Post Office Telegraph Stamps: A selection of stamps with coloured telegraphic cancellations with blue, purple, mauve, greenish and red, comprising 1d. plate 2 (2) and 3, 3d. plate 3 (2, one with red "LONDON E.C. POSTMASTER/MY 28/80" c.d.s.), 4d., 1s. plates 6 (2) and 10, 1881 1s. brown-orange plate 11 (2), 5s. plate 2 (2), very mixed condition. (13)
[Proposed price: £100-150]
The Dr. Conrad Graham Collection
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Lot #401 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Lot #402 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark shamrock 1d. red-brown imprimaturs, plates 2 SL, 3 SL, 4 BL, 5 RA, all with registration dates in pencil on reverse, also 1880 1/2d. orange plate 5 RC, faults.
[Proposed price: £150-180]
Lot #403 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark shamrock 1d. red-brown plate 1 BJ, BK, plate 2 GD-HD and SG, TG used on complete Post Office Telegraph forms (3), also plate 1 JB-JC, PG-PH and SD-SC pairs used on pieces, good to fine. S.G. L202. L203.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #404 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark shamrock 1d. red-brown with watermark inverted, comprising plate 1 AB unused, EI used with purple Threadneedle Street c.d.s., plate 2 JI used, plate 3 IA used, plate 1 uncatalogued used and plate 3 not catalogued, fair to fine. S.G. L202a, L203a, L204 var.
[Proposed price: £150-180]
Lot #405 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark shamrock 1d. red-brown plate 2 NB-OC mint block of four, NB and NCaffected by vertical crease, OC is unmounted, otherwise fine and rare, very few blocks of four known. S.G. L203a, cat. ᆪ1,100+. Photo.
[Proposed price: £200-250]
Lot #406 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray 3d. plate 1 DE-EF imperforate colour standard block, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 10, fine with gum (two are unmounted). S.G. L205t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £180-200]
Lot #407 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray 3d. plates 1 JC, 2 CK, 3 EL, 1880 watermark Crown sideways/sideways inverted plate 3 JK, 4 NE and 5 HJ, mint, a few imperfections, otherwise fine. L205-L210. Photo.
[Proposed price: £200-250]
Lot #408 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray 3d. plates 1 CI unused (corner fault), LC mint (creased), LL used, plate 2 BA used, all with watermark sideways-inverted, also 3d. plate 3 EI with indistinct watermark, and 4d. sage-green IF (missing corner perf.) watermark sideways-inverted used, varied condition. S.G. L205a, L206a, L211a.
[Proposed price: £180-200]
Lot #409 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray 3d. plates 2, 3, 4, 5 imprimaturs all lettered BL with the registration dates in pencil on reverse, small part original gum, good to fine. Only eight or nine of each value are in private hands. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #410 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 3d. plate 2 with 1876 (Oct. 31) c.d.s., 4d. plate 1 with 1877 (Apr. 7) c.d.s., 1876 1s. plate one with 5th. February 1876 c.d.s., plate 10 with 1880 (Mar. 2) c.d.s., also 10s. with 1877 (Mar. 23) c.d.s. Each the earliest known date.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #411 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray 3d. plate 3 RC plate proof on dull white paper, fine. Rare, originally part of a block of six of which three are now held in institutions. S.G. L207 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #412 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1881 watermark Crown sideways inverted 3d. CJ perforated colour trial in green, a few minute marks on front, otherwise fine with gum. These trials originally came to the market as blocks of twelve in the three colours. The blocks when split became sets and five are in private hands. The Phillips collection in the British Postal Museum & Archive is missing this trial. Photo.
[Proposed price: £600-800]
Lot #413 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1881 watermark Crown 3d. plates 3 SJ, (watermark sideways inverted), 4 KA, 5 KA and KC imprimaturs, all with pencil registration dates on reverse, KC without gum, a few minor imperfections, otherwise fine. Only nine or ten examples of plates 3 and 5 are in private hands. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #414 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1881 watermark Crown 3d. plate 4 NJ plate proof on dull white paper, fine and rare. Originally part of a block of six of which three are held in institutions. S.G. L209 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £350-400]
Lot #415 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1881 watermark Crown 3d. plates 3 MC-ND, 4 BF and 5 PI-PJ with watermark sideways/sideways inverted, fine and rare. S.G. L208-L210. Photo.
[Proposed price: £300-350]
Lot #416 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark large Garter sideways inverted 4d. sage-green plates 1 BL (small thin) and 2 CJ without gum, imprimaturs. Only nine examples of plate 1 and around twice as many of plate 2 are in private hands. Photo.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #417 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark large Garter sideways 4d. sage-green plate 1 ME-NF, imperforate block of four, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 9, fine with gum (two are unmounted). S.G. L211t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #418 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1883 4d. blue green plate 1 AA imperforate colour trial plate. Of the greatest rarity, unpriced by Gibbons and believed unique in private hands. The adjacent trial lettered AB is in the Langmead collection in the British Library and is endorsed in manuscript "Experimental on Crown 15. 10. 83". Photo.
[Proposed price: £3000-4000]
Lot #419 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1883 4d. blue green plate 2 AA imperforate colour trial. Of the greatest rarity, unpriced by Gibbons and believed unique in private hands. The adjacent trial lettered AB is in the Langmead collection in the British Library and is endorsed in manuscript "Experimental on Crown 15. 10. 83". Photo.
[Proposed price: £3000-4000]
Lot #420 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey plate 1 BL imprimatur and 1881 watermark Crown sideways-inverted plate 2 SF (touched at left) imprimatur, minor imperfections. Only nine examples of plate 1 and approx. twice that of plate 2 are in private hands. S.G. 212P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-150]
Lot #421 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey plate 1 MG imperforate colour standard overprinted "SPECIMEN", SG imperforate with "SPECIMEN" type 8 (crease and nick at right), also EB used on piece of telegraph form, tied by neat "SHEPTON MALLET/SP 25/77" c.d.s.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #422 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey (slightly deeper than issued colour), KE-OH imperforate colour standard, complete pane of 20 on gummed paper, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 11, showing marginal inscription "TELEGRAPHS SIX PENCE", horizontal crease, faint hinge toning at top, otherwise fine. S.G. 212t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £600-800]
Lot #423 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plates 1 to 12 set of imprimaturs, without gum, with varying degree of colour washing and wrinkling. A rare set as no more than nine of each value are known in private hands. Photo.
[Proposed price: £500-600]
Lot #424 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plate 1 imperforate colour standard DE-EF block, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 10, also single MG, fine with gum (two are unmounted). S.G. L215t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £150-200]
Lot #425 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plates 1 to 10, most with gum, a few imperfections, otherwise fine and fresh set. S.G. L215-L224. Photo.
[Proposed price: £250-300]
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