6th Jul, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Stamps, Postcards & Postal History
117
Ireland
Nearly complete mint collection housed in a Lighthouse hingeless album, issues running from #1 to early 1980s, with an excellent showing of the 1922 overprints over seven pages including nineteen different seahorse issues, in fact the only empty spaces are for the Thom 10/- (the present stamp in our opinion is the Dollard), three 1927 wide/narrow spacing se-tenant pairs and the rare 1934 2d coil stamp. Includes Dollard 2/6d reddish brown MNH, Thom overprints 2/6d and 5/- in extremely attractive quality (SG.44/45, cat. £525), 1923 long '1' varieties set with three of the four values in MNH se-tenant pairs with normal (1½d natural shaved perfs), 1925 wide and narrow dates seahorses sets, the wide dates MNH, (5/- oiled UL corner, likewise the 1935 lower two values), followed by 1933/35 map issue coil stamps never hinged or vlh, St. Patrick 1937 set (SG.102/104) and later sets on both papers, etc. Cat. over £4,300.
Sold for £750
Estimated at £450 - £600
Auction: Stamps, Postcards & Postal History, 6th Jul, 2022
261 lots including several exciting original collections fresh to the market. Highlights include a specialised collection of St. Helena stamps and postal history, and a very extensive and impressive holding of Russian postal history with a particular focus on the Post Offices Abroad. The latter collector’s interests also extended through the Baltics to excellent Scandinavian Locals, as well as around the Eastern Mediterranean from the Balkans to Palestine and Egypt.
Amongst the postcards offered in the sale are fantastic albums from a dedicated collector, of high-quality and comprehensively assembled, which include transport related cards of Leeds, Skipton, Lancaster, Teesside and Middlesbrough as well as excellent general Yorkshire cards.
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Tuesday 5 July 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am. Viewing is open to the public, there is no need to make an appointment.
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