Cover franked with 1925 strip of three 2c green & carmine on greenish and 4c black & pale blue plus 1927 15c red & lilac and 1fr 25c blue & brown (SG 69/70, 88 & 100a) tied by multiple fine strikes of large LOLODORF cds. Addressed to USA. [US4] (Start Price = £14.40)

Cover with 'Mission Presbyterienne Americaine' imprint at top left franked with 1927 20c brown & lake and 45c chestnut & mauve (SG 90 & 92) tied by KRIBI cds with second strike alongside. Addressed to LOLODORF with arrival cds on reverse. [US4] (Start Price = £14.40)

Cover franked with strip of three 1925 5c bright violet & yellow and 2 x 25c black & yellow green (SG 71 & 75) tied by multiple fine strikes of large EBOLOVA cds. Addressed to LOLODORF with arrival cds on reverse. [US4] (Start Price = £14.40)

SIGNIFICANT British Empire/Commonwealth collection with focus upon New Zealand and territories, plus additional areas Great Britain and Islands, and general British Commonwealth offered intact as received, the product of one collector’s work and over more than 30 years collecting, this is a very substantial collection housed in some 21 boxes including (counted as boxes) a few equivalent sized large carrier bags, also noted collector’s equipment/ paraphernalia/ NZ Campbell Paterson catalogue included. Noted valuable early material (more about this follows), unusually the collection continues right through from early through to relatively recent with expensive New Issues through to 2012 and in some cases through to 2016. We note very substantial value in mint (unmounted) new issues plus FDCs to 2016 in places. Running a few of the collector stated to catalogue (STC) Stanley Gibbons catalogue values we note: New Zealand and Territories STC £63,600, Great Britain and Islands STC c.£19,000, additional material catalogued by SG Stamps of the World (SOTW) including almost exclusively British Commonwealth STC £13,000 includes Faroes at £375 – though for the purposes of auction valuation little real value has been attached to this final part of the collection. In general, the main SG catalogue value of the collection extends to c.£82,500. Addressing the more valuable / classic material we note strength in early NZ (but NOT chalons), with a high degree of completion from circa 1898 in mint onwards to 2012, the majority as per KA-BE hingless album leaves, not according to SG or Campbell Paterson (as we all know collecting NZ for the early periods (and even more modern) can extend into challenging degrees of specialisation, however to more normal collecting interest NZ must be approaching a high degree of completion if one excludes rarities. Supporting this we note most of the better sets with Christchurch, Auckland, defins etc, with ranges of ‘officials’ plus the ever important Postal Fiscals with real value here, all mint including representative (printings unchecked) £2 10 shillings probably unmounted, £3 10 shillings (light bend), £3, £4, £5 – ovpts present excluding 35/- on 35/-, also note a good used (variable perfs) £10 ovpt on £10 postal fiscal unlisted by SG (used). Additionally noted is a very strong section of the NZ defins ERRORS – with missing colours, shifts, albino ovpts, offsets, PE25b (Z) Foil-stamped overprint design error issued and recalled (one sheet known) supplied by Campbell Paterson for $1,200 NDZ. This NZ defin ERRORS section alone appears to have cost the collector in excess of $12,000 NDZ – a considerable sum and all apparently perfect unmounted mint and identified in a stockbook. As may be deduced the describer could continue extolling the virtues of this conservatively estimated collection. Please note that whilst we cannot guarantee vendor supplied catalogue values, we have no reason to doubt them. This collection only may be viewed by appointment at our offices, scans of significant areas can be supplied, verbal condition reports naturally. For a collector wishing to continue this represents an unparalleled opportunity, not to mention the high face value cost residing in areas that have barely been touched upon, or the expensive printed albums that a good proportion of the collection is contained therein. HEAVY LOT - OVERSEAS BIDDERS PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS (Start Price = £10,000.00)

Free State perf set f.u. [US4] (Start Price = £46.40) (Image)

Peoples State overprint issue imperf, variety of cancels on values to 3m but postmarks not guaranteed. (20) [US4] (Start Price = £116.80) (Image)

Peoples State set f.u. Postmarks could be cancelled to favour. [US4] (Start Price = £35.20)

King Ludwig III 7½pf green imperf block of 8 with the right hand pair tete-beche, also an interpanneau block of 8 (4 + 4), 10pf scarlet , a top marginal interpanneau block of 10 with blank X stamp at top left of both units plus a 15pf imperf block of the same format. All but one stamp unmounted. Nice lot for the specialist.(36) (Start Price = £43.20)

½sgr pale vermilion fine used, small to good margins [US2] (Start Price = £30.40)

Parcel Post 30sgr blue unused on a fragment of paper [US2] (Start Price = £26.40)

Basic set of 6 plus extras. Some faults but most are sound used. [US3] (Start Price = £54.40)

Collector's duplicates accumulation in envelopes(1,000s), generally up to three or four of each covering Germany, Third Reich, extensive Allied Occupation issues, West Germany, West Berlin, East Germany, regions inc Danzig, Saar. The collection is housed in approx 70 envelopes containing up to a few 100 stamps each with many better stamps included. Condition is generally very fine having been amassed by a German collector, bound to be 'sleepers' lurking! Recommended [US2] (Start Price = £332.00)

75 T on 300m horizontal pair on part of original letter.Neat c.d.s.'s (Start Price = £14.40)

A mint range on stock page with 3rd Reich vals incl. 1933 Welfare Fund 12pf & 20pf, 1935 Welfare Fund x 7 vals to 40pf, duplicated Summer Olypic vals to 25pf + 15pf(6), etc. post WWII West Germany odd vals incl 1951 Relief Fund 4pf & 1953 Relief Fund set of 4, etc. Clean lot with some unmounted mint (51) [US2] (Start Price = £51.20)

Winter Relief 15pf + 10pf & 40Pf + 35pf, both mint, 15pf u.m., 40pf has slight gum disturbance. Both fresh & fine [US2] (Start Price = £12.80)

2 Reichsmark on Danzig 2g black & carmine, very fine used (Start Price = £25.60)

Officials 4pf deep grye blue, 10pf carmine & 10pf vermilion(wmk horizontal), all very fine used (Start Price = £16.80)

Konigsberg Fieldpost Labels in 3 different colours [US3] (Start Price = £8.00)

Range of large shield Eagles, missing SG 21. Odd fault but most fine, fillers excluded. [US2] (Start Price = £31.20)

Small range of Eagles with SG 8 f.u. , SG 10 m.m. SG 11, SG 12 (2) , one with short perf f.u. , one with missing corner [US2] (Start Price = £37.60)

Overprints on Bavaria set f.u. [US3] (Start Price = £24.00)

Official: 10pf vermilion with vertical wmk. Very fine used (Start Price = £14.40)

Zeppelin 1m, dubious (cto?) corner cancel, very fresh, v.f.u. (Start Price = £13.60)

Welfare (scenes from Wagner operas) set of 9, very fine used [US4] (Start Price = £124.00) (Image)

Olympics set (ex. 25pf), fresh u.m. (7) [US6] (Start Price = £16.00)