5th Jun, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Stamps, Postcards & Postal History
95
Great Britain
Collection in a vintage Windsor loose-leaf album, with space-filler penny black and much other line-engraved incl. all but a handful of 1d red plates from 71, pl.213 mint, interesting surface-printed incl. 2/- pale possibly milky blue, 2/- brown missing corner of wing-margin othewise sound (margin could be cut still leaving 2mm clear of frame), stated inverted wmk 3d on 3d (SG.159Wi) difficult to ascertain and requires inspection, 1883 10/- strong case for the scarce cobalt shade (SG.182, cat. £8,250), a nice range of later QV mint on a blank page with jubilees to 10d and varieties incl. 5d Die I in very attractive quality (SG.207, cat. £800), EdVII to 10/-, etc, etc. A collection with great potential, as has its parent Lot 245 in this sale.
Sold for £450
Estimated at £250 - £300
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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