1853-57 Scots Local cancels on 1d Stars covers incl. boxed Type XVIII Bridge/St (2), Queen/St (3), Castle/St (3), Charlotte/Place (5), Type X Pitt Street (3), Type VII Cross (2), Duke St (3), Hanover St (3), Type XX Lennoxtown etc. (31)
Estimated Price: £150.00 - 200.00
Sale #148
By: Corbitts
Corbitts Sale #148
This auction features 1600 lots of stamps, covers and postcards .
The auction contains a selection of All World mixed lots followed by an All World stamps and covers from Aden to Zanzibar.
The country lots include a range of Great Britain and commonwealth, Omnibus, Germany & Colonies and much more.
Stamp boxes, Cinderella, Thematics and other collectibles.
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Lot #1260 - postal history scotland
Lot #1261 - postal history scotland
1855-61 nine covers franked 1d Stars bearing experimental duplexes for Aberdeen, Dundee, Dumfries, reverse bears UDC & boxed mark, Inverness (2), Paisley (2), Perth & Stirling, also Inspector of Poor cover bearing CASTLE/STREET local cancel. (10)
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 70.00
Lot #1262 - postal history scotland
1856 Dec 15 cover to Edinburgh, franked 1d Stars, tied Inverness Type I experimental duplex. (1)
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 60.00
Lot #1263 - postal history scotland
1857 cover from Paisley to Kirkcaldy, bears very fine MISSENT/TO GLASGOW mark.
Estimated Price: £40.00 - 60.00
Lot #1264 - postal history scotland
1858 Ap 19 cover franked 1d Stars, tied by fine upright strike of the CARLTON/AP 19/1858/GLASGOW c.d.s, Ex. Chartwell.
Estimated Price: £130.00 - 160.00
Lot #1265 - postal history scotland
1858 cover to Coldstream, franked 1d Stars, tied by Type VIII Scots local for WEST SALTON in blue. Scarce. (1)
Estimated Price: £60.00 - 75.00
Lot #1266 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
Handley-Page '40 Years On' 96pp hardcover book (1949) well illustrated company history with typed-in facsimile congratulatory telegram from Winston Churchill to Sir Frederick Handley-Page. Fine & very scarce.
Estimated Price: £70.00 - 90.00
Lot #1267 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
UK - Germany & Finland 1925 pair of covers ex Liverpool, each showing usage of the s/line AIR MAIL h/stamp incl. FFC to Helsinki with KGV 2½d & 6d stamps with BEE slogan cancellation (27 June) and Finnish 2 line cachet on reverse, also Hannover 'last flight' cover with KGV ½d & 3d stamps, redirected to Hamburg. (2)
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 70.00
Lot #1268 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1933 International Airlines flight Croydon - Plymouth, franked 3d etiquette, tied oval cachet in black - pilot signed, a similar cover but tied by cachet in violet, an example of a mint vignette and scarce 4 page fares leaflet, Provincial Airways three covers London - Plymouth, Plymouth - London, Southampton - London each bears 3d semi-official West Country Air Service 3d with cachet, Apex Exhibition London May 1934 - Autogyro flight card...
Lot #1269 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1934 Highland Airways first flight Inverness - Kirkwall - Inverness 'Leonards' cover onto London, ORCADIAN Newspaper Kirkwall produced for general use on this service unused & scarce, RAILWAY Air service (RAS) 1st Air through flight Glasgow - Birmingham 21.8.34, similar for Liverpool - Cowes & Liverpool - London, 1934 Sept 29th RSA last flight Preston - Bristol with 3d Railway stamp then last flight by RSA Bristol - Southampton with b...
Lot #1270 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1934-35 range of first flight covers (8) incl. RAS New Route 1.11.34 Glasgow - Liverpool, another for Liverpool - Glasgow and with RAS 3d Paid cachet, similar for Liverpool - London, RAS 2nd flight Glasgow - Liverpool with RAS 3d Paid cachet. Hillman Airways 1934 Dec 1st London - Belfast, unused Official envelope for Hillmans Airways, Blackpool & West Coast Air Services 1935 Feb 1st Liverpool - Isle of Man with cachet, similar for Isle of...
Lot #1271 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1935 RAF Royal Review Flight Andover - Feltwell July 5th, London WI cover certified flown with photocopy reference (scarce cover), RAS 1st flight new contract 2.12.35 London - Glasgow with arrival cachet & pilot signed, similar for Liverpool - Glasgow, Jersey Airways first flights (4) incl. 1937 June 1st Jersey - Southampton with 'Knights Imperial Tours' cachet. (7)
Estimated Price: £70.00 - 90.00
Lot #1272 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1937-39 first flight covers (12) incl. Allied Airways 1937 Nov 23 Aberdeen - Lerwick , similar but pilot signed, similar but Viking printed cover, similar Lerwick - Aberdeen, similar but Glasgow special printed cover, North Eastern Airways - two covers bearing company vignettes for Leeds - London & Doncaster - London, Guernsey Airways 1939 May 8th Southampton - Guernsey with London despatch, similar cover with company cachet, similar...
Lot #1273 - postal history airmails - internal first flight covers
1948-83 range of first flight covers (25) incl. 1948 June 1st BEA East Anglia Helicopter Peterborough - Great Yarmouth 'Stephen' cover, similar but Official printed cover, similar for Peterborough, similar but Beccles - Peterborough Field cover - scarce leg, similar Dereham - Peterborough, BEA Airway Letter Service 2nd issue - Manuscript + 1d on 6d Air letter stamp Liverpool - Belfast 1951 Dec 7th, also flown on to New York, 1951 Air letter...
Lot #1274 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
London - Paris 1920 (1 July) manila E (trimmed both ends, folds affect two stamps) franked at the rare, short lived 2½d rate with 2s air fee (1s stamps x2) after removal of the compulsory express element - the scarcest of the early airmail rates, in force for 9 weeks only.
Estimated Price: £150.00 - 170.00
Lot #1275 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
UK - Belgium 1921 cancelled flight: 4½d rated (slightly crumpled) E to SNETA pilot at Brussels aerodrome, the air label cancelled by a scarce boxed NO FLIGHT/SENT BY/ORDINARY SERVICE - Croydon airport suspended services following the crash of a SNETA plane which resulted in the pilot's death.
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 70.00
Lot #1276 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
Germany - UK 1923 scarce cover (light crease) ex British Occupying Forces with KGV ½d & 3d stamps, tied by crisp strikes of the single ring APO S40 (code 2) c.d.s for 24 Ja 23 - very scarce & attractive.
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 70.00
Lot #1277 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
Germany - UK 1923-25 inflation period cover with 4,400m franking ex Berlin (5.7.23) flown by KLM, 1925 neat cover with KGV 1d (2) & 1½d stamps cancelled by double ring APO/S40 of British Forces in Cologne with Imperial Airways cachet on reverse. Also 1923 France - UK cover over-franked with Pasteur 10c, 30c & 50c used on day of issue. (3)
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 60.00
Lot #1278 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
UK - Holland 1923 reg cover with KGV 1½d (2), 2d & 2½d stamps cancelled at Charing Cross & addressed to Baarn via Amsterdam. Attractive item.
Estimated Price: £50.00 - 70.00
Lot #1279 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1930's Airmails to Europe, Australia, India, Iraq, Tanganyika, South Africa, Java etc, various frankings incl. first flights, also a couple of inland incl. 1933 Plymouth London West of England Air Service with vignette & cachet.
Estimated Price: £60.00 - 75.00
Lot #1280 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1932-33 range of 9 first flight covers incl. 1932 Aug 8th reduced Airmail rate for postcards London - Cairo, 1932 Aug 31st flight acceptance for Baghdad via Imperial AW, London - Africa and the Ramleh - Baghdad Air Service, 1932 Oct 8th acceptance by Imperial AW for TATA AW first flight within India, London - Bombay with cachet, 1933 July 1st Imperial AW first flight London - Calcutta registered Official cover franked 1d, 1½d (2) & 2d...
Lot #1281 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1933-34 range of (10 + 2) first flight covers incl. Imperial AW 1933 Sept 23rd London - Akyab Official cover (plus 2 unused Official covers), 1933 Dec 9th London - Singapore franked 1d + 10d, another but London - Alor Star onto Kuala Lumpur, another but London - Bandon, another but London - Bangkok, KLM 1934 June 1st Hull - Rotterdam (180 flown), another but onto the Hague with KLM dated cachet & pilot signed 'Smirnoff,' another for Hull...
Lot #1282 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1934-35 range of 10 first flight covers (10) incl. 1934 Oct Mac-Robertson Air Race Mildenhall - Melbourne cover carried by Parmentier & Moll (2nd in the race) Official KLM cover with attractive multi franking & cachets, another carried by Turner & Pangborn (3rd in the race) signed by Roscos Turner, another carried by Hewett & Kay (9th in the race) signed by C. E. Kay, Imperial AW 1934 Dec 8th London - Melbourne, 1934 Feb 9th...
Lot #1283 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1936-39 range of 18 first flight covers incl. Imperial AW 1936 Feb 9th London - Kano, another for London - Hong Kong, B.A 1936 March 17th Official cover London - Malmo, KLM 1936 July 1st Doncaster - Amsterdam company Aerodrome cachet (227 flown), 1938 Feb 23rd All up Empire Scheme first flight by Imperial AW Southampton - Rangoon with cachet, similar for Southampton - Nauru, similar for Southampton - Hong Kong etc.
Estimated Price: £80....
Lot #1284 - postal history airmails - external first flight covers
1939-60 range of 38 first flight covers incl. Pan-Am AW (6), Imperial AW (2), American overseas AW, 1946 Jan 4th All up first flight to Forces in New Guinea, Air Lingus/West Coast (3) incl. 1946 Jan 15th Liverpool - Dublin, BOAC 1948 March 19th first flight Poole - Japan, BAE Comet (9) etc.
Estimated Price: £70.00 - 90.00
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