GREAT BRITAIN POSTAL HISTORY Pictorial Envelopes & Lettersheets
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 641
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c.1830-70 Pictorial notepaper, unused or missing the address panels, including a superb handcoloured view of Brighton Pavilion with Victoria and Albert riding in a carriage, written in 1843; 1851 Great Exhibition, music and words to the song "The Banks of Allan Water", Chester (8), Manchester (6), Edinburgh (9), Margate (6), Liverpool (6), Hastings (7), Plymouth (6), Welsh views (11), Jersey (3), etc. (67).
Opening GBP 400.00
Sold...GBP 500.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 642
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Scotland. 1839-43 Pictorial lettersheets, views comprising Edinburgh from the Royal Botanical Gardens, posted unpaid from Paisley to Glasgow; Castle Street, Aberdeen, prepaid from Aberdeen to Rome; and Sir Walter Scott's Memorial in Edinburgh within a fancy gold pattern of flowers incorporating parrots, butterflies and a snake, prepaid 2/2 from Edinburgh to Canada. (3).
Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 200.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 643
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Ireland. 1841-47 Pictorial lettersheets with views of Killarney Lake & Ross Castle, posted from Belfast to France; or Glengariff, prepaid from London to Lord Clifford in Rome. Also pictorial lettersheets depicting the home of Daniel O'Connell or the 1853 Dublin Exhibition (2, in black or gold), not posted. (5).
Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 200.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 200
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 644
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1841-63 Pictorial lettersheets (7) and envelopes containing pictorial notepaper (3), all postally used, pictorial lettersheet comprising views of Cowes (within an embossed design of flowers and vine leaves), Deal Castle (1841, posted from Deal to France prepaid 4/-, "P-D" of Dover, reverse with French P.O wax seals), an unidentified country house (posted at Haddington, 1d red does not belong), Ullswater (posted at Shap), Raby Castle, Radford Grove near Nottingham or Tynemouth Priory (some splitting to folds); envelopes with enclosed notepaper depicting Dartmouth Castle (2 sheets, hand coloured), Honister Crag and Windermere on two separate pages, or Llandudno. A good lot, six bearing 1d reds, four prepaid in cash. (10).
Opening GBP 500.00
Sold...GBP 420.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 646
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Cat No: Collection
c.1850-1910 Printed pictorial envelopes comprising c.1850 unused envelope with an engraved view of Port Madoc on the flap; 1862 cover with printed address in rhyme, posted at Nottingham; 1880 Christmas cover with a turkey and comic figures on donkeys, and coloured cover "Babes in the Wood" both posted in London; 1883 cover depicting a royal mail coach with enclosed notepaper showing a comic looking Scottish man, posted in London; 1903 Anglo-Saxon League patriotic cover published in Canada, posted from Ipswich to USA; and 1910 King Edward's Cherished Memory mourning cover probably produced in India, posted from Ilford to India. The Port Madoc and 1903 patriotic covers fine, the others all with faults including staining and tears, an unusual group. (7 + letter).
Opening GBP 180.00
Sold...GBP 600.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 600
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Lot No: 647
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Advertising covers. 1884-c.1922 Covers, newspaper wrappers and a stationery card all with printed adverts, most bearing 1d lilacs, including Schultze Gunpowder (2), fishing rods, "Murrays American Caramels", etc. (22).
Opening GBP 180.00
Sold...GBP 220.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 220
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 648
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1896-1910 Hand illustrated covers (13), fronts (5) and postcards (7) all postally used (all but two with KEVII stamps), some in colour, including well painted covers in colour depicting a house or waterfall both posted in London, spectators under umbrellas at a football match posted at Bramley, a finely painted coloured picture of a swan posted from Southampton, 1910 mourning envelope for King Edward VII posted from London to Jersey, etc. Artwork of mixed quality but including some very competently illustrated items. (25).
Opening GBP 380.00
Sold...GBP 460.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 460
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Lot No: 649
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Advertising Envelopes. 1897-1913 Printed advertising covers (33) and postcards (5), all postally used (all but two with KEVII stamps), some pictorial and a few coloured, including adverts for fishing rods, theatres, hotels, books by Leo Tolstoy, shipping lines, His Masters Voice gramophones, The Thomas Barrasford Tour, Tea, Ewarts Lightning Geyser ("hot water instantly"), Schultze sporting powder, Wrexham lager, M.P Royal Patent sausages, "The Review of Reviews", "Land & Houses for the People", mustard, The Esperanto Association, etc. (38).
Opening GBP 300.00
Sold...GBP 300.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 651
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1903-04 Novelty advertising postcards produced by Liverpool & Knight Co., with applied pictures originally containing pull out advertising leaflets (two now missing) all posted at the ½d rate, two of these with pictures of Chinese men, one of these redirected with an address label and ½d stamp, the enclosed leaflet replaced by a note "First of April", charged 1d with "Contains writing in / the nature of a letter", this card with a few picture faults, otherwise all fine and very unusual. (4).
Opening GBP 100.00
Sold...GBP 130.00
Closed..Oct-13-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 48
Lot No: 653
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Cat No: Collection
1908 Junior Philatelic Society Penny Postage to the USA envelope, the unique archival group comprising the initial and final sketches for the envelope by S.R Turner with various notes on the design; drawings for the decorative panels on tracing paper (2); proof of the envelope (endorsed and signed "Proof Pulling, Sept. 1908, Sydney R. Turner" on reverse) with an accompanying letter from F.J Melville to Turner; unused envelope and envelopes postally used on October 1st, first day of the 1d rate, from London to USA (2, one with faults). An exceptional group. (9).
