6th Jul, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Stamps, Postcards & Postal History
210
Worldwide
The amorphous balance of an Anglesey estate in four tubs, thousands of stamps and hundreds of postal history items of all periods, glassines, album pages, circuit books, etc. A blue folder includes an envelope of a few better items bought from Stanley Gibbons. Elsewhere noted WWII-period covers worldwide incl. Egypt and British North Africa, a series of 1946 commercial covers to Harbin, Manchuria, with large red 'Mail route to destination blockaded, return to sender' handstamps, also seen late 1940s issues MNH in glassines, 4d Cape triangle with huge margins, Canada Jubilees with 6cts mint and 20cts used, GB QV and KEVII 5/- superb cds examples, etc. There will be more to find here given this collector's habit of burying good items.
Sold for £600
Estimated at £500 - £750
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.
Viewing
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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