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Postal Auction November 2024 - 350

Bids to be received by Tuesday 19th of November 2024 1:00 PM

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Lot 49
OMNIBUS

1966 Churchill Group of 47 illustrated First Day Covers printed addresses from many different countries including Hong Kong, Pitcairn Is. Br. Antarctic Terr. etc, light duplication. (47). High retail potential.

Estimate £ 110.00
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Lot 50
POSTAL HISTORY

1838 (16 Aug) Entire Letter New York USA to Reims, France, sent per Steamer Great Western leaving New York to Bristol with two line boxed BRISTOL / SHIP LETTER in black on obverse, various chargemarks, and French ANGLETERRE red CDS on obverse. LONDON dated arc, Paris & Reims backstamps.

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 51
POSTAL HISTORY

1838 Entire Letter Charlestown USA to Greenock, Scotland sent per Steamer Great Western leaving New York 20th April to Bristol with two line BRISTOL / SHIP LETTER in black on obverse, various chargemarks, various filing folds. The Great Western steamer left Bristol on 8th April 1838 arriving in New York on 15th April. This cover was on the first outward bound mail from New York and only took half the time sailing ships would make to cross the Atlantic. Scarce.

Estimate £ 600.00
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Lot 52
POSTAL HISTORY

1857 Seven stampless covers from same correspondence to Liverpool including from Geneva, Venezia, Paris, Chamonix, each with manuscript 6 or 8 charge mark and three with boxed two line FR. / 1F78c French Exchange Office Entry mark plus various transit cancels and Liverpool dotted arc receiving h/s on obv., faults incl wrinkles and tones, intr group (6).

Estimate £ 200.00
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Lot 53
POSTAL HISTORY

1931 (June 10) Vaduz - Lausanne Flight - Postcard (Zeppelin flying through the mountains) Vaduz Liechtenstein to Geneva flown by Zeppelin June 1931. Bearing 1F Zepp tied red flight cachet and rare VADUZ / C / 10.VI.31 cds alongside (adds 15% premium) and Lausanne 10.VI.31 cds applied over printed airmail etiquette. Handstamped Sieger in magenta on obverse. Sieger 110Da. Sieger €4312 (€3750 + 15% premium).

Estimate £ 850.00
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Lot 54
POSTAL HISTORY

1943 DAMAGED BY SEA WATER violet boxed handstamp on cover Nevada to New York, redirected to London with RETURNED LETTER SECTION / LONDON POSTAL REGION. Interesting unknown wreck cover.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 55
POSTAL HISTORY

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 56
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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 57
POSTAL HISTORY

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 58
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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 59
POSTAL HISTORY

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 60
POSTAL HISTORY

CRIMEA WAR: 1855 August. Three page letter from a French soldier (to his mother and brother)camped at Devant, Sebastopol. Mentions army life and is easily readable (in French) with some staining but only to be expected under the conditions the letter was written. Nice Military item.

Estimate £ 50.00
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