Lot: 261
World ranges on stockleaves, in stockbooks & loose, mostly 20th Century M&U and UM, plus covers; interest in Israel from early issues, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Monaco, Poland and many others. Untidy lot. (Many 1000s)
Lot: 262
First Day & Commemorative Covers, mostly GB, Isle of Man and Channel Islands, 1960s to 2000s, mainly typed address or unaddressed. Also some postcards, mini-sheets etc. (abt. 550)
Lot: 263
British Forces mail 1941-66 from Libya (12) and Aden (4), with different FIELD POST OFFICE cancels, six WW2 period with censor cachets, good to fine. (16)
Lot: 264
World War I Military Mail, chiefly French forces, some British & American. Wide variety of postal markings and military cachets, a few from POWs. Fair to fine. (42)
Lot: 265
Prisoner of War and Internee mail, 1939-47, from and to prisoners mainly in Germany & UK, plus Kenya, Switzerland, Dutch East Indies, Manchuria, Romania, Canada, and France, a few from forced labour camps in Germany. Wide variety of postal markings and camp censor cachets. Also 1973 cover from Walter Reder, war criminal in Gaeta camp, Italy. A few covers with letters enclosed. (68).
Lot: 266
First Day and Commemorative covers in albums and loose, mostly GB, some Netherlands and others, 1960s to modern. Mixed quality. (abt. 430)
Lot: 267
Great Britain 1840-2006 used collection in four hingeless albums including 1d Black VFU four margins, and some other useful QV; EVII to 1s FU; GV to 10s good/fine used; GVI to £1 (3) FU; and many QE2 issues with Castles to £1, some better phosphors, many FU Decimal sets and mini-sheets, machins, etc. Also an album of FDCs and few postal strike covers. (Some 100s)
Lot: 268
Great Britain pre-stamp to 1952 covers & cards; including 1817 EL Demerara to Belfast with LIVERPOOL / SHIP LETTER; 1900 to Australia pmkd. CONTINENTAL NIGHT MAIL cds; 1932-34 covers (2) with LMS Railway Letter Stamps; 1936 Esperanto Congress, Manchester; 1934-35 Special Flights (3) including first flight Inverness-Wick; 1934 Rocket Posts (3) plus a photo of G. Zucker and a related print; and various others. Mainly VG/Fine. (26).
Lot: 269
Great Britain QV to QE2 Covers & Cards, mostly QE2 with Field Post Office cancels of wide variety including some Hong Kong. Mostly good to fine. (82). Also some items on piece.
Lot: 270
Great Britain QV to QE2 ranges in s/book, mainly used including QV to 2s6d. Later includes two decimal Greetings booklets. Mixed condition. (100s)
Lot: 271
Great Britain ranges in stockbook including 1880 Cover with 2d plate, 1924 Wembleys UM, and many UM GVI issues to 5s including inverted watermarks. (c.195)
Lot: 272
Great Britain Post Office straight-line handstamps of the Preston postal district including Goosnargh, Samlesbury, Croston, Fulwood, Catforth, Chipping, etc, all with wooden handles, late-19th/early-20th Century. (10)
Lot: 273
Hastings Wright & A.B. Creeke A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles available for Postal and Telegraph purposes, The Philatelic Society, London, 1899; quarto, half-leather, very worn, inner hinges reinforced with paper strips; fine internally with all plates.
Lot: 274
Philbrick & Westoby The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain, Sampson Low, 1881, rebound in cloth, gilt, xx,384pp, VG, scarce title; and three related books. (4)
Lot: 275
Edward Mogg Paterson's Roads, London, 1824, 17th Edition, quarter-leather, gilt title, some wear, fine internally with all nine folding maps; Sanford & Salt British Postal Rates,1635 to 1839, Postal History Society, 1990; Robertson Great Britain Post Roads, Post Towns and Postal Rates 1635-1839, gilt cloth; and a related work, together with a large 1823 map showing The Circulation of Letters with folds & creasing. (5 items)
Lot: 276
Mynott The Postal History of Preston, Garstang and the Fylde of Lancashire, 1987; Hall Lancashire and Cheshire Dated Rubber Handstamps to 1950, 1998, and Lancashire and Cheshire Single Ring Handstamps, 2000; Moss The Middlewich Letters, 1989; and four related works. (8)
Lot: 277
Frank Bottomley The Franking System in the Post Office 1652-1840, Society of Postal Historians, 1988, A4 s/bk, 195pp; and three related works including first & second editions of Lovegrove's Herewith My Frank. (4)
Lot: 278
Willcocks & Jay The British County Catalogue, Vols.3, 4 and 5, all in d/jkts; plus related works including four on British T.P.O.s. (16 items)
Lot: 279
Cartwright G-Men of the G.P.O. The Story of the G.P.O.'s Fight Against Crime, Sampson Low, [1937], in d/jkt, some foxing, corner of front endpaper cut away; and a collection of others concerning Royal Mail, with some mixed condition. Includes some pamphlets. (27)
Lot: 280
Great Britain Military & Prisoner of War mail, mostly WWI with main interest in covers/cards from POW Camps at Sandgate, Wakefield, Stratford (London), Dorchester, Portsmouth (Prison Ship “S.S. Lake Manitoba”), Newbury, Queensferry (Flintshire), and Islington, most with camp cachets with many fine strikes. Military mail includes forces in the Middle East one with MILITARY CAMP / AERODROME HELIOPOLIS cds. Includes several EVII period PPCs sent from Curragh Camp. (50)