G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

India Letter - Cape of Good Hope. 1818 (Apr 15) Entire letter to "Lieut Colonel Warre, D.Q.M. General, Cape of Good Hope" written by his mother, b...

India. 1831 (Sep 19) Entire letter from E.F Fraser in Scotland to his son, W. Fraser in Delhi, sent under cover to Charles Grant, President of the...

1855-1912 Underpaid covers and cards from abroad including picture postcards deemed liable to letter rate (28), unusual 1½d charge mark on 1881 Au...

1839 Leather bound volume "A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the seventh year of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fou...

Air Mail Labels. c.1925-35 Labels including Imperial Airways booklets (10) issued in G.B (4), South Africa (2), Australia (2), Egypt or India, U.S...

c.1855-1968 Commonwealth collection in four albums, many better KGV and KGVI stamps and sets, including Ascension, Australia 1932 5/- Sydney Harbo...

1919 (Nov 12) England to Australia first Aerial Post, cover addressed to "Mrs A. Bertram, Moonya, Patey Street, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia" c...

1937 (Mar 31 / Apr 1) Air Mail covers to G.B (6) or India, two with India stamps posted on the final day of Indian control, five with first day us...

1843 (June 24) Cover to Ireland, with enclosed letter from Henry Bruce written on H.M.S "Agincourt", bearing an unusually fine strike of the red o...

Various India or India States stamps including 1854 2a used (3), 1928 15r pair mint and 2a blocks of 16, 32 and 96 containing 36 tete-beche pairs,...

1810-23 Entire letters, two to Calcutta, the others all to Scotland with Ship Letter Deal (2), India Letter Deal or India Packet Letter London, tw...

1820-31 Entire letters (4) and an entire, comprising 1820 letter from the orientalist H.H Wilson at Benares to the traveller and writer James Bail...

Karachi. 1856-c.1880 Covers with Karachi cancels, comprising 1856 cover to Delhi bearing 1854 ½a and 1860 cover to Bombay with four 1856 ½a stamps...

Madras. 1863-73 Covers comprising 1865-66 covers to London franked 2a yellow pair or four 1a stamps with the scarce "MADRAS / INDIA PAID" duplex w...

All-India Cancels. c.1873-85 Covers and cards with duplexs or single obliterators with postal circle letter and office number (16, Cooper type 32)...

Bombay G.P.O. 1855 (Feb 16) Cover to England "via Southampton" bearing two 4a stamps (S.G. 19, both cut to shape) cancelled by diamond of nine par...

Madras Circle. 1865 (Dec 2) Cover to England franked 4a + 2a + 8p each cancelled by triangular barred "D/160" (Cooper type 29), backstamped red do...

1865 (July 22) Stampless entire letter from Calcutta to France posted into a portable letterbox on a steamer landed at Madras, with framed "FOUND ...

1867-1901 Covers from G.B to India franked 1/-, 10d, 5d or 1d, all redirected, handstamped "REDIRECTED" at Madras (2, boxed) or Poona, or "Reposte...

Netherlands Indies. 1863-66 Stampless covers to India, all with "BATAVIA / FRANKO" datestamp, two with Singapore transit c.d.s and circular "St. B...

Portugal/Gibraltar. 1879 (May 20) Cover from Porto to India bearing 100r single and strip of five, sent via Gibraltar and French steamer to Alexan...

Tasmania. 1867 (Apr 25) Cover from Hobart to an Officer in the 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers at Nagode, Bengal, franked 6d, underpaid by 6d with red ...

1860-62 Covers sent via Marseille franked 4a, 5a or 6a all with boxed "INSUFFICIENT" handstamps and boxed "DEFICIENT POSTAGE / FINE 3d" in red or ...

1864 Covers sent via Marseille franked 3a8p or 6a (2, three 2a stamps from Lucknow or 1a pair + 4a from Bunnoo) all with scarce large boxed "DEFIC...

1868 Cover from Secunderabad, via Marseille, franked 4a8p with curved "INDIA UNPAID", boxed "INSUFFICIENT" and "DEFICIENT POSTAGE (3) / INDIAN SHA...

Persian Field Force. 1857 (Apr 3) Stampless entire letter to Ireland, headed "From No. 2555 Private James Ligan, No. 6 Company First Madras Fusili...

1914-15 India 1a Postal stationery postcards used by internees in transit, a 1914 (Dec 12) KEVII card written from Camp Wellington to Switzerland ...

Ahmednagar. 1914-19 Covers and cards to P.O.Ws at Ahmednagar including Japan 1½s postal stationery card, Bavaria 10pf postal stationery card, post...

Bellary. 1915 Stampless postcard and cover from the civilian internee camp (which closed by the end of 1916), sent within India endorsed "Prisoner...

1925 (Feb 5) Anglo-Indian Survey Flight by Alan Cobham, picture postcard of Cobham's De Havilland aircraft flown from Calcutta to London with the ...

1929-39 Flight covers, mainly first or special flights from India including 1929 covers to Australia franked for Perth to Adelaide service (2), 19...

1931 (Feb 25) Imperial Airways first despatch to Africa sent entirely by air, covers to Assouan, Nairobi, Mwanza, Dodoma, Selukwe or Johannesburg ...

1931 (Apr 13) Cover from Bombay to Goa franked 1a, red "FIRST AIR MAIL / FROM BOMBAY TO / PORTUGUESE INDIA", Nova Goa backstamp. Very scarce, just...

Saudi Arabia. 1932-35 Commercial air mail covers from Karachi to Jeddah franked 7½a, all flown from Karachi to Cairo, transit and arrival backstam...

1933 (July 7/11) England to India air route extension to Calcutta, covers carried on the first flight from Jodhpur to Cawnpore, Delhi to Cawnpore,...

1934 (Dec 4) Covers bearing Chamba or Jhind stamps, intended for the Lahore to Karachi first flight, the Jhind cover registered from Sangrur sent ...

1935-36 Covers from India to England all with boxed "TOO LATE FOR AIR MAIL" datestamps for Cawnpore, Sukkur or Delhi, the Cawnpore datestamp (2 Ma...

1937 (Nov 10) Gwalior to Delhi, first return flight by Tata, cover with Gwalior overprint QV 1a6p + KGV ½a tied by the violet boxed flight cachet ...

1938 (Feb. 27/Mar. 1) First "All Up" Empire Air Mail Scheme flights, covers from India to England (9, one redirected to South Africa), Ceylon, Can...

1938 (Nov 21) Air Services of India Bombay to Kathiawar service, first flight covers carried on all legs on the outward and return flights, five c...

1939 (May) Pan Am First Transatlantic flight covers from New York to India (3), two reposted back to the USA via Europe or Trans-Pacific routes, a...

1939 (July 30) India to North America by Imperial Airways first North Atlantic service from Southampton, covers posted at Karachi, flown to Montre...

1940 (May 3/4) Cover carried on the Air Services of India first flight from Baroda to Bombay, reposted and carried on the first flight from Bombay...

St. Kitts. 1942 (Mar 17) Cover from Calcutta to St. Kitts, endorsed "Capt. J.P Roberts, Pilot B.W.I Airways landed first land plane in St. Kitts, ...

1942 (Apr.) Cover inscribed "This cover was with me when my plane crashed in Burma. I trekked to China where I secured an allied plane in which re...

1943 (Jan 8) India National Airways, Jorhat to Calcutta first flight cover franked ½a + 2a, arrival backstamp, fine and rare, just six covers flow...

1895 (Apr 3) India ¼a postcard to Bombay, bearing redrawn imperf ¼a red with native cancel, the card and stamp cancelled by "BHOPAL" c.d.s, an arr...

c.1894 Cover from Bhopal to Kishengarh franked India ½a tied by "I" in bars, reverse with imperf 1894-98 Bhopal 1a red-brown tied by c.d.s, datest...

1919 (Jan 28) Y.M.C.A Envelope to India bearing a diagonally bisected 8a tied by "F.P.O No. 339" c.d.s used at Makina, Basra. Not authorised but a...

Air Mails. 1932-57 First flight covers from or to Baghdad or Basrah, including scarce 1932 (Oct 4) Baghdad to Bahrain first flight over new route ...

1941-46 Forces mail, mainly with E.A A.P.O datestamps numbered between 2 and 89, from Kenya (52), Ethiopia (32), Burma, Northern Rhodesia (2), Uga...

1839-1993 Covers and cards including 1839-50 entire letters from Singapore with "INDIA LETTER / PENZANCE" or boxed "SINGAPORE / Bearing" datestamp...

Two well executed Forgeries of the oval device on mint or unused Straits Settlements 2c brown (stated to be the 'Freidl' forgery), also bogus hand...

1859 (Oct 15) Entire to Shanghai with 1855 4a cancelled octagonal "B/172", red boxed "INDIA PAID", backstamped at Singapore and Hong Kong, unobtru...

1924-38 Covers and cards with postage due stamps applied at Singapore, including underpaid covers from Netherlands Indies (3, one with ship cancel...

1883 Cover from India to Singapore franked 2a, handstamped "T" and marked "12c", with "4" charge mark (Proud UP42, 18 years earlier than recorded)...

Late Fee. 1926 (Jan 31) Picture postcard from Penang to India franked 24c, handstamped boxed "LATE FEE" (Proud I55, only a single example recorded...

1945 (Sep.) - 1946 (Jan.) Stampless O.A.S covers (7) and air letters (2) all with "RAFPOST 301" datestamps, seven of these sent by AC1 H.R Simmons...

1945 (Oct 3-16) Stampless covers from Singapore to England (2), USA or India, all carried free of charge, Singapore datestamps. The postal service...

Netherlands Indies. 1929-46 Covers including pre-war meters (37, also 7 fronts) and 1945-47 forces mail, with RAFPOST or Indian F.P.O datestamps (...