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  • Lot# : 1434 Great Britain

    1838/1947: Lot 50 covers, all sent to Switzerland, incl. interesting prephilatelic covers and reg'd postal stationery envelopes.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 1435 Great Britain

    1854/1960: Collection with several hundred stamps used/unused, incl. many better values as 1878 QV 10 Sh. and £ 1., £ 5 orange on white paper, several £-values QV and KEVII, 1929 £ 1 black etc., housed in a Windsor album by Stanley Gibbons, in addition one stockbook and several stockcards with various colonial stamps incl. full sets QE up to £ 1. values.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,400 CHF

    Lot# : 1436 Great Britain

    1857/1929c.: Rather messy range on leaves with 1 d. reds (300+), Surface Printed issues used and a small range of covers incl. three registered to Austria.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : 420 CHF

    Lot# : 1437 Great Britain

    1868/1901: The surface printed cover collection (84), with plentiful array of 1875 2½ d. rosy mauve usages incl. rare pl. 17, 1880 2½ d. blue usages, 1868 cover from Malta bearing 4 d. vermilion, 1876 cover from Constantinople, 1876 ¼ d. card used from Smyrna, 1880 cover from Constantinople with rare "Too Late" in red,1880 registered cover with 4 d. grey-brown to Peru, 1878 cover with 2½ d. cancelled "942" of Larnaca, 1880 cover with 1 d. venetian red and 6 d. grey to Montevideo, 1880 cover from 'Passage West' at 4½ d. rate, 1877/1881 covers (3) from Gibraltar, Jubilee 1 s. green single franking. Rates of ¼ d., ½ d.,1 d.,  2½ d.,  3½ d., 4 d., 4½ d., 5 d., 6 d., 8 d., 9½ d., 1s. noted with unusual destinations etc.    
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 1438 Great Britain

    1887/98: Christmas Cards (2) with 1887 example ahowing five continents and five Steamers (P&O, Orient Mail, Cunard Mail, West Indies & Pacific Mail and Cape Mail), and 1889 "The Postal Service That Never Halts" with five continents and Ship and Locomotive illustrations, each annotated "Universal Postal Union with Christmas Greetings from the Officers of the General Post Office, London, 1889-90", the second card in colour. Superb and very rare.
    Starting bid : 160 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1439 Great Britain

    1911: First UK Aerial Post, the selection of cards/covers (5), with card in green franked at ½ d. used from Windsor to London (Sept 17), brown card from London to Cambridge (Sept 12), another in brown from London (Sept 9) to the Isle of Wight, card in green optd. for the "Molassine Company" from London (Sept 9) and dull violet envelope with insert, franked at 1 d. from London (Sept 15). 
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF
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