Stamps, Postcards & Postal History

1840 1d black, plate 3, intense shade, an extremely attractive example of this plate with very good margins and bright red Maltese cross cancel. ...

1840 1d intense black (SG.1), plate 5, attractive example with four margins and neat red MX. ...[more]

1840 1d black (SG.2), plate 6, four good even margins and light red Maltese Cross cancel. ...[more]

1840 1d black, plate 8, four margins and level maltese cross cancel in brownish shade. ...[more]

1840 1d black, plate 8, magnificent example with large even margins and nearly full clear black Maltese cross cancel. ...[more]

1840 2d blue, plate 1, four margins, lovely colour with perfect full red maltese cross just overlapping with part of another, a most attractive ex...

1841 1d red-brown Plate 9, four margins with part of adjoining stamp at right, on cover backstamped with May 29th lozenge pmk in red and 'T-P Chie...

Line-engraved group with 1841 1d pale red-brown, SG.9, mint with four margins, and two used 1841 2d blues with large margins and light postmarks, ...

1841 penny reds with numbers in cross postmarks complete, majority (8) with four margins, number 3 with heavy crease breaking surface, number 12 r...

1841 1d red, four good margins, nicely tied on cover by '10' in Maltese cross postmark, SG.B1uj, one of the scarcer numbers. The cover optimistica...

1870-79 ½d rose or rose-red, the set of plates mint/unused excepting plate 9. The best original gum are plates 1, 6, 8, 10 and 11. Others dull/dis...

1870-79 ½d rose-red, plate 6, mint block of six, original gum, the lower three stamps unmounted. Cat. as singles £720. ...[more]

1870-79 ½d rose-red, plate 6, lower margin inscription block of fourteen with original gum, all but the left-most vertical pair mint never hinged....

Line-engraved group with 1840 2d blue sound with margins all round save just touching frame LR corner, 1841 1d red used strip of three attractive ...

Interesting group of twenty-eight covers spanning the whole line-engraved period, many bought individually in auction many years ago, including 18...

Group of five covers with late line-engraved frankings in combination with surface-printed issues, bought individually at auction many years ago w...

1847 embossed 1/- green, with margins clear all round and generous on three sides, excellent for this issue, neatly tied on 12/12/1852 cover from ...

1860 cover to England franked with wing-margin 6d lilac (SG.Z97) tied by barred 'C' postmark of Constantinople. Backstamped with good strike of re...

1862 4d pale red (SG.80), mint. Cat. £2,000. ...[more]

1862-64 1/- green 'small letters', an interesting partial gum example with watermark inverted. Moderate imperfections. SG.90Wi is without price fo...

1867 2/- dull blue (or pale blue), overprinted 'Specimen' type 8 (SG.118s), unused. Decent well-centred appearance. Cat. £600. ...[more]

1862-1876, group of five 'specimen' ovpts, SG.75s (cat. £500), SG.108s (cat. £350), SG.110s (cat. £425), SG.112s (cat. £500) and SG.152s (cat. £40...

1875 2½d rosy mauve plate 1 on blued paper, SG.138, mint. With Stanley Gibbons retail card stating original gum. Small thin spot at lower edge, ne...

1876 8d orange wmk large garter, SG.156, mint, crease/repair through 'post' of 'postage' otherwise a collectable example. Cat. £1,850. ...[more]

1878 10/- greenish grey, SG.128 used, with usual somewhat heavy cancel, otherwise completely sound. Cat.£3,200. ...[more]

1880-81 mint set to 5d indigo, SG.164/169, the 2d signed, the 5d with original gum. The 1½d somewhat heavily hinged, otherwise no faults. Cat. £1,...

1883-84 lilac and green 'specimen' overprint set, less the ½d. Attractive overall quality and colours, the 1/- with fairly unobtrusive small surfa...

1883-84 'lilac and green' set mint, SG.187/196, very minor imperfections only, the 9d original gum, regumming possibly on 6d and probably on 1/-, ...

1882 5/- rose plate 4 on blued paper (SG.130), beautifully centred and with cds postmarks. Cat. £4,000. ...[more]

1882 white paper £5 orange, SG.137, used with Glasgow cds and partially cleaned crayon line, successfully ironed crease along lower edge cannot be...

1881 1d lilac scarce imperforate (SG.174a, cat. £6,000 as pair). The strength of impression may imply an imprimatur. Either way a most attractive ...

1884 £1 brown-lilac 'Crowns', highly presentable used example of this classic with the usual heavy cancels but clear of the Queen's profile. Entir...

1884 £1 brown-lilac mint, overprinted 'Specimen' type 9 (SG.185s), very lightly hinged original gum. Cat. £2,800. ...[more]

1887 ½d vermilion, imperforate (SG.197d, cat. £5,000 with lower margin), mint in very attractive fresh condition. This example has the same deep a...

Late Queen Victoria group of mint multiples, with 1880 1d Venetian red unmounted block of six, 1887 3d and 4d 'jubilee' blocks of six and 1900 1/-...

Queen Victoria surface-printed used range, over fifty stamps, starting with the 1850s with usual range of postmark quality, the neatly cancelled e...

Queen Victoria surface-printed frankings to overseas destinations, 26 covers individually bought in auction many years ago, including 4d rose pair...

1902 De La Rue £1 dull blue-green (SG.266), mint, almost imperceptibly hinged and very fresh with rich colour. Cat. £2,000. ...[more]

1902-13, KEVII used set to £1 green, the high values with somewhat average postmarks, the stamps absolutely sound. Minimum cat. all as cheapest ty...

1903-04 1d scarlet Admiralty Official (SG.O108) in mint never hinged block of four. Cat. £280 for a hinged block. ...[more]

1913 10/- indigo-blue Seahorse, Waterlow printing, SG.402, most attractive mint example with vibrant colour and beautifully centred. Rear tips of ...

King George V 'seahorses' group, all cds used, with 1918-19 Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6d shades, 5/- and 10/- and the 1934 re-engraved set, SG.413a, 41...

1929 UPU £1 black, SG.438, sound mint with attractive appearance. Arguably very slightly toned gum but no more than usual for this issue (see scan...

QV to KGVI mint range with over 200 stamps incl. 1881 1d pale lilac 14 dots (SG.171, cat. £225), 1887-1900 jubilees, the 1/- green stained, the 1/...

1948 Royal Silver Wedding £1 full sheet, unmounted, vertical bend through second column and others along perfs, nevertheless a very attractive she...

An exciting time-warp collection in an old-fashioned album, intact as received, the condition very mixed on the earlier issues and improving later...

The second volume of the collection starting at the beginning of the surface-printed period and running to the early 1950s, including an excellent...

An old-fashioned 'Philatelic Album' from an original estate (see also Lots 49, 54, 104, 151-156, 190 and 206). This containing sheet reconstructio...

Excellent collection of approx. 1300 mint and used stamps from 1840 to 1950s, neatly presented in a loose-leaf album with condition generally far ...

Line-engraved collection of the imperforate issues on stockpages, with 144 penny reds, incl. attractive maltese crosses on piece, many four margin...

Later line-engraved collection/accumulation in a stockbook with several hundred 1864-79 penny reds generally avoiding faults and organised by plat...

A collection of Great Britain assembled in the 1940s housed in a gold-tooled Windsor album, the line-engraved with potential on two unused 1d blac...

Collection in three boxed Lighthouse hingeless albums and two further volumes, highlights including two four-margin 1d blacks, one very attractive...

A wild little stockbook that emerged from the balance accumulation of an original estate, packed with an exciting range of good 19th century and K...

QV to early decimal QEII collection in several small stockbooks, with much line-engraved in the form of dozens of imperf 1d reds and a few hundred...

Balance of over a hundred covers and postal stationery items from 1820s to 1950s, much bought in auction many years ago, incl. long mourning cover...

An intriguing old batch of insurance company correspondence, the main part a dense bundle of over 400 1854/61 1d red 'stars' frankings on large pa...

Interesting collection of the 'skeleton' postmarks for towns and villages of County Durham, alphabetically presented in a loose-leaf album from An...

Collection in stockbook and binder, a somewhat eccentric range of material from which came the KEVII mint £1 in this sale, so presumably other thi...

Collection in six various volumes: Windsor album with useful range from line-engraved imperfs onwards in generally above average condition, two Li...