1863 Advertising cover, "The HALFPENNY TIME-TABLE, "SINGLE and SIMPLE", for RAILWAY, STEAM-BOAT, and CANAL", printed in blue with a star device in the upper left corner, posted from London to Wiveliscombe franked 1d (faults), fine and attractive.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
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Lot #1657 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets
Lot #1658 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets
1868 (Nov 10) Cover with a delightful painting of a winged cherub holding the 1d red stamp in one hand and a box containing the address in the other hand, posted within London S.W, to ‘Captain the Honble Mr Methuen, Scots Fusilier Guards, Chelsea Barracks, S.W.’, fine and attractive. Photo on Page 240.
Suggested price: £ 250-350
Lot #1659 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets
1868 (Nov 24) Handpainted cover posted from London S.W to ‘Ld Methuen, Corsham, Chippenham’, featuring a guardsman in his busby, a policeman holding a truncheon, a girl with an umbrella, and a porter carrying a suitcase bearing the 1d red stamp, and a trunk on his back upon which the address is written. A fine and attractive cover. Photo on Page 240.
Suggested price: £ 300-400
Lot #1660 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets
1881-84 Printed pictorial wrappers posted within London with red 1⁄2d Paid datestamps, both with similar fancy borders and royal coat of arms in the upper right corner, the first printed in brown and headed "SPECIAL BOOK WRAPPER"; the second in green headed "SPECIAL POSTAL WRAPPER" with the initials G.C & Co printed below the coat of arms. A remarkable pair, the Special Book Wrapper the first example we have seen, the green Special...
Lot #1661 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets
1899-1902 Printed pictorial envelopes depicting a mail coach or children fishing, both posted from Dukinfield to Blackpool franked 1d. Also printed pictorial "Facts and Fiction Illustrated" envelope used 1877 (faults), "Independent Order of Good Templars" front used 1889 and 1892 cover with heading of "The London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination". (5).
Suggested price: £ 100-150
Lot #1662 - g.b postal history postage due mail
c.1844-1990 Covers and cards with various postage due stamps and handstamps, including "2" charge marks, redirected mail, ‘charge’ parcel tags, postcards charged because they have photos or paper attached, G.B stamps disallowed abroad, 1844 1d pink envelope to Belgium with "Returned for Postage" cachets (faults), 1906 card bearing a mutilated stamp, 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee envelope insert card posted within London and charged 2d, etc. (...
Lot #1663 - g.b postal history postage due mail
1847 Entire letter from Dublin to Edinburgh with "2" charge mark, crossed out and increased to 3d upon redirection with "POSTAGE / TO / EDINBURGH / NOT PAID" handstamp; and 1887 1⁄2d wrapper to Ardrossan redirected to Glasgow with unusual "1⁄2" charge mark. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1664 - g.b postal history postage due mail
1870 (Oct 27) Cover with enclosed letter from Edinburgh to India franked 1/- and 1d, with boxed "INSUFFICIENTLY PAID / FOR BRINDISI ROUTE / DEFICIENT POSTAGE 3d" and circular framed "St. BG / As 2". The 3d charge mark used on mail transferred to the more expensive Brindisi route when the Marseille route was suspended during the Franco-Prussian War. Small corner repair and a large closed tear, nevertheless a good looking example of this...
Lot #1665 - g.b postal history postage due mail
1874 Cover from Croydon to the Ordnance Survey office in London franked 1d, endorsed "Registered, coin letter" and charged 8d, the reverse bearing an explanatory "Caution" label; and 1901 registered cover to Paris franked 6d + 1d late fee with boxed "POSTED OUT / OF COURSE". (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1666 - g.b postal history postage due mail
1922 Picture postcard from France to Hurst Green, Sussex, charged 11⁄2d, the charge collected by a 1d postage due + 1⁄2d postage stamp each tied by a parcel cancel. An unusual early use of a postage stamp in lieu of a due.
Suggested price: £ 70-100
Lot #1667 - g.b postal history postage due mail
1927 Cover from Brussels franked 4F75, handstamped "TRAM" and "T" with boxed "EXPRESS FEE PARTLY PAID/ Charge of 1d to be / Collected on Delivery", a 1d postage due stamp tied by Hoddesdon skeleton. Light folds and flap missing but an unusual charged express letter.
Suggested price: £ 60-70
Lot #1668 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
Red F size formula registration envelope, format RF3 but with the lettering differing to the issued G.B envelopes and the flap on the front, possibly an essay or an Empire issue; QV 2d registration stamp type R3 with florets on piece with two partial "Specimen" overprints (type RU2); KGV 1d STO postcards in an uncut vertical pair with "LAY EDGE" at base and uncut margins; also British Levant 1902 KEVII 40pa on 2d registration envelope size K...
Lot #1669 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
De La Rue appendix pages headed Appendix "B" - Appendix "E" and dated "Jany 31.87", pages B and E bearing 1d pink envelopes with or without dated stamp dies each in small and large sizes, pages C and D bearing 1⁄2d and 1d postcards and reply cards. (8 items on 4 pages).
Suggested price: £ 400-500
Lot #1670 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
c.1841-2007 Used and unused postal stationery, a large quantity in boxes and cover albums including P.T.P.O envelopes, parcel labels and wrappers, some with multiple dies; QV K size registration envelopes used; 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee 1d postcard used and unused; QV 1⁄2d - 1/- dies (14) on a single sheet of paper each overprinted "SPECIMEN" (a few faults); 1⁄2d envelope with "Savory & Moore" advertising ring unused; other cut-out...
Lot #1671 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
1893 1⁄2d Postcard used within London, the reverse headed "The Postcard. The smallest Monthly Journal in the World. Single copies two stamps each. No. 3, May 1893", with printed adverts, results of puzzles and competitions, and chapter II of the serial story "A Silent Woman". Most unusual.
Suggested price: £ 80-100
Lot #1672 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
1894 Piece (195x104mm) bearing the ten 1⁄2d - 1/- envelope stamp dies, the 11⁄2d, 2d, 21⁄2d, 3d, 4d and 1/- stamps with florets, the 1⁄2d, 1d, 6d and 10d stamps without dates or florets, fine and attractive.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #1673 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
1903 Admiralty Official KEVII 3d registration envelope unused, light horizontal crease, otherwise fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #1674 - g.b postal history Postal stationery
1953 Coronation 6d air letter, the stamp printed on the reverse in error, central vertical fold and a light corner crease on the front, otherwise fine, a striking and scarce major error.
Suggested price: £ 80-100
Lot #1675 - g.b postal history postal stationery - telegraph forms
1870-82 QV 1/- Telegraph forms comprising Stock Exchange types TP35c and TP38, and public forms types TP3 (3, one with red "PRIORITY" handstamp above the 1/- stamp, another with type 10 ‘Specimen’ overprint), TP5 with the ‘Specimen’ overprint type 10, TP7a, 7ba, 7bb, 10b. Also 1/- postal telegraph cards types TCP1a and TCP1b and an unstamped card, and various 6d, 10d or 1/- stamps on pieces (8) torn from forms with various ‘Specimen’...
Lot #1676 - g.b postal history postal stationery - telegraph forms
1915 KGV 6d Telegraph forms with a 3d postage stamp added at the left in a complete booklet of twenty with interleaving between each form, the printed cover with the price altered from 10s.2d. to 15s.2d in manuscript. A fine and very scarce complete booklet. TP19.
Suggested price: £ 350-400
Lot #1677 - g.b postal history postal stationery - telegraph forms
1915-40 KGV Telegraph forms comprising 6d types TP19 (2, one with a 3d stamp added), TP25a, 25c, and 9d forms from booklets types TP21aa (6d at left altered to ‘9d’ with a violet rubber handstamp), TP21ba, bc, ca, cb, all fine. (9).
Suggested price: £ 220-260
Lot #1678 - g.b postal history postal stationery - telegraph forms
1915-27 KGV Stock Exchange telegraph forms comprising 9d + 3d type TP47a (2, differing imprints) or 1/- olive-brown type TP49cb, fine and scarce. (3).
Suggested price: £ 180-220
Lot #1679 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters
1898-1970 Covers with 1898 1d pink envelope to London endorsed "To Bolsover Station, to be posted on arrival" cancelled fine oval "CHESTERFIELD / STATION / L.D & E.C RY", a railway stamp tragically removed from the opposite corner; 1906 stampless "On Clearing House Service" cover to the Goods Agent, Cheshire Lines Committee Ry, Hough Green with oval dated cachet "RAILWAY CLEARING / HOUSE"; and 1937-70 railway letters bearing G.W.R, L.N.E....
Lot #1680 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters
Cleator & Workington Junction. 1920 Wilson cover franked 2d, bearing 2d letter stamp with "3" surcharge in manuscript, the postage and railway stamps both unusually cancelled "UP SPECIAL / T.P.O" c.d.s.
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1681 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters
Great Central. 1900 Commercial cover to Sheffield with 2d letter stamp tied by oval station handstamp (Penistone?) and a 1d lilac cancelled upon arrival by Sheffield 701 duplex.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
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