An all world sale.
QueensLand House, 393 Strand, London WC2R 0LT, UK
| Lot | Great Britain | Estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Britain: 1812 and 1813 two entire letters from Hartford College, Northwich, to Chester, both rated ‘5’, the first with “NORTHWICH/182” mileage mark and endorsed ‘To be delivered immediately’, the second with revised “NORTHWICH/183” mark, clean and attractive. |  | £20 |
| 2 | Great Britain: 1840 (ca.) Post Magazine, an unused example with stamp removed, a little soiled, scarce. |  | £30 |
| 3 | Great Britain: 1905 (July 19) parcel post label for “OSBORNE B.O., ISLE OF WIGHT (OS) (under Cowes)” bearing 1902-10 4d. tied by one of two Osborne B.O. c.d.s’s, small fault at top but all Osborne parcel post labels are extremely scarce. |  | £20 |
| 4 | Great Britain: 1924 (Aug. 25) clean envelope (flap part removed) to Isle of Wight bearing Wembley 1d. (2) cancelled by Army Post Office S40 (Cologne) c.d.s’s and tied by oval ”GENERAL STAFF OFFICE/25 AUG 1924/ BRITISH ARMY OF RHINE”. Very scarce international usage. |  | £20 |
| 5 | Great Britain: 1929 (Mar. 28), Imperial Airways, London-India, printed first flight cover, franked 11/2d. and 6d. tied by London machine cancellation, carried to Karachi from Croydon Airport thence to Bombay via surface mail, with arrival backstamps, an impressive and uncommon flight cover. |  | £30 |
| 6 | Great Britain: 1956 postcard depicting the Union Castle Line steamer RMS “Edinburgh Castle”, used from Cape Town to Derbyshire bearing signatures of the English cricket team, travelling to South Africa for the 1956 tour incl. Cowdrey, May, Compton, Bailey, Wardle, etc., some toning. |  | £50 |
| 7 | Great Britain: 1971 Strike Post, selection with covers, complete sheets etc. Also a selection of Scout Post with covers, stamps, etc. (100) |  | £10 |
| 8 | Great Britain: 1840 1d. black, plate 2, TF small to large margins, vertical crease with light toning, cancelled by 1844 Type London district office ‘61’ numeral. Spec AS14za, cat £1,800. |  | £80 |
| 9 | Great Britain: 1840 1d. black plate 4 QJ, small to large margins, lightly cancelled by red Maltese Cross. |  | £70 |
| 10 | Great Britain: 1857 2d. plate 6, seventeen used examples, mainly good to fine. S.G. 35. |  | £120 |
| 11 | Great Britain: 1873-80 watermark orb 21/2d. rosy mauve, scarce plate 3 EI-EJ unused pair, colour weak and slightly toned S.G. 141, cat. £2,700. |  | £70 |
| 12 | Great Britain: 1873-80 watermark spray 1s. green plate 12 OL mint, slight crease, fine appearance. S.G. 150, cat. £650. |  | £70 |
| 13 | Great Britain: 1913 (Apr.) 2s. booklet, no. 20, some cover creasing but scarce. S.G. BB6, cat. £900. |  | £50 |
| 14 | Great Britain: 1924-26 watermark block cypher 1d. on experimental paper with watermark type W.16, in a strip of three with “B 24” control, light pencil notes in margins, the centre stamp rather heavily mounted and a few split perfs., the others unmounted (one with light bend). S.G. Spec. N34a, cat. £360. Ex Walker. |  | £40 |
| 15 | Great Britain: 1929 P.U.C. £1 black, fine used. S.G. 438. |  | £140 |
| 16 | Great Britain: Seahorses: 1934 Re-engraved 2s.6d., 5s. and 10s., mint, 2s.6d. toned but otherwise mainly fine. S.G. 450-452, cat. £575. |  | £50 |
| 17 | Great Britain: An accumulation of around 60 mostly Wilding booklets, incl. 1955 (Sept.) with combination TEEEEET unlisted by Gibbons, 1961 (Oct.) 10s. booklet, with mixed perfs. and not all complete, also around 60 empty booklets. |  | £40 |
| 18 | Great Britain: 1955 Castles 2s.6d. to £1 set, unmounted mint, fine. S.G. 536-539, cat. £250. |  | £40 |
| 19 | Great Britain: 1958-65 watermark multiple crowns 4d. deep ultramarine variety double impression single, fine unmounted mint. S.G. Spec. S85b. |  | £60 |
| 20 | Great Britain: 1959 phosphor-graphite 2d. error of watermark, in a fine unmounted mint block of four. S.G. 605a, cat. £800 |  | £100 |
| Lot | Miscellaneous and Mixed Lots | Estimate | |
| 21 | Great Britain: Decimal Machins: 1st orange-red and 2nd bright blue self-adhesive with perf. 141/2 x 14 die-cut ‘dagger’ perfs., fine. S.G. 2039b, 2040b, cat. £450. |  | £100 |
| 22 | Great Britain: Decimal Machins: 1st orange-red and 2nd bright blue self-adhesive with perf. 141/2 x 14 die-cut ‘dagger’ perfs., fine. S.G. 2039b, 2040b, cat. £450. |  | £100 |
| 23 | Great Britain: Regionals: Northern Ireland: 17p. grey-blue phosphorised paper Type II, block of six, fine unmounted mint. S.G. NI43a, cat. £840. |  | £80 |
| 24 | Great Britain: Regionals: Scotland: 1971-93 Waddington Litho 31p. bright purple, type II, PCP/PVAD, 2A 2B dot cylinder block of six, fine unmounted mint. S.G. S51a, cat. £900. |  | £200 |
| 25 | Great Britain: Regionals: Wales: 51/2p. violet Harrison photo FCP/PVAD centre band, with lower set emblem and value (2), fine unmounted mint. S.G. W21b, cat. £360. |  | £60 |
| 26 | A Q.V. to Q.E.II accumulation of mint British Commonwealth issues on stockcards incl. Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cyprus 1955-60 set, Southern Rhodesia 1924-29 set, 1953 set, St Helena, Swaziland 1933 set, etc. in mixed condition. (few 100s) |  | £60 |
| 27 | An accumulation of European countries in thirteen stockbooks and albums incl. Austria mint and used from 1850 to 2000, Germany with West Germany, Gibraltar booklets, Portugal with colonies, much duplication, etc. (1,000s) |  | £50 |
| 28 | A selection of Q.E.II errors, proofs and watermark varieties incl. Pitcairn Islands 1980 Handicrafts 40c. watermark inverted, Montserrat 1982 21st Birthday $5 block of eight with inverted centres, proofs in folders, etc. (28 items) |  | £20 |
| 29 | Cinderellas: Alice in Wonderland, “The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Wonderland” with “..... Alice through the pillar box and what she found there” by Gerald King, album of 75 fantasy stamps and covers. |  | £10 |
| 30 | Cinderellas: Bannockburn School 1986 Christmas Mail sheets in sheets of 30 incl. imperf. (12) and perf. (10) sheets in different colours. |  | £20 |
| 31 | Cinderellas: Greater London Fund For the Blind, Christmas label sheetlet of twelve, set of five progressive colour proofs. |  | £15 |
| 32 | Cinderellas: Saint Anthony, Guide: An extensive collection of labels a range of stamps, booklet panes with complete 1927 book of 100, etc. The SAG abbreviation refers to the tradition of placing these initials on letters and posts so that they will not be lost in the mail. |  | £30 |
| 33 | Crash and Wreck Mail: 1938 cover from England to New Zealand, seaplane crashed in Lake Ramadi en route to Australia, with “RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYNG BOAT CALPURNIA” cachet in violet. |  | £30 |
| 34 | Crash and Wreck Mail: 1939 (Apr. 24) ‘Challenger’ crash mail envelope to Cape Town from England stamps missing with framed bilingual (English/Afrikaans) “FLYING BOAT CORRESPONDENCE DAMAGED BY SEAWATER” cachets on front. ‘Challenger’ crashed on landing at Lumbo in Mozambique on May 1st. |  | £30 |
| 35 | Crash and Wreck Mail, 1941 (Jan.) A cover from the wreck of SS “Alhena”, sent from Chorley addressed to No. 8 General Hospital, Alexandria with large “SALVED FROM/THE SEA” cachet (Hoggarth & Gwynn type 1). Dutch steamer “Alhena” struck Pladdy Rock off the coast of Northern Island on the night of Jan. 28th. |  | £20 |
| 36 | Crash and Wreck Mail: 1947 cover from Shanghai to London from the B.O.A.C. flying boat "Portland" which crashed at Bahrain whilst en route from Hong Kong to England with "DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER" cachet in violet. |  | £50 |
| 37 | Ephemera: A selection of cheques payable from 1909-40 to various stamp dealers incl. Stanley Gibbons, Bridger & Kay etc., all signed by payees on reverse. (24) |  | £10 |
| 38 | Literature: “The Royal Philatelic Collection” by Sir John Wilson (1952), leatherbound, good condition (slipcase slightly damaged). |  | £60 |
| 39 | Literature: Pacific Islands selection of books in a large carton with interest for collectors of Gilbert & Ellice Islands, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Tonga etc. (27) |  | £10 |
| 40 | Literature: Continental Railway Investigations, Report to the Board of Trade on Railways in Belgium, France and Italy, published by HM Stationery Office (1910), some minor faults. Using extensive data and first hand observation, the report provides a wealth of information on locomotives, rolling stock, etc. of the time. |  | £10 |
| Lot | British Solomon Islands | Estimate | |
| 41 | Omnibus Issues: 1935 Silver Jubilee: A mint selection comprising Basutoland 6d. with variety ‘dot by flagstaff’, Falkland Islands 21/2d. ‘re-entry on value’, Fiji 11/2d. with variety ‘dot by flagstaff’, mostly fine. (3) S.G. 14h, 140i, 242h. |  | £80 |
| 42 | Postal History and Covers: A selection of covers and cards, incl. Cyprus, Great Britain, Morocco Agencies, Netherlands Indies, Maritime mail, etc. (85 items) |  | £40 |
| 43 | Postal History and Covers: A selection of World War II censored covers comprising 1940 from Japan to Germany (2), 1940 Iran to Germany, 1943 Canada to Jamaica, 1941 and 1942 from Honolulu and Laie Hawa. (6 items) |  | £50 |
| 44 | Postcards: An extensive all World assortment from France, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, etc. (few 100s) |  | £30 |
| 45 | Algeria: 1962 War Orphans Fund 1f.+9f., fine mint. Guy Du Vachat certificate (2009) S.G. 395a, cat £350. |  | £40 |
| 46 | Ascension: 1924-33 2s. grey-black and blue on blue variety ‘cleft rock’, mint with small faults. S.G. 19c, cat. £700. Photo. |  | £100 |
| 47 | Ascension: A mint K.G.VI to Q.E.II selection, incl. 1938-53 range of shades and perfs. to 10s., 1956 set, 1963 set, etc. (few 100s) |  | £100 |
| 48 | Australia: New South Wales: 1893 (Apr. 6), Allts Brewing & Wine & Spirit Co., illustrated 1d. postal stationery cover, postmarked with Sydney NSW duplex, corner card and extensive advertising on reverse for Allts Brewing and Wine & Spirit Co. Ltd, advertising on back for “Old Blended Glenlivet Whisky”, and “James Watson & Cos Fine Old Scotch Whiskies”, Balmain c.d.s. arrival backstamp, some trivial scattered toning, scarce and attractive New South Wales whisky advertising postal stationery. |  | £30 |
| 49 | Barbados: 1897-87 Jubilee white paper mint and used sets, blue paper mint set and used to 2s.6d., fine. (33) |  | £80 |
| 50 | Bechuanaland: 1889 (Mar.) 4d. on 1/2d. vermilion, surcharge type 15, variety surcharge inverted, used, slightly soiled but rare. Only 20 known/recorded. Ex Inglefield-Watson. R.P.S. certificate (1985) S.G. 53c, cat. £4,000. |  | £1,000 |
