Auction 258 March 2024
Some highlights:
- 'Ramones' Collection of Great Britain
- Field post WWII, Legion issues and Propaganda forgeries (including Dr. Keizer collection)
- Extensive collection of Turkey
- Postal Stationery Netherlands (including change of address cards Verhoeven collection)
- Many original country collections including British Commonwealth
Auction order
Thursday 14 March
09:00 1-314 Netherlands and Colonies, collections & stock
350-420 Netherlands and Colonies, collections & stock in large boxes
13:00 450-953 Coins
Friday 15 March
10:00 1000-1064 Picture Postcards
10:30 1100-1611 Foreign countries, collections & stock
1800-1936 Foreign countries, collections & stock in large boxes
Saturday 16 March
09:00 2000-2367 Netherlands and colonies single lots
11:00 2500-2633 Foreign countries single lots
13:00 3000-3261 Ramones Collection of Great Britain
15:00 3500-3588 WWII Collection of Dr. Keizer
1982-2016 collection first day covers in 5 albums and envelopes in large box
1860c. onwards fiscals, postal fiscals including some USA and Netherlands mostly documents in large box
ca. 1980 onwards Maximum cards including gutter pairs and traffic lights, some Channel Islands with duplicates in 3 boxes
1840 Mulready 1d. letter sheet with advertisement from the - English and Scottish Law Fire and Life Assurance, 147 Strand near Somerset House - in blue printed inside, sent to Lewes 1840, a fresh fine to very fine item with indistinct Maltese Cross in red, cat. £850
1840 Mulready 1d. letter sheet with advertisement from - The Envelope Select Advertiser no. 3 june 10, 1840 - in blue printed inside, sent from Burslem to Cheadle with a Newcastle under Lyme arrival cancel Jy 30 1840, a fine item with some imperfections and cancelled by a Maltese Cross in red, cat. £850
1881 Postally used fiscal on envelope sent registered from Ipswich 1881 to Hannover Germany bearing a 1d. Inland Revenue, 1d. plate 114, 1d. Lilac (14 dots), 1d. Venetian red and 3d. rose plate 21, a very colourfull and attractive combination cover paying the correct rate of 2d. registration and 5d. double rate
1877 2½d. rosy mauve plates 8 and 9, on registered envelope (2d.) tied by the scarce Mortimer E80 numeral sent via Reading (there additionally franked with the plate 9) and Ostende to Berlin 1878 (R label über Bahnpost 1 Holzminden-Berlin), a very fine fresh envelope
1876 8d. orange, a very fine example on envelope tied by the Bath duplex 28-11-1878 sent via Brindisi to Bareilly North West Provinces India (adressed to George Grant in charge of the Central Jail) on reverse Sea Postoffice and Bareilly cds, a fresh envelope with some minor imperfections, cat. £ 625
1881 Postally used fiscal on registered envelope sent from London 1889 to Paris France bearing a 1d. Inland Revenue (perfin C.I.H. & S), ½d. vermillion, 1d. Venetian red (perfin C.I.H. & S), 3d. purple/yellow, and 1s. dull green, a very colourfull and attractive combination cover paying the correct rate of 7x 2½d and 2d. registration rate, cover small imperfections
1895 Postally used fiscal on envelope (opened at right) sent registered from Cardiff 1895 to Germany bearing two 1d. Inland Revenue (both with perfin) and a 10d. Jubilee (corner marginal), several redirections, very scarce usage
1840 1d. plate 3 GD, plate 4 CI and PI on cover all good to large margins with red maltese crosses, cat. £ 1700
1841 1d. red, a fine group of 10 covers with mostly postmarks including better maltese crosses, Channel Islands Guernsey cross, London no.8 in cross, Town dated postmark (on large fragment) etc.