Far East, including Hong Kong, Japan, Burma, Indo-China, Madagascar (3), Syria, etc., various rates and frankings, some registered. (15). £200-250
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1887 Jubilee Issue. 1889-1914 Covers (16) and postcards (2) bearing QV Jubilee issue stamps, all to Europe including Denmark (4), Sweden (3), Finland (2), Russia, etc., one Foreign Office cover signed by Lord Salisbury, various rates and frankings, two bearing postal fiscals, some registered. (18). £350-400
| Air Mails
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Balloon Mail. 1902 (Aug 9) Beckenham Coronation celebrations, special postcard depicting the King and Queen, despatched by balloon and dropped over Leeds, near Maidstone, addressed back to Beckenham with KEVII ½d cancelled at Maidstone and a Leeds Kent c.d.s (Aug 10) alongside. Two differing cards were produced for this flight and three bags of mail were carried and dropped over different parts of Kent; fewer than ten cards believed to exist from all three postings and both card types. Ex Peter Jennings. Very fine and rare. Photo on Page 44. £1,000-1,200
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Balloon Mail. 1905 (July 12) Beckenham Flower Show postcard with the printed message “Despatched from the Clouds, by Balloon Post, from the Beckenham Flower Show, Wed., July 12, 1905”, addressed to Devon with KEVII ½d cancelled at Bickley. The balloon flew from Beckenham to Romford; cards were dropped en route at Bickley, Chislehurst, Greenhithe and Romford. Fine and scarce. Photo on Page 46. £800-1,000
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1920-39 G.P.O Air Mail leaflets (31) including the first August 1920 leaflet about services from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, 1921 Summer season air mail regulations, etc., also reproductions of other leaflets, accompanying P.O letters, Post Office Daily Lists (4), 1937 Southern Rhodesia P.O Notices (2), Empire Air Scheme agreements (4) printed by H.M.S.O, etc. (41+). £200-250
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1923-86 Covers and cards from or to G.B, all intended for air mail but diverted to surface mail with various explanatory cachets including “NO FLIGHT / SENT BY / ORDINARY SERVICE” (2, 1923-32), 1934-35 covers to H.M Ships with boxed “Diverted to Ordinary Mail / Air Mail Fee will be refunded by / British Post Office on application”, or “INSUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED FOR / TRANSMISSION BY AIR MAIL / SPECIAL FEE REFUNDED BY BRITISH / POST OFFICE ON APPLICATION”, 1941-42 “NO 3d AIR POSTCARD / SERVICE” (2 types), air letters containing enclosures (2), etc. Also 1929 postcard from Malmo to G.B with label “Sent by air from Malmo to Hamburg due to sound frozen between Sweden and Denmark and Baltic between Sweden and Germany full of drift ice”. (14). £200-250
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1931-52 Air Mail covers (35) from G.B showing various types of Air Mail label including unusual tiny blue label on 1932 cover to Uganda, 1934 7½d rate to Persia, Glasgow Air Mail machine marks, 1934 first day use of wings label on cover to Orkney, 1938 cover to New Zealand with the stamps washed off and Calpurnia crash cachet, 1938 first 1½d “all-up” flight cover to Nauru, 1941 5/- rate to India (2), 1943 2/6 to New Zealand, P.O.W 2½d lettersheets with undelivered cachets (2), etc., also some unused labels and Post Office leaflets. (41+). £200-240
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1939-44 Internal wartime flights with 1939 Glasgow to Campbeltown first flight pilot signed, 1941 R.A.S Belfast to Liverpool first flight, 1943-44 R.A.F flights to or from the Western Isles (2), 1939-43 leaflets dropped by the R.A.F (4, 1939 Waste Paper, 1942 Bournemouth War Weapons Week, 1942 Rhyl U.D.C Salvage Dept for waste paper, 1943 Wings for Victory Week), 1940 Pigeongram form from the Wartime Utility Exhibition at London Zoo, 1943 Pigeon Message and typed note flown for Evesham Wings For Victory Week, 1940 Lundy cover with Air Service Suspended cachet, original 1940 R.A.F combat report, etc., also 1946 Ireland cover to Scilly Isles flown from Penzance with G.W.&S. Air Lines cachet. (16). £300-350
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1936-39 Internal first flight covers comprising 1936 Castletown, Isle of Man to Liverpool (also Ramsey to Liverpool last flight) both pilot signed; 1937 Kirkwall to Lerwick, Kirkwall to Fair Isle, Bowmore to Campbeltown, Aberdeen to Lerwick all pilot signed, Jersey to Southampton, Lerwick to Aberdeen registered cover to Bermuda; 1938 Perth to Leeds pilot signed; 1939 Jersey to Guernsey. (10). £200-250
| Cancellations
(Also see lots 73, 270, 467/8, 471, 633/4, 648, 691/3, 728/42) | |
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1856 (May 20) Cover to Tadcaster franked 1d, posted at York railway station with oval framed “R.W” inspectors mark applied in both the upper left corner and cancelling the stamp in the upper right corner, the stamp then just tied by York 930 sideways duplex at the head office. Probably a unique use of the “R.W” handstamp as a cancellation. Photo on Page 46. £200-250
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1857 (Sep 12) Cover posted within Alford, near Aberdeen, franked Large Crown perf 14 1d red cancelled by “ALFORD” double arc datestamp in green, a further strike on reverse. An unusual cancel, intended for use as a backstamp only but occasionally used as a cancellation on local mail, very scarce in green. S.G. £3,500. Photo on Page 46. £700-800
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1866 (July 6) Cover posted within Sedbergh franked 1d red cancelled by superb “SEDBERGH / (crown)” intaglio mailbag seal handstamp, a Sedbergh c.d.s on reverse. Intended for impressing into wax seals, these mailbag handstamps were rarely used as cancels or handstamps and when they do occur they are often unreadable. An exceptional cover, almost certainly unique. Photo on Page 46. £1,000-1,200
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Royal Mail - Osborne/Portsmouth Sorting Carriage. 1869 Mourning envelope sent from Osborne with 1d red vertical pair cancelled and tied by four strikes of “POR / S.C” within a star, “PORTSMOUTH / SORTING CARRE” c.d.s on reverse, a scarce cancel, especially on a double rate cover, very fine. Photo on Page 46. £250-300
| Exhibitions & Special Events
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1890 Penny Postage Jubilee. Sheet of paper with royal arms embossed at top bearing twelve proof impressions of the Guildhall star cancel dated 16 MY 90 with code “12”, all in black, fine and unusual. £150-200
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1890-1969 Covers and cards, also a few pieces, with Wimbledon (6, 1952-61, most registered), 1948 Olympics Organising Committee envelope, etc., also a few earlier pieces. (115+). £150-200
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1924 British Empire Exhibition. Souvenir Telegram forms for use at the Post Office Telegraph Exhibit, differing forms printed in red and black, superb unused. A scarce pair, the black form only recorded unused. (2). £300-350
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1929 London Postal Union Congress registration labels, a complete mint pane of fifty labels numbered 651-700, control “A” in upper margin, minor gum loss to upper two rows and small piece of lower margin missing, otherwise superb unmounted, rare and very unusual. £400-500
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1909-11 Congresses including 1909 cancels on cover, postcard or congress cards (2) and the congress card posted at the 1908 Dutch Congress; 1910 congress labels with sheets of twelve in red and green, imperf label in blue; 1911 labels with die proof in green, blocks of six in four colours, labels with double or inverted vignette; also a die proof of the 1914 label in brown. (66). £150-180
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1912 Fourth Congress at Margate, congress postcard and a cover both with congress labels tied by the special datestamp, and a ½d card with two congress labels cancelled to order by the scarce “ROYAL HORTICULTURAL EX / SW” skeleton c.d.s; triangular congress labels imperf or rouletted including imperf sheet of eighteen in green; Queens Highcliffe Hotel labels with perforated sheets of 25 in blue or red (signed in margin), partly perforated sheets in mauve (three labels removed) or blue, imperf singles in six colours, etc. (168). £300-350
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1920-40 Congresses, the collection in an album including 1920 and 1924 labels in sheets of twelve (four of each), 1932 sheets of twelve perforated (3, one signed by the printer and designer) or imperforate (2), 1933 imperf set of seven and perforated sheets of twelve (7), similar label sheets from 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939 (four of each), 1940 1d black die proof without inscription, etc. (516). £240-300
| Express Mail
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1895-1912 Covers comprising a 1d lettercard sent within Exeter with boxed Parcel Post handstamp and oval “POST OFFICE / EXPRESS / PAID”; a cover sent within Bristol with 1d lilac cancelled by oval “POST OFFICE / EXPRESS / PAID” handstamp; 1904-11 internal express covers with KEVII stamps paying the 4d rate (15) or registered 6d rate with oval Express handstamps (5) or red labels (11); and two 1910-12 covers franked 5½d to Germany with red Express labels; also a Parcel Post label franked 3d. (21). £300-400
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1927-1984 Covers with internal express (89), G.B to abroad (10) or from Europe to G.B (8), various rates, cachets and labels, including stampless covers, Official mail, 1940 censored cover to an Alien Internee at Huyton, 1928 telegram envelope franked 11½d to Austria, 1931-36 air mail covers to Germany (2), etc. Also Express label sheet of forty and blocks, leaflets, Parcel Bills with tiny “EX” labels (2), 1975 Brighton Speedpost F.D.C, etc., (111+) £300-350
| Maritime Mail
(Also see lots 17, 662/82, 829, 1851/3, 1856/7) | |
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1786-1838 Entire letters and entires from U.S.A to G.B with Ship Letter handstamps, comprising Pool (S1), Portsmouth (S8), Liverpool types S5 and S8 unusually used together on the same letter, and Bristol used on 1838 Freight Money Letter from Baltimore “per Great Western” with “Ship 50” and “37½” rates. (4). £250-300
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1809-14 Entire letters from G.B to Portugal, Madeira or Spain, also 1810 letter from Cadiz to Samuel Holten (signatory to the U.S Articles of Confederation) in U.S.A forwarded by the U.S Consul in Cadiz, one 1811 (Feb. 12) letter to Madeira sent on the “Swallow” Packet departing from Plymouth due to the mutiny at Falmouth. (44). £150-180
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1820-38 Entire letters from Cape Town (2) or Stellenbosch to Scotland, one with Cape Town c.d.s and red boxed India Letter Portsmouth (In3) to Wilson & Co in Bannockburn ordering tartan for the 72nd Regt., others with red boxed India Letter Weymouth (In1) or Ship Letter Cowes (S3). (3). £120-150
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Domestic Packets. 1807-60 Entire letters illustrating rates and routes to the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Shetland Islands, Wales to Ireland via Milford to Waterford, Holyhead (or Liverpool) to Kingstown, Scotland to Ireland via Port Patrick to Donaghadee, Clyde routes, also act granting postage rates on letters conveyed from Liverpool to the Isle of Man, all well written up on pages. (20). £120-150
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1847-1980 Covers and cards (c.200), various Paquebot and sea post cancels, the majority with G.B stamps, also 1847 entire from Le Havre with blue boxed “MB” Mobile Box handstamp of Southampton, octagonal “ANGL. B.M / GRANVILLE” (2), Carteret Paquebot, pieces and stamps with mailboat cancels “A91” on a 1d red and “A94” on a 6d pair, etc. (200+). £250-300
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1864-1969 Covers and cards, various domestic steamer cancels and cachets including Greenock & Ardrishaig Packet first type c.d.s (Columba, code B), second and third type c.d.s (both Iona, code B), cachets for La Marguerite (2, two line and circular types) and Lord of the Isles, also H. & K. Packet, picture postcards, etc. (17). £100-120
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1902-24 Picture postcards (21) and a cover, all but one with KEVII stamps, including a postcard from Vila, New Hebrides, sent in naval bag and cancelled upon arrival in London, violet circular “POSTED ON / LA MARGUERITE”, “SHIP LETTER / NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE”, Transatlantic Post Office (2), card with ½d pair cancelled at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, etc. (22). £150-200
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Paquebots. 1898-1990 Covers, cards and a front with Paquebot cancels or handstamps from British or Irish ports, including 1898 front headed from “H.M.S Blonde, W.C of Africa” sent at the 1d sailors rate cancelled by Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s, 1909 “SWANSEA / SHIP LETTER” c.d.s, also Cardiff, Bristol, Carteret, etc., all with G.B stamps. (179). £200-250
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Paquebots. 1895-1990 Covers and cards with G.B stamps, various Paquebot cancels or datestamps from overseas ports, many modern philatelic covers, prewar commercial covers including scarcer handstamps from Antwerp, Boston, Fremantle, Halifax, Hamburg, Hammerfest, Kavalla, Kuching, Montreal, Monte Carlo, Nice, Palermo, Point, Quebec, Tallinn, Tanga, Yokahama, etc, in six albums. (604). Also world stamps and pieces with Paquebot cancels in a stockbook. (600+). £500-600
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Transatlantic Mail - Freight Money Letter. 1839 (Apr. 12) Entire letter from Kingston, Canada, to Edinburgh sent via New York as a Freight Money Letter endorsed “Per Gt Western Steamer”. Prepaid 18¾c internal U.S postage and 25c Freight Money fee, the two charges shown separately with red boxed “PAID” alongside each and matching Kingston Up. Can. c.d.s, red New York c.d.s (Apr 19), “BRISTOL / SHIP LETTER” and the scarce Bristol Additional “½” handstamp. A little splitting at the folds, otherwise fine, a very scarce Freight Money Letter from Canada. £160-200
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