Europe continued... Great Britain King George V continued... Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 2646 * Postal Union Congress, 1929 (May): set of five 3/- booklets with red covers, containing panes of the three lower values, comprising three panes of the 1½d. stamps, a pane of six 1d. stamps, and a pane of six ½d. stamps, with covers numbered 168 through 172, depicting advertising for Punch, Prudential Insurance, Burgoyne’s Tonic Wine, and two for "BP", all with stitched bindings; trivial edge wear in places, fine and scarce. Gi. Spec = £2'250 (Image 1) Get Market Data for [Great Britain BB25] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2647 **/* Postal Union Congress, 1929: Group of ½d. varieties, mounted mint unless otherwise stated, comprising an unmounted block of eight showing the ‘CO’ in ‘CONGRESS’ joined; a single on cover showing the same variety, the cover complete but partially mounted behind the exhibit page on which it is displayed; a lower-left corner pair with L29 imprint in the lower selvedge, showing the broken frame line at top from position R20/1 and with the left selvedge only partially perforated; a right marginal horizontal pair showing a dramatic missing-ink variety on the right-hand stamp, caused by foreign matter on the printing plate; a lower-right corner single with a dramatic pre-printing paper fold; and an upper-left corner strip of three showing a striking misperforation in the selvedge; an impressive and visually appealing group, fine. Gi. Spec NCom5 (Image 1) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434var] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2648 **/* Postal Union Congress, 1929: Group of 1d. varieties, neatly mounted on two exhibit pages, mint unless otherwise stated, comprising a lower-right corner block of six showing the ‘broken wreath’ variety; a second corner block of four used on piece; an upper-left corner strip of four showing the ‘broken C in CONGRESS’ variety; a left marginal block of four showing the ‘open O in ONE’ variety; a right marginal block of six with a striking pre-printing paper fold running vertically through the left-hand pair; a lower-right corner block of six showing the ‘CO in CONGRESS joined’ variety; a single on postcard from Torquay showing an unlisted ‘white spot on right-hand 1’ variety, the postcard complete but partially mounted behind the exhibit page; and a used single and an upper-left corner block of six showing, respectively, the ‘1829 for 1929’ and ‘enclosed loop on 2’ varieties; an impressive group, ideal for the specialist. Gi. Spec. NCom6 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 435] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2649 **/* Lots & Collections; Postal Union Congress, 1929: Balance of ½d through 2½d plating study, neatly-mounted and written-up on quadrille pages and organized by plate, the vast majority of blocks with K29 or L29 control numbers, with blocks of the 1/2d (16), 1d (1), 11/2d (4) and 2-1/2d (2), fresh and fine (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434/437] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 120.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2650 **/* Postal Union Congress, 1929: ½d. to 2½d. mint balance with particular emphasis on plating interest, including corner blocks of three, four, or six with K29 or L29 control numbers; ½d. and 1½d. marginal blocks of four signed respectively by the designers John Farleigh and Ernest Linzell; ½d., 1d., 1½d. and 2½d. marginal or corner multiples, three with K29 control numbers, all with inverted Block Cypher watermark; a scarce ½d. watermark inverted upper left corner block of eighteen; ½d. double bottom row from plate 8 with K29 control, ex Jean Alexander; ½d. sideways watermark unmounted coil strip of six; ½d., 1d. and 1½d. booklet panes of six showing upright or inverted watermarks; an unusual 1d. scarlet coil join strip of three, two 1½d. booklet blocks of six illustrating the layout of half the bottom row; four booklet-stamp blocks showing plate markings as cuts in the Jubilee line, with ½d. and 1½d. blocks of six and two 1d. blocks of six; and five 1½d. lower-left corner blocks with K29 control numbers, representing plates 1 to 5; and more, the odd small flaw, overall fresh and fine, an attractive group. Gi. Spec NCom5/NCom8 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434/47] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2651 cover Postal Union Congress, 1929: Group of fourteen covers and cards, franked with the ½d. to 2½d. values, neatly written up on exhibit pages, including four first-day items comprising a 1½d. single franking on cover and a 1d. tied to small piece by a Postal Union Congress London first day cancellation, a lower-right control-number pair and 2½d. single tied to a registered cover by a Registered Windsor first day cancellation, and a multi-denomination first day cover from Portsmouth to India; an illustrated Hamburg-America Line cover to Germany; 1929 postcard to the United States; 1931 airmail cover to Poland bearing Polish postage due; registered cover to Johannesburg franked with one example of each denomination from ½d. to 2½d.; 1929 cover to London with A.P.O. S.40 cancellation; ½d. single franking on a certificate of posting, cancelled by an Exhibition Newcastle-on-Tyne c.d.s.; 1930 first-night airmail service cover from London to Berlin bearing a 2½d. pair; packet-boat cover to Heliopolis, Egypt, franked with a 1d. block of eight, apparently posted aboard a vessel calling at Bombay, with Bombay backstamp, and subsequently forwarded by air to Cairo; ½d. sideways-watermark coil stamp on printed postcard; and an interesting usage of the 1d. on a receipt and death certificate; some light imperfections in places, but chiefly fresh, carefully selected and mostly fine (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434/437] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 500.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2652 **/* Postal Union Congress, 1929: Impressive plating study of the ½d., 1d., 1½d. and 2½d. denominations, comprising over seventy-five blocks of varying sizes, the vast majority mounted on pages and identified by plate, with distinguishing characteristics and notable varieties recorded throughout; including ½d. (20+ blocks), 1d. (20+), 1½d. (25+) and 2½d. (10+); a few minor imperfections and some perf. separation in places, but a remarkable study that would require extensive effort to duplicate, overall fresh and fine (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434/437] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 800.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2653 cover Postal Union Congress, 1929: An interesting group of 28 covers and cards with frankings from the ½d. to 2½d. denominations, including illustrated advertising covers, one relating to tobacco (ex Shaida); 1½d. on a Deraedemaeker reprint of the Southgate No. 1 Mulready caricature; 2½d. on a 1929 Rotterdam flight card with Croydon Aerodrome c.d.s.; 1929 Imperial Airways first-flight cover to Natal; ½d. to 2½d. set on cover to Geneva, cancelled on the final day of the Congress; 1d. on postcard showing the “2 without closed loop” variety; packet-boat and registered usages; and two embossed Congress envelopes, one bearing multiple Congress handstamps and the other embossed on the flap and struck with the uncommon Postal Union Congress London Crown handstamp; some small faults, mostly fine, a desirable and varied group (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 434/437] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2654 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: Autographed portrait of His Majesty King George V, photographed by Vandyk in July 1932 and mounted on the studio card, with the Vandyk name and Buckingham Palace Road address printed at top and signed “George R.I.” beneath the portrait; an attractive signed example of the portrait seriously considered for use in the Silver Jubilee commemorative issue (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456 Photo] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2655 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: Preliminary design drawing by Harold Nelson for the side panel of the Silver Jubilee stamps, showing a progressive study of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the design measuring 112 x 114 mm, ultimately rejected, but unique and most attractive (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2656 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: Preliminary design drawing by Harold Nelson for the side panel of the Silver Jubilee stamps, depicting modern buildings and the Thames Embankment, executed in pencil and heightened with Chinese white (117 x 99 mm.), this proposal also rejected, fine and attractive (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2657 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: 2d. hand-painted Essay from an unsuccessful design submission, featuring a blue-tinted photographic three-quarter-face portrait of the King in military uniform before a Union Jack painted in blue, the design measuring 26 x 32 mm., with hand-cut perforations and cut short at upper right, a lovely essay. Provenance: Collection ‘Chartwell’, Spink, 3 May 2012, ex lot 1181 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2658 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: 2d. hand-painted Essay from an unsuccessful design submission, with a photographic Vandyk portrait of the King affixed at centre of a design painted in blue, flanked by lions rampart, with “1910 / 1935” and Crown above and “2D POSTAGE 2D” at foot, with drawn perforations, most attractive and fine (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2659 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: Hand-painted Essay in red featuring a photographic Vandyk portrait of King George V and an ornate scene of St. George slaying the Dragon, very similar to the adopted design of the 1929 £1 Postal Union Congress, with “POSTAGE” and “PENNY” at lower right and the dates “1910-1935” alongside a Crown at top, hand-cut perforations, extremely attractive and fine. This essay may be the work of Harold Nelson. A pencil sketch of a similar design submitted by Nelson for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition was endorsed by the artist “Rough sketch of an alternative idea," creating an interesting link between the three commemorative issues of King George V (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2660 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: Three bromide Essays by Barnett Freedman using two different Vandyk portraits, one uncoloured with a full-face portrait of the King in military uniform and cut perforations, the other two showing the King facing slightly right, tinted blue and green respectively; a most attractive group. These Essays are from the second round of submissions, which produced one successful design by Barnett Freedman, the King ultimately selecting a landscape-format stamp incorporating the Mackennal portrait (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2661 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: ½d., 1d., 1½d. and 2d. composite Essays, each approximately 32 x 38 mm, the frames hand-painted and modeled on the then-current definitive designs with photographic Vandyk portrait heads added, the ½d. and 1d. with hand-cut perforations; a most attractive set. Provenance: Collection ‘Chartwell’, Spink London, 3 May 2012, lot 1182 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456 Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 600.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2662 (*) Silver Jubilee, 1935: 1½d., five imperforate Essays by Barnett Freedman, printed in photogravure (24 x 29 mm) in yellow-green, scarlet, red-brown, Prussian blue and ultramarine, comprising the four adopted colours together with the rejected Prussian blue, all mounted on card (170 x 84 mm) numbered “1” in pencil at upper right, fine, extremely rare and very attractive Gi. Spec. = £42'000. Provenance: Collection ‘Chartwell’, Spink, 3 May 2012, lot 1189 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 10,000.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2663 ** Silver Jubilee, 1935: ½d. to 2½d. Imprimatur set of four in the final landscape-format design incorporating the Mackennal head, each with sheet margin at left, on gummed watermarked paper, unmounted mint and with “BPMA” backstamp of the British Postal Museum & Archive, the ½d. and 1d. with vertical creases in the selvedge, otherwise a fresh and fine set. Gi. Spec. NCom10/13 = £20'000 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/456Imprimatur] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 5,000.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2664 **/*/bof Silver Jubilee, 1935: ½d. green booket pane of four, variety watermark inverted, overprinted CANCELLED and punched (Type 33P), mounted between top two stamps, light vertical creases as with all such examples which were folded prior to punching, fine. Gi. Spec NCom5Bas = £1'200 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453var] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM 2665 **/*/bof Silver Jubilee, 1935: ½d. and 1d. singles and 1½d. block of four, each handstamped “CANCELLED” and punched at centre (Type 28P), the two singles unmounted og. and the block mounted between the two upper stamps, fine. Gi Spec. NCom10t/11t/12t = £1'500 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Great Britain 453/455var] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-22, 11:59 PM Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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