c.1800-1950s Covers and cards (19), also a few stamps, pieces and ephemera, including 1946 O.A.S cover from H.M.S "Indomitable" to South Africa with violet "BRITISH FLEET MAIL / 23" c.d.s used at Aden (not seen by Proud), 1915 stampless picture postcard from India to South Africa with violet "Service of Prisoners of War / Colonel / Supt. Civil Camp, Belgaum" and "PASSED / CENSOR BELGAUM", G.B 1850 piece bearing a large wafer seal "SINCE THE FLIGHT OF THE / POPE FROM ROME / 70,000 COPIES / of the BIBLE have been sold in / that City / - Gardeners Chronicle" (one other example recorded, illustrated on page 69 of "British Wafer Seals" by Champness & Trapnell), Rhodesia 1d Double Head with T.P.O Down c.d.s, etc. (24+).

c.1860-2000 Covers, a large quantity with many 1960's FDCs and commercial covers from smaller British Commonwealth countries, G.B, etc., some useful earlier items including Pitcairn Island N.Z Postal Agency (2) and 1944 cover from Australia to Pitcairn with arrival c.d.s, WW2 censored and military mail, 1942 cover with Somaliland stamps cancelled at E.A A.P.O 62. etc. (100s).

c.1880-1980 Empire and foreign covers and cards including WW2 P.O.W covers from Australia (2), Jamaica and Libya, Denmark used in Faroe Islands, Ireland, etc., also 1882 New Year card from the Cologne Post Office. (176).

1893-1944 Covers and cards sent to or from Cecil Townsend who lived and worked in Russia prior to World War One, enlisted as a Lieutenant in the 1st Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1915 and saw service in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Italy and South Russia. Included are World War One covers and cards to Townsend in Egypt sent from Russia (36), Switzerland (5) or G.B (8), and stampless O.A.S covers and cards mostly from Townsend (45), some items with enclosed letters. Also earlier 1914-15 covers sent from or within Russia, a number from or to Issaevo in the Caucasus (59), 1918 registered weekend telegram envelope with enclosed telegram from Tehran, express covers from Italy to G.B (11), etc., condition very mixed but an interesting correspondence. (c.200).

1839-1990 Covers and cards including 1839 Ship Letter from London to Cape Colony redirected with boxed "POST PAID", Orange Free State formula stationery cards with stamps tied by shield overprints used (5), Cape 1892 1d reply card to Austria uprated 1/2d + 21/2d and 1886 cover to USA franked 1/2d + 1d + 6d, South West Africa stampless 1918 O.H.M.S rainfall report form with violet "ONDONGA" c.d.s, 1843 entire letter from Zante to Corfu, 1851 New South Wales cover franked 2d, 1980-88 South Africa or S.W.A first day covers hand illustrated in watercolour (7), 1917 G.B cover bearing "Nothing German" label, etc. Also a block of 1915 G.B. Anti-German labels, 1718 legal document on vellum from Jersey, and WW2 Safe Conduct Pass for Russians serving in the German army who wish to desert. (50).

Scandinavia. 1879 Covers to Lower Ince, Wigan, one from Sweden with a fine advert for the Grand Hotel, Stockholm, on the reverse depicting the hotel and harbour, bearing 20ore tied "PKXP No 34" c.d.s, the other from Norway bearing 1877 3ore, 5ore and 12ore tied "BUREAU REEXPEDIANT / CHRISTIANIA" c.d.s, an attractive three colour franking. (2).

Combination Frankings. 1909-70 Covers and cards with stamps of two countries including 1909 postcard to China strangely franked Tasmania 1/2d + Australia 2d postage due; 1912-14 cards with stamps of Australia + N.S.W (3), Tasmania (2) or Victoria; 1920 cover with Colombia Scadta + Panama stamps; 1934-37 covers from Poland or Greece with Swiss stamps paying special delivery (2); 1940 cover from G.B to Sudan with Sudan 10m added to pay internal air fee; 1926 cover from Larache with Spanish Morocco stamps + Spain Air stamp; 1938 covers from Austria with Austria + Germany stamps (21) or from Sudetenland with Czechoslovakia + Germany stamps (3); uprated reply cards, etc. (43).

Combination Frankings - Poste Restante. 1924-75 Covers to Poste Restante addresses in another country, all with postage or postage due stamps applied upon arrival to pay the Poste Restante fee, including items to Argentina (2), Brazil, Bulgaria (2), Czechoslovakia, Greece (2), Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco (4), Poland, Spain (3), Turkey, Yugoslavia (2), etc. (36).