1862-85 Entire letters and entires bearing Large Hermes Heads including 1862 entire from Candia to Athens with Paris print 20L applied upon arrival, several to Trieste including frankings of 5L + 80L, 10L + 20L + 40L, 5L + 20L pair with an Austria 15kr (which may not belong) cancelled in Trieste, an internal letter franked 20L and redirected to Trieste with 20L pair, letter to Corfu franked 1L + 5L + 20L, the others mainly internal letters franked 20L, some faults. (24).
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Lot No: 1249
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1871 Athens Printing on inferior quality paper, 80L carmine-rose with control variety "8" for "80" (a tiny part of the "0" showing, as is usual for this variety), mint original gum, three large margins, cut into at upper left. With the original inscribed sheet of paper upon which this stamp was mounted when presented in 1899 by Dr Emilio Diena to W. Dorning Beckton at the Manchester Philatelic Exhibition, and the write-up pieces from Dorning Beckton s album page. A rare variety mint. S.G. 39c, V. 41e.
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Lot No: 1250
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1862-1960 Mint and used stamps including Large Hermes Heads with varieties, coloured proofs on card of the 1896 Olympic Games issue (7) or 1901-02 issues (3), a collection of revenue stamps on pages with complete documents, Small Hermes Head covers (11), a study of the 1897-98 stamps of Thessaly, etc. (100s).
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Lot No: 1251
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1889-95 Small Hermes Heads, Athens print, mint and used collection on pages with imperf, perf 13½ and perf 11½ stamps, including imperf between varieties, imperf 5d double print variety mint, imperf 1d grey unused without gum, also a few Belgian print stamps. (393).
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Lot No: 1252
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Long Island. 1916 (May) "Long Island Gazette" No. 1 which includes postal and censorship regulations issued by Lt. Commander H. Pirie-Gordon with news of Post Offices at Nikola and Northend to be opened on May 7th, and a detailed description of typewritten issue stamps issued on May 6th (due to the inadequate supply of captured Turkish fiscal stamps which have been overprinted and adopted for postal use), the Gazette listing the values issued with exact numbers of sheets and stamps printed. Also a 1916 (May 7) letter written and signed by Pirie-Gordon from Government House, Long Island, to Captain Douglas sent on the day the local post offices opened, which includes "we have issued stamps for here - you will find one on your envelope"; a 1928 cover to Rear-Admiral Douglas with enclosed typed letter from Pirie-Gordon describing how the Long Island stamps were issued, the opposition to their issue by the British postal authorities, and how King George V was pleased with a set presented to him; and a 1962 letter to James Mackay recalling his wartime exploits at Mount Athos. A unique group, the contemporary Gazette showing many of the quantities of issued stamps differing from those quoted in the S.G. catalogue. (4).
