A collection of Great Britain assembled in the 1940s housed in a gold-tooled Windsor album, the line-engraved with potential on two unused 1d blacks (one presumed re-gummed), a third with cert. stating washed, then two mint 1841 2d 'lines', likely cleaned and re-gummed, requiring expertization, through to 100+ mint 1d red plates with some fine quality examples including plates 78, 186, 188, 224, etc. Then perf 2d blues plate 9 regummed and plate 15 thins yet attractive, 1870/74 1½d lake-red plate 3 mint though mostly dulled gum, 1/- green outstanding spacefiller (with cert. as re-gummed and repaired), followed by the surface-printed with an interesting range of mint in varying quality, the best being 3d rose Sg.103 plate 9 wing-margin and 1/- green SG.117 plate 4, each with a pulled perf, 6d grey SG.147 plates 14 and 15 mint and 16 unused, 1877 4d sage-green SG.153 plates 15 and 16, latter wrinkled, 1880s issues with tone spots but good colours incl. 3d rose SG.158 plates 20 and 21, 6d surcharge, 1/- orange-brown plate 14, as well as SG.167, 168, 168a and 169, latter two creased, 1881 1d 14 dots pale lilac mint and 14 dots lilac unused, 2/6d blued paper 'specimen' creased, etc. Also a very attractive array of mint Jubilee varieties and KEVII shades to 5/-, lots of mint Downey head shades, excellent profile-head shades incl. an interesting ½d, mint 2/6d seahorses DLR and B/W, £1 green used spacefiller, as well as officials requiring expertization, incl. 1889 1/- dull green Inland Revenue. Enormous catalogue in very mixed condition. Lots ## and # are from this album and further discoveries may well lurk, so close inspection recommended.