• Login (enter your user name) and Password
    Please Login. You are NOT Logged in.

    Quick Search:

  • To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Login to Use StampAuctionNetwork.
New Member? Click "Register".

StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features

StampAuctionNetwork Channels
Back to Great Britain and British Commonwealth

Records 1 to 7 of 7

Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. Sale: 855

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
MILITARY - G.B. FORCES OVERSEAS
Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1551
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE (1) - FINE LARGE BLACK "POST OFFICE/BRITISH ARMY" CDS's ON 3d RATE COVERS TO IRELAND, PLUS DETAILED LETTERS: July 1854 env. (fragile, opened out) to Ireland endorsed "Via Marseille" franked 3 x 1d Red Stars tied by London "37" numerals with large fine "POST OFFICE/JY 29/1854/BRITISH ARMY" ds on back with original correspondence detailing daily life for the officer class; Aug. & Sept. 1854 two cross-written letters (no covers) with more pressing details - "Again getting settled in a new camp, having left the last one on the score of its being unhealthy. We noticed a rank smell...and yesterday a number of men went to hospital." and "...an attack on the Crimea having been determined...we are to land men and officers with three days provisions and forage - nothing more than we can carry ourselves, one horse, our servants to be mounted in the ranks."; Aug. 1854 part env. endorsed "Via Marseille" franked 3 x 1d Red Stars (one defective) tied by London "47" numerals with large fine "POST OFFICE/AU 24/1854/BRITISH ARMY" ds on back with original correspondence headed "Five miles south of Varna" detailing preparations for action "Lord Lucan...has put down the churn handle to grasp the sword. He forgets that it is scarcely a fortnight since we have been more than decimated by cholera...". All letters with part typed transcriptions. (2 covers, 4 letters) (Image)

Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 300.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 300

Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1552
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE (2) - 3d RATE COVER TO IRELAND WITH "*[CROWN]*" CANCELLATION, PLUS DETAILED LETTER: Sept. 1854 env. to Ireland endorsed "Via Marseille" franked 3 x 1d Red Stars (one defective) cancelled by a single overinked "*[crown]*" barred hs (applied in Constantinople) & POOR "POST OFFICE/BRITISH ARMY" ds on back with original letter headed "Adrianople Road" (Gallipoli?) "The mail came in here yesterday and was carried on to Baltschik to the fleet...yesterday morning, before the mail could have left Varna, we saw the whole fleet...steaming out of Baltschik Bay, towards the Crimea, looking like a huge flight of locusts in the distance." Then a much more considered report on the food he is experiencing! Letter with part typed transcription. (1 cover, 1 letter) (Image)

Opening GBP 260.00
Sold...GBP 300.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 300

Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1553
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE (3) - FINE LARGE BLACK "POST OFFICE/BRITISH ARMY" CDS's ON 3d RATE EL TO IRELAND, PLUS DETAILED LETTERS : Dec. 1854 EL (faults) endorsed "Via Marseille" to Ireland franked 3 x 1d Red Stars tied by London "47" numerals with large fine "POST OFFICE/[D]E 13/1854/BRITISH ARMY" ds on back headed "Camp before Sebastopol" with contents "I got two letters today...Reinforcements are landing every day, French and English, but...things are in status quo at the moment at the front."; plus 3 other letters ex Camp Kadikoi dated Jan. 4/10/15 1855 (no covers) with insight into postal arrangements "I daresay you are wondering at the irregularity of my letters. This is caused by changes in the post office here.", "The post gets worse and worse, no letters or newspapers (the weather).", and "The post goes so often now, twice a week.". All letters with part typed transcription. (1 EL, 3 letters) (Image)

Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 300.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 300

Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1554
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE (4) - 3d RATE COVER EX BALAKLAVA TO IRELAND UNFRANKED "NO STAMPS IN CRIMEA", PLUS DETAILED LETTERS EX CAMP KADIKOI & SKETCH OF CAVALRY OFFICERS: Jan./Feb. 1855 env. to Ireland rated "3(d)" ms and endorsed "No Stamps in Crimea" plus 7 letters headed Balaklava (1) or Camp Kadikoi (6) dated between 22 Jan. to Mar. 31 1855 inc. mainly domestic news but also "Fresh post office regulations, so quite a chance if this goes or not with this mail." and "The railway is getting on very fast...The rails are laid down already for above 2 miles...P.S. Many thanks for the stamps.". All letters with part typed transcriptions. (1 cover, 7 letters) (Image)

Opening GBP 260.00
Sold...GBP 440.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 440

Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1555
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE (5) - 3d RATE COVER EX CAMP KADIKOI TO IRELAND, PLUS DETAILED LETTER: Apr. 1855 env. to Ireland endorsed "Via Marseilles" franked 3 x 1d Red Stars tied by London "48" numeral cancels and fair "POST OFFICE/AP 7/1855/8/[BRITIS]H ARMY" ds on back. Contents regarding lunch with "Count Napoleon Bertrand of the Chasseurs d'Afrique...an amusing (from his stories) but I should fancy a dangerous acquaintance - plays cards very well, and does not always pay up if he loses." Letter with part typed transcription. (1 cover, 1 letter) (Image)

Opening GBP 110.00
Sold...GBP 440.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 440

Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1556
Symbol:

image CRIMEAN WAR - BALANCE OF LESLIE CORRESPONDENCE: Apr. 1855 env. to Ireland endorsed "Via Marseilles" rated "3(d)" with fair "POST OFFICE/[A]P 31/1855/8/BRITISH-ARMY" ds on back. Accompanying letter dated 24 April contents headed "Camp Kadikoi" regarding "By the time you get this it will not be news to you. We opened fire this morning...dark, grisly, rainy - it has not left off raining...At first, the Russians faced three to our one - in the afternoon, not one to our twelve." Similar env. (faults) postmarked Aug. 1855 with accompanying letter "...the next mail I missed and not had time to write another...we were turned out and kept under arms until it was too late to write.". Also other letters dated 9 April & 31 August (no covers). All letters with part typed transcriptions. (2 covers, 4 letters) (Image)

Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 440.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 440
Sale No: 855
Lot No: 1557
Symbol:

image CRIMEA MIX INC. 6d RATE COVER: 1854-56 set inc. 3 envs. (faults) all endorsed "Via Marseilles" and franked with three (2) or 4 (1, paying 1d for inland redirection) 1d Red Stars cancelled with London numerals; 1854 env. ex Varna unfranked rated "3(d)" endorsed "By land/Via Marseilles" with contents regarding local conditions inc. "We have now some 50,000 French and English troops here, exclusive of Egyptians, who are a queer looking lot, altho' hardy and tolerably well drilled." (partial typed transcription of letter); 1856 double-sheet EL (faults, repairs) endorsed "Via Marseilles" franked with 6 x 1d Red Stars (double rate) tied by London "35" numerals with contents referring to cease fire during peace talks and comradery between English, France & Russian troops "We soon began to trade but we had no sooner begun than we was caught and stoped our bargines but I gave him the slip. Theas provosts canot abeare us riflemen, many a wet shirt they get, running after us." (partial typed transcription of letter). (5 covers, 2 letters) (Image)

Opening GBP 220.00
Sold...GBP 340.00


Closed..Dec-07-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
StampAuctionCentral and StampAuctionNetwork are
Copyright © 1994-2022 Droege Computing Services, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Mailing Address: 20 West Colony Place
Suite 120, Durham NC 27705
Back to Top of Page