Group of 24 BNA Forgeries, best items include a vertical strip of six different Oneglia Newfoundland pence, fine but stain on center stamp, Spiro Newfoundland 3d triangle, with colour changeling genuine to compare, PEI Taylor 4p with mouth missing. Includes 2 New Brunswick, 10 Newfoundland (1 genuine), 8 Nova Scotia and 4 PEI, with a genuine 4p. Very useful reference material. A few faults but mostly fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

1948 First Issue Set of Berlin on Two Registered Covers, with both covers franked with a complete set, missing the 6pf, but with an extra 2pf value. Mailed Charlottenburg on OCT.10.1948 and OCT.19.1948 and both addressed to New York, with receivers on back. Both covers are signed in pencil by expert Bloch, and very fine. Catalogue value is for used stamps only. (Image)

Scott $ 1,836

1949 Offering Plate and Berlin Bear Semi-Postal Set, with one souvenir sheet and one set of singles, each cancelled onto two attractive and unaddressed picture post cards, each cancelled in Berlin on DEC.10.1949 (for 9NB1-3) and APR.9.1951 (for 9NB3a). Very fine. (Image)

Scott $ 1,910

1948 Silver Wedding Issue Covers, with 26 covers addressed to the same person in Montreal, from many different countries, mostly franked with blocks of four or six, one has a single, one has two singles and one has a pair of the low value Silver Wedding issues. We note some registered, some mailed on the first day of issue, etc. We note a block of four Hong Kong 10c values. Mostly very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Nice Group of Postal History Items, 1860s to 1910s, from Bavaria, Prussia and Wurttenburg, noting royalty / patriotic, early stationery covers and cards, a registered cover, a group of items which appear to be registration receipts from the 1830s to 1860s, etc. Overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 100

Banker's Box Full of Covers, from Germany, DDR and Berlin. Some early German covers but most (mostly Berlin) are from the 1960s and 1970s. DDR has an extensive range from the 1950s to the 1980s. Lots of souvenir sheets and sheetlets on cover, topicals, destinations, rates and a little duplication. Overall very fine and about 90% are European size. (Image)

Est $ 200

Large Carton with Thousands of Covers, plus postal stationery from the 1870s tot he 1940s. Includes Bavaria, some stamps (notably Hanover), labels (see scan for a "Lost Colonies" souvenir which includes the very scarce one), censored, Hitler post cards, sea post, railway cancels, and more, with lots of opportunity for cancel or rate finds. (Image)

Est $ 300

1935 British Forces in Egypt Cover, mailed from Alexandria Egypt (with a lovely machine cancel dated NOV.27.1935) and addressed to Bournemouth, England. Franked with a 1p bright carmine Scott #M8 (ideally tied by the machine cancel) on a cover with a blue "4 FTS Royal Air Force" logo on its backflap. There are three more cancels, including a Port Said c.d.s., a faint censor in purple and another unidentifiable. Horizontal cease and opening tears, but a scarcely offered item. (Image)

Est $ 100

First Day Cover Selection, 1940 to 1973 with mostly private cachets. Includes about 100 covers with better such as 1967 Chichester with "Ship Through Port of London" slogan which catalogues £115 in Booth and 1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games with Cardiff Games Slogan (cat. £80 in Booth). Cachets are all different, all addressed but majority with printed or typed addresses and all very fine. A nice lot. (Image)

Booth £ 1,400

Group of 25 Trans-Atlantic Covers from 1870s and 1880s, mostly all addressed to Prince Edward island and a few to New Brunswick, includes 19 covers franked with #33 (mostly with three copies, including some pairs), one has a missing stamp and one has an added #58. We note two #49 Plate 6 and three #67 frankings including a Plate 10. Several are mourning covers and several are roughly opened. Also a nice lot to study the various postmarks and routes. (Image)

Est $ 250

1846 Cover to New Brunswick, franked with six copies of #4, being a single, a pair and a strip of three (Scott Specialized cat for stamps alone in these configurations is $600, and much more on cover). Mailed from Port Arlington (lovely blue c.d.s. dated MAY.12.1846 on front) to St Johns (with receiver dated JU?) and two transit datestamps MY 13 and MY 14. There is also a black straightline 'MORE TO PAY" on front, beside a fancy "2" due marking. A very clean and attractive cover. (Image)

Est $ 150

1938 Incoming and Returned Cover, being a 3½d KGV stationery cover mailed from Newport Wales to G.P.O. Tibet and returned to England with manuscript "no such person at Tibet", two Gyantse datestamps (MAR.6 and MAR.10), handstamped to be returned to sender at the address shown on cover" and "undelivered for reasons stated". Then sent to the Calcutta D.L.O. with boxed receivers used there, sent to Bombay D.L.O. and arrived there on MAR.18. A much travelled and exciting piece of postal history not often seen. (Image)

Est $ 250

Circa 1955 5 Trangka Rate Bisect Cover, bearing a 4 Trangka apple green (circa 1955) and a bisected 2 trangka properly tied by a fine Gyantse Type VIII datestamp. This native registered cover is addressed in Tibetan script, which is unusual, as Waterfall records that all but two bisect covers were mailed by Nepalese. Fine wax seal in black, very scarce and attractive. (Image)

Est $ 250

1906 Multi Coloured Picture Post Card, 1d printed stamp design is of the breadfruit tree. Card is addressed to England and has been redirected. Liverpool squared circle receiver on front. Some minor edge faults. Picture side is of Blow Holes, Houma, Tonga. (Image)

Est $ 100

Box Full of First Day Covers, with about 1,000 in all, from the 1950s to 1990s and there is duplication but the covers are mostly all clean and primarily unaddressed.

Est $ 100

A Few Hundred Covers in a Box, predominantly FDC from British Commonwealth countries, from the 1940s and many are addressed to Montreal. Also includes a few other various worldwide covers and cards and a few books on topical collecting (marine mammals and ships on stamps). Overall fine ort better, with many different sizes of covers included. (Image)

Est $ 100

Large Heavy Carton Full of Worldwide First Day Covers, in albums, note the 1981 Charles and Diana wedding, two large albums titled "1st Day Covers of the World", other presentation cover albums with value in such items as France #1100, East Germany #263, Germany and Berlin semi-postals, Russia #2534, etc. Inspect.

Est $ 100

Hundreds of Covers in a Small Box, 1950s and 60s, emphasis is on Middle East, note Jordan #436 souvenir sheet on cover, Lebanon #C285a souvenir sheet on cover, Africa (for example 18 covers from Ethiopia) and other exotic places, many addressed to Switzerland, many airmail. Overall nice quality. (Image)

Est $ 100