1890-1983 Covers and cards in an album and loose, including 1890 Penny Post Jubilee cancels on cards (6) and the Post Office Christmas card depicting the special cover and cancels, 1893 O.H.M.S Official Paid cover with "ROYAL COMMISSION / CHICAGO EXHIBITION 1893" cachet, 1925 Empire Exhibition Palace of Industry parcel cancel on piece, 1950 "SBAC / FARNBOROUGH HANTS" skeleton on registered cover, philatelic congresses from 1909, some Mobile...
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
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Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
The Martin Lynes Collections of Forces Mail, Postal Mechanisation and Holy Land; British Post Offices Abroad from the Mike Kitson Collection; USA, Canada & West Indies Wreck Mail from the Collection of Robin Gwynn, RDP; Boer War; fine Antarctica; Worldwide Postal History from a retiring dealers stock; KUT Polish Camp Mail; Extensive G.B and Irish Postal History with Registered Mail, Railway Letters, Uniform Penny Post and Irish T.P.Os.
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Lot #1608 - g.b postal history frees
1772-1834 Entire letters all sent free of postage, most with various London Free handstamps. (31).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1609 - g.b postal history frees
1797-1839 Entire letters, entires and covers including 1839 cover from London to Elstree with the red Free datestamp crossed out and charged 8d, handstamped by boxed "ABOVE NUMBER" in brown (Jay L828); 1833 printed O.H.M.S Treasury envelope signed by "Althorp" with enclosed letter written from Downing Street, etc. (15).
Suggested price: £ 140-180
Lot #1610 - g.b postal history frees
1829 Entire with printed heading "On the business of the WATERLOO SUBSCRIPTION" signed by Freeling, sent to Pontefract with a red Free datestamp. Very unusual and scarce. Photo on Page 227.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #1611 - g.b postal history frees
1833-34 Entire letters from Haddington both to the Earl of Haddington with blue "HADDINGTON / PENNY POST" and "1" charge marks, one to London with boxed "TO PAY 1d ONLY", the other to Dublin with a Free datestamp applied and the "1" charge mark crossed out. An unusual and attractive pair. (2).
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #1612 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
London. 1800-63 Entire letters with explanatory handstamps comprising boxed "PUT IN AFTER / 7 OCLOCK AT NIGHT" (3), "POSTED AFTER / 7 OCLOCK AT NIGHT" or "TOO LATE for / MORNG POST", similar crowned boxed types in two sizes (L.703/5) and unframed "Posted After / 7P.M" all in red. Also Late Fee datestamps with c.d.s (L.38) on an 1800 prepaid letter and various square boxed types. (17).
Suggested price: £ 160-180
Lot #1613 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
London. 1852-66 Covers with "Posted After" or "Posted Since" datestamps including "POSTED AFTER / 7PM" large double arc datestamps in black or red (2), similar type "POSTED SINCE / 7 LAST NIGHT" in red, smaller double arc datestamps for ‘7’ in red or ‘7.30’ in red or black, single ring c.d.s for ‘7’ (3) or ‘7.30’ (2) in red, and scarce 1866 "POSTED SINCE / 7.30 LAST NIGHT / EC" duplex cancelling a 1d red on cover. (13).
Suggested price...
Lot #1614 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
London. 1860s Covers (2), fronts (2) and pieces (2) with boxed "TOO LATE for / Eveng Dispatch" without district initials (2, one on a 2d Mulready front, faults) or incorporating the district initials W, E.C, W.C or S.W. (6).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1615 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
London. 1898-1909 Covers and cards (13) and stamps (20, some on piece) all with the hexagonal "7.45PM / LONDON" Late Fee cancel, numbered 1-7 at base. (33).
Suggested price: £ 80-100
Lot #1616 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
Liverpool. 1856 Stampless cover to Denmark with fine "POSTED SINCE / LIVERPOOL / 8.30. LAST NIGHT" datestamp on the front, and 1862 cover backstamped with similar ‘9.30’ datestamp. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1617 - g.b postal history late mail/late fees
Edinburgh/Glasgow. 1856-81 Entire letters and covers (32) and pieces (2) with "Posted Since .... Last Night" duplex cancels of Edinburgh (19) or Glasgow (4 covers + 2 pieces) or similar type backstamps of Edinburgh (8) or Glasgow, various times, codes and types, all fine. (34).
Suggested price: £ 300-350
Lot #1618 - g.b postal history machines
1858-1912 Covers and cards comprising 1858 Rideout number "1", code "HS"; Pearson Hill parallel motion machines (2); 1⁄2d postcards with sloper punch cancels (4); 1888 Hoster unusually tying a 1d postal fiscal; 1909 Manchester X/MAS machine used on mail posted in advance for delivery on Christmas day; and 1912 cover with red London E.C 1d Postage Paid frank produced by the Wilkinson "Penny in the Slot" machine, the last with horizontal fold,...
Lot #1619 - g.b postal history machines
1858-1922 London machines, the written up collection on pages comprising covers and cards (215) and pieces (24), the covers including 1859 Rideout number "1" with code "HS" or number "2" with code "CR", 1859 Pearson Hill parallel motion machine, 1871 Azemar, also Bickerdikes with "VR" or "ER" in the bars, Hosters (5) and red Hoster backstamps (2), Hey-Dolphins, Boston machines, Columbias, Krags, Almas, Sylbe and Universal machines. (239)....
Lot #1620 - g.b postal history machines
Azemar Letter. 1868 Entire letter from London to Hamburg franked 6d, with the senders cachet "J.C AZEMAR / 42 ST MARY AXE / LONDON" on the front, the enclosed letter concerning wine signed by Azemar. Azemar later produced his famous cancelling machine, which was trialed in London in 1869 and again in 1871-72. An interesting associated item. Photo on Page 235
Suggested price: £ 150-180
Lot #1621 - g.b postal history machines
Slopers. 1870-82 1⁄2d Postcards with sloper punch cancels including clips of Manchester (5), unusual ‘pliers cut’ of Manchester, clip apparently used in London in 1882, arrows of Liverpool (8, with missing pins varieties, one an inverted cancel in the lower left corner), arrows of London (5, one with a double cancel), circular punch hole of Bradford (3) or Liverpool (3, one a very early use on 8 October 1870), also examples of the arrow...
Lot #1622 - g.b postal history machines
Sloper. 1870 (Nov 7) 1⁄2d Postcard with inverted orb punch cancel of London, fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 235.
Suggested price: £ 300-400
Lot #1623 - g.b postal history machines
Sloper. 1872 (Feb 16) 1⁄2d Postcard with inverted orb punch cancel of London, the only recorded example of this very scarce sloper cancel used after 1870, fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 235.
Suggested price: £ 400-500
Lot #1624 - g.b postal history machines
1886 (Oct 30) 1d Postal stationery postcard to Amsterdam cancelled by the scarce Ethridge machine, trialed in London from October 1886 until early 1887. The card has an unobtrusive central vertical fold, otherwise fine and an attractive example of this scarce machine trial. Photo on Page 235.
Suggested price: £ 150-200
Lot #1625 - g.b postal history machines
1893 (Sep 6) Cover to Hamburg franked 1d + 11⁄2d, tied by the scarce International machine with time "-6-". A couple of light tone marks, otherwise fine and an attractive example of this scarce machine, which was trialed in London for just 23 days, in August and September. Photo on Page 235.
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #1626 - g.b postal history machines
c.1899-1980s Covers and cards including a written up display of various KEVII and KGV types, missorts, triangular dies, "specimens", 1914 New Cross S.E Alma trial, meter marks including a box of c.1938-40 covers, also some foreign and a few pieces, a large quantity in five boxes. (Many 100s).
Suggested price: £ 250-350
Lot #1627 - g.b postal history machines
1910 Post Office O.H.M.S envelope bearing a proof impression of a continuous Krag machine with the place name omitted, one die with the time and date "11.45 AM / 7 MAR 10", the other die simply with the time 11.45 AM and a cross below, thick vertical bars at either side of each die head. The upper left corner torn where the cover has been removed from an archive, otherwise fine and unusual, marked "Trial - No Place Name". Also proof...
Lot #1628 - g.b postal history machines
1912 (Jan 29) Picture postcard to France with red "LONDON E.C / 1d POSTAGE PAID" applied by the experimental Wilkinson 1d in the Slot machine with the London E.C 172 c.d.s (2.15PM), the machine mark only valid on internal mail, a 1d stamp therefore added and tied by London E.C 161 c.d.s (2.30PM). The message in French explains the need for a stamp, suggesting the overseas address was noted at the time of posting and the sender informed and...
Lot #1629 - g.b postal history machines
Slogans. 1917-70s Covers, cards and pieces, some mounted on pages or in albums, including many KGV period covers and cards, also some foreign. (Many 100s).
Suggested price: £ 180-240
Lot #1630 - g.b postal history machines
Slogans. 1918 "Feed The Guns With War Bonds" slogans, single and continuous machines, the specialised collection written up in an F.G album, with examples from virtually every recorded London and provincial office including Paid or Official Paid machines in red, on covers or cards (125), or pieces (98), a very detailed lot. (223).
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #1631 - g.b postal history machines
1934 (Nov 2) Cover to Sir Stephen Tallents at the GPO with 1934 11⁄2d tied by the London machine with "OPENING OF MOUNT / PLEASANT SORTING / OFFICE BY T.R.H THE / DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK", containing the original insert card showing the Sorting Office, with the printed explanation "this card was passed through the postage stamp cancelling machine by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York ...". Very small tear at upper edge, otherwise an...
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