| MULREADIES & POSTAL HISTORY |
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 | V25680 | 1792-1839 pre-stamp entires /covers small lot with mainly legal-type contents. Frankings include straight-line Receiving house with mileage marks below (Bideford and Petersfield); London double circle datestamp ‘NO/15/92’; General Post ‘Paid’ stamp of 1839; Leadenhall St 2d post framed. Plus various m/s charge marks. Total of 6 covers | | £48.00 |  |
 | 30291 | 1840 Cover with “Newport Isle of Wight” cds in red on front. On back red MX addressed to Mr. Pinckard Life Assurance Office, London. Scarce piece of Postal history. | £235.00 | £186.12 | |
 | V25681 | QV Postal History small lot of covers/ fronts/ pieces with 1d red brown imperf (incl 3 with MX) ; 1d ‘stars’ incl a pair; 2 items with ½d plates – incl strip of 3; 2d blue pl 9 on cover and a couple of 1d pink embossed envelopes..Total of 18 items. Mixed condition but very reasonable at | | £75.00 | |
 | V25682 | QV Postal History small lot of covers/ fronts/ pieces with 1d red brown imperf (incl 3 with MX) ; 1d ‘stars’ incl a pair; 2 items with ½d plates – incl strip of 3; 2d blue pl 9 on cover and a couple of 1d pink embossed envelopes..Total of 18 items. Mixed condition but very reasonable at | | £75.00 | |
 | V13965 | 1841 entire Manchester-London (stamp missing) with ornate ‘PL’ in oval – unique to Manchester and used to denote paid letter | | £23.00 | |
 | P9913 | Postal History. 1844 entire to Grays Inn, rated '2' in red manuscript, endorsed 'Prepaid' at right, over struck with 'A/PAID/16JA16/1844' tombstone in red. Scarce oval 'Paid/at/CHELMSFORD' in red at right. | | £108.75 | |
 | V14118 | 1846-1862 Continental Mail – five covers to France & Gerrmany from various English cities. Nice range of marks | | £55.00 | |
 | V25531 | QV 2 x paid stampless covers to London – 184 8 Hull datestamp with double arc in blue with red ‘tombstone’ Paid datestamp; 1851 Broadway datestamp with double arc in blue and red circular Paid datestamp. Both with red ‘I’ charge mark. Attractive duo | | £15.00 | |
 | 30292 | Postal Stationery. 1857 envelope with 1855 1d. red-brown, L.C., Perf.14 (S.G. 29) tied by BISHOPTON (Renfrew) Scottish Local Cancel type XX in GREEN, with similar used as back stamp, this the only recorded cover with this cancel in green. Also back stamped 'PAISLEY/B/ FE11/1857' C.D.S. in black. | £575.00 | £455.40 | |
 | P1916 | 1857 Scots Local Cover to Inverary franked with 1d Rose Red cancelled with fine two line ‘Portland Street’ back stamped ‘Glasgow JA-21-1857’ plus Inverary arrival date stamp for the following day. | | £66.00 | |
 | V14121 | 1857-65 Postal history four stampless covers to Switzerland with some nice strikes | | £38.00 | |
 | P11290 | 1892 ½d. Brown Printed Advertising Wrapper from "G. Harding & Son" (ironmongery suppliers, designed for their "Competition Guide" addressed with printed address label and postmarked "S.E.-EZ" circular stamp dated "27-7-92. Wrapper still sealed and in Good/Fine condition. Scarce & most attractive. | | £37.50 | |
 | 30294 | 1893 Delightful Advertising Envelope for the Carrow Company illustrating “The Beetonette” cooking range. Q.V. ½d Vermilion embossed impression cancelled with London c.d.s. | £125.00 | £99.00 | |
 | P21589 | 1893 Official cover. Fine example to London cancelled with a blue Royal Courts of Justice free strike and ‘Official Paid London’ CDS in red. Quite scarce and unusual | | £76.00 | |
 | 30293 | 1893 Bradford-Holland cover franked with embossed ½d vermilion cancelled with Bradford squared circle with handstamp alongside ‘Found in FNO without contents’ Scarce marking | £35.00 | £27.72 | |
 | B10202 | 1898 large commercial cover to Wales (above 4 oz) cancelled with 'London EC Paid 11/2d 14 FE 98' Scarce example of the seldom seen 11/2d rate Some minor creasing etc but a scarce cover | | £15.00 | |
 | P11605 | 1901 Advertising Postal Stationery Envelope with ½d orange impression on front & very fine illustration of Factory Premises of “Blundell Spence & Co. Ltd. Hull” in green on reverse. Uprated with SG 213 ½d Blue Green prefixed with Firms initials “B. S. & Co.” (inverted & reversed). | | £33.75 | |
 | 30295 | 1902 PPC of Innerleithen Church, to Walkerburn Post Office, franked KE7 ½d blue-green, brilliant “Walkerburn” CDS, and Mailbag Seal – most unusual and rare, very late use. | £95.00 | £75.24 | |
 | P16947 | 1902 PPC with scarce mailbag seal at lower left franked with EVII ½d blue green cancelled with superb Walkerburn CDS. | | £31.25 | |
 | V13566 | 1902 Superb coloured billhead with advert for Izal Disinfectant endorsed ‘officially adopted by H.M Government’ | | £15.00 | |
 | P8589 | 1908 Advertising envelope for John Oakey & Sons Ltd ‘Wellington’ silver polish. Franked with 1d scarlet embossed impression and addressed to the Taff Vale Railway Co. Backstamped Cardiff. | | £26.25 | |
 | G1176 | 1908 ½d Green Newswrapper to Germany with advertising cachet in purple at left for “Prices Palmitine candles” cancelled with newspaper branch cancel. | | £20.00 | |
 | P8588 | Rare GV Double First Day Cover. ½d. Green on ½d. printed postcard – addressed to Queensland Australia & cancelled “Leicester Ju 22 11”. £185.00 | | £148.00 | |
 | P2481 | 1911 Picture Postcard of Llandudno bearing K.G.V Mackennal and cancelled with a Llandudno “SP 6 11” c.d.s. Also bears a violet “Posted on Board? La Marguerite” cachet. Together with a nice coloured picture postcard of La Marguerite (Steamer). An interesting pair. | | £20.60 | |
 | P10028 | 1912 Hand coloured humorous postcard encaptioned “Light Opera & Low Comedy” addressed to Fulham. Franked ½d. ‘Mackennal’ & cancelled ‘Ilford’ from the ‘Lucifer’ series but unsigned. Fine/Very Fine. Scarce. | | £58.12 | |
 | P2847 | 1916 On Active Service cover to I0th Middx Regt. Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Re-addressed and undelivered boxed "Present Location Uncertain R.L.S. L.P.B G.F.O." Many handwritten endorsements incl. "Not Known". Multiple backstamps incl "Murree" "Dilkusha". Amazing. | | £58.50 | |
 | G851 | 1918 Rare Military Flight Souvenir Cover – Souvenir Card produced by “Stamp Collecting” in the design of the Mulready Envelope carried by F. Hugh Vallancey (Proprietor of Stamp collecting) on a Flight from Marquise (France) – Lympne, backstamped “Army Post Office S.20/10-Dec-18” and boxed “Passed by Censor” handstamp alongside. Very fine & rarely offered. | | £104.00 | |
 | P14605 | 1923 Very fine illustrated advertising envelope for Buck & Ryan ‘Chucks’ full illustration on reverse and printed address on front. Franked with GV 3d and addressed to Germany. | | £25.50 | |
 | B10805 | 1925 Advertising envelope for the ‘Robin Hood Boiler’ | | £25.00 | |
 | P3663 | 1928 Paquebot Mail –ppc endorsed “SS Andes – via Lisbon with “London F.S.-Paquebot” wavy line slogan cancel with “RMSP Andes – Posted on the High Seas” oval cachet in purple alongside dated “23-Jun-1928”. | | £12.00 | |
 | G868 | 1938 Provincial Airways – West Country Air Service – two proofs for the 3d. Label – one with illustration in red and text in yellow. The other with illustration in yellow and text in Blue. Both on white card with ‘F.J. Field’ stamped on reverses. | | £47.20 | |
 | G874 | 1960 ‘Knitmaster’ Advertising Envelope with 3d. postage meter impression plus a 3d. postage meter label attached. | | £11.20 | |
 | B10097 | KGV 1914 ½d Embossed Private Stationery Envelope to Mexico cancelled with large undated ‘F.S.@ in circle (Foreign Section with hand stamped “By French Packet” alongside. Rösing Brothers & Co. logo on envelope flap. Interesting and unusual. | | £25.00 | |
| | 30296 | Superb collection of 33 FDC’s in navy Westminster cover album, mainly Mercury silk FDC’s, all with relevant h/s & several in set with a coin. Mainly 1999/2000 series with gold leaf surrounds & titles, various Annivs plus 1997 Steam/2001 Subs, Hats & Puppets/1996 W.Cup, condition immaculate (Plus £8 inland p/p). | £75.00 | £59.40 | |
 | G1255 | Charles Whiting Essays (Reprint from the ‘Art Journal’). Good/very fine and rare quarto size sheet (not quite A4) showing examples of embossing and engine turning and two examples printed by the congreve method. Three of the designs illus. in Spec. Cat. figs 16 & 21. The back shows a red & green panel inscr. ‘GPrinted by Charles Whiting for protection against forgery’. One or two minor tone spots but generally in very good condition for this. | | £400.00 | |
 | B11186 | 1840 1d Mulready Facsimile Envelope, merely addressed to “Duncan” and 2d A210 Envelope unused (minor faults), Cat £450 – Bargain. | | £79.00 | |
 | 30298 | Spec ME4 2d Mulready Envelope, Stereo a202, good/fine used example addressed to Southampton, with Portsmouth backstamp, dated Dec 1840, Cat £1700, rare and reasonably priced by vendor. | £440.00 | £348.48 | |
