1850/1910 (ca.), Queensland to Western Australia, mostly used collection with a few unused, including Officials, Postage Dues and Revenues, some better values throughout, noted Sydney Views, colourful selection of Queensland and WA Swans, etc.,  mixed condition, a lovely group neatly mounted on self-printed pages, in one album

1860/1900 (ca.), used and mint balance of apprx. 800 stamps (apprx. 320 South Australia, apprx. 190 Tasmania, apprx. 290 West Australia), slight faults to fine, neatly sorted on stockpages, showing a nice range postmarks, mint material, etc. 

1850/1910 (ca.), used and mint balance of apprx. 750 stamps, quality range from slight faults to fine, neatly sorted on stockpages, showing a nice range postmarks, mint material, etc.

1853/1905 (ca.), used and unused collection from 1853 1d. blue and 4d. orange arranged on album pages/stocksheets, showing a good range 1855-1970 QV heads with apprx. 90 stamps, quality range from very poor/faults to fine.

1884, Stamp Statute 1d. green, fiscally used single with upright watermark, and single and block of four with sideways watermark, without gum, used example few short perfs, block of four left stamps light crease, otherwise fine

1892/1979, extensive postal history collection with approximately 200 covers, cards and postal stationery, plus some single stamps, and multiples. The collection starts with some of the earliest known postal items including 'Incoming Mail', India Victoria envelope "ONE ANNA" used in Bahrain (unique), George VI 9 P. postal stationery card with overprint "HALF ANNA", high rupee frankings of the King's issues, extremely rare "EXPERIMENTAL P.O. K-121" on cover, etc. Undoubtedly one of the most important collection of this area.

1933/48, unmounted mint and unused collection, some better and complete sets, with Mi.-Nr. 12-14 unmounted mint and 30-35 unmounted mint, also Oman with Mi.-Nr. 1-15 unmounted mint official stamp Mi.-Nr. 1-10 unmounted mint and some used and unused stamps Quatar1957/71, fine

1878, West Indian Press overprint 1 d. on half of 5 s. dull rose, Type 3b, used with cds. "BARBADOS", fine and scarce, certificate RPSL (1959)

MISCELLANEOUS: 1919, "Police Bureau Batoum / D.A.P.M.” and " * BRITISH MILITARY GOVERNOR * / BATOUM” on bilingual Englisch/Russian Permit to Mr. P.N. Marchetich, assistant manager of the Tchakwa-Estate tea factory, to be authorized to keep a revolver, dated "1-X-19.” and signed by the captain "Cmdg. TCHAKWA” and one other Russian agent, in pencil the name and serial-number of the gun "NAGANT N° 25683”, folded and tears supported by hinges, nevertheless an interesting document

1848/1900 (ca.), unused and used collection/holding in 6 stockbooks, containing much interesting and good material like Cape woodblocks, early Mauritius with Sherwin, extensive Australian States with many 'REPRINT' stamps, South Australia SG 195-208s, British Guiana SG10 unused (cert. Philatelic Experts), Cyprus SG 11-15, Tobago SG 5, Hongkong SG 40-42s, Malta SG 20-28s, etc., etc. Some early items with repairs, but generally very nice quality. Some old certificates. A marvellous lot.

1932/70, Ascension to Tristan de Cunha, mint never hinged accumulation, many better cpl. sets of the modern area in duplicates, with Ascension SG-Nr. 57-59(2), Bermuda 135-150(3), Gibraltar 145-158(2), Sudan 123-139(2), etc., very fine condition, neatly housed in one album

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1882/1965 (ca.), Cyprus, Gibraltar and Malta, mostly mint never hinged collection, some unused throughout as well, including Postage Dues, many better sets and items like Cyprus SG-Nr. 102 (2), 123-132, Gibraltar SG-Nr. 108, also some Omnibus sets, etc., overall in good condition, some signed or with certificates, neatly mounted in one album

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1900/1967 (ca.), mainly balance GB/colonies/Commonwealth, comprising GB QV controls/perfin/machine cancellation, 1967 "Flowers" with shifted colour, Gambia 1935 Jubilee 1 1/2d. complete sheet, specialised section of South Africa 1926 triangulars, in addition some SWA and Ceylon. 

1900/30 (ca.), interesting group with approx. 190 cards and covers with focus on Australia and Caribbean with many registered and O.H.M.S., censorship-mail and War-Tax frankings, many sent to Switzerland

1979/2008, collection souvenir sheets with more than 250 covers with mostly FDCs with special cancellations from Gibraltar, Great Britain, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man and Jersey, in six albums

1856, Surface colored paper 4c. black on rose-carmine, initialled "E.D.W(ight)”, fresh color, part of the adhesive missing at left, usual surface imperfections,  unused without gum and applied to non-contemporary piece, a rare stamp, certificate Brandon (2024)

1876/1914, British Post Office in Smyrna, attractive exhibition collection with around 55 covers and cards, displaying a fine range of usages, rates and destinations, good selection of the British PO cancellations with Barred Oval "F87” (7), oval "REGISTERED SMYRNA” (both small and large types), circular "BRITISH POST OFFICE SMYRNA”, together with some parcel labels, printed matters, wrappers, some lovely single-, multiple- and combination frankings, etc., some occasional faults, toning and aging, overall in good condition, neatly mounted and well described on album pages. 

1937/47,  unused and used collection incl. official stamps and duplicates, some complete sets. with Mi-Nr. 1-18 used and official stamps Mi.-Nr. 1-14 used, fine

4d. on 40 pfg., horizontal pair, the right stamp with variety "short 4", unused, very fine and scarce

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3s. on 3m. violet-black, with clear double-surcharge, unused with slightly tropicalized as all the known copies have, two perfs at right slightly shortened, a very fine copy of this rare stamp with only 20 printed (one of which with the "inverted s" variety), signed Holcombe with certificate (1992)

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1851/1988 (ca.), unused and used collection with block SG 61, Jubilee issue, etc

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1852/57, Prince Consort 6 d. slate-violet, good to mostly very wide margins all around, tied by target cancel to lettersheet with adjacent red "MONTREAL MR 18 1853" to New York with curved red "CANADA" alongside, the stamp lifted for inspection, two file folds, a fine and scarce entire, signed Toaspern and Bühler

Provenance: Grant G. Simmons Jr. (Robson Lowe, 1971)

1851, 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, fresh color and ample to good margins, with re-entry (49), unused with large part original gum, a very rare stamp, certificate BPA (1986)

1851, 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, fresh color and good to large margins, without gum, a fine and fresh example of this rare stamp, certificate PF (1977)

1851, 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, horizontal strip of three, fresh color, ample to good margins, center stamp touched at top, left stamp at left, used with oval of grids, an attractive and scarce entire