Stamps

Great Britain 1884 £1 brown-lilac stamp, very fine used with central Belfast postmark (SG184).

Great Britain 1888 £1 brown-lilac stamp, watermark orbs used (SG186).

Great Britain 1887-1900 ½d to 1 shilling fine unmounted mint set of 14 stamps.

Great Britain Edward VII ½d to 1 shilling, five unmounted mint set of 15 stamps.

Great Britain 1913 Waterlow Seahorses 2 shilling 6d, 5 shilling, 10 shilling and £1 stamps, well centred mint.

Great Britain 1929 PUC set to £1, set of three sideways watermark, set of hour inverted watermark including scarce 2½d, all stamps unmounted mint.

Great Britain 1939-48 set of six high value stamps, fine unmounted mint.

Great Britain 1d black plate (4 margins, close at right) on July 1840 cover Manchester to Kendal, 1840 2d blue (3 margins) unused part gum, scarce stamp.

Macau miniature sheets fine unmounted mint, 1996-2006 (total 75).

Great Britain 1d red stamp plate 185 in mint block of twelve (some perfs splitting).

Great Britain postal history, correspondence from Edinburgh to St Andrews with 1838 and 1839 pre-stamp entires, eight entires with 1d blacks postmarked red Maltese Cross, only one with four clear margins, also 1840 2d blue cancelled red Maltese Cross and two covers with stamp removed, all with central file fold (total 14).

Canada 1928 set of eleven 1 cent to $1 fine mint, some unmounted mint.

World postal stationery cards, envelopes and wrappers unused, with Australia States, Ceylon, Gibraltar, India, South America, some age spotting.

USA airmail stamps, mint with 1923 set of three, 1930 Zepplin $1.30 and $2.60, 1933 50 cent green.

Australia used stamp collection in three albums from 1913 with 1915 Kangaroos to £1, 1929 to 10 shillings, 1932 to £1 and £2, George V heads, 1932 Sydney Bridge 5 shillings, 1937 robes to £1, 1965 Navigators to £2, commemoratives and definitives up to 2001, including miniature sheets.

New Zealand used stamp collection in three albums from 1900-2001, including 1925 Dunedin Exhibition, 1931 Smiling Boys, 1953 to 10 shillings, definitives and commemoratives with miniature sheets.

Israel used stamp collection in three albums from 1948-2001, later issues with tabs.

Switzerland used stamp collection in two albums plus stock book, from 1882-2002 with 1923 to 40 Airs, 1945 Pax set to 10 francs, 1949 20c maroon Type I, miniature sheets, Pro Juventute from 1915 used sets.

British Africa used stamp collection in four albums with Basutoland 1933 to 10 shillings, 1938 to 10 shillings, Lesotho Bechunaland 1888 to 10 shillings, 1932 to 10 shillings, 1937 to 10 shillings, 1955 to 10 shillings, Botswana, Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia 1924 and 1931 sets to 5 shillings, 1953 to £1, Zimbabwe Swaziland 1933 to 10 shillings, 1938-54 to 10 shillings, 1956 to £1, 1961 set charges up to 2001.