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Auction No 428, Category: Postal History

32 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

First Flight Covers, 1928-52, mostly UK, including 1928 Experimental Flight Liverpool to Belfast by Flying Boat, 1934 Inverness to Kirkwall,

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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First Flight Covers, 1928-52, mostly UK, including 1928 Experimental Flight Liverpool to Belfast by Flying Boat, 1934 Inverness to Kirkwall, 1938 North Eastern Airways Perth to London and Newcastle to London, and 1937 Douglas to Blackpool by Blackpool & West Coast Air Services. Fine lot. (8)

Box of covers & cards from c.1900, commercial, military and philatelic; with much WW2 Censored mail especially British Forces in Egypt,

Lot: 130

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £120
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Box of covers & cards from c.1900, commercial, military and philatelic; with much WW2 Censored mail especially British Forces in Egypt, some from India including 1944 to UK with scarce “NO MILITARY OBJECTION / Military Press censor / G.H.Q. Paiforce”. Includes neat 1900 OHMS Cover from London with I.R. OFFICIAL 1d lilac. Mixed condition. (237). Also five stamp catalogues including SG Great Britain Specialised (four vols in d/jkts).

Undercover Mail. 1940 Cover from Belgium to P.O. Box 506, Lisbon, forwarded to UK via Thomas Cook, with GB GVI 2½d perfined T.C./ S.,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Undercover Mail. 1940 Cover from Belgium to P.O. Box 506, Lisbon, forwarded to UK via Thomas Cook, with GB GVI 2½d perfined T.C./ S., re-addressed to Thornton Heath with typed label overlaying the P.O. Box address. The cover shows German & British censorship and the cachet THOS.COOK & SON LTD / 12 DEC.1940 / BERKELEY STREET. W.1

WW2 Internee Mail, mostly in Germany, one in Australia, including a French forced labourer in Striegau, a British internee in Ilag VIII, a nursing nun

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £56
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WW2 Internee Mail, mostly in Germany, one in Australia, including a French forced labourer in Striegau, a British internee in Ilag VIII, a nursing nun at Liebenau camp, and two from a British woman in Dongelberg camp. Unusual lot. (7)   

WW2 Italian Prisoner of War mail comprising PCs (5), a letter sheet, and covers (2, both with the letters enclosed) from camps in Egypt (5), Palestine

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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WW2 Italian Prisoner of War mail comprising PCs (5), a letter sheet, and covers (2, both with the letters enclosed) from camps in Egypt (5), Palestine, Libya and Germany, variously addressed, with camp & censor marks etc. Good to fine. (8)

WW2 Liebenau Internment Camp, Germany. A group of five covers to convents in the UK from three different British nuns interned at Liebenau camp,

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £44
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WW2 Liebenau Internment Camp, Germany. A group of five covers to convents in the UK from three different British nuns interned at Liebenau camp, and working as nurses at Ravensburg hospital, all showing British and German censorship. (5)   

WW2 POW & Internment Camp mail comprising 1943 PC from a Ukrainian forced labourer in Neustadt; to British internees in Ilag VIII, Tost (7);

Lot: 135

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £52
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WW2 POW & Internment Camp mail comprising 1943 PC from a Ukrainian forced labourer in Neustadt; to British internees in Ilag VIII, Tost (7); and from British POWs at Stalag 383 (4) and Stalag XB; with an all-different range of camp censor cachets etc. (13)

WW2 POW & Internment Camp mail from internees in Jamaica and Switzerland, a German prisoner in Canada, to a Polish POW in Russia,

Lot: 136

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £44
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WW2 POW & Internment Camp mail from internees in Jamaica and Switzerland, a German prisoner in Canada, to a Polish POW in Russia, a Ukrainian in Lubeck, and to a Serbian officer in Oflag 54IVE, Germany. Also a message card from the Polish Consulate in Berne of 1942 to a Polish internee, lacking the original envelope in which it was enclosed. (7)

Meter Cancellations. A worldwide collection of 1950s meter marks on piece, neatly mounted on album leaves, largely on the theme of Textiles.

Lot: 137

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £40
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Meter Cancellations. A worldwide collection of 1950s meter marks on piece, neatly mounted on album leaves, largely on the theme of Textiles. (approx. 800)

Boer War Postal History 1900-02, a selection of covers & a post card from members of the Royal Engineers, all bar one with FIELD POST OFFICE

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £30
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Boer War Postal History 1900-02, a selection of covers & a post card from members of the Royal Engineers, all bar one with FIELD POST OFFICE or ARMY P.O. cancels including FPO 3, 19, 21, 26, and 46, and APO 53. One cover badly damaged, others fair to VG. Together with a related stereoscopic photograph. (13)

Naval Mail 1970s/80s, mostly German ships, a collection of covers, all with ships’ cachets, world-wide locations, fine condition. (295)

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Naval Mail 1970s/80s, mostly German ships, a collection of covers, all with ships' cachets, world-wide locations, fine condition. (295)

World Postal History mix, all periods with much pre-1950. Interest in Palestine, French North Africa, Dutch East Indies, Channel Is., Nigeria

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £105
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World Postal History mix, all periods with much pre-1950. Interest in Palestine, French North Africa, Dutch East Indies, Channel Is., Nigeria, and GB 1950s with Mobile Post Office cancels. Fair to VF (146). Also a bundle of 1890s/1940s GB Telegrams.

European postal history with Norway including 1888 and 1932 Rly. TPOs, and 1934-38 Airmails (3); Netherlands (9) including 1930s/1950 airmails,

Lot: 142

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £36 - £46
SOLD £24
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European postal history with Norway including 1888 and 1932 Rly. TPOs, and 1934-38 Airmails (3); Netherlands (9) including 1930s/1950 airmails, and WW2 Censored (2); 1938-39 Spain censored (2); 1946 from German POW in French Zone to the Russian Zone; and various others. Mainly good to fine. (29)

World Covers & Cards in two albums & loose, 1850s to 1980s, philatelic and commercial, with emphasis on GB and C/Wealth. Mainly VG/VF. (203)

Lot: 147

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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World Covers & Cards in two albums & loose, 1850s to 1980s, philatelic and commercial, with emphasis on GB and C/Wealth. Mainly VG/VF. (203)

Great Britain 1740-1790 ELs from Manchester to Cornwall (2) and Kendal with fair to good MANCHESTER handstamps.

Lot: 148

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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Great Britain 1740-1790 ELs from Manchester to Cornwall (2) and Kendal with fair to good MANCHESTER handstamps, British County Catalogue Nos. M9, M29 and M35; the 1740 letter in poor condition.. A scarce group. (3)

Great Britain 1792-1799 ELs from Manchester to Rochdale with fair to very good MANCHESTER handstamps, BCC Nos. M39, M43 and M51,

Lot: 149

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Great Britain 1792-1799 ELs from Manchester to Rochdale with fair to very good MANCHESTER handstamps, BCC Nos. M39, M43 and M51, the 1792 EL with seal cut away. (3)

Great Britain 1800-1821 ELs from Manchester, variously addressed, with all-different range of good to VF MANCHESTER datestamps, mostly dated mileages

Lot: 150

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
UNSOLD
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Great Britain 1800-1821 ELs from Manchester, variously addressed, with all-different range of good to VF MANCHESTER datestamps, mostly dated mileages, one with Too Late in oval. BCC Nos. M53, M55, M58 (in red and black), M61, M70, M74, M102, and M255. (9)

Great Britain Postmaster General Annual Reports for 1858 to 1865, 1885 to 1890, 1891 to 1900, and 1901 to 1910, bound into four volumes,

Lot: 151

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Great Britain Postmaster General Annual Reports for 1858 to 1865, 1885 to 1890, 1891 to 1900, and 1901 to 1910, bound into four volumes, the bindings poor, some pages damaged in 1858/65 volume but generally the contents complete and clean and a mine of information.. (33 reports) 

Great Britain 1818-1838 ELs from Manchester, variously addressed, with all-different range of fair to fine Manchester handstamps,

Lot: 152

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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Great Britain 1818-1838 ELs from Manchester, variously addressed, with all-different range of fair to fine Manchester handstamps, including PAID AT MANCHESTER (5 types), Too Late (2 types), and ARDWICK / MANCHR. in oval. Also 1841 cover with 1d red (damaged) and P.L. in oval. BCC Nos. 104, 108, 120, 122, 126, 128, 169, and 391. (8)

Great Britain pre-stamp to 1970 covers & cards; including 1815 good TUNBRIDGE mileage; EVII/GV period Skeletons (16) with some VG/ Fine;

Lot: 153

  • Auction Date: Wed 28th Aug 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £76
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Great Britain pre-stamp to 1970 covers & cards; including 1815 good TUNBRIDGE mileage; EVII/GV period Skeletons (16) with some VG/Fine; and various others including unused postal stationery (6), mainly GVI period. Mixed quality. (54)