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Public Auction Sheffield August 2023 - 312

Bids to be received by Wednesday 30th of August 2023 6:00 PM

Lots (525)

Lot 493
Great Britain

Accumulation in a Archive Box with useful QV to QEII in stockbooks, on leaves, stockcards, packets and loose better noted incl GV defins fine used duplicated assembly by shades, QEII pre decimal fine used stock in stockbook incl 1993 Britannia £10 P/Pack, QV line engraved issues on cover, 1868 cvr with 6d mauve on cvr to USA with NEW YORK PAID in red, few postcards incl unidentified flood scene, TPO marks on cvr (7), 1864 1d plates mint (3), 2003 Coronation £10 Postal Order from P/Pack, 1965 Telegraph form with Castles 5s and 10d defin, Postage Dues to £5 mint, 1859-62 1d stars large range in stockbook arranged by check letters, 1d lilacs off paper in tin, a few plain FDCs from 1930s to 1960s, 1967 Sterling Machins in sheets and mint blocks in original Edinburgh Bureau envelopes, etc, interesting sorter, ideal for resale.

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 494
Great Britain

Birmingham Spoon cancel: 1856 1d star on Entire p.14 tied Liverpool spoon cancel #4, type (B1), addressed to Excise Branch, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London SG Spec. C8 plate 34.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 495
Great Britain

Birmingham Spoon cancels: group of five covers 1854-57 including 1854 1d star on blued p.16 tied Birmingham spoon cancel (Arundel #2) type (A1), 1855 type C3, 1856 Arundel #4, type (B1), 1857 type (B1) good strike, 1857 type (D6) (good strike), some faults as usual, useful group. (5).

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 496
Great Britain

Booklet Panes: Unmounted mint collection in special binder from 1952 & 1955 wmks 1d blue strip of 3 and three printed labels both upright and inverted watermarks, 1965 panes, 1968 phos. panes (both types), 1967 Sterling heads combinations, 1973 3½p pane of 5 plus label miscut at top (SG UB45a), 10p pane with 6p on right variety miscut, etc, useful collection.

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 497
Great Britain

Bristol Spoon cancel: 1855 (13 Jan) 1d P.16 on blued on cover tied BRISTOL L spoon (type A, good strike), on cvr to London, fine.

Estimate £ 35.00
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Lot 498
Great Britain

Circa 1905 Around Thirty Four pen and ink hand coloured illustrated postcard sized cards all signed by J Farquharson around 1904-1908, huge range of different subjects including various ladies of fashion head and shoulder portraits, trumpeter, EDVII dated 17th Nov. 1904, shouting boy, beach lady, golfer, RH old man in red uniform, Waiter at Lyons tea room, lady walking her dog, woman beating up man 'Just like the ivy', Native African man in head dress, Billiards, etc, some have tape marks on corners and or toning, all unique and hand drawn and coloured. Joseph Farquharson was a Scottish painter chiefly landscapes mostly famous for his snowy winter landscapes. This formed part of an estate lot of illustrated commercial covers to a Miss Leadbetter in Rosett or London but those were unsigned. Fascinating and totally unique.

Estimate £ 1000.00
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Lot 499
Great Britain

Collection mint & used on leaves with many useful throughout including 1840 1d black (2, one 4 margin plate 5, other one margin plate 2), 1841 1d red-brown with blue numeral cancel, 1841 2d blue (5), 1847 Embossed 10d brown, 1841 1d red-brown unused no gum, 1854-79 1d & 2d stars and plates, 1856-1880 good range of surface printed values to 5s with nice f.u. examples, plus 9d straw / bistre printings used, 1883 2/6 lilac mint, mostly identified with enormous catalogue value. Original cost to vendor in excess of £3200. Approx. 210 stamps.

Estimate £ 1750.00
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Lot 500
Great Britain

Collection mint & used on leaves with many useful throughout including 1911-12 ½d & 1d with good range of identified printings mint, inverted wmk, shades, 1912-22 set used plus Wmk Multi Cypher set 2 used, 1913 Waterlow Seahorses 2/6 deep sepia-brown CDS (Cat £200), 2/6 sepia-brown vfu CDS Cat £150, 5s rose-carmine used (Cat £325), 10s indigo-blue used (Cat £475), 1918 Bradbury 2/6 mint (Cat £160), CDS f.u., 5s mint (Cat £325), 10s dull grey-blue mint (Cat £475), used (Cat £175), 1924 mint set plus 2d orange wmk sideways, mostly identified with high catalogue value. Approx. 145 stamps.

Estimate £ 425.00
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Lot 501
Great Britain

Columbia & Krag postmark cancels on eight postcards and envs. Includes 1903 Columbia single impression machine with wavy lines, three with straight lines, Krag continuous on EDVII & GV PPCs one from IOM, intr group. (8).

Estimate £ 20.00
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Lot 502
Great Britain

Extensive collection mainly used in an overfull Davo printed album includes 1840 1d black (2, both 3 margins), 1847 6d embossed f.u., 1841 1d imperf part reconstruction of 200+ (mixed), 1864 1d plates run part complete, surface printed to 9d, 10d, 2s & 1883 to 10s, 1902 £1 dull blue-green CDS used (few pulled perfs other sound SG Cat £825), very mixed with some toning on the pages but huge catalogue value. 100s.

Estimate £ 525.00
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Lot 503
Great Britain

First Day Covers 13 different Havering covers (retail £10 upwards each), 1970-1983 Thirteen covers each issued by Havering and numbered with full sets and tied special illus cancels noted 1981 Duke of Edinburgh Award 85th Squadron Air Training Corps cancel, 1982 Car London Metro 2nd Anniv. World Trade Centre cancel, 1983 Gardens Blenheim Palace boxed cancel etc. Nice group.

Estimate £ 20.00
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Lot 504
Great Britain

First Day Covers accumulation EX-Dealer's stock of 18 bags containing the same 40 or so mainly all different FDCs from late 1970s to 1980s includes better incl Havering covers (retail £10 upwards each), group of Benham Great Britain Our Islands History with C/W adhs tied special cancel on gold embossed covers, special and better different postmarks, etc, mostly good condition and large qty of approx 700. (18 bags of 40). Enormous retail.

Estimate £ 80.00
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