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)
Lot: 281
Great Britain EVII to 1970s Printed Matter Rate Covers, a collection on album leaves with a wide range of triangular cancellations. (173). Also many items on piece.
Lot: 282
Great Britain 1924-84 collection in hingeless album, a mix of mint and used to 1952 including RSW set UM and other better; the QE2 predominantly mint with much UM including some better Phosphor commem sets (e.g. Red Cross) and decimal commems complete. (100s)
Lot: 283
Great Britain GVI/QE2 commercial mail, mostly with Meter cancels, some with diamond census marks. Much 1960s. (128). Also many pieces.
Lot: 284
Great Britain postmark ‘errors', a collection of commercial covers, mostly 1960s/70s, with Inverted date slugs, slogans etc, arranged on leaves. (128). Also several items on piece.
Lot: 285
Great Britain 1957-58 philatelic covers with wide variety of T.P.O. cancellations, mixed quality but most are VG/VF strikes. (31)
Lot: 286
Great Britain covers, mostly QE2, arranged on many album leaves, with interest in Recorded Delivery, census marks, slogan cancels etc. (100s) Also items on piece.
Lot: 287
Great Britain First Day & Commemorative Covers, including Isle of Man and Channel Islands, 1960s to 2000s, plus some Poland and Czechoslovakia. Mainly typed address or unaddressed. (abt.1,100)
Lot: 288
Great Britain & Channel Islands FDCs 1960s to 2000s, the majority unaddressed or typed address with some better types. Also some presentation packs, few Isle of Man FDCs and some foreign. (abt. 900)
Lot: 289
Great Britain 1970s to c.1980 collection on leaves of used postal stationery all featuring octagonal printed stamps, some with added adhesives. VG condition. (64). Also two unused.