GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY Greenock & Ardrishaig Packet
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 512
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1881-1951 Covers, cards and ephemera including David MacBrayne advertising envelope (posted in 1911 from Oban to Canada) and picture postcards (3 types, two unused, the other written from R.M.S "Clansman" and posted at Ullapool in 1904); 1881 letter written and signed by David MacBrayne on headed note paper; coloured MacBrayne notepaper (2 types); 1896 Time Table & Fare List; an early Photo of S.S "Iona"; 1936 cover from Glasgow with MacBrayne Steamers meter mark; 1939 MacBrayne advertising envelope from Inverness to South West Africa; and 1951 "See Scotland's Wonderland by MacBrayne, Centenary Year" booklet. (12).
Opening GBP 180.00
Sold...GBP 160.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 514
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1881-1910 Picture postcards (10, six official David MacBrayne cards) and a cover, all with Greenock & Ardrishaig datestamps comprising Iona Steamer 163 duplex code B, Columba Steamer 163 second type duplex code B, wide type "GK & ARDRISHAIG PACKET" double ring c.d.s for Columba codes A (4) or B (2, one unusually used as a transit datestamp), similar narrow type for Columba code A or Iona code B, and "GREENOCK & ARDRISHAIG PKT" double ring c.d.s for Iona code A. (11).
Opening GBP 200.00
Sold...GBP 170.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 521
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Grenadier. 1911 Picture postcard of S.S "Grenadier" written on the steamer en route to Staffa and Iona, the ½d stamp cancelled at Oban, with violet cachet "GRENADIER". Also a 1904 (July 11) postcard written on "S.S Grenadier off Staffa", the ½d stamp cancelled at Iona. The only example of this steamer cachet we have seen, offered "as-is". (2).
Opening GBP 100.00
Sold...GBP 90.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 90
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 522
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Grenadier. c.1905-11 Picture postcards franked ½d, cancelled by the three differing types of double ring c.d.s for the "Grenadier", all code "B", a fine group. (3).
