PRE-DECIMAL ISSUES & EARLY REGISTERED MAIL: Small group of 1920s/30s defins inc. 1937 St. Patrick high vals. mint SG 102/104 (£550), 1d coils used, plus low denomination booklet panes, etc. Also a used & unused range of Postal Stationery envs. & Registered envs. c.1940s-70s (c.90 stamps & c.50 covers) (Image)

1949-52 FIRST DAY COVER GROUP: Mostly printed envs. including 1949 Republic with 2½d pair & 3d pair on each of 2 covers plus both values on a single cover, 1949 Mangan, 1950 Holy Year and 1952 Thomas Moore (6 covers) (Image)

19th CENTURY MAIL; Small group with Dec. 1830 triangular folded EL to Clonmel with Bagnal Town mileage mark on rear and Dublin d.s. on rear, 1844 EL to Mountmellick with framed "PAID AT/TULLAMORE" h.s. on front, 1855 1d pink env. to England ex Port Arlington with blue diamond cancel and a few others. (7 covers) Cross Reference: CANCELLATIONS (Image)

1d LINE-ENGRAVED FRANKING TO USA; 10 Sep. 1861 env. (faults; opened out) to Ohio franked strip of three (2), pair (2) and singles (2) - a few with faults and all but one (Pl. 36) are Pl. 46 - tied by nine strikes of the Dublin duplex with an additional strike on the front. "21/CENTS" credit mark applied in Liverpool and a scarce "DETROIT.AM.PKT/24 PAID" transit d.s. also on front. Unusual. Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, DUBLIN CITY, 1854-65 1d REDS (Image)

IRISH QV T.P.O. COVERS - INC. RARE "KILDARE SORTING TENDER" CDS CANCEL, "CORK/T.P.O.", ETC.: 1871-1900 set inc. ½d PC ex Glasgow to Carlow cancelled with very rare fine "KILDARE SORTING TENDER/JA 20/00" cds (this example illustrated in Wilson, p. 207 - the only example recorded!); 1884 ½d PC with fine "GTSN& WN/[?]1/AU 1/84" cds; 1893 front franked strip of three ½d Jubilee tied by multitude of "G.S. & W. R.P.O./MY 12/93/UP DAY" cds's; and 1898 New South Wales 1d PC (creased) uprated ½d (missing corner) with fine "[G.]S. & W. R.P.O./JA 9/99/DOWN DAY" cds; plus others with Dublin & Belfast, Cork, Derry, Ulster, etc., T.P.O./R.P.O. cds's. (19 cards/covers) Cross Reference: RAILWAY MAIL (Image)

20TH CENTURY IRISH T.P.O. COVERS INC.WATERFORD S.T., MULLINGAR & SLIGO S.T., MIDLAND T.P.O./NIGHT, M.G.W. T.P.O./NIGHT, ETC.: 1903-37 set inc. PPC franked 1d tied by fine "WATERFORD/UP/JA 7/[??]/SORTING TENDER" cds; 1904 panoramic PPC ex Switzerland (folded) with fine "MULLINGAR & SLIGO S.T./D/22 FE" cds; 1907 env. (stamp torn off) with fine "MIDLAND T.P.O./U/FE 8/07/NIGHT" cds; 1921 env. franked pair 2d tied by fine "M.G.W. T.P.O./UP/10 OC/21/NIGHT" cds's; Dublin & Queenstown, G.S. & W., Portadown & Derry (inc. Express cover), Dublin & Wexford, etc., T.P.O. cds's. Some very scarce. Good lot. (28 cards/covers) Cross Reference: RAILWAY MAIL, EXPRESS MAIL (Image)

EIRE T.P.O.s COLLECTION: 1925-88 (mainly 1943-75) collection inc. 1925 env. franked ½d + 2d tied by fine "LONDON-HOLYHEAD T.P.O./3 AU/25/NIGHT UP" cds's; 1943 env. franked ½d + 2d tied by fine large "MUILEANNGEARR SLIGEACHL/14 AU 43/SC" skeleton cds's ("L" of "MUILEANNGEARR" inverted); 1960 env. franked 2 x ½d + 1d tied by fine large "P.O.T. ACLIATH CORCAIGH OICHE/S10S/30 IX/60" cds's with boxed "2D/TO PAY" & "POSTED WITHOUT LATE FEE" adjacent, and similar cover with "2D/TO PAY" obliterated; plus other similar examples. (80 cards/covers)Cross Reference: RAILWAY MAIL (Image)

'PRINCESS VICTORIA' IRISH SEA WRECK COVER WITH BELFAST "DAMAGED BY/SEA WATER" + P.O. LETTER; 30 Jan. 1953 env. (one flap & stamp lost in transit; understandable small stains etc.) from London (part machine cancel) to "Bangor Co. Down" in Northern Ireland with very fine purple separate loose-type "DAMAGED BY" & "SEA WATER" marks on the front. Together with Belfast PO headed letter of 1967 about the wreck stating that this purple cachet was most probably "done in Belfast". The MV Princess Victoria came to grief en route between Stranraer and Larne on the night of 31 January 1953; Hoggarth/Gwynn only record a handful of covers from this wreck and estimate that only between 10 & 19 exist. This P.O. cover and letter are ex John Woolfe (6/12/2006 lot 134; realised £350+BP). [The similar Santangelo cover (without the PO letter) realised £520+BP on 10/12/2010.] [Ex Graham Booth.] (2 items) Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, DOWN, CRASH/WRECK MAIL (Image)