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G.B and worldwide accumulation in stockbooks including 1841 printed letter from the Aborigines Protection Society posted within London bearing a two margin 1d black tied by a fine black Maltese Cross, other used 1d blacks (5, one fine), also Commonwealth with Cyprus 1904-10 9pi - 45pi mint, etc. (100s). £150-200
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Various worldwide stamps and covers (no G.B) including 1855 printed Prices Current and list of goods arriving at Livorno bearing Tuscany 1q, Poland 1919 5pf and 10pf Gniezno provisional surcharges used on piece (also eight of each value mint and three of each used on three covers, not guaranteed), Netherlands 1893 2g.50 used, etc. (100s). £200-300
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c.1820-1953 G.B and foreign stamps, covers and cards, with postal stationery including German States, Austria, Greece, also Brazil stamps with various cork cancels (112), cinderellas, revenues with 1862 P&O first class ticket issued in Ceylon for transit through Egypt bearing Ceylon 1d with "Draft Receipt Order" overprint, etc. (100s). £200-300
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1858-1966 Russia and world collections in three albums, one well filled album of Russia including 1858 perforated 30k used, extensive issues from 1865 onwards, regions and post offices abroad; also an album of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil with classics, and a third world album with Greece, etc. (3 Albums). £200-250
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The extensive worldwide accumulation in five boxes including miniature sheets, Red Cross stamps and covers, etc. (1000s). £200-300
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The extensive accumulation of worldwide covers and stamps, QV to modern, some reasonable stamps noted. (1000s). £200-400
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South & Central America. Extensive mint and used collection with some covers, including Chile, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, many stamps mounted in booklets, etc. (Many 100s). £200-300
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Covers and cards, the worldwide accumulation including a box of Portugal with prestamp mail, France, postal stationery, Commonwealth, Forces and P.O.W mail, etc. (100s). £200-300
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1824-1911 Entire letters, covers and cards including 1824 letter with "MARTINIQUE" handstamp, 1866 letter from Belize to U.S.A with "SHIP 6" of Newport R.I, 1890 Germany 10pf postcard from Togo with "KLEIN-POPO" c.d.s, 1895 "Corps Expeditionnaire de Madagascar" lettercard registered from Majunga to France bearing Madagascar 5c + 10c (2), etc. (8). £150-200
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1854-1932 Covers and cards including 1854 letter franked Austria 9kr from Vienna to Sarajevo addressed to an agent in Brood (Velickovic Certificate), 1867 cover from Egg Harbor City to Canada franked U.S.A 10c with large wafer seal on reverse, 1897 India card from the Postmaster at Pondicherry, 1895 India 2a6p cover with Field P.O No 23 c.d.s (Chitral Relief Force, cover faults), 1896 Egypt 1pi envelope from Wadi Halfa (Sudan), 1916 South West Africa cover to Germany via the Red Cross in Geneva, 1903 N.Z ½d wrapper with 1d B.16 charge mark of the Plymouth & Bristol T.P.O, etc. (9). £180-220
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c.1880-2020 Covers, cards and stamps, many written up on pages showing unusual stamps or countries, also stamp exhibition covers and ephemera, G.B stamps valid for postage (approx £143 face value, mainly 1st or £1 stamps), some South Africa, mainly modern but some earlier items including 1884 Cape cover to Basutoland, 1923 picture postcard bearing Azerbaijan 1922 3000r and 5000r, 1920 postcard with Ile Rouad 10c cancelled at Port Said, etc. (Many 100s). £150-250
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Europe. 1876-1985 Covers and cards from Liechtenstein (8), Luxembourg (80), Saar (13) or San Marino (46), including postal stationery, San Marino 1892 reply postcard used from Germany back to San Marino, Luxembourg T.P.Os, etc. (147). £200-250
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Scandinavia. 1839-1940 Entire letters (5) and stamps (46) including 1861 entire letter with blue "DRAMMEN" c.d.s, 1862-63 entire letters from Denmark or Sweden to Scotland with black "5½" or "10", stamps with various 1860-67 Finland issues (15, four with full roulettes) and Finland locals (15), also Denmark 1852 2R.B.S used with "102" numeral cancel, Norway 1855 4sk with pre-printing paper fold used, Norway "NSH" WW2 revenues (11), and Faroes 1940 surcharge set used, a useful selection. (51). £150-200
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Scandinavia. c.1855-2005 Covers, cards and stamps including Norway 1855 4sk pair used, 1865 stampless letter with Christiana and Sandosund datestamps, 1895 1ore card with Bergen-Newcastle cancel and violet "Paquebot", 1942 Consignees cover from Liverpool to Thorshavn with arrival c.d.s and G.B 3d cancelled by British censor cachet, Denmark encased postage stamps (2) with adverts for Capstan or Melba cigarettes, etc. (100s). £200-250
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Persian Gulf. 1966-72 Covers with stamps of Ajman (4), Fujeira (4) or Umm al Qiwain (17), all posted to Europe, U.S.A or Ghana. (25). £100-120
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Middle East. c.1930-2010 Covers, many from the 1970/80s from Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, etc. (100s). £200-300
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Postal Stationery. Worldwide stationery, unused and used, a large quantity, most sorted into country order in two shoeboxes, a third box with larger items and aerogrammes, including New Zealand unfolded lettercards (possibly proofs), registered envelopes, etc. (100s). £200-250
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T.P.Os & Station Cancels. c.1875-1960 Postcards (and a few covers) with T.P.O cancels (c.550), also cards with station cancels (130), all world (no G.B or U.S.A) including Russia, Luxembourg, Finland, New Zealand, etc. (c.680). £150-200
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Postcards. 1871-1935 Essays, postal uses and pictorial cards, comprising U.S.A American Postcard Co. essay with printed paper attached to a card forming an envelope, and 1c + 1c Return Postcard essay; 1887 Stuttgart 2pf card and 1889 Swiss 10c postcard both with pictures of hotels printed on the address side, used; 1916 German picture postcard sent express franked 30pf; registered postcards comprising 1875 Austria 2kr card franked 10kr, 1903 Austria card franked 5h + 30h, 1912 German picture postcard to G.B franked 30pf, and 1922 Hungary picture postcard to G.B franked 10k; and 1933 Dutch postal charity cards unused (2), an unusual group. (11). £100-120
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Somalia/Rwanda. 1991-93 Covers from Somalia (25) to the BBC in London illustrating the collapse of postal services in Somalia during the civil war, with stampless covers handstamped "PORT PAYE" and a Mogadiscio c.d.s (7) or "P.P" and date in manuscript at Hargeisa; covers with stamps of Ethiopia (8), Djibouti (4, three with boxed "HAMA INTERNATIONAL / P&T SECTION / Mogadishu" handstamp or cancel) or Kenya (4, three handstamped "VIA ICRC"), and an express cover with Somali and Kenya stamps. Also 1986-91 Rwanda covers (34) with cancels of various offices. (59). £100-150
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Local Posts. Stamps (c.170) and covers (65, all Germany), including Wenden, Great Barrier Island, Central American Steamship Co., New Hebrides, Land Tirol, etc. (c.235). £120-150
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Mint and used stamps in three stockbooks and on pages with Cyprus including 1880 4d mint, British Occupation of Italian Colonies with all basic postage sets mint, 1960s Gulf States, Palestine, Egypt, etc. (100s). £100-150
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Mint and used accumulation, mainly British Commonwealth including Cyprus 1934 set mint, Niger Coast 1898 10/- mint, S.W.A Official blocks with transposed overprints, Rhodesia Admirals imperforate between stamp and margins, Fiji 1968 9d imperf strip of three, India 1927 10r upright watermark mint (3), etc. Also some G.B, and foreign with Hungary 1931 Zeppelin pair in imperf strips of three mint, Turkey 1914 200pi mint, etc. (100s). £200-300
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1867-1948 Mint and used selection on pages including 1935 Silver Jubilee omnibus issue virtually complete (only missing Niue and Egypt forces seal, mainly mint but a few sets used); Heligoland with 1879-90 1pf, 2pf (thin) apparently genuine used (S.G. 10/11); Sierra Leone with 1912-21 £1 used, 1933 5/- mint; Bundi with 1a rose official S.G. O49bB mint; also Basutoland, Swaziland, Gambia, etc. (100s). Photo on Page 190. £500-600
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1916-35 G.B Seahorse issues overprinted for use abroad, including Ireland 1922 Dollard 10/- with re-entry mint, 1927-28 wide date 5/- block of four unmounted, 1935 5/- and 10/- mint, Bechuanaland Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6 corner marginal unmounted (2021 B.P.A Certificate), Nauru De la Rue 5/- used on piece, etc., also G.B 5/- corner pair used with 1921 British Post Office Constantinople datestamps, a few faults. S.G. £1,700. (16). £250-350
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Pacific Islands. c.1900-97 Covers and cards including British Solomon Islands (27), Fiji (38), Gilbert & Ellice Islands (13), Papua New Guinea (52, six German period), etc., with postal stationery, WW2 U.S or Australian F.P.Os, etc. (145). £250-300
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Rhodesia / Nyasaland / Bechuanaland. 1888-c.1960 Covers and cards, mainly Specimen, unused or used postal stationery from Bechuanaland (14), Nyasaland (8) or Rhodesia (28), also some stamped covers. (77). £120-150
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1935 Silver Jubilee Omnibus issue, commercial covers from eleven colonies including a cover franked British Honduras 5c with manuscript cancel and large Seine Bight c.d.s, British Solomon Islands covers from Shortland Island (3), Dominica covers from Vieille-Case (2) or Castle Bruce, Leeward Is. from Grand Bay (Dominica), Leeward Is. and St. Kitts covers from Sandy Point, etc. (28). £180-220
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Specimen Stamps. QV - KGV Specimen overprints including British Guiana 1913-21 set of eleven, Nevis 1888-90 6d and 1/-, Sudan Army Service 1906 2p-10p set of three (S.G. A14/6), Barbados 1912 3/- plate number pair, Virgin Islands War Stamp pair, other odd values with Straits Settlements (46), etc., some faults. (127). £150-180
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c.1979-94 Stamps and miniature sheets with Specimen overprints, applied to stamps given away for publicity purposes, from Montserrat, St. Vincent, Grenadines, Tuvalu, etc., various thematic subjects. (830). £350-400
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Postal Stationery. 1880-1900 QV Postcards and reply cards unused and used, including Orange Free State, West Indies, Malaya, Bermuda, Cyprus, British Guiana, Labuan, North Borneo, etc. (95). £140-160
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Postal Stationery. Mainly QV Envelopes, postcards, wrappers, lettercards and registration envelopes with British Africa, British West Indies, Canada, Australian States, Seychelles, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canadian Pacific Railway cards with views (12), etc, a few later items, virtually all unused (with the occasional Specimen or used item), mainly different, most extremely fine. (c.850). £400-500
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1843 (Jan 7) Entire letter from Aden, written by a soldier in hospital who hopes to be invalided out of the army, to his mother in Suffolk, the address panel headed "From Gunner Thos. Cooper in 4th Comp. 2nd Battn Artillery" and countersigned, a "2" charge mark applied for the unpaid soldiers rate, some easily removed brown paper adhering at top, otherwise fine. A rare early soldiers letter sent just four years after Aden was ceded to Great Britain. Photo on Page 112. £300-400
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1857 (Dec 26) Entire letter to England, written on the steamer "Pottinger", with boxed "INDIA UNPAID", "ADEN" double arc datestamp on reverse, charged 9d, fine and scarce. £120-150
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c.1880-84 Covers to Italy or India (3) franked 1a pair + 2a, 1a strip of three (2 covers) or 1a + 2a, cancelled "B" in bars (Proud K11) with Aden Camp datestamps, one cover bearing a yellow "Missent" label in Indian script, Sea Post Office datestamps. One cover with small corner fault, otherwise fine. (4). £120-150
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1893-1920 Covers and cards including 1894 ½a envelope to London franked 9p carmine pair + ½a, 1895 1a postcard with boxed "TOO LATE", 1920 picture postcard with KGV 1½a tied by "PERIM" double ring datestamp, etc. (6). £150-180
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1935-37 Air Mail covers to England (3, franked 5a or 7a6p) and a postcard to Italy franked 5a6p (a little stained), two covers endorsed "via Cairo" with red "N" or "O" in circle. Also 1946 cover with Aden ¾a (40) to India, and two 1949 U.P.U First Day Covers to Iraq both handstamped "AV2". (7). £150-180
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1928 Covers from Kabul, one air mail cover to Germany franked 40p pair inscribed "Tashkent - Moskau - Konigsberg", the other cover (Nov. 2) franked 10p + 30p to France carried on the last weekly mail to India before an uprising stopped all mails. (2). £150-180
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1935-39 Air Mail covers from Kabul to U.S.A (2) or Europe (8), destinations include Finland and Sweden, two registered, also 1934 registered air mail postcard from Berlin to Kabul franked 80pf with Peshawar c.d.s. (11). £200-240
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1935-39 Air Mail covers (also one 1946 cover) all from Jacques Meunie at the French Legation in Kabul to his wife or mother in Paris, thirteen carried by pouch to India and posted at Peshawar (12, two with Kabul return address) or Lahore with Indian stamps, another thirteen posted in Kabul with Afghanistan stamps totalling 1a75 (4), 1a90 (3), 3a15 (3) or 3a55 (3), six 1935-37 covers with transit datestamps of Landi-Kotal and Lahore, two 1939 covers censored in Peshawar. An interesting correspondence. (26). £350-400
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1936-39 Air Mail covers from Paris to Jacques Meunie at the French Legation in Kabul franked 6f50 (5), 6f75 (3), 5f75 or 7f25, another with a stamp removed, five 1936-37 covers backstamped at Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi, the others backstamped at Kabul, four with boxed "KARACHI / CANCELLED" datestamp over the Par Avion label. (11). £200-240
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1941 (Jan. - June) Registered air mail covers from Kabul to New York all inscribed "via China Clipper Air Mail", franked 1a50 (2) or 3a25 (5), all censored in Peshawar with seals bearing royal arms and "H" in a circle, three with violet "3" or "7" in circle handstamp. Unusual Clipper covers. (7). £200-240
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1943-64 Air Mail covers to the USA all sent by U.S diplomatic bag, the Afghanistan stamps cancelled in Washington D.C, eighteen handstamped violet "This article originally mailed / in country indicated by postage". Also a stampless cover from the British Embassy in Kabul sent by diplomatic bag to London, and stampless cover from the Afghanistan Legation in Iraq. (37). £280-320
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1944-45 Air Mail covers from Kabul to New York, twelve registered franked 7a, 7a15, 7a25 (2), 8a25 (7) or 13a, one other with a stamp missing, all censored in India, the registered covers all with Miami transit c.d.s. (13). £250-300
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1945-50 Air Mail covers from Kabul (21) or Pucht-e-Rud to the U.S.A, one large cover posted from Pakistan (with two others from the same correspondence posted at Kabul), eighteen registered, various rates and stamps. (22). £300-350
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1945-51 Air Mail covers from Kabul (9, one with stamps cancelled in manuscript), Deh-Afghanan (3) or Djalalabad (from the eminent Geologist Sir Lewis Fermor) to Europe bearing 1939-42 stamp issues, various rates. Also 1939 censored covers from India or Portugal, and 1949-55 first flight covers from Copenhagen or The Hague all to Kabul. (17). £160-200
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1951-73 Air Mail covers, the extensive lot mainly from Kabul, nearly all commercial, many registered and a few postcards noted, several from the U.N Mission, destinations include Norway, Russia, Sweden, Canada, Libya, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Bulgaria, New Zealand, South Africa, Ghana, Argentina, etc, an interesting lot. (114). £700-800
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Postal Stationery. 1913-30 Cards and covers (16) including 1913 Turkey 20pa card with eagle overprint C.T.O, 1913 first regular issue 10q postcards (2, one 1916 use from Austrian Feldpost) and reply card used, 1914 "7 Mars" overprint 5q and 10q postcards and reply cards used, "19 MARS 1914" overprint 5q postcard and reply card and 10q card unused (unlisted by Higgins & Gage), etc. Also WW1 Austrian Feldpost covers from Tirana or Scutari, 1914 surcharge sets C.T.O on covers (3), and other stamp issues of Albania (including Italian P.O), Montenegro, Serbia and Yugoslavia. (100s). £300-400
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1797 (May 8-12) Entire letter from Samuel Eliot to Charles Tudway in Somerset, endorsed "By His Majestys Ship Vanguard", charged 1/5 with fine "PORTSMOUTH / SHIP LETTER (S5). The letter comprises a copy of a letter sent on the Swallow Packet, with a further letter which includes "Our Packets must have fallen into the hands of the enemy as we have had no mails got to us since that by the Chesterfield, which left Falmouth in the latter end of January, and the Swallow by which this goes was captured to windward of Barbados some time ago and afterwards retaken and carried into St. Kitts". £120-150
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1807 (June 23) Entire letter from George Otley at Parham House to Clement Tudway in London and redirected to Somerset, endorsed "Post Paid to London" with the 1/10 rate deleted and a light Free datestamp, fine oval "SHIP-LETTER / (crown) / PORTSMOUTH" (S10). The letter includes "As the Lady Arabella Packet which is just arrived has missed Barbados and the other islands I am afraid we will be detained here so long (by having their mails to send up and answer). I therefore take advantage of the Prince George, a 98 gun ship bound directly home under Capt. Nathaniel Cochrane". £120-150
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