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Lots (1171)
1876 (16 May) Cover Montrose to Edinburgh sent registered bearing 4d vermilion plate 15 and 1d plate 170 tied 251 cancels. Nice combination, SG 152. Cat £1100.
1876 8d orange very fine used cancelled 97 numeral cancel. Fine appearance, SG 156.
1877 (19 Nov) Mourning cover Montrose to Edinburgh sent registered bearing 4d sage-green and 1d plate 188 tied 251 cancels. Nice combination, SG 153. Cat £600.
1877 (7 Sept) Cover Pontypridd to Buenos Aires, Argentina, bearing 1s green plate 12 fine used cds and duplex. Fine used.
1877 Wmk Large Garter 4d sage-green plate 15 fine used incomplete duplex and CDS cancel, sound, SG 153.
1877 Wmk Large Garter 4d sage-green plate 15 sound used part newspaper branch cancel, well centered with good perfs, sound, SG 153 Cat £325.
1879 (7 Aug) Tatty cover Kilmarnock to Buenos Ayres bearing 4d sage-green pl.16 tied good strike of 203 cancel, folded two ways and slightly grubby with variety of backstamps, SG 153 Cat £600 on cover.
1879 unadopted pencil drawing on thick paper (114mm x 160mm) submitted for approval by Thomas De La Rue on 15th July 1879. One Penny QV head design (left facing portrait) in pencil 46mm x 54mm, with pencil annotation purchased from the collection of Maurice Burrus Feb 1959. Just after Burrus's death. Attractive unadopted essay.
1879 unadopted pencil drawing on thick paper (114mm x 160mm) submitted for approval by Thomas De La Rue on 2nd August 1879. One Penny QV head design (right facing portrait) in pencil 46mm x 54mm, with pencil annotation purchased from the collection of Maurice Burrus Feb 1959. Just after Burrus's death. Attractive unadopted essay.
1882 4d grey-brown plate 18 in a superb mint / unmounted mint block of four, hinged on top two, U/M on bottom two, gum bends and few small splits, otherwise superb and scarce mint multiple, SG160. Cat £2600 as block of 4.
1883 10s ultramarine very fine used LONDON double ring cds, well centred example, SG 183.
1883 2½d lilac plate reconstruction on four pages neatly laid out, dozens of postmarks incl Hoster type, numerals, CDS's, squared circles etc, 240 stamps mainly sound, SG 190 Cat £4800.
