Madelaine Smith cancels: 1) on a cover (dark green ink), 2) on a piece with three x perf 16 1d stars (black), 3) a single in black & 4) another single with blue cancel. Accompanied by a contemporary newspaper report on her trial for murder. A fascinating story. (5 items) (Start Price = £33.60)

1d rose-red (corner fault) with neat crisp partial Pearson Hill Experimental Machine cancel (second machine), with LONDON M cds of Jan 1858, g.u. (Start Price = £12.80)

1d plates with Edinburgh (2) and Glasgow Railway Sorting Tender TPO cancels, g.u. (Start Price = £8.00)

3d rose, plate 18, SB, with crisp 'K' in circle private postmark of Henry S. King & Co., London, g.u. (Start Price = £29.60)

4d sage-green, plate 15, NL, centred to NE, with good strike of 'K' in circle private postmark of Henry S. King & Co., London, v.g.u. Scarce. (Start Price = £67.20) (Image)

A selection of interesting postmarks on 1d lilacs: with ten Boer War datestamps, one on cover; Curragh Camp, A26 Malta, 'C' constantinople, Hong Kong cds sorting tenders Southampton Ship Letter(2), Bickerdyke machine cancel. An interesting ittle lot (19 items + 1 cover) (Start Price = £25.60)

PITNEY BOWES: A selection of advertising leflets for the Pitney Bowes franking machine with 9 'SPECIMEN' covers. 5 of these are trials with double/treble printing. A super lot for the specialist. ( 9 covers, 10 different advertising leaflets & one stamp magazine article) [US10] (Start Price = £32.00)