Sale #154

EDWARDIAN COVERS collection of approx 80 housed in a postcard album, collected for combinations of frankings & postmarks with several postage dueTypes, duplexes, c.d.s, rubbers, paquebots, instructional etc. Noted - KEVII 1d bisect charged 1d Due, 1911 Coronation Cinderella label U on postcard with 1d Edward, several postage due covers bearing Edwardian \xBDd or 1d plus foreign postage dues etc. Interesting lot, viewing recommended.

MACHINE CANCELLATIONS fine collection of mainly Edwardian postcards, a few covers & items of stationery bearing a variety of picked superb quality cancels incl. Boston London Types 1-6, Liverpool 3 & 4, Columbia 1st Type, Several 2nd Type, Krag Trial Types (several), Columbia Christmas Experimental Type, Provincial Types, Alma London Types, Sylbe, Hey & Dolphin, Bickerdike machines 1-6 etc. Superbly presented on 41 pages (78 items...

PERFINS 1904-57 selection of 40 covers or cards - all bearing identified perfins except 2, mainly fine.

SLOGAN POSTMARKS KGV-KGVI period accumulation of covers or stamps cut out on piece, tied by slogan pmks, duplicated ranges of the following - Post Early in the Day, The Telephone Makes Life Easier, Shop by Telephone, The Telephone Saves Time & Money, The Telephone - A Sound Investment, Get the Telephone Habit, Trade Follows the Phone & more. Various frankings, majority are VF.

PRE STAMP to QEII accumulation of 300 items incl. postal stationery, registered, instructional, some ephemera, censored, poached egg etc. Mainly fine.

1648 (Dec 1) Indenture concerning a house and land, agreed between Samuel Bridger of Gloucester, gentleman, and Edward Harold, Carpenter, and his wife Margery, of Dursley. Although written after the capture of Charles I and just two months before his execution the document begins 'in the twentie fourth years of the Rayne of our Soverayne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the fayth.'

CHRISTMAS DAY CANCELS 1841-98 covers (19) all bearing 25th Dec cancels, plus two early French Christmas Cards, a few items relating to modern day Christmas. (21++)

1851 reg letter receipt, cancelled by a blue Kington De.18.1851 c.d.s. Early & scarce. (1)

1897-1913 selection of 20 items showing various London machines - Bickerdike, Columbia, Krag incl. 1d pink envelope with Oct.8.1897 Bickerdike V Crown R (Cat. \xA3500) - some faults to envelope, fine to VF.

1904-07 POSTED IN ADVANCE FOR DELIVERY ON CHRISTMAS DAY 3x PPC's franked \xBDd Edwards, cancelled 1904 (oval) Manchester, 1906 circular Liverpool & 1907 (cross & lines) Manchester marks, also a piece with red Type I for Rochdale on \xBDd Edward - forged pmk. (3)

1911-38 miscellaneous range of covers with KGV frankings to overseas destinations incl. Australia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, India, Sweden, USA etc, some better frankings incl. 2/6d Seahorses on 3 covers (1 is torn), censored, Imperial Airways 1931 1st flight UK - South Africa, registered to Australia etc. (29)