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1473 image1840/1981 (ca.): Used and unused collection in one stockbook, better items with Great Britain 1840 1 d. black, very fine used with red Maltese Cross, some multiples, also a stockbook with North Korea Princess Diana souvenir sheets, fine to very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
1474 image1841/1960: Lot of covers beginning with large part of a letter with Penny Black, very clean folded letter with 1 SHILLING 1869 from LONDON to CADIZ, front from LONDON to St. Petersburg TWO PENCE + NINE PENCE, mourning cover from Glasgow registered with 1 SHILLING to Brunswick (Braunschweig), small cover 1869 from EDINBURGH to Geneva franked TWO + THREE PENCE; further on 20th century with picture postcards, FDCs and several envelopes from Ireland. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF260.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
1475 image1849/1879: Conglomerate of twenty-three letters and four pieces, mostly from correspondeces to Italy. The letters include six early perfin examples from Huth (5) and Brand. Among the letters is an 1870 letter, bearing a surface printed 1867 3d rose (PE) pl. 5 wing margin example, cancelled Lozenge '157' of 'Queenstown', Ireland to Ragusa. Varied Lot.   (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9)

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SOLD for CHF600.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
1476 image1898/1907: Grey album with range of delightful covers with original contents, many with GB Jubilee 1887 ½ d., 2½ d. or 5 d. frankings and some Edward VII, mostly from Bolton and environs to Switzerland or Sicily, featuring early Christmas cards and illustrated message cards, 1897 letter written on board "RMS Cuzco" with Jubilee 2½ d. cancelled at Naples etc. A charming original correspondence. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8)

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SOLD for CHF150.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
1477 image1940/1946: Collection of sixty-seven World-War II items ranging from censored items including returned by censor, field post interruption of service and other similar items. Interesting and varied lot. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7)

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SOLD for CHF150.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
1478 Scottish Terriers on picture postcards and envelopes 1900/80ca.: Fine collection of 500 picture postcards used/unused in two large albums, including b/w photocards, colourful Greetings- and Birthday cards with many humoristic topics, some in sets, as well as portrait cards with one of Joan Crawford with her Scottish Terrier, further a Topic collection  depicting 'Scotties' on stamps and covers / cards with K.L.M advertising leaflet 'Ship your Dogs by K.L.M.' together with a compl. set of playing cards showing 'Scotties at the Beach' on reverse of cards including the original box, issued for Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line Service' between England and Australia as well as two 'Black & White - It's the Scotch' advertising envelopes used from Jersey (1943). All in choice condition. Viewing recommended.

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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
2016 imageNapoleonic Wars 1797/1805: Correspondence (7 entires), most letters in English, some in French, between a Scot (MacDonald) and a Frenchman (Chevalier du Vau), with 1797 entires (3) written from Dresden, Berlin (on the ladies of Berlin "sans modestie et sans mouchoir") and Leipzig to Weimar in French or English, fascinating 26 June 1804 entire to Leipzig via Hamburg prepaid at "2/4d." in red manuscript with curved "Amstruther" despatch in black "imputing my silence due to the disorder occasioned by this horrid and tedious War" and "Talking of War - I really do not see any prospect of its ceasing between our Nations. We are now in a most powerful posture with an Armed force of upwards of 800'000 men and all of them mad with a desire of trying their strength with the vaunted veterans of Buonaparte"; and the letter goes on to say that 8-12 year olds are forming battalions and that if Bonaparte crossed the Channel he would not advance 50 miles. Entires from Dresden (22 Oct. 1804 and 19 March 1805) to Geneva via Hamburg in English and (8 Sept. 1805) from Vienna to Geneva "for some days everything has changed here and assumed a decidely warlike form". A fascinating group. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-07, 11:59 PM
3401 image1840: "POST OFFICE REGULATIONS / On and after the 10th January", the original Postal Notice sent to all Post Offices introducing the Uniform Penny Postage reform and the new scale of reduced rates of postage from 10th January, repaired faults and reduced in size, nevertheless a highly important Postal Reform document Gi PN2 = £ 10'000. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF600.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3402 imageParliamentary Envelopes 1840: House of Commons One Penny envelope sent from London, with crowned "PAID 29 AP 1840" datestamp of despatch in red, addressed to "Donald Cuthbertson, Writer, Glasgow". Boxed arrival handstamp "GLASGOW / MY 1 1840", some cleaning and pressed creases, fully preserved seal on reverse. From the well known 'Cuthertson, Glasgow' correspondence, with a second H.o.C. 1d. envelope recorded dated 4 May 1840 and a House of Parliament 1d. envelope used on 13 February 1840 (this last ex A. Phillips collection 1972). Rare Gi PE9 = £ 3'000.rnProvenance: Collection Marsh, Harmers 4 April 1990, lot 1038.rnReference: Listed by Huggins & Klempka in "The 1840 Prepaid Parliamentary Envelopes", page 87.   (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF800.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3403 imagePrepaid Private Letter Sheets 1840: "PRE PAID" with scroll for insertion of the date, first type lettersheet in blue produced by J.W.Buchanan of Nuneaton with ms.date "19.2.40" and ms. "Pd. 1" in red ink, used from Coventry to London with "PAID 20 FE 1840" tombstone arrival datestamp, the address panel is written in J.W.Buchanan's hand with inside docketing "Mr. Buchanan 19th. Febr. 40 / Re. Hemming". Minor filing crease toward base practically invisible from front and not affecting the appearance, otherwise very fresh and fine, very rare. The Karl Louis Card Index has just nine first type Buchanan lettersheets recorded, two of which are unavailable for private collectors, one in the Phillips collection, National Postal Museum, London and one is housed in the Collection of His Majesty King Charles III Gi = £ 15'000.rnProvenance: Collection 'Maximus' (Ronald A.G.Lee), Stanley Gibbons, 13-15 May 1970, lot 335; Collection 'Daisy', Christies, London, 8 Oct. 1996, lot 8. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF4,400.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3404 image1840: Mulready, proof printing with frame lines and "W. MULREADY R.A" and "John Thompson" imprints in black on India paper, fine SG = £ 3'000. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF700.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3405 image1840: 1 d. black, plate 8, lettered IE, a used example, good to large margins all round, tied to 1 d. Mulready envelope, stereo A 178, by Maltese Cross in red. Reverse with double arc "DOVER" despatch cds (Dec 8) in black and London arrival in red (Dec 9). A fine usage for the double rate, the Britannia also properly cancelled according to regulations by a full strike of the Maltese Cross. Some patina and small tear left of Britannia, nonetheless attractive and rare.rnProvenance: rn117. Edgar Mohrmann, Hamburg, Okt 1964, lot 1852. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF1,400.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3406 image1840: 1 d. black, plate 2, lettered TJ, a used example, three clear to large margins and shaved on lower right, used on 1841 Spooner Comic envelope No.1 to Wroughton, Elcomb, Wiltshire tied by Maltese Cross in red. Swindon despastch cds oin reverse (Jan 10). An exceptional and rare usage. Certificate RPSL (1998).rnrnReference: listed in Bodily, Jaris and Hahn, British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th century page 50.   rnProvenence: Collection Wallace Knox, Robson Lowe 15. May 1979, lot 63. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3407 image1840: 1 d. black, plate 4, lettered MC, a used example, large margins on three sides and just shaved at base, affixed, but does not belong to 1840 A. Lesage & Co. illustrated Comic envelope No. 2 from Edinburgh to Dumfries (with the grisly hanging scene on reverse). Reverse with Edinburgh cds of despatch (June 18) in red and framed Dumfries arrival alongside in black. A rare and most attractive cover.rnProvenence: Collection E.E. Yates, Robson Lowe 9. Feb 1949, lot 316.rnRobson Lowe 12 Apr. 1961 lot 25.rnCollection Wallace Knox, Robson Lowe 15. May 1979, lot 76.rn  (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF1,400.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3408 imageTreasury Competition Essay  1839: 1d. composite paste-up Essay built from cut-outs of red and white paper, hand-drawn ink '1' and "½ oz. - Penny", generally attributed to James Bogardus, Treasury Registration number 712/40, found among Rowland Hill's papers. Just 13 singles and two blocks of four recorded in the Karl Louis Card Index, some of the 13 singles originate from a former block of six which has been split up after 1966. Rare.rnProvenance: Collection "Durham", Phillips, London, 11 Nov. 1993. Phillips's original lot description states "....this example was from the late W. Sugden's collection" and was described as "From His Majesty's Collection".rn  (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF4,200.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3409 imageTreasury Competition 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, Essay Number 25 in red and black, printed on the Congreve machine, affixed to 'entire' which is inscribed "Specimens of embossed and common stamping of cylindrical process conjoined", the Essay cut to shape and tiny corner crease, otherwise very fresh and fine. This is one of a series of five known Whiting essays affixed to letter sheets, all with identical inscription. Extremely rare.rnProvenance: Christie's, London,14 June 1995, lot 665;    (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF3,400.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3410 imageTreasury Competition 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, composite sheet of seven 1d. Essays (including two blue Essays with colourless embossed impressions), a reprint from the London and Westminster Review, circa 1845, using the Congreve method of printing simultaneously in two colours or embossing, very fresh and fine.rn  (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF2,000.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3411 imageTreasury Competition Essay 1840: Penny Post Essay in green and blue with embossed centre, produced by Robert W. Sievier, a complete original page from issue No. 65 of the London & Westminster Review of March 1840. Two light horizontal folds and small tone spot well clear of the Essay, which is more commonly found printed in pink and blue. The colour combination green and blue is very rare. Although cut-outs can be found occasionally, the Karl Louis card index has a record of only two further complete pages, one housed in the Phillips collection, N.P.M: London, vol. I, page 20. It was first recorded from the Col. Bates (1934) and Dendy Marshall (1949) collections and the other from the 'Windsor' collection (Harmers 2003).   rnReference: "Wyon and Whiting Essays" by Huggins & Wicks, illustration 75.  (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF2,600.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3412 image1838: Proposal for adhesive stamps by James Chalmers: "Stamped Slips" for the prepayment of postage, One Penny and Two Pence, facsimile pinting of the essays which were included in the Christmas issue of "Stamp Collectors Monthly" (1890), RPSL cert (1990). (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for CHF260.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM
3413 image1840: First (and later rejected) Die for the One Penny Black in black, two impressions on cream wove paper, the 1902 reprint, few light creases, otherwise fine. The first die for the 1 d. was ready by January 1840, but was later rejected and remained with the printer's, Perkins Bacon & Co. Reprints were made in 1871, 1902, 1919 and 1935. rnProvenance: Collection Heinz Reck, Phillips, London, 2 Nov. 1994, lot 336; Harmers, London, 20 Dec. 1995, lot 600. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for CHF4,000.00
Closing..Jun-06, 11:59 PM

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