Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1836-85 Entire letters, covers and cards with encircled "L" (3), encircled dated "L" (2) or unframed "L" (4), one also with oval framed "NOT / FULLY ADDRESSED", four also with circular "TOO LATE / G.P.O", a scarce group. (9).
Suggested price: £ 130-160

1869 Entire to Messina franked 4d + three 6d stamps tied by two strikes of the double "50" obliterator with the rare red boxed "L4" Late Fee handstamp, very few recorded. Photo on Page 28.
Suggested price: £ 600-800

1890-1939 Covers and cards (32) and a Certificate of Posting all with straight line "LATE FEE" or "LATE FEE PAID" handstamps, some incorporating the fee of 2d, 4d, 6d or 1/-, virtually all from London but including 1914 1d postcard franked 2d with "LONDON & FOLKESTONE S.C" datestamps and 1909 1d cover franked 5d with "CONTINENTAL NIGHT MAIL / C.S" c.d.s. (33).
Suggested price: £ 350-400

Liverpool. 1856 Stampless cover to Denmark with fine "POSTED SINCE / LIVERPOOL / 8.30. LAST NIGHT" datestamp on the front, and 1862 cover backstamped with similar "9.30" datestamp. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120

1855-1926 Covers and cards (46) including 1872 Azemar, 1859 Rideout, Hosters (23, also a Hamburg Hoster), Liverpool Sloper, Bickerdikes, Bostons, etc. Also pieces (5) including 1887 Charing Cross Hoster and 1897 Bickerdike VR trial, and the circular "683/E" Salisbury/London trial cancel on a 1d red and 6d chestnut. (53).
Suggested price: £ 300-350

1886 (Dec 20) Cover with 1d lilac tied by Ethridge machine, trialed in London from October 1886 until early 1887, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 31.
Suggested price: £ 200-240

1893-98 Pieces with embossed 1d pink stamps (2) or a 1d lilac cancelled by trial machines comprising 1893 (Sep. 1) International, 1897 (Nov. 24) Bickerdike with san-serif "VR" and no number, or 1898 (Sep 13) Boston, all fine strikes. (3).
Suggested price: £ 150-180

1917-18 "Buy National War Bonds Now" and "Buy National War Bonds" slogans, the specialised collection in a F.G Warwick album with many London and provincial offices, single and continuous machines, triangular dies, Paid and Official Paid machines in red including incorrect uses cancelling stamps, "War Bonds" single Universal machine with single ring die (only recorded date) and single Columbia machines from Hull and Dunfermline, etc. A fine...

1922-50 Mainly KGV slogans, the fine collection in a F.G Warwick Major album, many offices, types and differing slogans, single and continuous dies, red Paid or Official Paid machines, triangular dies, etc., including Post Early in the Day with scarce 1937 re-use at Leith (cover + piece), Post Early For Christmas, Join the Kings Roll, Exhibition Newcastle on Tyne and the various Telephone slogans with 1936-40 reuses of "Every Home Needs a...

1925-28 "British Goods" slogans on covers and cards (13) and pieces (49) including the scarce handstruck London FS "Buy British Made Goods" on four complete 1926-28 wrappers, private handstruck slogans, and "British Goods Are Best" machines including London N.W.1 continuous Paid machine in red on piece and a front, small boxed type with Paid die in red on cover, etc. (62).
Suggested price: £ 160-200

1937-63 KGVI and QEII Slogans on covers (135) or pieces (235) in a F.G Warwick album, also 1939-45 trials on unaddressed covers (6). A fine collection including 1945 Victory Bells with early uses on cover on 7 May (London W1) and 8 May (London WC) and in red with Postage Paid die on 31 Aug., 1947 Royal Wedding early uses at Hounslow on 19 Nov. pieces (2, one with slogan obliterated), 1957 covers with Stalybridge Centenary or Douglas T.T...

1946 "PLEASE ADVISE / SENDER TO ADDRESS / c/o SHIP-OWNER / NOT c/o G.P.O" slogans, a correct use on the reverse of a cover to the M.V Isipingo, and very scarce incorrect 1946 uses with London dies cancelling 1d stamps on piece (July 15) or cover (July 17). (3). Photo on Page 31.
Suggested price: £ 120-150