Stamps

Great Britain 1840 1d black plate 4, red Maltese Cross and four margins.

Great Britain two 1d blacks on entires January 1841 from Preston (cut into) and four margin example from Liverpool to Lancaster.

1970 Commemorative cover with Field Post Office 256 postmark and signed 'Montgomery of Alamein F.M.'.

Iran 1902 3 chahis unused pane of twenty-four stamps (no gum) and 1906 sheet of twelve 10 chahis brown with Provisoire overprint in black and to with gum.

Wreck Mail Nov 1862 cover from South Australia to Edinburgh with boxed 'Saved from the Wreck of the Colombo', scarce early shipwreck cover.

Wreck Mail March 1886 wrapper from UK to New York with PO New York, label attached re Steamer 'Oregon' sunk in a collision off Fire Island.

Wreck Mail Feb 1899 SS Labrador from Canada to London with officially sealed label and boxed 'Damaged by Immersion in Sea Water'.

Wreck Mail March 1907 with Sierra Leone 1d cancelled Paquebot Plymouth and straight line 'Salved from SS Jebba' addressed to Sussex plus three postcards of the wreck.

Wreck Covers group of six covers written up on leaves with 1905 'SS Cairo', 1907 'Damaged by Immersion in Sea Water' from Canada to UK, Dec 1918 'Recovered from train fire at Monroe (Wash) USA with China Official Sealed label, Feb 1930 SS Comorin Damaged by Fire (2 covers) Australia to UK.

Wreck Covers from 1936 'Boudicea' 1935 'City of Khartoum', 1936 'Scipco' Flying Boat, 1938 'Calpurnia', ten covers, including two from Thailand.

Wreck Covers 1937 'Courtier' and Dec 1937 'Cyanus' Flying Boat crashed Brindisi with covers from India, Malaya and Egypt (9 covers).

Wreck Covers June 1939 'Centurion' Flying Boat sunk near Calcutta four covers, including one from Johore.

Wreck Covers with 1928 'Damaged by Fire in Egypt', June 1935 'Quetta Earthquake Postage Free', 1936 Antigua to British Guiana 'Received Damaged', May 1933 from French Morocco to Belgium (6 items).

Wreck Covers group of thirteen covers from 1940s, several wartime with unidentified craft, 1941 to Palestine 'Salved from the Sea', October 1944 to China 'Damaged by Fire' (13 items).

Wreck Covers May 1953 and Jan 1954 Comet Crash covers with covers from Singapore to England 'Salvaged Mail Comet Crash Near Calcutta 2nd May 1953', cachet and 'Damaged by Sea Water Comet Mail' (9 covers).

Wreck Covers March 1954 Singapore and December 1954 Prestwick with covers from Australia and New Zealand and December 1954 covers from UK to North America (16 covers).

Wreck Covers with June 1951 'Malabar-Princess' from India, June 1956 'Argonaut' from Nigeria to UK crashed Kano, 1968 Bangkok to England crashed Dum Dum, India, plus later covers (11 covers).

World stamps on stock cards with Great Britain surface printed, including 1862 3d rose on cover to Rotterdam, British Commonwealth, Rhodesia 1892 £5 fiscal used, 1905 Falls 5sh mint, Austria 1908 10K used, Germany 1949 Goethe miniature sheet unmounted, German East Africa 1900 set to 3 rupees used and Togo 1900 5mk mint.

Great Britain 1840 1d black plate 3 and plate 5 with red Maltese Cross and plate 5 used on June 1841 cover from Preston with black Maltese Cross plus 1841 2d blue used (all four margined).