The Golden Collection of Great Britain Part One

Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklet Panes: 1984 Christian Heritage 13p panes DP73 and DP75 variety phosphor omitted, fine unmounted mint. S.G. Spec. UEP18a, 20a, cat. £625.
[Proposed price: £150-180]
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Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklet Panes: 1984 Christian Heritage 13p pane DP75 variety broad phosphor bands, displaced downwards, the first column missing phosphor, scratch in phosphor otherwise fine unmounted mint. S.G. Spec. UEP20b, cat. £475.
[Proposed price: £100-120]
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Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklet Panes: 1986 British Rail 17p. pane of nine DP86 and 17p. pane of six DP89, each with the yellow omitted from the lettering only on the selvedge, pane of six with small gum wrinkle in margin at right otherwise fine unmounted mint, with a copy of a 1987 letter from the P.O. Postal Supplies Department suggesting that the yellow colours in the lettering and in the illustrations in the selvedge were...

Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklet Panes: 1988 Financial Times se-tenant pane DP107 variety grey-green (on 18p.) printing double, natural paper crease at top right and natural light paper bends in selvedge, fine unmounted mint, rare, a dramatic variety. S.G. X1006IEa, Spec. UHP3a, cat. £3,500. Photo.
[Proposed price: £1000-1200]
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Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklets: A collection of folded and window booklets in three albums, incl. constant flaws, good range of cylinder booklets with scarce incl. 50p. Pond Life 2 PCP + two bands B43 p67, 65p. 8 p27 no dot, £1.25 Trains 4 right margin B36 p36, £1.70 (£1.55) Letters Abroad left margin B14, £1.70 Write Now left margin B19, 1983 Christmas B42 p49, also with a quantity of loose panes with selvedge (removed from...

Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklets: A selection of folded booklets, all miscut incl. 50p. Farm Animals 2, 50p. Archaeology 1, 50p. Postal History 4 cylinder B1, £1 End of the War 1 (weak cover where folded), £1.20 Write Now right margin plain (trimmed at top), another with cylinder B12 p62 (trimmed at foot), £1.80 Jolly Postman right margin cylinder B2 (slight trimming at top left only), £1.80 Linnean Society left margin cylinder...

Queen Elizabeth II: Decimal Machins: Booklets: 50p. Follies 3 Paxton’s Tower pair of booklets, variety miscut resulting in face values of 24p. and 76p., first with just a trace of trimming at lower right otherwise fine, very scarce. S.G. Spec. UMFB26A, UMFB27A, cat. £1,300. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
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Queen Elizabeth II: 1988-97 Castle High Values: 1988 £1 to £5 collection on leaves with basic plate blocks of four complete as issued with one duplicate, also with singles incl. £2 on glazed paper, and set in horizontal gutter pairs, unmounted mint. (63 items)
[Proposed price: £350-400]

Queen Elizabeth II: 1988-97 Castle High Values: 1992-95 £3 creamy paper in a lower right corner vertical pair, the corner stamp completely blank, the lower margin not perforated through, folded through horizontal perfs. and side margin below the printed stamp, unmounted mint, most unusual. Photo.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
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Queen Elizabeth II: 1988-97 Castle High Values: 1997 Enschede £1.50 variety gold (Queen’s head) omitted, unused without gum, creases in top right corner, rare. Brandon certificate (2005). S.G. 1993a, unpriced unused, EC GBR3986a - circa 19 known (two uncancelled). Photo.
[Proposed price: £250-300]

Queen Elizabeth II: 1988-97 Castle High Values: 1997 Enschede £5 in an unmounted mint top right corner block of 25 (5 x 5, folded through perfs. below the third row), the centre stamp in the lower row variety gold (Queen’s head) omitted, one stamp with small adhesion, variety stamp fine, a rare multiple. S.G. 1996a, cat. £6,000+, EC GBR3992a - circa 12 mint known (two creased). Photo.
[Proposed price: £2500-2800]

Postage Dues: 1914 to 1994 mint collection on leaves with basic sets complete, shades, wmk. sideways-inverted varieties incl. 1924-31 2d., 1955-57 11/2d., 1959-63 5s. block of four, some controls incl. 1914-22 11/2d. “V 23” (imperf.) strip of three, 1s. “V. 23” strip of three, 1924-31 3d. printed on the gummed side, 3d. on experimental paper, 1954-55 4d. imperf. pair (very lightly mounted), etc., varied condition but mainly fine, the majority...