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| Lot |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
CV or Estimate |
| 6163 |
cover |
 1849 (July 10): Cover to the Hague, franked with 1847-54 1 s. pale green embossed, just touched at left and foot, cancelled with "13" numeral cancel of London, small blue script "England / Franco" handstamp, reverse with
Lombard Street Maltese Cross and red Gravenhage cds receiver (12 July), a pleasing single-franking, paying the ½ oz. rate(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 200.00
Closing..Nov-26, 11:59 PM |
| 6164 |
cover |
 1852 (August 16): Registered cover to Rotterdam franked with 1847-54 embossed 1 s. green vertical pair, lower stamp touched at right, both showing portion of adjoining stamp at left, and 10 d. brown, touched at top and right,
paying the rate of 2/4d. plus 6 d. registration, all cancelled with "466" numeral, corresponding Liverpool despatch backstamp, with red "PD" oval and "PAID" datestamp on front, endorsed "via Ostend", red Rotterdam arrival backstamp, file fold
crossing pair between stamps, some overall wrinkling and aging, but a scarce registered foreign destination cover(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 250.00
Closing..Nov-26, 11:59 PM |
| 6165 |
cover |
 1893 (Oct): 1887 ½ d. vermilion, tied to ornately illustrated printed circular by oval bar cancel, backstamped with Gravenhage arrival cds (Oct 11), circular opens to show lavish advertisement for Chancery Lane Safe Deposit,
today the London Silver Vaults, with insert "Admit the Bearer and Friends to View the Safes and Strong Rooms", a beautiful example of this rate to a foreign destination(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 150.00
Closing..Nov-26, 11:59 PM |
| 6166 |
cover |
 Lots: Covers (5) to Amsterdam, with 1841 2 d. blue and 1 s. green embossed on 1852 cover from London, endorsed "via Ostend"; 1856 2 d. blue perforated strip of three and single on cover from Dudley; 1856 1 d. red pair and 1862
6 d. on cover from Altringham, Cheshire handstamped with black script "Engeland / Franco"; 1858 perforated 1 d. red and 2 d. blue and 1867 3 d. on fresh 1868 cover from Dover, endorsed "via Ostend"; and 1858 2 d. blue strip of three on 1860 cover
from Malta via Marseille, the odd small fault, overall fine and attractive(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 300.00
Closing..Nov-26, 11:59 PM |
| 6705 |
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 1799/1845: Group of 7 items with 12 July 1799 Original Act of Parliament quarto document for "more secure Conveyance of Ship Letters and for granting to His Majesty certain rates of Postage"; quarto document dated 22 June 1825
Act "for granting to His Majesty Rates of Postage on the Conveyance of Letters and Packets to and from Colombia and Mexico"; Postal Notice dated 18 August 1840 concerning "Mails for Egypt and the East Indies by Steam Vessels via Falmouth"; November
1840 Notice on "Gratuites payable to the Commanders of Private Vessels...to the Cape of Good Hope" (small fault at top); August 1840 Noticew regarding the "Melting of the Wax" seals on letters from East and West Indies; Notice dated October 1847 on
the amnded scheme for West India Mail Packet Service showing the Rates of Postage at base (faults); and Italian "Notificazione" on the launching of a new service with Steamships of the Lloyd Austriaco from Triest to the Ionian Islands detailing
Postal Rates. Generally fine, a scarce group(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 350.00
Closing..Nov-27, 11:59 PM |
| 20001 |
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 1840: "POST OFFICES REGULATIONS / On and after the 10th January", the original notice sent to all post offices, introducing the Uniform Penny Postage reform, with the new scale of reduced rates, "1840" manuscript notation at
upper right, some disturbances to reverse at top and bottom, possibly resulting from having been affixed for display at the post office, reduced in size as typically seen, yet a remarkably fresh example of this rare postal notice. Gi PN2 =
£10,000(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 1,000.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20002 |
cover |
 Uniform Penny Post, First Official Day of Use: folded entire datelined "Parliament Street", struck with single-lined tombstone "PAID" in red (JA 10 / 1840), Bridge Street West Penny Postage Paid two-line handstamp in red
struck overtop, to Birmingham, a fine example(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 150.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20003 |
cover |
 Uniform Penny Post, Second Day of Use: large part entire, with black "Pd." manuscript notation at lower left, neatly-struck double-lined London tombstone cancellation of January 11, to Sleaford, Lincolnshire, unobtrusive file
spike punch, else a fine second day usage(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 150.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20004 |
(*) |
 1839: Treasury Competition Essays attributed to James Bogardus and Francis Coffin, group of four lithographic reprints on glazed paper, showing Queen Victoria surrounded by engine-turned oval, two examples in black, one in
brown, one in vermilion, the latter with small hinge thin, else a fine assembly, of which only 25-30 examples were believed made in each colour by Colonel Henry Hill, grandson of Sir Rowland Hill, from a steel die he discovered with "Bogardus" cut
into the reverse, scarce. Provenance: Ex Chartwell Collection, Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps, Spink, 12 December 2012, lot 14(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 300.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20005 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, 1 d. blue and red on wove paper, Congreve Method essay, margins mostly close to just clear at upper right, some adhesions to reverse, scarce and otherwise fine(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 200.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20006 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, 1 d. green and red on wove paper, Congreve Method essay, mostly large margins just clear at lower left, bright colours, fine(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 280.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20007 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, two Essays in blue and blue & red respectively, on thick wove paper, introducing the concept of check letters, showing "A / 3" in upper corners and "C / W" in lower corners, from
the larger composite essay sheet printed using the Congreve Method, fresh and fine(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 450.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20008 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, intricate "V R" essay in blue, 78 x 67 mm., comprising three circles within an oblong with curved corners, trimmed clear of design, printed on thick card for the 1848 Art Journal
insert, some creasing at lower corners, otherwise fine(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 100.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20009 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, embossed essay in deep vermilion, 1862 reprint on wove paper, with PAID above uncrowned Queen, cut leaving margins large to well clear of oval, scarce and fine(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 180.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20010 |
(*) |
 1839: Charles Whiting of Beaufort House, elaborate and heavily-embossed portrait of King William IV, 150 x 185 mm., affixed to larger page, printed in red, green, and grey, using the Congreve method, WHITING / PATENTEE in left
margin, the odd tone spot, an attractive portrait, removed from the 1840 Royal Cameo Scrapbook Collection of Embossed Heads(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 200.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20011 |
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 1848:, Charles Whiting of Congreve House, composite sheet for the Arts Journal, with embossed Victoria head in carmine, below pair of Beaufort House designs and "VR" Royal Cypher surrounded by fancy engine-turned background,
all within ornate embossed frame, reverse with panel "PRINTED BY / CHARLES WHITING / BEAUFORT HOUSE / STRAND, LONDON / FOR PROTECTION AGAINST / FORGERY", trivial edge faults, much fresher than often encountered, offered with printed article from the
Journal referred to the sheet, most attractive(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 250.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20012 |
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 1840: 1 d. black background trials, 1936 reprint with a small "3" above the outer frame line in one corner, in dark blue on thin, white, wove paper, with ornate engine-turned design by Perkins & Heath, two file hole
punches at left, otherwise fine Gi DP9c = £1,500(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 300.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20013 |
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 1840: 1 d. black background trials, 1936 reprint with a small "3" above the outer frame line in one corner, in purple on thin, white, wove paper, with ornate engine-turned design by Perkins & Heath, remarkably fresh and
fine Gi DP9c = £1,500(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 400.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20014 |
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 1840: 1 d. Die Proof Reprint of the First (Later Rejected) Die, circa 1902, in yellow-green, on cream wove paper, 131mm x 103mm, showing partial "SPEC" watermark, light wrinkles, diagonal crease at lower left and horzontal
crease clear of die sunk area, a scarce and visually-appealing proof. Cert. RPSL (1986) Gi DP8b = £12,500+ Note: The final die for the 1 d. remained in the possession of Perkins, Bacon & Co, from which reprints were struck on several
occasions, and in multiple colours, between 1871 and 1935(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 1,500.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
| 20015 |
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 1840 (February): 1 d. black, Accepted Die I, die proof on India paper on soft card, 71 x 71 mm., showing the Queen`s head and background now fully engraved, mounted in sunken card, 94 x 128 mm., with manuscript notation
"Engravers proof by Fredk Heath after drawing by Henry Corbould F.S.A", written in the hand of Corbould`s son, Edward Henry Corbould; the larger card showing some light uniform toning of no importance, the Proof being fresh and fine, one of six
examples of this die proof recorded, this being particularly desirable given the clear link to the artist`s family, a choice final and approved die of the head and background, an important exhibition piece of exceptional rarity and beauty Gi. DP13
Provenance: Family of Henry Corbould, by descent. Harmers, by order of Captain P.S. Corbould, 16-17 July, 1936, lot 8. Harmers, 25 October, 1971, lot 14. Collection John O. Griffith, Robson Lowe, 29 September 1982, lot 5, the lot being described as
having originally been "retained by the artist..." Collection "TES", Christies Robson Lowe, 5 October 1995, lot 93(Image 1)
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Currently...CHF 60,000.00
Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM |
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