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Auction No 439, Category: Postal History

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Scandinavia all-period ranges in albums, stockbooks & folders; includes many covers & cards with some interest in Norwegian maritime mail. (Many 100s)

Lot: 245

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £58
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Scandinavia all-period ranges in albums, stockbooks & folders; includes many covers & cards with some interest in Norwegian maritime mail. (Many 100s)

19th Century Entires and few wrappers of Italy (20, mostly to France), Germany (14, mostly Baden and Wurtemburg) and Switzerland (5), mainly 1830s/50s

Lot: 251

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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19th Century Entires and few wrappers of Italy (20, mostly to France), Germany (14, mostly Baden and Wurtemburg) and Switzerland (5), mainly 1830s/50s, with good variety of cancellations, mixed quality. (39)

Pre-stamp to 1960s Covers & Cards including 1828 with Wakefield dated mileage; 1908 PC from Austrian P.O. in Vathy; several French Morocco and Algeria

Lot: 252

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £42
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Pre-stamp to 1960s Covers & Cards including 1828 with Wakefield dated mileage; 1908 PC from Austrian P.O. in Vathy; several French Morocco and Algeria etc. (40). Also bundle of PPCs (mostly UK and France), old photo album and sundry ephemera.

King’s Cup Air Race 1972, a group of pilot signed flown covers, plus a duplicate unsigned cover, in a special binder, number 47 of 350 produced.

Lot: 266

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £40
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King's Cup Air Race 1972, a group of pilot signed flown covers, plus a duplicate unsigned cover, in a special binder, number 47 of 350 produced. (43 covers)

Postal ephemera including a Victorian postman’s hat, a postman’s whistle and letter pouch, postal order and parcel receipts, etc;

Lot: 269

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £58
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Postal ephemera including a Victorian postman's hat, a postman's whistle and letter pouch, postal order and parcel receipts, etc; also a tuning device for early teleprinters. (Qty.)

Telegrams 1890s-1950s, including illustrated Greetings Telegrams of Belgium (10), Norway (2), Hungary (3) and Czechoslovakia (3), all different. (40)

Lot: 270

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £54
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Telegrams 1890s-1950s, including illustrated Greetings Telegrams of Belgium (10), Norway (2), Hungary (3) and Czechoslovakia (3), all different. (40)      

Great Britain pre-stamp to 1855 Entires, wrappers and a front; including "Colchester / Penny Post" (4, three types, one with TO PAY 1d ONLY)

Lot: 273

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £38
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Great Britain pre-stamp to 1855 Entires, wrappers and a front; including Colchester / Penny Post (4, three types, one with TO PAY 1d ONLY); TOO LATE of Newcastle-u-Lyme; Shaftesbury / PyP with No.8; mileages of Honiton and Braintree; etc. Also 6 1830s Free fronts, variously signed. Fair to fine. (22)

Scottish pre-stamp Entires & Wrappers, including 1767 EL with Bishop mark; s/line TOBERMORAY, ARRAN, and TARBERT; circular INVERARAY (1804);

Lot: 274

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Scottish pre-stamp Entires & Wrappers, including 1767 EL with Bishop mark; s/line TOBERMORAY, ARRAN, and TARBERT; circular INVERARAY (1804); TOBERMORAY / PENNY POST: Addl.½ (17); 1786 EL Edinburgh to Glasgow with red Bishop mark, charged ‘3'; etc. Fair to fine. (29)

Great Britain 1834-1891 Court Documents, five with adhesive Revenue stamps; together with two unrelated items.

Lot: 275

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Great Britain 1834-1891 Court Documents, five with adhesive Revenue stamps; together with two unrelated items.

Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Letter Sheet used (May 1841) in London with printed advertisements for John Richards, Law Booksellers, Fleet Street.

Lot: 276

  • Auction Date: Wed 17th Dec 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £68
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Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Letter Sheet used (May 1841) in London with printed advertisements for John Richards, Law Booksellers, Fleet Street. Small area of loss from removal of seal, and central fold. Fine Maltese Cross in black.