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Auction No 429, Category: Stamps

98 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Autographed commemorative covers, a selection 1985-2005, with signatures of Harold Wilson, Sue Ryder, Edmund Hillary (2, the same), Tony Benn,

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
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Autographed commemorative covers, a selection 1985-2005, with signatures of Harold Wilson, Sue Ryder, Edmund Hillary (2, the same), Tony Benn, and the art historian Dan Cruikshank. Fine throughout. (6)   

Autographed First Day Covers including signatures of Terry Waite, Annabel Croft, Geoff Capes (2), Ann Jones, Willie Carson, Edward de Souza,

Lot: 9

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Autographed First Day Covers including signatures of Terry Waite, Annabel Croft, Geoff Capes (2), Ann Jones, Willie Carson, Edward de Souza, Jeffrey Archer, Isla Blair and Richard Wilson, 17 in all; together with 20 unsigned FDCs. VG/VF (37)

Autographed First Day Covers in two albums, including signatures of Bobby Charlton, Frank Bruno, Johnny Morris, Clare Francis, Spike Milligan,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £140
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Autographed First Day Covers in two albums, including signatures of Bobby Charlton, Frank Bruno, Johnny Morris, Clare Francis, Spike Milligan, Dawn French, Terry Pratchett, Ranulph Fiennes, Margaret Thatcher, Helena Bonham Carter, Daley Thompson, Ian Botham, and many other well-known celebrities. Fine throughout. (41 covers). 

Entertainers autographs, a selection of 1982-2004 commemorative covers with signatures of Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Tom Baker,

Lot: 29

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £170 - £200
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Entertainers autographs, a selection of 1982-2004 commemorative covers with signatures of Christopher Lee, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Tom Baker, Tony Curtis, Brigitte Bardot, Charlton Heston, Chris Tarrant, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr., Hayley Mills, John Mills, Michael Parkinson, Ronnie Barker, Sandi Toksvig, and Todd Carty. Fine throughout. (15).   

Military Autographs, a collection of covers signed by Victoria Cross winners comprising Thomas Gould, Havildar Gaje Ghale, Richard Annand,

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
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Military Autographs, a collection of covers signed by Victoria Cross winners comprising Thomas Gould, Havildar Gaje Ghale, Richard Annand, Philip Gardner, David Jamieson, Edward Kenna, John Cruikshank, Ian Fraser, Eric Wilson, Harold Ervine-Andrews, Ferdinand West, and William Speakman-Pitt, plus covers signed by other gallantry medal winners. Fine throughout. (19).

Aviation autographs, a selection of 1968-97 commemorative covers with signatures of Paul Tibbets, Douglas Bader (2), Arthur T. Harris,

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £160 - £200
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Aviation autographs, a selection of 1968-97 commemorative covers with signatures of Paul Tibbets, Douglas Bader (2), Arthur T. Harris, Brian Trubshaw, Johnnie Johnson, Leonard Cheshire, and Thomas Sopwith, two with autographs of other pilots. Fine throughout. (8)

Sports autographs, a selection of 1988-2004 commemorative covers signed by David Hemery, Ian Botham, Linford Christie, Stanley Matthews, Kelly Holmes,

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Sports autographs, a selection of 1988-2004 commemorative covers signed by David Hemery, Ian Botham, Linford Christie, Stanley Matthews, Kelly Holmes, and Stirling Moss. Fine throughout. (6)

Alderney Cricket Club 1997 FDC autographed by Geoff Boycott, Fred Trueman, Alec Bedser, Dickie Bird, Gary Sobers and another,

Lot: 71

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Alderney Cricket Club 1997 FDC autographed by Geoff Boycott, Fred Trueman, Alec Bedser, Dickie Bird, Gary Sobers and another, number 3 of only 7 produced; together with a Matt Busby commemorative cover signed by Bobby Charlton. Fine (2) 

WWI Military mail, British & American Forces, including Y.M.C.A. (3) and Red Cross (2) covers (two with original letters enclosed), 1916 OHMS cover

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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WWI Military mail, British & American Forces, including Y.M.C.A. (3) and Red Cross (2) covers (two with original letters enclosed), 1916 OHMS cover with SCOTTISH COMMAND / HEAD / QUARTERS / EDINBURGH cachet, and a 1919 Australia A.I.F. letter sheet concerning the return of an Australian serviceman from the UK on board transport ship City of York. (9). Also related ephemera.

November 1918 cover from Belgian Congo to the UK, routed via Sudan, with 25c cancelled ABA cds, PASSED BY CENSOR / 1 / SUDAN and transit backstamps

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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November 1918 cover from Belgian Congo to the UK, routed via Sudan, with 25c cancelled ABA cds, PASSED BY CENSOR / 1 / SUDAN and transit backstamps of REJAF and KHARTOUM.

WWI to 1925 British Naval mail comprising PPCs (6), Covers (8) and a front, most with dumb cancels, including PASSED BY CENSOR cachets

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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WWI to 1925 British Naval mail comprising PPCs (6), Covers (8) and a front, most with dumb cancels, including PASSED BY CENSOR cachets of H.M.S. Cyclops and H.M.S. Orotava, one PPC depicting a ship's crew. Also unused PPC of H.M.S. Prometheus. Mixed condition. (16)

WW2 Dutch East Indies internee mail comprising 1941 inter-camp PC from a German internee held in Alas-Vallei camp to his wife in Taroetoeng camp;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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WW2 Dutch East Indies internee mail comprising 1941 inter-camp PC from a German internee held in Alas-Vallei camp to his wife in Taroetoeng camp; and from a Dutch internee held by the Japanese in Java Z camp to a relative in Djakarta, redirected on arrival. Scarce. (2)

WW2 Prisoner of War PC from the USA to Cpl. Andersen at Hoten POW Camp, Mukden, Manchuria, with US Censor cachet.

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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WW2 Prisoner of War PC from the USA to Cpl. Andersen at Hoten POW Camp, Mukden, Manchuria, with US Censor cachet. Sent in 1944 from his sweetheart in San Francisco, ‘Via New York'.

Internee Mail. 1939 (Dec.) and 1940 PCs from Polish internees in Romania, one with DEUTCHES OKUPATIONSGEBIET / OSTEN DIENSTPOST and Red Cross cachets

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Internee Mail. 1939 (Dec.) and 1940 PCs from Polish internees in Romania, one with DEUTCHES OKUPATIONSGEBIET / OSTEN DIENSTPOST and Red Cross cachets; the other from the Polish Camp at Comisani, sent to Odessa. (2)

WW2 Internee & Prisoner of War mail comprising from Vichy France to a French POW in Austria; from Germany to a German POW in USA;

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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WW2 Internee & Prisoner of War mail comprising from Vichy France to a French POW in Austria; from Germany to a German POW in USA; from a German Internee in Canada (2); and 1946 France to Romania from a German POW in Dunnes Camp, Neufchatel; all with censor cachets, some both on front and back. (5)

Holocaust Mail. 1940 Parcel Card from Bohemia to a prisoner at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, Bavaria; and 1941 PC from Montechiarugolo Camp

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £24
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Holocaust Mail. 1940 Parcel Card from Bohemia to a prisoner at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, Bavaria; and 1941 PC from Montechiarugolo Concentration Camp, Parma, to Zara, with camp and censor cachets. (2)

WW2 Caribbean Censorship. 1941-44 Covers with censor cachets & sealing tapes of Martinique (3), Antigua, British Guiana and Barbados,

Lot: 130

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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WW2 Caribbean Censorship. 1941-44 Covers with censor cachets & sealing tapes of Martinique (3), Antigua, British Guiana and Barbados, including scarce 1941 flown to USA with Leeward Islands adhesives and fine EXAMINED BY CENSOR / ANTIGUA on reverse. (6)

WW2 Cover from Angola to USA ‘via Elizabethville & Capetown’ with Opened by "Examiner / O /" resealing label and PASSED BY CENSOR / 5 cachet,

Lot: 131

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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WW2 Cover from Angola to USA ‘via Elizabethville & Capetown' with Opened by Examiner / O / resealing label and PASSED BY CENSOR / 5 cachet, probably applied in South Africa. Elizabethville b/s dated 1942.

Walter Reder, War Criminal: 1973 Cover from Major Walter Reder, with STABILIMENTI MILITARE DI PENA / RECLUSORIO MILITARE 04024 - GAETA / COMANDO h/s

Lot: 132

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Walter Reder, War Criminal: 1973 Cover from Major Walter Reder, with STABILIMENTI MILITARE DI PENA / RECLUSORIO MILITARE 04024 – GAETA / COMANDO h/s, with his personal cachet on reverse; together with p/copy of a newscutting announcing his release in 1985. Reder was held responsible for the massacre of 1,830 men, women & children in Marazabotto in 1944.

Prisoner of War mail, 1946-47, a collection from (8) and to (5) German POWs in two different camps in the UK located at Colchester and St. Neots,

Lot: 133

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Oct 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Prisoner of War mail, 1946-47, a collection from (8) and to (5) German POWs in two different camps in the UK located at Colchester and St. Neots, comprising letter sheets, post cards and covers, the covers all with original letters enclosed. Also two letters from related correspondence lacking the covers. Together with a WW2 cover from a UK serviceman to Sudbury b/s scarce TRAVELLER CENSORSHIP OFFICE / IMPERIAL / HOUSE / KINGSWAY / W.C.2. / LONDON cachet. Fair to fine.