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  • Lot# : 1219 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1840/1932: Lot Great Britain & Commonwealth of covers and unused adhesives, incl. Penny Black plate 1A lettered FJ, earliest printing with four good margins on torn letter sheet dated May 13, 1840, tied by crisp and contrasting red Maltese cross, Penny Red, a superb example on envelope from DARLINGTON; Commonwealth Bermuda 1932 12s.6d. grey & orange die II unmounted og., British Levant, further on unused adhesives from Cyprus, Gibraltar, and Malta, also an 1866 cover from Hinton, New South Wales to Langholm, Scotland bearing Diadem pair 2 d. dull blue perf. 12 & 6 d. mauve perf. 13. An interesting lot ex collection Provera two opinions Holcombe.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF

    Lot# : 1220 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1877/1910c: Selection 20 adhesives, primarily unused and five covers incl. British South Africa Company 1892-93 Arms £5 sage-green & £10 brown, 1901 Arms £ 5 blue & £ 10 lilac, all four unused without gum, Johore 1904 $ 100 green & scarlet, Malaysian States Three Elephants $ 25 green orange from Selangor and Federated Malay States (2), Egypt 1926 Inauguration of Port Fouad 50 p., and Malta 1919 St. Paul 10 sh. black used, also 1877 cover POSTE EGIZIANE CAIRO to Italy bearing Penasson 1 pi. rose-red & pair 10 pa. mauve, 1908 registered cover Grenada via New York to Switzerland, 1892 Swaziland registered cover Bremersdorp to the Netherlands with three-colour franking SWAZIELAND ovpt on Transvaal, the ovpt on ½ d. grey strongly shifted, cert. BPA, in addition two Hejaz covers. Four opinions and a certificate Gi = £ 50'000+ following the consignor.
    Starting bid : 7,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1221 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1952/70c: Lot hundreds definitive and commemorative adhesives in compl. sets in unmounted og. condition on stockcards, incl. Abu Dhabi, Aden, Ascension, Bahrain, Cocos Islands, Barbados, Bermuda, Antarctic Territories, British Guiana, British Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Southern Rhodesia, Southern Africa, Singapore, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Malaya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Gilbert Islands, Jamaica, Kuwait, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert & Ellice, Tonga, and Tristan da Cunha. An interesting group of high catalogue value Gi = £ 19'239 following the consignor.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1222 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1946-94: Collections of Gibraltar, Malta and Ireland in 4 Lindner-hingeless albums, Gibraltar 1 album 1943-94, from 1950 on complete, 1 album Malta 1950-94, Ireland 2 albums 1949-94, only unmounted stamps found.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1223 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1863-1955ca.: Good lot of mostly letters and envelope Great Britain and Colonies beginning with 19th. e.g. nice letter with 6 d small figures lettered A E / E A to Switzerland, Airpost, registered mail. 1 £ Silver Jubilee from Malta on FDC. Some Hongkong, Mauritius, Southern Nigeria, New Zealand, Victoria, From the Sechelles an envelope 1908 to Zürich with 15 Cents KEVII with cancel "CASCADE", etc.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF

    Lot# : 1224 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1873-1950: Lot ca. 100 items, stationery and picture postcards from Great Britain and Colonies as Ceylon, Gambia, Old Australian States, New Zealand and Sarawak. Some items addressed to the unusual destination Khartoum in Sudan.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 1225 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1918/54: Group of seven Crash covers, incl. 1918 (June 4): 'S.S. Kenilworth Castle' wreck cover franked with KGV 1d. from "Pretoria 24 Apr. 18" to a B.E.F. Royal Flying Corps member in France, 1929 Imperial Airways double crash 'City of Alexandria' and 'City of Athens' (Oct. 26) in Mersa Mathrut, Egypt, 1938 envelope from Wadi Medani, Sudan (Feb. 11) to Dublin of interrupted IA Flight Short S.23 'CORSAIR' at Athens, Greece (Feb 12/13), 1935 reg. cover from Dublin of SABENA First Flight Brussels - Elisabethville Belgian Congo (Nov. 12) franked with Seahorse 2/6 d., 1944 censored envelope from "Göteborg-1 24.8.44 of B.O.A.C. Lockheed Lodestar G-AGIH Crash at Kinnekulle, Sweden (Aug.29) with boxed special cachet "Damaged through an air- / plane accident in course / of conveyance" in violet as well as two fragments of 1946 Air France Crash DC-3 'DAKOTA' at Le Bourget Airport, Paris (Sept. 4).
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF
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