Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Metal cancellation devices comprising a French handstamp for "VIGNACOURT / SOMME" without date, and two German cancellers for "UELZEN (BZ HANNOVER 1)"; one a handstamp made in 1937 (with date 2.2.5), the other an unusual roller cancel with wavy lines dated 28.8.43. (3).
Suggested price: £ 70-100

Autograph - Prince Charles. 1982 Typed letter concerning the Mary Rose Trust, signed "Charles" in ink, with the registered Official Paid cover bearing the "EIIR" cypher cachet.
Suggested price: £ 80-100

Exhibitions/Royalty, etc. A large box with various QV-KGVI magazines and newspapers relating to royal events, G.B 1908-51 exhibition programmes and souvenirs, an album containing 24 good quality amateur photos taken at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition, also medallions, picture postcards, covers and fronts including Free Franks, Post Office display cards advertising new issues, Punch cartoons, etc.
Suggested price: £ 80-100

c.1900-1950 Postcards in a box, mainly pre-1930 British cards including Post Offices, topographical views, ships, railway cards, trains, poster cards, court cards, aviation, royalty, comic cards, East End siege, windmills, bridges, glamour, stations, "LL" cards, Channel Islands, Lanimer Queens, Hull Trawlers outrage, London Underground map and trains, South African Cricketer J. Darling, Henry Cooper signed card, large size panorama cards (4...

Aeroplanes/Airships. Album of mainly KEVII and KGV period picture postcards featuring aeroplanes including Photo cards of portraits taken in studio, prop planes, mailing novelty cards, greetings cards, comic cards with ‘Airship’ series cards, mostly British, a few French cards included. An interesting collection. (93).
Suggested price: £ 180-200

Comic. KEVII and KGV Comic cards including cards by Tom Browne, Cynicus, E. Kinsella, Lance Thackeray, Fred Spurgin, Donald McGill etc., Tucks "Write-Away" series, courting couples, couples in aeroplanes, World War One, etc., all in an S.G. postcard album. (270).
Suggested price: £ 280-350

Subjects. KEVII and KGV Picture postcards in three S.G. cover albums, various subjects including exhibitions, animals, novelty, ‘Hold to Light’, hand drawn, advertising, children, aeroplanes, royalty, boats and ships with an R.M.S "Titanic" card, silks, trains, rural scenes, castles, food, flowers, Christmas and birthday greetings, sea views, people, etc. (Approx 530).
Suggested price: £ 350-400

Topographical. KEVII and KGV Topographical postcards in six S.G. postcard albums, a few better real photos noted including Redruth Show, Swindon Fete, a fair ground (posted at Liverpool), Soham Post Office, Ramsgate band concert, flooding at Ashford, Portscatho harbour, wrecked ship at Faversham, inside ‘The Palace’ at Douglas, the Widness to Runcorn bridge, fire at Barnet, Church Hill at Walthamstow, many other coloured cards including hop...

1901 Wrench’s ‘Links of Empire’ British National Antarctic Expedition postcard No. 2 with Cape 1d cancelled at Cape Town (Oct 7) and postcard No. 3 with N.Z 1d cancelled at Lyttelton (Dec 24) both with the usual "ANTARCTIC / EXPDN / 1901 / S.S DISCOVERY" cachets on the front, both addressed to Karachi, India, with arrival datestamps of Tuticorin and Karachi. Card 2 also with a Durban c.d.s and card 3 with Christchurch and Colombo datestamps...

1901 (Dec 17) Cover with "DISCOVERY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901" crest depicting a penguin on the flap, bearing N.Z 1d tied by Christchurch c.d.s, addressed in the handwriting of Captain Scott to his sister Mrs Ellison Macartney in London. Torn through the crest with a piece (mainly from the flap) torn out upon opening and rejoined. A scarce cover from Scott sent four days before the "Discovery" left Lyttelton. Photo on Page 7.
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1903 (Dec 26) Christchurch Weekly Press postcard depicting "The Discovery, Kaiapoi Maoris Song of Welcome" on the front and "The Discovery Penguins" on the reverse, written by Len Burgess, a crew member on the Second Relief Expedition ship "Morning", to Master Leonard Storey in Christchurch. Written from the Ross Sea with the message "I should like you to be hear now we are punching into the ice, it is just like thunder going off", posted...

1904 (Jan 5) Christchurch Weekly Press postcard depicting "The Discovery in Lyttelton Harbour" on the front and "The Stern, Rounded to Resist Ice Pressure" on the reverse, written by Len Burgess, a crew member on the Second Relief Expedition ship "Morning", to Master Leonard Storey in Christchurch. Written on the day the ship reached the ice at McMurdo Sound with the message "We have arrived at last. Capt. Scott & Dr. Wilson came on...