Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1938-51 1£4pi - £1 Set of 19 with both 18pi shades, fine mint, very lightly mounted. S.G. £273.
Suggested price: £ 60-70

1938-55 Covers virtually all with KGVI definitives including 1938 F.D.Cs (2), 1948 covers bearing 18pi strip of four + 45pi pair or 90pi + £1, 1953 cover with four postal stationery cut-outs, 1947 cover with G.B + Cyprus stamps, commercial covers with WW2 censored covers to South Africa (2), 1948 cover censored in Egypt, 1950 cover censored in Austria, 1944 perf 12 1/2x13 1/2 2pi, also 1955 QEII F.D.C. (25).
Suggested price: £ 100-120...

1938-55 Covers and cards, nearly all commercial, some internal mail but most addressed abroad, various rates and stamps to the 45pi value, destinations include Aden, Iceland, etc. The interesting lot includes postcards (10), many air mail covers with various air mail labels, R.P.O Kalokhorio c.d.s, etc. Also covers bearing various 1946-53 commemoratives. (162).
Suggested price: £ 600-800

1940-57 Printed Matter rates, various destinations include Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, Scandinavia, etc., a wrapper to Egypt with trilingual "PUBLICITY CENSORSHIP" cachet. (32).
Suggested price: £ 150-200

1946 Victory pair perfined "SPECIMEN" superb unmounted, mint and used and on F.D.C, 1 1/2pi mint corner block of eight and a used pair both including variety dot between "1" and " 1/2", 3pi variety two dots above "P" of Cyprus within a mint strip of three; 1948 Silver Wedding pair mint and used and on F.D.C, 1 1/2pi mint block of four and corner block of 15 both containing the variety "extra decoration"; 1949 U.P.U set mint and used and three...

1882-95 Postage and Revenue stamps used for internal Post Office accounting, the fine study in a stock book, all identified by Podger types, with postage stamps initialled J.A.B by J.A. Bulmer and cancelled by red or black Larnaca c.d.s (31, comprising 1pi, 2pi, 6pi, 27 examples of the 30pa on 1pi with strip of six and three strips of five, and 1/2 on 1/2pi), revenue stamps initialled JAB and cancelled in red (15), revenues initialled by...

QV-KGV Revenue stamps identified by Barefoot numbers, including QV stamps handstamped "Specimen" (24, various types, some double overprints) or "Cancelled" (3, scarce), QV 1pi pair with Rural Service cancel, other QV issues with "942" cancels (8) or Polymedia c.d.s, very scarce 1886 local trilingual 1/- on 3d surcharge, various perfins, also some fiscally used postage stamps including 1924-28 90pi (3) and £1 (3), etc., an interesting group...

QV-QEII Used selection, mainly selected for their cancels including numerals, squared circles, single ring datestamps and Rural Service. (100s).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

QV-KGV Stamps cancelled by the numeral obliterators 1, 2 (36, one on Austrian Levant 1pi), 4 (7, including KEVII 1/2pi block of four), 5 (9, one on piece) or 6 (19). These cancels believed to have been used at District Offices to cancel loose letters brought in by rural messengers, and uncancelled items. A scarce group. (72).
Suggested price: £ 150-180

1916 Covers to London, one bearing KGV 10pa strip of three, the other bearing KGV 10pa pair with a third stamp tragically torn out, both cancelled by the rare "ANOYIRA" c.d.s in watery red ink applied to one or two stamps only, the other stamps then cancelled at Kilani the following day. Very scarce. (2). Photo on Page 123.
Suggested price: £ 180-220

1938-40 Covers bearing the circular slogan handstamps "VISIT / CYPRUS" (8), "CYPRUS / FOR A HOLIDAY" (20) or "CYPRUS / ORANGES" (13) featuring an outline map of the island, mainly written up, the fine study of the variations of handstamps and their places and dates of use, six with censor cachets. Also two 1946 covers with bilingual Greek and Turkish cachets "Save Our Forests from Fire". (43).
Suggested price: £ 250-300

QV-QEII Cancels on stamps and pieces, on pages and stockcards, many VR and ER types, including stamps of QV (73), KEVII (58), KGV (108), etc., also a few forgeries, a fine lot. (Approx. 680). Photo on Pages 117 & 121.
Suggested price: £ 1,000-1,200