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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1781

CARRIER STAMPS: 1868 London Delivery Company with some original printings, Imperf and Perf reprints, plus 1897 1/- & 2/6d Hospital Fund charities, and cinderallas with 1912 Charles Dickens, 1924 Exhibition Lloyds Bank, and 1935 Bath Philatelic Congress (12), condition variable. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1782

RAILWAY LETTER STAMPS: Range on Hagner pages with numerous Lines represented including 'KNOTT END/RAILWAY' (not listed by Roger de Lacy-Spencer), some provisional & surcharged types, four unused blocks/sheetlets of 6 (3x2), cancellation interest, generally fine to very fine unused or used. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1783

RAILWAY PARCEL STAMPS: Range on Hagner pages with numerous Lines represented & values to £1, numerous huge types, also Tramways x9, Buses x10 & Globe Parcel Express 3d 4d & 6d, cancellation interest, condition very mixed but many are fine to very fine. A most engaging lot. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1784

RAILWAY NEWSPAPER PARCEL STAMPS: Range on Hagner pages with numerous Lines represented & values ¼d to 1/- plus some multiples, numerous huge types, a few with perfins, condition very mixed but many are fine to very fine. Fascinating material. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1785

REVENUES: Album with all manner of revenues from early-QV types to decimal Television Licence types, numerous De La Rue keyplate issues including some for Ireland, Customs including embossed types, various 'SPECIMEN' Overprints, Telegraphs some with postal cancels plus Bell 1d superb unmounted sheetlet of 12, four different huge Medicine Duty or similar types, Life Policy imperf to 5/- & perf to 5/-, Playing Cards 3d labels x2, also some for Ireland, individual counties, Mayor's Court etc, early Newspaper types in red, mostly unused Delivery Companies selection, etc, many with perfins & two pages full of security overprints, condition variable but a great many are fine to very fine. A collection that will just keep on giving. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33)

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Estimate AU$1,500

SOLD for AU$1,150.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1786

REVENUES: Collection of embossed types with some very unusual denominations & some undenominated types, the majority are imperf cutouts mostly in scarlet, plus a good range of perforated types mostly in grey, generally fine to very fine. A good basis for expansion. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1787

REVENUES: KEVII Unappropriated Dies 24 denominations between 1d & £50 in purple, 11 denominations between 6d & 15/- in green & 6d in rose-pink, plus five to £1 overprinted for various users and Dog 'LICENSE TWO SHILLINGS', each with 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp or Horseshoe 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, all affixed to two foolscap pages with interleaving in a leather-bound folio, a few minor rust spots that don't affect the stamps and otherwise quite delightful.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$1,200

SOLD for AU$900.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

Postal History

LotNo.

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1788

Bundle of Military postcards & PPCs with stampless OAS usages during WWI including various FPO cds, others with Camp cds of 'BARRY...', 'FOVANT...', 'HEYTESBURY...', 'SHORNCLIFFE...' or 'WITLEY...' or with skeleton types of 'CROWBOROUGH...', 'EAST ANSTEY...' or 'WEST PARLEY...', plenty of PPC interest, mostly fine to very fine. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$120

SOLD for AU$90.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1789

[C E] Letterings comprising 1840 with fine Penny Black (tiny imperfections) tied by Maltese Cross in red, 'Grays-Inn' handstamp at top; 1841 with Stars 1d red-brown/blued with Maltese Cross in black plus cds of 'WINCANTON' & 'POOLE' both on the face; 1842 Scottish entire with 2d with White Lines; 1853 x2 both with Imperf 1d; 1859 with Stars Perf 1d tied by London duplex; and 1878 with 1d Plate 187 tied by 'UPPINGHAM - 825' duplex, light spotting; some filing folds otherwise fine to very fine.

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1790

Written-up taxed group of overweight covers including 1845 with very fine 'MORE/TO/PAY'-in-circles of Brighton, 1845 with huge '2' h/s of Edinburgh, 1870 with superb '2D'-in-circle of London & 'MORE TO/WC/ PAY', 1852 Madley-Folkingham & Farnham-Worcester with 'MORE TO PAY/-0-' or superb 'MORE TO PAY/-1-', etc, later items including 1892 with superb 'over/1OZ' of Dundee, generally fine to very fine. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

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Estimate AU$350

SOLD for AU$270.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1791

PSE

Selection including 1852 stampless trans-Atlantic entire with '48' & '38/CENTS' handstamps, 1855 lettesheet with unusual London (?) duplex, 1891 ½d Postal Card for Royal Naval Exhibition with Eddystone Lighthouse illustration & cds, 1897 Eason & Son ½d Wrapper with unusual cds used on newspapers to Ireland, 1899 with boxed 'Found open and/resealed at Birmingham' handstamp, 1906 1d Postal Card to Constantinople with 'ORIENT EXPRESS' handstamp on the reverse, 1908 Post Early for Christmas Liverpool cds & two different Manchester machines, etc, generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1792

Box of mostly modern First Day Covers many privately prepared - some with the stamps akimbo, which is certainly different - & hand-cancelled at Southampton, generally very fine; also a range of mostly ordinary flight covers but including 1911 Coronation Air Mail postcards in dull red to Woolwich Military Academy (a couple of faults) & in brown to India plus envelope in purple-black to Bucks, 1927 Cairo-Basra & Cairo-Karachi, 1932 commercial to Southern Rhodesia with 9d olive, 1934 to Singapore forwarded to Cameron Highlands with 'TAPAH ROAD/FMS' b/s, etc, and a few 1971 Emergency Post covers. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1793

1881 (Nov 3) complete 24pp quarto Christian paper 'Word and Work' to Cape of Good Hope with 1d lilac tied by ' E /7 11 81/C 7' newspaper cancel of London, a bit fragile with minor faults but quite fine for such an item.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1794

1913 philatelic postcard endorsed "To be posted at Giggleswick" with Furness Railway (Yorkshire) 2d label pen-cancelled & KGV ½d cancelled an arriavl at 'SETTLE'. The towns are only 1km apart.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1795

1938 (Nov 27) underpaid cover from Shepton Mallet with machine-applied 'T'-in-hexagon apparently of London, to New Zealand, largely superb 'RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA' h/s from the crash in Iraq attractively waterlogged & with the stamp washed-off. The tax marking has not previously been noted by us. [An accompanying letter from Robin Startup identifies only one other cover from the incident to New Zealand]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1796

PSE

1939 (Aug 15) mail carried on Lockheed Electra flight to Sweden which ditched in the sea near Denmark, comprising covers to Denmark x2 (one being Nierinck #c, the item illustrated by him at p124), Norway with ambulance envelope or Sweden x3 two with ambulance envelopes one also with Swedish roneo'd notice to Nierinck #bb (possibly the example illustrated at p123), also Danish roneo'd notice similar to Nierinck #b, condition variable, as should be expected. A very scarce group. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1797

PSE

1939-41 commercial covers with various forms of 'POSTAL SERVICE SUSPENDED/...' handstamps, to Germany x2 (both dated 31.8.1939), Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Rumania (filing holes), Greece, Egypt, Majorca, America, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States & Dutch East Indies, several by air including a few with 'POSTAGE REFUNDED' h/s, also 1945 to Czecholslovakia with 'NO SERVICE/EXCEPT BY AIR' h/s, generally fine to very fine. A scarce & desirable group. Ex Daphne ('Dee') Pullan.

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1798

1940 (early June) wrapper from Spain & two covers from Switzerland all with boxed 'DETAINED IN FRANCE/DURING GERMAN/OCCUPATION' h/s & evidence of receipt in England in April 1945.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1799

PSE

1941-46 covers to servicemen abroad in Malaya/Singapore, Burma & en route to other theatres, plus Prisoner of War Postal Cards & Aerogrammes to Germany, Italy, Malaya, Japan, Thailand x2 & Nigeria, all with various 'NO SERVICE' &/or 'RETURN TO SENDER' handstamps, some later items undeliverable because the addressees had been liberated & returned to Briatin, includes many airmail items several with the airmail fee refunded, generally fine to very fine. Another very good lot. Ex Daphne ('Dee') Pullan. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM

1800

1945 (Apr 28) Canadian cover from 'UPPER SUMA/BC' with stamp floated-off & very fine 'DAMAGED BY FIRE & WATER' handstamp in violet, from a fire aboard SS 'Scythia' as it approached Liverpool; also Forces covers with 'DAMAGED BY FIRE' x2 or 'ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE' handstamps; all defective but full of character.

Grade B/D (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-01, 06:00 PM