Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1028
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Cat No: 81 Proof
1911: 5 st. green & black, imperforate Die Proof in issued colour inset in sunken gold edged card (64 x 104 mm.) with "Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers London" imprint below, handstamped '18 Feb 1910' in violet on reverse. Exquisite and very rare. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1029
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Cat No: 82 Proof
1911: 10 st. red & black, imperforate Die Proof in issued colour inset in sunken gold edged card (64 x 104 mm.) with "Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers London" imprint below, handstamped '13 Apr 1910' in violet on reverse. Exquisite and very rare. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 1030
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Cat No: 4
1879: Cover to Sarajevo franked by Austrian Levant 1867/79 10 s. blue tied by fine FILIPOPOLI datestamp (22/7) in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 868). Reverse with unusual array of transits with 'Constantinopel' cds (25/7), Brood cds and 'K.u.K. FELD POSTAMT / SERAJEVO' arrival cds (Aug 1). An attractive usage. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1031
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Cat No: 167/175+102
1921 (Dec 30): James David Bourchier, "Times" Balkan Correspondent, the set of nine values unused, in complete sheets of 100 stamps, fresh and very fine, unmounted og. (Mi = € 500), together with a 1915 complete "L'Echo de Bulgarie" Newspaper franked by 1915 15 st. green & violet used to London. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1032
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1910/16: Lot three Covers and two Receipts bearing different Ferdinand definitives 25 st. black & blue and 25 on 30 st. brown & black, the stamps overprinted PCP (Pour Certificate Postale) in black, used on three registered covers to the Advice of Receipt Department of the Berlin Post Office, tied by 'Sophia' cds's in black, reverse with Berlin arrival cds's. The two receipts issued for telegrams sent from Bucharest to the Legation of Romania in Sofia. These PCP ovpt. stamps are official issues, to be used only for return receipts of telegrams and where attached either to the cover or the receipt itself to cover the registration fee. A scarce and appealing usage, three opinions Hitzler (2016) and cert. Pieper (1974). (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image 3)(Image 4)(Image 5)(Image)
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Sale No: 250
Lot No: 5697
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Cat No: Collection
Crimean War 1854 (Sept 3): Great Britain 1841 1 d. red brown on blued paper, imperforate, a horizontal strip of three lettered SG-SI paying the concessionary rate, just touched at left but with large margins on three sides and portions of adjoing stamps at top, used on cover with full original contents from "Balchik Bay", South of Varna, to Whitstable endorsed 'via Marseilles' tied by "* ♚ *" in black. Reverse with BRITISH ARMY POST OFFICE datestamp lightly struck, London and Canterbury (Sept 21) cds's. A very rare usage of the imperforate issue.rnNote: Contents "we have had a very severe sickness all last month aboard our ship...we have lost 68 of our crew with this sickness but it is getting healthy now, it was the Cholera and the Diahorrea that out men died with the Britannia that is our Admiral's ship had the sickness very bad she loss 100 and 58...the French ship Valmay lost 100 and 80 and the Montablia lost 200. We are going to sail for Sebastopol of the 5 of this month..all our Troops is embarked and there is five hundred sail of ships all together...".rnProvenance: Collection E.E. Yates, RL, 31 July 1940, lot 270; Collection McGowan, RL, 25 Jan. 1950, lot 95;rnCollection Griffiths Blackler, Harmers, May 1992, lot 1755.rnrn (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image 3)(Image)
