G.B & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1841-1900 QV Stamps, mint and used selection including 1841 1d red with number in cross cancels (4, two fine) and 2d blue strip of three with larg...

1841-1934 Mint and used selection on pages including 1841 1d reds with unused singles (2, one possibly an Imprimatur) and block of four on deeply ...

QV-QEII Stamps including 1840 2d and 1891 £1 (both with faults), 1958 3d tete-beche strip, 1969 £1 imperf pairs (2) and block of four, also a stoc...

1840 1d Blacks, the used collection on pages comprising plates 1a (7), 1b (9), 2 (10), 3 (6), 4 (7), 5 (5), 6 (8), 7 (6), 8 (7), 9 (3) and 10 (3),...

1840 1d Blacks, FL and GL plate 1a, the two stamps once a vertical pair, both just touched at upper right with large margins on other sides, tied ...

1840 1d Black, JA plate 4, large to huge margins on all sides, used with a fine red Maltese Cross, a superb stamp. Photo on Page 6.

1840 1d Blacks, all plate 6, IL, QE (state 2) and SF all used with black Maltese Crosses, QE with corner crease and IL with trace of a pressed cre...

1841 1d Black, LH plate 11 used with a black Maltese Cross, good to huge margins with small portion of the adjoining stamp at right, an unusually ...

1840-41 Entire letters (6) and an entire all bearing 1d blacks with Maltese Cross cancels in red (5) or black (2), all stamps with four margins, c...

1840 2d Deep blue, MD plate 2 used with a black Maltese Cross, a fine stamp with good to large margins. Photo on Page 6.

1840 2d Blue, TA plate 2, used with large part "DORCHE(STER)" town datestamp, also an imperf 1d red with matching TA lettering (plate 24, three ma...

1841-53 Covers and entires bearing imperf 1d reds, including Maltese Cross cancels (17), also 1d pink envelope with Leamington Maltese Cross, and ...

1864-79 1d Red plates with plate 146 pair handstamped "SPECIMEN" type 9, mint (11, including plate 133 inverted watermark, plate 156 marginal) and...

1847-54 Embossed 6d (3), 10d and 1/- (4, one deep green) used, all cut square, one 6d and one 1/- touched on one side, another 1/- on piece with t...

1847-54 Embossed 1/- green, horizontal pair used with London numeral cancels, the left stamp also tied by red "48" rate handstamp, cut square, lef...

1864-80 Specimen stamps, the selection including 1864 1d red plate 146, 1867 9d straw, 1876 2½d rosy mauve plate 6, 1877 4d sage-green plate 16 an...

c.1870 Imperforate De La Rue QV Head dummy stamps all in differing colours (11), also imperforate 1879 Tender Essays by Perkins Bacon (7) or De La...

1878 10/- Greenish grey, watermark Maltese Cross, CD mint, exceptional colour and centreing, possibly the finest example of this rare stamp in exi...

1882 £1 Brown-lilac, watermark Large Anchor, DB-EC block of four on blued paper, each handstamped "SPECIMEN" type 9, very lightly mounted on upper...

1881 1d Lilac, die I (14 dots) imperforate imprimatur, large margins, superb colour and full original gum, very light crease, otherwise unusually ...

1902 KEVII 6d handstamped "SPECIMEN" type 9, centred to left, otherwise fine unmounted. Also 7d deep grey-black unmounted mint (with 1994 Hendon S...

1911-12 KEVII ½d on picture postcards, virtually all Harrison printings, various shades, including perf 15x14 stamps (55, S.G. £100 on cover), als...

1913-34 Coil leaders comprising 1912-24 ½d ("500 ½d Stamps / Delivery Top End First / Price £1.0.11") and 1d ("500 1d Stamps / Delivery Top End Fi...

1924-26 Block Cypher ½d - 1½d, Specimen or Cancelled overprints, comprising ½d type 23 overprint double, one albino (S.G. N33ta, unpriced by S.G.)...

1925 British Empire Exhibition 1½d block of fifteen (rows 1-3, margins on three sides) affixed to a piece of notepaper with embossed royal arms at...

Booklets. 1930-35 KGV Booklets all with adverts for "Turban" dates or mixed fruit on the front or back covers, comprising 2/- edition 221 and 231 ...

Government Parcels. 1883-1902 Stamps used including 1883-86 1/- plates 13 and 14, 1890 1/- green (3), 1892 4½d (4), 1900 1/-, 1902 KEVII 1/-, etc....

c.1912 Essays in pencil and indian ink for a 2d postage due stamp, the two essays similar in design but showing differences in the side details an...

c.1830-1970 Covers and cards including an entire (side flaps removed) with fine green "BUENOS AYRES / O" applied at the Falmouth Packet Office, 18...

1889-1912 Covers and cards to unusual destinations, mainly KEVII stamps, including 1912 cover (KEVII perf 15x14 2½d) to Dairen and redirected to J...

Post Offices Notices. 1885-87 Notices comprising 1885 (Dec.) notice on the reduced scale of postage on letters over 12oz, 1886 (Apr.) differing no...

Parcel Post - Private Parcel Labels/Postal Stationery. c.1896-1933 Labels (6) and parcel tags (2), comprising Thornton Pickard tie-on Parcel Post ...

King Edward VIII. 1936-39 Covers and cards bearing KEVIII stamps including First Day Covers (some illustrated), used from Tristan da Cunha (4), fi...

First U.K Aerial Post. 1911 (Sep 9) Brown London to Windsor card with KGV ½d tied by the London Aerial Post c.d.s code "1", reposted at Windsor a ...

Manchester. 1905 (Dec. 18) Cover posted from Manchester to Leeds with QV 2d postcard cut-out tied by Manchester c.d.s, arrival backstamp, the stam...

Mobile Box - Channel Islands. 1909-27 Picture Postcards to Jersey with French stamps cancelled boxed "JERSEY / FRANCE / M.B" datestamps (2, also c...

Invalid Stamps. 1893-1970 Covers and cards including 1895 cover with a disallowed 1d lilac bisect, 1915 postcard with a partial stamp endorsed "mu...

1½d Charges & Due Stamps. 1921-36 Covers and cards with 1½d charges or showing the use of the 1½d brown due stamp, mainly 1921-25 period minimum c...

Customs Charges/Accumulated Charges. 1938-92 Covers or parcel address panels with customs duty or purchases tax charges (14), or accumulated charg...

1885 "Report of the Joint Committee on Postage Stamps", formed after the issue of the 1884 lilac and green stamp issue was deemed unsatisfactory a...

1904-05 Covers franked KEVII 1d, all bearing 2d railway letter stamps, comprising Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge Rly (2), Highland Railway, Midland...

c.1860-71 Covers comprising USA 3c postal stationery envelope with Wells Fargo printed frank from San Francisco to the Assay Office at New Westmin...

1886-1938 Covers and ephemera with Rhodesia 1901 Certificate of Transfer of a mining claim bearing £5 and £10 block of eight tied by "MINES OFFICE...

G.B. 1914-20 Covers and cards including circular "PC" censor on cards probably from Antwerp (2), August 1914 covers and cards prepaid 1d or charge...

1939-47 Covers including P.O.W mail, U.S forces in G.B with British stamps (81), Italian forces, 1945-47 Netherlands Indies, Australian forces, F....

Germany. 1913 (May 24) Picture postcard of the Zeppelin over the Leipzig Heroes Monument, written from the Leipzig Fair and posted on the "Sachsen...

Malta. 1934 (June 19) Registered cover to Parana franked 3/-, the two stamps cancelled by violet "AIR MAIL / MALTA" datestamps, with cachet of the...

USA. 1930 (Apr 19) Cover from Washington D.C carried on the round flight between Lakehurst and Friedrichshafen, with the Round Flight and South Am...

1891 De La Rue Imperium Proofs, two imperforate 6d vertical pairs on Crown CA paper, inscribed "Postage and Revenue", upper stamps with plain back...

c.1908 Waterlow Sample Book with "Waterlows, 24 & 25 Birchin Lane, E.C" on the leather cover, containing 21 pages with 194 various postage or reve...

c.1923 Harrison & Sons sample stamps inscribed "SPECIMEN", imperforate stamps on gummed paper, some watermarked, comprising Chateau de Chillon in ...

c.1923 Harrison & Sons sample stamps inscribed "SPECIMEN", the fifteen differing perforated stamps, also imperforate Queen Wilhelmina stamps in fo...

c.1960 Harrison & Sons folder "Photogravure Postage Stamps Colour Specimens" containing forty numbered cards each bearing a sample stamp, a sailin...

c.1840-1970 Stamps in seven albums including 1949 U.P.U Omnibus issue used complete, Commonwealth and Foreign collections to 1935 in two Ideal Alb...

GB and World stamps and covers including 1926 cover bearing Bechuanaland 1914 Waterlow 5/- (S.G. 84, £375 as a stamp, with 1984 R.P.S Certificate)...

Covers and cards with an album of military mail, mainly Boer War with F.P.Os and P.O.W mail (30+), some G.B and world stamps, G.B prestamp, WW2 Ma...

Europe - Mourning Covers. c.1822-2000 Covers and lettersheets, the very extensive collection with items from Belgium (123, also covers bearing Que...

c.1855-1968 Commonwealth collection in four albums, many better KGV and KGVI stamps and sets, including Ascension, Australia 1932 5/- Sydney Harbo...

The Extensive QV-QEII selection on stockcards, from Antigua to Zanzibar, many better single stamps and complete sets, including Ascension with 192...

QV-QEII Stamps, the accumulation in a box with a useful 1953-67 QEII mint collection in an album including Malaya, British Antarctic Territory 196...