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Postal Auction May 2024 - 344

Bids to be received by Thursday 2nd of May 2024 1:00 PM

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Lot 25
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1986 Space Shuttle Debris Recovery at Cape Canaveral collection of 55 different covers from the marine Johnson-Sea-Link 2 Harbor Branch each cover detailing the Dive number, date, Depth, Pilot, Observer, Divers, Location and mission to locate wreckage from the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Scarce collection, (55).

Estimate £ 200.00
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Lot 26
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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 27
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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 28
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Br. Colonies: 1937 Coronation FDC or FDI covers for 50+ different countries each with set of three incl from Aden to Virgin Is., incl Newfoundland long set on one cover, S. Africa, SWA, many are registered, odd mixed or age marks, attr group. (56).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 29
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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 30
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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 31
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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 32
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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 33
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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 34
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KOREAN WAR: Group of around 50 letters mainly from the an original correspondence, many with original envelopes, includes both Canadian Camps and overseas, then some 1950s letters from the same soldier to his mother from London Ontario Wolseley Barracks, with some mixed condition but overall fine, making a fascinating read.

Estimate £ 500.00
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Lot 35
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MARITIME: An extensive lifetimes collection of worldwide Antarctic, Arctic and polar covers in eleven binders and stockbooks with just over 1400 different covers and cards from middle to modern periods, a huge amount of material some nicely written up on pages in Dutch, also includes some thematic stamp ranges, miniature sheets and more. Noted dozens of operations and expeditions, Italy 1942 marine censor, 1908-32 per Islands Falk, French. Southern & Antarctic Terr. 1965 Adelie Expedition Thala Dan cover incl SG 35 5f (Cat £90), 1960s Aluminaut submarine covers, Russian Expeditions incl signed, Japan Expeditions, 1900 Marine Schiffpost, 1931 SS PLANCIUS Neth. Indies, 1973 Nemo USA Naval Underseas Center group, 1960s-70s Rovers' undersea expeditions, 1905-1925 Danish Biological stations, USS Thresher Nuclear submarine one 1967 cover with Lost at Sea overprint & a cacheted covers, Monaco ranges stamps and covers, dozens of 1960s-1980s in smaller cover albums, an enormous collection of 1400 mainly all different. Incredibly low starting price only £1.45 per cover. Three heavy boxes.

Estimate £ 2800.00
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Lot 36
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Maritime: Australia PAQUEBOT Five postcard or cover 1903-34 with different PAQUEBOT cancels including 1903 FREMANTLE WA tied GB EDVII 1d red, 1905 Albany with similar franking, 1910 NSW 1d Adelaide, 1910 & 1934 one without adhs. Some mixed but useful group.

Estimate £ 25.00
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