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Auction No 429, Category: Postal History

55 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Postal History mix including 1815 EL Denmark to France with DANEMARCK / PAR HAMBOURG, 1863 EL France to UK, 1903 Danish West Indies with 4c bisect,

Lot: 156

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £80
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Postal History mix including 1815 EL Denmark to France with DANEMARCK / PAR HAMBOURG, 1863 EL France to UK, 1903 Danish West Indies with 4c bisect, Ukraine 1919 1kop postal stationery wrapper with added adhesive, and 1957 GB Graphite set on FDC. VG/VF (25)

World Postal Stationery, 19th Century to 1930s, including 39 items postally used. The used include Railway TPO cancels of India (2), Sweden (6)

Lot: 159

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £34
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World Postal Stationery, 19th Century to 1930s, including 39 items postally used. The used include Railway TPO cancels of India (2), Sweden (6) and Italy, plus 1898 French Pneumatic Post Card FU. The unused include fine South Australia PC overprinted SPECIMEN. Many items with hinge or adhesion marks on reverse. Mixed condition. (81)

Postal History interest including 1837-39 Free Fronts (3) signed by Thomas Marsland (M.P. for Stockport); 1897-1912 Letters from R.M.S. Mauretania

Lot: 160

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Postal History interest including 1837-39 Free Fronts (3) signed by Thomas Marsland (M.P. for Stockport); 1897-1912 Letters from R.M.S. Mauretania and H.M.S. Majestic, latter in original cover; 1768 EL Harrow to Marlborough with Bishop Mark; WWI Naval covers (3) with improvised security dumb cancels; and various others. Also Gibbard Jackson's From Post Boy to Air Mail in worn d/jkt, and sundry unrelated ephemera.

Postal History mix including 1930s/40s Japanese military mail (15), 1937 Mauritius to Malta via Sicily, 1930s South Africa meter mail (9, 5 registd.)

Lot: 161

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £72
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Postal History mix including 1930s/40s Japanese military mail (15), 1937 Mauritius to Malta via Sicily, 1930s South Africa meter mail (9, 5 registered), 1904 from Pretoria with Lourenco-Marques TPO cancel, etc. Also four photos including 1932 U.S. Airship at Portland, Oregon. Mixed condition. (51)

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

Lot: 164

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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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)

Military and POW mail, mostly France WWI with good range of Tresor et Postes cancels and regimental cachets, others WW2 including Italian POWs

Lot: 165

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Military and POW mail, mostly France WWI with good range of Tresor et Postes cancels and regimental cachets, others WW2 including Italian POWs especially from Egypt. Mostly good to fine. (38)

Great Britain 1740-1841 collection of ELs from Manchester with an all-different range of handstamps including six 18th Century, various mileages,

Lot: 166

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £170
SOLD £100
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Great Britain 1740-1841 collection of ELs from Manchester with an all-different range of handstamps including six 18th Century, various mileages, TOO LATE marks (3 different), and other postal markings. Mixed quality, some fine. (23)

Great Britain Postmaster Generals, Secretaries to the Post Office and similar: a collection 21 x 16cm photographs written up on album leaves,

Lot: 170

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Great Britain Postmaster Generals, Secretaries to the Post Office and similar: a collection 21 x 16cm photographs written up on album leaves, each contained in a plastic exhibition protector. VG lot (111)

Great Britain Telegrams, a collection including 1860 Electric & International Telegraph Co.,1940 Western Union with UK Censor cachet,

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £58
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Great Britain Telegrams, a collection including 1860 Electric & International Telegraph Co., 1940 Western Union with UK Censor cachet, Cable & Wireless 1951 (2), many GPO Greetings types from pre-WW2 to 1970s with scarce 1938 Hull Exhibition, and few publicity items. (45). Also telegram envelopes. (Qty)

Great Britain 1865-73 Covers comprising 1865 EL Newcastle to USA with 1s plate 4, ‘Pr. Cunard Mail via Liverpool’ and h/s 5 CENTS of New York;

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Great Britain 1865-73 Covers comprising 1865 EL Newcastle to USA with 1s plate 4, ‘Pr. Cunard Mail via Liverpool' and h/s 5 CENTS of New York; 1865 cover London to Edinburgh with 2d pl.9, b/s fine EDINr.M2 / 2 railway TPO cancel; and 1873 letter sheet with halfpenny pl.5 FU with Glasgow cds. (3)      

Great Britain Post Office Savings Bank ephemera with five different deposit books 1915-53, one with 1s stamp, two publicity leaflets and a gift token

Lot: 173

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Great Britain Post Office Savings Bank ephemera with five different deposit books 1915-53, one with 1s stamp, two publicity leaflets and a gift token.

Great Britain Military mail, WW2 to 1960s, plus few WW2 censored civilian items including two Cable & Wireless telegrams.

Lot: 174

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Great Britain Military mail, WW2 to 1960s, plus few WW2 censored civilian items including two Cable & Wireless telegrams. Includes some American forces and British Naval. 102 are post-WW2 with wide range of Field Post Office cancels including Hong Kong, Malta and elsewhere. Mixed quality. (124)

Channel Islands WW2 Occupation Covers, comprising commercial mail and German military (7, two philatelic), the majority Guernsey.

Lot: 180

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Channel Islands WW2 Occupation Covers, comprising commercial mail and German military (7, two philatelic), the majority Guernsey. Also two German letters, and some stamps including Jersey views set of six FU. Mixed quality. (30, plus stamps etc.)

Australia & States 1861 to 1952 covers & cards including used (7) and unused (19) postal stationery with better items;

Lot: 184

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £88
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Australia & States 1861 to 1952 covers & cards including used (7) and unused (19) postal stationery with better items; includes few 1930s/40s air mails including 1934 St.Pirie to Adelaide “Per Adelaide-Eyre Peninsula Air Service”.  Fair-VF. (40)

Canada Postal History mix including 1880s covers (6) with QV 1c, 3c (3) or 5c adhesives; many EVII/GV period including registered mail;

Lot: 187

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £76
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Canada Postal History mix including 1880s covers (6) with QV 1c, 3c (3) or 5c adhesives; many EVII/GV period including registered mail; 1928-42 First Flight and Special Flight covers (19); 1920s fronts (22) mainly with slogan cancels; also used postal stationery, plus few unused. Fair to VF (98)

Czechoslovakia 1938-39 Military PCs (12) and Covers (4) with a variety of fine POLNI POSTA datestamps, six with censor h/s.

Lot: 188

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Czechoslovakia 1938-39 Military PCs (12) and Covers (4) with a variety of fine POLNI POSTA datestamps, six with censor h/s. Includes three with military railway TPO cancels VOJENSKA VLAKOVA POSTA Nos. 1, 13 and 14. (16)

Czechoslovakia 1939-43 Newspapers (3), Covers (3) and a wrapper, four with Bohemia & Moravia newspaper stamps, a 1939 Cover with large PZ label

Lot: 189

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £72
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Czechoslovakia 1939-43 Newspapers (3), Covers (3) and a wrapper, four with Bohemia & Moravia newspaper stamps, a 1939 Cover with large PZ label (cash on delivery service for payment of parcels). VG/Fine (7)    

Falkland Is 1950s/80s Covers (132), including Dependencies and B.A.T., including FDCs, Ships' mail, some personal mail, etc,

Lot: 190

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Falkland Is 1950s/80s Covers (132), including Dependencies and B.A.T., including FDCs, Ships' mail, some personal mail, etc, with range of postal markings, and wide variety of frankings. Also three WW2 decoded telegrams from the British Secretary of State for the Colonies thought to be received in the Falkland Is; and some modern mint stamps. (135, plus stamps)

France WWI PCs (4) from servicemen, one of 1918 from a sailor in Dakar; and impressive censored cover to a Swiss bank with wax seals

Lot: 191

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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France WWI PCs (4) from servicemen, one of 1918 from a sailor in Dakar; and impressive censored cover to a Swiss bank with wax seals inscribed MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE / CONTROLE POSTAL PONTARLIER front and back.  (5)

French Colonies covers & cards, 1898-1948; including Military mail from Indo-China (2, 1898 & 1908), Algeria, Syria (2) & Morocco;

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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French Colonies covers & cards, 1898-1948; including Military mail from Indo-China (2, 1898 & 1908), Algeria, Syria (2) & Morocco; and 1941 New Zealand to Tahiti with CONTROLE / POSTAL / ESTABLISSEMENT / FRANCAISE / DE L'OCEANIE censor h/s. VG/Fine. (12)