17 Feb 2023 – 20 Mar 2023
91 lots
Lot 209317
Great Britain » Postal History
1841 (May 11th) White wrapper used to carry a Registered Letter from London to Bedwin with London H/11 MY 11/1841 circular datestamp and BEDWIN undated…
Retail price: 2’950 GBP
Lot 209302
Great Britain » Postal History
Horsham Hand struck “4” on 11th December 1839 Cover, very rare, being the only recorded example in private Hands by Chadwick (There is another example…
Retail price: 2’850 GBP
Lot 209305
Great Britain » Postal History
1840 (10th Jan) entire used on First Day of Uniform From JERSEY (Unique).
Retail price: 2’350 GBP
Lot 209425
Great Britain » Postal History
1841 (November 11th) cover registered from Edinburgh to Vera Cruz with Registered/EDINBURGH handstamp in red with 2/- in red manuscript denoting cash payment…
Retail price: 2’100 GBP
Lot 209379
Great Britain » Postal History
1841 (March 6th) prepaid envelope from Edinburgh to Sydney with Registered/EDINBURGH handstamp PAID AT EDINR/MAR 6/1841 c.d.s. London tombstone PAID/8…
Retail price: 1’900 GBP
Lot 209311
Great Britain » Postal History
1840 6th of May Stampless Cover, DUBLIN 8/PAID/1d. Very Rare with only 3 or 4 know examples of prepaid mail from Ireland sent on this date. (no stamps…
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209303
Great Britain » Postal History
1839 entire from Chester with Hand struck “4” on 24th December, very rare. Chadwick records only 4 examples.
Retail price: 1’695 GBP
Lot 209304
Great Britain » Postal History
Hertford Hand struck “4” on 4th January 1840 Cover. Rare.
Retail price: 1’695 GBP
Lot 209313
Great Britain » Postal History
1840 6th of May Stampless Cover from Tonbridge Wells to London showing Uniform Penny Post PAID 1d. in red. Rare.
Retail price: 1’450 GBP
Lot 209312
Great Britain » Postal History
1840 6th of May Stampless Cover to Manchester. Rare
Retail price: 695 GBP
Lot 209308
Great Britain » 1840 Parliamentary Envelopes
1840 (19 Feb?) One Penny House of Parliament Envelop wmk J RUMP 1839, PE2b. Cat £8000.
Retail price: 3’650 GBP
Lot 209307
Great Britain » 1840 Parliamentary Envelopes
1840 (27 Mar.) One Penny House of Commons Envelope Sent by William Gladstone (signed by him). Rare
Retail price: 1’800 GBP
Lot 209319
Great Britain » 1840 Mulreadys & Caricatures
1840 One Penny Black, Plate 1a, HG, used on a Penny Mulready Letter sheet dated the 6th of MAY. used on the first day From London with Evening duty C code…
Retail price: 66’950 GBP
Lot 209314
Great Britain » 1840 Mulreadys & Caricatures
1840 (6th May) Two Pence Letter sheet FIRST DAY COVER, from Enfield to Waltham cross, extremely rare with only two confirmed envelopes recorded one of…
Retail price: 39’500 GBP
Lot 209316
Great Britain » 1840 Mulreadys & Caricatures
1840 2d Mulready Envelope, Stereo a195 (with a letter enclosed) posted in London WC5 on the 1st of December 1879. The Mulready which prepaid postage up…
Retail price: 3’950 GBP
Lot 209326
Great Britain » Postal Stationery
Postal Stationery Proof Sheet with 10 multi coloured impressions; an attractive piece.
Retail price: 2’450 GBP
Lot 209310
Great Britain » Line Engraved Essays, Plate Proofs, Colour Trials and Reprints
The First Die for the Penny Stamp (later rejected) was engraved by the Royal Master Engraver Charles Heath on instructions from Perkins Bacon and Petch…
Retail price: 22’500 GBP
Lot 209323
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
1840 One Penny Grey Black (KD), Pl. 1a Superb Four Margins; cancelled by red Maltese cross, Exceptional. RPS Cert (2003)
Retail price: 750 GBP
Lot 209321
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
1840 Penny Black pl. 1a, IE-IF, pair with margins all round, used on printed insurance document dated 6th May 1840 FIRST DAY COVER, dated internally “in…
Retail price: 62’500 GBP
Lot 209318
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
1841 (12 July) small envelope to London bearing 1d. Black plate 1b HD (small to good margins just touching at top) well tied by a brownish red Maltese…
Retail price: 7’795 GBP
Lot 209322
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
1841 (26 Mar.) envelope addressed to the Rectory Henley on Thames marked Registered/Money Letter and 1/- in red ink and bearing 1d. Black pl. 6, OH (generally…
Retail price: 6’950 GBP
Lot 209320
Great Britain » 1840 1d Black and 1d Red plates 1a to 11
1841 (30 Jan.) entire letter to a bookseller in Oxford bearing 1d. Black pl. 8, HK (dark colour small to large margins all round) tied by a watery strike…
Retail price: 5’950 GBP
Lot 209324
Great Britain » 1840 2d Blue (ordered by plate number)
1840 2d. Blue Pl.2. An exceptionally fine and fresh lightly mounted o.g. four margin block of four lettered LI-MJ. Minute surface mark on LI in no way…
Retail price: 96’500 GBP
Lot 209325
Great Britain » 1840 2d Blue (ordered by plate number)
1840 2d. Blue, QC, Pl. 2, Superb four Margins showing a good part strikes of the Dorchester Town Cancel in black Cat. £10,000.
Retail price: 900 GBP
Lot 209328
Great Britain » 1841 1d Red
1841 Penny Red, RI, Pl. 100 Four Margin with RED 1844 Cancel, rare. Cert B.P.A. (2007).
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209329
Great Britain » 1841 2d Blue
1841 (September 11th) wrapper from London to Macclesfield endorsed in red Registered 295 and 1/- as registration prepayment bearing pair of 1841 2d blue…
Retail price: 2’750 GBP
Lot 209330
Great Britain » 1854-70 Perforated Line Engraved
1855 1d red brown, Pl. 23 watermark small crown perf 14 alphabet 3. A very fine unused (original gum) perfectly centred block of four lettered JE-KF showing…
Retail price: 18’500 GBP
Lot 209301
Great Britain » 1847-54 Embossed
Charles Whiting Essay in Black, Tete-Bêche pair on wove paper, light vertical crease. Rare.
Retail price: 1’000 GBP
Lot 209299
Great Britain » 1847-54 Embossed
Rowland Hills Fourth Proposal to Enable Prepayment of Postage, Embossed essays printed by Charles Whiting who personally annotated the record of the development…
Retail price: 20’000 GBP
Lot 209331
Great Britain » 1847-54 Embossed
1853 (March 7th) letter from London to Oporto endorsed Registered/Letter and vis Southampton bearing 1847-54 1/- strip of Four paying 3s6d postage up to…
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209332
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1867-80 Large Uncoloured Corner Letters, Wmk Spray of Rose
1870 3d die proof printed in rose on white matt card (38mm x 38mm) produced by DLR for the 1870 International Exhibition. Very fine and extremely rare….
Retail price: 850 GBP
Lot 209334
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1867-83 High Values
1884 5/- Rose on Blued Paper Fine Fresh Mint (hinge remainder) Cat £12,500
Retail price: 3’250 GBP
Lot 209359
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1883-84 & 1888 High Values
1883 2s6d Die proof. Very fine example without corner letters printed in black on white glazed card (92 x 60mm) endorsed BEFORE HARDENING and dated 11…
Retail price: 950 GBP
Lot 209338
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1887 10d Colour Trials. Two examples in dull purple and blue (the issued colours of the 9d) affixed to piece from the De La Rue Archive on white Crown-watermarked…
Retail price: 5’500 GBP
Lot 209337
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1886 Die Proofs of the 9d value each cut to stamp size and affixed (hinged) to card (41 x 110mm). One Duty Die and Head Dies Types I and II (the latter…
Retail price: 1’395 GBP
Lot 209335
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1887 1/2d Vermilion (watermark inverted) variety printed on the Gummed Side Very fine mint NH, a very rare variety Cat from £4500.
Retail price: 1’200 GBP
Lot 209358
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1900 1/2d blue-green Colour Trial top right corner pair on unwatermarked paper of fine appearance but with only part gum remaining. Perhaps only two multiples…
Retail price: 1’395 GBP
Lot 209353
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
£1 Green, NC, Fresh mint NH. Scarce.
Retail price: 2’400 GBP
Lot 209354
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
£1 Green, FA, Great Colour fresh mint NH
Retail price: 2’400 GBP
Lot 209355
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1891 £1 Green, Imperforate lower left corner example lettered JA overprinted “SPECIMEN” Type 9 mint NH a wonderful example. Cat £6500 for mounted
Retail price: 2’400 GBP
Lot 209356
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1900 1/2d blue-green imperforate imprimatur from the top right corner of the sheet. o.g. lightly hinged on the selvedge the stamp being un-mounted. No…
Retail price: 1’800 GBP
Lot 209339
Great Britain » 1855-1900 Surface Printed » 1887-1900 Jubilee Issue & 1891 £1 Green
1887 1/- dull green with Watermark INVERTED Block of four with the upper pair lightly hinged and the lower pair unmounted. Some very light gum creasing…
Retail price: 2’400 GBP
Lot 209362
Great Britain » King George V » 1911-12 Downey Head Issues
1d Downey in Scarlet (trial fa) on John Allen Paper Machine Finished Underside paper. The paper is watermarked Indiana Vellum. Inscribed on left margins…
Retail price: 2’450 GBP
Lot 209369
Great Britain » King George V » 1913-19 Seahorse Issues
1915 DLR 10/- Bright Cambridge blue , superb mint NH; rare
Retail price: 3’950 GBP
Lot 209365
Great Britain » King George V » 1913-19 Seahorse Issues
1915 DLR 2/6d Deep yellow-brown with Wmk INVERTED mint NH. Cat £2400.
Retail price: 900 GBP
Lot 209368
Great Britain » King George V » 1913-19 Seahorse Issues
1915 DLR 5/- Bright Carmine Wmk REVERSED mint NH, RARE Cat £6250.
Retail price: 2’450 GBP
Lot 209367
Great Britain » King George V » 1913-19 Seahorse Issues
1915 DLR 5/- Bright Carmine Wmk INVERTED mint NH. RARE Cat £6750
Retail price: 2’450 GBP
Lot 209370
Great Britain » King George V » 1913-19 Seahorse Issues
1915 De La Rue 10/- Deep Blue, fine mint NH
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209372
Great Britain » King George V » 1924-36 Issues
1935 2 1/2d PRUSSIAN BLUE o.g. (toned) a very presentable example of this rare and iconic stamp. Cert B.P.A (2022).
Retail price: 3’895 GBP
Lot 209373
Great Britain » King George VI
1939 2/6 Brown Complete Sheet of 40 mint NH; rare.This sheet contains R1/7 Spec Q29a SG276aa Mark in shield and R2/7 Spec 29b SG476ab Gashed Diadem.
Retail price: 2’850 GBP
Lot 209375
Great Britain » King George VI
1939 2/6 Brown Complete Sheet of 40 mint NH5/7 Plate damage mark to Unicorns cheek and Neck (This should really have catalogue status)
Retail price: 2’850 GBP
Lot 209378
Great Britain » Queen Elizabeth II
2002 1st class, Bear pulling Potted Topiary Tree (Moving Home) Variety Queens Head and Value MISSING due to mis-perforation Error. fine mint NH. a scare…
Retail price: 1’850 GBP
Lot 209376
Great Britain » Queen Elizabeth II
Dollis Hill 3d Cylinder 11 no dot (I/P) Block of 10 Mint NH with Mixed bands (wmk Upright). Top stamps have a 2mm band at right (short at bottom). Row…
Retail price: 750 GBP
Lot 209386
Great Britain » Queen Elizabeth II
Great Britain has never knowingly issued stamps with a Yellow phosphor reaction although some Machin issues had a Yellow phosphor reaction due to ink contamination….
Retail price: 1’250 GBP
Lot 209387
Australia
1966 Christmas 4c Value Omitted pair from the right of the sheet, mint NH. Cert B.P.A. (2001).
Retail price: 3’500 GBP
Lot 209381
Australia
£2 Kangaroo Small Multiple Wmk fine mint NH from the right of the sheet. Rare.
Retail price: 2’600 GBP
Lot 209388
Australia
1974 Golf ERROR BLACK omitted in progressive Strip of four, mint NH the right two stamps are completely omitted the left two are partial. Ex Baillie lot…
Retail price: 1’950 GBP
Lot 209389
Australia
2/- Booklet, the panes are still attached ie a pane of 12 x 1/2d Kangaroos and a pane of 18 x 1d kangaroos. Inside front cover printed in red on blue-green…
Retail price: 950 GBP
Lot 209382
Australia
£2 Kangaroo, Wmk C of A just a trace of a hinge mark. scarce
Retail price: 2’000 GBP
Lot 209383
Australia
1/2d Indigo, variety Missing 1 in 1/2 Fraction. A CDS used example of this famous and popular rarity the error resulting from a temporary ink clog which…
Retail price: 5’000 GBP
Lot 209392
Bahrain » British Period
1948 2 1/2d Olympics Overprint DOUBLED Very Fine mint NH. Cert R.P.S. (1980). Cat £3500.
Retail price: 1’000 GBP
Lot 209394
Bechuanaland » Bechuanaland Protectorate
1913-24 original set of 8 to 1/- (lacking the 1 1/2d which was issued later) watermark Simple Cypher overprinted SPECIMEN (type GB23) blocks of 4 (the…
Retail price: 1’000 GBP
Lot 209393
Bechuanaland » Bechuanaland Protectorate
1904-13 2 1/2d Ultramarine (type 20) opt on GB. A horizontal strip of three, the centre stamp showing variety Stop after P (R5/9 lower pane). Brilliant…
Retail price: 850 GBP
Lot 209395
Bermuda
1942 10/- yellow-green and carmine on green paper line perf 14.25 block of four Broken top right scroll (bottom left stamp) and Broken lower right scroll…
Retail price: 1’500 GBP
Lot 209427
Canada » Newfoundland
1932 (19 May) $1.50 on $1 deep blue Dornier DO-X error SURCHARGE INVERTED a wonderful BLOCK OF 4 showing the complete setting, brilliant unmounted mint….
Retail price: 51’000 GBP
Lot 209397
Cayman Islands
1907 set of four affixed to part of ledger sheet with Manuscript Iles Cayman each overprinted SPECIMEN Type D12. The 1/- and 5/- each show R1/4 LP slotted…
Retail price: 750 GBP
Lot 209399
Cayman Islands
1908 registered cover to Czechoslovakia with 2 1/2d. 1/4d block of four and 1d on 4d Revenue. Correctly paying the 4 1/2d non-Empire registered rate. Georgetown…
Retail price: 1’450 GBP
Lot 209400
Ceylon
1912 500r dull green vertical strip of FIVE fine used on piece each cancelled with manuscript initials 363 and dated 7.11.21. The reverse bearing 100r…
Retail price: 850 GBP
Lot 209401
Cyprus
1912 KGV type 12 keyplate master die proof (used for the 1912-15 and 1921-23 issues) in black on glazed card (92x60mm). A very rare and important proof…
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209405
Cyprus
1924-28 £5 black on yellow paper fresh and well-centred very fine unmounted. Rare so fine.
Retail price: 3’350 GBP
Lot 209403
Cyprus
1921-23 £1 Purple and Black/Red (type 12) left marginal very fine mint NH. Only 1682 sold and very scarce unmounted. Ceremuga cert (2018) states Superb…
Retail price: 1’250 GBP
Lot 209404
Cyprus
1924-28 £5 black on yellow paper right marginal Brilliant Mint. (barest trace of hingeing). A choice example of this key high value. Rare so fine.
Retail price: 2’950 GBP
Lot 209406
Egypt » Egypt British Military Post
The Arabi Rebellion. 1882 (SP 2) stampless soldiers cover to England endorsed From Pte George Stevenson A H Corps c/o Bde Surgeon McDowell AMD Ismalia…
Retail price: 1’150 GBP
Lot 209407
Falkland Islands
1933 Centenary 5/- Black and Yellow-orange Mint NH (lightly toned) Cert R.P.S. (1987).
Retail price: 1’250 GBP
Lot 209409
Grenada
1785 (19 Mar.) entire letter to Glasgow rated 1/2 and 1/- showing on reverse fine Grenada second type handstamp London and two Scottish red Bishop marks…
Retail price: 3’350 GBP
Lot 209410
Hong Kong
1898 (1 Apr) 10c on 30c grey-green type 17 surcharge with additional type 18 Chinese handstamp first printing block of 36 (6×6) being the top six rows…
Retail price: 51’250 GBP
Lot 209413
Jamaica
1941 5/- slate-blue and yellow-orange line perf 14 with large part o.g. Rare. Cert B.P.A. (1994). Cat £7000.
Retail price: 1’750 GBP
Lot 209414
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika » Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika
£50 black and brown margnal pair from the right of the sheet, Overprinted “Specimen” locally, mint NH, (gum a little sweated as its been lifted from the…
Retail price: 2’850 GBP
Lot 209421
Leeward Islands
1938-51 £1 Variety BROKEN LOWER SCROLL, fine mint with just a faint trace of mounting.
Retail price: 695 GBP
Lot 209422
Leeward Islands
1938-51 £1 Variety Gash in Chin, fine mint.
Retail price: 695 GBP
Lot 209437
Malaysia » Malaysian States » Trengganu
1910-19 $25 Rose-carmine and green Very Fine Mounted Mint (With the Characteristic traces of backing adhesion) with lovely fresh colours. Champion h/s…
Retail price: 1’250 GBP
Lot 209424
Malta
1919 10/- Black Wmk MCA left marginal very fine and fresh M/M with lovely colour. Only 1530 issued. A rare stamp so fine. Cert B.P.A. (2007).
Retail price: 2’500 GBP
Lot 209426
Nauru
1916-23 5/- rose-carmine Waterlow printing non-UPU SPECIMEN opt (type GB26) block of 8 (4×2) being the top two rows of a sheet from Plate HV6 with proving…
Retail price: 7’500 GBP
Lot 209428
Northern Rhodesia
1963 3d. Orange variety Eagle omitted mint NH. Rare with only one sheet existing.
Retail price: 675 GBP
Lot 209429
Northern Rhodesia
1963 20/- blue Error value omitted fine mint NH. rare with only 180 printed.
Retail price: 675 GBP
Lot 209436
St. Vincent
4d. red Brown wmk CA Fine Fresh Mint (clipped perfs at left). A rare block.
Retail price: 950 GBP
Lot 209430
South Africa » Orange Free State
Postal Fiscal. 1882-86 £2 red-brown lower left corner block of 6 (3×2) with plate number 1 and part centre guide. Unobtrusive marginal crease at left mentioned…
Retail price: 650 GBP
Lot 209432
South Africa » Union & Republic of South Africa
Postage Due 1967-71 4c deep myrtle-green and emerald wmk w127 (upright) Afrikaans at top (type D6) block of 4 Unmounted A Very RARE multiple.
Retail price: 695 GBP
Lot 209431
South Africa » Union & Republic of South Africa
1930-45 1/2d black and green SUIDAFRIKA one word rotogravure printing interpaneau horizontal strip of 4 from right of sheet including a tete-bêche pair…
Retail price: 650 GBP
Lot 209434
South Africa » Union & Republic of South Africa
Official. 1944-50 Set 20A (= 1944 issue) 1 1/2d yellow-buff and deep slate-green (SUID-AFRIKA hyphenated medium format) SG type O2 opt (14.5mm spacing)…
Retail price: 575 GBP
Lot 209435
South Africa » Union & Republic of South Africa
Official. 1944-50 Set 20A (= 1944 issue) 1 1/2d yellow-buff and deep slate-green (SUID-AFRIKA hyphenated medium format) SG type O2 opt (14.5mm spacing)…
Retail price: 685 GBP