Lot 60416 – 1922-68 An attractive specialised collection neatly mounted and beautifully written up on 64 album pages, being housed in one Spring back album, showing a fine array of the First and Second definitives with both SE and E

1922-68 An attractive specialised collection neatly mounted and beautifully written up on 64 album pages, being housed in one Spring back album, showing a fine array of the First and Second definitives with both SE and E wmks, complete mint and used sets to 10s etc., plus some useful covers and cancels, also some airmails, the highlight of the collection is the outstanding assembly of a complete set of the 1922-23 SE wmk first day covers including the following each used with different first days cancels: 1/2d emerld-green block of four tied 20.AP.23, 1/2d emerld-green single in combination with three 3-line 1/2d green (3) tied 20.AP.23 cds, 1d carmine, pair tied 23.FE.23 cds, 1 1/2d claret, two covers franked block of four and and single in combination with overprints, all tied 2.FEB.23 cds, 2d pearl-green, three covers franked block of four, single and single in combination with overprints, all tied 6.DE.22 cds, 2 1/2d red-brown, two single on separate covers, both tied 7.SE.23 cds, 3d blue, pair tied 16.MR.23 cds, 4d slate-blue, single and pair on separate covers, both tied 28.SE.23 cds, 5d violet, two single on separate covers, both tied 11.MY.23 cds, 6d claret, single tied 21.DE.23 cds, 9d violet, single tied 26.OC.23 cds, 10d brown, single tied 11.MY.23 cds and 1s azure, block of four, tied 15.JU.23 cds, generally very fine and a very rare complete set of first day covers from Ireland’s First Definitive set of stamps, a wonderful basis for expansion (100’s)