g.b postal history - Stamp Auctions
Lot 1593 - g.b postal history air mails - zeppelin flights - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1932 (Nov 8) Cover franked 10d from London to Bahia, carried by Graf Zeppelin with two cachets of the 8th South America Flight, redirected back to London with backstamps of Bahia and London, very fine. Sieger 189. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history air mails - zeppelin flights |
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Lot 1745 - g.b postal history t.p.os and railway cancels - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1901 Picture postcard from Newquay to Newark with superb boxed "L&L / S.T." (Wilson 608), used as a missort mark on the London & Leeds Sorting Tender, the first year of use, very scarce. Also 1900 1d postal stationery postcard to France cancelled superb "NORWICH SORTING TENDER / DOWN" c.d.s (2). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history t.p.os and railway cancels |
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Lot 1689 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryGreat Western. 1906 KEVII 1d Postal stationery envelope to London bearing a 2d blue parcel stamp, the envelope and parcel stamp both cancelled by boxed G.W.R Oxford datestamp, the envelope then cancelled by a Paddington squared circle. A scarce use of a parcel stamp instead of a letter stamp on a commercial cover. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history railway stamps and letters |
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Lot 1609 - g.b postal history frees - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1797-1839 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). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history frees |
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Lot 1761 - g.b postal history uniform penny postage - the michael goodman collection of 1d paid handstamps in red and 2d charge marks in black. (also see lots 1163/4). - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryTonbridge/Tunbridge Wells. 1840-49 Entire letters from Tonbridge with red "PD 1D" (3 types) or "P.1D" (2 types), or from Tunbridge Wells with "PAID 1d" (2 types), all superb, two letters with printed contents, a fine group. (7). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history uniform penny postage - the michael goodman collection of 1d paid handstamps in red and 2d charge marks in black. (also see lots 1163/4). |
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Lot 1705 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryNorth Eastern. 1898 Commercial cover to Pontefract with 1d lilac tied by Normanton Station Office 048 duplex and violet "BURTON SALMON, the reverse with a 2d letter stamp also tied by the Burton Salmon cachet and a c.d.s. The front with opening tear at upper edge, the reverse fine, an attractive cover. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history railway stamps and letters |
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 Lot 1625 - g.b postal history machines - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1893 (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. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history machines |
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 Lot 1636 - g.b postal history maritime mail - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryFalmouth/Plymouth. 1810 Part letter from an Officer in the Peninsula, with interesting content regarding a British defeat by French soldiers disguised as peasants, carried by Packet to Plymouth with a superb "CADIZ / 13 NO 13 / 1810 / F" datestamp in green. The Falmouth Packets were diverted to Plymouth from November 10th 1810 following a Naval Mutiny at Falmouth, and continued to use Plymouth until January 1811. During this two month period the Falmouth Packet handstamps were taken to Plymouth and used there. Very scarce. Photo on Page 237. Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history maritime mail |
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Lot 1652 - g.b postal history mulreadys and caricatures - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History1d Mulready reproductions and forgeries including a good reproduction produced by W.T Glasscock & Co, stamp dealers, posted from Bishop Stortford to London in 1883 bearing a 1d lilac; an unused facsimile lettersheet containing an advert for "The Jubilee of the Penny Postage Mulready stationery cabinet" (which was produced by John Dickinson & Co and contained a facsimile of a Mulready envelope in blue and gold); Lord Holland forgery; Whitakers Almanac reproduction postally used (faults), etc. (6). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history mulreadys and caricatures |
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Lot 1572 - g.b postal history - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal HistoryParliamentary/Royalty/Official Mail. 1844-1983 Covers and cards including House of Lords or House of Commons datestamps with 1913 registered cover bearing KGV 1d (3) each tied by "HOUSE OF COMMONS S.W" c.d.s and 1928 (Feb 8) 1d stationery envelope cancelled "HOUSE OF COMMONS / S.W" skeleton c.d.s (only the second recorded example, the address unfortunately deleted); Official mail including 1860 Official Paid cover to Richard Cobden M.P in Algiers; royal covers with cypher cachets, Balmoral Castle datestamps (5, one dated ‘90’ in error for the year ‘09’), etc. (c.190). Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal Historyg.b postal history |
