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Postal Auction August 2024 - 347

Bids to be received by Monday 19th of August 2024 1:00 PM

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Lot 61
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1857 Seven stampless covers from same correspondence to Liverpool including from Geneva, Venezia, Paris, Chamonix, each with manuscript 6 or 8 charge mark and three with boxed two line FR. / 1F78c French Exchange Office Entry mark plus various transit cancels and Liverpool dotted arc receiving h/s on obv., faults incl wrinkles and tones, intr group (6).

Estimate £ 200.00
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Lot 62
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1943 DAMAGED BY SEA WATER violet boxed handstamp on cover Nevada to New York, redirected to London with RETURNED LETTER SECTION / LONDON POSTAL REGION. Interesting unknown wreck cover.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 63
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ADVERTISING COVERS / Cards: USA, German, Hungarian mainly 1940s advertising some in colour including Hungary 1917 Cherry Brandy, 1946 Soakwrite laundry soap, 1939 BAD EMS Emser pastilles, Salz, Kranchen, Furstenberg Brau, Evangeline skinned figs, Tabasco sauce, 1953 Schenley Whisky, "When low in spirits call.."., 1944 Pepsi Cola addressed to The Sugar Ration Board from the Rochester Bottling Co. (start of diet Pepsi?), USA 1909 AmaroFelsina Buton Bitters New York to Italy. Some faults but attractive group. (8).

Estimate £ 65.00
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Lot 64
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ASIA: Small group of commercial covers middle to modern including Afghanistan (5), Tibet early philatelic LHASA (3), Nepal unused aerogramme, 1958 Human Rights Day FDC, Bhutan incl 3D on 1968 FDC (unusual), plus a few modern FDCs incl imperfs & M/S for 1979 YOC, etc, intr little group. (29).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 65
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British Africa: Group of interesting covers addr to Switzerland including SWA 1951 combn airmail, 1937 SWA Coronation set in pairs, 1932 Imperial airways printed env to Egypt bearing 10d airmail, 1925 GV SWA singles 1d & 2d from Windhoek, Transvaal 1905 ½d & 2d EDVII from Pietermaritzbueg, 1944 plain postcard bearing war midgets 3d & 6d PASSED BY CENSOR bilingual h/s in violet with German eagle h/s, 1925 S. Africa 1d P/S card uprated with 3d air, ½d green and S A LUGPOS h/s and airmail etiq. Intr lot (5).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 66
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British Commonwealth group interesting covers QV-QEII incl 1898 S. Australia to USA, 1854 Front Montreal PAID incl; 8d & 10d charge h/s in red, 1967 outgoing Tonga tin can mail, Jamaica 1913 1d strip of 6, and pair to UK from Kingston, India 1933 Calendar Manufacturing advertising envelope airmail to London, Hyderabad 1891 P/S env cancelled crescent postmarks, KUT GVI censored & 1945 Duke St Nairobi with Germ Oils advert poster label on reverse, 1962 Br. Virgin Is. 5 surchs on FDI unaddr, Swaziland GVI redirected, Trinidad & Tobago 1938 with typed letter to Canal Zone about Orchids, Zanzibar 1957 PPC to USA, Cyprus 1916 WWII Censor (tatty) cover from Polymedia sent OAS to Newfoundland, Fiji ½d strip of 3 to Canal Zone with South Sea Islands Correspondence Club Natuvu oval h/s in violet. Mixed but intr group (19).

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 67
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British West Indies: 1858 (15 Apr) Toned and torn lettersheet from Scotland advising the warmth of the climate may become thick and to add a small quantity of linseed oil to make it fit for use. Then additional message to Mr Blakenham, To order another obliterating stamps for each of these offices excepting Jamaica for which three additional stamps are required. Photocopy of the original cancellations sheet originally accompanied the letter for A01 to A15 for the different Islands in the West Indies.

Estimate £ 65.00
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Lot 68
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Catapult Flight Mail: Nice group of eight covers 1929-1935 including flights carried on SS Bremen, (6), Europa (2), with either German or USA stamps tied regular or special flight cancels, each cacheted and handstamped in various ways for each sailing & catapult flight. Some mixed but mainly fine. Attractive collection. (8).

Estimate £ 160.00
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Lot 69
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Drift Mail Card: 1954-58 Printed reply cards titled Oil Pollution Investigation dropped in the sea in plastic envelopes by the Nat. Institute of Oceanography, The drift envelope experiment in the North East Atlantic Ocean 1954. Five numbered cards completed and returned from Norway, Ireland, France, Spain, or UK. Interesting group. (5).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 70
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EUROPEAN CENSORS: 1947 PPC from Italy to Germany with 3L strip of 3 all tied with boxed HELD PENDING AUTHORISATION OF SERVICE and MILITARY CENSORSHIP/CIVIL MAILS circular h/s in violet. Difficult marking to find.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 71
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Fieldpost Postcards used mainly from French, German, Austria or Hungarian soldiers in 1916-17, mostly FELDPOST unstamped but nice range of different handstamps and postmarks many fieldpost numbers, Debreczen Portofrei, incl IV ARMEE, boxed SB . 5 Komp. Rus., Battalion West Pioneer Regt 24, KGL Reserve Lazarett II, KUK Infanterierie Feldpost 228, KUK Platzkomm, red Feldpost label tied, plus dozens more, PPCs mainly topographical, but includes some military groups or related. Approx 330 cards. Low estimate.

Estimate £ 330.00
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Lot 72
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Forces Mail in BEEF ISLAND: 1968 British Virgin Islands airmail envelope with GB commems tied two FPO 385 cancel sent as a FDC for the Anniversaries issue. Typed addr to UK. Interesting write up from a traveller wanting to visit the tented garrison of the Royal Engineers carrying out repairs and extension work on the airfield at Beef Island. Fascinating.

Estimate £ 28.00
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