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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
Lot: 290
Great Britain 1960s/90s Covers & Cards with various Instructional marks, many charged Postage Due. On leaves & loose. (151)
Lot: 315
Canada Postal History QV/GVI with all periods well represented, including better 19th Century, used postal stationery, air mails, etc. Wide range of frankings and cancels. Mostly good to VF. Also 21 items of unused postal stationery. (108)
Lot: 316
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)
Lot: 318
France 1870 (15th Dec.) Siege of Paris cover to UK, endorsed Par ballon monte, carried on the 17th December flight of the balloon ‘Le Parmentier' which landed at Gourgancon carrying 360lbs of mail.