BETTER 1940s MINI SHEETS: Includes 1940 Rowland Hill u/m (tone spot bottom edge), 1940 Portuguese Centenaries u/m, 1944 Brotero Bicentenary (2 sheets, m & u), 1945 Navigators mint and 1945 Naval School u/m. Also Spain 1957 unlisted Cervantes imperf. mini sheet. Total SG cat. £815+ (7 sheets)Cross Reference: SPAIN (Image)

THREE VOLUME COLLECTION OF EARLY COLONIAL ISSUES: Mint & used collection split into 3 areas - West Africa inc. Cabo Verde, East Africa and Asian Colonies inc. India. Comprehensive coverage with many complete sets. Strength in earlier issues with values to 20 esc. or equivalent. Some strength in India & Macau. A fine collection presented in hingeless "Lindner" binders, with notes on year of issues and perf. varieties throughout. Total SG cat. value £10,500+ (though this was calculated some years ago). Approx. 2,560 stamps.Cross Reference: MACAO, INDIA (Image)

1893 2½r ESSAY/DIE PROOF FOR THE NEWSPAPER STAMP - on card in deep rose, in the issued design though prior to addition of the colony name in the diag. tablet. Signed A. Diena.Cross Reference: NEWSPAPER STAMPS, ESSAYS & PROOFS (Image)