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Lot 1672 - g.b postal history postal stationery - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

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

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Lot 1592 - g.b postal history air mails - zeppelin flights - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1932 (Mar 19) Cover from London to Pernambuco franked at the 3/6 rate by KGV 10d (3) and 1/- all tied by London Air Mail rubber datestamps, with two differing 1932 Graf Zeppelin 1st South America Flight cachets, backstamped at Berlin and Recife (Mar 23), very fine. Sieger 138B.
Suggested price: £ 120-150

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Lot 1756 - 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 History

Newcastle Under Lyne. 1843-46 Entire letters all with differing "Pd 1" handstamps, two with skeleton backstamps "NEWCASTLE S" (1844) or "NEWCASTLE / 4 / S" (the date shown as "17/18 6"). (4).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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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).

Lot 1688 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Great Western. 1891 (Apr 27) Cover to London bearing a 1d lilac and 2d letter stamp, both cancelled by a "BRISTOL" squared circle, a fine early railway letter. Also a similarly franked cover to "Post Office, Kington, to be posted", both stamps cancelled in manuscript. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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Lot 1608 - g.b postal history frees - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1772-1834 Entire letters all sent free of postage, most with various London Free handstamps. (31).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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Lot 1704 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters -  Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Lot 1704 - g.b postal history railway stamps and letters - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Midland & Great Northern Joint Committee. 1921 Commercial cover to India bearing a 2d letter stamp surcharged "3" in red and again surcharged "4" in black tied by a violet station handstamp and KGV 1d pair with manuscript cancel, all stamps then cancelled by a London E.C machine, arrival backstamp of Karachi. A scarce stamp on a commercial cover and a very unusual use to India; letters addressed abroad were not supposed to be accepted as railway letters. Photo on Page 245.
Suggested price: £ 160-200

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g.b postal history railway stamps and letters
Lot 1624 - g.b postal history machines -  Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Lot 1624 - g.b postal history machines - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1886 (Oct 30) 1d Postal stationery postcard to Amsterdam cancelled by the scarce Ethridge machine, trialed in London from October 1886 until early 1887. The card has an unobtrusive central vertical fold, otherwise fine and an attractive example of this scarce machine trial. Photo on Page 235.
Suggested price: £ 150-200

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Lot 1635 - g.b postal history maritime mail - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1904-79 Covers and cards, various cancels including Transatlantic Post Office c.d.s (3, one with "U.S SEA P.O / 3" tax mark), British Sea Post Office Liverpool, Harwich-Vlissingen (2), U.S Sea P.O (3), Bergen-Newcastle (3), Kristiansund-Newcastle, Mobile Boxes (8, one on Egypt stamps), Greenock & Ardrishaig Packet (3), cachets including "La Marguerite" and "Lord of the Isles" (2), also a few postcards of ships (41).
Suggested price: £ 160-200

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Lot 1719 - g.b postal history registered mail - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1835 Entire letter from Birmingham to London charged 2/3 and 1842 unpaid entire from York both endorsed "Money letter", the 1842 letter however treated as an ordinary unpaid letter with a "2" charge mark of York applied. The 1835 entire letter with file folds, otherwise fine, English Money Letters rarely seen. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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Lot 1651 - g.b postal history mulreadys and caricatures - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Deraedemaeker reprints, all differing designs or papers, a couple with small faults, otherwise fine. (13).
Suggested price: £ 250-280

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g.b postal history mulreadys and caricatures