ADVERTISING RINGS - Amazing Gold Medal Award Winning Study/collection of the QV Embossed official advertising rings, seldom offered for sale in any sort of quantities. The collection must have been put together over a long period involving much painstaking research to identify the Dies. The collection of cut to shape or cut to square pieces of the three main official advertisers - W. H. Smith, Smith Elder & Co and Grindley & Co. Total of 250 between 1d and 1/-, all written up and identified, cancellations incl. Newspaper Branch, DSSF & Co, SSF & Co, TO1's & TO6's. A superb basis to work from or merge with existing study. Catalogued in Huggins & Baker (2007) at £4230. (Image)

QV material (unused) incl. scarce entire vaccination certificate, 1890 Furniss caricature Jubilee envelope with insert, good range of attractive embossed envelopes with values to 4d, wrappers, registered envelopes etc. (20) (Image)

1902-40 mainly unused stationery incl. KEVII envelopes to 4d incl. fine 3d envelope uprated to Germany, long registered envelope (1903) used in London, KGV incl. scarcer 1911 ½d reply card & newspaper wrappers, KGVI scarce 1d printed matter envelope [EP 75] etc. (29) (Image)