Basutoland. 1935 (June 17) Cover from Maseru to USA franked 1d + 2d, the 2d with variety dot to left of chapel, scarce on cover. S.G. 12g, £450 as a stamp.
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 190.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 767
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Gambia. 1936 Registered cover form Bathurst to Scotland bearing the 1935 Silver Jubilee set of four, the 1/- with Lightning Conductor variety, scarce on cover. S.G. 146c, £475+.
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 250.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 768
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Pacific Islands. Unmounted mint stamps comprising New Zealand ½d (2), 1d (4) and 6d imprint blocks with plate numbers "1" - "7"; Samoa set in imprint blocks of eight, 1d corner block of eight plate "44" and corner block of four with sheet number, 1d perf 14x14½; Nauru imprint set in strips of four (gum toned) with additional 1/- shade strip and set in singles; Niue set in strips with varieties; Cook Islands 1d and 2½d strips with varieties. Also Samoa 2½d corner block of six plate "47" C.T.O on piece and 6d on a registered cover to Austria. S.G. £400++. (124 stamps + cover).
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Sold...GBP 240.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 769
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Southern Africa. South Africa mint and used plate varieties well written up on pages (35), set in mint horizontal pairs each with cleft skull variety and mint vertical pair each with spots above head and behind neck variety; Southern Rhodesia set in unmounted imprint pairs; South West Africa set in mint imprint blocks of four, also 2d mint imprint block of four with Cigarette Tax overprints (upper pair a little stained). S.G. £430+. (79 stamps).
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Sold...GBP 160.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Air Mail Covers
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 774
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G.B. 1935 Covers to Syria (2, one a printed Silver Jubilee envelope), Colombia, India (2), USA (3) or Trinidad (2/6 rate, with all four Jubilee stamps), one cover to San Francisco franked 1½d + U.S Air Mail 6c applied in London to pay for internal U.S air mail. Also a 1959 2d postcard to USA from the Silver Jubilee collector Eric Bloch bearing a Nyasaland Silver Jubilee 1d! (10).
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Sold...GBP 150.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 775
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G.B/Europe. 1935 Covers (17) and postcards (4) from G.B to Europe including set on First Day postcard to Malta, London to Brindisi and London to Portugal via Paris and Madrid first flights, the rest commercial with express letters to Germany and Italy, etc. (21).
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Sold...GBP 130.00
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 777
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G.B/Northern Rhodesia. 1935 (May 7) G.B set on First Day Cover cancelled at Wilton Road, Hudson Place S.W1, carried on the first flight to Lusaka, dropped by parachute as the airport had not been completed. About 50 covers flown but most were official letters, only about 10-20 stamped covers carried. With 1935 and 1977 letters from Francis J. Field. Fine and scarce.
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Sold...GBP 85.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 778
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G.B - Australia/New Zealand. 1935 Covers from G.B to Australia (3) or New Zealand (3) including May 7th F.D.C bearing pairs of the 1d, 1½d and 2½d (2 pairs), cover to New Zealand with set in strips of three, an unusual commercial cover from Kirkwall franked 1/3 comprising seven stamps from the Jubilee, 1924 or 1934 sets, also covers from Australia to South Africa (2) or Canada. (9).
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Sold...GBP 200.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 779
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Gambia - Graf Zeppelin Pendulum Flights. 1935 (Nov 21) Cover from Recife to Bathurst franked Brazil 200r + 2000r pair inscribed "Graf Zeppelin" and bearing a "VIA / CONDOR - ZEPPELIN" label with red "DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST / EUROPA - SUDAMERIKA" cachet, backstamped at Stuttgart (Nov 25) and Bathurst (Nov 29), then reposted from Bathurst (Nov 30) to Pernambuco franked Silver Jubilee 6d (2), with Recife arrival c.d.s (Dec 2). The Graf Zeppelin flew three pendulum flights between Brazil and Gambia in November when the usual Deutsche Lufthansa service was suspended whilst the service ships in the Atlantic were being repaired. This cover carried on the second Zeppelin flight to Bathurst, then strangely flown from Bathurst to Stuttgart by Deutsche Lufthansa, returned by DLH then flown back on the third return flight by Graf Zeppelin. A little light staining but an exceptionally scarce double pendulum flight cover. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
Opening GBP 1,000.00
Sold...GBP 1,100.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 1100
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 780
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Gambia - Graf Zeppelin Pendulum Flights. 1935 (Nov 28) Cover from Pernambuco to Bathurst franked Brazil 500r + 700r, inscribed "Mit Graf Zeppelin", carried on the final Graf Zeppelin pendulum flight with circular "SERVICIO AEREO TRANSOCEANICO / CONDOR / ZEPPELIN / LUFTHANSA / BRASIL - EUROPA" cachet and a Bathurst arrival c.d.s (Dec 2), then reposted from Bathurst (Dec 6) to Pernambuco franked ½d + 2d + Silver Jubilee 1/-, carried on the first resumed DLH airmail service with Pernambuco arrival c.d.s (Dec 8). A little light staining but extremely scarce. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
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Sold...GBP 850.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 781
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West Africa/Morocco. 1935-36 Covers comprising Nigeria first flights from Maidugeri to London or London to Lagos; Gambia set of four on First Day Cover with "POSTED OUT / OF COURSE" and a registration label applied in London, carried by surface mail, and flown covers with "AIRMAIL / GAMBIA - ENGLAND" cachets; Morocco Agencies (3); also a surface mail cover from Sierra Leone franked 1d + 3d + 5d with boxed "POSTED ON STEAMER" of Freetown. (9).
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Sold...GBP 230.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 783
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KUT/Singapore. 1935 (Aug 3) Cover from Kenya to Australia "via India, Singapore & Trans Australia" franked 50c + Silver Jubilee 20c (2, one variety diagonal line by turret, S.G. 124f) and 1/-, violet "BY AIR IN AUSTRALIA / PAR AVION EN AUSTRALIE" and very scarce violet "Received late at Singapore / Missed connection", Singapore (Aug 19) backstamp. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
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Sold...GBP 2,500.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 2500
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 785
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Southern Africa. 1935-36 Covers and cards from South Africa (30), Basutoland, Swaziland or Bechuanaland, including South Africa set in pairs on May 1st F.D.C from the Cape Town Post Office Exhibition, July 30th first flight cover from Cape Town to Beira via Salisbury signed by all three pilots, other first flight covers from Cape Town to Johannesburg or Germiston to G.B, other mainly commercial covers to Italian Somaliland, Palestine, Ireland, New Zealand, S.W.A, flown within South Africa, etc., one cover to Switzerland with 3d block of four containing cleft skull variety. (33).
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Sold...GBP 290.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 786
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South West Africa. 1935 Covers including set in pairs on cover to Germany, cover franked 3d to Natal with scarce violet "AIR MAIL CANCELLED", etc., also a cover from Cape Town to Windhoek. (8).
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Sold...GBP 110.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
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Covers & Postal History
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 771
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G.B - Railways. 1935 Cover to Wallington, Surrey, bearing Silver Jubilee 1d (2) and L.N.E.R 3d parcel stamp (folded over left edge of cover) each cancelled violet oval "EDINBURGH WAVERLEY STATION / BOOKING OFFICE / 20 JUN 1935 / L.&N.E. RLY", the stamps cancelled by a London machine the following day. A fine commercial railway letter with L.N.E.R crest on the flap. Photo on Page 106. (Image1)
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 772
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G.B./Far East. 1935 Covers from G.B to China (4), Hong Kong or Singapore (2) including Sept. 24th first flights to Singapore or Shanghai (Croydon Aerodrome c.d.s) and printed matter cover posted within G.B franked ½d then redirected to H.M.S Hermes at Wei-Hai-Wei with Jubilee ½d and 1d; also covers from Hong Kong to Europe (2) both franked 20c. (9).
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Sold...GBP 340.00
Closed..Oct-26-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 773
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1935-41 Philatelic covers, most bearing complete Silver Jubilee sets, comprising Bahamas, Bechuanaland, Mauritius, Northern Rhodesia and St. Lucia (both illustrated envelopes with flags, KGV and Queen Mary, St. Lucia cover with printed Westminster Stamp Co address), Straits Settlements (1941 censored cover with "AR" handstamp), Morocco Agencies French Currency (two 15c pairs + 25c block of five), and South Africa (½d pair + 1d block of four). (8).
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Official Post Office Mail
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 796
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Pacific Islands. 1935 O.H.M.S Covers to USA with enclosed receipts for the purchase of Jubilee stamps, comprising registered stampless cover from the Solomon Islands with Tulagi Registered c.d.s, cover from Gilbert & Ellice Islands franked 1d, 1½d and 3d, and cover from Fiji with ½d + Jubilee set of four. (3).
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Sold...GBP 85.00
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 797
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Pacific Islands. 1935 O.H.M.S Covers bearing Jubilee stamps of Cook Islands, Niue (3) or Nauru (2), also stampless covers from Samoa (2) or Solomon Islands, no contents, one registered cover from Niue with incorrect 1934 c.d.s. (9).
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Sold...GBP 230.00
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 798
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Asia. 1935 O.H.M.S Registered covers bearing Silver Jubilee stamps from Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, Ceylon (2) or Mauritius, one Ceylon cover with enclosed receipt for Jubilee stamps and the Straits cover with G.P.O Singapore printed letter forwarding Jubilee stamps, the Mauritius cover with Bicentenary Exhibition cancel and enclosed Money Order requisition form. (5).
