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 Incoming Mail, Great Britain via Italy 1865 (Dec. 26): Entire letter sent unpaid from Manchester to Patras with Manchester despatch cds (26 Dec.) and endorsed 'via Brindisi' at top left. Sent via London (27. Dec), France and
the Mont-Cenis railway to Brindisi with '20' Centesimi credited to Italy in manuscript and further by Italian packet to Corfu with Kerkyra transit (25 Jan. julian) on reverse and on to Patras. Slitted for disinfection in transit. Rated '90' lepta in
red crayon on arrival for a single-weight letter on this italian route under the 1865 convention and charged with slightly overlapping 1862/7 Athens Consecutive printing 20 l. orange on heavily blued paper and 80 l. carmine, both with large margins
all round, clearly tied by Patras (30 Dec. julian) cds. in black. An appealing entire (Image 1)
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 Incoming Mail, Great Britain by French Packet 1866 (April 12): Entire letter sent unpaid from "The Oriental Commercial Bank Limited, Threadneedle Street, London" to Patras with "LONDON AP 12 66" despatch cds, "ANGL. / AMB.
CALAIS D 13 AVRIL 66" entry mark in black and obscured endorsement 'Via Marseilles'. Carried by Ligne U Paquebot 'Indus' to Piraeus and via Athens with transit cds (7 April julian) to Patras, where assessed '170' lepta due in red crayon as the 150
lepta single rate by French Packet under the 1861 convention plus 20 lepta internal postage. Charged to this amount with 1862/7 Athens Consecutive printing 10 l. orange on heavily blued paper and 80 l. carmine in a partially separated horizontal pair
with sheet margin at top (applied slightly over edge of cover), both with good to large margins on three sides but touched on one and eache cancelled by Patras cds (9 April julian) in black. A scarce entire (Image 1)
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 Incoming Mail, Great Britain by French Packet 1867 (Sep. 25): Entire letter sent unpaid from Manchester to Patras endorsed 'via Marseilles', carried at triple rate with partially obscured Manchester despatch cds (Sep. 25),
London transit (Sep. 26) on reverse and French "ANGL. / AMB. CALAIS A / 26 SEPT. 67" entry mark on obverse. Carried by French Ligne U Paquebot 'Illissus' from Marseille to Piraeus and via Athens with 21 Sep. (julian) transit cds to Patras. Charged
'320' lepta in red crayon on arrival, the charge consisting of twice the 150 lepta rate for a letter from Great Britain via France under the 1861 convention plus 20 lepta internal rate and taxed to this amount with a partially separated strip of four
of the 1862/7 Athens Consecutive printing 80 l. carmine, just clear at top right, else good to large margins all round (right hand stamp somewhat creased), lightly tied by Patras (23 Sep. julian) cds's in black. A rare and desirable triple-rate
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 Incoming Mail, Great Britain via Brindisi 1871 (19. Sep.): Entire letter sent unpaid from London to Patras endorsed "via Germany, Verona and Brindisi". Carried at single rate with "LONDON E-C 6 SP 19 71" despatch cds, thence
via Belgium, Germany, the Tyrol and Verona to Brindisi, by Italian Packet to Corfu with Kerkyra transit cds (13 Sep.) on reverse and to Patras with 15 Sep. arrival cds also on reverse. Rated '115' lepta to pay in blue crayon on arrival and charged to
this amount with 1868/9 Athens Printing from cleaned plates 5 l. green on greenish, 10 L. orange, 20 l. blue and 80 l. carmine, an attractive four-colour franking in rich, vibrant colours and with mainly good to large margins all round (5 l. and 80
l. just shaved in place), all tied by clear Patras cds's in black (15 Sep. julian). A rare and visually striking entire on this uncommon route, avoiding France due to the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath. Cert. Simmermacher (1997) (Image 1)
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 Austrian Post Offices in Romania, Ingoing to Galatz 1857/62: Three fully prepaid Entire letters from Manchester, two endorsed "via Ostend, Vienna & Pesth par les bateaux à vapeur du Danube", the later one "via
Calais, Paris, Vienna & Baziasch", the two earlier ones with LONDON and AACHEN transit datestamps, all in red on front, reverse with PEST or TEMESVAR transit cds's as well a GALLATZ arrival datestamps, obverse with British "2/2d." debit note (Image 1)
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 1819: The original "soft" Steel printing plate (123 x 12 x 197 mm.) for a proposed £1 banknote and a banknote printed from the original plate, offered here and showing the extraordinary "engine turning". Between 1808 and
1810 Jacob Perkins (1766-1849) and Gideon Fairman produced the first known books in the United States to use steel plates. Perkins used "soft steel" plates to engrave on ("siderography") and a method to harden the plates prior to printing. The Bank
of England had offered a prize of £ 20'000 to anyone who could produce Banknotes that were, in essence, unable to be forged. After communicating with Charles Heath (1785-1848), Perkins set sail for England in 1819 and arrived in Liverpool where
he also met with Sir Joseph Banks. From 1819 Charles Heath and his half-brother George Heath were in partnership with Perkins, working with the new technique of siderography. Charles Heath replaced Asa Spencer, a partner of Perkins who returned to
the United States, whilst George Heath became a financial backer. Perkins and his other American partner Gideon Fairman were in the United Kingdom for a period, the company trading as Perkins, Fairman, and Heath. Whilst in 1820 the Bank of England
chose another method, other business for the partnership became increasingly successful and Perkins's son-in-law Joshua Butters Bacon (1790-1863) bought out the Heath interest in the company by mid-1829, whereafter they became Perkins, Bacon. This
bank note is an essay for Bank of England engraved in the USA. The plate still exists as it was never an issued banknote but an attempt to win the 1820 Bank of England contract. It is an example of the unique hardened steel plate which was unique to
Perkins and was his invention, showing rows of "engine turning" which would at this date have defeated any attempt, even by other printer's, at forgery. Perkins, Bacon would of course go on to produce the 1840 1 d. black and 2 d. blue. Note: Sir
Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet (1743-1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences, who sailed as a botanist on Captain Cook's first voyage on the HMS Endeavour, and amongst myriad other achievements is renowned as the
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 Postal Stationery, printed to Private Order 1901: Compound Envelope stamped by Inland Revenue in Somerset House with 2 d. blue and 6 d. lilac for a double rate cover sent registered abroad, backflap with "STANLEY GIBBONS /
STAMP IMPORTERS" imprint in blue, used registered from Manchester to Hamburg, closed with wax seal "OVERMANN & Co / MANCHESTER, the indicia cancelled with oval "2d REGISTERED MANCHESTER 30 MR 01", "REGISTERED LONDON" transit datestamp, HAMBURG
arrival backstamp of the following day. A fine and fresh stationery directed to a member of the Overmann family (Image 1)
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 1978: Fantasy booklet of 18 stamps, published by Len Deighton's publishers, Jonathan Cape, promoting Deighton's book "SS-GB", showing the familiar right-side view of Hitler lifted from the German stamp issue of 13 April 1938
for Hitler's 49th birthday, with "SS" and "GB" in the upper corners and "Postage Revenue" along the bottom edge, denominations were ½, 2, and 2½ pence. The parodies were printed in booklet panes of six (3x2) and enclosed in a booklet containing one
pane of each. The British post office quickly confiscated all the booklets they could locate. Complete fantasies (Image 1)
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 Officials 1840: "VR" 1 d. black, lettered II, with Trial cancellation in black which the Post Office, ever worried about possible fraud, Officially removed. Consequently the stamp has a small thin, nicks and tears, as the P.O.
Officials endeavoured to remove the cancellation both physically and chemically. A historically important and fine example of this rarity Gi. V1 = £ 22'500. Note: Though prepared in April 1840 for official use, the plan for special stamps for
Government departmental use was abandoned, but only after 3'323 sheets had been delivered. While these were ordered destroyed, 21 sheets are recorded as having survived, some of which were used for official experimental attempts at cancellation
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 1820/1935c: Collection of 136 Steel Engraving / Etching Die Proofs by Perkins and Heath (1822), Perkins and Bacon (1829), Perkins, Bacon & Petch (1834-1852), and Perkins, Bacon and Co (1839), including
siderographs of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, King George V, primarily thought for bills and banknotes, but also Engravings for postal adhesives abroad such as the central emblem of the Chile 1911 definitive issue 15 c. Joaquin Prieto (Scott 104);
presented in a Frank Godden de Luxe Album with sheets, sleves and cassette. Note: From 1819 Charles Heath and his half-brother George Heath were in partnership with Jacob Perkins, working with the new technique of Siderography. Charles Heath replaced
Asa Spencer, a partner of Perkins who returned to the United States, whilst George Heath became a financial backer. Perkins and his other American partner Gideon Fairman were in the United Kingdom for a period, the company trading as Perkins,
Fairman, and Heath. Whilst in 1820 the Bank of England chose another method, other business for the partnership became increasingly successful and Perkin's son-in-law Joshua Butters Bacon (1790-1863) bought out the Heath interest in the company by
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 1840/1955: Group of unmounted og., unused and used (15 items), comprising a fine selection with strength prior to the 1920s, commencing with 1840 Penny Black 1d., an attractive example with large margins all
round, used with red Maltese cross, together with 2 d. blue used (Gi. 2+5); 1847/84 Embossed issue 6 d., 10 d. and 1 s. used, with 1 sh. green tiny thin (Gi. 54/55), 10 d. brown barely shaved at top (Gi 57), and 6 d. mauve fine (Gibbons-Nr. 58/60);
also KEVII 10 sh. blue unused with gum disturbed, and more. A useful lot Gibbons = over £ 9´000 according to the consignor (Image 1)
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 1840/1993: Collection in a printed Stanley Gibbons albums, with many valuable stamps, including 1867/80 2 s. brown used, 1867/83 wmk. Maltese Cross 5 s. rose, 10 s. grey-green cds used, £ 1 brown-lilac
cancelled by neat Dublin cds (April 21, 1882), wmk. Anchor 5 s. rose superb used with 'Newport Docks' cds (Nov 8, 1883), 10 s. grey-green cds used and £ 1 brown-lilac cds used, £ 5 orange used with Warrington cds, 1884 £ 1 brown-lilac
cds used, 1888 £ 1 brown-lilac used, 1891 £ 1 green used, 1920/10 £ 1 green cds used, 1913 Seahorse £ 1 dull blue-green fine cds used, 1929 PUC £ 1 black used etc., through to 1993 (Image 1)
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| 2538 |
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 1840/1984: Collection on printed Lighthouse album pages. Included are 20 Penny Blacks and numerous better stamps in mixed condition, including the £5 orange, two £1 Seahorses and many other key items.
From approximately 1924 onwards, the collection is predominantly mint never hinged. Housed in two volumes (Image 1)
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 1841/1934: Group eight unused stamps; incl. 1841 2d. blue, lettered RG, with part original gum that has been somewhat toned, chiefly ample to good margins, good colour; 1841 1 d. red-brown on blued, plate 122,
lettered EK, mostly good to large margins, large part og.; 1857 1 d. rose red, Die II, lettered OF, wmk. Large Crown, perf. 16; 1862/64 9 d. straw, lettered LF, wmk. Emblems, pleasing fresh colour; 1934 Seahorses, Re-engraved, 2 s. 6d. to 10 s., set
of three, watermark Single Cypher, unmounted original gum, good colour and impressions; also Goverment Parcels 1888 9 d. dull purple & blue, wmk. Imperial Crown, with lightly hinged original gum. Two certificates Gi = £ 13'250 (Image 1)
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 1841/1973: Attempt to reconstruct a complete sheet of the imperforate 1d red, together with a selection of line-engraved and surface-printed issues (1858–1875), arranged by plate numbers in a small stockbook.
Accompanied by a second small stockbook containing revenue usages of postage stamps and related material, as well as a large stockbook devoted to perfinned stamps (Image 1)
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 1800/1838c.: Collection with mail all sent (many in anger and irritation) to Sir Francis Freeling when secretary to the Postmaster General, with 1807 letter from Viscount St. Asaph complaining of mail addressed to
him at Needham being placed in the Stenham bag; 1809 similar letter from Sir John Orde complaining of postal charges; 1811 letter from the Marquis of Winchester complaing that a 2d. Post letter had taken 11 day; 1819 letter from the Earl of Fife on
coaaches via Keith and Banff; further letters from the Eal of Moira (1807), Lord Elleborough (1832); letter from Windsor Castle asking about the postmark on an anonymous letter (1830); letters and Free Frank fronts from Sir James Scarlett
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 1817/1902: Collection beginning with the pre-stamp period, including two letters bearing the straight-line "ANGLETERRE" handstamp, one in black to Paris and another in red to Lausanne, Switzerland. Also included
are a Mulready letter-sheet with black Maltese Cross cancellation, Penny Black on cover with a red Maltese Cross, stampless letter to Switzerland (1857), and an 1856 cover from London to Barcelona franked with 2 d. (pair) and 6 d. Embossed issue. The
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 1841/54: Group two stamps and three covers incl. 1841 1 d. red-brown on blued, an unused example with large part original gum and good margins all round, 1 d. red-brown cancelled with No 11 in Maltese Cross, and
1849 cover from BALLYTORE to DUBLIN, Ireland bearing 1 d. red-brown Ivory Head tied by '56' numeral, two 1848/54 covers to Prussia and the United States, both bearing attractive examples of the Embossed 1 s. adhesive; also four unused stationery
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 British F.P.O.'s in the Crimean War 1853/56: Collection with 'Crown between Stars' and '1855/56 Star between ciphers (OXO) handstamps applied on single stamps, incl. 1854 (Aug. 16) and (Aug. 29th) British Army
covers to London, 1854 cover from an officer serving on the H.M.S. Curacoa of the British Black Sea Fleet franked with three 1d. perf. 16 values and tied by 'Crown between Stars' handstamps. Further covers from the British A.P.O.'s and many
lettersheets with fully written content from Balaklava (Crimea), 1853 (July 15) entire letter to France in which the writer speaks of going to war with the British Fleet as well as five soldier letters sent back home to Ireland and Scotland. Because
of the shortage of British ships, much of the early mail from British forces was carried by French vessels. An interesting assembly (Image 1)
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 Anglo-French Mail 1845/1871. Exhibition Study, an extensive and informatively written-up study of Anglo-French mail, attractively presented on forty-five exhibition pages and comprising 80 covers, almost entirely
franked examples. The collection clearly illustrates a wide range of postal rates and usages, with many covers bearing instructional and accountancy markings. Frankings include single adhesives, multiples, and combination usages, featuring both
line-engraved and surface-printed issues. Of particular note is a two-colour line-engraved franking used on 1d pink postal stationery. Additional features include: late fee mail, registered usages, a good range of accountancy and transit markings
English provisional usages from Hull, Nottingham, Derby, Chester, Bath, Newcastle, Walsall, Sunderland, and Weston-Super-Mare, scarcer London Foreign Branch twin oval datestamps. Condition is mixed in places with some faults noted, though the
majority of material is good to fine and well-presented overall. A visually impressive and thoughtfully assembled study with clear exhibition appeal and scope for development. Provenance: Collection John Pitts (Image 1)
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