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Lot 1729 - g.b postal history registered mail - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1865-71 Entire letters and covers all sent via London with red binoculars type "REGISTERED / PD / LONDON" datestamps applied in transit, franked 8d to Denmark, 10d to Italy, 1/- to Greece (with superb red boxed "SISTHEMON" Greek handstamp, torn across and repaired) or 1/4 to France (2). Also 1867 cover franked 10d to Austria with blue boxed "Recomandirt". (6).
Suggested price: £ 220-280

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Lot 1645 - g.b postal history mulreadys and caricatures - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1840 1d Mulready envelopes, stereos A178, A182 and A189 all from forme 4, all unused, A182 with a little light toning, otherwise all very fine. (3).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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Lot 1565 - g.b postal history - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

A huge quantity of mainly decimal period covers, most selected for their cancels or cachets including postage due mail (100s, mostly 1980-83), explanatory cachets with undelivered, delayed or damaged mail, incorrectly dated meters, postal stationery (with a box of House of Commons envelopes), articles for the blind, unusual type cancels with circular and triangular handstamps, etc., also some earlier covers dating back to KEVII period. An interesting lot. (Many 100s).
Suggested price: £ 200-250

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Lot 1745 - g.b postal history t.p.os and railway cancels - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1901 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).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

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Lot 1661 - g.b postal history pictorial envelopes and lettersheets - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1899-1902 Printed pictorial envelopes depicting a mail coach or children fishing, both posted from Dukinfield to Blackpool franked 1d. Also printed pictorial "Facts and Fiction Illustrated" envelope used 1877 (faults), "Independent Order of Good Templars" front used 1889 and 1892 cover with heading of "The London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination". (5).
Suggested price: £ 100-150

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Lot 1581 - g.b postal history air mails -  Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Lot 1581 - g.b postal history air mails - Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1911 (Sep 9) First Aerial Post card in brown unusually bearing KEVII 11⁄2d and 21⁄2d and KGV 1⁄2d each tied by the special London c.d.s code 2, small corner crease otherwise fine. Photo on Page 227.
Suggested price: £ 200-250

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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 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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