postal mechanisation - Stamp Auctions
Lot 718 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1960s to Recent covers including test mail and trials, framas, MLO commemorative covers and cancels, phosphor tape (with two complete rolls, one blue), dummy mail, etc. A large quantity, all collected for a reason, viewing recommended. (Many 100s). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 713 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryNorwich. 1959-79 Covers and cards including Post Code cards (3) and sheet of labels, leaflet and slogans, 1968 horizontal rectangular dots, rectangular dots on pieces of ribbon, 1960 continuous packet stamping machine, dummy mail covers with undated Leigh machine cancels (3), various circular dots from 1969 including 1975 trial cover with ident 3, etc. (100). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 708 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryCovers and fronts mostly written up on pages including a study of 1970-75 coding dots with Croydon uses, errors, missorted mail, ident without any coding dots; spray test cover with blue dots; 1972 ‘Great Britain’ machine; Post Code publicity slogans including Norwich types, publicity leaflets, posters and labels; 1970 dummy mail cover bearing Harrison & Son phosphor label and a mint block of labels; 1978 London F.S A indent; photos of Croydon and Reading ALF machines (5); 1970 Southampton code with ident E; 1978-79 Derby trials (2); 1978 Sheffield blue first day, etc. (200+). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 724 - postal mechanisation other countries - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryGermany. c.1940 - Recent covers in six shoeboxes, various sorting machines including trials and dummy mail, also some earlier machine cancels with covers and cards from 1859. An extensive lot with some scarcer items, viewing recommended. (100s). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation other countries |
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Lot 719 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyc.1970 to Recent covers, a very large quantity in several boxes all with various coding dots or OCR machines, careful viewing may repay. (1,000s). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 714 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryLuton. 1960-66 Covers to or from Luton with coding dots comprising vertical rectangular dots in two columns (1960, a little stained but scarce), 1961-64 vertical rectangular dots (4), 1965-66 horizontal rectangular dots (5), also a 1965 Luton P.O letter. (11). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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 Lot 709 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryBrighton Transormas. 1935-68 Display collection written up on 35 pages including 1935 (Sep 17-23) trial period 3, G, Q and R; 1935 (Oct 7) official first day 4 + 1 on inward cover then redirected to Kew and N on an underpaid postcard; c.1959 sheet showing inward and outward groups of idents then in use; multiple idents; idents used on mail from other Sussex offices forwarded to Brighton for sorting; a study of the various differing idents including scarce large 16, 32, tiny 32, 34, 37, large Y, inverted e; 1945-46 black/red idents (7); August 1947 idents F and P in black; mail missorted at or to Brighton; uninked idents; hollow rectangular idents (3), 1968 (June 26) postcard from Canada with exceptionally late 5 ident, etc. A fine and scarce lot. (65). Photo on Page 115. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 725 - postal mechanisation other countries - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryNetherlands. 1931-32 Covers and cards with first type transormas of Rotterdam, the idents comprising a vertical column of four or more numbers or letters. The written up display on nine pages with c.5mm 1234 in red, c.31⁄2mm 3456789 in red, c.5mm AAAA in red, black, green or violet, BBBB in red, black or violet, CCCC in red or green, c.3mm BBBB and CCCC both in red. (13). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation other countries |
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Lot 720 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryLiterature. c.1960 to Recent literature, much of it from the 1960s and 1970s, with technical booklets produced by machine manufacturers, training manuals, publicity booklets, Post Code booklets and posters, etc., mainly G.B but some foreign including items form USA, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, etc. A large quantity in several boxes with many rare and early brochures and leaflets. A very heavy lot, unsuitable for posting. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
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Lot 715 - postal mechanisation great britain - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryLuton. 1960 Hardbound presentation book "Postage Stamps of the Reign of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II" presented by the British P.O to the delegates of the "Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Postal Studies, Universal Postal Union", meeting at Eastbourne. The book contains the 1953-59 Wilding and Castle 1⁄2d - £1 definitives, all regional definitives and the 1⁄2d - 1/3 phosphor definitives, the 1960 Post Office Centenary pair, also the pair used on FDC with Eastbourne International Postal Conference slogan and Luton 1960 (July 4) cover franked 3d to Norwich with two vertical rows of rectangular coding dots. A scarce cover and presentation book. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historypostal mechanisation Great Britain |
