9 GREAT BRITAIN COVERS 1844-1867, all better up to $150 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes an 1844 stationery 1d folded letter on Mulready silk thread paper, 1854 Glasgow 2d double rate to Wick with a #10 franking, 1857 Westminster Fire Office advertising, 1863 registered, 1876 Bernard Distillery advertising (Leith), 1866 registered to Jersey, and an 1867 Norwich double 2d rate with a #29 (pl-9) franking, listed retail price $920, VF est ($200+ US) (Image)

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42 GREAT-BRITAIN & EMPIRE COVERS 1849-2004 (some cards), includes 3 Great Britain #3 franked covers noting an 1849 cover from Isle-of-Wight to Birmingham, a #33 (pl-191) cover, 2 are KGV covers noting 1938 private order stationery, 2 KGVI covers, and 3 QEII covers, British Empire items include better 1900 Straits Settlements 8c rate to USA, 1955 Book Post India to USA, 1969 Virgin Islands 10¢ airmail to USA, 1960 Bahrain 1R airmail to USA, 2004 Hong-Kong registered airmail $18.10 rate to USA, 9 New-Zealand mint postal stationery items including wrappers, registered envelopes, letter sheets, and Aerogrammes, mint Bahamas postal cards, 1994 Nassau registered to USA, 8 nice 1947-1965 FDC's from Tonga, Southern Rhodesia, Malaya, Jamaica ++, retails over $300, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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7 GREAT BRITAIN & EMPIRE COVERS 1877-1940, all better noting 1877 and 1880 Great Britain rates to France, a 1903 Transvaal letter sheet to Germany, a 1910 Cape of Good Hope postal card to Belgium, a 1902 India post card to Indo-China, a 1903 New-South-Wales letter sheet from a remote Western Australia telegraph camp to Parramatta-NSW via Garah-NSW and Moree-NSW, a 1940 WWII around the world cover from Melbourne to an Empress of Japan passenger at Freemantle, missed the sailing and forwarded to Victoria-BC via British Navy ship to England and regular surface mail to Victoria noting "Not on Board Empress of Japan" handstamp (a rarity), retails over $440, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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8 GREAT BRITAIN RATE COVERS & CARDS 1882-1899, all better up to $125 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes an 1883 registered 4½d rate to Norway, an 1883 UPU 2½d rate from the BPO-Constantinople to USA, 1887 UPU 2½d rate to Syria with a BPO-Berout transit, 1890 Newspaper wrapper ½d rate to USA, 1894 Empire postal card rate to Australia, 1882 UPU postal card rate to Switzerland, 1887 Empire postal card rate to Nova-Scotia, 1899 registered Empire 4d double rate to Canada, listed retail price $475, VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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40 GREAT BRITAIN QEII RATES 1954-1967, all better Wilding Issues with up to $50 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes good airmail rates to West Australia, Lebanon, Canada (x5), USA (x5) ++, also note 20 GPO handling charge receipts, a 1964 Highland Games commemorative cancel, 2 FDC's ++, listed retail price $300, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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430 GREAT BRITAIN COLORANO SILK FDC STOCK 1974-1987, includes #715-1183 mostly with set frankings and 1-3 of each, retails over $1200, VF est ($150+ US) (Image)

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475 BRITISH ISLES COLORANO SILK FDC's 1979-1986, includes mostly set frankings for Jersey #202-403 (x220), Isle of Man #142-317 (x200), Guernsey #189-278 (x38), Ireland #400-536 (x38), a few duplicates, retails over $700, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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