This and the following 7 lots are from a fantastic estate, the core in Windsor albums with many extra pages inserted for varieties and especially postmarks and covers, the whole intact as received with no items separated, since it came in at the last minute. The first volume of the collection, packed with stamps and postal history from QV to early KGV, starting with two used Mulready envelopes, fourteen penny blacks incl. on cover (four margins, light red MX), 4x 1840 2d blues only one without full margins, a plethora of 1d red imperfs incl. mint example on blued paper and several different black plates used incl. huge margins plate 5 on cover 1/7/41 Leith to Hull, 2d lines superb margins shades and unusual cancels incl. '12' in cross, etc. The perf line-engraved very well-represented too, with red plates complete to 224, 1869 2d blue inverted wmk, etc, followed by surface-printed with quite comprehensive shades and plates to 5/- (1874 plate 2), some superb cds examples, 1856 1/- green wmk inverted, 1883/4 10/- ultramarine shades, the later QV with mint control blocks, jubilees complete mint and cds used in pmk study with many 1/- values, etc. The KEVII also very strong with apparently all DLR shades etc complete to 1/- mint and only a handful of empty spaces on Harrison printings varieties mint to 1/-, also used to £1 green, as well as controls mint and used, interesting postmark studies, perfin studies, etc. Similar depth lastly on KGV with impressive showing of Downey varieties mint and used, controls, postal history with scarce flight covers, etc. A great collection.