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A Great Britain Stamp album containing a well presented collection of Victorian stamps including two penny blacks and later stamps including high ...

Lot 270

Stamps:

Stamps: Stanley Gibbons The New Imperial Album, two volumes 1. Great Britain and Antigua to Malta, 2. Mauritius to Zululand from 1840 to mid-1936....

Stamp Collection filling a small carton, mainly Guernsey presentation packs to at least 2021, plus a few Great Britain commemorative sets valid f...

STAMPS - Great Britain Decimal Commemorative and definitive stamps, face value well in excess of £500, contained in albums, miniature sheets, year...

GREAT BRITAIN St Edwards Crown Castles set/Graphite definitive - comprising 4 values of 1955 LMM Castle Deformities plus 4 x 1957 graphite lined w...

Lot 91

Great Britain

Great Britain Used collection in two loose-leaf albums 1840-1970s, with range of line-engraved incl. 2d blue four margins and four penny blacks ...

Lot 87

Great Britain

Great Britain Interesting 19th century range, the eclectic balance of a collection, on album pages in a binder, incl. embossed 1/- strip tied on...

Great Britain etc. Postal History Interesting small box with well over 100 items from 18 th century to c.1940s, some family correspondences, mu...

STAMPS - Great Britain Queen Victoria to recent, on stock cards, packets etc. Top values to £1 noted mostly used. Includes complete mint sheets of...

Selection of First Day Covers 1960's-70's a Windsor loose leaf album Stamps of Great Britain with numerous stamps enclosed, small stock album with...

Three Great Britain albums containing Elizebeth II and other stamps. Including some unused high value stamps.

Lot 110

Great Britain

Great Britain Specialised QEII mint collection in 12 volumes, five loose-leaf albums and seven complementary stockbooks/binders. Some pre-QEII i...

Great Britain etc. Collection written-up in four Devon albums, along with an eclectic accumulation including hundreds of penny reds in mixed con...

Lot 99

Great Britain

Great Britain Accumulation in twelve diverse volumes, acquired for their line-engraved content, many hundreds of these issues incl. 15 penny bla...

Lot 189

Switzerland

Switzerland The thematic sections of the collection written-up on pages in folders, in 30 box-files, virtually every aspect of Swiss culture inc...

Great Britain Postal History of Leeds Collection of over 100 covers (33 stampless and 72 franked) with scholarly write-up on pages, starting fro...

Lot 188

Switzerland

Switzerland A tour of Switzerland through postal history and postcards, with focus on the railways, in 36 box-files, many lovely items acquired ...

Lot 190

Switzerland

Switzerland The interesting working balance of the collection and miscellaneous material in three banker's boxes, incl. 20+ albums/stockbooks wi...

Switzerland Travelling and Mobile Post Offices Postal history of the travelling post offices written-up on pages in 6 filing boxes plus a stockb...

The Second World War Collection on WWII-related material from mid 1930s to mid 1940s in four Davo albums, including France 1946-53 postage dues ...

Lot 186

Switzerland

Switzerland Postal history of the Alpine Passes, Hotels and Hostels, a lovely collection written-up on several hundred pages in 14 box-files, wi...

Lot 95

Great Britain

Great Britain Collection in a vintage Windsor loose-leaf album, with space-filler penny black and much other line-engraved incl. all but a handf...

Great Britain Postal History of London Erudite collection of 23 covers/cards written-up on exhibition pages, explaining the various postmarks us...

Lot 244

Worldwide

Worldwide Various collections in a carton including Great Britain 1940s-60s MNH multiples with many cylinder/plate block sets tipped in two loos...

Switzerland Pro Patria Collection of the Pro Patria issues in mint never hinged sets/blocks, used blocks, covers and FDCs, written-up in 16 alb...

Lot 185

Switzerland

Switzerland Collection of the postal history of the Swiss Lakes and lake steamers beautifully presented and written-up on hundreds of album page...

Switzerland Pro Juventute Wonderful collection of the youth charity stamps, mint and used and on covers and FDCs, as well as booklets and other...

Lot 181

Switzerland

Switzerland 1882-1905 collection of the numeral and cross issues on granite paper, written up in an album with well over 200 stamps of which 50 ...

Lot 245

Worldwide

Worldwide Accumulation in two cartons (one large) in albums and loose in old tins and envelopes, including a vintage collection written-up in in...

Lot 88

Great Britain

Great Britain Edward VII shades mint never hinged collection (140+), very high quality throughout, arranged by denomination in a binder, highli...

Great Britain 'Free Frank' Postal History Collection of ten entire covers written-up in great detail on pages, with another cover and many front...

Lot 103

Great Britain

Great Britain QEII decimal booklets collection in two volumes of Manila stockpages, plus two binders for 'prestige' booklets. The folded booklet...

Switzerland Bundesfeier Cards 1910-1937 collection of the official postal stationery for the yearly National Fête, neatly displayed and written-...

Lot 90

Great Britain

Great Britain Mint collection of the Kings and Elizabeth II in mounts on pages, highlights including KEVII De La Rue 5/-, Somerset House £1 with...

Lot 89

Great Britain

Great Britain Mint KGV collection on album leaves. including over 90 different control numbers majority MNH, eleven Downey heads looking all MNH...

Lot 250

Worldwide

Worldwide Accumulation of Great Britain, Channel Islands, Scandinavia and various Commonwealth countries, chiefly Falklands, in four cartons, o...

Lot 94

Great Britain

Great Britain A well-filled Windsor album, mostly used pre-1930s, incl. 1840 penny blacks (2) and 2d blue (none with full margins), 1d red plat...

Worldwide, Especially Great Britain & Commonwealth A carton of nice material, with SG.43 penny red plates/reconstructions incl. plate 225 attrac...

Lot 85

Great Britain

Great Britain High-quality mint collection of the surface-printed Victorian issues, 146 different, with 1857 4d rose, 6d deep lilac and 1/- gree...

Great Britain etc. Stockbook with an assortment of material, incl. 1840 1d black plate 1a (N-J) four margins tied on piece with red MX and other...

Great Britain etc. Carton of mixed albums and stockbooks, chiefly a Windsor album well-filled with mostly used from 1840 onwards in variable con...

Lot 82

Great Britain

Great Britain Interesting collection of 1840 material mainly on pages with write-up, including contemporary reprint of Charles Whiting's entry t...

British Commonwealth, including Great Britain Booklets Collection of over 250 booklets (of which 15 are GB 1935-53) in two albums, 1930s-'70s, o...

Lot 96

Great Britain

Great Britain Accumulation in a loose-leaf album (Windsor pages) and three stockbooks, 1000s of stamps 1841 to pre-decimal QEII, with line-engra...

Lot 86

Great Britain

Great Britain High-quality used collection of Victorian surface-printed issues, with generally neat and light numeric cancels on the 1855 to 186...

Lot 92

Great Britain

Great Britain Collection in a binder and pocket stockbook, presented neatly but with little regard for chronology, incl. penny black attractive...

Lot 83

Great Britain

Great Britain High-quality collection of the line-engraved issues, 225 stamps in mounts on pages, with 15 penny blacks of all plates except pl.1...

Lot 118

Great Britain

Great Britain Collection in five plastic containers, mainly new issues (sets, m/ss and booklets) 1990s to 2018, with the hingeless albums and pa...

Great Britain and Worldwide Miscellaneous accumulation in two cartons and an old case, with a handful of loose 1930s-40s airmail covers incl. gr...

Lot 230

Worldwide

Worldwide Vintage 'Ace' album with hundreds of 19th century to 1950s mint and used, though the best is probably the postal history loose in the ...

Lot 237

Worldwide

Worldwide A box containing the miscellaneous balance of a collection, including printed Oriel album with scattering of 19th century Great Britai...

Lot 76

Great Britain

Great Britain QEII errors, over a dozen colour shifts, missing colours, flaws etc. incl. (MNH unless otherwise stated) 1966 4d robin missing red...

Lot 111

Great Britain

Great Britain Accumulation in about 20 volumes, with strength in booklets organised in several binders from a few pre-decimal onwards, also earl...

Lot 47

Great Britain

Great Britain 1864-79 1d red collection of the plate numbers complete with attention to quality, generally light cancels, the pl.225 sound bar c...

Lot 73

Great Britain

Great Britain 1922 KGV 3/- booklets SG.BB22: edition 25, precancelled London type I, last pane detached otherwise very fine quality (cat. £850) ...

Lot 43

Great Britain

Great Britain 1840/41 accumulation of 18 stamps, with 15 penny blacks (two on cover), incl. plate 6 purporting to be mint with gum, crease and n...

Lot 102

Great Britain

Great Britain QEII mint collection in two containers, with extensive Machin cylinder blocks on regular and regionals with better incl. Scotland ...

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