Stamps

An August 1840 cover from Peterborough to London with 1d black stamp, plate 1b, 4 clear to large margins with tied red Maltese cross.

A Great Britain royalty group of five first day covers, including 1997 Golden Wedding set with Buckingham Palace postmark, 2000 Queen Mother miniature sheet with Buckingham Palace in violet postmark, and 2002 Golden Jubilee with Sandringham House postmark.

A Canada stamp album page with 1897 Jubilee mint set of twelve, ½ cent to $1.

A Canada used collection in album, including 1897 Jubilee ½ cent to $1, 1928 set up to $1, 1930 set up to $1, 1949 OHMS set up to $1, 1950 Official up to $1 and postage dues.

A small box of Queen Victorian line engraved stamps, including an 1840 1d black pair, used, with light red Maltese cross (4 margins), 1841 1d and 2d, 1d plates.

A collection of world stamps within four albums, including Great Britain, mint and used from Edward VIII to Queen Elizabeth II.

A Lincoln album of early stamps, including China 1894 Dowager 9 Candarins used, and a Cyprus GB overprinted, together with a Simplex album and a group of covers with 1842 1d red brown Manchester to Oldham Maltese cross cancel.

Three Lincoln albums of world stamps, including three Great Britain 1840 1d black (one is 4 margins), 1841 1d red brown unused and used, few early covers with 1d reds and a folder with some loose in envelopes.

Two New Imperial stamp albums containing British Empire (no GB), mostly mint with Ceylon, Hong Kong including 1921-32 2 cent green with inverted watermarks, Malta and British Africa, very clean albums.

A small group of stamps, including Great Britain from Queen Victoria used, a roll of one hundred 1st and 2nd class self-adhesive stamps, smiler sheet, seven scarce RAF signed covers including 1976 Mosquito Aircraft Museum cover reflown in 1982 and 1983 (see accompanying literature).

A British Empire stamp collection in four albums, from Queen Victoria-George V, mint and used, including Australia and States, Canada, Cyprus, Falkland Islands 1904 5 shillings used, Great Britain 1840 1d and 2d and 1d black on cover (cut into), Edward VII 10sh used, India from 1854, Newfoundland imperfs and New Zealand, together with an album of world stamps.

A collection of world postal history from pre-stamp to modern, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong first day covers, postal stationery, WWII covers and postcards.

A collection of Great Britain stamps loose on cards, including six 1840 1d blacks (all badly cut), 1840 2d blue, surface printed, George V Seahorses used, approval books and presentation packs.

A collection of stamps in four albums and some loose, including Great Britain, Turkey 1920s, postal history including 1920 cover from Sandringham with 'GV' royal seal in violet, and cricket official TCCB 1973 set of eighteen different postmarks.

A collection of Czechoslovakia stamps contained within seven albums from 1918-1975 mint, and 1918-1992 used, including 1918 Scout issue, 1919 Austria overprinted to 3k mint, 1920 Air set used, 1926 'All-Sokol' set used, together with an album of covers, folders of album leaves, postal stationery and miniature sheets (two boxes).

A collection of Poland stamps in five albums and stock book, including 1860 10 kopek used, 1919 Austria overprinted to 4k green mint and used, 1919 'Gniezno' provisional set on cover, 1938 Exhibition miniature sheet used, 1938 stratosphere miniature sheet used, together with some loose in folder issues up to 1985 mint and used.

A collection of British Commonwealth stamps in album, stock book, album leaves and loose in envelopes, including Ceylon, India 1948 Gandhi 10 rupee used, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika 1938-1952 to £1, 1954 to £1 mint and used, Nigeria, Nyasaland and Rhodesia.

A collection of South America stamps contained in three albums, including two Scott albums, three stock books and album leaves, including Argentina from 1858 to modern, Brazil, Bolivia and Surinam, some loose in packets (two boxes).

Five Great Britain printed stamp albums and a stock book from 1840 1d black (4 margins) with red Maltese cross, George VI 1948 £1 mint, 1960s phosphor sets unmounted mint, and decimal issues up to 2002, unmounted mint.