1876 Cover with "Stanley Gibbons & Co" printed flap, posted from London to Rugby franked 1d, the enclosed letter on headed notepaper of 25 The Chase, Clapham (handstamped 'Removed to 8 Gower St') originally enclosing an approval sheet of 100 stamps. An early stamp dealer letter.
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Lot No: 620
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c.1880-1990s Covers, letters and ephemera concerning stamp dealers or collectors, auctions, congresses or exhibitions, including 1896 letter from William Brown on illustrated notepaper, 1889 Chicago Philatelic Society Constitution and By-laws, C.J Phillips Catalogue of U.S Departmental Stamps, 1935 and 1948 Philatelic Congress menus, 1940 Stamp Centenary catalogue for an exhibition held at Brighton Art Gallery, etc. (95).
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Lot No: 621
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1915 (Mar 15) Letter written and signed by Sir Edward Denny Bacon, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection, on Buckingham Palace notepaper, to L.A. Lawrence, "I have laid your letter of the 7th inst. before the King. His Majesty desires me to thank you for your kind thoughts in forwarding the stamps. He is pleased to retain the proof impressions of the Madagascar, but as he already possesses several similar specimens of the Cape of Good Hope in his collection I return the copies of these to you. They are reprints taken in 1883 of the stamps originally issued in the colony in the year 1861".
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1933-34 Postcard posted from Croydon, and letters (3) all written and signed by Sir Edward Denny Bacon, Keeper of the Royal Collection, to the air mail dealer John Davies, concerning a Western Air Express cover purchased for the King's collection for 15/-, or declining other flight covers as the King only collects such covers if they bear air stamps. (4).
