Lot: 159
Covers, PCs and ephemera; including GB with 1d reds (4), and later with squared circles; 1880 document (cut down) with 1s6d Justice Room adhesive, signed by the Lord Mayor of London; first flight covers from 1940s; 1890s with U.S. Flag Cancels; and others. (58 items)
Lot: 160
World collection in ten assorted binders, on leaves, in packets etc. Includes many mint GB commem sets to 2008 (high face value) and similar used. (1000s)
Lot: 161
Assorted Covers in album & loose, including few 1d Red covers, bundle of 1943-45 Forces Air Letters & covers to a private with M.E.F., 1940s Palestine (3); 1946 Hong Kong ‘Victory' set on Ill. FDC; modern FDCs of India; etc. Mainly VG/VF (99)
Lot: 162
Postal Stationery and some PPCs, used and unused, with much GB; all periods, some better items, mixed condition. (abt.240)
Lot: 163
Album leaves with 1840s to 1940s ranges; main interest in Great Britain including 1d Black (cut close) and other QV to 2s6d with some mint, EVII values to 1s mint and 5s used, and GV to 2s6d mint and 10s used. Mixed quality. (100s)
Lot: 164
Carton with GB Presentation Packs (65, mainly 1970s), numerous cigarette & trade cards, early 20th Century stereoscopic PPCs, and various PHQ cards. (Large qty)
Lot: 165
Various in carton including UM Ireland in hingeless album; GB FDCs and some packs in album and loose; world ranges on stockleaves including China revenues in blocks, and four used examples of Bahawalpur SG O7; various Royalty stamps; etc. (Large qty).
Lot: 166
World collection in pair of ‘Ideal' albums and three others with much useful mint mid-period notably Ireland with VG/Fine 5s & 10s Seahorses, very good Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, GB (QV are used), Monaco, some China, South Africa and others. Some mint partially adhering. (Many 100s)
Lot: 171
Covers & Cards, mostly GB with interest in slogan cancels and meter mail, GV to QE2 with some better items. (40)
Lot: 175
Ranges in albums, stockbooks, on stockcards etc; including collections of 19th Cent. Austria, and Poland from 1918; early 20th Cent. Ethiopia, 1960s China, some modern UM GB and few FDCs from 1948; Jersey packs; some PPCs and related literature; etc. (Many 100s)
Lot: 179
Telegrams, British and Foreign, a collection from 1883 to 1960s, chiefly GB Post Office (67, various types), plus pictorial greetings telegrams of Denmark (20), Hungary (30), Sweden (24), Switzerland (7) and few other countries, plus Imperial Wireless Services and Commercial Cables (2). Some with original delivery envelopes. Fair to VF (161)
Lot: 180
Winston Churchill 1960s/80s covers, miniature sheets, post cards, and few other items, neatly displayed in album. VG/VF (51 items). Also a few stamps.
Lot: 183
Undercover Mail. 1943 Cover from the Warsaw Ghetto to Rua Alexandre Herculano, Lisboa, Portugal (undercover address for the Polish Red Cross, London); and 1944 Cover from India to G.P.O. Box 260/56 (the Polish Army in the UK) with POCZTA POLOWA cds and faint censor cachet. Also 1941 signed letter from General Paszkiewicz (C.O., 1st Polish Rifle Brigade) to Kathleen Smith of Biggar thanking her for her work as an ambulance driver, together with original envelope and some Polish Field Post stamps.
Lot: 184
Military & Censored mail, WWI to 1980s, chiefly British and American, including 1915 PPC with rare CUTBUSH / CURRAGH CAMP rubber cds, British POW mail, civilian censorship etc. Chiefly 1940s. (47). Also photocopies and collector's correspondence.
Lot: 188
Great Britain pre-stamp to early-QE2 Covers & Cards in album and loose, eight with 1d red imperfs, nine with later line-engraved, 1890 to India franked with 5d Jubilee, and nice range of QV/GVI used postal stationery. Includes fine 1872 Valentine embossed envelope with invitation enclosed, and 1925 Cover with 1½d Wembley and Exhibition slogan. Good to fine. (65)
Lot: 189
GB Post Office ephemera including 19th Century engraving publicising J. Young's Post Office at Malvern Link, a late-Victorian glass hold-to-light cartoon in wooden frame, 1957 Instructions to Head Postmasters, and public notices of 1890 and 1960 on posting arrangements for Christmas. Also proof impressions of slogan cancellations, some stamp booklets, GPO reports, etc. The Malvern Link engraving frayed along top edge o/w VG/VF. (Qty.)
Lot: 190
Great Britain 1840 2d Blue, ‘KK', fine used with clear MX, four margins, just touching at two corners. Slightly rubbed lower right.
Lot: 191
Ralph Allen (1693-1764, city of Bath postmaster and founder of the ‘Cross Post' system): 1755 cut-down wrapper to London endorsed Free, R. Allen' with faint s/line BATH and Bishop mark on flap. Together with a modern PPC. [A note applied by a 19th (?) Century collector reads From Dr: afterwards Bishop Warburton, and dated from Bath June 28.1755.,W.V., and will have referred to the original letter enclosed,as it would appear that the address panel has been written and signed by Ralph Allen on the Bishop's behalf],
Lot: 192
John Palmer (1741-1818, founder of the UK Mail Coach system): 1805 wrapper from Bath to Brighton signed by Palmer lower left, with large FREE datestamp and s/line BATH. Together with a related cigarette card. [Palmer was M.P. for the city of Bath at this time].
Lot: 193
Great Britain QV to QE2 collection in six stockbooks, two cover albums & loose; chief interest in 20th Century issues with much mint decimal to 1995 with values to £5 and numerous commemorative sets, plus many FDCs (typed address). (Many 100s)