Great Britain Stamps & Covers - Oct. 2023 GREENOCK & ARDRISHAIG STEAMERS, ETC.
Sale No: 853
Lot No: 2868
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Cat No: Collection
DAVID MACBRAYNE LTD. ENVELOPES & CARDS: Beautifully illustrated and/or embossed envs. & PPCs with 1885-1938 town postmarks (not packet cds's) or unused. Six items illustrated with a large vignette of a ship in the top left front inc. 3 with "GLASGOW AND HIGHLAND ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS./THE/ROYAL [crown] ROUTE/[vignette of ship]/[crossed flags]/DAVID MACBRAYNE/", 3 with insignia on the flaps, and a few other designs; plus 2 1937/38 envs. with "Behold The Hebrides/by/MACBRAYNE'S STEAMERS" meter marks. Attractive addition to a collection. (6 envs., 4 cards)Cross Reference: MARITIME MAIL, SHIP LETTERS (Image)
Opening GBP 75.00
Sold...GBP 130.00
Closed..Oct-05-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 853
Lot No: 2870
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VERY RARE "P.S. GALATEA" OVAL CACHET & GUARD H.S. ON COMMERCIAL CALEDONIAN RAILWAY PARCEL WAY-BILL; Partly printed "CALEDONIAN RAILWAY/ROTHESAY to [Altrincham]/Via WEMYSS BAY [v. Carlisle]" 16 May 1901 "GENERAL PARCELS WAY-BILL" (small faults) with faint triple-oval-framed purple "CALEDONIAN STEAM PACKET CO./[probably GALATEA]/LIMITED" cachet & fine "JAMES SMITH/C. R. GUARD" purple h.s. adjacent. This Galatea cachet is very seldom seen [we have never seen this, and we have only seen 2 similar way-bills which sold for £1400 & £1800 in 2007], and this commercial usage is particularly important, possibly unique. Exhibition item. Cross Reference: RAILWAY EPHEMERA, MARITIME MAIL (Image)
Opening GBP 140.00
Sold...GBP 140.00
Closed..Oct-05-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 140
Sale No: 853
Lot No: 2871
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GRENADIER & CHEVALIER STEAMER MAIL: 1905 PPC (Tighnabruaich) to Dumbarton with fine 29mm GK & ARDRISHAIG PACKET/B/GRENADIER ds (just off edge); three small pieces with postage stamp and complete strikes of 1898 GRENADIER STEAMER/B ds (on part original Robertson black page), 26mm 1913 GK & ARDRISHAIG PACKET/B/GRENADIER ds and 1913 26mm GK & ARDRISHAIG PACKET/B/CHEVALIER ds etc. (7 items) Cross Reference: GREENOCK & ARDRISHAIG STEAMERS, ETC. (Image)
Opening GBP 65.00
Sold...GBP 70.00
Closed..Oct-05-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 70
Sale No: 853
Lot No: 2872
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IONA STEAMER MAIL: 1881-1903 Trio inc 1881 env (roughly opened not effecting hs) to Paisley with fine IONA STEAMER GREENOCK/B duplex; 1890 env to Neilston with fine 22mm IONA STEAMER/163/B ds; 1903(?) PPC (Dunoon) to Croydon with v.fine 29mm GK & ARDRISHAIG PACKET/B/IONA ds plus RP PPC of Iona by Robertson of Gourock etc. (5 items) Cross Reference: GREENOCK & ARDRISHAIG STEAMERS, ETC. (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
Sold...GBP 100.00
Closed..Oct-05-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 100
Sale No: 853
Lot No: 2875
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RARE "TAY PLEASURE STEAMER/[clouds]/*MARCHIONESS OF BUTE*" SHIP's CACHET ON CARD VIA DUNDEE; Fine 4 Aug. 1914 PPC (of the ship on the Tay) to Aberdeen with KGV ½d tied by fine "DUNDEE" machine cancel with a very fine (though overstruck) purple rare 3-ring "TAY PLEASURE STEAMER/[clouds]/*MARCHIONESS OF BUTE*" cachet alongside. Few examples of this steamer mark are known. Exhibition Quality. [Similar to the Michael Champness card in Cavendish's Jan. 2014 auction, lot 1218; which realised £345]. Plus another 1913 PPC with a partial strike of the same cachet (stamp removed). (2)Cross Reference: MARITIME MAIL, SHIP LETTERS (Image)
