Stamps, Postcards & Postal History

Great Britain 1840 (January) 1d Parliamentary Envelope with red crowned 'Paid' cds, some wrinkles and a small tear at bottom. A scarce item of ear...

Great Britain 1840 Mulready letter sheets, 1d (stereo A27, forme 2) and 2d (stereo a94), both unused in pristine quality. An exceptional pair.

Great Britain 1840 2d Mulready envelope (stereo a202) used with attractive combination of red Maltese cross and blue Camberwell Green two-penny po...

Great Britain 1840 Mulready envelopes (7) and a range of caricatures (6), the originals including 1d envelope used 13th May and 1d wrapper used 18...

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 10, unused (regummed), H-A showing double letter 'H'. Margins all round though rough at top and razor thin at u...

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 1a, a glorious example with excellent margins and superbly struck red Maltese cross.

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 1b, very attractive example with good margins and red Maltese cross.

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 2, handsome example with good margins and neat red Maltese cross cancel.

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 3, four margins with red Maltese cross cancel.

Great Britain 1840 1d black plate 4, beautifully tied by straight-line Charing Cross and red Maltese cross postmarks, the stamp cut-in at left but...

Great Britain 1840 1d black, plate 6, four margins and broad red Maltese cross cancel.

Great Britain 1840 1d greyish black, plate 6, four margins especially wide at top, tied on piece by black Maltese cross.

Great Britain 1840 penny black trio, plate 7 in greyish black and black shades, and plate 8, all with four margins.

Great Britain 1840 (November) 1d 'rainbow' colour trial in dark olive-green, State 3, on thick bluish laid paper. Great quality with large margins...

Great Britain 1840 2d blue plate 1, two four-margin examples C-H and C-B, in lovely shade, tied by excellent strikes of red Maltese cross on cover...

Great Britain 1d red SG.43, plate 169, mint block of 30, full gum, some separations/reinforcements at edges of block. Cat. £2,400 as hinged single...

Great Britain 1d red SG.43, plate 171 mint never hinged block of 30 with upper margin inscription, usual crackled gum and bends, no separations, h...

Great Britain 1d red SG.43, plate 203 mint block of 24 with left margin inscription and showing missing perf pins in vertical and horizontal posit...

Great Britain 1864-79 penny red plates set complete to 224 (pl.225 see next Lot) in lovely quality mint, not easy to find fault here, with general...

Great Britain 1879 1d red plate 225, mint never hinged, beautifully centred with good colour and perfs, usual crackling of gum resulting in a hori...

Great Britain 1848 10d brown embossed (SG.57), with excellent margins for this issue, tied by light numeral cancel on cover to Turin, with a lovel...

Great Britain 1872 6d pale chestnut Plate 12, SG.124a, tied on attractive and clean cover to Naples by very crisp strike of a duplex cancel, an ex...

Great Britain 1872 'Stock Exchange Forgery' of the 1/- green, a lovely example on large piece of a telegraph form, cut square from the corner and ...

Great Britain 1872 'Stock Exchange Forgery' of the 1/- green, K-S - a charming example of the impossible letterings the forger/s included by mista...

Great Britain 1877 £5 orange Telegraph issue, overprinted 'Specimen' type 8, SG.T18s, cat. £2,800 (2020).

Great Britain 1883-84 'lilac and green' set mint, a few small faults mainly on the 6d, 9d with tone spot lower left barely showing through, the 4d...

Great Britain 1883-84 high values on white paper set of three mint, highly attractive. The 2/6d and 10/- with bends/creases not detracting from th...

Great Britain 1887-1900 Jubilee issues, mint never hinged collection of the shades displayed on pages, 39 stamps including 2d green and scarlet, 1...

Great Britain 1890 Post Office Jubilee envelope - the 'Post Office Jumble' caricature by Harry Furniss, superb used in far better condition than u...

Great Britain Group of 21 Victorian 'Specimen' overprints incl. 1870-74 1½d ovpt type 9, 1883-84 2/6d lilac ovpt type 11, 1884 £1 'crowns' ovpt ty...

Great Britain Victorian range including a couple of nice penny red items, 1883/4 2/6d mint and another cds used, 1874 plate 2 5/- with registered ...

Great Britain Edward VII mint set of eighteen values to £1 (latter is 1902 DLR printing), the 2/6d with small thin, 5/- bend/crease at left, £1 in...

Great Britain 1902 De La Rue 5/-, 10/- and £1 green in impressive combination on piece, vibrant colours, tied by 14.5.03 registration postmarks. C...

Great Britain Pocket stockbook of 19th and early 20th century issues (44), including possible unused penny black and 1841 2d blue clean-looking, b...

Great Britain Downey heads collection of the printings mint never hinged, 62 stamps neatly displayed on pages, including Die 1A ½d bluish green (2...

Great Britain 1924 and 1925 Empire Exhibition mint never hinged sets in upper left corner blocks of 15 and the 1924 set also in upper right corner...

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 black, mint never hinged.

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 tied by First Day cds on piece, superb quality in every respect. Along with the rest of the set also tied by First Day c...

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 black, SG.438, used with neat oval Guernsey registration postmark.

Great Britain 1929 PUC £1 black, SG.438, lower left sheet-corner vertical pair in spectacular combination with 5/- carmine seahorse (SG.451) and E...

Great Britain 1935 Silver Jubilee collection of the cylinder blocks of six, 39 blocks with 34 different imprints, many MNH. Includes two 1d. cyl.2...

Great Britain Edmunc Dulac, designer of various British issues from 1930s to 1950s, modified KEVII 1½d design overdrawn in brown, white and in pen...

Great Britain 1939-48 George VI 'Arms' high values mint never hinged collection with margin blocks incl. 2/6d brown, 2/6d brown 'mark in shield' a...

Great Britain 1943-44 propaganda forgeries: 'This War is a Jewsh War' on the design of the 1935 Silver Jubilee ½d green, and George VI with Stalin...

Great Britain 1948 Silver Wedding £1 full sheet, no hinge marks, no folds or creases. Cat. £800 as singles.

Great Britain Sheets and large multipes, balance of a vintage investment holding, KGVI and pre-decimal QEII, with two full sheets of the 1948 Silv...

Great Britain Early QEII mint never hinged sets pristine in glassine envelopes or on cards from an original estate, with 7x Waterlow castles high ...

Great Britain Postal history collection of hundreds of items from 17th to 19th century in 5 large binders, more-or-less chronologically presented,...

Great Britain Mint and used collection in a Lighthouse hingeless album, 1840 to early QEII, with postal history including Mulready 1d and 2d, stam...

Great Britain Mint collection in a green Windor album, including thirty SG.43 1d red plates, a couple of ½d plates, 1875/76 1/- green plates 12 an...

Great Britain Line-engraved accumulation of nearly 300 stamps displayed on stockcards in a binder, with 19 penny blacks, the majority four margins...

Great Britain Line-engraved collection on various kinds of pages in a green binder, many hundreds of stamps including 9 penny blacks with 4 four-m...

Great Britain Collection of used 19th century surface-printed issues and into the Kings' reigns, a labour of love with many select quality items p...

Great Britain The later QV surface-printed issues on stockcards displayed in a binder, extending to KEVII in the officials, plus postal fiscals/re...

Great Britain The four Kings mint and used accumulation on stockcards in two binders, many hundreds of stamps including KEVII proofs, St. Andrew's...

Great Britain Balance of the first postal history volume of an estate, all 19th century, starting with five penny black covers plus three fronts i...

Great Britain QEII errors and varieties, with lots of inverted watermarks incl. Battle of Hastings strips, listed flaws in positional blocks, reto...

Great Britain 1887-'92 'Jubilee' issues with between 110 and 140+ of each value except the 10d (72), including the 1/- values, lots of excellent c...

Great Britain The Edward VII continuation of the previous Lot, with 144 of each value to the 1/- green and carmine (except lacking one 10d) includ...

Great Britain The pre-decimal issues from a larger collection, with four-margin red MX penny black plate 8, presentable 1840 2d blue with red MX a...