5th Jun, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Stamps, Postcards & Postal History
82
Great Britain
Interesting collection of 1840 material mainly on pages with write-up, including contemporary reprint of Charles Whiting's entry to the Treasury competition to decide the first stamp design, embossed and back-printed as the original, with foxing and faults, then Mulready letter-sheets (4) starting with May.12.1840 usage 1d with red MX (folds), unused 1d with advertising print in blue (additional fold vertically otherwise good), etc, as well as a range of Deraedermaeker reprints of Mulready caricatures including Fores's Christmas, Southgate's, Ackerman's anti-slavery, and Ocean Penny Post.
Sold for £750
Estimated at £150 - £200
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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Tuesday 4th June 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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