UNPLATED GROUP ON ALBUM PAGE: Five singles, SJ & IA (4 margin) and EF, HJ & GC (all 3 margin). Also II (2/3 margin) on 18 Jul. 1840 Birmingham to Redditch cover. All are sound examples. (5 stamps plus a cover) (Image)

PL. 3 CD ON COVER: 7 July 1840 E (torn & repaired, well clear of stamp & marks) to Hastings ex Tooting franked by well-centred 4 margin Pl. 3 1d black CD cancelled by fine red MX, with "T.P./Lower Tooting" hs on front and "D/JY-7/1840" cds on reverse. A nice fresh example.Cross Reference: LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, CANCELLATIONS (Image)

PLATE 2 - HC-HD - four-margin pair (touching bottom left), black MXs, light soiling around the edges, small thin top right corner, missing bottom right corner not affecting design. (Image)

ALPHABETICAL PLATE RECONSTRUCTION: Missing just 3 stamps, EF, GI & RK. All with MX cancels but few 4 margin examples, otherwise clean and sound. SG 8 Cat. £13,000+ (237 stamps) (Image)

PENNY RED PLATE 225: Nicely centred, lightly cancelled example OH, but with a couple of trimmed perfs at lower right, otherwise fine. (Image)

COMPLETE MINT SET OF 10 VALUES: Fine, fresh appearance, but most of the adhesives with medium to heavy hinges. Also a few values (inc. 9d) with small black adhesions (from stock card). Otherwise fine. SG 187/196 £5,000. (10) (Image)

THREE INTERESTING COVERS: 26 March 1903 printed "Anglo-Swiss Cond. Milk Co" 1d stationery env. uprated with 2½d "A S C M C" perfin and used from London to Basle. 13 Feb. 1903 illustrated People newspaper env. bearing ½d & 1d "PEOPLE" perfins used from London to Sleaford. 2 Oct. 1925 printed EL with "EYELETS" illustrated advertisement used from Aylesbury to France. [Ex Gavin Fryer] (3 items) Cross Reference: PERFINS (Image)

EARLY AIRMAILS - RARE U.K. 1911 'WINDSOR FLIGHTS' COVER TO DELORAINE; 9 Sept. 1911 (First Day) "FIRST U.K. AERIAL POST" env. (vertical central crease well away from stamp & cancel; slight edge wear) addressed to "Deloraine, Tasmania" with GB KGV 1d tied by fine "FIRST UNITED KINGDOM/AERIAL POST/LONDON/2" cds. Having the original official matching F.U.K.A.P. enclosure with sender's greetings. Rare destination for this very first GB Post Office Airmail service. Cross Reference: TASMANIA (Image)

1930-55 GPO OVERSEAS AIR MAIL POSTAL RATE NOTICES: A set of original overseas air mail rates for 1930, 33, 34 (Sept.-Nov.), 35 (Mar. & Apr.), 46 (suppl. 3 & 4), 48 (7 x Feb.), 49 (Apr. & May), 52 (Oct.), and 55 (May-Jul.); plus a (1933?) leaflet regarding "ENGLAND-INDIA AIR MAIL SERVICE. EXTENSION TO RANGOON". All in excellent condition. (23) Cross Reference: EPHEMERA (Image)

1934 GPO RAILWAY AIR SERVICES NOTICES: A set of original "INLAND AIR MAILS" notices for Belfast, Cardiff, Southampton, Manchester, Plymouth, Isle of Man, London, Glasgow, Cowes, and Bristol. Some minor damage but mainly in excellent condition. (11) Cross Reference: EPHEMERA (Image)

STOCKBOOK OF DIVERSE MAINLY USED ISSUES inc. a good group of 1841 1d reds and a few 2d blues. A good range of perforated 1d reds and ½d plate numbers. The small section of surface printed with values to 5/-. KEVII and KGV well represented with some better shades to 5/-. A definitive issues of KGVI are well represented with some watermark varieties. QEII issues with Wildings and castle high values in various quantities. Mixed condition but some better examples are present. (Some 100's) (Image)

1902-13 ALBUM WITH KEVII USED COLLECTION inc. 1902-10 and 1911-13 ½d to 1/- with much duplicated used values to 1/- inc. 1906 De La rue 10d with "no cross on crown" variety. 1902-10 2/6d (8, inc. two perfins) & 5/- (2). 1912 5/- (2) and 10/-. Mostly fine selected items. (Few 100) (Image)

1911-48 ALBUM WITH MAINLY USED COLLECTION inc. a good range of Downey Head issues, 1912-22 & 1924-26 shades to 1/-, with a small number of watermark varieties. 1934-36 photogravure issues. 1937-47 ½d to 1/- mint. with some watermark varieties. Then used 1939-48 2/6d brown (6), 2/6d green (10, inc. a block of four), 5/- (8), 10/- dark blue (4), 10/- pale blue (8) & £1 (2). 1948 RSW £1 mint & used. 1951 2/6d to £1 used x 2. Also a good range of 1913-51 used postage dues. (Few 100) (Image)

STOCK PAGES OF KEVII-KGVI featuring mint 1902-10 ½d to 1/- with a good number of additional shades. Downey Head issues and later issues to 1/- (some unused), 1915 Seahorse 2/6d. 1924 & 1925 Wembley issues. 1934-36 photogravure set. KGVI values to 1/-. 1951 2/6d to £1. The used inc. 1902-10 2/6d, 5/- (3), 10/- (2) and £1 (rounded corner) and a good range of Seahorses to 10/-. (c280) (Image)

1840-1969 MINT & USED COLLECTION: A Wiljon loose leaf album containing a neatly written-up collection which incs. two 1d blacks (two or three margins); 1d reds with 'Ivory Heads'; 'Copestake' underprint; a range of 1d plates & surface printed values; QV 2/6d with neat Cambridge cds; official overprints; KGV inc. mint controls; KGVI high values mint & used & mint control blocks of six. Also QV 1d P. Stat. env. & KEVIII set with FPO 26 cancel. (several 100) (Image)

MINT & USED ALL REIGN DUPLICATED ACCUMULATION; two cartons containing twelve albums/stockbooks & a shoebox of stamps along with another shoebox of covers. Incs. 1d black (two margins) & 2d blues with lines (poor margins); 1d reds inc. imperf. strip of 4; Jubilee issue; QV 2/6 cancelled Threadneedle Street duplex and 5/- with unclear cancel; KEVIII values to 1/- inc. perfin & official optd; KGVI high values inc. £1 mint; much later QEII inc. pre-1970 Presentation Packs, Lundy & Herm Island. (several 1,000s) (Image)

1777-1940: Small group inc 1777/8 pair EL to London with good/fair LEIGH / TON BUZ hs; 1789 EL to London with good 42 LEIGHTON / BUZARD hs; 1799 E to Peterborough with fine curved BEDFORD on reverse; c.1830 EL to Biggleswade with fine red boxed Potton / Penny Post hs; c.1835 E to Woburn with fine AMPTHILL UDC on reverse; 1841 env. Bedford to Lincoln with v. fine TOO-LATE hs; selection of duplex/numeral cancels etc. (27 items) (Image)

1787-1945: Selection with 1787 to London with good (unrecorded?) WALLING / FORD 49 hs; 1894 EL to Ludlow with fair WALLING / FORD hs; 1815 EL to Grimsby with fine HUNGERFORD / 68 hs; 1822 EL Free to belfast with red FREE cds and part strike BRACKNELL hs; 1829 EL to London with fine boxed Newbury / Penny Post hs; 1838 EL to Devizes with fine boxed Reading / Penny Post hs; 1843 E to Marlborough with good Burnham / Penny Post hs; 1847/8 pair env. Windsor to Ludlow with fine red Windsor PAID / 1 hs (BR528); 1855 env. to Exeter with 1d red star tied fine Reading sideways duplex; selection of UDC inc Brightwalton, Clarence Rd, Dorney, Eton, Pinkneys, Sheet St, Swallowfield, etc. (75 items) (Image)

CHRISTMAS & GREETINGS BOOKLETS: Wooden box with an accumulation of decimal booklets (c.20% are Machins). Face value inc. Machins £550. (Qty.) ## (Image)

DECIMAL BOOKLET ASSORTMENT: Wooden box with an accumulation of booklet types inc. bar code, window, folded, retail, etc. c.60% Machins. Face value inc. Machins £540. (Qty.) ## (Image)

1924 RARE "PUNCHED" BOOKLET PANE: 1924 1½d booklet pane overprinted cancelled and "punched" (SG 33p), "TELEPHONE/SERVICE/AIR MAILS" advertisement (SG 9). Perfs. a little short at foot but unmounted. The stamps with light vertical creases due to the punching process. Scarce. SG Spec. NB15w £800. [Ex Chartwell, Ex Gavin Fryer]. (Image)

KGV & KGVI BOOKLET PANES: Inc. 1935 Jubilee 1½d brown type III cylinder 59 watermark upright pane of four (SG spec. NComB7 £160), blunt perfs. top, light gum bend; also 3 other Jubilee panes of 4, all umm; a variety of KGVI panes inc. 1937 lmm ½d green pane of 6 cylinder E10 dot trimmed bottom perfs., and umm ½d green pane of 6 cylinder E2 no dot good perfs. top & right (both SG spec. QB1); mm ½d pane of 2 watermark inverted blunt perfs bottom & right (SG spec. QB3a); umm 1½d red-brown advertising pane of only 2 stamps with cylinder "G29" incorrectly engraved on advertising label (SG spec. QB23(9)); umm 1½d red-brown advertising pane of 6 inverted watermark fine perfs. (SG spec. QB23(12)); SG spec. QB34 2½d pale scarlett umm, QB18 1d light ultramarine advertising pane of 6 (2, one umm), and QB18a inverted watermark (2 umm). Also a pack of 'exploded' 1935 Jubilee booklet covers (blue & red) & contents (no stamps), and other KGV mainly used & partial panes with advertising labels (15). All fresh colours. (Image)

KGV-QEII BOOKLET COLLECTION: Blue binder housing a representative collection inc. several KEVIII panes, KGV 2/- & 3/- SJ booklets (edns. 298 & 296), pre-decimal QEII selection inc. Birds & Explorers to 10/- values, Stamps for Cooks (2), Machin decimal folded booklets e.g 50p (36), £1 (16) & £2 (3) & c.49 other folded booklets in various designs & values; small group of decimal Machin 'window' & bar code bklts, Greetings type bklts and Experimental 30p & 60p dispenser packs, etc. (c.193 bklts) (Image)

1936 KEVIII 1d red booklet pane with inverted watermark punched and overprinted "CANCELLED" (type 33P). Usual vertical bends due to punching. Fine for this. SG Spec. PB2as £425. (Image)

1967-68 MACHIN PLAIN COVERS BOOKLETS: An album containing varieties of 1967 2/- lemon cover phosphor (N27p-29p, 23), 1967-70 2/- salmon cover inc. phos. varieties (NP30-45, 76), 1968 4/6d purple cover (LP45, 3). Mostly fine, much duplication. (102 in total) (Image)