7 GREAT-BRITAIN STAMPLESS RATES to FRANCE, 1819-1851, includes dates of 1819, 1822, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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102 GREAT-BRITAIN EVENT COVERS 1952-2001, all with event cachets or special event cancels, includes stamp shows noting a nice variety of STAMPEX covers, also air shows, British Philatelic Congress meetings, Royalty wedding and birthdays, Royal visits, railroad centennials, rugby and soccer events, military anniversaries, church and school events, Lifeboat Club meetings, auto races, fairs, music festivals, British submarine anniversary dates, fire brigades anniversaries, town centennial celebrations, historical event anniversaries including the Dunkirk rescue ++, huge retail value over $1500, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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210 GREAT-BRITAIN QEII COVERS & CARDS 1953-1990's, includes better rates to Australia, Fiji, Malta, USA, British Military FPO's, some postage dues, postal strike mail, a 1958 special order window envelope for the Wakefield-Dick Oil Company ++, 22 are letter sheets 1956-1980, 77 Aerogrammes 1953-2002, 2 Isle-of-Man special order window envelopes, about 200 nice stationery items noting 52 registered stationery envelopes (26 different types and sizes), domestic registered rates include 23p, 27p, 37½p, 50p, 53½p, 69p, 87p, £1.29, £1.67, and £2.57 plus good airmail registration rates to Australia, USA, Canada, and Papua-New-Guinea, a great specialist lot with lots of value retailing over $1000, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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125 GREAT-BRITAIN FIRST DAY COVERS 1953-1999, all are cachet covers noting many Colorano Silks, great topical set frankings including a 1996 World Cup Soccer FDC with a £2 coin cachet, lot includes 5 presentation packs with £70 in mint stamps plus two scarce Prestige Booklets for the battle of Waterloo and Buckingham Palace (cat $100), retails over $760, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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52 GREAT-BRITAIN FDC's 1970-1979 (a few earlier), all are addressed cachet covers with commemorative set frankings, mtd in a Lighthouse cover album, great topical value, retails over $200, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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470 GREAT BRITAIN & EMPIRE COVERS 1849-1990's, mostly good UPU and airmail rates to USA, includes better Australia, Australia stationery, New Zealand, Ireland, South-Africa, Great Britain, Canada ++, lots of good WWII censored, WWII telegrams, postcard rates, 14 nice topical cachet FDC's, PAQUEBOT, an 1849 mourning cover from York to Chapel-en-le-Frith with many transit markings ++, 75 are legal size covers, retails over $700, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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73 BRITISH EMPIRE COVERS 1870-1952, includes 8 Victorian 1870-1903 noting better India postage dues and a Cape Town postcard to Germany, 3 are KEVII India domestic rates, the rest are KGV and KGVI rates noting 1933 South-Africa registered to Canada, 1952 North-Borneo airmail to Puerto-Rico, 1948 Grenada airmail to Puerto-Rico, 1951 KUT airmail to France, 1931 SWA registered to USA, 1945 Bombay short paid to London, lots of good airmail rates to USA and Canada from Jamaica + British-Guiana + Ceylon + South-Africa + Trinidad + Grenada + India + St-Lucia + St-Kitts + Dominica + Barbados + Bahamas + British-Honduras + Hong-kong registered + New-Zealand registered ++, 7 are legal size covers with many multiple rates, great lot retailing over $800, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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800 BRITISH EMPIRE COVERS 1901-1970's, mostly good airmail rates to USA all on letter size covers, lots of registered, express, WWII censored, telegrams, book post ++, includes a 1901 Boer War censored cover, an excellent 33 cover collection of 1936-1955 airmail rates from Tanganyika to Zanzibar (worth the estimate alone), a 1937 Lisbon to Macau $1.75 airmail rate, better Australia, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Jamaica ++, retails over $3000, F-VF est ($375+ US) (Image)

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24 BRITISH EMPIRE RATES 1898-1988, includes 1898 UPU $1.00 rate from Egypt to USA, 1955 registered airmail 2d Rhodesia rate to Scotland, 1921 registered 4½d Jamaica to USA, 1941 registered 6d to USA, 1917 St-Lucia 2d rate to Canada, three different 1982-1983 Kenya registered airmail domestic rates (2sh50c-3sh80c), 1944 WWII airmail censored 30¢ rate from Trinidad to USA, four different 1985-1988 South Africa domestic registered rates (67c-96c), 1942 WWII censored 1sh4d airmail cover from Barbados to Canada, 1946 registered airmail 1sh3d rate from Barbados to USA, 1981 registered airmail $3.28 rate from Barbados to USA, also good postcard rates 1972-1991 from Fiji, New Zealand, Jamaica ++, nice lot retailing over $380, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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178 BRITISH EMPIRE QEII COVERS 1953-1980's, commercial covers with mostly airmail rates to USA and Canada, also better rates to Tristan-da-Cunha, Hong kong, Bahamas, Bermuda, KUT to Ireland, Jersey to France, North-Borneo to Puerto Rico, Tanzania to Poland, SWA to Natal, Jamaica to England, Zaire to France, Rhodesia to Chile, Kenya to England, New-Zealand registration to Japan, Tuvalu registered to England, Burma registered to Holland ++, 51 are legal size covers with a few larger noting good multiple rates, great lot retailing over $950, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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25 BRITISH EMPIRE RATES 1931-1992, includes better 1944 WWII airmail censored 26¢ rate from Trinidad to Canada, 1951 and 1955 Express airmail 16d Bahamas rates to USA, 1941 WWII censored 2½d Cyprus rate to Bermuda (scarce), a 1940 WWII censored 2d Northern Rhodesia rate to Bermuda (scarce), 1931 printed matter duty free 3c rate from Ceylon to Canada, three 1981-1982 registered 2sh50c domestic rates from Kenya, 1992 Malta domestic 20c rate, three different 1987-1988 South Africa domestic registered 16c,81c,91c rates, 1934 Bahamas 6d airmail to USA, 1989 Ireland, 1988 Jamaica, 1977 and 1981 Hong-Kong rates ++, nice lot retailing over $360, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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