Public Auction Sheffield October 2024 - 317

Bids to be received by Wednesday 30th of October 2024 6:00 PM

Lots (655)

Lot 613
Great Britain

2012 Olympics and Paralympics Royal Mail postcard and stamp packs (6) different, each sealed pack contains 5 1st class commemoratives, and five PHQ cards, all fine as new. Face £40+.

Estimate £ 48.00
Lot 614
Great Britain

2012 Paralympics set of 34 First Day Covers, unaddressed official covers each with self-adhesive set of 2 tied special cancels, also group of 1990s-2001 Cotswold covers with special cancels. Mainly very fine.

Estimate £ 40.00
Lot 615
Great Britain

British Army in Egypt: Cigarette card sized card with B.A / E killer postmark duplex type in black handstamped on the card with pencil annotation obtained at the London Exhibition. These we used as cachets at the 1890 Jubilee Guildhall, and used for postal purposes in 1884. Rated G (£80-200, few known) in Br. Postmark Society price guide, interesting.

Estimate £ 72.00
Lot 616
Great Britain

College Stamps: 1876 Hereford College ½d mauve postal stationery envelope embossed with Stag Head in relief unused in very fine condition. Plus Hertford College stamp part o.g with tones in mauve.

Estimate £ 35.00
Lot 617
Great Britain

Control singles, small mint collection including ½d blue-green B, D4 (2), ½d yellow-green E5, F6, G8, H9, I10, J10, A11 (2), 1d red A, B, D4, E5, G8, H8 (2 p & i), I9 (p & i), J10 (p & i), A11 (3), J10 used on paper. A couple are U/M. (27).

Estimate £ 48.00
Lot 618
Great Britain

First Day covers accumulation in binder and loose including 1948 Olympic Games (illus), 1966 onwards incl different cancels for the same issue, 1969 Concorde Maiden Flight (2), 1961 CEPT illus., 1965 P.O. Tower (3 diff), few Stuart & Cotswold covers, 1997 Henry VIII gold medal cover (2), 1996 Edward VIII coin cover (2 diff), various loose modern issues incl M/S's etc. Useful lot.

Estimate £ 125.00
Lot 619
Great Britain

First Day covers accumulation in cover album and loose including five House of Lords cds cancels, 1960s to modern, prestige booklet panes, high face values, NVI panes etc. 100s.

Estimate £ 85.00
Lot 620
Great Britain

First Day covers accumulation in various binders including 1936 EDVIII, 1937 low values defins, 1960s commems on plain envs, 1988 Castle high values, etc. Useful lot.

Estimate £ 75.00
Lot 621
Great Britain

First Day Covers - An extensive accumulation from 1960s to modern in dozens of albums and binders, cover albums including Benham large and small silks plus special event issues (high original cost), Royal Mail official covers incl defins to £5, prestige booklet panes, commem sets and NVI panes, few privately produced or limited edition etc, many, many 100s, five well filled boxes, very heavy lot.

Estimate £ 120.00
Lot 622
Great Britain

First Day Covers, useful group of 1950 to 1960s illustrated and plain FDCs for different defin and comm sets, 1951 light cols set 5, 1966 World Cup with information leaflet inside on how to buy tickets and book accommodation, 1962 Paris illus, 1963 COMPAC, Nature, 1961 CEPT, 1965 Parliament with House of Commons cds, 1946 Victory illus, 1959 Wilberforce label and slogan, 1961 Parliament with London conference slogan, 1963 FFH on Stampex illus cover, etc. Mixed but useful group. (34).

Estimate £ 40.00
Lot 623
Great Britain

Fore's Caricature Envelope: Used in Belgium in 1900 (9 May) addressed to Berlin bearing Belgium 50c grey defin tied Charleroi cds of St Gilles-Bruz with regd etiquette and 1897 Exposition label on reverse. Badly damaged right hand side but incredibly unique and unusual. Ex. G. Waroquiers (Balasse 275 p.196). Rare.

Estimate £ 1250.00
Lot 624
Great Britain

FREE FRONTS - 1837-38 Victorian old time book with 117 different free fronts pasted on leaves two to a page some to an original correspondence to Miss Fletcher, many identified by Willcocks and a good variety of red cancels, few dual signed, red CDS dates including rare type E, Sunday stamp, some identified in pencil noted: Stephen Woulfe, Normanby, Stowell, Viscount Dundas & Thomas Masterman Hardy (Rear admiral on HMS Victory), J Parrott, George Mills with 1818 Darlington cds cancel, 1836 addr to Capt Bailey, King's own light infantry, Lord Melbourne 1834 (twice prime minister) to Captain Strealfield, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1833 2nd Earl of Stradbroke, 1837 George Young, Pusey, Fort, Earl Spencer, George Payne, Lord Egmont, Henry Bishop of Salford, 1837 Thomas Chaplin, 1837 Missent to THRAPSTONE undated circle in red, 1837 William Bathurst (5th Earl), 1837 boxed Maidstone / Penny Post, Earl of Munster, Mann Cornwallis, 1838 Stoney Stratford circle, Dublin FREE, 1838 'turned' front to William Fitzroy and returned addr to Lord Churchill (Winston Churchill's great grandfather), 1838 FOOTSCRAY single line h/s, etc, mixed but very interesting lot. (117).

Estimate £ 400.00

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