PLATE 1a ML: Fine used, worn impression with light red MX. Attractive example with four good margins. (Image)
Opening GBP 120.00
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Lot No: 113
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PLATE 2 FJ: Fine, four margin example with light red MX cancel leaving profile clear. Attractive. (Image)
Opening GBP 65.00
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Lot No: 114
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PLATE 3 AJ: Fine used, four margin example cancelled by complete black MX. (Image)
Opening GBP 80.00
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Lot No: 116
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PLATE 4 LB used on undated E from Lydney to Monmouth with a very fine red MX cancellation and matching "LYDNEY" UDC nearby. Very fine. (Image)
Opening GBP 190.00
Sold...GBP 300.00
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Lot No: 117
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PLATE 4 RG: Fine used example with light black MX cancel. (Image)
Opening GBP 70.00
Sold...GBP 75.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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Lot No: 118
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PLATE 5 NG with a red MX cancellation, good margins. Matched with a clear to wide margined 1841 red. (Image)
Opening GBP 95.00
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Lot No: 120
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PLATE 6 RE: Four margin example cancelled with diffuse red MX. (Image)
Opening GBP 70.00
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Lot No: 121
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PLATE 6 FJ: Fine four margin example on 12 Oct. 1840 EL to Stranraer. Tied by smudged red MX. (Image)
Opening GBP 70.00
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Lot No: 122
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PLATE 7 LA-MA: Vertical pair with good margins all around. Fine red MX cancels. (Image)
Opening GBP 130.00
Sold...GBP 260.00
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Lot No: 124
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PLATE 7 EJ: Fine used example with four large margins and light red MX cancel. (Image)
Opening GBP 85.00
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Lot No: 125
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PLATE 8: SK cancelled with black MX, and NL with red MX. Good examples. (2) (Image)
Opening GBP 95.00
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Lot No: 126
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PLATE 8 CG on 10 Feb. 1841 EL mailed within London. Four margined example cancelled by black MX and partly by "Charing Cross" straight line mark. (Image)
Opening GBP 85.00
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Lot No: 127
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PLATE 8 LA: Three/four margin example, just touching check letter box in SW corner. No "Q" flaw. Fine red MX cancel. (Image)
Opening GBP 65.00
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Lot No: 129
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PLATE 9 PB cancelled with a black MX. A fine four margined example. (Image)
Opening GBP 85.00
Sold...GBP 280.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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1841 2d BLUES
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 132
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PLATE 4 - RARE VIOLET BLUE SHADE - CI: A wide margined example of the rare violet blue shade on thick lavender tinted paper. Fine. SG Spec. ES16 £1800. RPSL Cert. (2005). (Image)
Opening GBP 260.00
Sold...GBP 300.00
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1870 ½d PLATES
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 133
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MIXED MINT & USED GROUP ON ALBUM PAGE: All numbers 1-20 represented, mostly good to fine, though Pl.9 with trimmed perfs. Includes pair and nine mint examples. (32 stamps) (Image)
Opening GBP 110.00
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Lot No: 134
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Cat No: Collection
QV POST OFFICE TELEGRAPH STAMPS: Two stock cards with a mostly fine used and slightly duplicated assembly of 1876-81 Telegraph stamps. Includes mint ½d orange, used 1d red-brown (3, one optd. "SPECIMEN"), 3d carmine, 6d grey (2), 1/- green (2), 1/- brown-orange, 3/- slate-blue (2) and 5/- rose (2, both Pl.1); also mint examples of ½d vermilion (SG 197) & ½d blue-green (SG 213) both optd. "Army Telegraphs". Cat value c.£1,100+. (16 stamps) (Image)
Opening GBP 160.00
Sold...GBP 170.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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COLLECTIONS
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 102
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Cat No: Collection
SELECTION OF KEVII-KGVI MINT ISSUES: Stock cards displaying KEVII 2d, 3d, 6d, 9d (2 shades), 10d & 1/- values, KGV 1918 2/6d & 5/- Seahorses, 1924 & 1925 Wembley sets, KGVI 'dark colours' ½d to 2½d values with sideways wmk unmounted mint (£170) and also with inverted wmk mounted mint (£180); 1938-49 'Arms' set of 6 high values SG 476-478c. Total cat. c.£2,280 (29 stamps) (Image)
Opening GBP 140.00
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KGV ISSUES
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 153
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1929 PUC FDC: Plain env. FDC from the Professional Golfers Association to a London address franked with a set of 4 low values tied by a faint 10MAY29 Newcastle & Tyne Exhibition slogan cancel. Scarce item. SG 434-7. BFDC cat. £350. (Image)
1939-48 HIGH VALUES: 2/6d to £1 inc. the rare 10/- dark blue in fine unmounted mint upper left corner blocks of four. SG 476-478c £1,700. (Image)
Opening GBP 280.00
Sold...GBP 440.00
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Lot No: 158
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1948-51 HIGH VALUES: 1948 R.S.W. £1, and 1951 2/6d to £1 corner blocks of four. Fine unmounted mint. SG 494 & 509-512. (Image)
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MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 106
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1d MULREADY LETTER SHEET: 13 Mar. 1841 Forme 2, Stereo A17 used from London to Nortonwoodside, Nr. Sheffield, cancelled with a good black MX. Vertical fold, good for this. (Image)
Opening GBP 80.00
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Lot No: 107
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1d MULREADY ENVELOPE: 24 July 1840 Mulready env. Forme 2, Stereo A144 with a fine red MX cancellation used from Liverpool to Sheffield. Small hole in reverse due to removal of a seal. Most attractive. (Image)
Opening GBP 85.00
Sold...GBP 150.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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POSTAL REFORMS
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 103
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ORIGIN OF STAMPS - 1st-YEAR ½d RED NEWSPAPER TAX STAMP ON COMPLETE ISSUE OF 'THE SPECTATOR': Very fine complete 10 Sept. 1712 1-sheet issue of "The SPECTATOR" newspaper (folded to fit neatly on a page with Tax Stamp above the masthead) with a fine complete red "SEMPER EADEM/HALF-PENNY/97" Newspaper Tax Stamp (2 small pin-holes barely noticeable). From 10 Oct. 1825 newspapers with tax stamps travelled free by post; they were in many ways the first postage stamps. British Newspaper Tax Stamps were first introduced only a few weeks before the date of this paper, on 1st Aug. 1712; very few papers with clear examples of 1712 have survived. Fine Exhibition Item. Cross Reference: NEWSPAPER MAIL, REVENUES (Image)
Opening GBP 65.00
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Lot No: 104
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FREE MAIL TO ROBERT WALLACE + WHITING "DRAWING ROOM SCRAP SHEET No.3" WITH BUFF ENGINE-TURNED FRAMES;: Fine 9 Aug. 1838 EL franked ex Glasgow (ds) to "Robert Wallace Esq., M.P., London" with ref. to Postal Reform; "I am delighted with your Post Office labours - they will produce infinite benefit to the country if the Ministry follow them up honestly". Plus mainly fine Oct. 1831 double-page weekly scrap-book insert sheet (227 x 279mm; fits an album-page exactly) printed by Charles Whiting (his "Whiting, Beaufort House" imprint appears at the foot of the second page) with poems etc. on two pages surrounded by attractive brown engine-turned designs very reminiscent of his later Postal Stationery letter-sheet Essays; the backs of those pages have frames printed in blue in which someone has duly glued a print of a girl & of a sozzled boozing couple!). Few Known; in Cavendish's June 2012 auction, lot 926, the similar "No.10" realised £180+BP. [Ex Mike Salmon, 2006.] Cross Reference: SCOTLAND (Image)
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Lot No: 105
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LAST DAY FREE FRANKS EX P.M.G. (WITH 9 JAN. 1840 FREE ds) & TO "COLONEL MABERLY" (P.O. SECRETARY): Remarkable pair of 9 Jan. 1840 free fronts sent to and from "Brighton" on the Last Day of Free Franking and the Last Day of the 4d Postage Period. The first to Brighton signed by "Lichfield" (no need for heading or date as he was P.M.G.) with mainly very fine Last Day London crowned 2-ring "FREE" ds of "9 JA 9/1840". The other without postal marks (there would have been a backstamp but mail to P.O. officials never needed a FREE mark) headed from "Brighton" (signature unidentified) addressed to "Colonel Maberly, Lower Berkeley Street, London". Extraordinary - and probably Unique - pair of official P.O. Last Day Free Franks. (2 fronts) Cross Reference: FIRST DAY COVERS, SUSSEX, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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QEII ISSUES
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 159
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1955 WATERLOW & SONS HIGH VALUES: 2/6d to £1 unmounted mint blocks of four. Fine. SG 536-539 £1,000. (Image)
Opening GBP 200.00
Sold...GBP 220.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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Lot No: 160
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Cat No: Collection
1959-2009 HIGH VALUE MULTIPLES SELECTION inc. 1959 De La Rue 2/6d to £1, 1969 Machin 2/6d to £1, 1970 20p to £1, 1972 re-drawn £1, 1977 £1 to £5, 1987 £1 to £1.60, 1988 and 1992 £1 to £5, 1993 £10 and various blocks of six up to 2009 high values. A fine lot. (69 blocks) (Image)
Opening GBP 220.00
Sold...GBP 480.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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SURFACE-PRINTED ISSUES
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Lot No: 138
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1862 1/- GREEN - "K" IN CIRCLE VARIETY: 1862 1/- green, plate 2 KD. A marginal example neatly cancelled to show the "K" in circle variety. Fine used. SG 90a £2,750. (Image)
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Lot No: 139
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1862 1/- GREEN - ERROR OF WATERMARK TF used with three roses and thistle error of watermark variety. Fine used. SG 90c £1,400. RPSL Cert. (2016). (Image)
Opening GBP 220.00
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Lot No: 140
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1880 2/- BROWN: Good used example lettered IK Plate 1. SG 121 £4250. (Image)
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Lot No: 146
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1874 5/- PALE ROSE PLATE 2: Good used example with crisp Bath 2 Sep. 1878 cds. Centred low and to left. SG 127 £1,500. (Image)
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Lot No: 147
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1878 10/- GREENISH GREY PLATE 1: Used example, centred high, perfined "L C. & S", otherwise sound. SG 128 £3,200. (Image)
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Lot No: 148
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1867-83 £1 BROWN-LILAC: Plate 1 wmk.MX. Used example of good appearance, centred low, but thinned. SG 129 £4,000. (Image)
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Lot No: 150
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1867-83 5/- ROSE PLATE 4: Fine used with Cornhill cds. White paper. SG 134 £3,500. (Image)
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Lot No: 152
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1891 £1 GREEN: Fine used example with Guernsey cancels. SG 261 £800. (Image)
Opening GBP 100.00
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TREASURY ESSAYS, ETC.
Sale No: 868
Lot No: 108
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1840 RAINBOW TRIAL - STATE 3: 1d green on white wove paper, a wide margined upper right corner example with ms "23 C". Horizontal crease but very collectable. SG Spec. DP20 £4,750. (Image)
Opening GBP 340.00
Sold...GBP 440.00
Closed..May-11-2025, 04:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 868
Lot No: 109
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1841 2d BLUE PROOF WITHOUT CORNER LETTERS: 1841 (Jan.) 2d blue proof without corner letters. Very fine. SG Spec. DP43 £1,800. (Image)
