5th Jun, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Stamps, Postcards & Postal History
43
Great Britain
1840/41 accumulation of 18 stamps, with 15 penny blacks (two on cover), incl. plate 6 purporting to be mint with gum, crease and nick at top and probably cleaned cancel, four margins. Then four-margins plate 2 L-E, plate 4 S-K and plate 5 N-G plus plate 6 M-E on cover with neat red MX. The extremely fine looking plate 1b P-D has subtle repair and plate 4 L-F has small thin spot. Also a worn plate pair with full margins or just touching left stamp, a three margins plate 2 with red and black cancels, etc. Also 1d red plate 10 with very neat MX, margin close at right, matched with the same position in black on cover; 1840 2d blue plate 1 R-D margin just touching lower left, plate 2 G-H with very nice balanced margins.
Sold for £800
Estimated at £600 - £800
Auction: Stamps, Postcards & Postal History, 5th Jun, 2024
Highlights of the sale include a series of Penny Blacks (lots 1-39) from a 1940s pocket album of the 240 check-letter combinations, excellent North-East China from a collector living in Manchuria in the 1930s-40s (lots 135-143), an attractive range of mint Hong Kong from SG.1 onwards (lots 153-159), Japanese Occupations of Malaya from a collector who served in the Royal Military Police in the 1950s (lots 171-174), the collection of Switzerland from a President of the Helvetia Society of Great Britain with extensive postal history (lots 180-192) and much more.
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