Great Britain and British Commonwealth POSTAL HISTORY
Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1465
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HOUSE OF COMMONS selection of covers & cards relating to the House of Commons, mainly QEII material but with a few earlier incl. House of Commons embossed impressions on envelopes, wax seals, later incl. parcel post cancellations, H.V.P parcel tags with a range of Castle high value frankings, several QEII period registered covers bearing oval registered House of Commons d/stamps etc. (Image)
Opening GBP 60.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1466
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MILEAGE MARKS range of 50 covers & a few fronts bearing a variety of Town marks incl. AYLSHAM, BAWTRY, BEVERLEY, BLANDFORD, BRIGG, CONGLETON, CRANBROOK, CIRENCESTER, DARTFORD, DERRY, DOVER, DEAL, EXETER, EASTBOURNE, HALIFAX, HORNCASTLE & HARTFORD BRIDGE etc. Strikes vary in quality. (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1468
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1777-1838 RANGE OF COVERS (15) & fronts (7), various strikes incl. 1777 BRIDG/NORTH, 1796 LEICESTER, 1801 STIR/LING, 1802 BATH, 1831 OXFORD, 1832 curved PENN POST/PAID etc. (Image)
Opening GBP 60.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1469
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1800-40 PRE-STAMP covers with useful variety of straight-line or circular mileage marks - good representative lot, well worth careful inspection. Condition mixed. (68) (Image)
Opening GBP 150.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1470
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PRE-STAMP COVERS with better items including 'too late' marks (3), some earlier straight-line marks, penny posts (7), UPP (6), circular NEWPORT/ISLE OF WIGHT, straight-line & circular mileages, some Scottish interest etc. Mixed condition. (46) (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1471
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PRE-STAMP COVERS with UDCs etc including Bedford, Brackley, Dulverton, Frome, Northam, Rugby, S Petherton & Totnes; also circular marks of Halesworth & Manchester and four circular mileages. (15) (Image)
Opening GBP 60.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1472
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1810-1844 SMALL COLLECTION of covers partly written up on leaves, all bearing handstruck '1' (6) & handstruck '2' (27) marks. Mixed quality. (Image)
Opening GBP 80.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1473
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1830's-60's COVER ASSORTMENT incl. pre-stamp with 1835 handstruck '2' in blue of Leith, penny black on cover (3 margins), 1841 1d covers (8) incl. printed 'sun fire office' folded sheet, One penny pink stationery envelopes cancelled, fine sideways duplexes of Grantham & Warrington, 1d stars covers (53) various cancels, Wonderland postage stamp case complete incl. outer envelope. (85) (Image)
Opening GBP 200.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1475
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QV COVER ASSORTMENT including imperforate / perforated 1d red covers (4), 2d blue (3), ½d Bantam (2), 1868-81 foreign destinations with 2½d or 3d stamps, Jubilee issue frankings, stationery (24) including foreign postcards, scarce redirection mark noted, London Saturday post-box cds, late fees etc. Interesting lot. Mixed condition. (73) (Image)
Opening GBP 150.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1477
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1840-1876 COVERS (6) incl. three margined 1d black on cover from Chelmsford, 1857 1d Stars tied sideways duplex of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2½d, 3d & 6d Surface Printed frankings on covers to Europe etc. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1478
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Cat No: Collection
1854-80 lLINE ENGRAVED group of covers with perforated 1d red frankings including early blued papers - a range of shades, plates & cancellations; also 5d registered covers (2), underpaid 1½d cover, a few foreign items at 1d or 3d. In addition, 1863-71 covers (5) with single 2d blues. Mixed condition - good specialist lot. (40) (Image)
Opening GBP 140.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1479
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MAINLY 20th CENTURY to 1960's Postage Due - including underpaid postcards (43) & letters (60) - mainly incoming mail with various due marks & labels; also 1833 cover with boxed 'TO PAY' mark and (7) covers with French dues. (110) (Image)
Opening GBP 150.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1480
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1902 OHMS envelope (faults) with scarce oval 'Coronation Office' h/stamp, 1881 cover addressed to the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House, 1903 cover with 1d I.R/OFFICIAL opt cancelled London duplex, 1884 stampless E with Royal Courts of Justice official h/stamp etc. (11) (Image)
Opening GBP 55.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1481
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1924 COVERS (2) from London to Helsingfors, Finland, first franked Wembley 1924 1d, 1½d (2) + ½d & 1½d defins, cancelled London FS branch cancels in Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, second franked Wembley 1924 1½d + 2d & 2½d defins, tied similar cancels, both with receiving c.d.s. on reverse. (2) (Image)
Opening GBP 40.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1482
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C1929-49 AIR & SEA: Airmail covers including KGV (15) mainly to India or Africa incl. scarcer postcard; KGVI (19) incl. censored to Venezeala (4), 7d postcard rate to India, 1939 FFC to USA etc. (37) Also a good selection of mainly pre-WWII paquebot marks on postcards with a few later to 1958 (14). Interesting lot. (52) (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1483
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KEVII/KGV material including better RP postcards with fine animated view of Wombwell (Yorks) & Cleckheaton fairground noted; WWI interest including less common censors, 1d card to St Kitts, squared circle postmarks, telegram, registered, 1926 General Strike delayed cover etc. Mixed condition. Interesting lot. (54) (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1484
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Cat No: Collection
BOX FILE CONTAINING KGVI POSTAL HISTORY accumulation of loose & on leaves. Covers incl. good range WWII Censored, Airgraphs, Slogan Pmks; Airmails, Maritime, Congress & Meter marks, various frankings plus better early QEII FDC. Viewing recommended. (200+) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1485
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KEVIII-QEII cover range including KEVIII FDC, ‘poached egg’ trials (2), KGVI with useful WWII including unusual censored telegrams (2), Czech Forces cover, censored POW items, registered etc. Also a few QEII including (1968) £1 FDC. Useful lot. (36) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1486
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BIRMINGHAM c1790-1920 range of covers incl. circular BIRMINGHAM, s/line & circular mileages, boxed PAID (3), spoon duplexes (2 types), registered incl. couple of sub-offices, foreign mail etc. Mixed condition. (28) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1487
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DORSET & WILTSHIRE c1782-1920 covers incl. Dorchester Penny Post (2), Shaftesbury udc, Christchurch correspondence; Salisbury s/line, large & small mileages, s/line Dorchester & Ramsbury, s/line Shepton Mallett & circular Dorchester & Warminster mileages etc. Mixed condition. (41) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1490
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Cat No: Collection
LONDON pre-stamp covers including boxed 'late' date-stamps in red & black, large PAID cds (1796), 1d & 2d post receiving houses etc. Also a group of frees (9, Sunday mark noted) & 1827 OHMS letter regarding a court martial. Mixed condition. (24) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1491
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NORTH EAST ENGLAND selection of stamps & covers to or from the North of England, mainly connected to North Shields incl. numerous Victorian stamps with 573 numerals, or N.S c.d.s's, 1795 cover from Adam Bewick at North Shields to Newcastle charge 2d with fine undated North Shields Horseshoe, 1845 cover from Walker to Brampton backstamped the rarely seen St. Anne's circular receiving house mark in red (usual faint strike), 1934 re-engraved 5s Seahorse + 4d, 6d & 1s tied to piece by St. Hild's College/Durham in blue etc. (32 stamps + 11 covers) (Image)
Opening GBP 130.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1493
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Cat No: Collection
YORKSHIRE (YARM) 1780-1990's postal history collection housed in two multi ring albums commencing with 1780 s/line YARM showing inverted 'V' for 'A,' 1781 & 1788 s/line YARM, 1796 three entires bearing curved YARM, 1806-29 range of YARM/243 mileage marks on eighteen entires, 1829 EL from Ironbridge to Yarm bears 'Shiffnal/Py Post' in blue, 1832-38 Yarm undated circles (6), then a range bearing various types of c.d.s. and duplex cancels incl. PPC's & stationery, 1912 Yarm Parcel Post label franked KEVII 7d etc. (112) (Image)
Opening GBP 350.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1494
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YORKSHIRE 1720-23 wrapper & letter to London, each with a clear strike of the first type 'YORK' mark, one with fine seal; also 17th Century pedigree (Scott of Rotherham) and c1720 wrapper 'To be left at the Post House in York'. (4) (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1495
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YORKSHIRE 1721-25 pair of letters to London with clear strikes of the first type 'YORK' mark; also 1667 letter ex Marske (no postal markings). (3) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1496
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YORKSHIRE 1735-74 various 'YORK' marks on cover (mainly clear strikes) including Yorkshire addresses (one re-addressed), an item from London and a 'free'’. (9) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1497
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YORKSHIRE 1741-1910 Yorkshire - Bedale including very good BE/DALL, BEDALL & BEDAL, curved BEDALL (3), mileage, first & second types Penny Post with RH 3 & 4 etc. Also West Burton PP in black (2) & blue with UDC of Hawes or Bedale cds; UDC's Scruton & West Burton. Plus four Richmond pre-stamp items with fine large straight-line mark (1766), scarce RICHMOND/YORKSH. Etc. Good lot. (30) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1498
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YORKSHIRE 1745-51 letters with fair to good straight-line 'YORK' marks including a 'free' (ink smudged) and an unposted item. (6) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1499
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YORKSHIRE 1745-55 six letters mainly to Yorkshire addresses including Nostell Priory, Hull, Whitby & Wakefield, most with mainly good strikes of straight-line 'YORK' marks. (6) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1500
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YORKSHIRE 1749-1833 'Free' letters (including wrapper & front) from York, mainly to London but including one to Reading and two within Yorkshire; three are from the Archbishop; also an abuse of privilege item (1749). (9) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1501
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YORKSHIRE 1750-1920 Yorkshire - Skipton incl. very good first straight-line mark SKIP/TON and four others, mileages, UDCs (3), 1844 ‘too late’ item, scarce 'traveller' c.d.s (1845), UDC's of Bolton Bridge, Gargrave, Kettlewell & Long Preston. Also PPC's with c.d.s of Addingham, Appletreewick, Burnsall, Carleton, Embsay, Grassington & Threshfield. Good lot. (38) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1503
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YORKSHIRE 1774-1930 Yorkshire - Settle etc. with Settle straight-line marks (2), mileage, UDC's in red & black, scarce small 'misdirected to' h/stamp. Also Burley Penny Post, u.d.c of Thornton, Eldwick & Snape rubbers etc. Useful group. (21) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1505
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YORKSHIRE 1776-90 group of letters (one poor) ex York including one to Cognac; variety of rates including a prepaid item. (9) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1506
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YORKSHIRE 1778-99 letters inc s/l 'TADCASTER' for North Cave with 'Turn at Doncaster' routing, corrected rate with crown hand-stamp (1788) plus two others with corrected postage, most with straight-line 'YORK' marks. (11) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1508
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YORKSHIRE 1793-1910 Yorkshire - Leeds area including Addingham UDCs (green & red), uncommon large ‘2’ of Otley, Bingley, Cononley & Pool UDC's, straight-line & curved Gargrave, various Shipley marks including UDC, squared circle & uncommon money order office c.d.s etc. (41) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1509
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YORKSHIRE 1794-1810 York 'horseshoe' semi-circular marks on cover (8 are wrappers or a front) showing a variety of types; fair to fine strikes; two have sellotape repairs. (17 (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1510
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YORKSHIRE 1809-25 York circular mileage marks on cover or wrapper - substantial lot with fair to good strikes including a reasonable example of the undated first type (1809), one with weak partial 'Missent…' mark. (33) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1512
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Cat No: Collection
YORKSHIRE 1905-60's collection of 140 PPC's & covers collected for their postmarks all neatly presented & written up in protectors incl. a wide range of c.d.s's, Skeleton & rubber pmks, RPO's etc. e.g. Settle Skeleton 1911, Thornton-Le-Clay rubber 1917, Strensall Camp c.d.s, Bisley Camp c.d.s 1916, Long Preston R.S.O 1905, Leyburn RSO 1904, Mobile P.O card Leeds etc. Reg cover from Royal Show Harrogate, 1942 Middle East Christmas Greetings to Guiseley cancelled FPO/531 1942, WWII P.O.W Mail (2) to Wakefield, condition generally very fine, well worth viewing. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1513
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1934 May 29th Highland Airways first flight Inverness - Kirkwall, scarce official illustrated cover, bears KGV 1½d defin + semi - official vignette Pilot signed by E.E. Fressor. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1514
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1939 Oct 2nd Scottish Airways first flight Campbelltown - Glasgow official cover with special vignette (44 flown), 1947 Feb 1st B.E.A first flight Stornoway - Glasgow air letter service with old Scottish Airways cachet over stamped with BEA cachet. Very rare Field (FJF) suggested maybe unique. (2) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1515
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1931 Dec 9th Croydon to Cape Town, special Christmas flight by Imperial Airways franked KGV defins 3d + 6d tied Croydon Aerodrome cds's, reverse Bulawayo 20th Dec receiving datestamp, (only 6 flown), rare. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1516
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1936 Sept 28th The Schlesinger Air Race cover carried by Flt. Lieut. Tommy Rose and Jack Bradshaw in their B.A Double Eagle G-AEIN as far as Cairo, there the undercarriage of their machine collapsed whilst taxiing, forcing them to retire, cover bears the Cairo cancel of 2nd Oct and the flight cachet, signed on the reverse by both pilots, attractive item, also a cover flown by Flt. Lieut Rose & Mr Bagshaw over the whole route to Johannesburg after their retiring at Cairo, posted back from South Africa, signed Rose on the front & inscribed by him on the reverse. Scarce. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1517
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1936 Sept 29th Schlesinger Air Race England (Portsmouth) to Johannesburg flown by Capt. S.S. Halses as far as South Rhodesia where he crashed (30.9.36), posted back from Salisbury, endorsed by 'The De Havilland Aircraft Co. (Rhodesia) Ltd, probably one of 24 treated this way, franked KEVIII ½d tied Luton, Beds 24th Sept cds & South Rhodesia 2d Falls tied Salisbury double ring cds. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1518
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WWI covers & cards with emphasis on French interest including FPO's, hospitals, unit cachets, naval mail, civilian censorship plus related POW material (16) and four British items. Interesting lot with uncommon material noted. (67) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1519
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1870's-1912 selection of 6 hand illustrated covers (3) & fronts (3), all bear either hand painted or pen & ink illustrations. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1520
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KGV range of covers to foreign destinations incl. stationery envelopes (8), wide variety of commercial frankings, telegrams (2), meter frankings, AR receipt etc. Mixed condition. (49) (Image)
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Lot No: 1527
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1866 6d mauve embossed '2ww' die, dated 8.3.66 on unwatermarked wove paper - a tete-beche pair. Attractive PROOF. (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1528
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KEVII issues with uprated wrappers, official & STO envelopes incl. registered types, JPS Penny Postage envelope (unused) etc. (35) (Image)
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1529
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KEVII registered stationery envelopes uprated for foreign destinations with a range of stamps incl. perfins plus four others incl. STO. Interesting lot. (12 + front) (Image)
Opening GBP 40.00
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Sale No: 161
Lot No: 1531
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1911-17 Downey Head Postal Stationery ½d & 1d postcards, lettercards, newspaper wrappers, reply cards, Field Service etc. a specialised unused collection written up on leaves. (23) (Image)
