FINE COLLECTION ON PAGES, MINT & USED, FDCs ETC - KGVI issues complete mint and virtually complete used, plus almost all the FDCs; includes 1938-48 Arms and 1951 Festival high value issues all in used blocks of four plus 1951 10/- additional used block of six, 1939 Arms 5/- red solo franking on 1943 censored env. to Peru, and 1951 2/6 green solo use on 1953 env. to Ontario; FDCs inc. 31 Jan. 1938 2d & 3d (SG£100), 1 May 1939 9d, 10d & 1/- all on separate covers (SG£950 for together on one cover), 26 Apr. 1948 SW (£425), 2 Oct. 1950 4d (£120). Ephemera inc. ticket to view the 1937 coronation from Negretti & Zambra's Regent St Premises, 1951 Festival of Britain season ticket etc. Clean and attractive lot. (c250 items)Cross Reference: FIRST DAY/SPECIAL EVENT COVERS (Image)

DEFINITIVES; Album of definitive issues inc. sideways and inverted wmks, plus examples of postal stationery (inc. Registered/Recorded mail, embossed stamped envs, Air Letter sheets, embossed window envs, etc.), GB stamps used abroad (Australia & Egypt), and military post (inc. Prisoner of War post, OAS covers, and KGVI issues used by Polish troops at Polish FPOs on piece with various cachets) Worth inspection. (57 covers, 57 stamps, 22 letter/postcards, 8 pieces) Cross Reference: MILITARY - WWII (Image)

1937-52 MINT, USED & FDC COLLECTION ON PAGES - useful mint defins., 1948 £1 SW (2 used, 1 mint) plus a FDC (tone spots), commems. inc. 1948 Olympics & 1949 UPU FDCs, PO training school cancelled stamps inc/ 1/- bistre block of 42, etc. Good to fine. (c200 items)Cross Reference: FIRST DAY/SPECIAL EVENT COVERS (Image)

1924 WEMBLEY COLLECTION ON PAGES - inc. 1924 Everest Expedition souvenir PC with blue label at left tied by red cachet to Huddersfield with India 1½a tied by Wembley machine cancel, FDC sent airmail to France with 1924 values plus 3d violet, 16 July 1924 PPC with Wembley machine cancel and red meter mark, range of cards with exhibition machine cancel, sample stamps inc. Waterlow types engraved in black or yellow-brown and photogravure mounted on card, etc. (c55 items)Cross Reference: 1924 WEMBLEY EXHIBITION - FDC'S ETC., 1924 WEMBLEY EXHIBITION - OTHER COVERS & HANDSTAMPS (Image)

1937-47 ½d to 2½d with inverted wmks., and 1948 RSW £1 blue corner block of four. Fine unmounted mint. (9) (Image)

1939 "ARMS" 2/6d BROWN VAR.: Superb, unmounted mint block of four showing 2 of the SG listed varieties 'mark in shield' R.1/7 (upper left stamp) and 'gashed diadem' R.2/7 (lower left stamp). SG 476, 476aa & 476ab. £580 (Image)

1939 "ARMS" 10/- DARK BLUE: Superb, unmounted mint block of four. SG 478 £1,040 (Image)

1951 HIGH VALUE SET 2/6d -£1: The four values, each in superb, unmounted mint blocks of four. SG 509/512 £400 (16) (Image)

1951 FESTIVAL HIGH VALUES FDCs - 3 May 1951 pair of envs. sent reg. and express with 2/6 green & 5/- red or with 10/- blue & £1 brown. Minor tone spots. SG509-12 £950 (for all values on one cover). (2) Cross Reference: FIRST DAY/SPECIAL EVENT COVERS, REGISTERED MAIL, EXPRESS (Image)