POSTAL HISTORY: World War II mostly airmail covers to or from numerous countries including Portugal, Spain, Vichy France, Germany, Anschluss Austria, Latvia (to Ireland via Siberia Japan & America), Denmark, Sweden, Palestine, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Gibraltar, Panama, Ceylon, Burma, China (missionary's cover from Chungking "Over the Hump" with Indian stamps affixed at Bombay), etc, many consular items, most have been censored up to three times including items marked 'Exempt from Censorship', a few Service Suspended items, probably 50+ covers with various 'OAT' handstamps mostly of London, some Ulster material including to & from German POWs in the North, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. If remounted & properly written-up, this could be a terrific WWII display.  (160 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,500

POSTAL HISTORY: 1628 entire from "Killeleagh" (= Killyleagh) from 1st Viscount Claneboye & signed "Clansboyr", to his nephew requesting "some grows or moorfoull" [sic; the early spellings are a challenge], the address panel is largely legible but soiled. A very early Irish letter. [An excellent Irish collection offered in London in 2006 included only one earlier item, of 1597, that sold for £2185. The next earliest, of 1661 (33 years later than this entire), sold for £2300] The writer, James Hamilton, was a Scot who had been an agent for James VI of Scotland, reporting on the activities for & of Elizabeth I in Ireland. His reward was large tracts of land in Ulster & a peerage. In 1625, he moved from Bangor to Killyleagh Castle.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000