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Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. Sale: 832

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
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Sale No: 832
Lot No: 2113
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Cat No: Collection

image ORIGINAL GEORGIAN SCRAP BOOK (DATED 1829) with the collection of 300+ laid down Free Fronts, some with Postal markings incl. several Penny Posts; m/s "Missent to Leith" & m/s "Par. Pro." (Parliamentary Proceedings) noted, includes fronts signed by Palmerston and Gladstone. Cross Reference : AUTOGRAPHS (Image)

Opening GBP 120.00
Sold...GBP 150.00


Closed..Sep-09-2020, 13:00:00 EST
Sold For 150

Sale No: 832
Lot No: 2114
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image FREE FRONTS & TWO COVERS - good range of free marks and signatures 1820s-39. (c438) (Image)

Opening GBP 220.00
Sold...GBP 260.00


Closed..Sep-09-2020, 13:00:00 EST
Sold For 260

Sale No: 832
Lot No: 2116
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Cat No: Collection

image 1779-1839 GROUP OF SIX incl. ELs to Wakefield (1779), Newport Pagnell - code "C" (1788), Margate (1792), Alnwick (1806), London (1836) and printed O.H.M.S. "Secretary of State's Office" wrapper to Aberdeen (1839). A very fine group indeed. (6) (Image)

Opening GBP 80.00
Sold...GBP 85.00


Closed..Sep-09-2020, 13:00:00 EST
Sold For 85

Sale No: 832
Lot No: 2117
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image EARLY USAGE OF RARE CROWNED OCTAGONAL "To be/delivered/Free" MARK ON COFFEE HOUSE COVER; Attractive 15 Feb. 1806 E sent locally in London to "Furnivals Inn Coffee House" endorsed "Official A.P." with a mainly fine unframed oval "Two-Penny/POST/DenonshrStQ.St" at top left and mainly very fine red crowned "To be/delivered/Free" mark at right ("10 o'Clock/F.Nn." d.s. on flap). Jay only recorded this rare mark from 1816, so this is an extremely early example, and most unusual being addressed to a Coffee House. Exhibition Quality. Cross Reference : LONDON POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

Opening GBP 95.00
Sold...GBP 360.00


Closed..Sep-09-2020, 13:00:00 EST
Sold For 360
Sale No: 832
Lot No: 2118
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image RARE MILITARY FRANKED COVER TO FRANCE ENDORSED "COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S OFFICE"; 22 May 1835 EL sent “O.H.M.S.” from the “Comman[de]r in Chief’s Office” in London, with London crowned "FREE" d.s. and fair 2-ring red "ANGLETERRE PAR CALAIS/*" on the front, addressed to France (Versailles; to the widow of the well-connected British Consul in Algiers etc.); it was correctly franked by the War Office clerk (“Lindsay”) for the writer, “Lord Fitzroy Somerset” (later Lord Raglan of Crimea fame) on behalf of the British Army’s C-in-C, the Duke of Wellington. It announced that the addressee’s son (who subsequently, in 1856, married Lord Nelson’s niece, Harriet Matcham) had been appointed to an “Ensigncy in the 6th [Regiment of] Foot”. It was charged the full internal “30[decimes]” French postage on arrival with h.s. "BANLIEUE" (Suburb) on the reverse. Few letters franked to France have been recorded. [Ex Dr. Frank Bottomley.] Cross Reference : FRANCE, OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, MILITARY (Image)

Opening GBP 110.00
Sold...GBP 170.00


Closed..Sep-09-2020, 13:00:00 EST
Sold For 170
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