Lot: 201
Portugal 1853 50 Reis yellow-green VGU, clear to large margins, cut-square. SG 6. Cat £1500
Lot: 202
Portugal 1855-56 5 Reis red-brown, straight hair, VGU, cut-square, huge margins, initialled on reverse in pencil. SG 10. Cat £1400
Lot: 203
Portugal 1892-1975 collection in Davo album, mint or used (modern issues UM); with 1892-93 PROVISORIO ovpts. FU; 1894 Henry the Navigator set FU (cancelled by favour); 1895-1905 set including 75 Reis rose and 150 Reis mint; 1898 Vasco da Gama set (top 3 values mint); 1910 set mint; 1911 Surcharges mint or used; 1912 Ceres 8c slate mint (2); 1925 Camilo Branco set including 2E.40 and 3E. mint; 1926 First Independence set (top 6 values FU); 1926 Ceres 2E.40 (SG 572) mint and 3E. pink used; 1926 Ceres redrawn set to 5E. mint; 1927 Second Independence set mint and fairly complete (less miniature sheets) including 1931 Nuno Pereira set (top value mint) and 1948-49 Caravels mint; also range of Dues and Tax stamps. Good to VF and STC £13,350
Lot: 204
Portugal 1895 700th Birth Anniversary of St. Anthony mainly fine used, the 2½ Reis unused, the 25 Reis mint. Scarce set. Cat £1800 (15)
Lot: 205
Portuguese Colonies M&U ranges in stockbook, mostly 20th Century, with main interest in Mozambique, Cape Verde, Portuguese Guinea, Portuguese India and Timor. Little duplication. Mainly good to VF and STC £1633. (100s)
Lot: 206
Russia 1907-1916 group of covers etc to Bridgwater, Somerset, some containing lengthy letters describing life in Russia; good range of frankings, eight showing Moscow WWI Censorship. Fair to fine (19). Also two telegrams.
Lot: 207
Somalia – Italian Somaliland 1903-1936 VG collection on printed leaves including rare 1906 2l & 10l Postage Dues fresh mint (signed in pencil on reverse), 1926 Definitives to 10l and Postage Due set (less 2lire) fresh mint, and other scarce including better 1930s Pictorials in sets or near-sets; includes Jubaland (STC £894) with very good 1920s Definitives to 10l (UM). Mostly good to VF and STC £9273 (abt.340)
Lot: 208
Spain 1930s to 1980s accumulation in stockbook with better mid-period mint including VG range of Civil War overprints; later issues feature many UM or FU sets plus several miniature sheets. Good to VF. Cat over £1600 (100s)
Lot: 209
Sweden assortment of Covers and some stamps, written up on pages and loose; chief interest in Insured mail 1873-1921 with 7 covers & 2 postal receipts, plus 1948 Balloon-Post Lottery card. Good to VF (Qty)
Lot: 210
Sweden postal stationery collection, used & unused, 1870s to 1970s and mostly pre-1930; comprises chiefly PCs & envelopes. Some uprated with additional adhesives. Used predominate. VG to VF (166)
Lot: 211
Sweden 1920-79 fine mint collection in hingeless album, with much UM plus few FU; including VG range of the 1920/34 Definitives with various papers, perfs and types; the issues from 1938 apparently all UM including several of the scarcer 1938/40 Booklet pairs and 1942 20kr Swans perforated on 4 sides; later issues fairly comprehensive. STC £5000+
Lot: 212
Sweden 1929-1981 flown covers, commercial and philatelic, mostly pre-1950 with 44 pre-1940; includes 40 First Flight or special flight covers. Fair to VF. Also 1920 Airmail set mint. (89 + stamps)
Lot: 213
Switzerland 1870-1900s PS Envelope and PS Cards (16), plus two chromo-litho PPCs, all with Chocolat Suchard advertising, various designs, mostly postally used, fair to VF (19). Together with a collection of fine 1940s/60s covers & cards(100) with Publicity handstamps, all contained in a cover album.
Lot: 214
Switzerland 1882-1903 Standing Helvetias to 3Fr (26), plus some UPU issues, a FU accumulation ideal for study of perfs, papers and shades, neatly housed in large stockbook; STC 30,500 Swiss Francs and mostly VG/VF (abt. 2,200)
Lot: 215
Switzerland 20th Century commercial & philatelic covers in 3 albums; including an album of tete-beche and se-tenant frankings with several scarce, plus Bus Posts and Airmails. VG/VF (201)
Lot: 216
Switzerland covers & cards in two albums, one containing collection of used postal stationery cards 1900s/70s, the other with 1950s/60s covers including many registered and Express. VG/VF (146)
Lot: 217
Switzerland 1909-18 VFU Tete-Beche selection including 1909 25c (SG 233a), rare 1910 5c Type II (SG 257a) and 1918 15c (SG 285a). VG lot Cat £1403
Lot: 218
Switzerland 1920 to c.1992 duplicated stock of Pro Juventute and Pro Patria issues in stockbook, mint, used and UM with numerous sets, with main value in the 1920s to 1970s issues; untidy lot but condition largely VG/VF and catalogue over £2500. (Many 100s)
Lot: 219
Switzerland 1921-1997 collection of VFU Tete-Beche pairs and blocks in hingeless album with many better items; STC 9,380 Swiss Francs. Strength in pre-1940 issues. Fine
Lot: 220
Swiss Postmark Literature comprising Grosses Handbuch der Abstemplungen auf Schweizer Marken 1843-1907, 1969-73 in 8 vols; Handbuch der Maschinenstempel Schweiz, Liechtenstein, UNO Genf 1983 in 2 vols; and another. (11)