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Falkland Islands: Covers and Cancellations continued...
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721 |
Used |
Falkland Islands: “POST OFFICE/(crown)/FALKLAND ISLANDS” in violet, two good strikes cancelling 1904-12 5s. red vertical pair fine and a scarce multiple. SH PSO.5, cat. £500+. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £80-100
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
722 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1912 (Feb. 10) registered ‘Pfaff’ cover to Germany, redirected to Monte Carlo, bearing 1904-12 set of eight to 5s. tied by mainly fine individual F.4E c.d.s’s with type 1 registration label at
left, backstamped London Mar. 18, Bremen Mar. 19 and Mar. 21 final arrival, horizontal fold clear of adhesives. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £300-350
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
723 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1914 to 1950, four scarcer philatelic covers from Fox Bay with FB.1 c.d.s. cancellations, comprising 1914 (Sept. 18) early registered ‘Wilson’ cover to Birmingham bearing 1/2d. to 21/2d. with
type FB1 registration label, 1932 (Aug. 22) underpaid ‘Panton’ cover to Castries bearing 1/2d. cancelled c.d.s. “2” for “32” (SH FB.1v1) with St Lucia 1d. and 2d. postage dues affixed, 1933 (Jan. 2) first day use of Centenary 1/2d. underpaying
‘Panton’ cover to Georgetown with Cayman Is. 1d. affixed as postage due and 1950 (Sept. 14) registered to B.S.H. Grant in Kent with c.d.s’s showing month in numeral (SH FB.1v3) and type FB4A registration label. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
724 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1920 to 1947, a selection of covers variously franked and addressed, incl. 1918-20 “WAR STAMP” set of three on registered covers to London (3) and Sweden, 1920 registered to Texas bearing 1/2d.,
1d., 2d. and 21/2d., 1923 formula registered envelope to Colorado franked 6d., 1930 to Michigan with 1/2d. and 6d., 1937 Coronation sheet no. blocks of four on large cover, 1948 Silver Wedding plain f.d.c., etc. (21) (Image1)
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Est. £200-300
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
725 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1920 (Sept. 1) formula registered envelope (Perkins B.2) addressed to Rev. Iremonger in Bristol with very rare usage of 1912-20 £1 tied by light F.4F c.d.s., carried to Punta Arenas on the
“Huanchaco” where transferred to the “Oropesa”, showing Liverpool Dec. 14 transit on reverse, the flap additionally sealed by portions of stamp selvedge and type 5A registration label. Ex Spafford. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £800-1,000
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
726 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1923 (May 28) envelope to Boston, Mass., U.S.A. with typed “O.H.M.S.” endorsement bearing 1d. pair cancelled PS.1A and showing fine strike of “POST OFFICE/(crown)/FALKLAND ISLANDS” (SH PSO.5) in
black at lower right, part addressing erased and part flap missing but scarce. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £70-80
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
727 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: Inter-Island mail, 1925, four mainly fine strikes of “H.M.C.S. “AFTERGLOW”/2 OCT 1925/POSTED ON BOARD” double oval datestamp (SH SC.5) tying 1/2d., 1d. (2, slightly oxidised) and 21/2d. to
envelope registered to Bristol with type 5C registration label. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
728 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1925 (Nov. 16) to London and 1929 (Apr. 30) to Yeovil, two 1d. type II stationery envelopes commercially used, the first with DH Evans receiving mark. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
729 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1929 (Apr. 22) formula registered envelope to Surrey bearing 1/2d., 2d. (2), 21/2d. (3, incl. a pair), 6d. (2) and 1s. (2) cancelled PS.1A with type 6B registration label, red London hooded and
Norwood May 25 arrival datestamps. Perkins C.10 Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £200-250
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
730 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1933 (Jan. 2) two registered ‘Meister’ first day envelopes to Colorado bearing Centenary 6d. and 1s. respectively, with PS.1A cancellations, consecutively numbered type 6B registration labels,
the 6d. additionally tied by purple straight line “REGISTERED”, backstamped Chicago Feb. 20 and Holyoke Feb. 22 arrival. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
731 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1933 (Jan. 11) six envelopes to London bearing Centenary issues, the first with 1/2d. and 1d., others single franking values from 11/2d. to 6d., each endorsed “First Day Cover” but having missed
cancellation on Jan. 2, with PS.1A c.d.s’s, the 4d. and 6d. covers registered with type 6B labels (numbered 5 and 6) and backstamped Walthamstow Feb. 9 arrival. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £150-200
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
732 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1933 (Jan. 19) formula registered envelope to Massachussetts with added Centenary 1/2d., 1d., 11/2d. and 3d., PS.1A cancellations and type 6A registration label, backstamped Bostaon Mar. 9
arrival. Perkins D.8 Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £120-140
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
733 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1933 (Feb. 7) to London and (Apr. 1) locally addressed, two registered covers, the first bearing Centenary 1s. with F.6 c.d.s., type A registration label and Mar. 27 receiving backstamp, the
second with 3d. pair and 6d., fine F.4B c.d.s’s and type 5D label. (Image1)
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Est. £120-140
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
734 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1934 (Feb. 24) long Falkland Islands Co. envelope bearing Centenary 1/2d. (2), 1d. and 11/2d. with further adhesive (another 11/2d.?) having become detached, addressed to Valparaiso for a
“passenger on “Reina del Pacifico”/& per “Orduna” to United Kingdom”, backstamped Magellanes Mar. 5 and Valparaiso Mar. 16, undelivered and redirected to Liverpool, the cover creased and soiled but unusual and with commercial use of the Centenary
issue. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
735 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1938 (Jan. 3) three registered ‘first day covers’ with PS.2A cancellations and type 9 registration labels, one to Toronto with 9d. and 1s., another to Blackpool with 1s., 2s.6d. and 5s. and the
third a ‘Selfridge’ cover bearing 2s.6d., 5s. and 10s. (Image1)
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Est. £120-150
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
736 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1939 Battle of the River Plate, “Graf Spee” Internees, 1942 (June 10) Argentine Red Cross postage free printed postcard with two strikes of Isla Martin Garcia c.d.s, to the Red Cross
International Prisoners of War Agency in Geneva notifying the escape of Kapitanleutnant Joachim Kuhn in Aug. 1940, archival punched holes at left and handstamp. Between April 1940 and the end of 1941, all but six of the Graf Spee officers, and about
200 technical NCOs, absconded from internment and returned to Germany where the majority served in the U-boat Arm. Argentine naval connivance was suspected but never proved. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
737 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1941 (Jan. 18) three ‘Clement’ covers from Fox Bay to Kent bearing 2s.6d., 5s. and 10 respectively, each cancelled by FB.1 c.d.s. (Image1)
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Est. £100-120
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
738 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1942 (June) Active Service green ‘privilege’ envelope and 1943 (Apr.) with enclosed lengthy letters, 1943 (Jan., Oct., Dec.) three different telegram forms with accompanying envelopes, all sent
by Pte. J. Robinson of the 11th West Yorks. Regt. to his wife in Leeds. In 1942 the F.I.D.F. had been reinforced by the West Yorks (Prince of Wales Own) and 359th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery. In Jan. 1944 the West Yorks were replaced
by the Royal Scots and 132 Force. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £200-250
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
739 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1943 (Feb. 1) registered cover from Fox Bay to Glasgow impressively overfranked by 1938-50 £1 second printing pair lightly cancelled with type FB4 registration label. Apparently addressed to
notable Glaswegian footballer James Barbour McAlpine (nicknamed "Mutt"), Queen’s Park’s record goalscorer and second-highest appearance-maker, scoring 192 goals in 547 appearances. Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £120-140
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
740 |
, entire, etc. |
Falkland Islands: 1945 (Feb. 13) ‘J.E. Lea’ envelope registered to London bearing 2s.6d., 5s. indigo and yellow-brown, 10s. and £1, 1938 printings, tied by individual strikes of PS.3B c.d.s. and with type 6B
registration label (late expedient usage after the 1944 Post Office fire, only a small number of examples being known). Photo. (Image1)
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Est. £120-140
Closing..Dec-04, 03:00 AM EST. |
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