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Postal Auction March 2024 - 342

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Lot 1405
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1867-83 Wmk Anchor Cross 10s greenish grey well centred with smudged PLYMOUTH squared circle cancel mainly good perfs and colour, nice example of this scarce stamp, SG 135 Cat £4000.

Estimate £ 850.00
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Lot 1406
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 (30 July) Cover Bristol to France bearing 4d vermilion pair pl.9 tied good strike of 134 Clifton Bristol cancels, folded on the left, with PD in red, ANGL. CALAIS on obv, variety of backstamps. Small faults SG 95 Cat £280 on cover.

Estimate £ 65.00
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Lot 1407
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 encircled C&G R.P.O. in black (Carlisle & Glasgow Railway Post Office) on printed envelope (imprinted W.J.ADAMS, PASSPORT AGENT'..etc., 'EARLY DELIVERY IMPORTANT' in blue). Addressed to Biggar, Scotland, Franked 1d. Plate 78 (SG43), tied by LONDON-E.C/5/JU3/68 numeral 99 duplex. Various Faults.

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 1408
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 (Feb) 3d rose, plate 5 (PH). A wrapper sent from Manchester to Murgenthal, Switzerland dated February 21st 1868 bearing 1868 3d rose SG102-103 (specialised J 30) along with a 2d blue SG45 (specialised G2) from plate 9 and lettered BD tied vertical 498 duplex for Manchester and a horizontal town cancel C FE 21 MANCHESTER 1868 35 (GBP 7/20), alongside a Calais transit mark ANGL 2 FEVR 68 AMBL CALAIS and a red PD in a circle (GBP 9/63). Company mark in blue for William Schaub, Manchester. Reverse with numerous marks incl. Pontarlier in Eastern France near the Swiss border PONTARLIER-BERNE ? 23 II 68. BERN 23 II 68 BRIEFEXPED. Partial receiving mark for Murgenthal. (there is a further indistinct circular cancel) the cover was sent from the firm of William Schaub of Manchester.

Estimate £ 55.00
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Lot 1409
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 May, 4d Vermilion, Plate 9. Entire sent from Manchester to Murgenthal, Switzerland dater May 15th 1868 tied along with 1858-79 1d red SG43-44 with a pronounced perforation shift. Tied numeral 498 for Manchester & town cancel A 15MY MANCHESTER 1868 38 (CBP 7/20). The front of the cover also has an unclear transit mark for Calais and a red PD mark in a circle (CBP 9/63). Company cancel for Wm. Schaub, Manchester. Reverse with transit mark in red for London PG LONDON FE16 68, A transit mark for Basel BASEL ? 17 V G7 8 and an indistinct receiving mark for Murgenthal.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 1410
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 May 6d Lilac Plate 6, An entire sent from Ironbridge to New York via Liverpool dated May 30th 1868 in Liverpool. Bearing 6d lilac stamp SG104 with hyphen (specialised cat J75 (1). Tied 406 for Ironbridge, Shropshire (CBP 7/14). Obverse with single receiving mark for New York - NEW YORK JUN 10 PAID ALL and red PD in an oval (CBP 9/63). A hand written mark indicates that the cover was sent via Queenstown in Ireland and on to the ship Cuba to New York. On the back of the cover there is a transit mark for Liverpool - 28 LIVERPOOL 30MY68 P.L.O. The letter is from Biddulph, Wood and Jevons based in Liverpool and their related company of Townshend Wood and company in Swansea (the letter is written in Liverpool and posted in Ironbridge). The companies were iron and tin plate merchants. The contents of the letter contain a listing of new prices for their products, A commentary on market conditions and a report on developments in a labour strike affecting the company. The letter is seeking more business from Abel and Company in New York. The company of Biddulph, Wood and Jevons was still operating in the 1870s and had won a contract with the Great Western Railway company to build a bridge over Swansea canal at the wharf in Swansea.

Estimate £ 85.00
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Lot 1411
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 May 6d Lilac Plate 6. An entire sent from London to Tourino, Italy dated May 9th 1868. Bearing 1867 6d Lilac stamp SG104, Plate 6 'with hyphen' (specialised J75(1). Tied London Inland section single obliterator with numeral 49 in a diamond for Sidmouth street, Royal Hill Greenwich (CBP 7/7). Red PD in a oval (CBP 9/63) and a company mark for A&E Rossani, 32 Fenchurch Street, London. Reverse boxed transit mark in black LONDON MY9 68. Two other circular transit marks and a further two Italian receiving marks 12 and 15 May.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 1412
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1868 Plain env to Peebles with 1d Red Pl 89 misperfed, cancel London duplex 20 No 68. At left fine C & C/ R.P.O in small circle Railway cachet & Peebles B/S Horiz crease overall goo condition and scarce.

Estimate £ 55.00
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Lot 1413
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1869 (21 Nov) Posted since 7 Last Night 131 Edinburgh cancel on cover sent locally with 1d star tied single cancel. Folded four ways otherwise nice example.

Estimate £ 28.00
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Lot 1414
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1869 (Dec 18) Front bearing 6d mauve pl.8 tied by Cambridge cancel addr to Tasmania and two line ADVERTISED / BUT UNCLAIMED handstamp in black. very grubby and torn.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 1415
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1869 February 4d Vermilion, Plate 10. Wrapper Leeds to Lille Nord, France dated Feb 20th 1869. The cover has a 1865-67 4d vermilion stamp SG94 (specialised J57) from the scarce plate 10 and lettered BK. Tied numeral 447 for Leeds and a horizontal town cancel B LEEDS 20FE69 44 (CBP 7/20). The front of the cover also has a Lille mark ANGL 22 Feb 69 ? LILLE A and a red PD mark in a circle (CBP 9/63). There is also the company cancel for the firm of Fairburn, Kennedy and Naylor, Leeds. The back of the cover has a indistinct single ring transit mark in red for London and a receiving mark for Lille LILLE FE 22 FEVR 69 (57).

Estimate £ 85.00
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Lot 1416
Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1869 March 6d Mauve, Plate 8. An envelope sent from London to Leipzig, Germany dated March 15th 1869. Bearing a 6d Mauve stamp SG 108-9 Plate 8 (specialised cat J75(1). Tied sideways duplex SW 29 and horizontal oval LONDON S.W 2 MR 15 69 (CBP 7/12). With paid oval mark in red (CBP 9/63) And a hand written mark 'Affranchie' meaning stamped. In addition there is a double ring transit mark in blue FRANCO (AUS ENGLAND PER AACHEN) Dated 16 3 69. The back of the cover has the address for the sender - 5 Lowndes Street in the south west district of London. There is also an indistinct transit mark in black. The cover was sent from London to The Baron Freiher Von Tauchnitz in Leipzig. The Baron developed a business specialising in the publishing of English language books in Germany during the 19th century.

Estimate £ 65.00
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