Extensive Collection of the 1981 Royal Wedding Omnibus Issues, housed in two Stanley Gibbons albums, a stockbook, and eight double sided Vario-style stock pages. The collection begins with two Stanley Gibbons Royal Wedding albums, containing mint hinged material including the basic omnibus sets, souvenir sheets, booklet panes, imperforates (including unlisted Ghana set of three stamps). The lot continues with a stockbook of mint never hinged material including omnibus sets, 75 sheets and sheetlets, with the Vario-style pages containing mint never hinged gutter pairs and blocks, surcharges and overprints, etc. We note better representation from Tonga, Uganda, Turks and Caicos, Guyana, just to name a few. The lot includes Stanley Gibbons Royal Wedding stamp catalogue, with roughly 100 supplemental album pages. Owner's 2020 Scott catalogue for the gutter pairs and blocks totals at $800 with owner's catalogue value for the collection at $1,583. A nice lot for the thematic or topical collector, along with dealers looking for stock. Online photos show a sampling. Very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 200

Thematic Collection of Worldwide Airmail and Related Topics in 8 Thick Binders, entitled "Depicting Flight. From Mythology to Mach Two", with many hundreds of mint stamps, along with a few souvenir sheets and flight covers. The collection begins with five binders of material relating to the airplane, beginning with mythology of flight, and continues with airplane types, designers, first flights, technology improvements, event and races, development of routes, along with other subjects. The collection continues with three binders, each one containing material dedicated to the helicopter; balloons, and dirigibles. A spot check indicated a few sets and souvenir sheets cataloguing $20 and up, including Scott #s Russia C37-C39 (m.h., c.v. $310 total), Belgium 251-253 (m.h., $41 total), Poland B31 souvenir sheet (m.h., $40), along with first flights retailing $10 and up. A well research collection, noting one stamp per page in some cases. Online photos show a sampling. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 200

Worldwide Balloon and Lighthouse Topical Collections, with roughly 300 balloon theme covers, noting commercial mail, event covers, balloon flights, postcards, first day covers, with balloon singles, sets and souvenir sheet frankings, along with many balloon theme cachets and slogan / pictorial postmarks. The lot continues with a stockbook containing 200 mint and used lighthouse theme stamps, along with an album containing roughly 70 covers franked with lighthouse stamps, or having lighthouse related slogan / pictorial cancels. Online photos show an overview. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Colourful Collection of Mint Never Hinged Worldwide Birds, with many hundreds of stamps, including roughly 100 souvenir sheets, neatly arranged by country, in four 32 page stockbooks, and loose stock cards. We note many singles, sets, blocks and strips, semi-postals, booklet panes, and a few sheetlets, with material generally ranging from the 1960s to the 1990s, with the possibility of material on either side of the range. We note better representation from Island and African countries, with representation from many other worldwide countries. A cursory check indicated sets and souvenir sheets cataloguing $5 to $10 and up, and appears to be all NH. Online photos show a sampling of just part of this lovely collection. Clean and very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 300

Specialized Topical Collection of Cuban Medicine and Related Subjects in 15 Volumes, with the vast majority being Cuban stamps, blocks, plate blocks, booklets, souvenir sheets, imperforate pairs, specimens, proofs, cinderellas (including Christmas seals, imperforates, etc), first day covers (with many colourful cachets), postal history (including a few stampless covers), postcards, and more, all depicting the major subjects which include: medical doctors, scientists and inventors, diseases and treatments, hospitals and pharmacies. A cursory check of material indicated Scott #E4a inverted center (no gum, c.v. $1,250, signed by 2 experts). Each binder contains various articles relating to subject theme or philatelic information, and includes some ephemera. A highly specialized collection that can be turned into an exhibit almost instantly. Online photos show a sampling. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 1,000

Large Thematic Collection on Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Propaganda, all in black stock sheets filling two thick binders with covers and stamps from many countries, such as Egypt, UAR, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and many other Arab-speaking countries. We note covers, first day covers, stamp singles and sets, souvenir sheets, imperforate varieties and much more, mostly MNH, all from the 1950s to 2000s, with no apparent duplication (some FDC have different cachets) and there are several instances where the cover is accompanied by the same stamps. We counted just over 150 covers, and there are probably thousands of stamps (our online photos only show a very small sampling). Also includes a set of 18 Palestine "Pictorials" corner plate blocks of six, all overprinted "NO TO ISRAELI & PALESTINIAN TERRORISM" (of which we show one page online). The lot is accompanied by two books "The Stamp of Conflict / The Arab - Israeli Conflict Through Philately" and "Arab Philatelic Propaganda Against the State of Israel". A lovely collection which must have taken a long time to assemble (Image)

Estimate $ 500

Collection of Sailboats on Mostly Mint Canadian Stamps from 1908 to 2015, in one binder, consisting of over 150 philatelic items including, single stamps, inscription plate blocks, first day covers and cards (some signed), souvenir sheets, commemorative coin and stamps set, gilded silver stamp reproductions, all in mounts on over 60 home made album pages, annotated in French. We noted some better items such as #102, 103 plus its matching gilded silver stamp reproduction, Bluenose #158 mint no gum, as well as a used block of 4 (very fine, c.v. $400), and another used stamp tied with nice Montréal duplex postmarks to a partial canvas bank mailing envelope, as well as a gilded silver stamp reproduction, #204 mint inscription plate block of 4 (no gum c.v. $75) and 2 first day covers ($35 each), #208 and #210 with first day covers ($25 each) and gilded silver stamp reproductions and more. A better than average collection of this most popular thematic. Overall fine to very fine. See online photos for an overview. (Image)

Estimate $ 300

Group of Roughly 110 Philatelic Items Relating to Skiing, 1950s-2002, with roughly 80 worldwide covers, primarily first day and event covers (mostly relating to various Winter Olympics), along with a few pieces of commercial mail. We note cachets, stamps, and a few postmarks, all with a skiing theme. The lot also includes roughly 30 worldwide souvenir sheets, primarily relating to Winter Olympics, ranging from the 1960s onward, all depicting skiing, ski jumping, slalom, etc. Online photos show an overview. We note a few small faults with a few of the covers. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Topical Collection of the RMS Titanic, with over 110 philatelic items, on roughly 75 well researched exhibit pages, housed in a thick binder. The collection contains roughly 60 mint worldwide souvenir sheets and sheetlets, along with stamps, blocks, postcards, and first day covers, commemorating the Titanic, depicting the ship, crew, sinking, internal views and more. The collection is enhanced with photo reproductions of letters, photographs, etc., along with well researched text on the construction, voyage, sinking, and survivors, noting a postcard signed by survivor Millvina Dean. Online photos show a sampling of the collection, which should appeal to thematic and topical collectors. Clean and very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Red Cross Centenary, Costumes and Expo '67 Topical Collections, with the Red Cross / Red Crescent collection in a purpose-built White Ace album and the other two collections each in their own stockbook. Also included is a collection of more than 30 stamp exhibition souvenir sheets (without franking value) mounted to quadrille pages. The Red Cross Centenary collection is about half complete. There are well over 200 stamps the first stockbook, with most of these Costumes plus Glassware, Minerals and other topics. The Expo '67 stockbook has more than 50 different stamps for the topic. We spot checked the stamps and found only mint never hinged. Overall very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 200

Two Stockbooks Containing Topical Collections, one stockbook contains a nice collection of "Stamps on Stamps" topic, with about 15 pages full of mint and used singles, sets and souvenir sheets. The second stockbook contains about 25 pages of various topics such as volcanoes, geology, crystals, prehistoric life, etc. Photos only show a small sampling. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Several Collections of Mint and Used Topicals, with a few thousand stamps, and many souvenir sheets, on a few hundred quadrille pages, housed in 11 binders. We note a wide variety of subjects including: movie stars (notably Marilyn Monroe), cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, trees, along with a thick binder dedicated to women, and interesting topics including huts and farming, just to name a few. The material generally ranges from the 1960s onwards, with representation from a number of countries. Online photos show a small sampling. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 200

The World's First Coin, Stamp, and Banknote Collection in 3 Volumes, with slipcases, containing 72 covers, coins and banknotes, from A to Z countries. The collection comes with a letter of authenticity stating the coins and banknotes are in uncirculated condition, with the material generally ranging from 1990 to 1996. Online photos show a sampling. Clean and very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100