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| 5299 |
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 Charles Whiting 1837 (July): Dickinson's London District Post letter-sheets printed by
Whiting, the 1 d. letter-sheet "Not to exceed One Ounce" printed in orange-brown on silk thread paper, complete and previously folded for display; and the 2 d. example "To Carry not exceeding 6 Ounces" printed in green on cream silk thread paper.
Exceptional and very scarce Gi = £ 1'850. (Image 1)
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| 5300 |
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 Charles Whiting 1840 (March): Essay No. 1 by Whiting, with the central oval 1 d. design with
extraordinarily fine quality engine-turning surround, flanked by two circular designs with "No." printed in black on thick cream wove paper, taken from the pamphlet entitled "The London and Westminster Review" dated in March 1840; these being cut
from the top of the page six designs. Rare and fine.rnrnrnrnrnrnrnrnrn (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5301 |
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 Charles Whiting 1839: 1 d. Treasury Essays (2) printed in red and black on cream wove paper,
Essay number 10 inscribed "Not to Exceed Half Ounce / 1 Penny" and Essay number 12 inscribed "Post Office Permit / To Carry Matter Not Exceeeding in Weight ½ Ounce 1 d.", each with large margins all round; together with a faked example of the second
example printed in black. Scarce and most attractive. (Image 1)
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| 5302 |
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 Charles Whiting 1840 (Feb): Embossed Queen's head cameo Essay for stamped paper by Whiting,
printed in black on white wove paper with three oval surrounds of different engine turning without PAID at top. Fresh, fine and very rare. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5303 |
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 Charles Whiting 1862/63: Embossed 'Beaufort House' cameo portraits, the reprints of the oval
"PAID" designs in grey-blue and in a rich carmine-pink shade, each with good to large margins all round and showing the 'tail' on the left of the Quen's neck. A fine and scarce pair. (Image 1)
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| 5304 |
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 Charles Whiting 1840 (Feb): Embossed Queen's head cameo Essay for a stamped pre-pad envelope
by Whiting, modified design with "PAID" at top, printed in yellow-green on white wove envelope. Superb and of extreme rarity.rnProvenance: Collection R. Folkard, Phillips, London, 26 Nov 1998, lot 58. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5305 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840: Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine turned
surround with "POSTAGE ONE PENNY" in large capital letters, Second State with the pendant curl, printed in pale blue on thick card (42 x 49 mm.) without the surround. Usual trivial soiling and wrinkle not affecting the appearance of a rare Proof
Huggins E14.rnProvenance: Collection R. Folkard, Phillips, London, 26 Nov 1998. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5306 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840: Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine turned
surround with "POSTAGE ONE PENNY" in small capital letters, First State without the pendant curl, printed in rose-pink on card (39 x 44 mm.) showing the full size of the Die. Slightest of soiling mentioned for full accuracy but very rare Huggins
E13.rnProvenance: Robson Lowe, London, 13 Dec 1973, lot 1008. (Image 1)
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| 5307 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840 (Jan): Essays (2) with embossed Wyon head within oval
engine turned surround with "POSTAGE 1D: HALF OZ: lettering on solid background at top, with a cut-out example printed in pale blue and an example in black applied to folded pink wove letter-sheet (216 x 185 mm.). The letter-sheet with some edge
staining and weak folds but very rare Huggins E11.rnrn (Image 1)
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| 5308 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840 (May): Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine
turned surround without lettering at top, Die B (28 mm. diameter) printed in black on thick card (37 x 42 mm.) with uncleared surround. Slight soiling but an Essay of considerable scarcity. Cert RPSL (1992) Huggins E15.rnProvenance: Phillips, London,
10 Sept 1992, lot 210; Phillips, London, 11 Sept 1997, lot 193. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
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| 5309 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840 (May): Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine
turned surround without lettering at top, Die A (27 mm. diameter) printed in very deep blue on thick card (35 x 37 mm.) with uncleared surround. Slight overall aging but an Essay of considerable rarity Huggins E15.rnProvenance: Robson Lowe, London,
13 Dec 1973, lot 1011. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5310 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840: Essay / Proof with embossed Wyon head within oval
engine turned surround with "POSTAGE ONE PENNY" in small capital letters, with the pendant curl, printed in dark blue on thick card. This being the Master Die Proof of the approved design which was utilised for the Postal Stationery - printed before
the initials "W.W." or Die number was inserted. Slight horizontal bend not detracting from the appearance of an extremely rare Proof Huggins E22.rnProvenance: Collection "Chartwell", Spink, London, 5 July 2012, lot 34. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
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| 5311 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840: Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine turned
surround with "POSTAGE ONE PENNY" in smaller capital letters, without the pendant curl, printed in pale blue backed on to thick paper, small imperfections not affecting the appearance of a rare Proof.rnProvenance: Collection John O. Griffiths, 1985;
Collection H.O. Fraser, Spink, London, 7 Nov 2001, lot 27.rnrn (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5312 |
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 Charles Whiting & William Wyon 1840 (Oct): Essay with embossed Wyon head within oval engine
turned surround with "POSTAGE ONE PENNY", an electrotyped example possibly produced thus to establish whether forgery of the design was possible, trimmed at lower edges, printed in pale orange-red with the pendant curl. See page 120-121 in "The 1840
Embossed Wyon-Whiting Essays" by Huggins and Wicks. Rare Huggins E18.rnProvenance: SG, London, 16 June 1977, lot 97; Christies, London, 16 July 1991, lot 714. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5313 |
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 Die Proofs 1867: Master Head Die Proof embossed, an 'albino' impression for the 1 d. pink
postal stationery envelope, Die 158 (registered 16 November 1867), on card (29 x 36 mm.), together with a used example of the envelope stamped to order for City of Glasgoiw Bank used to Peebles in 1872 and two cut-outs. Scarce. (Image 1)
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| 5314 |
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 James Bogardus & Henry Coffin 1929: The "Royal Reprints" of the Essays produced by Bogardus
and Coffin for the 1839 Treasury competition (the pair won one of the four prizes awarded), oval Queen Victoria head in a silhouette design, two printed in dark brown on fine quality smooth white paper and one in red. These were struck in three
colours in 1929 for King George V and a few other prominent philatelists of the time, from the original Die found amongst Rowland Hill's papers in the 1920's. The Die itself is still housed in the collection of His Majesty King Charles III. Extremely
rare and seldom seen. (Image 1)
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| 5315 |
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 Die Proofs 1879 (Jan 10): Die Proofs (4) with Proof impressions (2) of the 1 d. pink on laid
paper, one large (117 x 186 mm.) from Die 25 and another more reduced from Die 202, Proof impression of the 2 d. in a pale milky-blue shade on laid paper, and 1½ d. brown, Die 1. A choice and scarce group. (Image 1)
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| 5316 |
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 1881: Proof / Testing Impressions for the 1 d. pink envelope, Die II examples on three
pieces with four examples on one, three overlapping examples on the second piece and the remarkable piece with eight impressions all struck on lined paper. A very rare group, the last item illustrated in "Specimen Stamps & Stationery of Great
Britain" by Marcus Samuel & Alan Huggins (fig. 147, page 244). Rare and spectacular. (Image 1)
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| 5317 |
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 1840: Mulready 1 d. envelope, stereo A175, a used example from Taunton (June 5) to the
Cavalry Barracks in Maidstone cancelled by red Maltese Cross with circular "MORE / TO / PAY" adjacent in red and charged "2" pence due in manuscript upon receipt. Minor crease not affecting the appearance Gi = £ 550+. (Image 1) (Image 2)
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| 5318 |
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 1841: 1 d. pink envelope cancelled by Maltese Cross in black and mailed to Alcester,
Warwickshire cancelled on reverse with large part "12 February 1841" datestamp in red with docketing at left of receipt "Feb 13 / 41" in manuscript and internally "Arthur sends you this envelope as a specimen of the new Royal Postage Stamp". The
second earliest example recorded, the 1 d. pink envelope being issued on Feb 10, 1841 and the issue was confined to Post Offices within the London 2 d. Post parameters. Exceptionally rare.rnNote: It should be pointed out that the earliest example
used on Feb 10, 1841 is heavily restored. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
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