Stamps, Postcards & Postal History - 6 July

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The Auction Centre, Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 5SG 01969 623780 enquiry@tennants-ltd.co.uk www.tennants.co.uk

STAMPS, POSTCARDS &POSTAL HISTORY WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022

STAMPS, POSTCARDS & POSTAL HISTORY WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022

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STAMPS, POSTCARDS & POSTAL HISTORY WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022 AT 10.30AM AUCTION The Auction Centre, Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 5SG

VIEWING Tuesday 5 July 10.00am to 5.00pm Morning of Sale from 8.00am Live bidding is available on this sale by registering at www.tennants.co.uk All lots illustrated online at www.tennants.co.uk

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ORDER OF SALE Great Britain: Singles and Groups Great Britain: Collections Great Britain: Presentation/Year Packs, FDCs, etc.

Channel Islands: Collections Country: Singles: Groups and Collections A-Z Dealer/Hoarder’s Estate British Commonwealth: Collections and Boxes Thematic and Omnibus Collections Worldwide: Collections Worldwide: Box Lots Collateral and Literature Postcards

1-45 46-87 88-97 98-100 101-143 144-150 151-178 179-189 190-202 203-222 223-228 229-261

Please Note: Regarding British face value accumulations, please note there is no time limit on the Post Office’s “Stamp Swap Out Scheme” for the exchange of Machin issues for bar-coded types, following the expiry of postal validity of the former in January 2023. At the time of going to press, the Post Office website states: “there is currently no end date as to when you need to swap out your non-barcoded stamps by.”

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GREAT BRITAIN: SINGLES & GROUPS

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1 Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 3, intense shade, an extremely attractive example of this plate with very good margins and bright red Maltese cross cancel. £120-140

2 Great Britain 1840 1d intense black (SG.1), plate 5, attractive example with four margins and neat red MX. £100-120

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3 Great Britain 1840 1d black (SG.2), plate 6, four good even margins and light red Maltese Cross cancel. £100-120

4 Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 8, four margins and level Maltese cross cancel in brownish shade. £80-100

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5 Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 8, magnificent example with large even margins and nearly full clear black Maltese cross cancel. £130-160

6 Great Britain 1840 2d blue, plate 1, four margins, lovely colour with perfect full red Maltese cross just overlapping with part of another, a most attractive example. £100-120 www.tennants.co.uk

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7 Great Britain Penny Red from Black Plate on Cover 1841 1d red-brown Plate 9, four margins with part of adjoining stamp at right, on cover backstamped with May 29th lozenge pmk in red and ‘T-P Chief Office’ in black, the stamp nicely tied by clear black Maltese cross. SG.AS59, cat. £375. £50-70

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8 Great Britain Line-engraved group with 1841 1d pale red-brown, SG.9, mint with four margins, and two used 1841 2d blues with large margins and light postmarks, L-A plate 3 with guide-line lower right (ironed crease), F-A on very blued paper, showing blind ‘A’. Catalogue over £850. £80-100

9 Great Britain 1841 penny reds with numbers in cross postmarks complete, majority (8) with four margins, number 3 with heavy crease breaking surface, number 12 repaired corner, otherwise generally sound. The number 11 (cat. £350) has a thin, checking which we note inverted watermark which has to be scarce, particularly with four margins and fine appearance as this example. £170-200

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10 Great Britain Number in Cross Cover 1841 1d red, four good margins, nicely tied on cover by ‘10’ in Maltese cross postmark, SG.B1uj, one of the scarcer numbers. The cover optimistically endorsed ‘Free’ in manuscript. Cat. £1,000. £150-200

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11 Great Britain Mint ‘Bantam’ Group 1870-79 ½d rose or rose-red, the set of plates mint/unused excepting plate 9. The best original gum are plates 1, 6, 8, 10 and 11. Others dull/disturbed gum or unused. Plate 20 naturally imperf at right. Plate 8 with natural splinter inclusion in the paper at top. Plate 19 somewhat shabby. Otherwise very few if any faults. Cat. £2,990. £250-300 www.tennants.co.uk

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12 Great Britain 1870-79 ½d rose-red, plate 6, mint block of six, original gum, the lower three stamps unmounted. Cat. as singles £720. £80-120

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13 Great Britain 1870-79 ½d rose-red, plate 6, lower margin inscription block of fourteen with original gum, all but the left-most vertical pair mint never hinged.

Some perf separation, light tone spots, creases in margin along perf lines. Watermark ‘4’ inverted in margin. A wonderful line-engraved multiple.

Cat. £1,680 as hinged singles. £400-500

14 Great Britain Line-engraved group with 1840 2d blue sound with margins all round save just touching frame LR corner, 1841 1d red used strip of three attractive with four margins (close but clear at lower edge), 2d blue corner letters set of plates used and mint/unused, the latter appearing regummed save possibly the plates 13 and 14 mint, few if any faults though plate 12 toned from regumming. Also fourteen different used ½d plates, again generally sound. Cat. £8,600 for the mint/unused 2d blues alone. £250-300

15 Great Britain Line-Engraved Covers Interesting group of twenty-eight covers spanning the whole line-engraved period, many bought individually in auction many years ago, including 1840 2d blue pair without margins, 1841 2d imperf four margins single on cover with blue town cds, 2d ‘stars’ SG.34, 1858 plate 7 2d pair nicely used on cover to France, then the penny reds incl. imperf plate 77 four margins, ‘stars’ pair SG.24 tied beautifully by Scottish Local Name pmks used as cancels (boxed Charlotte Place), etc, through to ½d plate 19 pair neatly tied and 1½d plate 3 single. Some research to do here, especially on the other imperf penny reds. See also Lots 16, 37, 56 and 157 from this holding. For a full list see Lot 215. £250-300

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16 Great Britain Line-Engraved & Surface-Printed Combinations Group of five covers with late line-engraved frankings in combination with surface-printed issues, bought individually at auction many years ago with an eye for attractive postmarks: 1867 3d rose plate 4 SG.103 (the scarcer plate, approx. cat. £600) on 1867 cover to Amsterdam along with plate 80 1d red paying late fee, with immaculate backstamps in blue (transit cds) and red (arrival cds); 1868 3d rose plate 5 wing-margin pair on 1870 double-rate cover to Paris with plate 106 1d red pair; 1872 6d chestnut SG.122a with plate 139 1d red on 1872 cover to Melbourne, with nice uncircled ‘Hawthorne, Victoria’ datestamp on reverse; 1872 deep chestnut SG.122 with plate 122 1d red on beautiful 1st of May 1872 cover to Naples; 1874 3d rose plate 14, SG.144, with plate 14 2d blue (re-entry) paying late fee on 1874 cover to New York with red boxed ‘L2’ and endorsed ‘“China” via Queenstown’. A lovely group. £200-250

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17 Great Britain 1847 embossed 1/- green, with margins clear all round and generous on three sides, excellent for this issue, neatly tied on 12/12/1852 cover from Musselburgh (Scotland) to New York by barred numeral cancel along with clear additional postmarks incl. red ‘5 cents’ and ‘Paid’. Vertical folds well clear of stamp. SG.54, cat. £1,900. £150-200

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18 British Post Offices in the Levant 1860 cover to England franked with wing-margin 6d lilac (SG.Z97) tied by barred ‘C’ postmark of Constantinople. Backstamped with good strike of red cds ‘British Post Office Constantinople Paid JU20 1860’ and Manchester receiving cds. Vertical creases not affecting stamp. A pretty cover. £70-90

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19 Great Britain 1862 4d pale red (SG.80), mint. Cat. £2,000. £200-250

20 Great Britain Small Letters 1/- Green Watermark Variety 1862-64 1/- green ‘small letters’, an interesting partial gum example with watermark inverted. Moderate imperfections. SG.90Wi is without price for unused. Cat. £3,200 for normal upright watermark. Scarce. £150-200

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Great Britain 2/- Blue Specimen Overprint 1867 2/- dull blue (or pale blue), overprinted ‘Specimen’ type 8 (SG.118s), unused. Decent well-centred appearance. Cat. £600. £50-80

22 Great Britain Surface-Printed ‘Specimen’ Overprints 1862-1876, group of five ‘specimen’ ovpts, SG.75s (cat. £500), SG.108s (cat. £350), SG.110s (cat. £425), SG.112s (cat. £500) and SG.152s (cat. £400). All with gum save the 3d. Small faults, chiefly a crease on 9d and tone spots. Total cat. £2,175. £150-200

23 Great Britain 1875 2½d rosy mauve plate 1 on blued paper, SG.138, mint. With Stanley Gibbons retail card stating original gum. Small thin spot at lower edge, nevertheless most attractive with fresh rich colour. Cat. £875. £60-80

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24 Great Britain 1876 8d orange wmk large garter, SG.156, mint, crease/repair through ‘post’ of ‘postage’ otherwise a collectable example. Cat. £1,850. £70-90

25 Great Britain 1878 10/- greenish grey, SG.128 used, with usual somewhat heavy cancel, otherwise completely sound. Cat.£3,200. £250-300

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26 Great Britain 1880-81 mint set to 5d indigo, SG.164/169, the 2d signed, the 5d with original gum. The 1½d somewhat heavily hinged, otherwise no faults.

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27 Great Britain ‘Lilac and Green’ Specimen Overprints 1883-84 lilac and green ‘specimen’ overprint set, less the ½d. Attractive overall quality and colours, the 1/- with fairly unobtrusive small surface abrasion on the right frame. Cat. £1,740. £150-200

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28 Great Britain 1883-84 ‘lilac and green’ set mint, SG.187/196, very minor imperfections only, the 9d original gum, regumming possibly on 6d and probably on 1/-, etc., nevertheless a presentable set. Cat. £5,000. £300-350

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29 Great Britain 1882 5/- rose plate 4 on blued paper (SG.130), beautifully centred and with cds postmarks. Cat. £4,000. £300-350 12

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30 Great Britain £5 Orange 1882 white paper £5 orange, SG.137, used with Glasgow cds and partially cleaned crayon line, successfully ironed crease along lower edge cannot be noticed from front even obliquely. Good colour and overall an attractive example. Cat. £3,500. £750-1,000

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31 Great Britain 1881 1d lilac scarce imperforate (SG.174a, cat. £6,000 as pair). The strength of impression may imply an imprimatur. Either way a most attractive fresh example (the scrape of ink at upper left is natural from time of printing) with width of margins guaranteeing this as genuine imperf. £200-250

32 Great Britain 1884 £1 brown-lilac ‘Crowns’, highly presentable used example of this classic with the usual heavy cancels but clear of the Queen’s profile. Entirely sound save a trivial 2mm crease extreme top-right corner. SG.185, cat.£3,000. £300-350

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33 Great Britain 1884 £1 brown-lilac mint, overprinted ‘Specimen’ type 9 (SG.185s), very lightly hinged original gum. Cat. £2,800. £250-300

34 Great Britain 1887 ½d vermilion, imperforate (SG.197d, cat. £5,000 with lower margin), mint in very attractive fresh condition. This example has the same deep and solidly-coloured shade as certified imprimaturs. £150-200

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35 Great Britain Late Queen Victoria group of mint multiples, with 1880 1d Venetian red unmounted block of six, 1887 3d and 4d ‘jubilee’ blocks of six and 1900 1/- green and carmine block of four. Crease on one 1/- stamp and some very minor faults. Catalogue over £950 as singles. £80-100

36 Great Britain Queen Victoria surface-printed used range, over fifty stamps, starting with the 1850s with usual range of postmark quality, the neatly cancelled examples including 1855 6d lilac wmk inverted (SG.70Wi, cat. £400) and 1/- green (SG.72, cat. £350), 1862-64 6d wmk inverted (SG.85Wi, cat. £475), 9d bistre and 1/- green, 1865 and 1876 9d straw wing-margin examples, 1873 6d grey cds, 1880 1/- orange-brown cds (SG.151, cat. £550), 1883 surcharges two each, plus the 1880-81 set to 5d indigo. Very few faults and good perfs throughout save a couple pulled on the 2/- pale blue. £160-200

37 Great Britain Surface-Printed Covers Queen Victoria surface-printed frankings to overseas destinations, 26 covers individually bought in auction many years ago, including 4d rose pair (SG.66b, off-cover single cat. £375) on 1860 cover to Brussels, 9d bistre (SG.86, cat. £1,200) on 1863 cover to Paris, 10d brown (SG.112, cat. £850) 1870 usage to New Zealand, 2/- blue (SG.119, cat. £700) combination with 1/- green on 1872 cover to India (roughly opened), other 1/greens on transatlantic covers from 1850 onwards, as well as three 1871 covers to same Spanish address incl. 3d rose and 6d purple pairs, 6d grey plates 15 and 17 on covers to Australia, etc. £400-450

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38 Great Britain 1902 £1 Mint 1902 De La Rue £1 dull blue-green (SG.266), mint, almost imperceptibly hinged and very fresh with rich colour. Cat. £2,000. £200-250

39 Great Britain 1902-13, KEVII used set to £1 green, the high values with somewhat average postmarks, the stamps absolutely sound. Minimum cat. all as cheapest types £1975. £80-120

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40 Great Britain Admiralty Official Block 1903-04 1d scarlet Admiralty Official (SG.O108) in mint never hinged block of four. Cat. £280 for a hinged block. £70-90

41 Great Britain 1913 10/- indigo-blue Seahorse, Waterlow printing, SG.402, most attractive mint example with vibrant colour and beautifully centred. Rear tips of two lower-middle perfs touched with toning, invisible from the front. Cat. £1,000. £150-200

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42 Great Britain King George V ‘seahorses’ group, all cds used, with 1918-19 Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6d shades, 5/- and 10/- and the 1934 re-engraved set, SG.413a, 415a/417, 450/452, cat. £685. The only significant issues being re-engraved 2/6d with hidden fault and light wrinkles on the 5/-. Also the Downey head 1d. with Imperial Crown watermark inverted, SG.341Wi, cat. £400, perfs at top a little trimmed from booklet origin. £70-90

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43 Great Britain 1929 UPU £1 black, SG.438, sound mint with attractive appearance. Arguably very slightly toned gum but no more than usual for this issue (see scan of reverse online). Cat. £750. £200-250

44 Great Britain QV to KGVI mint range with over 200 stamps incl. 1881 1d pale lilac 14 dots (SG.171, cat. £225), 1887-1900 jubilees, the 1/- green stained, the 1/- green and carmine MNH, KEVII to 1/-, the KGV with useful range of Downey heads, side-profiles 1920s and ‘30s both to 1/-, wmk varieties incl.

1924 and 1935 photogravure 2d oranges wmk sideways (SG.421b, 442b, cat. £225), 1925 Empire Exhibition set MNH, through to KGVI incl. dark colour defins inverted and sideways wmks (462a/466a, 462wi/466wi, cat. £350), both high value sets to £1 brown, as well as highly unusual MNH Silver Wedding £1 ‘reprint’ in black on gummed paper. With assistance from the NPM archive, this is identical to the example they hold produced from the original bromide proof. £140-180

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GREAT BRITAIN: COLLECTIONS

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45 Great Britain 1948 Royal Silver Wedding £1 full sheet, unmounted, vertical bend through second column and others along perfs, nevertheless a very attractive sheet in manageable size for presentation. Cat. £840 as cylinder block and singles. £80-100 18

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46 Great Britain: Vintage Collection Volume 1 An exciting time-warp collection in an old-fashioned album, intact as received, the condition very mixed on the earlier issues and improving later.

After a few Mulready items the book begins with sixty penny blacks, the majority with no margins, however including pair with large margins on two sides and a lovely four margin example tied by red MX to Irish cover (opened and trimmed) with crisp ‘Armagh DE 11 1840’ pmk, then the 2d blues incl. 2 margins on large-part cover, 1d red imperfs with mint blocks of six, lots of used multiples, 26 numbers in cross incl. set, a partial sheet reconstruction, 1841 2d blue used multiples and a few numbers in cross, through to perf 2d blue corner letters mint plates 13 and 15, penny red plates 71 to 224 mint/unused plus mint multiples incl. plate 219 block of nine, used plates two sets (both 225s faulty), plate 95 complete sheet reconstruction, etc, then the ½d ‘bantams’ starting with forty-five mint examples (all plates save 9) incl. block of nine and imprint block of six, the used with 2x plate 9 both good sound examples without heavy cancels, followed by several ½d covers, the 1½d plates, etc. Please also see the following lot for the continuation of this great collection. £5,000-6,000

47 Great Britain: Vintage Collection Volume 2 The second volume of the collection starting at the beginning of the surface-printed period and running to the early 1950s, including an excellent range of mint 19th century. Highlights are 1/- mint plate 6 (SG.117, cat. £1,200), 2/- blue shades, 1876-80 2½d rosy mauve mint plates 6 and 13 to 17 (SG.141 vars, cat. £4,300), 1879 3d rose plate 20 mint, 6d grey plates 13 to 16 mint (cat. £2,000) and plate 17 cds used, 1880-83 4d grey-brown plate 18 and 1/- orange-brown each mint and date-stamp used, 2½d blue plate 22 mint and attempted sheet reconstruction of 96 positions used, plate 23 with 36 positions, followed by 1880-81 SG.164/169 set mint and used, 5d indigo used pairs, 1d lilac 14 dots mint, 1884 £1 crowns wmk used (SG.185, cat. £3,000), 1891 £1 green mint and used, etc. Then KEVII mint to 10/- and £1 green used (small closed tear), KGV seahorses to £1 green used (SG.403, cat. £1,400), £1 PUC cds used, pristine MNH re-engraved seahorses set, etc, through to officials, some revenues, etc. While condition is mixed and close viewing advised, many of the key stamps here are highly collectable examples and discoveries likely in this very enjoyable album, offered intact as received. £3,000-3,500 www.tennants.co.uk

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48 Great Britain Line-Engraved Reconstructions An old-fashioned ‘Philatelic Album’ from an original estate (see also Lots 49, 54, 104, 151-156, 190 and 206). This containing sheet reconstructions of line-engraved issues in various stages of completion, over a thousand stamps in total, the penny black with 122 examples, quality generally very much above the average (clearly being the source for the excellent first page of this collector's main Great Britain album). The pages for the 1d blacks marked with spaces for twelve plates at each of the 240 positions. Includes varieties such as plate 2 double letter DG four margins and neat red MX (not photographed). Then over 220 imperf 1d reds by sheet position with black plate printings likely, followed by perf 16 small crown Die I reds with the majority of positions, perf 14 large crown ‘stars’ complete reconstruction, through to the corner letters reds. A fascinating collection for the line-engraved specialist to explore and a wonderful basis for continuation of this quest. £7,500-10,000

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49 Great Britain Excellent collection of approx. 1300 mint and used stamps from 1840 to 1950s, neatly presented in a loose-leaf album with condition generally far above average, beginning with an outstanding page of thirty-four penny blacks almost all four margins, plates 1 to 10, the only significant fault being a heavy crease on one of the plate 3 examples. Then 2d blues with four-margin shades, imperf 1d reds with numbers in cross pmks complete (most three margins, some faults, cat. over £2,900), very fine four margin black plate 9 printing, a good range of ‘stars’ 1d reds and 2d blues, 1864-79 red plates complete used, the plate 225 sound with perfect perfs and light bar cancel, followed by all 2d blue and ½d plates used, 10d embossed unused (thins), etc. The surface-printed has some nice cds examples and mint/unused often mounted beneath the used, highlights including 2/- blue shades: deep blue and blue both wing-margin cds, cobalt and milky shades also very presentable examples, the milky with straight edge (reduced wing-margin), signed. Then the 1867-73 high values page with catalogue over £68,000 incl. 5/- SG.127 cds plate 1 and sound plate 2, well-centred 10/- SG.128, the second 10/- with small tear, £1 on blued paper SG.129 well-centred with relatively neat bar cancel and no discernible faults, 5/- rose plate 4 on blued paper (SG.130 cat. £35,000) with crudely closed tears yet fresh general appearance - an outstanding space-filler - as well as £5 orange on blued paper, forged cancel over specimen ovpt, with corner crease. Further good items include £1 brown wmk orbs with thin, £1 brown crowns and £1 green with no obvious faults, lots of mint KEVII shades and used to £1, UPU £1 used, etc, etc. Offered intact as received from an original estate. £7,000-9,000

50 Great Britain Line-engraved collection of the imperforate issues on stockpages, with 144 penny reds, incl. attractive Maltese crosses on piece, many four margins incl. inverted watermark plate 25 and plate 117, another inverted wmk three margins unplated, etc. An interesting group mostly unplated, usual mixed condition, please inspect. £100-130

51 Great Britain Later line-engraved collection/accumulation in a stockbook with several hundred 1864-79 penny reds generally avoiding faults and organised by plates with all represented up to pl.224, then postmarks incl. on piece and Brunswick Star group, 23 pairs/strips, etc. Also ½d (75+) and 1½d plates. Please inspect. £80-100

52 Great Britain 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. Close inspection recommended. £1,500-1,750

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53 Great Britain Collection in three boxed Lighthouse hingeless albums and two further volumes, highlights including two four-margin 1d blacks, one very attractive with red Maltese cross, 10d brown embossed with four clear margins, probable concealed faults yet a very collectable example, nice 2/- blue with light bar cancel, 1880s high values with cds 5/- and sound reg. cancelled 10/-, QV and KEVII £1 greens, £1 PUC sound though heavy cds postmarks, officials worth investigation, etc. Also a large binder of stockpages with line-engraved incl. four margin penny black, mixed condition surface-printed to high values, later with postmark interest, as well as a further homemade album with the remains of an old collection with useful mint from late QV and intact section of controls and cylinder blocks. Well worth a close viewing. £500-750

54 Great Britain A wild little stockbook that emerged from the balance accumulation of an original estate, packed with an exciting range of good 19th century and KEVII mint/unused and used, seemingly a mix of high-cat items with relatively small faults, ie. ‘seconds’ of the main collection along with select cds examples, much here that is difficult or impossible to fault, as well as anything the collector put aside for further study, with postmarks a particular feature. Includes three decent-looking penny blacks (two with faults) and lots of other line-engraved incl. several 1d red numbers in cross MXs, 2d blue lines imperf with late 1875 cds mostly very large margins, etc, then 1855-57 4d rose-carmine sound unused, 1867 9d straw with unusual pmk, unused 8d orange creased, a few attractive mint 2½d blue plates with thins/creases, 6d chestnut plate 11 superb with Limerick cds, 3d and 6d surcharges cds and unused sets, perfin 10/- ultramarine and another sound used, lots of mint jubilees to 1/- greens, two 1891 £1 greens torn, as well as mint Edwardian and KGV shades, telegraphs incl. used 1/- green margin pair and 5/- rose, etc, etc. A somewhat chaotic book where further examination is sure to yield interesting discoveries, please inspect carefully. £1,000-1,250

55 Great Britain QV to early decimal QEII collection in several small stockbooks, with much line-engraved in the form of dozens of imperf 1d reds and a few hundred perf reds, accompanied by well-researched write-up pages, the later QV and KEVII with postmark interest and varieties to explore, the lower values crammed by the hundred. Downey heads also with interesting shades. The QEII mostly mint to £5. Very mixed condition. Please inspect. £50-60

56 Great Britain Balance of over a hundred covers and postal stationery items from 1820s to 1950s, much bought in auction many years ago, incl. long mourning cover signed on front by Gladstone with neat red ‘Official Paid - London’ cds 26.4.1862, attractive jubilee 2½d and 5d perfins together on blue cover to Hamburg, 1911 ½d green perf 15x14 on postcard (SG.279, cat. £100), 1924/25 Empire Exhibition stationery group, KGV controls cover, good range of ship/maritime mail usages, Field Post, etc, etc. £170-220

57 Great Britain An intriguing old batch of insurance company correspondence, the main part a dense bundle of over 400 1854/61 1d red ‘stars’ frankings on large part fronts, tied with old linen twine, with a variety of neatly struck postmarks c.1858-1864 on stamps both perf 14 and perf 16 and various shades. Then a small group of WWI to 1930s censor and ‘Received from H.M.Ships’ postmarks etc, all to same addressee incl. ‘Prisoners of War’ stationery envelope with lovely strike of ‘Aliens Detention Camp - Douglas, I.O.M.’ large oval censor mark in purple, franked with 1d KGV, the few later covers include a somewhat battered returned cover of 1931 with cds strikes of Pematang-Siantar, North Sumatra, Indonesia, etc. Needs inspection. £80-100

58 Great Britain County Durham Postal History Interesting collection of the ‘skeleton’ postmarks for towns and villages of County Durham, alphabetically presented in a loose-leaf album from Annfield Park to Witton Park, on issues from QV to a few KGVI, over sixty on postcards of which the majority are Edwardian usages. Scarcer cancellations noted including Thornley, Seaham Harbour, Sacriston, Middleton St. George, Hebburn S.O., etc. Please inspect. £70-120

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59 Great Britain etc, Collection in stockbook and binder, a somewhat eccentric range of material from which came the KEVII mint £1 in this sale, so presumably other things may be discovered here. Includes a few dozen imperf 1d reds incl. pairs, perf plate 210 mint, vlh mint 2/6d seahorse (pulled perf), predecimal QEII defin and commem traffic lights and plate number mint blocks, Castles high values better printings used, along with twelve late mid-’80s year packs mostly unopened, etc. Also a few British Commonwealth mint sets/part sets KGV-QEII. £70-100

60 Great Britain Collection in six various volumes: Windsor album with useful range from line-engraved imperfs onwards in generally above average condition, two Lighthouse hingeless albums for QEII, majority mint, with some better pre-decimal incl. Red Cross phosphor set mint, as well as about 45 presentation packs of the 1990s. Face value over £200. Also a little Commonwealth in stockbook etc. £100-150

61 Great Britain A box of assorted material from 1840 penny black sound with four margins through to modern sets and presentation packs with well over £100 of face value, as well as two binders of FDCs 1940 onwards and commemorative covers or less usual postmarks. £120-160

62 Great Britain Collection of many hundreds of stamps, somewhat untidy, in three stockbooks and loose pages, the main book with line-engraved incl. penny blacks 2 margins and no margins, imperf 1d reds incl. from black plates (none four margins), 1841 2d blue pair four margins needing care to unstick from page, perf 2d blue plates incl. pl.9 mint, 1d red plates complete to pl.224, etc. Then mixed condition surface-printed range through to a useful range of mint and used Wildings and beyond incl. watermark varieties. Will reward organisation. £140-160

63 Great Britain Mostly used collection in a blue boxed binder, starting with a few pages of 19th century including 1840 1d black one margin, 6d on 6d lilac very fine used, 1/- dull green cds used, as well as a nice group of eleven telegraphs to 10/- grey (SG.T16, cat. £450, one pulled perf), followed by KEVII perfin high values to 10/-, seahorses to 10/-, etc, issues running to 1990s. £150-200

64 Great Britain Collection in a Stanley Gibbons binder starting with several 19th century postal history items including 1807 entire with Kendal straight-line postmark, 1d unused Mulready letter-sheet, forme 5, with internal advertising in blue, (SG.ME1a, cat. £750), 1857 4d rose wing-margin pair (SG.66a) neatly tied on mourning cover to Canada, 1/- pale green (SG.73) on cover to USA, 1872-73 6d chestnut plate 11 and 6d grey plate 12 each on covers to same addressee in Sicily, the latter in combination with 1d red. Then the printed pages with useful mint incl. 3d rose SG.144 plate 16, 2d lilac SG.189, Jubilee 1/- issues, 1912-22 set, 1924-26 mint never hinged incl. Empire Exhibition sets, 1939 2/6d brown MNH, QEII phosphor sets MNH, etc. Also two further SG volumes for Isle of Man and Channel Islands incl. comprehensive 1940s issues. Please inspect. £250-300

65 Great Britain and Worldwide Collection in fifteen volumes filling a deep container: seven FDC albums mainly GB, two stockbooks of mint sets with minimum face value £400, as well as Hong Kong, France and Italy, along with a little earlier GB incl. 1867 6d postal fiscal mint never hinged (SG.F17, cat. £110 for hinged).

Also six loose-leaf albums, two for British Commonwealth including an interesting range of New Zealand and Australian States stamp duty issues (the Victoria £10, SG.279, torn) and four for worldwide. Please inspect. £250-300

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66 Great Britain and Channel Islands Accumulation in four boxes/containers of various sizes, the GB in 10 volumes, mostly FDCs and some pre-decimal/early decimal presentation packs, as well as better items on stockcards and album pages incl. 1d black just short of full margins, some attractive surface-printed, KEVIII booklet BC3 (ed.321), etc, as well as a good boxed album of mint QEII with better castles sets, specialized pages of Wildings, comprehensive commem phosphor sets, etc. Also an oversize carton stuffed with kiloware packets plus off-paper mixtures across all reigns and some further FDCs, the Channel Islands/IOM in a further seven albums. Another extra-large carton has accessories incl. Post Office binders, packets of supplement album leaves, etc. £300-400

67 Great Britain Accumulation of thousands of mint stamps with decimal face value at least £1,000, as well as useful earlier reigns from late QV and generally good philatelic value with gutters and traffic light sets, full sheets, lots of Machins, even a 1985 34p Hitchcock with Queen’s head dropped below value.

Please inspect. £450-500

68 Great Britain The Great Britain sorted from an Anglesey estate, in carton and container (plus small box of accessories), with at least £900 good face value mostly in presentation packs of the 2000s to 2008 with additional panes and sets amongst. Then five albums of FDCs and some further pres. packs starting pre-decimal, as well as a binder with stamps and postal history from line-engraved to early QEII incl. 1939 10/- dark blue MNH two singles and pair, some interesting loose postal history incl. re-directed penny reds cover, etc. £450-600

69 Great Britain A collection in eight stockbooks, 2 binders, sheet file and loose, filling a clear plastic container. Strong Machin interest, the collector having been a neighbour of the great sculptor, with three stockbooks of specialised printings knowledgeably labelled, as well as a card mounted with the 1969 high value set signed Arnold Machin (one of 500 produced). Other good material includes late 1960s sheets, 1939/48 high value set MNH (2/6d brown with toning), phosphor sets incl. red cross MNH, etc, through to extensive later sets with at least £1,000 of face value. Also a few 1d red covers, a couple having lengthy and charming contents, Iraq/Mesopotamia photographic postcard group, etc. Please inspect. £500-750

70 Great Britain Collection in twelve volumes, plus four box-files of presentation packs to 2014, all filling two cartons. Three of the volumes have the used with earlier incl. plated 1d reds and 2d blues, QV and KEVII both to 5/-, etc. The mint with some KGVI commems etc, then the vast majority in MNH sets from Wildings and castles onwards, some specialisation on the Machins from pre-decimal, the 1970s commem sets collected in gutter pairs, approx fifty different prestige booklets, etc. Face value alone min. £4,000. £1,800-2,300

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71 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Used Volume 1: QV to KGVI A fat Senator album with over 1500 used stamps from 1840 to 1940s and postal history from Mulready envelopes onwards, written-up with varieties galore, offered intact aside from a £5 orange (Lot 30). Highlights include six four-margin penny blacks including plate 1a inverted watermark also showing guide line in corner, with bright red MX (left margin close but clear), two plate 2 examples with neat red MXs, plate 5 with large margins signed Diena and plate 6 on cover, followed by 1840 2d blues, one with very good margins all round. The 1d red imperfs extensive incl. several from black plates, inverted watermarks, complete numbers-in-cross, blue 1844 pmk, lots of lettering varieties etc. Then imperf 2d lines page incl. black MX example with nice margins, perf 1d and 2d ‘stars’ well-represented incl. 1855 and 1858 large crown 2d perf 16 types, virtually complete 1864-79 1d plate numbers, the 225 very presentable with another sound example on mourning cover, as well as several company underprints, a dozen inverted wmks, etc. Line-engraved continues with 2d plates complete, ½d Bantam complete plates, wmk varieties and again with an additional example of the key plate 9 on cover, followed by embossed set faults but collectable, lots of surface-printed varieties incl. 1850s inverted wmks, 2/- blue shades, 1878 10/- possibly repaired at top and 1878 £1 brown-lilac sound with central cds and numeric cancel at edge. Further key issues include 1884 £1 brown-lilac, 1891 £1 green, KEVII DLR and Somerset House both to £1, £1 seahorse shades, a magnificent £1 UPU corner margin example with light cds postmark, the elusive UPU 2½d inverted wmk, re-engraved 10/- seahorse superb cds block of four, etc, etc. Stated to catalogue £140,000 (2016). £4,500-5,000 28

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72 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Mint Volume 1: QV to KGVI Senator album, intact as received with over 1700 mint stamps from 1850s to c.1950, including lots of controls, cylinder blocks, booklet panes and some full booklets, as well as many shades and watermark varieties. Highlights include 1856/7 1d ‘stars’ mint shades, over 100 mint penny red plate numbers incl. pairs plates 74, 95 and 202, a handful of ½d plates mint, 1887-1900 jubilee types with ½d vermilion and ½d green watermarks inverted, 5d type I (cat. £1,100) toned around edges, 1/- dull green x2, etc, followed by KEVII to 5/- with many shades/printings including useful never hinged, 15 different control letters, 2d Govt. Parcels, etc. Then many Downey heads over five pages with lots of watermark varieties including scarce 1d scarlet wmk inverted and reversed unused (SG.336Wk, unpriced), profile heads incl. MNH 2½d wmk inverted (SG.375Wi), 7d bronze-green (SG.388) and 10d deep turquoise-blue (SG.394a), 5/- B/W seahorse hinged, 1924 Exhibition 1d ‘tail to ‘N’’ variety in corner block of six with usual slight toning, the PUC £1 also toned yet decent appearance, as well as coil leaders from KGV photogravure onwards, several KEVIII booklets, 1938 KGVI 2/- booklet (edition 417) ‘cancelled’ and punched type 33P (cat. £900), 1939/48 high values set, etc, etc. Stated to catalogue over £40,000 not including the many coil leaders and joins. Condition varies as to be expected, on the whole very attractive. £1,250-1,500 www.tennants.co.uk

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73 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Pre-Decimal Definitive Errors and Varieties Mint A blue Barclay Classic loose-leaf album bulging with thousands of mostly mint never hinged stamps in a detailed presentation of definitive issues, with some useful earlier varieties incl. 1881 1d lilac two forms of inverted wmk both MNH, 1912 1½d ‘PENCF’ error in margin pair with normal (SG.362a, cat. £300), KGVI listed flaws in cylinder blocks, etc, however the bulk of the pages are devoted to Wildings, with about two hundred listed varieties, many in multiples, cylinder blocks, booklets, etc, as well as nice blade flaws and other unlisted errors, continuing through predecimal Machins and the Wilding types for regions and Channel Islands. £500-750

74 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Commem Errors and Varieties Mint The commemorative ‘errors and varieties’ section with issues from 1935 to 2010 in six loose-leaf albums from ‘fly-speck’ to hundreds of listed constant varieties, many in positional margin blocks up to full sheets (folded), all meticulously presented - a real labour of love. The collection begins with a little KGV and KGVI, however the main strength is in pre-decimal QEII with many missing embossings and missing phosphors incl.

1968 Cook 1/9d (cat. £190), inverted watermarks incl. 1965 battle of Britain 1/3d non-phosphor (cat. £190), 1966 landscape 6d x2 (cat. £170 each), as well as distinct blade flaws and other printing faults. The decimal issues with many further listed varieties, through to Christmas 1st class sheets, the 2000s having c.£200 face value. £500-750

75 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s QEII Used Collection An impressive collection of thousands of stamps along with covers in nineteen Senator albums, the issues from 1952 to 2010 represented in virtually every possible format including prestige booklet panes and FDCs. The pre-decimal volumes with many varieties listed and unlisted, incl. missing phosphors, commem inverted watermarks, extensive listed Wilding constant flaws, etc. We note 1959 2d phosphor-graphite St. Edward’s Crown error, 1959 4½d FDC (SG.577, cat. £250), castles printings complete, 1966 landscapes 6d inverted wmk non-phosphor and ‘AN’ for ‘AND’ in phosphor pair, intriguing blank profile overlapping gold on 1966 3d Christmas issue, etc, etc. Assembled with great dedication and written-up in detail. £500-750

76 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s QEII Pre-Decimal Mint Collection Well-displayed and written-up collection of thousands of stamps in three Senator albums, the commemorative issues with some constant varieties (the main pre-decimal commem volumes being in Lot 74), however the main strength here is in definitives from Wildings through to Machins with a plethora of booklets, booklet panes, cylinder blocks, coil leaders and joins, etc. Highlights include (all never hinged) 1½d green pane SB62 cylinder G9., 2d pane SB78 cylinder H6T, several different 2/6d booklets, Waterlow and 2nd DLR castles sets, 1959 phosphor-graphite 2d wmk error SG.605a, 1960-68 phosphor inverted watermarks incl. 2½d two bands, phosphor 1d pane SB42 cylinder F10, 2½d cream paper pane SB88a (cat. £300), etc. A most enjoyable collection. £750-1,000

77 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Decimal Definitive Errors and Varieties Mint The decimal Machins section of the collection in three loose-leaf albums, issues from 1971 to 2010 in the same in-depth treatment with focus on booklets and positional blocks, through to the regionals. The early Machins include many missing phosphors, 3p ultramarine imperf pairs (SG.X855b cat. £400, X856b cat. £475), etc, to more recent issues including £2 missing ‘£’ in cylinder number pair with normal (SG.Y1747a, cat. £250). Again the non-listed varieties are excellent, with blade flaws including 1993 5p block with severe scrape erasing values on four stamps, interesting postal forgeries incl. 1993 24p brown and 2006 1st class phosphor booklet panes and cover, etc. Essential viewing for the Machin enthusiast. £500-750

78 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s QEII Decimal Mint Collection Thorough collection of booklet panes, booklets, coils, sets and souvenir sheets, etc, from 1971 to 2010, written-up in fifteen loose-leaf albums.

Thousands of pounds catalogue on just the pre-1990 issues with some of the more elusive booklets incl. FD3A and FD4A, FG3B, corrected rates FK6A+B and FS1A+B, etc, also much outside the scope of SG for example octagonal self-adhesive forerunners and lots of coil leaders. The issues from 1990 onwards have face value of over £5,500, again with material not usually encountered like 1st and 2nd class ‘Large’ books of 50, continuing coil leaders, Christmas issue self-adhesive panes issued as gifts to postal workers with matrix still attached, etc. A great collection. £2,500-3,000

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79 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s ‘Smiler’ Sheets Mint and Used Collection Collection of over 120 sheets parallel mint and used, mostly folded and written-up on pages in two volumes. The 2000/01 Christmas sheets with Post Office imprint mint and used are separated in half and the 2001 greeting labels sheets mint and used have damage in margin. Approx. £1,100 in face value. £500-600

80 Great Britain Specialist Collector’s Postage Dues, Regionals and Early Channel Isles Two loose-leaf albums of back of the book material, mint in one book and used in the other, the regional Wilding and Machin heads with some better varieties incl. mint never hinged NI43a (cat. £175), used S51a x2 (cat. £180 each), virtually complete 21st century sets and souvenir sheets, also Guernsey and Jersey WWII-period lions issues, bisect covers, Isle of Man material from 1831 onwards, as well as good postage dues with 1896 and 1902 handstamps on cover/cards, 1914/22 complete mint with extra shades to 1/-, 1924/31 set complete mint with never hinged values incl. 2/6d (cat. £275), continuing comprehensive, the 1950s mostly never hinged, as well as inverted watermark pages mint and used incl.

1960 1d MNH (cat. £125) and 3d used. £350-400

81 Great Britain Cinderella A charming collection of several hundred stamps organised in a loose-leaf album, with focus on locals, railways, rocket mail, air services, the philatelic exhibitions and some telegraph and revenue issues. The exhibitions run from Birmingham 1911 onwards with booklets of miniature sheets for Paignton 1936, Cambridge 1938, Brighton 1946, and Bournemouth 1948. The airmail section also with seldom seen material, one of the triangular rocket mail issues of 1934 with pilot’s signature, etc. This would be a very difficult collection to re-assemble. Viewing recommended. £150-180

82 Great Britain and Worldwide Mint and used collection of Great Britain in five albums and a stockbook, the mint running to 2020 with non-Machin face value exceeding £1,600.

Also some interesting earlier issues incl. creased penny black with three margins tied on piece by red MX, dozens of QV revenues, etc. Three further volumes of many hundreds of fairly basic commonwealth and worldwide, as well as three black loose-leaf albums of unused pages. £800-850

83 Great Britain Extensive and neatly presented QEII collection in 24 albums/binders and 31 year packs, filling three large boxes, issues to 2014 with very little duplication, including SG boxed hingeless albums and Post Office binders for smiler sheets etc, with an excellent beginning of complete MNH Wildings incl. the inverted and sideways watermark sets, Waterlow castles MNH, all the phosphor commem sets MNH, etc, some specialisation on the Machins and regionals, extensive booklets both folded and prestige from early issues onwards, postal workers Christmas presentation sheets, etc, as well as FDCs in nine of the volumes. Face value alone well in excess of £9,800, most likely over £10,000. £4,500-5,000

84 Great Britain Collection in three boxed Stanley Gibbons hingeless albums and nine further stockbooks/binders, with early issues including four margins penny black with lightly struck red Maltese cross postmark, perf 2d blue plate 15 unused, etc, through to a good range of mint pre-decimal QEII incl.

Waterlow castles set (SG.536/539), St. Edward’s Crown wmk set, Red Cross phosphor set, etc. The later sets are mostly in multiple format with many traffic lights, 1st class commem full sheets and ‘smilers’ sheets including the 2000/’01 Christmas pair (LS2/LS3, cat. £250), total face value will exceed £2,000. £1,000-1,250

85 Great Britain QEII mint accumulation in stockbooks (partially filled) and SG boxed hingeless volume II (boxed volumes III and IV also present but empty) filling a grocery box, with commem sets in gutter and traffic light blocks and a good range of Machins incl. multiples to £5, an album for booklets, and loose packets of pristine cylinder blocks and Questa balloon blocks. Also year packs into the 2000s (some unopened) and perfect Press Sheet of the 2008 50th Anniversary of the Country Definitives miniature sheet (uncut sheet of 15x m/s) carefully rolled in tube as sent by the Post Office.

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86 Great Britain A black binder of 1st class panes, souvenir sheets and sets, much 21st century, along with Guernsey coins and military uniform sheets in quantity.

On the GB the approx. minimum face value is £380. £150-170

87 Great Britain Collection in six blue boxed binders, parallel with used, a mint run from 1990s to Christmas 2019 including some prestige booklets, smiler sheets, ‘post-and-go’ packs, etc, with face value about £3,000, certainly minimum £2,900. £1,250-1,500

GREAT BRITAIN: PRESENTATION/YEAR PACKS, FDCs ETC 88 Great Britain A large and small box with about 14 cover albums, FDCs of 1970s-1990 with presentation packs running along side, as well as several booklets.

Also First Day franked PHQs and three of the volumes then have Benham silks. £50-60

89 Great Britain Collection of FDCs to 2003 in ten Post Office binders plus a hingeless album of mint sets late 1980s to 2000 with face value over £300. £130-180

90 Great Britain FDCs and PHQ Cards Collection of FDCs and PHQ cards filling four cartons, the PHQs all with stamps and souvenir sheets with first day cancels housed in fourteen albums 1977 to 2011, quite a few sets in gutter pair or traffic light format, the PHQs STC in 2014/15 ‘Packs and Cards’ catalogue over £3,000.

Then the FDCs proper in nine volumes by commem, definitive, booklets, etc, pre-decimal to 2003, also with gutter pairs and different cachets, along with three box files of Benham silks. Other commem covers include 38 RAF flights, several with signatures. £200-250

91 Great Britain Two large and two small cover albums, the main value in 21st century presentation packs with face value £600. A few interesting commem covers among the FDCs as well. £250-300

92 Great Britain Mint collection of 21st century sets and souvenir sheets on stockcards and nine Royal Mail year books for 2008 to 2016. Face value well over £900 if not exceeding £1,000. £450-500

93 Great Britain FDC and Presentation Pack collection in four volumes, two shoeboxes and various packs, filling a large carton. Looks to be all 21st century issues to 2016, with occasional PHQ sets and a few coins as well. Face value will be well over £1100. £500-600

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94 Great Britain New issue accumulation in 35 volumes in three cartons: PHQ cards 1978-2021 in 18 Royal Mail binders all unused save a couple of earlier sets; prestige booklets in four small Royal Mail cover albums; green Royal Mail Post & Go binder with 30 packs; several further volumes with gutter/traffic-light/plate pairs to high values, FDCs incl. small section of numismatic covers, banknotes to £10, etc. Face value well over £1,300. A bonus is a fourth carton with 7-volume colour-illustrated International Encyclopaedia of Stamps and several sundry albums, schoolboy collections etc. £600-750

95 Great Britain Presentation pack collection from pre-decimal to 2019 in ten Royal Mail binders, including the Welsh inscription Princess Diana pack. Also three green Senator albums of mainly basic GB and worldwide. Face value will exceed £1,900. £900-1,000

96 Great Britain Decimal New Issues Collection of mint decimal issues to 2019 with presentation packs in eleven Post Office albums, further packs and prestige booklets in a filing box, mint sets and miniature sheets in four Royal Mail stamp albums, as well as smiler sheets and loose. Includes some specialisation on Machins, a good range of 1st class/commem combination booklets, Diana Welsh inscription presentation pack noted, etc. Face value alone will exceed £7,400. £3,000-3,500

97 Great Britain, Post Office Promotion Posters Approx. 300 posters advertising new stamp issues from about 1974 to 2005. These were not readily available to the public. £70-90

CHANNEL ISLANDS: COLLECTIONS 98 Channel Islands 21st century new issues accumulation filling a plastic crate, with lots of year packs and presentation packs, etc. noted up to 2010. Also a few stockbooks of earlier issues. Please inspect. £150-200

99 Channel Islands and Isle of Man Collection in ten albums filling a carton, with seven volumes of 500+ FDCs to the mid-1990s, then three binders of stockpages with the mint sets and souvenir sheets of the same period, virtually all mint never hinged including the pre-decimal. £150-200

100 Great Britain New issues accumulation, mostly in year packs to 2010, the most recent still wrapped as well as a 1988 pack with potential for the rare 13p Christmas error! Also a couple of tins with 21st century sets in corner blocks, miniature sheet quantities and earlier booklets quantities. Face value minimum £700. £300-350

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101 Bermuda 1924 10/- green and red on pale emerald, SG.92. A very fine cds used example. Cat. £250. £50-60

102 Ceylon 1857-59 1/9d green, SG.11, very attractive used example with excellent margins for this issue. Possible repair along right-hand vertical of inner frameline, appearing as watermark anomaly. Pre-printing hair inclusion running from second ‘L’ of ‘Shilling’ up back of queen’s neck to temple. Cat. £800. £100-150

103 Chile ‘Colon’ Pair 1855 5cts brown-red on blued paper, SG.17, mint pair with even and well clear margins all around, original gum partially disturbed/flattened by hawid mount. Cat. £340 as singles, multiples in this quality scarce. With 1978 RPS certificate. £70-100

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104 China Collection of over 1300 mint and used stamps housed in a loose-leaf album from an original estate, starting with classic large dragons to 1950s with some pleasant duplication on the 19th century issues. Includes (used unless otherwise stated) 1878 1ca yellow-green large dragon SG.1a (cat. £850), 22 small dragons incl. 4x 1888 5ca, 1897 small figures surcharges on dragons set of three (cat. £500) and on Dowagers to 30cts on 24cts (cat.£2,200+), the large figures to 5cts mint and used on piece (cat. as cheapest types £1,100+), etc. Then the red revenues (cat. £2,600) incl. 1ct with character variations, 2cts both types and 4cts wide type, followed by early Republic overprints incl. 1/2ct brown ovpt inverted, 1904 postage dues to 10cts dragon and 30cts blue, junks/Hall-of-Classics organised by printings to $2, through to hundreds of martyrs and Sun Yat-sen types, Provinces, 1944 War Refugees miniature sheet mint (folded through perfs), to back of book with a few locals, another inverted overprint seen, etc. Sure to be finds to make here, please inspect closely. £2,700-3,200

105 France The France section of the Anglesey estate, in three binders and a folder of loose items on stockcards and pages as bought in auction. Includes a useful range of 19th century, however the main strength is the 20th century, with various corner dates and never hinged sets, 1931 sinking fund MNH, 1936 airmails incl. MNH 2.25fr corner date and 3.50fr MNH plate number, 1936 50fr Atlantic flight centenary v.l.h. mint and x2 used (cat. £860), 1937 museums set both mint and MNH, 1955 celebrities set MNH, etc, etc. £300-450

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106 French Colonies: Reunion Specialised collection of several hundred mostly mint stamps from classics to 1970s, displayed on pages in a binder, including 1852 reprints, 1885 ‘5c. R’ surcharges with 5cts on 40cts eagle unused, first postage dues incl. 15cts with attractive blue postmark, diagonal ‘REUNION’ overprints incl. unaccented imperf 1fr pair and 75cts mint (latter thin, SG.15A, cat. £400) and perf 40cts and 1fr mint (SG.26A, 28A, cat. £700), as well as a perf 15cts used with unlisted ‘NREUNION’, then 1891 2cts surcharges used incl. ‘REUNIO N’, ‘REUNOIN’ and ‘RUENION’ in pair with normal, Commerce and Navigation set mint (the 1fr unused and other small faults), 1901 surcharges incl. 15cts on 75cts bar omitted error in mint pair with normal, signed Berrichon (SG.58b, cat. £275) and 15cts on 1fr smaller ‘1’ variety in millésime mint pair with normal, followed by 1912 ‘05’ on 15cts grey inverted mint (SG.77Aa, cat. £275) and inverted ‘0.01’ on 4cts mint (SG.91a, cat. £110), through to 1937 Roland Garros flight ovpt mint signed (SG.147a, cat. £375) and comprehensive mint C.F.A. local currency surcharges with the key 1951 500fr on 1000fr Paris bridges (SG.332, cat. £275). A pleasing collection to view. Owner’s cat. over £8,000. £600-750

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107 French Colonies: Syria Specialised collection on quadrille pages in a binder, with several hundred mint and used stamps 1919 first issues to 1940. Many errors and varieties here including double and inverted ovpts, omitted lines of ovpt se-tenant, etc. Some of the better items are (mint unless otherwise stated) 1919 20pi on 5fr blue and buff (SG.20, cat. £350), the same value with thick O.M.F. type in black and red, latter signed Brun (SG.29/30, cat. £470), rosette ovpt 10pi on 40cts MNH, tips of a few perfs toned (SG.53A, cat. £130), double black rosettes 20cts on 1ct block of four and double red rosette 10pi on 40cts (both toned), 1920 airmail ovpts set used (SG.57/59, cat. £275), 1921 regular set mint and inverted ovpts, 1921 airmails used (SG.86/88, cat. £200), through to 1923 ‘Syrie-Grand Liban’ airmail set (SG.114/117, cat. £225), 1924 June and September ovpts on Olympics sets, 1924 refugee aid airmails with 5p on 10p ‘au’ for ‘aux’ (SG.211, cat. £110), etc, as well as good 1930s sets including the 1930-36 views with top two values MNH, 1934 Republic first set with airmails (SG.271/299, cat. £650) also with proofs with blank value tablets of the Parliament House design in the colour of the 75cts and el Maari in colour of the 6p. Some earlier issues toned as usual, especially the printings on ‘G.C.’ paper as to be expected. STC £5,600+ not including varieties. £400-500

108 Germany Extensive collection filling a carton, in seven mostly hingeless albums and two binders of booklets, from classics to 2008, generally used pre-1940 and mint never hinged post-war, with good sections of Imperial issues, an album for inflation (many signed), an album for zusammendrucke setenants, etc. Highlights include embossed eagles in select quality with small shield ¼gr violet cds, 1/3gr emerald shade on piece, both ½gr shades signed, 5gr signed, 18kr superb cds, range of large shields, pfennig/pfennige with many shades, ‘Reichspost’ 3mk types I and II, through to inflation period with 1921 10pf olive-green signed and with certificate (SG.159, cat. £300), 1921 eagle airmail set, nothilfe sets, 1931 zeppelin set, 1933 Wagner set, professions, costumes, Nurburgring ovpts, souvenir sheets, etc. There is also the majority of the good material of Berlin and West Germany, predominantly mint never hinged including posthorns to 60pf MNH, the 70pf and 90pf mint. Please inspect. £600-750

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109 Gibraltar 1886 first set, ‘Gibraltar’ overprints on Bermuda, SG.1/7, mint with no apparent faults. The 1/- top value signed twice. Cat. £1,200. £120-160 36

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110 Gibraltar November 1886 to 1898 Queen Victoria issues complete mostly mint, excellent quality with much unmounted and a few plate numbers making a very attractive page. The 1886-87 set mint to 6d and used 1/- lightly cancelled and signed, 1889 surcharges set complete mint never hinged save the 40cts hinged, crease on 50cts hardly apparent from the front. Then the 1889-96 Spanish currency series incl. both 25cts shades, all MNH except the 20cts olive green used (cat. £100), 75cts and 1889 1p both used. Also the 1898 Sterling currency set mint. Total cat. £1,350. £180-220

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Gibraltar 1903 King Edward VII first set complete mint to £1, SG.46/55, clean with good colours. Cat. £1,200. £140-180

112 Gibraltar 1904-1911 KEVII issues mint, complete except for the 1908 £1. The 1911 8/- signed Buhler. The 1910 4/- also with a superb used example tied on piece by Registered cancel. Very attractive quality throughout including pristine MNH 1911 6d, a key value (cat. £150). Total cat. £1,580. £180-230

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Gibraltar 1911 8/- purple and green, mint with strong colour. SG.74, cat. £250. £30-40

114 Gibraltar 1912-1935, fifty mint/MNH stamps representing KGV near completion (without 1924 8/- or 1925 £5) including shades etc. Excellent quality, the £1 dull purple and black on red being MNH. Cat. £990. £100-130

115 India and States An old-fashioned stockbook of mint never hinged 1930s to early 1950s issues in an excellent state of preservation, offered intact as received aside from the ‘Jind Service’ set (Lot 116). Highlights include 1948 Gandhi 10rs in immaculate quality MNH, 1949-52 temples set MNH, etc, the States also free of toning where it matters incl. Gwalior to 25rs, ‘Nabha Service’ set (SG.O55/O68, cat. £325), Rajasthan handstamp overprints requiring expertization on Bundi to 1r and Kishengarh to 5rs, etc, etc. Please inspect. £300-400 38

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Indian Convention States: Jind 1937-38 ‘Jind State’ set mint never hinged, free of toning and extremely attractive quality throughout. The 25 rupees particularly scarce in this condition. SG.109/126, cat. £1,300. £200-250

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Ireland Nearly complete mint collection housed in a Lighthouse hingeless album, issues running from #1 to early 1980s, with an excellent showing of the 1922 overprints over seven pages including nineteen different seahorse issues, in fact the only empty spaces are for the Thom 10/- (the present stamp in our opinion is the Dollard), three 1927 wide/narrow spacing se-tenant pairs and the rare 1934 2d coil stamp. Includes Dollard 2/6d reddish brown MNH, Thom overprints 2/6d and 5/- in extremely attractive quality (SG.44/45, cat. £525), 1923 long ‘1’ varieties set with three of the four values in MNH se-tenant pairs with normal (1½d natural shaved perfs), 1925 wide and narrow dates seahorses sets, the wide dates MNH, (5/- oiled UL corner, likewise the 1935 lower two values), followed by 1933/35 map issue coil stamps never hinged or vlh, St. Patrick 1937 set (SG.102/104) and later sets on both papers, etc. Cat. over £4,300. £450-600 www.tennants.co.uk

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Long Island 1916, 1d red on horizontal laid paper, SG.13, unused without gum as issued. Stanley Gibbons expertization mark slightly showing through at upper left and light crease through ‘G.R.I.’, neither detracting significantly from this elusive WWI occupation provisional. Cat. £425. £75-100

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Malta Great Britain used in Malta Two examples of the 1867 10d used in Malta (SG.Z72), a pale red-brown shade very nicely centred with fairly neat strike of the A25 obliterator and a red-brown shade superb wing-margin example with clean strike of the cds portion only. Cat. £260 as bar-cancelled. £40-50

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Nauru 1924/48, ‘Century’ freighter set of fifteen on shiny surfaced, white paper, mint never hinged. SG.26B/29B, cat. £200 for hinged. £40-50

121 Netherlands Collection in five volumes, of which three are loose-leaf albums well-filled with chronological mint and used from the first issues of 1852 through to 2015 (used in the recent years). The mint is in mounts and generally never hinged in the latter half of the 20th century, with better sets including the 1952 ‘PTT’ exhibition set (cat. £130), 1969 Queen Juliana high values in MNH corner blocks of four (cat. £150), etc. Also the occasional cover incl. Christchurch air race pair 1953. Then a duplicated range of 100s more stamps 19th century onwards in a stockbook and another small stockbook with useful Colonies. Please inspect. £100-150 40

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122 New Zealand Collection in a hingeless Lighthouse album, looks almost complete mint 1973 to 1991 include mini sheets and booklets. Face alone NZ$235 (approx £120). Slight foxing to some pages. £30-50

123 Poland: Postal History Collection of 72 covers/cards from 1910s to 1950s, including WWI scarce censor machine cancel, ‘Poczta Polska’ ovpt surcharge stationery, 1919 Northern Poland overprints set on cover, nice range of commercial express/registered frankings of the 1930s, through to WWII with series of covers with issues of the Polish government in exile incl. Monte Cassino surcharges set, fifteen General Government philatelic and commercial frankings incl. official mail, etc. £40-50

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124 St. Helena 1922-37 15/- ‘Badge’, SG.113, used on piece, the postmark ‘DE 18 27’ most likely forged. Still a magnificent stamp and highly collectable with a forged cds. An inexpensive way to fill the space beautifully. Cat. £3,250. £100-150

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125 St. Helena A very pleasing exhibition-style collection in two volumes, the pre-1950 issues displayed over fifty pages, running parallel mint and used from 1856 imperf 6d onwards, including an excellent range of the surcharge types, 1890-97 and 1903 sets both mint and used along with the specimen ovpt sets, further specimen sets including scarce purple handstamp type on 1912 set not listed in SG. Then a wonderful showing of the KGV ‘badge’ issues incl. first series to £1 mint, second series complete to 15/- mint and 10/- used, the 7/6d mint and used both being the better shade despite mis-labelling here (SG.111d, cat. £1,400 and £2,000), followed by a few pages of the listed flaws on values to 8d, several in plate number pairs.

Also the 1934 centenary set mint, 1937 coronation specimen set, reference section incl. dangerous forgery of the 1884 ‘halfpenny’ double surcharge, through to the QEII with watermark varieties, all the booklets, etc. Total catalogue exceeds £20,000. Other than a few minor faults on the classics (incl. small thins on SG.1 mint and SG.2 used), the quality is generally high especially on the key KGV top values where care seems to have been taken to avoid forged postmarks (Lot 124 is not from this collection). Please see below the great postal history part of the collection. £2,000-2,500

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126 St. Helena The excellent postal history section of the collection, beautifully presented and written-up for exhibit in two binders along with a third for postcards, the main volumes with at least 70 franked covers and cards, mostly QV to KGVI, with good commercial usages plus delightful philatelic frankings, highlights including the Boer War PoW section of ten items with cover from the Cape addressed to General Cronje, 1903 set to 1/- and other KEVII issues on registered covers, 1922-37 ‘badge’ issues incl. 2/- single usage (cat. £300), 1½d ‘cleft rock’ on card to Belgium (cat. £1,000, not tied), ½d on cover with St. Lucia 1930 postage dues, 1935 silver jubilees including FDC set on QV penny post jubilee stationery pair, etc, etc. The postcards also strong, exhibiting subject of ‘St. Helena past and present’ with early photographic cards in good condition and further PoW-related cards. A much recommended viewing. This collector lived for a time on the island and her love of the remote Atlantic regions is also shown in her interesting thematic group of collections (Lots 182-184). £750-1,000

127 Spain Collection in two large generally well-filled albums, a Lighthouse hingeless album for issues to 1930s and a Schaubek album for later 20th century to 1970s. Highlights include 1852 5r green used (SG.19), 1854 1r indigo used signed (SG.35), 1r pale blue remainder cancel (SG.42), 1856 1r greenish blue used (SG.52), 1866 12 cuartos red-orange mint (SG.94), 1867 25m rose and deep-blue mint (SG.107b), etc, followed by a full page of 1873/74 Carlist issues, 1878 10ptas mint (SG.262), 1879 10ptas mint, thin (SG.272), through to 1901 Alfonso XIII mint range incl.

4ptas (SG.305), 1905 Quixote set with 1pta mint and 10ptas used, 1909-22 Alfonso series with mint 40cts salmon and 10ptas (SG.338a, 342), mint 1923 25cts indigo error of colour (SG.383b) and 1925 4ptas lake (SG.392), 1926 red cross set mint (SG.394/416), 1936 Press Association postage and airmail complete imperforate MNH (Edfil cat. €1090), etc. Accompanied by a disorganised working accumulation in three further binders with some better items noted, revenues, classics of Corrientes and Papal States, well worth close inspection. £400-500

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128 Spain 1930 Railway Congress postage and airmail sets complete mint never hinged in the highest quality. The 10ptas with light pencil signature.

Catalogue for hinged is well over £1,000. For MNH over €2,200 in Edfil. £200-250

129 Spain etc.

A carton of mostly mint never hinged new issues of Spain in five volumes and loose, the main focus on a few themes, with two albums on Santiago/Holy Year issues from 1930s to 2000s incl. early errors, 1937 Compostella Jubilees with varieties incl. imperf set MNH (Edifil #833s/835s, €240) the imperf 30cts being also the better type (see SG.907). Another good section is a large shoebox of Columbus thematic sets and souvenir sheets worldwide on manila stockcards, only requiring display to make an impressive collection. Quality high throughout, please inspect. £150-200

130 Straits Settlements 1867-1886 range of 23 mint stamps on a stockpage, including first issue crowned surcharges with the 2cts, 4cts, 32cts and 24cts, some condition issues but basically sound, then 1867 12cts shades mint without faults (SG.15/15a, cat. £525), 1868 4cts shades (both counted as rose), 1883 ‘TWO CENTS’ surcharges on 8cts (SG.54, cat. £350) and 32cts (SG.59, cat. £900) with gum disturbance, 1883/91 set most with toning and other small faults. Nevertheless a fairly presentable group. Total cat. over £4,300. £200-250

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131 Switzerland Collection in Lighthouse hingeless album, stockbook and binder, the main album with range of sitting Helvetias mint and used to high values incl. white paper 1fr gold (SG.60, cat. £1,700) mint, slight thin, standing Helvetias with lots of varieties incl. 1907 3fr granite paper used (SG.213, cat. £325), lots of different numerals and cross issues, etc. The other books have useful sets in used blocks of four incl. voters high values, a few booklets incl. pro juventute third issue (SG.JSB3, cat. £150), as well as over 100 postal history items incl. postal stationery, advertising, flights, etc.

Please inspect. £150-200

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132 United States of America 1870 National Bank Note Company printings group of six values to 15cts without grill (SG.147/150, 153/154), each unused with vibrant colours.

Cat. £8,100. Scott cat. $3,000+ as unused. £200-250

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133 United States of America 1870 National Bank Note Co. 30cts Hamilton, SG.156, unused, the shade full black (as opposed to the greenish black of the Continental printing) and the paper comparable to the National issues in the previous lot. Catalogue £7,500. Scott #154 at $2,600 for unused. £200-250

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134 United States of America 1893 50cts Columbus mint with fresh colour. Cat. £600. £70-90

135 United States of America 1893 $1 Columbus mint, light small thin at left edge, oil spot on LR corner perfs, subtle 1mm tear at 9th lower perf. Still a good-looking example, well-centred. Cat. £1,300. £70-100 44

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136 United States of America 1893 $2 Columbus mint, two thin perfs at extreme UR corner. Well-centred. Cat. £1300. £100-130

137 United States of America 1893 $3 Columbus regummed with toning, some oiled perfs and LL corner pulled, otherwise sound and presentable. Cat. £1,800. £80-120

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138 United States of America 1893 $5 Columbus mint, 3mm thin spot, very reasonably centred, an extremely presentable example. Cat. £3,000. £200-250

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139 United States of America 1902-03 Presidents series, mint to $1, SG.306/317, the $1 with a couple of smallish thins (cat. £800), the rest sound with their catalogue over £1,200. £150-200

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140 United States of America 1930 Zeppelin set mint, SG.A687/A689, the 65cts with scuff on airship nose and very minor perf fault. An attractive and very well-centred set.

Catalogue for average centring and excluding the 65cts £1350. £150-180

141 United States of America One-volume collection in a Scott ‘Minuteman’ album, approaching 1000 stamps including some better 19th century with 1850s 12cts Washington imperf through to 1893 Columbian issue mint/unused in mixed condition to 50cts, as well as the $5, natural straight edge at top, possible shallow thin where missing gum. Then Trans-Mississippi mixed mint and used to 50cts with small faults, pre-1920 Washington and Franklin heads to $1, etc, also back of the book incl. 1865 large newspaper stamps, 5cts blue, 10cts green and 25cts red all genuine, unused as issued. Hundreds more stamps on loose album pages and stockpages with disorganised mixed condition range from classics onwards incl. Columbians to 50cts unused, Washington central portrait die proof (faults), etc. Needs inspection. £350-400

142 USA Carton of seven assorted volumes including Schaubek album reasonably filled with a fairly basic range from 1870 onwards, then from 1980s to early 2000s in Davo album including a range of souvenir sheets. Also a loose-leaf album specially for pre-cancels with several hundred generally earlier period organised by town, and three binders of postal history from 19th century onwards, mainly FDCs 1930s-’50s. Please inspect. £150-200

143 USA Flight Covers etc.

Over 160 covers loose in a shoebox, mostly US first flights etc, from 1920s onwards, including a couple of helicopter flights, as well as a few Canada, French Pacific, etc, and a small group of Great Britain 19th century incl. slightly soiled correspondence with jubilee issues. Please inspect. £60-90

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DEALER/HOARDER’S ESTATE The following seven lots represent a three-quarter tonne late entry from a life-long dealer/collector and definite hoarder. We have done our best in the time available to loosely group some distinct sections and have sifted out the paperwork, empty glassines and stockcards. We expected the usual tired remainder material, however this turned out to be very much alive, with interesting items and postal history at every turn. There is still substantial chaos here and all of these lots will benefit enormously from further work.

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144 China A full carton of collections and accumulations in six binders/albums and folders of album pages, 1000s of stamps mainly pre-1950 from 19th century onwards with lots of coiling dragons with and without overprints, many hundreds of Martyr issues, interesting regional overprints, etc. One of the most interesting areas is the Manchuria Local Overprints 1945-47 on issues of Manchukuo with several hundred written-up in an album and on stockpages. Material runs to some good post-1950 as well, incl. 1983 terracotta army booklet (SG.SB18, cat. £225) with intact and exploded examples. £750-1,000 www.tennants.co.uk

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145 Denmark Locals A wonderful accumulation of well over 1500 mint and used stamps as well as postal stationery, with the majority beautifully presented on albums pages with extensive write-up, including many appealing multiples up to full sheets, as well as errors and varieties galore. Accompanied by hardcover ‘The Private Local Posts of Denmark’ by Christensen and Ringstrom. Certainly one of the best collections of this area we have ever offered.

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146 Russian Asia.

The monumental remains of this collector’s work on his favourite philatelic area, particularly his exhibition subject: Transcaspia and Turkestan, as well as many other ex-Soviet areas and POs abroad, with whole volumes largely intact (mostly kept together in their inner covers, the binders jettisoned), along with collections bought from dealers and auctions internationally. At least three feet of album pages filling two large containers, with thousands of stamps and hundreds of postal history items written-up in detail, including excellent Post Offices in China and the Levant, impressive pages of Wrangel overprints on Tridents of Ukraine, sections for ship mail, lots of postmark studies, for example ‘Romanov portraits used in Harbin’. An extraordinary holding that really must be viewed to be fully appreciated. £2,000-2,500 www.tennants.co.uk

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147 Great Britain A disorganised but very interesting holding in two cartons, the best component being postal history from lots of pre-stamp to line-engraved incl.

1840 2d blue cover, crowned circle handstamp covers, postmarks and official mail written-up on album leaves, KGV series of postal stationery cutsquares used as postage, controls incl. on cover, etc, etc. Considerable chaos here, requiring a thorough viewing. £250-500

148 British Commonwealth Five large containers of collections and good stockpages with many thousands of mint and used stamps, occasional focus as usual on postmarks incl. British Africa, interesting classics and revenues incl. India QV, New South Wales stamp duty, etc. as well as a lot of useful pre-1950 mint sets, blocks etc. Many interesting moments throughout this lot, cheek-by-jowl with run-of-the-mill remainder collections. Will hugely reward a thorough inspection. £500-750

149 Worldwide Some main areas of interest, sifted from the general worldwide holding, namely Egypt, Palestine, Ottoman area, Greece, Balkans, Austro-Hungarian area, and Baltics, filling two cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps in albums, on album pages and stockcards, much postal history as well, an enormously engaging viewing with much value, many of the sections being good lots bought in auction over the decades and left largely intact, some highlights being a specialised collection of 150+ Albanian shooting star overprints (some signatures), further Albania better items on cards in a small box incl. errors, Hungary from first issues in a series of old loose-leaf albums, lots of 1919 Occupation of Hungary overprints to 10kr, Italian POs abroad and Occupations, good Bosnia, Latvia and Lithuania written-up on pages, etc, the postal history particularly interesting including groups of Egypt and Palestine. A highly recommended lot. £750-1,000

150 Worldwide The rest! Ten cartons and a suitcase (not including the good literature boxes) stuffed with albums, stockpages, written-up collections for example 100-page Curacao postal history collection, extensive loose postal history, almost all the latter being pre-1950 with noted British Africa, French Colonies, flight covers among which the Canada includes Cherry Red Airline 10cts issue tied, lots of Forces mail particularly of WWI, etc. Further material frequently cropping-up from the areas we have attempted to filter into the previous lots, including China, Russian Asia and much British Commonwealth, as well as a Cinderella/Reference section noted. Better items discovered in this fascinating morass are Gold Coast 1935 extra flagstaff 1d mint vertical pair with normal (SG.113a, cat. £140), Portugal 1949 portraits souvenir sheet used (SG.MS1028a, cat. £120), scarce West Ukraine ovpt on Bosnia/Herzegovina postage due 5sh used, pulled corner perf, with 2008 RPS certificate (SG.53, cat. £4,250), which goes to show absolutely anything could be here. Needless to say a close inspection is vital. Huge potential for reward once organised. £2,500-3,000

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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH: COLLECTIONS & BOXES The following six lots represent the British Commonwealth collections from an original estate, the QV-KGV albums at one time subject to removals but since then undisturbed for many decades with lots of good material remaining.

151 British Commonwealth: Africa QV-KGV Two ‘Utile’ loose-leaf albums with about 3000 mint and used stamps, mainland countries as well as Ascension, St. Helena, Seychelles and Mauritius. Noted early pyramids of Egypt, Gambia with 1912-22 complete, very good range of British Central Africa and Rhodesia, British East Africa from overprints on India issues to 1897/1903 widowhead high values mint, Cape of Good Hope including over a dozen triangulars, 1883 5/used, over thirty Griqualand overprints, Natal embossed classics, etc, etc. Catalogue approx. £30,000 not including poor condition examples, fiscal cancels, specimen overprints (as these are not in sets), or the Transvaal £5 ‘V.R.I.’ mint (presumed forgery). Recommended viewing. £2,000-2,500

152 British Commonwealth: Asia QV-KGV ‘Utile’ loose-leaf album with about 1300 mint and used stamps, including Ceylon with twenty imperfs in mixed condition, incl. 6d shades, to the scarce 4d rose (cat. £4,500, large margins, unobtrusive repair/s), followed by over seventy perforate long types with many shades to 2/-, as well as 1872-80 set used, 1885 20cts on 32cts dark grey mint signed (SG.166a), 1912 20r used (SG.319), etc. The Hong Kong including 1862 2cts brown unused (SG.1, cat. £600), 1864 8cts pale dull orange mint, light crease (SG.11, cat. £600), India with imperfs incl. 1a red with large margins, superb cds high values 1895, 1911 and 1928 25r used, etc, a useful range of Iraq, Straits Settlements 1867 crown surcharges complete used (SG.1/9, cat. £1,500, some unobtrusive commercial marks), Kedah 1921 $1 used, Perak 1896 $1 and 1898 50cts used and 1900 surcharges set with used dollar values, through to a good range of North Borneo overprints, Palestine, Sarawak, etc. £450-550

153 British Commonwealth: Australasia QV-KGV ‘Utile’ loose-leaf album with over 1500 mint and used stamps from classics to 1930s, highlights including Papua with over 200 ‘lakatoi’ types including officials, New South Wales laureate head imprerfs incl. 1854 1d orange unused (SG.83), 1860 1/- carmine mint (SG.169), New Zealand useful 19th century from Chalons onwards, Tasmania with over eighty Chalon heads incl. perforate 6d printings mint, also Fiji, Nauru seahorses mint to 5/-, North West Pacific Islands to 5/- kangaroo used, etc, etc. £400-500

154 British Commonwealth: Caribbean and Falklands QV-KGV ‘Utile’ hingeless album with about 1500 stamps, mint and used, including clean mint silver jubilee sets for seventeen countries, as well as Antigua SG.6 mint, interesting page of British Guiana 1850s-’70s ships incl. 1855 4cts pale blue mint four margins, crease, SG.20 cat. £2,500, British Honduras SG.13 mint, Grenada surcharged revenues SG.37/39 and 41 mint, St. Vincent 1/- slate-grey SG.11 used, Trinidad Britannias incl. 1862 1/- bluish slate SG.63 used, 4d bright violet SG.70 mint, also 1861 1d with ‘Too-Late’ postmark, 1900 ‘oval ‘O’’ variety mint SG.116 cat. £325, etc, through to Virgin Islands. £500-600

155 British Commonwealth: Europe QV-KGV ‘Utile’ loose-leaf album with over 800 mint and used stamps incl. Cyprus starting with overprints on line-engraved incl. 1881 30pa on 1d plate 201 mint, 1904-10 1pi to 18pi mint, 1912-15 complete set mint, 1921 issue to 18pi mint and 1923 45pi used (SG.99, cat. £300), 1924-28 45pi mint and used and 90pi mint, 1928 anniversary set mint (SG.123/132, cat. £300, heavy hinges), etc, followed by Ireland with 1922 Free State ovpts to 5/- used, Gibraltar incl. 1898 set mint, Heligoland page with mix of reprints and genuine incl. 1876 3pf unused (SG.12) and 20pf used (SG.15), Malta with range of wmk Crown CC 1/2d shades and perfs mint, 1899 10/- mint, 1917 5/- mint, 1925 £1 MNH, 1926-27 pictorial set mint and near-complete used incl. all high values, etc. £320-370

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156 British Commonwealth: KGVI and QEII Generally mint collection of at least 4000 stamps by country from Aden to Zanzibar in four ‘Utile’ albums. The later sets, about from UPU onwards, have been mounted with an unfortunate kind of hinge affecting some stamps more than others with stains (none of which are included in our estimate, though some appear perfect from front - see for example the final online photo). The earlier issues however are very high quality, virtually everything in complete sets with much mounted on selvage only including high values. Cleanly hinged highlights include first George VI sets of Antigua (top five values MNH), Ascension to 10/- incl. 1½d Davit flaw (SG.40ba cat. £200), Bahamas to £1, Basutoland (top value MNH), Bermuda perf 14 to £1 (less 12/6d) with 2/- and 2/6d MNH, British Honduras (top two values MNH), Cyprus to £1, Cyrenaica 1950 set, Falklands to £1, Fiji (top two values MNH), Gibraltar to £1, Hong Kong to $10, Malaysian States Sultans to $5, Malta sets to 10/-, Sarawak 1950 set MNH, Swaziland (top two values MNH), etc, etc. Lots more here to see, a recommended viewing. £750-1,000

157 Worldwide Postal History Forty-seven mainly British Commonwealth postal history items, an excellent range as individually bought in auction decades ago, incl. Muscat official set (SG.O1/O10) philatelic usage 1945, South West Africa official 2d (SG.O11) imprint block 22.8.29 usage, cat. £285 for single on cover, Australia first flights of 1931 and 1934, ‘Nauru’ 1/- bistre (SG.12) block of four on registered and censored cover, Canada 1922 1ct orange booklet pane (SG.246ab) scarce usage on OHMS cover (cut to more regular length), Antigua 1948 £1 single usage on OHMS cover (cat. £210+), Bahamas 1931 Great Seal set on registered cover, 1935 silver jubilee sets of Morocco Agencies, Sierra Leone and Virgin Islands, as well as interesting postage due items, 1924 Everest label on postcard, etc, plus Gibraltar postmarks on five GB stamps incl. 6d buff Z47 on piece (cat. £150+). £400-450

158 British Commonwealth and Great Britain Four albums, a cover album and a box-file of desk-clearance material, the albums including two green Rapkin loose-leaf volumes mainly for KGV to early QEII, with values generally to 1/-, incl. Egypt 1933 aviation congress set mint, Bermuda 1935 Silver Jubilee set mint with 1/- ‘kite and vertical log’ variety (SG.97k, cat. £275) and KGVI 2/6d mint, 1953 coronation omnibus looking complete mint, etc. Also GB KGVI mint 1951 high values set and much MNH pre-decimal QEII incl. ½d Wilding sheets. £70-100

159 Bahamas, Bermuda and Malta.

Country collections in five volumes, some mixed condition yet also many key issues in very attractive quality. Includes fairly complete mint Malta 1885 to 1960s with 1885 1/- violet MNH and 1886 5/- rose, 1899 10/- small thin, 1902 ‘Pnney’ errors on both shades and in pair with normal, 1904-14 set, 1914-21 to 2/6d with virtually all listed shades to 1/-, 1922 2/-, Self-Government overprints first issue to 5/- MNH though crease, through to KGVI sets to 10/- etc. Then Bermuda album incl. 1918-22 key-plate high values mint to 10/- (5/- and 10/- vlh) and 1924-32 high values incl. 2/6d MNH and 10/- mint, etc. The Bahamas in two vols. (one of which is auxiliary) with another good range of mint incl. KEVII and KGV to 5/-, KGVI complete and QEII with all £1 values MNH. Also Australia and States consisting mainly of the usually encountered issues. Owner’s cat. over £7,000 not including the Australia/States. Please inspect. £500-650

160 Great Britain and Commonwealth Collection in four loose-leaf albums, with useful GB from line-engraved to 1970s incl. Wilding varieties, plus British Commonwealth in two of the volumes incl. Australia starting with ‘roos to 5/- (NSW perfin), New Zealand from QV onwards with range of officials, Gibraltar incl. mint KGV high values and KGVI to 10/- with perf varieties, etc. £70-90

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161 British Commonwealth: Two-Volume New Imperial A lovely collection in two well-filled green New Imperial albums, with over 7,000 mint stamps and a further 1000+ used, with condition generally exemplary, the colours bright and hardly any faults even in the 19th century issues, the earliest classics generally being avoided by this collector. This is intact as received and stated to catalogue £72,000 (2006), which does not account for the never hinged here which includes frequent high values only mounted on selvage, a good range of Newfoundland, Falklands Centenary issue to 1/-, etc. Besides which we have noted better varieties not counted in the owner’s cataloguing: Brunei 1929 5cts orange-yellow showing U-L value tablet retouch with distinctive thin ‘c’ (SG.66a, cat. £325), Malta 1922 2/- showing ‘break in lines below left scroll’ (SG.103e, cat. £400), elusive ‘broken frame and crown’ varieties on the 1905 25cts and 50cts of Straits Settlements (SG.133a, cat. £750; SG.135a cat. £750), as well as British East Africa 1897 2½d surcharge missing fraction bar unlisted in SG. Another extra-catalogue item is a charming and most probably unique 1922 Barbados 1/- with designer Mrs. G. W. Goodman’s initials in lower selvage and petulant inscription ‘this is my design spoilt’ (De La Rue had reduced the naturalism of her original essay, in particular declining to include the flying fish - see photo online). This collection is a delight to view and there will no doubt be more for the keen-eyed to discover. £6,500-8,500

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162 British Commonwealth: King George VI Album A very well-filled green Stanley Gibbons KGVI album, from the same collector as the previous lot, brimming with over 4,500 mint stamps, generally very high quality and occasionally mounted on selvage leaving some key never hinged incl. Bermuda 2/6d and 12/6d, Silver Wedding high values of Gibraltar, Hong Kong, K.U.T., Kuwait, Muscat, etc. Other strengths include the Malaysian States sets incl. Perak to $1 1940, India Gandhi set and 1949-51 temples, Bahrain and Kuwait overprints on India etc. all very clean. The occasional rust spot fortunately limited to a few of the Silver Wedding issues but unfortunately including the Hong Kong $10, showing lightly through three perfs. Otherwise immaculate virtually throughout.

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163 British Commonwealth and Great Britain The balance of the holding that contained the Great Britain collection Lots 46 and 47, of a different calibre yet with some good items noted, with three main loose-leaf albums of mostly mint QV to early QEII British Commonwealth incl. Bahamas 1903 ‘Queen’s staircase’ specimen ovpts, Bermuda 2/6d key plate types, Bechuanaland 1938 set, Gambia 1938 4/- and 10/-, Singapore 1951 $2, Sudan 1951, etc. Then three special albums for omnibuses incl. 1937 coronation mint and used, and a large box of collector’s desk clearance material with envelopes of glassines, old album pages with 19th century GB, requiring exploration. £300-350

164 British Commonwealth King George VI mint collection in an ‘Imperial’ type album, over 850 stamps, few sets here but still with a useful range of issues and high values incl. Hong Kong, India to 10rs, etc. Please inspect. £100-150

165 British Commonwealth Interesting box of vintage material, chiefly Canada and New Zealand in a couple of albums, plus envelopes and glassines, the latter with mint never hinged NZ 1900-07 issues incl. perf 11 6d rose with sheet margin watermark, 8d shades and 1/- orange in four shades/printings, Canada officials incl. O.H.M.S ovpt 7cts and 20cts inscription margin examples showing missing stop after “S”, disturbed gum (SG.O168a, O171a, cat. £525), 20cts slate ‘G’ (O187), etc. Also noted ‘smiling boy’ set used, a handful of 1930s/40s FDCs NZ and GB, as well as nice sundry range incl. old philatelic colour chart booklet, a few descriptive pamphlets for New Zealand issues from 1935 on, bakelite ‘philatector’, etc. Please inspect. £100-150

166 British Commonwealth QEII Used Collection of over 1400 different stamps in two binders, attractive presentation as an effort has been made to include only neat cds postmarks.

Much is in short sets however some better sets also present including sets to £1 of Gambia, Sierra Leone and Tristan da Cunha, range of Malaysian States incl. Penang sets to $5, etc. £100-120

167 British Commonwealth QEII Mint Collection of well over 2000 stamps in three binders, the majority earlier issues and mostly in sets, a mix of mounted and unmounted, incl.

Bahamas 1954 to £1, Bermuda 1953 to £1, Cayman Islands 1962 to £1, Gambia 1953 to £1, Somaliland Protectorate 1963 set to 10/-, Malaya sets, etc. The two smaller binders with Gibraltar and Australia, the latter with sets and souvenir sheets to 1990s with high denominations to $20.

Please inspect. £140-180

168 British Commonwealth A stockbook packed with about 1500+ mint stamps of KGVI and QEII, much in short sets though some better high values incl. KGVI Bermuda to 5/- key type, Gibraltar to 10/-, Jamaica to 10/-, etc. Also a binder of mainly lower value blocks and souvenir sheets, though we note Ascension SG.40a 1½d Davit flaw (cat. £400) MNH at lower left of block of four. £150-200

169 British Commonwealth Collection in two reprinted ‘New Imperial’ albums for Queen Victoria to King George V somewhat sparsely filled, along with similar King George VI album better filled, approx. 1500 stamps total, mostly mint in black mounts, including Malaya 1936/37 set MNH to $2 (SG.260/273, cat. £100+ for hinged), South Africa 1935 jubilee ½d pair showing blade flaw of parallel lines, the KGVI with useful never hinged to high values, KUT to 10/mint, Leewards to £1 mint, Mauritius 1938 set mint, etc, etc. The albums very clean. Please inspect. £150-200

170 British Commonwealth Five green ‘New Age’ albums, 1968 edition, for Abu-Dhabi to Zanzibar, with a decent filling of thousands of mint and used (probably majority used) from Aden onwards, mostly short or incomplete sets with a few better exceptions. Perfect for continuation. £150-200

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171 British Commonwealth and Great Britain A collection of better items displayed in a small stockbook, 135 stamps including Ascension 1924 3/- MNH (SG.20, cat. £100) and 1933 1d mint (SG.11d, cat. £110), Gibraltar 1/- and 2/- varieties both MNH (SG.127a/128a, cat. £205), Chamba 8as official used, Kenya/Uganda/Tanganyika 1942 70cts on 1/- wildebeest MNH margin block with ‘crescent moon’ flaw, etc. Total catalogue for this section over £2,800, then extras including Egypt Fuad 5m ‘Royal Printing’ imperf block of four, GB Edward VIII FDCs, lilac and green set used and a few other QV items. Please inspect. £240-280

172 British Commonwealth Accumulation in four cartons including many hundreds of QV to early QEII issues on stockpages with plenty of useful material, a group of 1930s/’40s FDCs GB and omnibus mainly coronation and victory, as well as a small stack of commem new issues, forty numismatic covers in four binders, plus around 18 FDC albums incl. Channel Isles/IOM and four of the volumes Australia incl. presentation packs. Will benefit from organisation. £250-300

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173 British Commonwealth KGVI Mint Never Hinged, etc.

A vintage accumulation in over a dozen volumes, the core being five old-fashioned stockbooks of KGVI mint never hinged sets and varieties assembled as new issues between the late 1930s and early ‘50s, vivid colours, the great majority in top quality despite occasional gum toning on the usual culprits (Bermuda 12/6d, Ascension earlier printings). Highlights (MNH unless otherwise stated) include GB 10/- dark blue and 1937-38 postage dues set, Australia ‘robes’ set with high values on both paper types, Ascension to 10/- both types, Bahrain, Bermuda with twelve different key-plate high values (one £1 type and a 10/- plate number are hinged), Brunei 1947-51 set to $10, Burma interim govt. official set (SG.O41/O53, cat. £225), Cyprus first set, Falklands first set with shades to 1/-, Leeward Islands set to £1, good range of Malaysian States, etc.

The rest of the books are interesting with individual used issues in small stacks in glassines, especially India with rupee values, Malay leaping tigers, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, etc, additional mint incl. Cyprus full sheets of 1951 ½pi violet and 1½pi green (SG.152a, 155ab, cat. £735 as singles), GB £1 Silver Wedding full sheet (MNH, central column creased), Jamaica and Southern Rhodesia booklets (SB10a, SB4 respectively, cat. £435), and earlier mounted on pages incl. KGV ‘Burma Service’ to 5rs (O1/O13, cat. £425), a range of Newfoundland classics to investigate, a little postal history, etc. Also an as-new green ‘Imperial’ album for KGVI that the collector fortunately never got round to mounting the stamps in.

Offered intact as received aside from the India book (Lot 115). £1,000-1,250

174 British Commonwealth King George VI album with a good filling of sets and part-sets, thousands of stamps, intact, with lots of high values incl. eighteen silver weddings, Bermuda 10/-, Bahamas 1938-52 to £1, Bechuanaland to 10/-, etc. Also three stockbooks with thousands more useful issues of all reigns, two mostly mint/MNH volumes incl. Negri Sembilan 1949 set MNH (SG.42/62), Canada 1897 10cts jubilee mint, British Africa, etc, the third with used Canada from Provinces onwards. Please inspect. £250-300

175 British Commonwealth KGVI Mint and Used Collection of thousands of stamps in five binders, the two large main volumes for the mint with some good sets incl. Kenya/Uganda/Tanganyika to £1, Malaya-Penang to $5, a a range of Silver Wedding and UPU sets, etc. Condition less than perfect in places, generally decent with top values occasionally MNH. The used volumes with a good range to high values. £350-400

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176 British Commonwealth The Commonwealth volumes from an Anglesey estate, twenty-five albums/stockbooks in two cartons and container, with Canada incl. 1897 10cts and 15cts mint, 50cts used, KEVII 50cts shades used, 1908 15cts mint, etc, Australia roos to 5/- used and 9d mint through to QEII denominations to $10 mint, Ascension 1938 mint to 10/-, Hong Kong incl. KGV $10 cds used, as well as useful New Zealand, Malta, Gibraltar, 1946 Victory omnibus set MNH, 1938/39 KGVI philatelic covers, etc, etc. Also c.1930 edition Imperial album for Commonwealth to 1928 largely empty aside from spacefiller penny black and 1d red plates. Occasional duplication, mixed condition, varieties to be found. £500-750

177 British Commonwealth Collection of several thousand mint and used stamps, mostly of the period from classics to the first issues of QEII, in six loaded stockbooks and a New Ideal album for pre-1920 issues. The latter includes interesting early issues of Antigua, Bahamas (several Chalons and 1/- green), Barbados Britannias from SG.2 onwards imperf and perf, Cape triangles incl. 4d blue mint two margins, Ceylon, Gambia embossed to check, Great Britain line-engraved and 1/- embossed with no obvious faults, 3d surcharge cds and 1884 5d green mint, Grenada Chalons, Ionian Islands used 1d and 2d, Indian Native States to explore, Nova Scotia 3d SG.2 3 margins used, Fiji to 5/-, good Australasia, etc. The stockbooks are also interesting, with lots of classics through to very useful KGVI and QEII, for example the odd MNH 1948 silver wedding high value. Condition on the many earlies of course mixed. Will reward a close viewing. £750-1,000

178 Australasia New Issues A carton of 21st century new issues, the Australia with Year Packs for 2000-2004 and 2010 plus wrapped 2004 Olympics album with complete gold medallists miniature sheets. The New Zealand with booklets and FDCs, as well as a little Gibraltar and a stockbook of USA MNH sets and souvenir sheets mainly 1990s with denominations to $14. £120-160

THEMATIC & OMNIBUS COLLECTIONS 179 British Commonwealth 1948 and 1949 Omnibuses 1948 Silver Wedding complete mint never hinged and 1949 UPU also MNH only missing a few sets. From an Anglesey estate. Very light tone spots on a tiny handful of stamps, generally clean. Cat. £2,500+ £200-250

180 Numismatic Covers including Two Sovereigns Approx. 90 commemorative GB/Commonwealth covers, of which 79 are numismatic, housed in eight special albums: The Royal Family (4 vols), 2002 Golden Jubilee (2 vols), Millennium and Aviation. The coin issues start in the 19th century, including two gold sovereigns: one dated 1900 on ‘inventors of the millennium’ cover, the other dated 1981 on Diana Princess of Wales memorial cover. £500-750

181 Royal Occasions A large box with seven albums and loose. Includes four volume 1981 wedding collection, well-filled with lots of booklets, plus additional leaves in packs. Two volume Queen Mother 80th birthday, the cover volume filled and the stamp volume with loose awaiting incorporation, as well as 1977 Silver Jubilee in a small album with no empty spaces, again lots of booklets and m/s, plus a small box of sets and miniature sheets in glassines.

Many hundreds of stamps all MNH. £100-150

182 Atlantic, Antarctic, Napoleon, Captain Cook, etc.

A group of exhibition thematic collections written-up on hingeless pages in five binders, including Napoleon in hefty binder accompanied by useful checklist, ‘The Road to Trafalgar’ volume, Captain Cook volume, Charles Darwin volume, as well as Antarctic Territories, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, etc. A few of the covers with signatures. Please inspect. £150-200

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183 Atlantic Maritime Postal History, especially R.M.S. ‘St. Helena’ St. Helena specialist’s written-up collection of late-20th century postal history of Ascension, St. Helena, Falklands etc, mainly focussing on the Mail Ship ‘St. Helena’ in its different guises including as support vessel during the Falklands War. At least fifty franked covers/cards here, lots of Paquebot handstamps including several different types on GB Machins, as well as informative collateral literature. Please inspect. £100-150

184 First Flights: Lufthansa Collection of over a hundred first flight covers 1971-1981 written-up in two binders, about three-quarters being from non-German countries incl.

China, Latin America, British Commonwealth, etc. £100-120

185 Air Force Recipients of Medals and Awards Eighteen large flown covers for 1980s anniversaries and events, from an ex-RAF serviceman, each relating to a particular award and each with signatures of seven of the chief recipients, with many Marshals and Chief Marshals (incl. ‘bomber’ Harris) as well as famous aces of WWII both British and German. Most are also signed by the pilots of the commemorative flights. The awards include Victoria Cross, OBE, Iron Cross, Military Medal, Conspicuous Gallantry, Distinguished Flying Medal, Defence Medal, etc. Every cover has contents with biography and portrait photographs of all the recipients. Average limit of 620 each produced. £150-200

186 RAF and Navy Commemorative Covers A very interesting holding of approaching 300 different covers, almost all with signatures, housed in three binders and three shoeboxes, the latter with much collateral incl. signed photos and articles. The Lancaster bomber appears to be a focus, including Tirpitz sinking raid, Dambusters, etc. with edition numbers limited to as low as 18. Rather than acquiring these covers from a retail service, the collector personally sought many of these signatures at private functions. A wonderful range of material for the forces postal history specialist. £200-250

187 Thematic: birds and flowers A banker’s box loaded with collections and stockpages full of worldwide sets, as well as many on cover, particularly the two cover albums of flowers (this from the collector of postal history including Lots ###) with well over 150 covers from 1922 slogan for Dutch bulb farm tying 80pf Germania through many 1950s FDCs incl. Hungary 1958 philatelic exhibition souvenir sheet, Netherlands Antilles set on 1955 FDC, Yemen 1965 flowers FDC (with Pope’s visit FDC, each addressed to one of the Yemeni princes), as well as China, Korea, Bhutan, etc, etc. A great lot for the collector of this theme. £200-250

188 Police A stockbook of 100s of GB police slogan postmarks either in combination with meters or stamps, plus a folder of postcards and other ephemera and literature including volumes 1 to 10 of ‘The Blue Lamp’ journal of police philately and two checklist booklets. A great departure point for collection of an unusual topic. £30-40

189 Ships on Stamps A stockbook of 100s of stamps along with a ten-part publication by E.W.Argyle, an encyclopaedic survey illustrating or citing virtually every worldwide stamp issued to 1970s that feature watercraft, everything from dug-outs to hydrofoils, with extensive historical information throughout.

Part 1: Royal Navy; Part 2: passenger liners; Part 3: early sailing ships and canoes; Part 4: sailing ships; Part 5: local craft; Part 6: cross-channel, river and lake passenger ships; Part 7: cargo ships and tankers; Part 8: sail and paddle auxiliary vessels; Part 9: world navies; Part 10: US Navy, misc. and index. Extremely well put together with many b/w reproductions of the original images used by the stamp designers. Another stockbook of Spain is a bonus. £30-40

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WORLDWIDE: COLLECTIONS 190 Worldwide The ‘foreign’ section of the core collection from an original estate, offered intact as received except the China volume (Lot 104). Organised by country in nine loose-leaf albums with several thousand stamps from first issues to 1930s. The classics are in very mixed condition (particular culprits Portugal and Scandinavia) however some very interesting early pages here and the later 19th century and 20th century issues have some good-quality mint. Noted particularly Japan with unused dragons with faults, over 80 ‘syllabics’ some mint, presumed mix of genuine and reference, incl. geese, wagtails and goshawks, requiring research, through to dozens of POs in China ovpts, revenues etc. The Switzerland also extensive with ‘Rayons’, imperf Helvetias and further 19th century to explore. Elsewhere noted ‘Fiume’ handstamps, interesting Latin America, three pages of Shanghai locals, etc. Please inspect. £750-1,000

191 Worldwide Collection in a pair of Whitfield and King ‘Acme’ loose-leaf albums untouched since the mid-1930s, with about 1300 mint and used stamps worldwide, the earlier issues in mixed condition. Please inspect. £50-70

192 Worldwide Collection of over two thousand mainly pre-1950 stamps in four albums, two of which are old loose-leaf types, mainly British Commonwealth, including New Zealand health stamps mint with smiling boy set pristine MNH, also GB with lots of perf 1d reds through to 1887 1/- green, etc.

Please inspect. £50-70

193 Worldwide Collection of 12,000+ different stamps, presented on stockpages by country in more than a dozen binders, some volumes specifically for British Commonwealth with a useful range mostly used including the odd 1935 Silver Jubilee set, Hong Kong KGV to $2, etc. Another binder solely for Russia. Issues running from 19th century to late 20th. Please inspect. £250-300

194 Worldwide Several thousand different mint and used stamps, 19th century onwards, in eight old-fashioned accounting binders, assembled up to 1965 and intact as received. Divided by Commonwealth and ‘foreign’ countries, with countries recurring between volumes incl. China imperial issues.

Generally lower value issues though with variety finds possible, and some more unusual for example the Ukraine trident ovpts. Please inspect. £70-100

195 Worldwide Seven albums (Strand, Swiftsure, Movaleaf, etc.) stuffed to the gills with mint and used stamps from 19th to 21st centuries, including China with peonies used. 10,000+ stamps in country order but little chronological order, with hardly any duplication excepting some multiples. Please inspect. £70-100

196 Worldwide Collection in four volumes, hundreds of stamps from classics onwards in mixed condition, much stuck down, incl. German States on old-time pages with a nice range of locals, Swiss imperf Helvetias to 40rp green, Norway 1871 3sk carmine-lake with damaged frame printing error, Denmark 8sk green imperf four margins, Canada and Provinces, the Colony of Canada including perf 10cts Prince Albert and 17cts Cartier, etc. Also GB starting with penny black spacefiller. Please inspect. £70-90

197 Worldwide Approx 10,000 stamps neatly organised A-Z by country in six blue boxed binders, mostly 20th century issues into the 2010s with virtually no duplication, majority used, however does include mint 1990s and occasional 2000s sets, miniature sheets and high values of places like Australia, Canada, Singapore, etc. Accompanied by a little literature and a stack of new Hagner stockpages. Please inspect. £100-150 www.tennants.co.uk

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198 Worldwide A blue strand album c.1900 edition, approx. 450 pre-1910 stamps in mixed condition, including 1840 penny black with four margins and clear red Maltese cross pmk, unobtrusive vertical crease down right-hand edge, 1840 2d blue sound three margins, 1841 2d blue with maltese cross, four margins but thin, etc, as well as some interesting overseas incl. 1d and 4d Cape of Good Hope triangles, the latter with nice margins. Would be enjoyable to add to, the album being in very decent condition, generally clean pages with very few hinge remains. Please inspect. £100-120

199 Worldwide Collection of 1000s of different worldwide stamps, mostly 20th century issues, in six homemade albums, including range of 1950s/’60s China noted, the Great Britain with mint sets and booklets to the tune of about £250 face value. Please inspect. £100-150

200 Worldwide Five old schoolboy albums with many hundreds of stamps, the two earliest albums ‘Rowland Hill’ and ‘Popular’ unusually with no removals. We note two penny blacks (faults) and other interesting GB, France mint ‘peace and commerce’ types to 40cts, Far East incl. small range of Imperial China, US, etc. Much to investigate here, please inspect. £60-80

201 Worldwide ‘Ideal’ Collection Three-volume collection in consecutive green Ideal albums for issues from 19th century to 1933, with many hundreds of mint and used stamps, mostly the commonplace issues with occasional interesting classics, chiefly Ceylon with twenty perf issues to 2/- types, also some useful US incl.

1861 24cts Washington, etc. Please inspect. £100-150

202 Great Britain, Commonwealth and Worldwide Mint and used collection in five red loose-leaf albums, over 2500 mostly pre-1950 stamps, the GB with four-margin penny black, four-margin 1d red with blue cancel, 1d and 2d plates, surface-printed to 5/- incl. 1881 2½d ultramarine mint plate 23 (cat. £450), etc, as well as pleasant range of mint British Commonwealth and useful worldwide. A better item noted is the Kenya/Uganda/Tanganyika 1936 1/- perf variety (SG.118b, cat. £140) in used pair, though left stamp has fault. Well worth a thorough viewing. £350-400

WORLDWIDE: BOX LOTS 203 Worldwide Accumulation of approx. 2400+ covers/cards in a carton and two plastic containers, all world from 19th century onwards, incl. some attractive British Commonwealth KGV and KGVI frankings, cachets and censor marks from both world wars, India used in Burma and Aden, etc. Please inspect. £200-250

204 Great Britain and Worldwide Fascinating balance of a vintage collection assembled in the 1940s, chiefly in a battered manila stockbook and several club books, the GB with four penny blacks of which one four margins, lots of imperf and perf 1d reds to explore, Bantams incl. ‘specimen’, interesting surface-printed QV incl. 4d green ‘specimen’, 6d grey plates unused, 1876 2½d rosy mauve plate 8 imprimatur, 1880 1d venetian red imprimatur and 1d lilac mint imperf/imprimatur, KEVII mint 2/6d (2) and 10/-, 1913 Waterlow 10/- seahorse mint, etc, as well as re-engraved seahorse set mint though toning issues. Also Newfoundland and Canada classics, latter with 17cts Cartier unused (faults), US classics, 1935 Silver Jubilee special album looking complete mint, some areas with tone spots but many sets clean, plus fancy Triumph album largely empty. Distinct probability of finds here, thorough inspection advised. £500-750

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205 Worldwide Interesting family accumulation of a vintage nature in an old suitcase, with two albums including a nice range of pre-war mint issues, plus loose material in envelopes and cigarette tins, with GB line-engraved incl. perf 1d red mint multiples, a couple of damaged large covers pre-1910 addressed to Grand-Duke Michael Mikhailovich at Keele Hall, Staffs, etc, etc. Close inspection recommended. £150-200

206 Worldwide An intriguing accumulation in an old suitcase, leather briefcase and various boxes, thousands of 19th century to mid-20th century stamps and hundreds of covers, the balance of an original estate (see also lots 48, 49, 54, 104, 151-156 and 190). Includes over a dozen albums, mainly a homemade kind in which noted duplicated QV Canada, useful India and USA, and much GB line-engraved mostly by sheet positions from 1d red imperfs onwards, as well as 2d blues, postmark study on later reds, etc. Also two ‘Ideal’ volumes one better-filled than the other, a very pleasant ‘Strand’ album with loose GB 1949 2/6d brown and 10/- dark blue MNH. In the suitcase several hundred covers packed in shirt boxes where we note 1830s crowned circle pmk, line-engraved, postage dues, Egypt, OHMS and war-time mail, India, Germany 1890s to 1920s, etc, the collector clearly a postal history enthusiast. Another old box has 1000s of stamps in bundles and quantities mainly QV Cyprus and KGV issues of Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, plus Latin America. Will be much here to find in this vintage desk-clearance. (See also Lots 48, 49, 54, 104, 151156 and 190). £350-500

207 Worldwide A small accumulation of albums and a couple of cigar boxes, the main event being China, the earliest a ½ct on yellow Imperial surcharge, though mainly mid-20th century issues, one stockbook with over 200 1950s/’60s issues used incl. 1967 Thoughts of Mao se-tenant pair, various chrysanthemums, goldfish, etc. Also Russia and East German issues. The loose on-paper and off-paper is interesting, mainly pre-1960 incl.

Afghanistan 1921 30pa green block of 15 on piece including tete-beche, postmarked with Kabul foreign mail handstamps. £100-120

208 Worldwide A wide-ranging accumulation from an Anglesey estate, with 10s of 1000s of mint and used stamps in 46 mostly stockbooks/binders in four cartons and a container, comprising decent country collections as well as more eclectic ranges in varying degrees of organisation, issues running from classics to 2010s with generally low duplication. Noted Greece, Italy, Switzerland, German occupation of Ukraine locals (Luboml set MNH, Michel cat. €800, requiring expertization), French Colonies, Latin America, occasional China, Middle East with Bahrain, UAE incl. 1977 definitive set MNH (cat. £130), etc, also useful miniature sheets of the 1930s and ‘40s incl. twenty Third Reich sheets, Estonia, Danzig, Croatia, Persia, etc.

Definitely one to view thoroughly. £750-1,000

209 Worldwide Many thousands of stamps of all periods on well over 1000 stockcards, from an Anglesey estate, including mint/MNH sets and occasional better items. Highlights are Australia roos 10/- used and Ash imprint pairs 6d mint and 9d MNH, New Zealand smiling boy set used, Canada 1897 jubilee six mint values to 10cts, GB with a few good cds surface-printed, cds 5/- seahorse, 1936 2/- booklet (edition 356), MNH 1939 10/- and 1951 high values set, France incl. 1926 10fr Merson MNH though toned gum, 1948 Braille imperf colour trials, etc, and much other useful worldwide incl. China mint sets with 1978 galloping horses. Condition varies on earlier issues. Please inspect. £350-500

210 Worldwide The amorphous balance of an Anglesey estate in four tubs, thousands of stamps and hundreds of postal history items of all periods, glassines, album pages, circuit books, etc. A blue folder includes an envelope of a few better items bought from Stanley Gibbons. Elsewhere noted WWIIperiod covers worldwide incl. Egypt and British North Africa, a series of 1946 commercial covers to Harbin, Manchuria, with large red ‘Mail route to destination blockaded, return to sender’ handstamps, also seen late 1940s issues MNH in glassines, 4d Cape triangle with huge margins, Canada Jubilees with 6cts mint and 20cts used, GB QV and KEVII 5/- superb cds examples, etc. There will be more to find here given this collector’s habit of burying good items. £500-750

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211 Worldwide A box with a few volumes including Triumph album with 100s of 19th/early 20th century incl. China, Persia with a couple of mint lion revenues, etc., also a weighty Simplex loose-leaf album with 1000s incl. faulty penny black, however the chief is a pocket-book with several hundred MNH 1930s-’60s incl. GB 1951 high values set in pairs, 1951 Liechtenstein agriculture set SG.287/98 cat. £275, etc. Accompanied by a shoebox of FDCs and world on-/off-paper in envelopes. Please inspect. £100-150

212 Worldwide Interesting accumulation of thousands of stamps in two grocer’s boxes, with about thirty volumes of different shapes and sizes, the best being a pocket book of Mauritius incl. 1880 13cts slate mint (SG.95, cat. £180), 1891 surcharge errors on manila stockcard requiring expertization: 2cts on 4cts mint pair surcharges inverted (SG.118a) and 2cts on 38cts used pair with double surcharge, one inverted (SG.121c, cat. £600 as singles), KGVI 1938/49 definitives in multiples to 10r including corner plate blocks, etc. Also a very reasonable France collection from classics to 1955 in a loose-leaf album with Napoleon 40cts unofficial perf 7 used spacefiller, 1862 1ct mint (SG.86, cat. £275), lots of peace and commerce incl. 1877 25cts mint (SG.267), and a good range of 20th century mint. Also noted Great Britain 1933 2/- booklet (edition 222) ‘cancelled’ type 33P, the panes stuck to interleaves (#BB12, cat. £1,200), hallmarked silver stamp holder with art nouveau design, many schoolboy albums of various vintages, heaps of off-paper worldwide, through to occasional new issues. A great lot to explore. £300-400

213 Worldwide Two boxes and a container of 1000s of stamps in albums and packets, much of which assembled on new issue service in the 1960s, incl. Poland and some Gulf States and Russia, these generally c.t.o., India MNH sets, FDCs and commercial mail, as well as GB, the latter also with later sets in pairs with face value at least £150. Also British Commonwealth royal commems new issues, along with the albums and album leaves as yet unused. £120-150

214 Worldwide Multi-generation holding in one large and three smaller containers, begun at least a century ago and offered as a whole, with well-filled schoolboy albums and ledgerbooks (some stamps stuck down) including a useful range of mid-20th century mint sets and short sets, old glassine and paper envelopes with earlier worldwide incl. interesting Asia, as well as much postal history including imperf 1d reds on cover, colourful 19th century stamped stationery, later correspondence worldwide, through to RAF covers in two Museum albums with many more loose in cigar boxes. Also a range of ephemera incl. apparently complete Ogden’s album of early photographic cigarette cards, etc. Will benefit greatly from organisation. £200-250

215 Worldwide Varied accumulation in three containers (from the same holding as Lots 7, 10, 15, 16, 18, 37, 56, 157 and 187), many thousands of stamps of all periods as well as postal history, altogether in over twenty volumes, the GB part with approx. £300 face value mostly in 2000s sets and prestige booklets, also noted a small box with approx. 100 pristine booklets, mostly GB incl. pre-decimal, plus Uganda 10/- flowers x7, Southern Rhodesia and Japan, then a binder has further booklets incl. dozens of Canada from 1943 on and further GB incl. 1978 70p dry-stone walling type A (FD4A, cat. £250 2008), a small box of official presentation booklets etc, Romania 1956 animals set in MNH imperf pairs (SG.2474/85 cat. £150 2009), lots of China, etc, etc. Will be much here to discover. £400-500

216 Worldwide Four large cartons with a varied range of basic collections in well over fifty albums/stockbooks, notably Great Britain with mixed condition 19th century, and Scandinavia, with expensive hingeless albums, Windsor albums, etc, also Berne Bureau edition blue boxed album (mostly empty) for the 1950 UPU anniversary with cellophane strips for worldwide countries. A fifth large carton with thousands of stamps in off-paper groups by country. May be some better items to be gleaned here, please inspect. £200-250

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217 Worldwide Truly worldwide hoard of many 10s of 1000s of mainly off-paper stamps grouped by country in clear bags, very densely packed, filling four cartons. Issues are from 19th century onwards, including Middle East and China packs seen, with very little apparent duplication. A quite impressive accumulation of probably well over 100,000 stamps. Inspection recommended. £250-350

218 Worldwide Accumulation in thirty-seven stockbooks/binders filling three crates, with a limited range of useful pre-1960 mint/MNH sets and singles incl.

Seychelles 1954 set mint, Montserrat QV Inland Revenue 1d never hinged, France 1000fr Paris bridges MNH (cat. £225), through to new issues especially Scandinavia 1990s incl. Aland in gutter pairs, Isle of Man comprehensive MNH to 2011 incl. booklets, miniatures sheets, traffic light sets, some year packs, etc, also Eire FDCs, 1992 Olympics and Columbus theme collections, as well as Germany in eight of the volumes from classic States in mixed condition to post-war incl. Soviet occupations, plus Danzig, Saar, Memel, couple of pages of mint Colonies, etc. £250-300

219 Worldwide Accumulation of many tens of thousands of stamps from 19th century to modern new issues in five cartons/containers, with British Commonwealth and foreign in over 80 albums/stockbooks, plus loose covers and stamps in stockcards, glassines, shoeboxes with decent off-paper densely packed, etc. Some packet-type material but also many useful mint sets from the 1930s onwards, mid-20th century FDCs, Commonwealth with KGVI short sets and occasional high values, schoolboy albums incl. crammed Swiftsure with lots of China, etc. Will pan-out well when sorted through. £300-400

220 Worldwide A sprawling accumulation in two parts, firstly 28 larger volumes and 16+ smaller FDC/presentation pack binders, the former including British Commonwealth collection in six loose-leaf albums with useful mint material, generally short sets and lower denominations, however on a quick inspection we note a 1935 silver jubilee mint set and MNH 1948 silver wedding set, also plate numbers and imprints are generally a feature. Then a Great Britain collection in four loose-leaf albums, very mixed condition, beginning with three penny blacks with faults. Secondly, many 10s of 1000s of mostly 20th century stamps in off-paper mixtures organised by country in small or medium plastic containers filling four very large cartons and six medium containers, including Middle East and Gulf States, Far East, etc. Some parts with duplication, however many countries very diverse and interesting as if stripped from collections. The whole accumulation in containers that cover about two folding tables. A magnificent lot for the sorter. Sold for the benefit of Keithley and Worth Valley Railway Trust. £350-500

221 Worldwide Accumulation of thousands of stamps in five stockbooks, 19th century onwards with duplication, two for used British Commonwealth and one for used GB, the others for a varied range of worldwide mint and used. Thousands of further stamps in six large shoeboxes: an on-paper mix of post1950 issues, British and an excellent Worldwide ratio, noted incl. Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Kuwait, Oman, British Commonwealth high values, India, etc, etc. A great sorter’s lot. £70-120

222 Worldwide Large plastic container filled with fourteen volumes and loose, thematic interest incl. cricket and trains, mostly basic material, with the exception of China 1980s new issues (appears 1987 and 1988 virtually complete) in two binders incl. souvenir sheets, postal stationery etc. Please inspect. £60-80

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COLLATERAL & LITERATURE 223 Solid Silver Stamp Set ‘’The Empire Collection’’ limited edition of gold plated solid silver stamp replicas of twenty-five famous British Commonwealth issues. Along with leather-bound ‘Pax Britannica’ by James Morris, Hallmark, 1968. Weight of silver is a minimum 500g, giving a bullion value alone of £250 at time of press. £200-250

224 Maritime Documents and Postal Clerk’s Souvenirs Collateral collection in two parts: the first an interesting group of seven documents from a family of ship’s masters, from 19th century (c.1860s) to 1940s, incl. certificates and qualifications on parchment with waterproof registration document franked by twenty-one 6d. revenue stamps of two kinds, also a 1901 letter from the General Post Office Secretary’s office attached with two QV ‘Poundage three half-pence’ postal orders for 20/each, implying that the Captain attempting to claim the sum had been defrauded by a money-changer at Genoa. The second part a range from an ex-postmaster of The Bents office, South Shields (closed in 2003), incl. a wax seal handstamp in brass for ‘The Bents - South Shields’ with crown in centre and 1926 Post Office issue ‘Express Delivery Services’ instructions leaflet with extensive amendments annotated in red ink, as well as 10 binders of FDCs, m/s etc. Also a hallmarked silver-gilt Consignia presentation pin for 30 years’ service and perspex paper weight encasing the 1989 Lord Mayor’s Show strip, originally presented to the vendor’s father a head councillor. Please view to appreciate. £50-70

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225 ‘The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century’ National Postal Museum publication: ‘The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century’ by Robson Lowe, 1979 2nd edition, hardcover, boxed and as new. £20-30

226 Literature on British Postmarks and Postal History Six important publications for the GB postal history specialist: ‘British Postmarks: A Short History and Guide’, by Alcock and Holland (paperback); R. M. Willcocks’s ‘The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland’ and ‘England’s Postal History with notes on Scotland, Wales and Ireland’ (both hardcover); G. F. Oxley’s ‘The English Provincial Local Posts 1765-1840’ (hardcover) with the excellent accompanying ‘Rarity Guide’; and an extensive, detailed and entertainingly written binder publication ‘A History of the Manchester Post Office 1625-1900’ by Charles Calvert. £40-60

227 Rowland Hill Portrait Photograph Very fine early photograph of Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the postage stamp. Albumen print from collodion negative, c.1856, by Maull and Polyblank, dimensions just under 20cm x 15cm. With 1979 receipt from Robert Hershkowitz gallery, showing cost at today’s equivalent of about £400. A wonderful contemporary portrait of the great man and the best possible frontispiece to a collection. £150-200

228 Post Office Magazine Artwork A framed original pen-and-ink drawing c.1930s by P. Bough for the Post Office Magazine, with nine charming trompe l’oeil super-imposed scenes of the mails in historic eras, including ‘Cheating the Revenue’ with post-courier seeking cash from a lady just delivered to, another showing steamtrain with net about to catch a mailbag, another with lads shovelling snow captioned ‘digging out the mail - March 1886’, etc. all beautifully drawn. Some trivial small stains at bottom. £80-120 www.tennants.co.uk

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229 A Large Black Postcard Case Containing Approx. 1400 Postcards, some sleeved covering a good range of topography both printed and Real Photographic of churches, coastal views, towns etc. Also a few subject cards here. £80-100

230 Two Albums and Two Boxes Containing A Mix of Topography and Subject Cards. The first album and box are a mix of printed and Real Photographic cards countrywide of varying ages and interest. The second album contains approx. 54 cards of Exhibitions with a further 9 bookmark cards and the second box has a selection of Military cards including Lord Kitchener, as well as Social & Rural cards with good family groups, Hop Pickers etc.

Better Railway cards including a number of Great Eastern Railway cards and Tourist cachets. Also a range of Irish cards and other mixed foreign topography. £100-150

231 A Green Album Containing Approx. 190 Postcards, many better quality including a good range of Silks (35) including Edith Cavell and Arras 1915 silk view. Hand Painted cards, Calendar cards from the early 1900s along with a selection of large letter boys’ and girls’ names. Shipping including a submarine with a good range also of village scenes, parades, Fireman’s Parade and Trams and also 4 of the destroyed Railway Bridge from the 1932 Glaisdale Floods. £150-200

232 Two Postcards of R. M. S. Titanic. Firstly, a Real Photographic example by the Rotary Photographic Series of the White Star Liner and Tug. Sent to York from Hull in June 1929 and in good condition and secondly a printed Nearer My God To Thee! Bamforth postcard, Series 23. Handwritten message on the reverse: “This is one of the latest cards in Sydney. It shows the Titanic just before she took the final plunge into the mighty depths.”

Undated with mild creasing to lower right corner. £50-60

233 A Small Parcel Full of Postcards With Strength in Yorkshire and The North East Area with a Range of Ormesby Cards Noted. A quantity of Ethnic interest from Nigeria and Sierra Leone with other foreign cards from Tenerife and Ireland. A true mix of topographic and subject with better cards noted including a Boroughbridge Café and Morecambe Pier Fire in 1933. £150-200

234 Two Blue Plastic Tubs and A Shoebox Of Mixed Modern Foreign & UK Topography. Although vastly modern, searching will reveal better cards including Walt Disney Snow White (7) and Pinocchio (3) with a further range of portraits of the Dwarfs (6) in mixed condition with some better British street scenes etc from the 1930s – 50s period. Viewing will reward. £100-150

235 Three Albums Containing Mainly Mixed Topography with Strengths in Cheshire and Staffordshire with many cards of The Manifold Valley and areas with better cards of Congleton, Hazel Grove, Alderley Edge etc. Of note amongst the subject cards are two aviation cards, three submarines and Fair Cyclists in Catland. Also a portrait card of R.M.S. Titanic with a verse from “nearer My God To Thee”. An interesting lot and in good order. £250-280

236 A Large Black Album and Packet of Loose Containing Approx. 370 Cards with a plethora of different subjects covered such as Greetings, Comic, Aviation, Cats, Dogs / Bonzo etc, Comic with plenty by Bamforths with Motoring / Police content etc. A useful mix of topo from Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire with better cards including Fleetwood Lifeboat, Rhyl Lifeboat and Cockerham Post Office. £180-220

237 A Large Black Album Containing Approx. 200 Cards All of Yorkshire. The cards cover towns and villages from all parts of the county with some coastal as well. A mix of Real Photographic and printed, all in good condition. £100-150

238 Two Albums of British and Foreign Topography. Many in the first album of Lancashire including a range of better cards of the Darwen area. The second album is generally of French Topography with a little from London and the southern counties of England £120-150

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239 A Large White Box Containing Loose Postcards, A Blue Album and Also A Quantity of Packets of Souvenir Cards of Around Great Britain. A mix of topography and subject with a bundle of military photographic portraits from WW1 with quite a few signed and or identified. The blue album contains a wide mix of periods and quality but a Barton on Humber Windmill and the Lifeboat Coxwain from Robin Hood’s Bay stand out. £100-120

240 A Multicoloured Bag Containing Three Original Albums and Loose Postcards. The topographical cards have strength in Yorkshire and Durham with good Hartlepool including May Day, Bandstand, The Headland, School Groups etc along with others. Others noted include Whitby, Swainby, Belfast with Airships and Early Aviation – Farnborough Common. Other better single cards include York, Cleckheaton, Sunderland, Arnside, Osmotherley, Chepstow Shipyard, Catford and Lee. A range of good Bristol cards and amongst the subjects two Tigers in bed / Ellam (2) and Raphael Kirschner (2 – but 1 damaged), Silks, Military / Country badges. £500-600

241 A Bag Containing 29 Advertising Cards. A mix of business types from the usual Chocolate and Tea to Jones and Singer Sewing Machines. Rover Car Company, Raleigh Bikes, Persil Washing Powder etc. Mixed condition but some better examples seen. £70-90

242 Fourteen Albums Containing A Wide Selection of Modern Cards. Approx. 1500 in six albums of reproductions of early 20th century advertisements and Railway Posters by companies such as Mayfair Cards, Robert Opie, Mumbles Railway Publishing Co. The remaining albums of additional cards cover a mix of Railway / Trams, Transport / Artist Drawn and an album of Modern Multiviews by Heritage Cards along with an album of Captain Cook Country ephemera. £80-100

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243 A Large Lot of Fifteen Albums of Mainly Topographical Cards. Areas and subjects include Yorkshire, Scarborough, Whitby with an album also of Moderns from F. M. Sutcliffe, Churches, Castles, Abbeys, Multiviews, Butlins and 150 comic cards all small sized up to 1960s with many by Bamforths. £100-120

244 Five Albums in Slipcases Covering The Yorkshire Coast From Redcar and Saltburn Down To Scarborough. Some Artist Drawn of Staithes and Whitby. Better cards noted of Skinningrove (1) and also Kilton Viaduct Train Crash (1) £200-250

245 Two Modern Albums and A Loose Bundle of Postcards. A complete mix of subject and Topographical. British and Foreign and many of tourist areas.

That said there are better including Cricket (2) and also a range of Halifax. Better cards include the Bolton Brow Tram Disaster, Pyenest Tram Smash Funeral and Grahame White landing his aeroplane at Halifax Racecourse in 1910. £80-100

246 An Olive Album, partially filled with a selection of subjects and topo. Greetings, song cards, military, patriotic sentiment and children all noted, very much an album of the WWI era. Some better topographical cards of Beeston, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire seen. Also of Titanic interest is the real photographic postcard of a floral model of the ill-fated liner advertising Charles E. Simpson Florist, York - an unusual Titanic-related item of some scarcity. £100-120

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247 A Large Black Album Holding Approx. 404 Postcards of Middlesbrough including surrounding areas such as Acklam, Linthorpe, Grangetown, Eston, South Bank, North Ormesby and Nunthorpe as well as others. A mix of RPs and printed the collection covers all the main areas of the town, The Docks, Linthorpe Road, Corporation and Newport Roads, Albert Park, Transporter Bridge etc with better views including Iron Works & Blast Furnaces (6), Visit of Edward Prince of Wales (2), North Ormesby Floods 1903 etc. A variety of publishers noted including Brittain & Wright of Stockton, Sanbride / Hood of Middlesbrough and the R.S.K. Series. An advanced collection which would either sell well individually or be great to continue. £350-450

248 A Large Modern Green Album Covering Saltburn, Redcar, Kirkleatham, Marske, Wilton and Upleatham. The approx. 250 cards are a mixture of printed and Real Photographic cards with better cards featuring Redcar Racecourse, Golf Course, Saltburn Carnival (2), Redcar Lifeboat – Old and New (2), Ships ashore; Awu Maru (3), Caulonia (1) and Clavering (1). An excellent collection once again of this area of Teesside / Cleveland. £250-300

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249 Two Small Albums Containing Approx. 150 Cards of Stockton on Tees. Many of the Town Centre / High Street scenes are animated and cover from the Edwardian Era up to the 1940s or 50s with many Real Photographs seen. Better include Lord Londonderry & Party going to the races, Aerial Views. There are many Brittain & Wright’s etc, Victoria Bridge, Views on the Tees etc Hartburn (2). A great collection once again to add to or break up to realise it’s true potential. £150-200

250 Two Red Albums Holding Approx. 140 Postcards of Norton on Tees, Billingham & Wynyard. Many Real Photographic cards amongst this fine collection of cards covering The Green, Church, Vicarage etc along with printed variants. There is also a batch of later Real Photo cards from the 1940s – 60s. Once again a reasonably advanced collection with a number of better cards. £150-180

251 A Red Album Containing Approx. 92 Postcards of Stokesley, Great Broughton, Kirby in Cleveland, Easby and Ingleby Area. Highlights include Stokesley Flood of 1930, Battersby and Newby Postman. A mix of Street Scenes, General Views, War Memorials etc from a variety of publishers, such as J. T. Ross of Whitby, Armstrong of Stockton on Tees and virtually if not a full set of the D. W. Richardson / Cleveland Series cards of Stokesley. A nice and attractive collection. £150-200

252 An Old Green Album Containing Approx. 233 Cards of Japan Apart from 3 Real Photographs all are printed and predominantly attractively coloured.

Areas include Kyoto, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, Shuko, Hyogo and Nagoya and include Countryside Views, Harbour Scenes, Shipping Interest, Temples / Shrines, Social History and Traditional Ways of life along with some better street scenes. £100-120

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253 Four Original Albums Containing A Mixture of British and Foreign Topography. Some of the cards are relatively early through to the 1920s. Norway, Lancashire and North Wales are all covered. The real strength however is in the Lancaster, Sunderland Point and Kirkby Lonsdale areas with some outstanding Real Photographic cards of Lancaster. Seldom seen cards of quality; Royal Visit to Lancaster, Lancaster Old Folks Hospital etc along with rare, animated views of the back streets and alleys of the city along with a selection of good photographic cards of the environs of Lancaster also. £700-800

254 A Large and Valuable Collection Covering The North Yorkshire Market Town of Skipton. Housed in two modern red albums containing approx. 900 cards plus moderns and a few reproductions. Collected over a long period this is one of the best Skipton collections around. A mix of printed and Real Photographic cards in no particular order but many covering events such as the Flood of 3rd August 1908, The 1911 Coronation, Hospital Galas, Funerals of the Barrowford Charabanc Disaster, Co-op Front, Adverts, Football and Rugby Teams, Bands, Steamrollers, suburb animated street scenes etc. All of the Skipton photographers are well represented with Smith featuring most heavily but many examples by Prime, Carter and the Skipton Stationery Co. along with ranges of many better cards, some scarce by the likes of Lilywhite and Walter Scott. An excellent collection which deserves careful viewing. £1,500-2,000

255 A Large Box Containing Two Shoe Boxes and Three Albums of Mixed Subjects and Topography, Mainly of Southern England. The shoe boxes contain mixed topo of varying ages and interest, amongst better bits, a range of Clifton Zoo animal and keeper cards and also an interesting large sized model airship by a Wokingham Photographer. Also comic, G. E. Studdy (Bonzo). Mabel Lucy Attwell and Children’s Fairies by Outhwaite etc.

Viewing essential on these as many have faults from postal marking to light creases or worse. Within the albums are a mix of British and Foreign Topography with a quantity from the Reading and Berkshire area. A large lot. £500-600

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256 (Black Album) An advanced collection of approx. 380 postcards of Leeds Suburbs. The cards include Cross Flatts Park (37) Cross Gates (227 not counting a few repros) with many by local Cross Gates publisher William Bramley, Lilywhite and W. R. & S. / Reliable Series, Manston (13), Dewsbury Road area (25), East End Park (35), and Farnley (42). Lots of good photographic cards of Streets, Social History, Cinema and Railway Stations. £800-1,000

257 (Red Album) An Album Containing Approx. 530 Miscellaneous Cards of North, East and West Yorkshire. A wide range of village and town views, a mix of printed and Real Photo with many better cards with some stunning examples also. £1,000-1,200

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258 (Blue Album) An Album Containing Some 550 Cards Generally in Number Order of The Work of Bradford Photographer B. Matthews. The cards cover a wide area of the old West Riding, Westmorland and North Lancashire. All Real Photographic sharp clear images. £1,000-1,200

259 (Green Album) An Album Containing Approx. 460 Cards of Leeds By Publishers Starting With The Letters H – P. These include Hartmann (34), Judges (32), Kingsway (47), Milton Series (51) etc. A wide mix from the commoner end to the better. Of note is the Parkinson & Roy section of 62 cards. A local photographic who produced many fine cards. A very nice selection of Manor Farm, Garforth Cheese Dairy and other village views in the Leeds area. £500-600

260 Blue Album) A Stunning Album of Approx. 580 Cards of West Yorkshire / Leeds Area. These include Roundhay (103), Scarcroft (17), Seacroft (73), Shadwell (74) Stanks (3), Stanningley (49) and Wetherby (192) including four cards of the Railway Station. A mix of printed with Real Photographic but lots of better cards seen by local and more regional producers. £1,200-1,500

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261 (Black Album) An Outstanding and Highly Valuable Album Containing Some Approx. 430 Cards of Leeds Transport Related Cards Plus A Selection Of Photos. The vast majority of the cards are of Leeds and suburbs with a few further afield. All manners of Transport related including: Horse Drawn and with various local business wagons (38), Cars, Garages and also including two views of the March 1923 Motor Smash at Dawson’s Corner, Stanningley (31) Vans, again many sign written with Leeds business names (44), Steam Rollers / Accidents, Charabancs (27), Motorbuses (28) Bicycles / Motorcycles (9) Aviation (3) and the remaining 250 cards of Trams, Tram Terminus and also Drivers. Many of these cards are incredibly scarce and this album has taken a lifetime to assemble. Lots of high value cards. £2,500-3,000

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Museum-quality display galleries were built in 2014 to provide ever-changing displays of highlights from the saleroom.

The Company has a long history of handling outstanding private collections and estate sales of all sizes.

Notable private collection sales have included: An American Collector – from Virginia The P Lamaison Van Heenvliet Collection of Arms and Armour - from Holland Modern Life in Print - from the estate of Edith Laurence The El-Shamy Wine Collection An Attic Sale: The Final Instalment of the Collections of the late Stanley J Seeger The Historical Collection of Natural History and Taxidermy from Hodnet Hall

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NON-SELLING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Tennants hosts a busy and varied programme of exhibitions and events, which not only support and enhance the auction programme but provide a diverse cultural experience for visitors and the local community.

Frequently working in association with museums, private collectors and educational establishments, highlights of the non-selling exhibition programme include curated displays of treasure from the Bowes Museum and fine art exhibitions including 350 Years of British Art and Light & Shadow, showcasing major loaned works from over twenty museums and numerous private collections. Northern Art is championed too, with frequent selling exhibitions. Recent highlights have included Norman Cornish: Bishop’s Close Street and Sally Arnup: Life in Bronze, both of which were staged in conjunction with the artists’ estates.

CONTACT US To discuss your requirements please contact us on 01969 623780 enquiry@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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BUYERS’ INFORMATION Buyer’s Premium A Buyer’s Premium of 22% of the Hammer Price, plus VAT, is payable on each lot.

Condition Reports We are happy to provide Condition Reports to Prospective Buyers, but would welcome your request as soon as possible, preferably at least 48 hours before the Day of Sale. A Condition Report is an honest expression of our opinion, not a statement of fact and is provided as a service to the Seller. We accept no liability for the opinions expressed in any Condition Report.

Caveat Emptor The principle of caveat emptor applies to the sale of all goods sold at auction by us. Furthermore, we have no control over the condition of any item offered for sale.

Additional Images Requests for additional images of items in the sale can made up to 48 hours before the Day of Sale.

Online Bidding W eoffer an online bidding service via our own platform - Tennants Live Bidding at www.tennants.co.uk. Items purchased via this platform will be subject to an additional 1.5% commission charge plus VAT at the prevailing rate. We also offer online bidding via www.the-saleroom.com for prospective buyers who cannot attend the sale. Items bought via this platform will be subject to an additional 4.95% commission charge plus VAT. By completing registration on www.the-saleroom.com and providing your credit/bank card details and unless alternative arrangements are agreed with us, you; (a) authorise Tennants, if they so wish, to charge the credit/bank card given in part of full payment, including all fees, for items successfully purchased in the auction via www.the-saleroom.com; and (b) confirm that you are authorised to provide these credit/bank details to Tennants through www.the-saleroom.com and agree that Tennants are entitled to permit the shipping of the goods to the card holder and card holder address provided in fulfilment of the sale.

We do not accept any liability for any losses, however arising, as a result of a prospective buyer’s use of www.the-saleroom.com. Use of www.the-saleroom.com is subject to separate terms and conditions which do not form part of these conditions.

Telephone Bidding Requests for telephone bidding must be registered at least one hour prior to the close of the View Day. We will not accept requests on the Day of Sale. Telephone Lines are booked on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to a minimum lot value of £500 for Fine Art Sales and £200 for all other sales.

Absentee Bidding Whilst reasonable endeavours will be made to execute absentee bidding up to the Day of Sale, Tennants will not be liable for any default or neglect in connection with this service. All such arrangements therefore are made entirely at the Prospective Buyer’s risk.

VAT Valueadded tax or any equivalent tax chargeable in the UK or elsewhere.

AML Due Diligence We conduct appropriate Due Diligence checks to comply with current Anti Money Laundering regulations for any buyer exceeding the threshold of £8,000. We reserve the right to withhold the purchased lots until such checks have been completed.

Agency We act as agents for the Seller, whose details remain confidential. If you buy at auction your contract is with the Seller, not us.

Method of Payment Payment is accepted online via our website.

Card payments where the card holder is not present will only be accepted for transactions up to £500.

Payment can be made and purchases collected during the auction.

All accounts must be settled within 14 days of the sale. Accounts not paid within 14 days will automatically be subject to an interest charge of 5% above base rate from the day of sale.

Collection All purchases must be collected from our Leyburn offices, unless stated otherwise, within seven days of the Sale (Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm).

Despatch/Delivery Buyers may appoint their own shippers or use one of our preferred suppliers for all UK deliveries and international shipping. Their contact details are as follows: Bradleys Antique Packing Services Ltd 01325 281332 info@antiquepacking.co.uk Carrs Carriers Ltd 01423 297088 01913 077024 07958 023028 carrscarriersltd@gmail.com Mailboxes Etc 0113 242 8715 info@mbeleedscity.co.uk In-House Shipping For certain lots, we offer a packing and shipping service up to a total value of £5,000 (inclusive of buyer’s premium, VAT and any other associated charges). Prices start from £20 depending on the size and destination. Please note, we are unable to post items of a fragile nature. Items are fully insured and can be tracked from dispatch to delivery.

To obtain a quote for packing and shipping, please email shipping@tennants-ltd.co.uk or call 01969 623780. You will need to have paid your invoice in full, including delivery, before items are dispatched.

For full Terms of Business please refer to www.tennants.co.uk

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2022 AUCTION DATES Wednesday 6 July Stamps, Postcards & Postal History Friday 8 July Antiques & Interiors Friday 15 July David Battie: A Study Collection Saturday 16 July Summer Sale Saturday 16 July British, European & Sporting Art Tennants is the UK’s largest family-owned fine art auctioneers, with a well-deserved reputation for delivering unrivalled service and results.

Twenty-seven specialist departments offer an outstanding range of depth and expertise that, combined with the company’s strong traditional values and a personal approach, have won Tennants widespread respect in the international marketplace.

Each year Tennants holds over 80 auctions and handles in excess of 40,000 lots covering all major disciplines, making it one of the UK’s busiest salerooms.

STAMPS, POSTCARDS & POSTAL HISTORY The Stamps, Postcards & Postal History Sales cover the full spectrum of philatelic collecting, and comprise world accumulations, single country or themed lots, single stamps and sets, and specialised collections that can include errors and varieties. British and overseas postal history memorabilia, from pre-stamp to modern times are included, too.

YOUR SPECIALISTS

Saturday 16 July Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver Wednesday 6 July - Sunday 17 July Timed Auction The Designer Sale Friday 22 July Antiques & Interiors Wednesday 27 July Toys, Models, Sporting & Fishing Saturday 6 August Beswick & Border Fine Arts Saturday 6 August Antiques & Interiors Wednesday 10 August Coins & Banknotes

Joseph Addison Stamps & Postal History

Clive Torrens Postcards

Saturday 20 August Costume, Accessories & Textiles Saturday 20 August Antiques & Interiors Saturday 2 September Natural History & Taxidermy Saturday 2 September Fine Wine & Whisky Friday 9 September Antiques & Interiors Friday 16 September Country House (Part I) Saturday 16 September Country House (Part II) Saturday 16 September Jewellery, Watches & Silver

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The Auction Centre, Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 5SG 01969 623780 enquiry@tennants-ltd.co.uk www.tennants.co.uk

STAMPS, POSTCARDS &POSTAL HISTORY WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022

STAMPS, POSTCARDS & POSTAL HISTORY WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2022