660 GREAT-BRITAIN COVERS & CARDS 1820-1940's, includes good UPU and airmail rates to USA, Canada, and Australia, 1840 SFL prepaid 1d, 1820 unpaid SFL, 80 folded letters 1840-1852 with good contents and markings but the 1d stamps removed, lots of registered, WWII censored, 70 better 1911-1940's slogan cancels, also 80 British postcards ++, retails over $1500, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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8 GREAT-BRITAIN PENNY PINK STATIONERY ENVELOPES 1843-1859 (one letter sheet), all are early issues with silk security threads, includes an 1844 letter sheet from Stratford to Hull noting a green receiver b/s, also an 1843 envelope from London TP-DOVER-ROAD to Greenwich with pointed flap and wa seal, an 1885 envelope from EYE-287 to St-Edmons with pointed flap and wax seal, 5 envelopes with round flaps and pink embossed seals, from CORK-156 to London 1848, Couper-Angus to Edinburgh 1851, Trownbridge to Westbury-Mills 1858, Devon-Port to London 1858, and London to Birmingham 1859, scarce early stationery retailing over $200, F-VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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885 GREAT BRITAIN COVERS & CARDS 1848-1990's, includes 13 Victorian items noting 2 stampless 1848 fronts and 11 stamped covers and cards, also 180 KEVII postally used early postcards with mostly town and building views, also 100 KGV covers, 170 KGVI covers, and 422 QEII covers, includes 170 cachet FDC's, better registered, UPU and airmail rates to France and USA, 42 covers are legal size, retails over $900, F-VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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30 GREAT-BRITAIN PENNY-PINK STATIONERY ENVELOPES 1860-1902, a good collection of Victorian envelopes noting 26 on laid paper and 4 on wove, 10 different envelope sizes, white + cream + bluish paper colors, a mix of 20 pointed backflaps and 10 rounded ones, 2 with embossed albino seals, 6 with pink embossed seals, 12 with no seals, 11 have private embossed seals including the London Bank, Imperial Bank, Lancaster Bank, Robert Fuller, Freeth & Pocock, House of Commons ++, a great specialist lot with almost all different covers, retails over $350, F-VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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102 GREAT-BRITAIN EVENT COVERS 1952-2001, all with event cachets of special event cancels, includes stamp shows noting a nice variety of STAMPEX covers, also air shows, British Philatelic Congress meetings, Royal visits, auto races, fairs, music festivals, British submarine anniversary dates, fire brigades anniversaries, town centennial celebrations, historical event anniversaries including the Dunkirk rescue ++, retails over $500, VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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250 GREAT-BRITAIN WILDING ISSUE COVERS 1953-1967, note a wide range of better UPU, airmail, and printed matter rates to Canada, USA, Australia, Southern Rhodesia, India ++, includes registered, regional issue frankings, letter sheets, lots of slogan cancels, 1965-1967 post office handling receipts with fees paid by stamps ++, 41 are legal size and larger covers with good multiple rates, retails over $400, F-VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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143 GREAT-BRITAIN QEII STATIONERY COVERS AND CARDS 1953-1990's, mostly different rates and a few mint, includes 29 envelopes with better rates to Australia, Fiji, Malta, USA, and British Military FPO's, some postage dues, a 1958 special order window envelope for the Wakefield-Dick Oil Company ++, 22 are letter sheets 1956-1980, 77 Aerogrammes 1953-2002, 10 registered envelopes, 2 Isle-of-Man special order window envelopes ++, a great specialist lot with lots of value, retails over $620, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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980 GREAT-BRITAIN COVERS 1967-1990's, all with Machin Head and commemorative frankings, includes good airmail + printed matter + some registered rates to Australia, Canada, USA, some Channel islands ++, a fabulous range of slogan cancels, good aerogramme and letter sheet rates, a great Machin study lot completely unchecked for printing varieties, perfs, paper, and tagging, retails over $2000, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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42 GREAT-BRITAIN USED QEII REGISTERED STATIONERY 1965-1990's, note 26 different envelope types and sizes, mostly domestic rates but note a few to Australia and USA, domestic rates include 23p, 27p, 37½p, 50p, 53½p, 69p, 87p, £1.29, £1.67, and £2.57, lots of uprates on first class rate covers, retails over $380, VF est ($55+ US) (Image)

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302 GREAT BRITAIN FIRST DAY & EVENT COVERS 1970-1985, note 80 Cotswold cachet FDC's with great topical set frankings mtd in 2 deluxe cover albums, also 22 event covers with cachets or special cancels for Royalty wedding and birthdays, railroad centennials, rugby and soccer events, military anniversaries, church and school events, Lifeboat Club meetings, stamp shows ++, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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