Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Fanning Island. 1944 Covers franked 2d to New Zealand or 3d to USA (2) all tied by Fanning Island datestamps with boxed "GILBERT AND ELLICE / ISLANDS COLONY / PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 1" cachets in black, the No.1 censor scarce. (3). Photo on Page 138.
Suggested price: £ 150-180

1946-58 Covers (21, fourteen registered) and a front with KGVI stamps tied by double circle "Post Office" datestamps of Beru (2, manuscript and handstruck registration etiquettes), Gardner Island (2), Nanumea (5), Nikunau, Niutao (3), Nonouti (2), Nukufetau, Nukulaelae (3, one in blue), Onotoa or Tabiteuea (2, manuscript and handstruck registration etiquettes), a scarce group. (22).
Suggested price: £ 260-300

1960 Diamond Jubilee of Phosphate Discovery, original artwork for the 2 1/2d design, very well handpainted on thick card, 176x233mm.
Suggested price: £ 150-180

1895 (Dec 1) Mourning cover franked 2 1/2d from Camberley addressed to "Capt. C.H Blunt, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force, Cape Coast Castle, West Africa" endorsed "Mansu", backstamped at Bagshot, London and Cape Coast. The cover has a royal crest and is initialled (AH?), possibly from a member of the royal family at Sandhurst. An unusual ingoing campaign cover.
Suggested price: £ 150-200

1922 De La Rue imperforate sample proof block of four of the KGV 1d printed in blue, each overprinted "SPECIMEN" (Samuel type DS1), affixed to brown card from the printers records. Photo on Page 141.
Suggested price: £ 250-300

1912-37 KGV Definitives unmounted, mainly in blocks, comprising Multiple Crown CA 12c (148, including block of 34 with plate number "1"), 50c (13) and $1 (10), Multiple Script CA 2c grey (71, including block of 11 with plate number "2" and sheet number "U1067") and 3c (68, including block of 36 with plate number "2"), a few small faults, the majority fine. S.G. 106, 111, 112, 118c, 119, £5,482. (310).
Suggested price: £ 400-600

1938-46 $1 Lilac and blue on chalk surfaced paper mint and $1 orange and green used (small corner crease) both with variety short right leg to "R". S.G. 155a, 156a, £245. (2).
Suggested price: £ 60-70

1812-47 Entire letters sent within, from or to India, many to the traveller and writer James Baillie Fraser or his brother William, handstamps include boxed "SOBATHOO / POST PAID", red "NAGPORE / Paid" datestamp, circular "SAHAPUNPOR / PT PD / POST OFFICE" (2), oval "MERUT / Pt Pd" (5), circular "BENARES / POST PAID" (3), also Delhi, Madras, etc., some with G.B India Letter handstamps. (44).
Suggested price: £ 600-700

1863 Cover and 1866 front with upper flap both from Calcutta to London, the cover franked 1856-64 2a and 4a, the front unusually franked 1860 8p and 1865 2a, 4a and 8a pair. (2).
Suggested price: £ 80-100

1867 Cover from Bombay to Poona bearing 1/2a blue strip of four, 1a brown and 4a green each cancelled by numeral "1" within a diamond of bars, also tied by the Poona arrival c.d.s, with superb horseshoe type "BOMBAY P.O / 1867 / 2 NOV / REGISTERED No."; and a tiny cover from Madras to Arcot franked on the reverse by 1/2a blue (2, faults) each tied by diamond cancel, with the similar horseshoe type "MADRAS G.P.O / 1867 / JU 27 / REGN No"....

1913 KGV 1a Die Proof in black on white glazed card, 92x60mm, endorsed and dated "after striking, 10/11/13" and initialled, a fine De La Rue proof. Photo on Page 143.
Suggested price: £ 250-300

1911 KGV 1a Carmine, upper left corner block of forty (8x5), horizontal gutter separating rows 4 and 5, each stamp overprinted "CANCELLED" (Samuel type 25), a few split perforations above the lower row and some buckling to the vertical perforations between columns 2/3 and 6/7, otherwise fine unmounted mint, a scarce and impressively large block from the printers archives. Also a single 1a with larger diagonal "CANCELLED" overprint. (41)....