SCOTLAND continued... SCOTLAND continued... Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 651 St Kilda. 1963-2000 Covers and cards (52), and local stamps (180) including proofs and varieties, also four pages with original artwork for 1968 Birds issue stamps by Jennifer Toombs, all in an album. (230+). Est. £200-250 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 652 Islands. 1747-1936 Entire letters, covers and cards including Iona, Mull, Bute, Posted at Ettrick Bay cachets (2), etc. (53). Est. £120-150 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 653 Balmoral Castle. 1866-1999 Covers and cards including large Balmoral Castle c.d.s (9, with early 1903 use on card cancelled at Ballater, "90" for "09" year error), smaller c.d.s (7, one registered), 1999 Court Post Office c.d.s, also 1955 Abergeldie Castle skeleton (2), etc. (30). Est. £100-120 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 654 Abergeldie Castle. 1955 (Aug 20) Covers cancelled by the "ABERGELDIE CASTLE / ABERDEEN" skeleton datestamp, used at the temporary post office open for 2 hours on this one day during a fete to raise money for Crathie Church, one cover registered bearing registration label no. 7 with typed inscription "Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeen". Also a contemporary news cutting about the fete. The registered cover very scarce, just eight registered covers believed to have been posted. (2). Photo on Page 86. (Image1) Est. £120-150 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 655 T.P.Os/Railways. 1857-1959 Covers and cards, also two way bills, with T.P.O handstamps including 1890 cover with Caledonian T.P.O c.d.s and "P" in a star, "C.R", circular framed "C.R / F", "C.R / P.O", "C / R.P.O / FD", "C&G / R.P.O", "L.C / R", also two railway letters and a few railway stamps, a few R.S.O and station cancels, etc. (96). Est. £250-300 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 656 Exhibitions & Special Events. 1901-67 Covers and cards, picture postcards and labels including 1908 and 1911 woven silk postcards, 1911 Glasgow Exhibition season ticket, 1937 Alloa Showyard skeleton on registered cover, many 1938 Glasgow Exhibition cards, 1942-59 skeleton cancels for Church of Scotland Assembly (6) or Royal Highland Show (8), 1949 Glasgow Kelvin Hall skeleton on registered cover, etc. (c.200). Est. £200-300 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 657 Air Mails - Lanark. 1910 (Aug 10) Picture postcard franked KEVII ½d cancelled by "LANARK / GRAND STAND" c.d.s, used at the Scottish International Aviation Meeting (the second air show held in G.B), fine and scarce. Est. £100-150 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 658 Air Mails - Lanark. 1910 Lanark Aviation Week, giant sized (302x243mm) picture postcard published by the Daily News, posted from Lanark (Aug 10) to Southport franked ½d. A rare card, especially postally used and in such fine condition. Est. £150-200 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 659 Air Mails. 1929-99 Covers and cards, also some labels and ephemera, the display collection well written up on pages with additional items, including internal flights by Highland Airways, R.A.S, Hillman Airways, Aberdeen Airways, Scottish Airways, N.E Airways, B.E.A and British Airways, 1937 Christmas flight to Fair Isle, WW2 flights to Scandinavia, use of airway letter stamps, scarce WW2 Air Ministry flights to R.A.F units in the Western Isles (8), 1934 Scarp Rocket Post, pilot signed covers, etc., a good lot. (190). Est. £500-600 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 660 Forces Mail & Censorship. 1902-45 Covers and cards including camp cancels (21) with skeletons of Kinross, Doonfoot, Townfoot and Buddon; 1916 cover with Scottish National Red Cross Hospital Bellahouston cachet; WW1 naval mail with defaced Lerwick numeral cancel (2); WW2 censors on civilian and forces mail, etc. (52). Est. £100-120 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 661 P.O.W Mail - WW1 & WW2. First World War P.O.W covers from Stobs Camp (16, two stamped covers with named censor cachets), and postcards of German P.O.Ws at Raasay (5); 1943-49 WW2 covers, cards and lettersheets (138) from 35 different camps, the well written up collection on pages, including items from Polish and Yugoslav P.O.Ws, a few ingoing items, etc. (159). Est. £400-500 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. Ship Letters & Maritime Mail Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 662 1838 (July 25) Entire from Edinburgh to London, endorsed "by steam" and prepaid the 8d ship letter rate, carried on the S.S "Royal Victoria" from Leith with red "PAID at EDIN" and oval "PAID SHIP LETTER / LONDON" datestamps. Not known in London with various endorsements, redirected to Cheltenham and then Staines with a final charge of 1/6, seven London backstamps, also endorsed "Came here unsealed T.P.P.O" with an official wax seal. Scarce, ship letters between British ports only became legal on 1835. Photo on Page 86. (Image1) Est. £120-150 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 663 1839 (June 1) Entire letter from London to Aberdeen endorsed "pr Aberdeen Steam Ship Jun 1" prepaid the 8d ship letter rate, "TP / Curzon St" handstamp with red "SHIP LETTER / LONDON" backstamp. Fine and scarce, carried entirely by ship so exempt from the Scottish additional ½d charge. Est. £100-120 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 664 Campbelton. 1830 (Mar 27) Entire letter from Edinburgh to Campbelton, charged 11d with "Add / ½" handstamp and "CAMPBELTON / STEAM BOAT", small part back flap missing, otherwise a fine example of this scarce handstamp, illustrated in Robertson. Photo on Page 86. (Image1) Est. £180-240 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 665 Campbelton. 1830 (Apr 10) Entire to London marked "1½oz" and charged 7/6½, with superb "CAMPBELTON / STEAM BOAT" handstamp. Fine and scarce, used on letters to and from Campbelton conveyed by sea to Ayr, Greenock or Glasgow (for which ships  masters were paid 2d per letter), only recorded 1830-31. Est. £180-240 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 666 Glasgow. 1833-47 Entire letters (2) and entires (2) with oval "Ship Letter / (crown) / GLASGOW" (2, Rob. S1), or boxed "GLASGOW / SHIP LETTER" with date (S3) or without date (S4), all fine. (4). Est. £200-250 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 667 Glasgow - Packet Letters. 1861-90 Covers from Canada with dated unframed "GLASGOW PACKET / COL. PAID" in blue or "GLASGOW PACKET / PAID" (3), oval "PACKET LETTER / GLASGOW" datestamp (2, one from U.S.A) or "PAID / GLASGOW / PACKET" c.d.s, also three later Glasgow or Grangemouth Paquebots. (10). Est. £120-140 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 668 Glasgow - Packet Letters. 1868-71 Cover and entire letter from San Francisco to Scotland, the large 1871 cover unusually franked 1868 12c + 1870 6c with unframed "GLASGOW / PACKET / PAID" datestamp; the unpaid 1868 letter with unframed "GLASGOW PACKET / UNPAID" datestamp, "6" handstamp obliterated by Edinburgh duplex, charged 1/-. (2). Est. £120-150 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 669 Greenock. c.1778-1847 Entire letters with Greenock Ship Letter handstamps comprising types S1, 3, 8, 9, 12 (12), 13 (3, one in blue), 14, letters from St. Vincent, Demerara (3), Antigua, Jamaica, etc. (10). Est. £200-240 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 670 Greenock. 1802-07 Entire letter from U.S.A and an entire endorsed "pr ship Fanny via Greenock" with oval "Ship Lre / (crown) / GREENOCK" in black (S5) or "Ship Letter / (crown) / GREENOCK" in red (S4), both fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 92. (Image1) Est. £180-220 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 671 Greenock - India Letters. 1835-36 Entire letters, the first from Agra to Edinburgh with fine boxed "GREENOCK / INDIA SHIP LR" (In1), "1" local post charge applied upon arrival, Calcutta G.P.O Ship Letter backstamps; 1836 letter to London with Colombo Post Paid datestamp (June 24) and red boxed "INDIA LETTER / GREENOCK" (In 3), endorsed "p. Overland Mail via Bombay", London arrival c.d.s (Aug 17, a transit time of just 54 days), file folds. (2). Est. £200-250 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 672 Greenock. 1838 (July 7) Entire letter from Montreal to Glasgow sent on the brig "Isabella", found enclosed within another letter and sent to the Dead Letter Office in London, finally posted a month later. Endorsed "DLO 11/8/38, Taken out of a Greenock ship letter addressed to Capt. James C. Murray R.N Glasgow & refused", charged 1/3½, with London and Glasgow backstamps, very unusual. Photo on Page 92. (Image1) Est. £150-180 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 673 Leith. 1836 (May 18) Entire letter from Leith to Kirkwall "p. George Canning" with fine blue oval "SHIP LETTER / LEITH" with date (S6). Photo on Page 92. (Image1) Est. £150-180 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 674 Leith. 1838 (Nov 10) Entire letter from Hamburg to Penicuick endorsed "per Leith Steamer", Schiffs Briefpost Hamburg datestamp and superb blue oval "SHIP LETTER / 15 No 1838 / LEITH" (S6) and matching "Add1/½". Photo on Page 92. (Image1) Est. £150-180 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. 675 Leith. 1840 Entire letter from Hamburg to Edinburgh "pr Leith Steamer City of Hamburg" with Hamburg Schiffs Brief datestamp and blue "LEITH / SHIP LETTER" (S5), file folds, otherwise fine. Est. £100-120 Closing..May-07, 02:00 AM EST. Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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