Sale No: 248
Lot No: 1333
Symbol: C/D
Cat No: Collection
1860 mourning cover Wales to Dublin with 1d Plate '86' tied by fair BN '649', minor defects, with matching partly cross-written letter headed "Brynhyfryd Menai Bridge/Anglesey" & signed "Harrie Dunlop" who states "...I enclose a few stamps for yr brother. I do not happen to have many good ones just now. I hope tho that some of these may be ones he has not got. I had a very good collection over 500 & many of them were ones not often got in England but I gave it up & since I have commence [sic] again & have at present only about 130. I have written to two or three people in Germany for stamps...It is great fun getting & sending stamps...I dare say yr brother is very fond of his stamp book I know I used to be..."
Although lost to the past, Harrie Dunlop was a very early & at least semi-serious stamp collector. The album he refers to obviously pre-dated 1860.
(Qty 2)
1868 Whitehall Club cover to NSW with 6d deep lilac SG 96 Plate Number '6' (Cat £225+ on cover) tied by very fine 'LONDON SW - SW/27' duplex, & 1879 mourning cover to the same addressee with very fine 8d orange SG 156 (Cat £625 on cover) tied by partial 'LONDON EC - 89' duplex, different 'NEWCASTLE/=NSW=' arrival b/s. [The addressee, Cecil West Darley, was appointed Resident Engineer of Newcastle Harbour Works in 1867. He later became Engineer-in-Chief for Harbours & Rivers and oversaw completion of Sydney's water supply system. His brother, Frederick Darley, was Chief Justice of NSW]
(Qty 2)
Sale No: 248
Lot No: 1335
Symbol: C/D
Cat No: Collection
1914-18 World War I fascinating assemblage including OAS usage of 'Wheeling Letter Card', Daily News illustrated Christmas Pudding PPC, 36mm 'CROWBOROUGH CAMP/PO' skeleton cds on cover, 1918 with ½d '.../DISABLED/ 1914-15/SERVICE/...' label on the flap, 1921 'MEDALS/REGISTERED' envelope, etc, also a Rationing group with several largely-complete ration books & Food Cards, 'Ration Coupons' sleeve, several 'RETAILER'S SUGAR TICKETS' (one with Pre-Printing Paper Fold), Expeditionary Force 'LIQUOR VOUCHER', batch of unused 'Visitors' Declaration Forms' etc, other ephemera including Royal Army Service Corps four different silk Christmas cards, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
(Qty 100+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Aug-03-2022, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 248
Lot No: 1336
Symbol: C
1916 stampless cover to London endorsed at L/L "From/General Sir Charles Townshend/Constantinople", Ottoman censor h/s on the face plus cds & letter seal across the flap, British 'OPENED BY/CENSOR/P.W.8' label, stained on the reverse. [Sir Charles Vere Ferres Townshend, was commander of besieged British Forces at Kut (Mesopotamia). Townshend, popular with his troops but a shocking narcissist, spent much of his time at Kut cabling London seeking a promotion! He was among the nearly 3000 captured by the Turks, of whom only 1180 survived a death march from Kut-al-Amara to the railhead at Ras-al-Ain (in modern Syria). Befriended by Enver Pasha & treated as an honoured guest, Townshend expected a hero's welcome in London but was met by just his wife, daughter & dog]
1938 (Nov 27) underpaid cover from Shepton Mallet with machine-applied 'T'-in-hexagon apparently of London, to New Zealand, largely superb 'RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA' h/s from the crash in Iraq attractively waterlogged & with the stamp washed-off. The tax marking has not previously been noted by us. [An accompanying letter from Robin Startup identifies only one other cover from the incident to New Zealand]
Sale No: 248
Lot No: 1338
Symbol: C/D
Cat No: Collection
TELEGRAMS: 1880s to WWII array of printed envelopes, forms & ephemera including two different 1850s Electric Telegraph Co envelopes, several Greetings types, registered & express usages, 'WEEK END TELEGRAM' & 'EXPEDITIONARY FORCE MESSAGE' handstamps, etc, many unused forms, Imperial & International Communications Ltd triplicate book with 24 message duplicates & 26 unused triplicates still affixed, and Eastern c.1920s 'Around the World Thoughts shall Fly/in the Twinkling of an Eye' brochure with attached Greetings form; paraphernalia including Eastern employment contract with completed 'SECRECY FORM', 1894 & 1922 formal invitation cards to anniversary celebrations; Marseilles Algiers & Malta 1870 share prospectus; Brazilian Submarine 1888 minutes of a meeting in London, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Fascinating: could be developed into a terrific collection.
(Qty 130+ items) (Image1)
