The Exclusive Europhilex 2025 Collector’s Auction
153-157 London Rd, Derby DE1 2SY, UK
| Lot | 1840 1d BLACKS | Estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | ARMY SERVICE STAMPS: 1906-11 3m mauve and green with inverted overprint, natural vertical crease at left. SG A8a £2,000. |  | $65 |
| 102 | SELECTION OF KEVII-KGVI MINT ISSUES: Stock cards displaying KEVII 2d, 3d, 6d, 9d (2 shades), 10d & 1/- values, KGV 1918 2/6d & 5/- Seahorses, 1924 & 1925 Wembley sets, KGVI 'dark colours' ½d to 2½d values with sideways wmk unmounted mint (£170) and also with inverted wmk mounted mint (£180); 1938-49 'Arms' set of 6 high values SG 476-478c. Total cat. c.£2,280 (29 stamps) |  2 | $130 |
| 103 | ORIGIN OF STAMPS - 1st-YEAR ½d RED NEWSPAPER TAX STAMP ON COMPLETE ISSUE OF 'THE SPECTATOR': Very fine complete 10 Sept. 1712 1-sheet issue of "The SPECTATOR" newspaper (folded to fit neatly on a page with Tax Stamp above the masthead) with a fine complete red "SEMPER EADEM/HALF-PENNY/97" Newspaper Tax Stamp (2 small pin-holes barely noticeable). From 10 Oct. 1825 newspapers with tax stamps travelled free by post; they were in many ways the first postage stamps. British Newspaper Tax Stamps were first introduced only a few weeks before the date of this paper, on 1st Aug. 1712; very few papers with clear examples of 1712 have survived. Fine Exhibition Item. Cross Reference: NEWSPAPER MAIL, REVENUES |  | $65 |
| 104 | FREE MAIL TO ROBERT WALLACE + WHITING "DRAWING ROOM SCRAP SHEET No.3" WITH BUFF ENGINE-TURNED FRAMES;: Fine 9 Aug. 1838 EL franked ex Glasgow (ds) to "Robert Wallace Esq., M.P., London" with ref. to Postal Reform; "I am delighted with your Post Office labours - they will produce infinite benefit to the country if the Ministry follow them up honestly". Plus mainly fine Oct. 1831 double-page weekly scrap-book insert sheet (227 x 279mm; fits an album-page exactly) printed by Charles Whiting (his "Whiting, Beaufort House" imprint appears at the foot of the second page) with poems etc. on two pages surrounded by attractive brown engine-turned designs very reminiscent of his later Postal Stationery letter-sheet Essays; the backs of those pages have frames printed in blue in which someone has duly glued a print of a girl & of a sozzled boozing couple!). Few Known; in Cavendish's June 2012 auction, lot 926, the similar "No.10" realised £180+BP. [Ex Mike Salmon, 2006.] Cross Reference: SCOTLAND |  3 | $130 |
| 105 | LAST DAY FREE FRANKS EX P.M.G. (WITH 9 JAN. 1840 FREE ds) & TO "COLONEL MABERLY" (P.O. SECRETARY): Remarkable pair of 9 Jan. 1840 free fronts sent to and from "Brighton" on the Last Day of Free Franking and the Last Day of the 4d Postage Period. The first to Brighton signed by "Lichfield" (no need for heading or date as he was P.M.G.) with mainly very fine Last Day London crowned 2-ring "FREE" ds of "9 JA 9/1840". The other without postal marks (there would have been a backstamp but mail to P.O. officials never needed a FREE mark) headed from "Brighton" (signature unidentified) addressed to "Colonel Maberly, Lower Berkeley Street, London". Extraordinary - and probably Unique - pair of official P.O. Last Day Free Franks. (2 fronts) Cross Reference: FIRST DAY COVERS, SUSSEX, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD |  | $100 |
| 106 | 1d MULREADY LETTER SHEET: 13 Mar. 1841 Forme 2, Stereo A17 used from London to Nortonwoodside, Nr. Sheffield, cancelled with a good black MX. Vertical fold, good for this. |  | $80 |
| 107 | 1d MULREADY ENVELOPE: 24 July 1840 Mulready env. Forme 2, Stereo A144 with a fine red MX cancellation used from Liverpool to Sheffield. Small hole in reverse due to removal of a seal. Most attractive. |  2 | $80 |
| 108 | 1840 RAINBOW TRIAL - STATE 3: 1d green on white wove paper, a wide margined upper right corner example with ms "23 C". Horizontal crease but very collectable. SG Spec. DP20 £4,750. |  | $340 |
| 109 | 1841 2d BLUE PROOF WITHOUT CORNER LETTERS: 1841 (Jan.) 2d blue proof without corner letters. Very fine. SG Spec. DP43 £1,800. |  | $260 |
| 110 | PLATE 1a ML: Fine used, worn impression with light red MX. Attractive example with four good margins. |  | $80 |
| 111 | PLATE 1b DE: Fine, four margin example with rich red MX leaving profile clear. |  | $80 |
| 112 | PLATE 2 OB MATCHED PAIR: 1d black with good margins but just touching in N.W. corner. Dull red MX. 1d red with three good margins. (2 stamps) |  2 | $65 |
| 113 | PLATE 2 FJ: Fine, four margin example with light red MX cancel leaving profile clear. Attractive. |  | $65 |
| 114 | PLATE 3 AJ: Fine used, four margin example cancelled by complete black MX. |  | $80 |
| 115 | PLATE 4 NA-NB used pair, three wide margins, shaved at upper right, with red MX cancellation leaving corner letters clear. |  | $130 |
| 116 | PLATE 4 LB used on undated E from Lydney to Monmouth with a very fine red MX cancellation and matching "LYDNEY" UDC nearby. Very fine. |  | $110 |
| 117 | PLATE 4 RG: Fine used example with light black MX cancel. |  | $65 |
| 118 | PLATE 5 NG with a red MX cancellation, good margins. Matched with a clear to wide margined 1841 red. |  | $95 |
| 119 | PLATE 5 FF: Fine four margin example with diffuse red MX. |  | $65 |
| 120 | PLATE 6 RE: Four margin example cancelled with diffuse red MX. |  | $65 |
| Lot | SURFACE-PRINTED ISSUES | Estimate | |
| 121 | PLATE 6 FJ: Fine four margin example on 12 Oct. 1840 EL to Stranraer. Tied by smudged red MX. |  | $65 |
| 122 | PLATE 7 LA-MA: Vertical pair with good margins all around. Fine red MX cancels. |  | $130 |
| 123 | PLATE 7 TL with black MX cancellation. Fine. |  | $95 |
| 124 | PLATE 7 EJ: Fine used example with four large margins and light red MX cancel. |  | $80 |
| 125 | PLATE 8: SK cancelled with black MX, and NL with red MX. Good examples. (2) |  | $95 |
| 126 | PLATE 8 CG on 10 Feb. 1841 EL mailed within London. Four margined example cancelled by black MX and partly by "Charing Cross" straight line mark. |  | $80 |
| 127 | PLATE 8 LA: Three/four margin example, just touching check letter box in SW corner. No "Q" flaw. Fine red MX cancel. |  | $65 |
| 128 | PLATE 9 LL: Four margin example with black MX cancel. |  | $80 |
| 129 | PLATE 9 PB cancelled with a black MX. A fine four margined example. |  | $80 |
| 130 | PLATE 10 KE CANCELLED IN RED - MATCHED WITH A 1d RED: A fine four margined example with red MX cancellation. Matched with a fine close to wide margined 1841 1d red. SG £1,600. |  | $240 |
| 131 | PLATE 10 CD: Fine three margin (almost four) example with fine, dull red MX cancel. |  | $65 |
| 132 | PLATE 4 - RARE VIOLET BLUE SHADE - CI: A wide margined example of the rare violet blue shade on thick lavender tinted paper. Fine. SG Spec. ES16 £1800. RPSL Cert. (2005). |  | $260 |
| 133 | MIXED MINT & USED GROUP ON ALBUM PAGE: All numbers 1-20 represented, mostly good to fine, though Pl.9 with trimmed perfs. Includes pair and nine mint examples. (32 stamps) |  | $100 |
| 134 | QV POST OFFICE TELEGRAPH STAMPS: Two stock cards with a mostly fine used and slightly duplicated assembly of 1876-81 Telegraph stamps. Includes mint ½d orange, used 1d red-brown (3, one optd. "SPECIMEN"), 3d carmine, 6d grey (2), 1/- green (2), 1/- brown-orange, 3/- slate-blue (2) and 5/- rose (2, both Pl.1); also mint examples of ½d vermilion (SG 197) & ½d blue-green (SG 213) both optd. "Army Telegraphs". Cat value c.£1,100+. (16 stamps) |  | $160 |
| 135 | 1870 ½d ROSE-RED PLATE 9: Good used example, fairly well centred for this issue. SG 48 £700. |  | $65 |
| 136 | 1870 ½d ROSE-RED PLATE 9: Good used example. Cancel obliterating numeral on one side. SG 48 £700. |  | $65 |
| 137 | 1870 1½d ROSE-RED (SHADES) COLLECTION ON ALBUM LEAVES: Mostly fine used Plate I examples on piece. SG 51/52 Cat. £2,200. (29 stamps) |  3 | $100 |
| 138 | 1862 1/- GREEN - "K" IN CIRCLE VARIETY: 1862 1/- green, plate 2 KD. A marginal example neatly cancelled to show the "K" in circle variety. Fine used. SG 90a £2,750. |  | $260 |
| 139 | 1862 1/- GREEN - ERROR OF WATERMARK TF used with three roses and thistle error of watermark variety. Fine used. SG 90c £1,400. RPSL Cert. (2016). |  | $200 |
| 140 | 1880 2/- BROWN: Good used example lettered IK Plate 1. SG 121 £4250. |  | $200 |
| Lot | QEII ISSUES | Estimate | |
| 141 | 1874 MALTESE CROSS WATERMARK: 5/- rose plate 2 HG. A fine crisply cancelled example. SG 126 £1,500. |  | $200 |
| 142 | 1867 5/- ROSE USED VERTICAL PAIR: Fine used pair plate 1 wmk MX. Scarce thus. SG 126 £1,350. (2 stamps) |  | $130 |
| 143 | 1874 5/- ROSE PLATE 2: Fine used example of Plate 2, MX wmk. Centred right with Paisley cds. SG 126 £1,500. |  | $100 |
| 144 | 1867 MALTESE CROSS WATERMARK: 5/- rose, plate 1 AH with central cds. Fine. SG 126 £725. |  | $100 |
| 145 | 1867 5/- ROSE PLATE 1: Fine used example, well centred. SG 126 £725. |  | $65 |
| 146 | 1874 5/- PALE ROSE PLATE 2: Good used example with crisp Bath 2 Sep. 1878 cds. Centred low and to left. SG 127 £1,500. |  | $80 |
| 147 | 1878 10/- GREENISH GREY PLATE 1: Used example, centred high, perfined "L C. & S", otherwise sound. SG 128 £3,200. |  | $120 |
| 148 | 1867-83 £1 BROWN-LILAC: Plate 1 wmk.MX. Used example of good appearance, centred low, but thinned. SG 129 £4,000. |  | $120 |
| 149 | 1882 LARGE ANCHOR WATERMARK - WHITE PAPER: 5/- rose, plate 4 GH with large complete central "ARKWRIGHT St/NOTTINGHAM" cds. Fine. SG 134 £3,500. |  | $340 |
| 150 | 1867-83 5/- ROSE PLATE 4: Fine used with Cornhill cds. White paper. SG 134 £3,500. |  | $200 |
