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GREAT BRITAIN continued...

**GREAT BRITAIN continued...**
Lot	Symbol	Descrip	Opening
76		1925 British Empire Exhibition 1½d block of fifteen (rows 1-3, margins on three sides) affixed to a piece of notepaper with embossed royal arms at top, tied by two "BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION / WEMBLEY" datestamps (May 9), with the typed message "I certify that the attached sheet of 1½d stamps were the first of that value sold at the British Empire Exhibition 1925", signed by the Postmaster F. Gibbins. A unique item, with R.P.S Certificate (2013). Photo on Page 10. (Image1)	Est. £2,000-2,400 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
77		1970 Christmas 5d, imperforate pair, fine unmounted mint. S.G. 839c, £300.	Est. £80-100 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
78		Booklets. 1930-35 KGV Booklets all with adverts for "Turban" dates or mixed fruit on the front or back covers, comprising 2/- edition 221 and 231 (inverted watermarks), 3/- edition 267 (minor creasing to front cover), 1935 Silver Jubilee 2/- edition 303 (2, one with inverted watermarks on ½d and two 1½d panes, other with inverted watermarks on 1d and all 1½d panes) and 304 (½d pane inverted watermark, cover toning), also 3/- edition 297 with most stamps removed. S.G. B12 (2), 16 (3), 24, £2,620. (7). Photo on Page 38. (Image1) (Image2)	Est. £400-500 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.

**Officials**
Lot	Symbol	Descrip	Opening
79		1882-1904 Mint and used selection on pages including Inland Revenue 1889 1/- green used, Office of Works 1902 ½d - 2½d used, Army issues complete mint and used, Govt. Parcels 1883 9d dull green used, 1891 2d mint, Board of Education 1902 2½d used, Admiralty 1903 set used. (73).	Est. £200-250 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
80		Government Parcels. 1883-1902 Stamps used including 1883-86 1/- plates 13 and 14, 1890 1/- green (3), 1892 4½d (4), 1900 1/-, 1902 KEVII 1/-, etc., most with parcel or roller cancels but otherwise fine. (37).	Est. £120-150 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
81		Government Parcels. 1900 1/- Green and carmine fine mint and used. S.G. O72, £925. (2). Photo on Page 12. (Image1)	Est. £100-120 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.

**Postage Due Stamps**
Lot	Symbol	Descrip	Opening
82		c.1912 Essays in pencil and indian ink for a 2d postage due stamp, the two essays similar in design but showing differences in the side details and size of wording, with a stamp size pencil drawing of the current 1d postage stamp alongside, all drawn by Mr H.J Howard who worked in the Secretary's office at the G.P.O, believed to have been submitted to the 1912 Conference which discussed the proposal to issue postage due stamps (recommending that five values of dues be issued, the design brief being given to George Eve). The two essays each 90x100mm, on thick card (255x316mm), a further stamp size essay excised from the upper left corner (believed to be in the Royal Collection), central horizontal fold and small split at upper right corner (well away from the essays), a unique and important item in the development of the first G.B postage due stamps, with an article on these essays by Graham Mark.	Est. £2,000-2,400 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
83		1914-23 Simple Cypher Issue with Specimen overprints, comprising set of eight (both 1/- bright blue and deep bright blue shades) with type 23 overprint, 2d and 3d type 26 overprint, also 2d colour trials in carmine, Bartolozzi brown and blue green with type 23 overprint, 3d type 23 a little stained, otherwise fine. S.G. £1,030. (14).	Est. £160-180 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
84		1914 2d Agate upper right corner marginal strip of four (left pane), watermark sideways inverted and reversed, the watermark displaced downwards resulting in the strip watermarked "POSTAGE", superb unmounted mint. A unique variety, this strip the example recorded in the S.G. specialised catalogue as S.G. R41ba. With R.P.S Certificate (2011).	Est. £400-500 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
85		1914-69 Unmounted mint postage dues in a stockbook with many Controls, some watermark varieties, including 1924-31 1½d control block, 1954-55 2/6 (6), 1955-57 5/- (2), etc. (100s).	Est. £200-250 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
86		1924-36 Block Cypher ½d - 2/6, mint Controls comprising Waterlow set of nine (1½d stained) and the eight Harrison printing values, also 3d experimental paper with D25 Control, and an unmounted 3d printed on the gummed side. S.G. £1,600+. (19).	Est. £240-280 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.

GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY

**GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY**
Lot	Symbol	Descrip	Opening
87		Covers, maps and ephemera, including 1890 imitation Mulready Christmas card produced as a souvenir of the Penny Postage Jubilee (corner crease), House of Commons covers and cancels, a good range of antique maps of counties (58), official souvenir book of the Franco-British Exhibition, etc.	Est. £200-250 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
88		1759-1964 Entire letters, entires, covers and cards, including 1759 letter detailing prize money won by H.M.S "Rochester" during the Seven Years War; 1862 front sent at the 1d soldiers rate to Canada but charged 8d with "LON. & HOLYHEAD R.P.O / IRISH MAIL NIGHT" and Canadian charge marks; 1917 covers all franked 1d sent to Teheran by diplomatic bag with boxed "Postal Censor" (8); 1917 cover from the British Consulate in Odessa sent by diplomatic bag and posted in London franked 1d; 1861 Official G.P.O cover to Guernsey redirected back to London with wax seal impressed by "GUERNSEY / (crown)" mailbag seal, etc. (105).	Est. £150-200 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
89		1806-47 Entire letters and covers including 1842-43 letters from York paid in cash with red "Pd1" or Pd2", 1840 (May 15) 1d Mulready envelope used in London (flap missing), 1847 entire from New York sent to Liverpool on the "Sarah Sands", etc. (9).	Est. £100-120 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
90		1812-1994 Covers and cards, with an album of Scottish covers and cancels, and an unusual collection of 1988-94 royal or official covers (60) all addressed to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard, one cover addressed in the handwriting of Lady Diana and initialled "D", another Guaranteed Delivery cover from Prince Charles. (277).	Est. £120-150 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
91		1841-84 Mourning covers with 1841 cover bearing a 1d black (3 margins), covers from France with scarce curved framed "FOREIGN PAID" of Southampton (2), covers to Aden (2) or to naval ships abroad (6, at Malta, Panama, San Francisco, Vancouver Island, etc). (11).	Est. £250-300 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
92		c.1830-1970 Covers and cards including an entire (side flaps removed) with fine green "BUENOS AYRES / O" applied at the Falmouth Packet Office, 1860-79 surface printed covers addressed abroad (14) with 1879 cover to Aden franked 6d pair, 1930-38 first flight covers (4), 1940 Air Mail cover to Singapore franked 1/3 Health Insurance stamp with postage stamps then applied by the Post Office, etc. (49).	Est. £180-200 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
93		1848-49 Entire letters from Scotland (14, eleven from Inverness) or England (2), also two letters posted at Venice or Vienna, all to the traveller and writer James Baillie Fraser (who explored Nepal in 1815, Persia and Kurdistan in 1821), in Italy (13), France (3), Switzerland or Austria, two letters from Scotland to Florence disinfected with slits and boxed cachets of S. Rocco di Livorno. (18).	Est. £140-160 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
94		1877 Linen backed wrapper "From Peter Robinson, Oxford St., London W - Please use this wrapper (reversed) to return", posted in London franked 8½d, comprising ½d + 1d (2) + 6d on 6d tied by dumb cancels. The inside bears the address of Peter Robinson and printed letter rates, with the instructions not to exceed 12 ounces; despite this the wrapper has been posted from London at the printed papers rate for an item of 34 ounces weight. An unusual franking and rate.	Est. £130-150 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
95		1889-1912 Covers and cards to unusual destinations, mainly KEVII stamps, including 1912 cover (KEVII perf 15x14 2½d) to Dairen and redirected to Japan, backstamped violet Dairen I.J.P.O and oval Changchun-Mukden T.P.O datestamps, also items to Zululand (2), Java (4), St. Kitts, Zanzibar, etc. (21).	Est. £180-220 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
96		1891-1924 Covers to or from E.R Litchfield, an Officer in the British army, all with enclosed letters including 1897 cover posted in London with enclosed letter from Sierra Leone, 1920-22 covers from Ireland, etc. (44).	Est. £100-120 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
97		1929 (Sep 23) Clerical dog collar posted from Edinburgh to Arbroath, a KGV 1½d cancelled by "EDINBURGH / N.P.B" c.d.s, a poem and various odd messages on the reverse, an extraordinary item to have been sent through the post.	Est. £100-120 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
98		Post Offices Notices. 1885-87 Notices comprising 1885 (Dec.) notice on the reduced scale of postage on letters over 12oz, 1886 (Apr.) differing notices on inland parcel rates from 1st May (2), 1887 (Jan.) notice on card giving all inland rates, 1887 (May) notice on foreign and colonial parcel post regulations and rates, etc. Also 1840 (Apr. 27) "The Times" newspaper with the Treasury Warrant giving the recent changes to postal regulations and rates and the forthcoming issue of stamps, 1913 P.O notice on the inland parcel post, etc. A scarce group, the 1885-86 notices all album page size. (9)	Est. £350-400 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
99		Exhibition & Special Event Cancels. 1906-14 Picture postcards and covers, various cancels including scarce 1912 (May 24) "ROYAL HORTICULTURAL EX / SW" skeleton on cover bearing an exhibition label, 1914 Bristol International Exhibition c.d.s, 1909 Scottish Village c.d.s on card to USA, etc. (50).	Est. £320-380 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.
100		Late Mail. 1858-70 Entire letters and covers with "Posted Since" datestamps of Edinburgh (6) or Liverpool (3, all with "POSTED-SINCE / LIVERPOOL / 8.30 LAST NIGHT" c.d.s, one in brown on a letter to New York "p. America"), all fine. (9).	Est. £100-120 CLOSED Closing..Apr-24, 11:59 PM EST.

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