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Lots (1475)
1948 P.12 Plate 2; 2½d brown and green in bottom right plate corner marginal block of 4 unmounted mint with bottom left stamp showing extra Island variety, nice positional piece, SG 256c & 256ca. Cat £117 for mint.
1949 (10 Oct) Registered cover (philatelic) to UK bearing 1949 UPU 2d, 3d & 8d (2) tied single line P.O. WAINUNU / 10 OCT 1949 struck on each stamp, manuscript No.83, few light tones, scarce cancels.
1949 (2 Mar) Registered cover (philatelic) to UK bearing GVI ½d green & 1948 RSW 2½d green pair tied single line P.O. WAINUNU / 2 - MAR 1949 struck twice over the stamps, manuscript Reg No.14, scarce cancels.
1954 Airmail cover to UK bearing large combination of GVI 1½d, 2½d, 3d, 5d & 1s plus QEII 6d black all tied LAUTOKA 26th July 1954 CDS's, torn along the top otherwise sound, pretty combn.
1849 1fr carmine fine used two margin example cut into on other two sides and neat star dotted postmark, SG 19 Cat £1100.
1849 1fr carmine-brown nice 3½ margin example neatly fine used with grid diamond postmark in black, neat and fault free, SG 18 Cat £1200.
1850 Ceres 25c deep blue a beautiful large four even margins used neat grid diamond cancel, light vertical crease but does not detract, SG 11.
1856 Napoleon Empire 80c carmine-red an amazing strip of 4 with uneven margins cut into at places and very fine used DS2 dotted diamond numeral cancels (Paris) plus part red PAID CDS cancel, huge 320c rate, seldom seen in such multiples. Fine, SG 69 Cat £440.
1860 Napoleon Empire 5c green on bluish very fine used PAIR with large margins on two sides, touching into on right and top left and neat 1523 dotted diamond numeral cancel, fine, SG 44 Cat £240.
1867 Cover from Troyes to Liverpool with manuscript 8 cancel and French Exchange office FR / 2 in black oval (smudged) and two Liverpool X13 receivers on obv., roughly opened and ink blotch otherwise sound.
1869 5f lilac-grey on greyish fine used light dotted diamond cancel, couple of blunt perfs and trace of a thin for this high value, comes with Stolow 1971 certificate, expertised on reverse. SG 131 Cat £1300.
1875 Ceres Thick Figure 10c bistre on rose fine mint original gum example with lovely fresh colour, usual gum crazing, fresh, SG 203 Cat £600.
