British Commonwealth The Devick Correspondence Find - Registered Covers to British Columbia, 1934-1937, with 21 covers (mostly O.H.M.S.) mailed to the Devick family in Haffley Creek, British Columbia. All of the covers are registered and franked with a colourful array of different KGVI issues, mailed from a good variety of mostly better countries. There is also an important variety of postmarks, including despatch, transits, RPOs, receivers, instructional, etc. Many have creases or other faults, still overall fine for such a group. Scans show a sampling, including some of the various postmarks on back. A rare opportunity to own new-to-the-market material. (Image)

Est $ 200

British Commonwealth Collection of 68 Mostly 1937 Coronation First Day Covers, includes 44 first day covers with Crown over a circle fancy Coronation cachets, including 6 registered, plus other first days without cachets. Also note 4 Canadian Royal Visit covers and some other odds and ends. Overall condition is very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Burma / Myanmar Accumulation of About 750 Covers in a Large Carton, 1920s to 2006, all in 6 shoe boxes, includes early Burma postal stationery from the 1920s-on, plus modern Myanmar postal stationery from the 1990s. Also lots of registered covers to Canada from the 1990s and a collection of mostly unused postal stationery air letters. Includes "The Postal Stationery of Burma & Myanmar 1948-1997" by Richard Warren (1998), plus two more recent supplements. 1920s material mostly with rough openings and the more modern material is in mixed condition. (Image)

Est $ 150

Cuba Group of About 200 Covers and Cards, 1819-1967, includes an 1819 letter datelined Havana, censored mail from both World Wars, postal stationery, first day covers, first flights, rocket mail, picture post cards, air mail covers, registered covers, an 1847 "by favour" stampless cover from Havana to London. Mailed mostly to the USA and Canada but also noted mail to Colombia and Bulgaria. Some have faults, still overall fine to very fine, with many very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Czechoslovakia Large Lot of About 5,500 First Day Covers, 1940s to 1990s, all appear to be unaddressed, with singles and sets, and of different formats with very few larger sized ones. Also there does not appear to be much duplication, but difficult to assess in such a large lot. Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 400

Czechoslovakia Lot of About 800 Covers, Cards, etc., 1940s to 1990s, with a good variety of material, including first day covers (mostly addressed and mailed), commercial mail (mostly all mailed to Canada, including many registered), picture postcards, some first day of issue cards, maxi-cards, and more, and also includes some covers from Germany, Estonia and a few other countries. Mixed condition but overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 200

Germany Collection of 244 Covers and Cards in Two Binders, 1890s to WWII, the smaller binder has 90 unused postal stationery card which include 37 Third Reich era postal cards. The larger binder has 154 covers and cards, with the majority being Third Reich era material which include military mail, some registered and lots of propaganda postcards. Also noted meter mail, registered covers, "Danzig is German" cards, etc. Overall fine to very fine, see scans for a small taste. (Image)

Est $ 500

Germany Collection of 315 World War II Military Feldpost Covers and Cards, with over half of the collection being registered covers. Also note S.S. Feldpost covers, prisoner of war mail, postcards, etc. Has a great variety of Feldpost numbers and overall condition is very fine, considering the time period and conditions these originate from. (Image)

Est $ 300

Germany Group of About 600 Third Reich Era Covers and Cards, 1933-1945, including censored trans-Atlantic covers to the USA early in the War, propaganda postal cards, Bremen sea post mail, travelling post offices, meter mail, mourning covers, other censored mail, occupied territories mail Ostland & Bohemia & Moravia. Condition is mixed but saw many very fine items. Photos only show a small portion of this interesting and desirable lot. (Image)

Est $ 500

Great Britain Collection of Postmarks on Stamps, Queen Victoria to King Edward VII, in a 32 page stockbook, starting off with a strong showing of numeral duplex cancels on about 16 pages, followed by c.d.s. town cancels and a few others, with a total of over 1,500 stamps. Great lot for the specialist, see sample photos online. (Image)

Est $ 100

Great Britain Collection of Stamford Mercury Cancelled to Order Covers and Wrappers, with 25 items on quadrille pages in a Plymouth album. The Stamford Mercury was a newspaper publisher who were allowed to use their own precancel, made in the form of a "hooded circle". This collection is arranged chronologically from 1944 to 1974. 7 of the items have addresses on them, and all items appear to be different in some way. We note an error of colour cut square, where the ½p blue was printed in turquoise. Very fine, an interesting collection, great start for expansion, see scans for an idea. (Image)

Est $ 100

Great Britain Accumulation of About 270 Covers and Cards, 1840s to Modern, includes 28 used and unused air letters, 50-plus picture post cards from the 1910s to 1920s which include 5 postage due cards (2 with US postage due stamps) and a card to a soldier in India with numerous date stamps as they tried to find him. Also 26x 1d red franked covers with 19 imperforate and 7 perforated stamps. Two of the imperforate covers with major faults. Also 80+ other covers including Swift Air, registered, postage due, postal stationery cut squares on regular covers, paquebot mail, return to sender handstamp covers, mourning covers and foreign destination covers including to Canada, USA, Argentina, Sweden, Spain, India and Germany. A group of 30 WWII censored covers with various tapes and censor handstamps and a group of about 14 WWI covers (some fronts) with various censor or other War-related interesting postmarks. Mixed condition, with many very fine and also includes a number of cover fronts not counted. (Image)

Est $ 400

Great Britain Collection of 330 First Day Covers Filling a Banker's Box, 1960s to 2000s, the covers are in 5 binders (plus one extra empty binder), as well as some loose. Note many better, including booklet pane covers, coin covers, P.N.C. covers, signed covers by Arnold Machin, Richard Meade, Betty Booth Royd M.P., Jenny Agutter, George Best and Sir Stanley Matthews. Nice clean group with most from the 1980s and 1990s with at least a dozen mailed to Bermuda. Some have minor edge creases, still overall very fine with a high Gibbons catalogue value. (Image)

Est $ 300

Great Britain Accumulation of 530 Private Perfin Covers and Cards, 1895 to Machins, includes a mourning cover, registered mail, post cards, printed matter rates, World War I and II censored covers, trans-Atlantic mail, and more. Includes fronts and on piece, not included in our count. Mixed condition, still not often encountered. (Image)

Est $ 200

Great Britain Box of Over 1,000 Covers and Cards, 1835-1980s, includes censored material from both World Wars, military mail including naval, used and unused postal stationery cards and envelopes, as well as P.T.P.O. items, air letters, picture postcards, mourning covers, stampless covers, Edward VIII covers and a good quantity of squared circle covers (although 50% of these are fronts). Mixed condition, especially the earlier material and inspection is recommended as there is a great variety of material here. (Image)

Est $ 500

Great Britain Group of 285 Covers and Cards, 1843-1987, mostly 1960s and on FDCs, with a good mix of private and G.P.O. cachets. Note 1965 Post Office tower & International Telecommunication Union phosphor tagged covers, also a few more without cachets. Also includes a Maltese Cross cancel on a postal stationery envelope, squared circle postmarks, postage due covers, hovercraft mail, PHQ cards and 1953 Coronation Flight covers to Norfolk Island and Cocos Islands, both with receiver back stamps. Overall condition is very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Great Britain Group of Over 140 Covers and Cards, 1840-1992, includes early stampless, a #28 with a straight edge on cover (Scott value on cover is $425), a 1904 Royal Mint cover, postal stationery that includes a 6d parcel label, wrappers, postal cards, etc. Also World War II censor covers, commercial mail from the Victorian to Elizabethan eras. Note mail to Douglas Hurd and Sir Geoffrey Howe when at the Foreign Office, also a few first days and other interesting items. Mixed condition, especially earlier material, still many are very fine. (Image)

Est $ 200

Great Britain Collection of About 700 First Day Covers, 1937-2018, mostly more modern British Post Office covers, often with 2 of each. Virtually all are commemorative issue covers. Includes a binder with 59 Fleetwood covers, plus others loose from the 1990s. Also note 24 covers with the Queen's 1977 Silver Jubilee Tour, all from different towns / cities. Also a few Lundy and Channel Island covers. Some with edge stains or other minor stains, still overall very fine. (Image)

Est $ 300

Great Britain Collection of About 1,200 P.H.Q. Cards, 1978-2004, all without stamps except for about 10 cards with matching stamp. Also includes 6 Guernsey cards with stamps. Note a few minor edge faults, still a very fine group with minor duplication of some. (Image)

Est $ 150

Guadeloupe 1872 15c Bister Imperforate on Folded Letter, franked with a very fine Yvert & Tellier #22, mailed from Petit Bourg to Pointe-a-Pitre, with "Guadeloupe / Petit-Bourg / 7 OCT. (73)" c.d.s. and boxed "P.P", back shows a next day Pointe-a-Pitre receiver (in blue), very fine. The letter inside is datelined "Trinité, le 7 Oct, 1873". Owner's write-up reads "An unusual single franking, while Petit Bourg on the east coast of Basse Terre is only a short distance from Pointe-à-Pitre it would not be considered a local posting and the normal domestic rate was 20c, a rare cover from this small town". Ex. Grabowski and Wyer collections. Rsv. $375. (Image)

Est $ 400

Hong Kong 1903 Colour Illustrated Post Card to Wolseley, Assiniboia, mailed from Shanghai on DEC.18.1903 to Wolseley, Assiniboia (JAN.9.1904 receiver on front) through Vancouver BC (JAN.6 transit). A Chinese Imperial Post card uprated with a 4c Hong Kong adhesive, the card is hand illustrated on message side with a father and daughter flying a dragon fly kite. The card has very light edge creases, still very fine and pretty. (Image)

Est $ 150

Ireland 1838 Drogheda Ireland to the United States Stampless Folded Letter, with letter inside. Has a "Ship Letter / Liverpool" 2 ring oval with crown over date handstamp on back. Maritime markings cat #E (dated) with a catalogue value of £450. Unfortunately part of the datestamp is missing due to opening. Also a Drogheda MAR.12.1838 datestamp on back, as well as a "Paid at Drogheda" "PAID / MAR.13 / 1838" 2 line square handstamp and a "New York / SHIP / APR.17" circular handstamp, all on the front. Note repaired tears on the front and some minor staining, still an interesting and early Irish cover. (Image)

S.G. £ 450

Ireland Collection of Great Britain Used in Ireland Stamps and Covers, 1832 to 1922, includes a SEP.9.1832 folded letter from Dublin to New York, via Liverpool, with New York arrival note inside indicating SEP.22. "24" rate handstamp on front in black applied in New York. Also a local Waterford cover with a GB Scott #3a, Scott #27 on a cover from Dublin to Genoa via France (cat. $200 on cover) and a pair of #82 plate 22 on a March 1882 cover to Paris (cat $95) as well as a postal stationery card to France with an Edgeworthstown #206 duplex (cat. £25). Also includes numeral cancels on pairs of Penny Reds, with #21 Auchlincloy numeral (cat. £35) and #s 32 Ballinasloe and #206 Edgeworthstown duplex cancels (cat. £25 each). We also note a North West T.P.O. Night Down cancel on cover and revenue stamps. A Sinn Fein propaganda label, and a 1907 Irish International Exhibition Dublin label. All very fine, all pages scanned online. (Image)

Est $ 200

Italy Group of 5 Earlier Covers, 1867 Turin local folded cover mailed unfranked and later taxed 10c with yellow postage due; Scott #20 on 1860 cover Milan to Hungary; Scott #20b on 1862 folded letter Turin to Annonay, France; Scott #31 on 1873 folded letter Milan to Lyon, France; 1924 registered cover from Teano to Segna, Switzerland with colourful 6 stamp franking. Covers have faults to varying degrees (mostly on back), else overall fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Netherlands Group of 158 Covers and FDC, 1940s to 1970, notable for including many complete sets including Europa, semi-postals, many were mailed to Canada, note several registered and/or airmail, and more. All of the stamps were catalogued by Scott at $1,009. Overall very fine, with a few oversize covers (see photos online). (Image)

Scott $ 1,009