1862 (August) Lallier stamp album, the contents rather sparse with some stamps removed, the remaining stamps (including a 1d black) all stuck down. The spine broken and covers detached, nevertheless a very reasonable example of the first commercial stamp album produced for the British market, containing two maps.

1864 Lallier stamp album, third English edition in remarkably fine condition, a reasonable number of stamps throughout (though many pages are unused), nearly all stuck down but otherwise mainly fine, including 1d black with four margins, various European classics, India 1866 6a, Hong Kong 1866 18c, Straits Settlements 1867 1½c pair, 3c, 6c, Canada, USA 1869 12c and 24c, etc. The finest condition Lallier album we have seen, with hand painted fold out world map, signed by Lallier, metal clasp.

1880 Universal Postage Stamp Album, various issues to about 1890 all stuck down, including 1d black and unused 1d red (both four margins), Denmark, India 1866 6a, Western Australia, also two other albums with North Borneo, Romania on pages, etc. (1,000s).

Foreign countries in a well filled S.G. Imperial album with issues to c.1906, also four other New Ideal albums for foreign countries (2, A-J and L-Z), world or Commonwealth, these last four rather sparse. (5 Albums).

Foreign Countries to c.1900, the extensive mint and used collection in an S.G. Imperial album volume II, including Belgian Congo 1891 10f used; Bulgaria 1884 5 on 30s surcharge in black used; China Large Dragon 1c (3, one unused), 3c (2) and 5c (2), Small Dragon 3c mint, 1894 4c mint and used, 5c used, 9c mint and used, 12c mint and used, 24c mint and used, 1897 surcharges with large figure 10c on 12c and 30c on 24c used, 1897 revenues surcharged for postal use comprising 1c, both 2c surcharges and 4c all mint and used, 1897 $1 used, 1898 issue mint to $2 and $5 unused no gum; Korea 1900 50ch mint; Denmark 1851 2r used (four margins); Danish West Indies 1856 3c unused; Iceland 1873 3sk, 4sk mint, 8sk used, 1876 set used; France 1849-50 10c, 15c (2), 40c, 1f, 1852 10c, 1870-71 80c all used; French Colonies; German States with Bavaria 1849 1kr black used, Bremen, Brunswick, Hamburg 1859 4s used; Germany 1872 18kr used; Italian States with Roman States 1sc used, Sicily; Italy 1869 10c buff postage due mint; Luxembourg 1875 rouletted official 12½c used; Portuguese Colonies with Madeira 1868 100r used (four large margins), Portuguese India 1871-72 first issue 10r unused, 20r used; Finland 1860-74 issues with full teeth (8); Shanghai; Siam with 1885 1t on 1s and 1889 1a on 2a mint (S.G. 7, 21); Sweden 1855 6s (2), 8s used; Switzerland 1850-52 issues (10, faults, not guaranteed); USA 1847 5c (2), 1860 30c, 1861-62 30c, 90c, 1867 24c, 30c (2), 90c, 1869 set all used, 1893 Columbian Expo. Issue mint to 50c and used to $2, 1894-95 $1 (both types) and $2 used, State $5 unused (not guaranteed), also many other classic issues from Europe, South America, etc. A fine lot, a few faults but most fine, many better stamps included. (1,000s). Photo on Page 94. (Image1)

Commonwealth and foreign stamps and covers including 1938 postcard from Dachau Concentration Camp franked 3pf pair; two 1865 entire letters from Pondicherry to Mauritius both with very scarce "MOCAMBIQUE" ship datestamps, one also with "MEINAM" ship c.d.s, unfortunately with stamps torn out; 1948 (Jan. - Mar.) telegrams from Jerusalem to Paris, the first stating "postal services suspended" (3); note written by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on printed notepaper arranging a dental appointment; pencil design for 2002 Grenadines H.M Queen Mother sheetlet signed by Jennifer Toombs; 1897-98 O.F.S postcards cancelled by M, X or Y obliterators; 1821 British and Foreign Bible Society printed notices sent within the Liverpool Penny Post (2); stamps with Bavaria 1875 7k blue (thin) and 10k ochre used (S.G. 71, 73, £875), etc. Also Salles Maritime Mail volume VI (Bendon reprint). An unusual group.

The large accumulation of worldwide stamps in six boxes, some collections in albums and stockbooks, many stamps loose or in envelopes, G.B, Commonwealth and foreign. (Many 1,000s).

The large accumulation of worldwide stamps in six boxes, some collections in albums and stockbooks, many stamps loose or in envelopes, G.B, Commonwealth and foreign. (Many 1,000s).

The large worldwide mint and used accumulation in 25 stockbooks, on stockcards and loose, much duplication. (1,000s).

Extensive worldwide collections in nineteen albums and on pages including albums of French Colonies and Post Offices (2), Portugal, Denmark, France, Belgium (2), Switzerland, USA, Portuguese Colonies, Greece (2), etc., some reasonable stamps and sets. (1,000s).

South and Central America. The extensive mint and used accumulation in three boxes including Colombia with 1917 set in mint blocks of four; Venezuela with early issues, specimens and proofs; Panama with proofs, 1906 set of eight (with six additional values) all with inverted centre; Nicaragua with Bluefields overprints; Uruguay, etc. (1000s).

South and Central America - Forgeries. Collection written up on pages, mainly 19th Century issues with some phantoms, genuine stamps, etc. (c.1,000).

1948-84 Presentation stamp folders prepared for delegates at U.P.U conferences, some inscribed to the Paraguay delegate, including 1948 folders from India and Colombia, 1952 folders from Colombia, Argentina, Germany, France, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Japan, G.B, Russia, Portugal, India, Switzerland and Venezuela, etc., faults and staining to some stamps. (18).

Forgeries. c.1859-1945 Forgeries in a stockbook, strength in Colombia (300+) including very good forgeries of private air stamps (two on cover, eight with 2024 R.P.S Certificates as forgeries), also Venezuela, 1945 Germany local overprints (350+), etc. An interesting lot. (900+).

1856-97 Covers including c.1873 Venezuela entire to La Guaira bearing 1866-68 ½r cancelled undated double ring "CORREOS / CARACAS" and 1873 ½r with tiny "Estampillas de Correo / Contrasena" two line overprint cancelled oval "CORREOS / CARACAS / DE VENEZUELA", 1856 Tasmania cover to Hobart franked 4d with oval cancel and manuscript "Bothwell" Post Office endorsement, etc. (8).

1865-1908 Covers (6) and various forged stamps (75), with Jamaica covers tied by numeral cancels (3, one 1865 entire letter with Pines watermark 1d pair cancelled "A43"), Victoria and N.S.W Deficient Postage handstamps (3), forgeries including Shanghai (32), Suez Canal Co. (19), etc. (81).

Covers, postcards and some stamps, a large quantity in two large boxes, many G.B KEVII and KGV picture postcards, a written up collection of 1960s Lufthansa first flight covers, Lloyds of London 1984 and 1988 stamp collections, etc. (1,000s).

1909-46 Covers and cards, mainly WW1 (19) or WW2 (14) P.O.W mail, with four WW2 covers to German P.O.Ws in north Africa all returned marked "decede", four others with "Gebuhr bezahlt" handstamps. (42).

Mourning Covers. c.1822-2000 Covers and lettersheets mainly from Europe, the very extensive collection with items from Belgium (123, also covers bearing Queen Astrid mourning stamps), France (c.400), Germany (c.430, some royalty related, also covers bearing Hindenburg mourning stamps), Italy (176), Netherlands (106), Sweden (63), Switzerland (c.250), etc., many printed lettersheets containing death notices, some covers from G.B to Europe, also mourning covers from or to Australia (35) including 1930 cover to London with the stamp washed off and boxed "DAMAGED BY FIRE / ON S.S COMORIN". (c.2,000).

Train Crashes. 1937-60 Covers with train wreck cachets from USA (2), Canada or Sweden, comprising 1937 "DAMAGED BY WATER / DUE TO TRAIN WRECK" on cover from London, Ontario to Toronto; 1937 "DAMAGED BY FIRE / OG & LA TR.5 AUG 22" on 3c window envelope from New York; 1960 DAMAGED IN FIRE IN RAILWAY / MAIL CAR AT CADIZ CALIF." on cover from Kentucky to San Diego; and 1954 Swedish cover with four line Rorvik crash cachet, all with some damage or stamps washed off. Also a 1985 water damaged cover from Egypt to Texas, enclosed within a U.S P.O bag, with light cachet "Damaged in an Air, Train or Ship Accident beyond control of the U.S Postal Service", the incident unknown. (5).

Mint and used selection on stockcards including British Solomon Islands 1907 set used, Basutoland 1933 set mint, British Antarctic Territory 1963-69 set (with both £1 stamps) mint and used, Brunei Malaya-Borneo Exhibition set mint, Kedah 1937 set mint, New Zealand 1898 perf 12-16 set mint, North Borneo 1939 postage due set mint, KUT 1895 (July) 2a handstamped overprint mint, etc. S.G. £3,000++. (400+).

Extensive collection in eighteen albums and on pages, many reasonable KGVI and early QEII sets mint and used including Kuwait 1939-59 complete mint (1939 set unmounted), Malaya with Kedah 1937 set mint, Johore postage dues used, Bermuda mint and used Keyplates to £1, also Cyprus, Sudan, Aden, Ascension, Brunei, Gambia, Gibraltar, KUT, Seychelles, Pakistan, Bahamas, etc. (1,000s).

1937-52 KGVI Collection in an S.G. KGVI album, with further issues in a stockbook, including complete mint sets to the £1 from Bahamas, Leeward Islands, etc. (1,000s).

1937-52 KGVI Used collection in an S.G. KGVI album, a very well filled album with many complete sets and better stamps, including Aden complete, many Malaya sets, most 1948 Royal Wedding stamps, etc. S.G. £10,000+. (100s).

QV-KGV Mint and used collection in two New Imperial albums, a very good level of completeness with G.B 1d blacks (3, all fine), 1840 2d (3), Small Crown perf 16 1d mint, 2d plate 9 mint, ½d plate 9 used, 2/- brown used, I.R Official £1 green used, O.W Official QV 5d and Govt. Parcels 1900 1/- mint; Antigua 1903-29 complete mint; Ascension 1922-33 complete mint; Australia 1913-36 issues used to 5/-, 10/- or £1 values; Bahamas 1883 4d on 6d used, 1884-1937 virtually complete mint; Barbados imperfs (11), 1873 5/- used; Basutoland 1933 set mint; Bechuanaland Protectorate 1888 4d black on 4d mint, 1932 set mint; Bermuda 1918-22 10/- used, £1 mint, 1924-32 set mint; British Columbia 1868-71 perf 12½ 25c, 50c used; B.E.A 1895-96 2r-5r mint, 1897-1903 3r and 4r mint; Br. Solomon Is. complete mint or used; Br. Somaliland O.H.M.S 1r mint; Brunei 1906-37 virtually complete mint (no 1906 $1, 1910 $25, with 1910 $5 used); Burma 1937 set to 10r and 1939 official set mint; Cameroons C.E.F 1s, 3s mint; Canada 1852-57 3d used (huge margins), 1897 ½c - 20c mint, 8c - $2 and $4 used, registered letter 8c used; Cape triangulars (29) with 1d and 2d woodblocks, Mafeking (7), Vryburg (2); Cayman Is. virtually complete mint (no 2½d on 4d), also 1932 10/- used; Ceylon Chalon Heads (80+); British P.O in China $3 used; Cyprus 1880 set mint, 1d pl. 181 mint, 1881 Crown CC set mint, 1902-04 45pi used, 1923 10/- and £1 mint, 1928 set mint and used; Dominica 1923-33 set mint; Falklands 1898-1928 mint, 1929-37 mint to 10/- and set used, Centenary set mint (10/- used); Fiji 1906-12 set mint; Gilbert & Ellice complete mint; Gold Coast 1894 £1, 1902 set, 1913-21 set, 1924 15/- mint; Grenada 1906 and 1908 10/- both used; Hong Kong Jubilee 2c mint and used, 1904-06 used to $5, 1912-21 set used, postal fiscals perf 14 $2 used, $1 on $2 mint and used; India 1854 4a cut square used (2), 1856-64 8a die I mint pair (creased), 1866 6a used (both types), 1902 25r used (telegraph c.d.s), 1926-33 set mint, 1929 Air 8a missing tree top mint; KUT 1903 2r, 3r, 10r used, 1904-07 5r mint, 1912 10r mint, 20r (both) used, 1921 5r mint, 3r used, 1922-27 £1 used, 1935-37 set used; Kuwait 1929-37 10r mint, 1933-34 Air 4a used, 1929-33 1r-15r officials mint; Leeward 1s. 1928 £1 mint; Malta 1863-81 ½d mint (9), 1922 10/- mint, 1922 Self Government 10/- used (both types); Mauritius 1848-59 1d latest impression (4 margins), 2d worn impression, 1859 Lapirot 2d and Dardenne 2d, 1858 4d green surcharge all used; Montserrat 1880 2½d used, 1903 5/- used, 1907 5/- mint and used, 1908-35 complete mint; Nauru virtually complete mint; New Brunswick 6d used (four margins); Newfoundland 1857-64 8d and 1/- used (four margins) and many later sets mint and used; N.S.W O.S 5/- mint, postage due 10/- mint; N.Z Chalon Heads (50+, 24 imperf), 1899 5/- mint; Northern Nigeria 1900 set, 1905-12 sets mint; Northern Rhodesia 1925-29 set used; Nyasaland 1895 2/6 and £1 used, 5/- mint, 1896 5/- mint, 1897 2/6 - 10/- mint, 1903 10/- mint, 1908 2/6 - 10/- mint, 1913-21 £1 used; Queensland 1882-95 2/- and £1 cancelled "BNG" (New Guinea), £1 unused, postal fiscal 1866 watermark 1/- and 1871 1/- (both) in mint pairs; Rhodesia 1896 1d on 3d and 3d on 5/- mint, 1897 £1 mint, 1910-13 2/6 - 5/- and 10/- mint; St. Helena 1908 10/- mint, 1922-37 set mint (no 15/-), 1934 10/- mint and used; St. Kitts 1920-35 complete mint; Sarawak 1891 5c on 12c (S.G. 26) mint and used (2); Seychelles virtually complete mint with 1906 30c dented frame; Sierra Leone 1891-97 set, 1903 £1, 1904-12 sets, 1912-21 issue to £1, 1932 and 1933 sets all mint; South Africa 1916 £1 used; South Australia 1886-96 5/-, 10/- mint, 15/- used; Southern Nigeria 1906 and 1909 £1 used; Straits 1867 first set used (no 6c), 1882 5c on 4c mint, 1923 $500 fiscally used; British P.O in Bangkok 4c rose type 2 overprint used; Trengganu 1912 and 1938 $5 mint; Tanganyika 1921 3r used, 1922-24 and 1927-31 sets mint; Tobago 1879 5/- used; Trinidad 1852-60 1d grey used, 1896 set mint, 1914 and 1921 £1 mint; Turks Is. '4' on 1/- lilac mint; Victoria 1905 perf 12½ £1 mint, £2 used; Western Australia 1854-64 imperfs and rouletted issues (10, with rouletted 1/- and 6d sage-green used); Zululand 1888-93 5/- used, 1894-96 £5 double value tablet used, etc. A magnificent pair of volumes, some faults mainly amongst earlier issues though the majority are unusually fine, a few mixed mint/used sets but many complete mint and/or used, many higher values, some unmounted, huge catalogue value. (1,000s). Photo on Page 66. (Image1)