Great Britain - Covers - QV
| Lot |
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Catalog No. |
Descrip |
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| 32061 |
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 1839 OXFORD/MAIL TO FRANCE. 1839 entire Oxford to Paris dated 12th May with good strike boxed 'PAID AT/OXFORD' in black (OX189) also oval 'P-D', London PAID datestamp 13 MY 1839 and CALAIS transit mark all in red. Backstamped
OXFORD MY 12 1839. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £44.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 55
SOLD for £68.00
Closing..Apr-09, 12:00 PM EST. |
| 32062 |
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8 |
 1841 1d Red-brown Pl.21. Very fine used close to four margin example lettered HB, neatly tied to an uncreased entire by a black MC and placed sideways, contrary to regulations. Sent from Boston, Lincs to Folkingham, both cds's
appear on the front dated OC.13 1842 and OC.14 respectively. Spec. BS10. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £280.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 350
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| 32063 |
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 1847 GREAT BRITAIN, ROYAL MAIL, QUEEN VICTORIA, 4 August 1847, An envelope from Queen Victoria in her own hand dated 4 August 1847 to Queen Adelaide. She was married 10 February 1840 to Prince Albert who died 14 August 1861,
so this letter is an early scarcer one that does not have the black mourning edges from after his death. Young Queen Victoria portrait. This envelope written in Queen Victoria's own hand in London is unusual not only because it is not a mourning
cover but because it was paid at the London General Post Office receiving the Crown PAID stamp for 4 August 1847. Usually adhesive stamps were applied to all Royal Mail. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £720.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 900
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| 32064 |
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 1855 1d Red on blued paper, Perf 16. on cover, bearing Liverpool Spoon cancel, AP 3 1855, open undated cds GATACRE (?, Oswestry?) on reverse, average to good condition. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 40
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| 32065 |
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 1856 Great Britain, ROYAL MAIL, QUEEN VICTORIA, 2 September & 8 November 1856, Queen Victoria received considerable correspondence from persons soliciting favours or employment of which there are two examples below. An
envelope from Watford addressed on 2 September 1856 to Queen Victoria whilst at Balmoral, Scotland. It has a pencil initialling, probably of Sir Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's secretary and in the Queen's hand a m/s 'There is no vacancy'. The letter may
have been seeking some sort of appointment or employment. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £320.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 400
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| 32066 |
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29var,34 |
 1856 ex Stanley Gibbons. Registered mail, very fine cover sent from Worcester to Ledbury, bearing a 1d Red-brown (SG 29var Pl.12. Spec. C6), and a horizontal strip of three 2d blue (SG 34's) paying the 6d registration fee.
Neatly tied by Worcester '918' numerals and a Worcester dispatch cds alongside for JA.25.1856, additionally endorsed 'Registered' in red manuscript at top. Backstamped by a red Ledbury arrival cds for the following day. A very attractive registered
cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £460.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 575
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| 32067 |
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40 |
 1858 ex STANLEY GIBBONS, Naval Officers Mail. Very fine entire from an officer serving in the 2nd Opium War, routed via Marseille and prepaid with eleven 1d Rose-red Pl.43 each neatly cancelled by London '40' numerals. (The
rate at this period was 9d per ¼oz or 1s Per ½oz. 11d per ¼oz was the previous rate, so whether this was an under payment, overpayment or simply confusion as to the then current rate is a mystery.) Addressed to Exmouth with London, Exeter and Exmouth
datestamps on reverse for AU. 1+2. 1858. Endorsed on reverse 'None of us touched in the action' which almost certainly refers to the naval bombardment and taking of the Taku forts guarding the mouth of the Hai river a few weeks earlier. {C} (Start
Price / Minimum Bid) = £700.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 875
SOLD for £850.00
Closing..Apr-09, 12:00 PM EST. |
| 32068 |
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69 |
 1860 THREE COLOUR COMBINATION HONITON TO VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
Envelope paying 9d rate with 6d lilac (SG69) (perfs trimmed at right), 2d blue pl.7 (SG45) and SG40 lettered FF tied '376' numerals of Honiton. Backstamped HONITON JU 24 1860. Attractive usage. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £156.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 195
SOLD for £156.00
Closing..Apr-09, 12:00 PM EST. |
| 32069 |
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 1861 1d Red (strip of 3) plus 6d lilac on cover, London JY 26 (18)61 cds, addressed to New Zealand, WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND AU27 1861 receiving cancel obverse. Reverse uncancelled. Minor imperfections, good condition. {C}
(Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 40
SOLD for £76.00
Closing..Apr-09, 12:00 PM EST. |
| 32070 |
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40 |
 1861 ex Stanley Gibbon, Overseas Mail. Very fine cover to Port Louis, Mauritius bearing six 1d Rose reds tied by Parsonstown '371' numerals with a red '4½d' accountancy handstamp below, Backstamped with Parsonstown, London and
Port Louis for AU.18-SP.21.1861. Wonderful endorsement from sender under flap 'I have no sixpenny stamp, so you must excuse singular appearance of this'. Very scarce destination item. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £460.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 575
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| 32071 |
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42, 79 |
 1862 MAIL TO HONG KONG CHINA/1862 DIE 2 PL.50 (SG42).
Envelope Manchester to 'Mr Joseph Derbyshire, Engineer, H.M.S. Encounter, Hong Kong, China' with 1d pl.50 (SG42) lettered HG GG GH. Also a strip of three 4d bright red (SG79) lettered LC MC & NC tied fine Manchester duplex MY25 1862. Stamps paying
the ¼oz rate via Marseilles. Attractive & very scarce franking. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £476.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 595
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| 32072 |
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 1863 ex STANLEY GIBBONS, Missent Transatlantic mail. Very fine envelope sent from Paris and addressed to George Phillips Bond, Director of Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, (America). Bearing a Paris cds at top left for
AP.17.1863. and Cambridge transit marks for AP.18-19. 1863. as it was missent to Cambridge (England) it was endorsed in manuscript 'America' at foot, charged '8d' and struck with a boxed 'FIRST POSTAGE NOT-PAID' handstamp and re-sent back to Paris
with corresponding datestamps on reverse for AP.20.1863. Finally arriving in New York on MY.4.1863. with a '30' Cents unpaid charge handstamp. George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825 - February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer, He succeeded his father
as director of Harvard College Observatory from 1859 until his death in 1865 He and his father jointly discovered Saturn's moon, Hyperion. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £300.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 375
SOLD for £395.00
Closing..Apr-09, 12:00 PM EST. |
| 32073 |
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101 PL4 |
 1865 ex Stanley Gibbons, 1s Green Pl.4. Very fine example lettered NB, accompanied by a 1d Rose-red Pl.98 both tied to a clean entire by crisp Manchester '498' duplexes for JY.06.1865 with a 'PD' (Paid to Destination)
handstamp below. Addressed to Constantinople and backstamped accordingly (British Post Office cds) for JY.15.1865 with a London dispatch cds for JY.06.1865. A most attractive and difficult stamp to find on cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) =
£236.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 295
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| 32074 |
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 1866 10th Sept 1866 Melrose-Switzerland, Rated 5d 5 x 1d Plate 98, 4th Jy {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £64.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 80
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| 32075 |
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43 |
 1866 1d. Rose-red Pl.99 (HF). Remarkable envelope with the address incorporated into a humorous verse…sent from MOFFAT TO GLASGOW cancelled by the '256' numeral. Reverse with dispatch and arrival c.d.s's for JU.22. 1867. Super
item and very rare. (216.04) 'Intelligent postman!…' {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £280.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 350
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| 32076 |
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48 |
 1870 ½d Red Rose Plate 12 x 2 used on envelope with PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE cancel (1890). UNUSUAL {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £140.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 175
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| 32077 |
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172 |
 1881 1d lilac on beautifully illustrated cover used in London dated 24th Dec. '81. A fishing scene…. 'a la Gainsborough' {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £220.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 275
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| 32078 |
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39var |
 ADVERTISING COVER 1863 ex STANLEY GIBBONS, Advertising. Very attractive cover from 'Alexander Mc Dougall, Manufacturing and Agricultural Chemist', advertising their 'Sheep and Lamb Dipping Composition' with a lovely engraved
vignette at top centre depicting a ewe with two lambs. Prepaid by 1d Pale rose pink tied by a Manchester '498' duplex for JY.8.1863, addressed to Ledbury with an arrival cds on reverse for the following day. Scarce. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid)
= £600.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 750
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| 32079 |
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 ADVERTISING COVER 1867 AUCTION ROOM SCENE: Note 'In 10 minutes to all the Parks/in 5 minutes of all the railways.' Very fine printed illustration. Envelope with closed tears as seen but an ATTRACTIVE & EXTREMELY SCARCE ADVERT.
Ex Shaida. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £236.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 295
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| 32080 |
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 ADVERTISING COVER 1870 Front only of wine-makers pictorial advertising envelope, printed in purple with fault at lower left & mounted on light card. BEAUTIFUL AND A RARELY SEEN ITEM. (Note that an example of this envelope with
stamp removed is illustrated on Page 303 of Bodilly Jarvis & Mann. Fig. 333). {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £156.00) (Image)
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Estimate £ 195
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