Postal Auction May 2024 - 344

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

Lots (1150)

Lot 661
Mauritius

1859 Worn Impression 2d blue on greyish paper neat fine two margin example with good strike of oval barred cancel, very sound and useful example. SG 39 Cat £950.

Estimate £ 250.00
Lot 662
Mauritius

1881 (9 Aug) Cover to Paris sent per Maritimes bearing 17c on 4d rose surcharge tied B53 cancel with POSS AN / PAQ FR.T No.1 H/S applied in blue, attractive. SG 87.

Estimate £ 110.00
Lot 663
Mauritius

Attractive collection of postmarks on stockpages QV to QEII with dozens of different towns incl QV duplex numeral cancels, noted QV 1d with 2 in concentric circles, GV/GVI incl blocks of 4, QEII huge amount of commems and defins, intr lot. 100s.

Estimate £ 100.00
Lot 664
Mauritius

SPECIMEN Overprints on Queen Victoria, EDVII, GV (2), postal stationery cards & envelopes. Includes Arms 6c, 10c, 12c, 12c red registered P/S env., GV 3c lilac, 20c blue registered P/S env., few tones otherwise nice group of 6 items.

Estimate £ 75.00
Lot 665
Mexico

1862 (28 Dec) CEMF French Expeditionary Corps in Mexico: Cover bearing Napoleon 20c blue and 40c orange pair tied four strikes of CEMF dotted diamond cancels with Bureau F CDS alongside paying the 100c rate to Cusset France sent via England. Higher letter bureau are much scarcer.

Estimate £ 300.00
Lot 666
Mexico

1866-72 Three covers bearing imperfs including 1867 1r & 2r combination, 1866 2r orange imperf tied cds, 1872 Hidalgo 12c blue imperf pair tied PUEBLA cds. Nice trio.

Estimate £ 36.00
Lot 667
Mexico

1872 Hidalgo imperf Classics assembly in a small booklet mainly fine used four margin examples including 12c blue (6 + pair), 25c red (30), with mostly Veracruz overprints. Attractive lot. (38).

Estimate £ 38.00
Lot 668
Mexico

Fournier Forgery: Album page from the original book showing examples of his work on Hidalgo (2), Coat of Arms (3), Maximilian (2), 1872 used (3), Porte De Mar stamps (3), then ovpts and a postmark strip of 7 different cancels. Very fine and attractive album piece. (22 examples).

Estimate £ 110.00
Lot 669
Mexico

Pre-Stamp Wrappers and entire letters mainly a correspondence to Durango for 1840s to 1860s includes many nice town handstamps single and two line in red or black, paid marks incl 2 h/s in red or black, noted FRANCO / EN NAZAS, PAPAQUIARO, 1846 MEXICO / DICIEMBRE 12 boxed in red with 5 charge in red to Durango, ZACATEGAS / MARKO 6, CERREGORDO, CHIHUAHUA 3, PUERTO DE / MAZATLAN (2 double line plus one red circular 1845 undated cancel), GUANAJUA 3, GUAD Y CALVO, DURANGO / JUNIO 23 7 chargemark, PARRAL, SAN LUIS POTOSI / MAYO 21, SOMEBRERETE, 1838 FRANQUEADO CDS in red to London, VERA CRUZ dated arc in black 1842 & 1847 to London. Mainly fine, 20 items, nice collection of these attractive covers.

Estimate £ 400.00
Lot 670
Monaco

1926 Surcharge 1f50 on 2f brown and mauve in mint / unmounted mint sheet margin pane of 25, slight adherence otherwise nice multiple with margins on three sides, SG 112 Cat £185.

Estimate £ 35.00
Lot 671
Montserrat

1933-37 Two OHMS registered covers both to Heffley Creek Br. Columbia, Canada. One bearing ½d & 4d, or 1½d & 3d both tied GPO PLYMOUTH CDS's, multitude of transit and arrival h/s, tear in long cover and few wrinkles otherwise pretty duo. SG 64, 69, 74/5. (2).

Estimate £ 36.00
Lot 672
Montserrat

Useful collection from QV onwards with better early to middle periods all fine used laid out on stockpages in date order many items of note including 1883 1d red (Cat £70), 1884 ½d green, 2½d ultr (2), 1890 1d rose-red, 1903 Device of Colony 6 vals to 1s (Cat £134), 1904-08 9 vals to 2/6 (Cat £200), 1908-14 6 vals to 1s (Cat £110), 1909 5s red and green on yellow (slightly rubbed cat £95), 1916-22 to 2s (Cat £245), etc, superb lot for an Imperial album. Approx 95.

Estimate £ 300.00

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