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Lot Symbol Catalog No. Descrip Opening
51206   image1854 1a red, three good to large margins, tied diamond grid cancel, on folded entire from Singapore to Calcutta, with manuscript "per Lady Mary Wood", with red SINGAPORE/5.APR.1855 cds and CALCUTTA SHIP LETTER boxed ds in black on reverse, a scarce usage from Singapore(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 2,000

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51207 O, Z69 image1856 8a (SG 48) block of eight used in Singapore, cancelled by Singapore B/172 (SG Z78), an extremely scarce multiple with some perforation faults, trimming of perforations to two stamps and a tear in bottom left stamp, still a very attractive block and of strong carmine shade.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51208 O, Z69 image1855 8a (SG 48) strip of seven used in Singapore, cancelled by Singapore B/172 (SG Z69) and with additional pen cancellation, an extremely scarce multiple with some perforation faults and a portion of the fourth stamp missing, still a very attractive block and unique as the largest recorded strip.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 200

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51209   imageTibet. 1924 Printed envelope addressed to Katmandu, franked India 1a tied GYANTSE cds, somewhat tatty, scarce(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 80

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
Officials
Lot Symbol Catalog No. Descrip Opening
51210 O S.G. O16-O18 image1866 service official stamps 2a, 4a, 8a overprinted “Service Postage” in two lines, a fine used set, variously cancelled, with a few surface faults, and the 8a with a repaired tear, but extremely scarce and very rarely offered, each with RPS certificate (1954) (S.G. £18'400).(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate. GBP 1,800

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51211 S.G. O104 image1925 Official "TWO RUPEES" on KGV 10R mint n.h. top marginal, slightly toned gum, very fine and rare (S.G. £5'500).(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 1,100

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51212 S.G. O104 image1925 service official stamp 2r on 10r green and scarlet, unused with original gum and hinge remnant (and another paper adherence), with full margin at bottom; very fine and with light overall toning, a very scarce stamp (S.G. £5'500).(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 800

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
Airmails
Lot Symbol Catalog No. Descrip Opening
51213   image1928 a special commemorative postcard produced by the Aero Philatelic Club of India, Calcutta, with purple aeroplane cachet “Doisy and Carol” and additional red cachet “Plane crashed at Akyab 16th May, 1928”. Postcard franked with 1/2a green tied by Calcutta GPO datestamp with purple “Consulat General de France, Calcutta, sent to Rangoon, signed on back by Stephen Smith; a very fine and scarce airmail postcard, with only 121 carried and an uncertain number signed by S. Smith.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 100

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51214   image1933 Imperial Airways special flight cover Calcutta to Athens, Greece, franked with 1/2a, 1a, 8a tied by cachet “Calcutta – Karachi First Airmail”, with a special blue cachet also on front showing biplane with Greek lettering above and below. An extremely rare flight cover from Imperial Airways 11 July (Newall notes 20 carried), with Athens receiver on back 15 VII 33.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51215   image1932 five special flight envelopes with blue/red illustration (“Copyright by the Philatelic Magazine, London”), franked with Indian definitives and airmail stamps tied by Intally Calcutta datestamps, covers flown 5 and 6 Oct, Calcutta to Batavia, Saigon, Palembang, Medan, Alor Star. An extremely fine set of special flight mail, all with arrival pms on back (except for Batavia), one or two with very minor perforation issues.(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51216   image1933 special flight India – South Africa, franked with ½a and 12a tied by very rare slogan cds “UR Wanted on the Telephone”, with Asansol 10 July, sent to Cape Town with receiving pm also on front 22 July, on reverse is boxed Calcutta-Karachi First Mail and Cairo transit, with Stephen Smith signature; an extremely rare airmail, Newell notes 12 carried Calcutta-Johannesburg.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51217   image1933 special flight cover Dacca to Calcutta March franked with 3p 1a, with red cachet “1st Experimental Flight Dacca Dum Dum”, an accompanying note remarks that this was possibly a survey flight by Prince Ali Khan in preparation for Indian Noational Airways Calcutta-Dacca service that operated from 1 Dec; a scarce experimental flight with 53 carried.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 150

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51218   image1934-44 rocket mail, a very comprehensive collection mounted on approximately 50 pages of pioneer Stephen Smith rocket mail envelopes from Calcutta experimental rocket launches, comprising complete envelopes/rocketgrams (approx. 60) and many single labels/stamps. Including all the main rocket launches (including ship to shore and shore to ship rockets) and special cachets, such as “Rocket No 65 Live Stock” “The Star of India from Matpukur to Dhapa”, “John Winterton” (“conveying Miss Creepy (a snake), an apple and mail”), “Royal Silver Jubilee Rocketgram”, “Test Rocket No 124 Tiljilla May 7 (only 22 envelopes carried), “Compressed Air Projectile “Sub Silentio” Oct 44” (28 letters carried), “By Rocket Aeroplane The Tiddler Sep 37”, and much more. Also a wealth of special rocket mail vignettes, including Rocket Parcel Despatch Rupees 2 with red overprint “Quetta Earthquake Relief”, Coronation May 1937, “The Saturn Express Rocket Train Herbert Barber”, “Miss Fortune”, “T. Kimball”, “Marianne Kronstein”, “Test Rocket 166 Dick Turpin”, “The Rowland Hill Test Mail Rocket 172), “Martha Paganini No 189”, “The Liar”, and many more. Many envelopes uprated with Indian definitive stamps, and supplemented with old photographs of rockets and rocket launches, also one micrographic print newspaper bulletin 1931 marked “BY ROCKET MAIL” and signed S. Smith. With many extremely scarce envelopes, incl. the blue “All-India Scouts Jamboree Feb 37 Rocket Despatch” vignette on cover with cachet “By R. 134 Dr R. Paganini” (Hopfenwieser SS-35), franked with 9p definitive stamp, and green Jamboree label on Jamboree commemorative cover with cachet “By R. 138 Princess Elizabeth” (SS-39a), also card flown with rocket 255 bearing orange vignette “Par Fusée” (Hopfenwieser SS-66; 5000 eur), and compressed Air Projectile “Lex Talionis” Nov 44 (Hopfenwieser SS-76; 2000 eur, only 19 carried), and several more. Cat. value for the envelopes and rocketgrams (excluding the many single labels featured in the collection) according to Hopferwieser 34.685 eur. An exciting and colourful assembly that documents a particularly interesting and little-known dimension of airmail philately; an absolutely unparallelled collection nearly impossible to replicate today, including the very rare and hard to obtain war rocket mail of WWII.(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10)

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Estimate. GBP 20,000

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51219   image1936 3 airmail crash covers, “Scipio” crash 22 August, one letter from North British & Mercantile Insurance Co. franked with KGV 4a (SG 175) and 2a 6p (SG 238) tied by Calcutta machine cancellation, sent to London, with purple cachet “Damaged by SEA WATER”. The “Scipio” of Imperial Airways flew from Alexandria to Crete but sank with two losses of life in a water landing. Also two airmail covers with stamps soaked off, with cachet applied to back “DAMAGED BY SEA WATER” and “DAMAGED BY IMMERSION IN SEA WATER I.S.”, partial pms indicate that these covers are from the “Scipio” that sank in Crete;(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51220   image1937 “Cygnus” crash cover, sent registered from Lahore to England, with stamps soaked off and purple DAMAGED BY WATER cachet and Lahore reg. label. On reverse is sealing tape of National Bank of India, Lahore. On 2 Dec 1937, flying boat Cygnus of Imperial Airways left Karachi and crashed when taking off from Brindisi in Italy on 5 December. A steward and a passenger were killed.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 75

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51221   image1950s a group of seven Indian aerogrammes and airmail letters, sent to Kenya, South Africa, Canada, and other destinations, four aerogrammes with printed stamps, two letters bearing stamps, and one unfranked censorship cover “On Active Service”, cancelled by Field Post office, Navsari, Vellore and other cds; scarce material and generally very fine condition but a couple of roughly opened items.(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Estimate. GBP 100

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
Telegraph Stamps
Lot Symbol Catalog No. Descrip Opening
51222 Proof   image1869-78 series of 11 die proofs in black on glazed card, stamp-size, with 2a, 4a, 8a, 1R (die I and die II), 2R8a die I, 5R, 10R die I, 14R4a, 25R die I and 50R, some typical slight rubbing and archival mount remains on reverse sides), spectacular and very rare; ex "Koh-i-Nor".(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Estimate. GBP 1,500

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51223 DE S.G. T3 image1861 Electric Telegraph 4R violet mint o.g., with the usual imperfections with tone spot at top left and some minor creases, an extraordinary showpiece of what is probably the rarest stamp of India with only two unused examples known and one used, all showing some type of imperfection, and one of the few stamps not present in the Royal Collection; cert. Scheller (2017) (S.G. £30'000).(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Estimate. GBP 20,000

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
51224 , S.G. T66w image1904 telegraph stamp 1a on 4r purple, block of four unused mint without trace of hinge, with inverted watermark and variety in top right stamp small "A" in "Anna"; an extremely fine and fresh block with bottom margin (very rare) and interesting varieties.(Image 1) (Image 2)

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Estimate. GBP 100

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM
Collections, Lots etc.
Lot Symbol Catalog No. Descrip Opening
51225   image1854-1920s, small group incl. 1/2a blue single on cover from Kirkee, plus pair and single on cover (missing stamps), stampless cover with circular "ADEN/BPP/Bearing", plus a three Bombay ppc's and one Jaipur stationery card, mixed to fine(Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Estimate. GBP 300

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Closing..Jun-22, 02:00 AM

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