British Empire and Foreign Countries continued... Rhodesia Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 1541 , entire, etc. Rhodesia: 1898 (Nov. 29) 4d. registration envelope used locally to Bulawayo franked 2d. and tied by Bulawayo c.d.s. and 1910 (Mar. 31) envelope (torn at top) to Scotland franked 1/2d. and 1d. (2) tied by double ring “ELDORADO MINE/S.RHODESIA” c.d.s. and with Forfar arrival c.d.s. on reverse. (2) Photo. (Image1) Est. £240-260 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1542 , entire, etc. Rhodesia: Selection of covers incl. 1907 cover to Scotland franked 1/2d. and 1d. tied by Gwelo c.d.s., 1911 cover to U.S.A. franked 1/2d. (5) tied by Umatli c.d.s., 1924 1d. envelope to Gwelo uprated 1/2d. tied by Selukwe c.d.s., 1927 envelope to Turin franked 2d. (4) with Limbe registration label, etc. (8) Photo. (Image1) Est. £240-260 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1543 Rhodesia: 1913-19 die IIIB, perf. 14 £1 black and deep purple, mint, fine. S.G. 279, cat. £600. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Rhodesia 279] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £120-150 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1544 Unmounted Rhodesia: 1966-68 Mardon printing with white gum 6d. and 1s.3d. sheets of 60 and with cream gum 1s.3. sheet of 60 (only 200 sheets made), unmounted mint. (180) S.G. 401, 403, 403 var. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Rhodesia 401] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1545 Unmounted Rhodesia: 1966-68 Mardon trial printing on JH3 paper £1 imprint marginal block of four (only 153 sheets made), light bend, and first printing on JH4 paper £1 imprint marginal block of ten, unmounted mint, fine. (14) S.A.C.C. 155, 155a, S.G. 407, 407 var (see footnote). Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Rhodesia 407] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1546 Unmounted Rhodesia: 1967-68 Dual Currency 3d./21/2c. sheet of 240 (folded) and 2s.6d./25c. lower marginal plate, imprint and traffic lights block of twenty, unmounted mint. (260) S.G. 408, 412. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Rhodesia 408] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. Russia Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 1547 , entire, etc. Russia: A written up collection of mainly pre-stamp and stampless covers in four folders, incl. mail to and from Russia, many transit and entry marks, rates, T.P.O’s, destinations, etc. (few 100s) (Image1) Est. £300-400 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1548 , entire, etc. Russia: Zeppelin Mail: 1931 (July 18) registered cover and postcard to Germany, the former bearing Graf Zeppelin North Pole Flight imperf. 35k. and 2r., the latter 30k. and 1r., tied by “BRISE GLACE “MALYGUN”/ARTIQUE” c.d.s’s, with Zeppelin cachets and Friedrichshafen c.d.s’s alongside. (2) (Image1) Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1549 Russia: A mint (unmounted from 1950s onwards) collection in three stockbooks, 1902 to 1990, incl. 1922 Consular Fee 600m. on 3r., 1200m. on 10k. and 1200m. on 2r.25, 1923 error 70r. orange-red within pane of 25, 1930 Graf Zeppelin set with 40k. both perfs. and 1931 imperf. and perf. sets with most perf. types, 1932 Second Polar Year set, 1933 Philatelic Exhibition 15k.+30k., 1935 Moscow to San Francisco Flight 1r. on 10k., 1937 Air Force Exhibition miniature sheet, 1946-47 Postal Service (3) and Revolution and 1949 Pushkin miniature sheets, 1950 1r. Newspaper Iskra, 1962 Drifting Station miniature sheet etc., mainly good to fine. (approx. 2,000 stamps, approx. 70 miniature sheets) (Image1) Est. £600-700 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1550 Russia: A comprehensive used collection in seven Schaubek albums, 1946 to 2000 almost complete, incl. 1946-47 Revolution, 1947-56 Moscow and 1949 Pushkin miniature sheets, 1950 Moscow Building Plan set, 1955 Exhibition miniature sheets set, 1961 Cosmic Flights 1r. and Party Congress 1r., 1962 Polar Drifting Station, 1964 Olympics olive-green background and 1970 Lenin type I miniature sheets etc., mainly fine. (1,000s) (Image1) Est. £350-400 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1551 Russia: A used collection in a Schaubek album, 1858 to 1946, incl. 1858 perf. 15 10k., 1866-75 vertically laid paper 30k., 1922 10000r. on 40r. surcharge inverted, 1923 Charity surcharges 1r. + 1r. on 10r. and 4r. + 4r. on 5000r. (both colours), 1931 Graf Zeppelin imperf. and 1934 Airship sets, 1935 Anti-War and Rescue sets, 1937 Pushkin perf. 121/2 x 14 10k. and Congress miniature sheet etc., varied condition. (many 100s) (Image1) Est. £300-350 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1552 Russia: A selection on stockleaves, incl. duplicated unmounted mint Imperial issues, some with minor varieties, Zemstva, Revenues with St. Perterburg Residents permit, etc. (132) (Image1) Est. £300-350 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. Saint Helena Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 1553 , entire, etc. Saint Helena: 1901 (May 5) Boer War censored postal stationery 1d. card to China with real photo attached to the back, bearing “PRISONERS OF WAR/BROAD BOTTOM CAMP” censor cachet, St Helena, Singapore to Hong Kong and K.U. Feld Post Station No. 2 c.d.s’s and oval Peking datestamp, small corner faults. Photo. (Image1) Est. £220-250 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1554 Used Saint Helena: 1922-37 Watermark Mult. Crown CA 4d. grey and black on yellow ‘cleft rock’ variety, fine used. S.G. 92c, cat. £275. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 92c] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £80-100 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1555 Saint Helena: 1922-37 Watermark Mult. Crown CA 4d. grey and black on yellow ‘storm over rock’ variety [R. 3/5], fine mint. S.G. 92d, cat. £500. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 92d] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £140-160 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1556 , entire, etc. Saint Helena: 1922-37 Watermark Mult. Script CA 1/2d. broken mainmast and 11/2d. ‘torn flag’ varieties together with 1d. on 1930 cover to U.S.A. S.G. 97a, 99b. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 97a] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £300-350 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1557 , entire, etc. Saint Helena: 1922-37 Watermark Mult. Script CA 1d. grey and green cleft rock variety in pair with normal on 1930s cover to Australia. S.G. 98a. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 98a] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1558 , entire, etc. Saint Helena: 1922-37 Watermark Mult. Script CA 3d. bright blue broken mainmast variety on 1937 cover to U.S.A. S.G. 101a. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 101a] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £180-200 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1559 , entire, etc. Saint Helena: 1925 (Oct. 3) “SOUTH ATLANTIC AND INDIAN OCEANS EXPEDITION/THE SCHOONER BLOSSOM, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.” envelope, with faults but characterful, registered to Campinas, Brazil "Via South Hampton" by a member of the crew with sender’s return endorsement “ “St. Helena” Island/(Via England)/South Atlantic Ocean/(four U.S. Schooner “Blossom”, franked by 1922-37 1d. and 4d. with registration label no. “353” at left, and Bordeaux Station ‘Admis sans Visite’ violet cachet below, London Oct. 21 transit on reverse, the cover eventually returned showing St. Helena “AP 15/26” receiving c.d.s. and a range of other markings incl. framed “INCONNU - NÃO RECLAMADA/-CAMPINAS-” (dated Feb. 12 1926 and signed by postmaster), two line “REFUGO/AO REMITTENTE”, and framed “RETOUR/A/L’ENVOYEUR” in violet, Sao Paulo square and triangular datestamps, London transit datestamps amd official resealing labels. A rare surviving item of mail from the 'Blossom' expedition. For similar item with prior consecutive registration label see Grosvenor auction June 3 2015, lot 1217. The two and a half year expedition, then unique in the history of scientific research, was sent by the Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Natural History, its object being not only to collect animal and bird life among the remote islands of the South Atlantic and Indian oceans but also to fix the location of some obscure islands (such as Bouvet Island) whose location still remained in dispute. The three-masted schooner, formerly the "Lucy R" of Nova Scotia, had been renamed in honour of Mrs Elizabeth Bingham Blossom of Cleveland who had provided much of the funding. Setting sail from New London in October 1923, the original crew of sixteen under the command of Capt. George Finlay Simmons consisted largely of young American college students, over 700 having applied for the cruise when it was advertised. All but four of the original crew dropped out during the course of the voyage, most on arrival at Dakar after passing by Cape Verde, and further replacements had to be obtained whilst refitting in Rio de Janeiro, after which the schooner turned south, visiting Saint Helena and other islands before eventually returning to Charleston in June 1926. The results of the expedition were substantial and impressive, bringing back about 13,00 specimens for further study and discovering two previously uncharted islands off the coast of Brazil and a new species of rail in Africa. Capt. Simmons subsequently took up the position of Curator of Ornithology at the Cleveland Museum. Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. 1560 Unmounted Saint Helena: 1961 Tristan Relief Fund 21/2c.+3d. to 10c.+1s. set unmounted mint, each corner marginal, fine. Diena certificate (1989). S.G. 172-175, cat. £8,000. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Saint Helena 172-175] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £3,000-3,500 Closing..Dec-04, 03:30 AM EST. Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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