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    1840: 1 d. black, pl.1a, used horizontal strip of three lettered BJ-BL, large margins all round and cancelled by light Maltese Crosses in red. Slight surface graze on first stamp otherwise an attractive and scarce multiple.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 667 Great Britain

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    2 d. deep blue pl. 2, lettered SB, a fine used example with large margins all round, tied to 1841 cover from London to Sheffield by black Maltese Cross, reverse with London despatch and Sheffield arrival cds (Dec 21) in red. Cover file fold at base well away from the fine adhesive Gi = £ 2'500.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 668 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, two horizontal pairs from plate 1 + 2, both pairs lettered EA-EB, good to large margins, plate 1 slightly thinned and with red MC's, plate 2 with black MC's and fine SG = £ 4'500.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 669 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, plate 2 NH-OH vertical pair, NH cut close at left, otherwise large margins and tied by two black MC's to refolded part cover (filing crease) "T.P. King William St." receiving house marking on front to Warwick SG = £ 2'500.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 670 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, pl. 1, horizontal pair lettered FJ-FK overlapping a horizontal strip of five lettered FE-FI, used on 1840 second sheet of letter struck with italic 'Newton / Penny Post' in black on despatch (corresponding boxed 'No. 1' Receiving House marking on reverse), mailed to Dijon, France, endorsed 'Paid to Dover', the adhesives tied by Maltese Crosses in red and by 'Angl. / Calais' entry marking in red (Nov 27) and manuscript charge
    '18' décimes in ink. Reverse with Milnthorpe cds, London transit in red and Dijon arrival cds in black (Nov 29). The cover was overpaid by 4 d. for the single rate of 10 d. to Dover. Some minor wear to reverse and file folds, but a very rare and visually stunning cover of great importanace to British classic philately. Cert. BPA (1997).
    Provenance: H. R. Harmer, London (Jan. 1964)
    Stanley Gibbons Rarity Sale (1978)
    Soler y Llach (1993)
    Offered by John Taylor in London Philatelist (May 1997)
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 10,000 CHF

    Lot# : 671 Great Britain

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    1841: 2 d. blue, plate 4, vertical pair with variety: inverted watermark and cancelled with accountancy marking "3 ½ GROSCHEN" used in the foreign branch of the London chief office on unpaid foreign mail to Prussia (sample lettersheet attached), lower stamp with light horizontal crease. Rare as a watermark variety but a unique obliteration on the 1841 2 d., according to the Karl Louis card index register only one other adhesive stamp (1847, 1 s. green) is recorded showing the "3 ½ GROSCHEN" accountancy marking used as cancellation. Cert. Karl Louis BBP (1999) SG = £ 1'700 for inverted watermark variety only.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 900 CHF

    Lot# : 672 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, plate 3, QK and QL, two large margined singles tied by distinctive YORK Maltese Crosses to piece, rare on 1841, 2 d., fine. Cert.  RPSL (1989) SG = £ 5'000.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 673 Great Britain

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    Numbers in Maltese Crosses 1841: 2 d. blue, compl. set no. 1 - 12, including "5" on June 1843 cover to Windsor and "7" and "10" in pairs, few minor imperfections but mostly good to large margins and neat strikes SG = £ 15'300.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,900 CHF

    Lot# : 674 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, plate 3, horizontal pair DC-DD, with good to large margins tied by neat strikes of the London MC "10" to entire from London 24 February 1844 to Macclesfield, fine SG = £ 5'500.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF

    Lot# : 675 Great Britain

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    2 d. blue, pl. 4, two imperforate horizontal pairs, lettered RA-RB and RC-RD with clear to large margins all round, tied to 1852 cover to Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia, by neat London '14' obliterators in black. Endorsed 'via Belgium' at upper left and struck in transit with circular 'Aus England Per Aachen / Franco' transit in red (Dec 15). Struck with framed RÉG. FR. handstamp in black (Régence Frontère) at Aachen (Van Der Linden fig. 2403) and reverse with 'Coeln / Verviers' TPO in black and 'Nizza Maritima' arrival cds (Dec 20). A fine and unusual cover. Opinion Holcombe (1993).

    Note: The service from Great Britain to Sardinia through France was suspended on July 1, 1851; the 8 d. per ½ ounce rate via Belgium being introduced on August 1, 1852.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,200 CHF

    Lot# : 676 Great Britain

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    1855: 2 d. blue plate 5, block of 12 consisting of three blocks of 4, SG-TH, SI-TJ, and SK-TL, rejoined with hinges, cancelled "498" MANCHESTER, some faults as can be expected incl. creases but an impressive large multiple and the third largest block from plate 5 recorded to date according to the Karl Louis card index register (the 2 larger multiples recorded are also rejoined from smaller blocks) SG = £ 3'000 for three blocks of four.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 420 CHF

    Lot# : 677 Great Britain

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    1858: 2 d. blue, pl. 8, a fresh and fine unused example with large part og. Signed Calves Gi = £ 1'850.
    Starting bid : 450 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 678 Great Britain

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    1847/54: Embossed 1 s. pale green, a horizontal pair with just touched margins but of excellent fresh colour, used on 1851 cover to Valparaiso, Chile tied by 159 obliterators of Glasgow. Reverse with Glasgow datestamp of despatch (Oct 15) and London transit cds in red. File fold well away from adhesives, an attractive cover Scott 5 = $ 2'400/Gi = £ 1'800.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 679 Great Britain

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    1847/54: Embossed 6 d. mauve, a fine used example, margins just touched, tied to 1857 envelope addressed to a Captain in the 17th Regiment at Montreal, tied by Burton on Trent / 152 'Spoon' duplex in black with '2½' and '1' charge markings adjacent in black. Reverse with Liverpool cds (Dec 12) and Montreal arrival cds. Some aging but a scarce and attractive usage Scott 7 = $ 1'900/Gi = £ 1'900.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 260 CHF

    Lot# : 680 Great Britain

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    1847/54: Embossed 6 d. purple, a fine large margined example in a deep shade, tied to small piece by '232' duplex of Cuckfield struck in blue. A fine stamp. Signed Bühler Scott 7 = $ 1'000+/Gi = £ 1'000.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 380 CHF

    Lot# : 682 Great Britain

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    1896: Transatlantic Cablegram illustrated envelope for the 'Commercial Cablegram Co. / Mackay-Bennett System', unpaid on despatch with 'Bedford St. S. O.' squared circle datestamp (Feb 12) with framed 'T' mark at lower right, taxed on arrival in New York with USA 10 c. lake Postage Due on reverse tied by New York duplex (Feb 20). Scarce and most attractive.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 683 Great Britain

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    1912/24: 1 s. bistre brown, a remarkable used block of 24 (4 x 8) all cancelled by BRITISH A.P.O. / CONSTANTINOPLE cds's (Feb 23, 1920) well struck in black. A few scuffed perfs. but a most unusual large multiple. Cert. E. Diena (1987).
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 684 Great Britain

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    1914: Incoming cover to Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, presumably from a Royal Navy ship, struck on front with five ringed target handstamp and '2' in black, reverse with 1914 Postage Due ½ d. emerald block of four tied by KIRKWALL cds's (Nov 21). An unusual usage.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 685 Great Britain

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    Plating Study 2 d. blue 1840/57: 2 d. blue plating study of pl. 1 & 2, pl. 3 & 4 and pl. 5 & 6, including 1840 2 d. (19 singles plus 2 pairs), 1841, 2 d. nearly all letterings complete (300 singles, 31 pairs, 9 strips of three, 2 strips of four and 22 covers), incl. re-entries, constant varieties, a little mixed condition but many fine SG = approx. £ 70'000.
    Starting bid : 3,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,600 CHF

    Lot# : 686 Great Britain

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    Perforation Varieties 1840/79: Perforation study line engraved 2 d. blues, including few 1840/41 imperfs. showing heavily miss-cuts, later perforated issues with missing pins, off-centering, double perforation (diamond perforation at sides) used on cover (BPA cert. 1986), approx. 250 singles plus a few pairs, strips, a block of 4 and 7 covers, mixed condition with many fine.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,200 CHF

    Lot# : 687 Great Britain

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    1840/79: 2 d. line engraved issues plate 1 - 15, interesting study comprising plate 1 - 15 (singles, including 1840, 2 d. late use with Scottish 1844 barred numeral), also 1840, 2 d. (2 singles, 2 pieces, 2 covers), 1841, 2 d. with distincitve DUBLIN and BELFAST Maltese Crosses, and two covers with normal MC's, plus 1858, 2 d. plate 9, TA, error of watermark, mixed condition, some fine SG = approx. £ 11'000.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 688 Great Britain

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    Barred Numeral Cancellations 1840/79: Specialised collection with solely line engraved 2 d. blue, consisting 314 single stamps, 16 pairs and 41 covers, including many 1841 imperfs. (incl. pairs and covers, many with four large margins and fine), 1854/57, 2 d. stars S.C. and L.C., perf. 14 and 16 (incl. many pairs and covers), 1840, 2 d. with Irish "232" GALLWAY (thinned). Condition varies.
    Starting bid : 1,200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,200 CHF

    Lot# : 689 Great Britain

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    Inverted Watermark Varieties 1840/79: 2 d. blue, pl. 1, 3, 4 (2), 5 - 15, the fantastic set of the prominent watermark inverted variety, imperfs. with large margins and fine, perforated issues, a little mixed condition but mostly good to fine SG = £ 12'250.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,200 CHF

    Lot# : 690 Great Britain

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    Cancelled Contrary to Regulation 1841: 2 d. blue cancelled with barred numerals, mostly one strike centrally cancelling pairs (11) plus two strikes on strip of 3 and three strikes cancelling strip of 4, in addition two pairs 1858, 2 d. plate numbers and 1841, 2 d. single and pair on cover with two strikes "1" from ABERDEEN, condition a little mixed.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 691 Great Britain

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    Various cancellations 1841/79: 2 d. blue, cancellation study including 13 covers and fronts, incl. "dotted circles", "Brunswick stars" (3 pieces and 2 covers), "S" (Smith, Elder & Co.) and "K" (King & Co.), pre-cancels, Azemar, Pearson, Hill machine cancel "NO. 6.57" on 2 d. stars (rare!), red PD, Madelaine Smith 159 GLASGOW on cover, 131 - POSTED SINCE LAST NIGHT on pair used on cover, Scotts locals.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 692 Great Britain

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    Sideways Duplex Cancellations and Spoons 1854/79: 2 d. blue, stars and plate number issues, small collection containing 2 d. blue on pieces (15) and 12 covers (all except one with1854/57, 2 d. stars), including PARLIAMENTARY NOTICE imprint cover, "383-HULL" in blue on piece, "186" DUBLIN,  in green on piece, condition a little mixed but many fine.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 693 Great Britain

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    Perfins & Protective Underprints 1858/79: 2 d. blue plate numbers, specialised exhibition collection including protective underprints (11 incl. Samuel Montague, W.H. Smith, J. & C. Boyd, H.H., Copestake, Moore & Crampton), perfins (approx. 300 singles and 20 covers, some mixed frankings) mixed condition but many fine.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 800 CHF

    Lot# : 694 Great Britain

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    1840/1948: Collection with 1840 1 d. black used (33) cancelled in red or black, 1840 2 d. blue used (3), 1841 1 d. red with 'Numbers in Cross' cancels (Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7 noted), 1841 2d. blue used with five pairs, a strip of three, a cover and 32 single examples, 1847/54 Embossed with 6 d. violet (5), 10 d. brown (2) and 1 s. green (2) used; 1858/79 1 d. red plate numbers unused (24), 2 d. blue used (38, one with inverted wmk. variety, another with major re-entry), Surface Printed with 1867/83 high values incl. 5 s. rose (3), 10 s. grey-green and £ 1 brown used; 1883 high values with 2 s. 6 d. lilac (9), 5 s. carmine (4) and 10 s. ultrmarine (6) used; 1884 £ 1 brown-lilac, wmk. Crowns (3) used, 1891 £ 1 green used (3), 1883 lilac & green set used, 1887 Jubilee set unused, 1902/12 Edward VII 2 s. 6 d. lilac used (2), 5 s. carmine used (2), 10 s. ultramarine used (2), £ 1 green used (4), 1913 Seahorses with fine range of 10 s. values with shades, £ 1 green used, 1925 Wemley sets used (3), 1929 PUC £ 1 unused and used, 1939 2 s. 6 d. brown unused (2, plus a usage on cover to India), 10 s. deep blue unused, 1948 RSW £ 1 unused (2) etc. Some 'Used Abroad' noted and a few further covers. Condition varies but a hugely catalogued collection with much of interest.
    Starting bid : 15,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 695 Great Britain

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    1840/1935: High value used selection with 1840 1 d. black (2), 1840 2 d. blue pair, 1847/54 Embossed 10 d. brown pair, 1883 5 s. rose, 10 s. ultramarine, £ 5 orange, 1884 £ 1 brown-lilac (singed A. Diena), 1892 IR Official £ 1 green, 1902 £ 1 green, 1934 re-engraved Seahorse 5 s. red and 10 s. indigo unused etc. Condition varies but a highly catalogued selection (12 items) Gi = £ 11'000+.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,400 CHF

    Lot# : 696 Great Britain

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    1841/1910c.: Lot hundreds used Victoria definitives starting with 1841 2 d. blue horizontal strip of three, 1862 & 1865 1 s. green (7), 1883 2 s. 6 d. and 5 s., 1902 5 s. carmine, cancellation interest, perfins, pieces (39) and one 1865 cover to Vienna.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF

    Lot# : 697 Great Britain

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    1864/80, 1d. rose red, plate numbers 71-225 (excl. pl.77), the fine specialised collection on album pages neatly written up for exhibition, incl. all plates mint (plate 225, QI, provenance: Harmers auction 27 Oct. 1976, lot 1323), each plate represented by at least one cover (pl. 225 vertical pair KK-LK used with 1870, ½d. on envelope to New York, pl. 225 is very rare on a foreign destination cover!), 23 Imprimaturs from various plates incl. pl. 223, varieties incl. 66 stamps with inverted watermarks, imperforate with plate 148 mint o.g. with Philatelic Foundation cert. (1962), plates 146, 198 and 207 ovpt. SPECIMEN, various protective underprints, mint multiples incl. pl. 96 blocks of 16 QI-TL (lower right corner marginal block with pl. no.), and OB-RF block of 20, pl.102, EG-KL right hand marginal block of 42 showing dividing star, pl. 122, NJ-SL block of 18, pl. 143, AA-BF corner marginal plate no block of 12, plate 191, KG-NJ, block of 16, pl. 214, SA-TD corner marginal pl. no. block 8, used blocks incl. pl. 138, DD-GF block of 12 with neat CHESTER MY 9 72 cds., also included several covers with mixed plates / mixed issues frankings (incl. pl. 208 used with Surface printed 1880, 1d. Venetian, foreign destinations (incl. Ionian Islands), various printed matters to foreign destinations (incl. Egypt!), pl. 103 on 'Fun Magazine’, pl. 118 on Punch Magazine, pl. 95 on Sun Fire Office printed letter, pl. 96 on printed Telegram (!), pl. 143 on neatly executed and decorative gold printed Lady’s envelope, some better cancellations incl. More to pay, H&K Packet, Brunswick Stars, Sorting Tender, the collection is housed in 5 volumes, some slight oxidation as usual, otherwise the condition is generally good to very fine with many choice items. 
    Starting bid : 22,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 698 Great Britain

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    1881/1939: Lot six unused stamps with 'SPECIMEN' handstamp ovpt., incl. 1881 1 d. violet, 1887 ½ d. orange red and 1½ d. violet & green, 1939 1 s. ochre brown as well as Govt. Parcels 1887 1½ d. violet & green and 2 d. yellow green & orange red.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 160 CHF

    Lot# : 699 Great Britain

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    1940/91: Lot hundreds primarily unmounted og. stamps incl. postage due, booklets and booklet panes and maximum cards as well as eight cover 1907/20 from the UK and Straits Settlements to Switzerland.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 800 CHF

    Lot# : 700 Great Britain

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    1950/2000: The modern mint collection with several hundred stamps, souvenir sheets and booklets, in addition a Mulready stampless envelope and a Penny black cover to Darlington, furthermore modern collections of Cyprus, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey and Malta, housed in nine stockbooks.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 701 Great Britain

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    1871/1912: Lot 25 covers & cards, all sent to Germany or Switzerland, incl. frankings with 1858 Penny Red & Penny Blue, 1865 3 d. rose lilac, 4 d. orange red, 1873 2½ d. lilac rose, and 3 d. rose, four covers with perfin stamps.
    Starting bid : 450 CHF
    Hammer price : 450 CHF

    Lot# : 702 Great Britain

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    1876/89: Lot three envelopes sent to foreign destinations, incl. 1876 cover franked with 1 sh. green from Nottingham to Cape Town, 1873 1 sh. green (plate 13)used 1878 from London Lombard-St. to Belize Brit. Honduras as well as registered 2 1/2 d. stationery envelope with additional franking of 1 d. violet horizontal pair from "Merton DE 28 89" and "Cottenham Park Wimbledon 28 DE 89" to Abo, Finland.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 705 Great Britain

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    1857/79: 2 d. blue used at foreign post offices, small collection including Crimean war OXO on 1857, 2 d. stars perf. 14, 1858, 2 d. plate number issue incl. "A83" mail boat, B01, B32, G06 in combination with France Cérès 30 c. (another adhesive missing), MALTA "M" on 1 d. + 2 d. on cover "A25" on cover with 2 d. pl. 8 and pl. 9 mixed franking, GIBRALTAR "A26" with 6 covers to Algeria, Italy, Portugal, also few Central and South American PO's incl. C38, C51, C59, C83, C42 and E53, nice selection with many fine.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 711 Great Britain

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    British Occupation of Italian Colonies M.E.F. 1942 (March 2): Cairo / Nairobi Printings with 'Square, Round or Oblong Stops' between M.E.F., the collection of covers on leaves with First Day Covers (3) to Asmara or Cairo franked by mixed full set used in Asmara or Massaua (one signed A. Diena, another by Raybaudi); March 12 cover with full set showing mixed printings used in Asmara, March 16 and 18, 1942 covers with full set with mixed printings used in Asmara, March 19, 20 and March 25, 1942 registered covers/cards from Asmara with set of five to 5 d. value (signed A. Diena or Oliva); April 4 and April 27 covers with full set used in Asmara, Sept. 1942 cover with full set cancelled 'Cheren / Eritrea', Oct 1942 cover to South Africa set of five incl. 2½ d. ultramarine se-tenant with 'Round Stop' variety, Oct 1942 full set on cover tied FPO 549 (signed Sorani) and 1946 cover to Genoa franked by full set and additional 2 d. with scarce use of Nairobi 1 d. used from Tripoli, Libya. A rare selection with high catalogue value.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,200 CHF

    Lot# : 713 Great Britain

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    1950: Cover from Sierra Leone to New York franked by 1½ d. pair tied by Freetown cds, mailed to USA without taxation, forwarded on to Massawa, there taxed by MEF 1942 1 s. deep blue tied by MASSAUA cds (30/12) in black. A rare stamp on letter.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 360 CHF
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