10c vert 40c rose oblitération Lpts 12 sur lettre d'ANVERS/21/FEVR./71 pour Montréal (Canada) avec taxation au tampon "5" pour acquité le transport de New-York au Québec. (Image)

5c vert, 10c brun rouge et 25c bleu sur enveloppe-lettre 10c en recommandé de SPA/8/MAI/1896 pour Brantfort (Canada), affranchie avec un 5c gris canadien annulé "R". (taxe territoriale ?). Seule pièce vue. (Image)

10c gris, 20c bleu (manque 1 dent) et 30c brun en paire oblitération Lpts 324 sur lettre de ST HUBERT/4/SEPT./66 avec maraque "AFFR INSUFF./324" biffé et apposition du "PD" pour Montréal (Canada). Superbe affranchissement tricolore. (Image)

10c gris X2, 20c bleu X2 et 30c brun oblitération Lpts 324 sur lettre de ST HUBERT/15/NOV./67 pour Montréal (Canada). Superbe affranchissement tricolore. (Image)

10c gris, 40c rose X2 oblitération Lpts 324 sur lettre de ST HUBERT/19/NOV./66 pour Montréal (Canada). Superbe. (Image)

1933 (29 AUG.) Round the World flight by Wolfgang von Gronau from Germany via Iceland, Canada, USA, Philippines, Dutch Indies, Ceylon and back to Germany, envelope dispatched from List (Sylt)/ Germany on July 21st and flown all around the world bearing stamps of USA, Canada, Japan, Philippines, Neth. Indies, Ceylon and India, handstamped on reverse at Friedrichshafen (10 Nov. 1932), very fine and scarce, cert. Bolaffi (Image)

1801-1984, CANADA REVENUES collection with hundreds of documents, album pages, etc, representing the work-in-progress material of a specialist collector, incl. tobacco, petroleum label, excise ?lock label?, lots of legal documents with law stamps attached, registration docs with Quebec beavers, Yukon 1903 revenues to $2 on writ of summons, Bill stamps incl. 1868 9c imprint block of ten and $2 imprint pair, etc, many beautiful eye-catching items here, please inspect (Est. ? 400/700)

AIRMAIL - NEWFOUNDLAND

1927 "Air Mail de Pinedo 1927" surcharge on 60c black tied by duplex "ST.JOHNS/MAY.20.1927" on envelope, Trepassey-Rome-London flight, very fine and very rare usage

Airmail rarity

Estimate: ? 5'000 - ? 8'000 (Image)

AIRMAIL - NEWFOUNDLAND

1927 "Air Mail de Pinedo 1927" surcharge on 60c black tied by ST.JOHN'S N'FLD MAY 20 1927 10AM pmk on enveloppe addressed to Liverpool, TREPASSEY NEWFLD MY 21/27 cds alongside, ROMA CENTRO 22 VI 1927 arrival backstamp and offset below, lot contains interesting accompanying letter from Job Brothers and Co Limited, very fine and rare.

Expertise: Bolaffi "100" certificate and Colla certificate

Estimate: ? 5'000 - ? 8'000 (Image)

JORDAN

The Joe Patient DFC Unissued Set of King Talal

1951 King Talal Coronation Issue complete unused set of five value including:

1f fil green & grey, 2 fils orange & grey, 3 fils red & grey, 20 fils purple & grey, 100 fils dark blue & grey.

This extremely rare set was originally prepared for issue during King Talal's very short reign from July 1951 to August 1952 when he abdicated, hence, the entire printing was destroyed by fire except for a handful of examples of each, the 100 fils being the rarest with apparently only a pair surviving the fire & which were poorly separated, hence, the small portion of the adjoining stamp, still attached the 100 fils in this set.

Note: An article was published in the October 2000 issue of the London Philatelist describing in detail the event surrounding the sets discovery, rarity and important to the world of philately. The text from the article is included online and with the lot.

Undoubtedly one of the rarest sets of Middle Eastern philately and of course missing from the Royal collection, truly a great rarity with a wonderful provenance and story behind it.

Joe Patient was born in London in 1917. After a variety of jobs he worked as a fitter at De Havillands on the experimental Mosquito fighter-bomber. In 1941 he volunteered and trained in Canada, and was commissioned into the Mosquito Pathfinder Squadron. Awarded a DFC for his fifth operation, he flew 59 in total. He became test pilot, instructor and Commanding Officer of "M" Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment. Operations in Palestine were followed by becoming CHief Test Pilot MEDME. After demob in 1948 he became and advisor to the Royal Egyptian Air Force, followed by GM Arab Airways in Jordan. Following other executive posts he finally completed a flying career of 32 years, piloting over 80 marks of aircraft.

He was first introduced to stamp collecting by R. T. Ledger MBE, author of the "Philatelic History of Jordan -1922-1953" and even assisted in its compilation. When King Abdulla of Jordan was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1951, his son Amir Talal succeeded, and special stamps were prepared to commemorate his accession. His was, however, to be a short and sorry reign. Blighted by continual health problems, he abdicated less than a year later. The stamps were sent to be incinerated but one way or another, both partly burnt and undamaged stamps were salvaged, many of which came into Joe Patients's possession, before selling them to the Mosden Stamp Company in the Strand in 1956. However it was through his contact with a Minister present at the burning that he was bale to purchase an example of the 100f stamp, of which only 2 were saved from the fire.

Estimate: ? 15'000 - ? 20'000 (Image)