CHARLES WHITING - THE RED & BLACK "POST/1/PENNY/OFFICE" POSTAGE STAMP ESSAY; mainly fine Whiting Postage Stamp Essay in Black & Red (Graveson type 10, slightly cut into top right) on thin white paper with very close margins (as usual for the early Essays rather than the later wide-margined reprints). (Image)

WHITING 'ESSAYS': A small group (some taken from publications) inc. a single 1840 embossed oval essay (type E7 in black) concentric machine tooled rings, no wording; 1840 red & black cut-out ex London & Westminster Review article by Henry Cole "POST/V 1D R/PAID/BEUFORT/HOUSE" section from a larger strip; 1848 Art Journal page (foxed with faults) showing 4 machine tooled engraved designs; and a single blue & white cut-out on card "A 3/PRINCIPLE SUGGESTED/BEUFORT HOUSE/C W" similar to that found on the previous item. (4 items) (Image)

JAMES BOGARDUS & HENRY COFFIN QUEEN'S SILHOUETTE HEAD DESIGN - 1929 'ROYAL' REPRINT IN RED: 1929 "Royal" reprint in red on white paper (fine - some marks on paper, design unaffected) of this very stamp-like design, produced from the original Bogardus/Coffin brass die found among Rowland Hill's papers in the 1920s; printed in a very small quantity for King George V and a few other notable philatelists. The brass die for this Essay is still held in the Queen's Philatelic Collection. [Similar type sold in Cavendish sale 746, Jan 2012: Lot 22 £260]. (Image)

JAMES BOGARDUS & HENRY COFFIN QUEEN'S SILHOUETTE HEAD DESIGN - 1929 'ROYAL' REPRINT IN DARK BROWN: 1929 "Royal" reprint in dark brown on white paper (very fine - some hingeing on reverse) of this very stamp-like design, produced from the original Bogardus/Coffin brass die found among Rowland Hill's papers in the 1920s; printed in a very small quantity for King George V and a few other notable philatelists. The brass die for this Essay is still held in the Queen's Philatelic Collection. [Similar one sold in Cavendish sale 746, Jan 2012: Lot 23 £300]. (Image)

JAMES BOGARDUS & HENRY COFFIN QUEEN'S SILHOUETTE HEAD DESIGN - 1929 'ROYAL' REPRINT IN BROWN: 1929 "Royal" reprint in dark brown on white paper (very fine, some hingeing & a smaller cutout than the others) of this very stamp-like design, produced from the original Bogardus/Coffin brass die found among Rowland Hill's papers in the 1920s; printed in a very small quantity for King George V and a few other notable philatelists. The brass die for this Essay is still held in the Queen's Philatelic Collection. (Image)