1939-58 North Atlantic airmail covers collection written up on leaves mainly carried by Imperial Airways to or from GB or Ireland, with attractive cachets & frankings, includes 1939 Southampton - Foynes - Botwood, Shediac - New York, 1939 Yankee Clipper Southampton - Shediac, 1939 London - Southampton - Montreal, 1939 Shannon - New York by Caribou with large Irish cachet. Attractive lot. (19) (Image)

1913 Daily Mail Tour PPC of Henri Salmet & his aircraft unused & signed by H Salmet, 1934 May 29th Highland Airways FF Inverness - Kirkwall envelope bears Orcadian Newspaper advertising & semi official stamp. (2) (Image)

1924-54 neatly written up collection of 47 covers incl. 1928 Belfast to Liverpool, 1929 Galway to Croydon (2), 1933 GWR (2), 1933 Western Air Express, 1933 Provincial Airways (2), 1934 Highland Airways, 1934 Hillman Airways, 1935 Blackpool & West Coast Air Service, 1935 Lundy Atlantic Coast Air Services, 1936 Jersey Airways Ltd etc. incl. cachets, pilot signed, company vignettes etc. (Image)

1930's Railway Air Services Ltd collection of 79 covers on internal UK flights to different destinations with a high degree of completeness for these flights. Fine condition throughout. (Image)

1933 I.A.L first flight Croydon - Portsmouth, bears semi-official & cachet (posted arrival) only 42 flown, another but Portsmouth - Croydon only 20 flown, another but Portsmouth - Croydon 3.9.33, very late date with large oval cachet. (3) (Image)

1934 May 29th Highland Airways FF Kirkwall - Inverness official cover with semi official cover with semi official stamp & pilot signed, another but sent in opposite direction cover is illustrated advertising the Orcadian newspaper then flown onto Danzig, very unusual, 1934 Dec 1st Highland airways FF Wick - Inverness with semi official & pilot signed. (Image)

1948-51 first flight covers (5) from 1948 BEA Scillies - Penzance Airway Letter Service cachet 5d rate, believed first day of use - scarce, 1950 BEA Airway Letter Service extension Edinburgh - London, reverse bears scarce Turnhouse 5d paid cachet, another for Glasgow - London with Renfrew cachet, 1951 BEA Airway Letter Service Belfast - London 2½d KGVI Defin + 6d green BEA 6d stamp (173 flown), another but Glasgow - Stornoway (50 flown). (Image)

BRISTOL scarce framed Penny Post mark [B146] plus good example of the very uncommon B142 & B150, also Bristol & Clifton duplexes & uncommon BRISTOL/IN arrival c.d.s. (6) (Image)

LANCASHIRE 1796-1840 range of 14 covers & singles front incl. 1796 Liverpool horseshoe, 1805 Bolton mileage, 1827 oval PAID/AT/LIVERPOOL, 1837 EL from Port Louis bears framed 'INDIA LETTER/LIVERPOOL', 1837 circular 'PAID/AT/MANCHESTER' etc. (Image)

LONDON 1772-1847 collection of entires, wrappers & documents incl. 1772 from Edinburgh bearing Bishop Mark 9/DE, 1789 early letter sent from Woburn to the Chancery Office bearing s/line WOBURN, 1889 outer wrapper to the 'Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty' bearing two line BOROUGH/BRIDGE, another to the Bounty Office from Hexham, 1833 cover addressed to Lord Archbishop of York, London from Leeds etc. All covers fully annotated by vendor. (30) (Image)

LONDON miscellany incl. 1839-40 uniform 4d post pair of local letters at 1d or 2d, 1815 EL to Portugal with fine strike of the short-lived Foreign Office mark, 1911 Aerial postcard (faults) addressed to Australia etc. (10) (Image)

SOUTHERN COUNTIES interesting bundle incl. 1800 curved Isleworth, udc's of Alverstoke, Charing & Binfield, 1847 Christchurch, skeleton c.d.s. of Swanage, Sherbourne, Christchurch, Teignmouth, Canterbury mileage, Hayling Island to Malta etc. (21) (Image)

WEST COUNTRY scarce Castle Cary udc on cash-paid registered cover c1841, mileages of Ross & Highworth (Wilts), Damerham udc on re-directed 1851 cover, LONDON-ROAD RH of Cheltenham, Cheltenham s/line & circular mileages (one with letter re: Jamaica), duplexes etc. (12) (Image)

ADVERTISING QV-QEII selection of 35 advertising cards/envelopes, 19 are unused, includes J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd - manufacturers of Pure Breakfast Cocoa by appointment to the King & Queen, 1940 Dunlop Tyres, 1915 Samuel Farmer - manufacturers of unshrinkable underwear, 1915 Prices original Regina Queen Toilet Soaps, Wrights Coal Tar Soap, some pre-paid addresses incl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Harrods of London etc. Mainly fine. (Image)

ADVERTISING 1870's-1930's selection of covers or cards showing various advertisements incl. 1894 Pickard Organs, 1905 William Cooper Steam Works, 1927 Bassett Lowke (makers of models to scale), 1916 Boardmans Dep Store, 1912 Ellins Central Teas, Leeds etc. (26) (Image)

1881-1950 small collection of hand illustrated covers, mainly pen & ink with 1d lilacs, subject matter incl. Lighthouses, hangman, snake, cup & spoon, Toff in dinner jacket holding a drink etc. mixed condition. (14) (Image)

1840 wrapper from Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France to Edinburgh, prepaid in cash with red Maltese Cross applied on arrival, subsequently crossed out, dated Sunday 31st May 1840, right side with vertical crease. Unusual & rare date. (Image)

1858 envelope from Guernsey to Hong Kong franked 6d lilac (SG. 68) tied fine Guernsey duplex, reverse with London transit & fine Hong Kong receiving cds. (Image)

1867 registered cover from London to New York, franked 4d Pl.9 (SG.94) & 2s blue (SG.118) - both wing margin examples, tied 'LS/EC' barred oval obliterators & alongside in red circular 'N.York B. Pkt PAID' mark, circular London registration c.d.s, cover has vertical crease (through 2s value). (Image)

BOX containing accumulation of approx 217 items with strength in Victorian stationery but all periods included. Viewing required. (Image)

MILEAGE MARKS pre-stamp covers with mileages incl. circular Bodmin, Camelford, Lancaster and Lymington, s/line Ross, Dunlavin, Linton, Wells, St. Neots, Woburn & Hungerford. (11) (Image)

MISCELLANEOUS ACCUMULATION of approx 550 items of postal history QV-QEII, many common, odd better items included. Mixed condition, viewing recommended. (Image)

MISCELLANEOUS covers, stationery, telegraphs etc. housed in a flat box (approx 90+ items) + a few stamps, also incl. O.H.M.S, special postmarks, coin covers, air letters, postage dues, registered mail, receipts, meter mail, customs declaration forms, House of Commons envelopes etc, a few non-GB items of postal stationery included. (Image)

VARIED ACCUMULATION in three albums (approx 200 items) incl. Free Frank Fronts, 1841 1d covers, Perf 1d red covers, 1d lilac covers, items of stationery, censored, 1911 Coronation Aerial postcard, slogan pmks, official mail, undelivered mail, meter marks, registered mail, P.O Telegraphs, a few items of non-GB plus some ephemera. (Image)

1648 (Dec 1) Indenture concerning a house & land, agreed between Samuel Bridger of Gloucester, gentleman, and Edward Harold, Carpenter, and his wife Margery, of Dursley. Although written after the capture of Charles I and just two months before his execution the document begins 'in the twenty four years of the Rayne of our Soverayne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the Fayth.' (Image)