15th Mar, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
1872-73 6d pale buff, plate 12 (SG.123 var) used on cover to Naples, tied by London duplex 22-MY-73, the nine-bar canceller with centre numeral diamond leaving profile of Queen clear. With 1988 RPS certificate ‘SG.124 6d. Pale Buff’. Unpriced on cover in SG, but approx. £700 by proportion with SG.123.
Sold for £60
Estimated at £70 - £100
Auction: Stamps, Postal History & Postcards, 15th Mar, 2023
This is once more an exciting sale with several family estate sections which include Irish and Great Britain new issues of the 1920s carefully stored for a century, a series of specialized Eastern Europe collections with excellent Batum and German local occupations of Poland, as well as extensive Great Britain singles with much line-engraved, and through to a very solid finale of postcard collections including a wonderful subject collection with forty Louis Wain, a strong aviation collection with 300 from the 1920s onwards, a large collection of Southern counties topography and much more.
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Tuesday 14 March 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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