| MULREADIES & POSTAL HISTORY |
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 | 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 |  |
 | G1246 | 1909 Paquebot Cover Sierra Leone – Bexhill on Sea. Franked with pair of 1d Red S. Leone defins cancelled with 2 x superb “Paquebot Plymouth” c.d.s’s. “West India Rect.” cachet in blue on envelope flap. | £30.40 | |
 | G1179 | 1914 GV ½d Embossed Private Stationery Envelope to Mexico cancelled with large undated ‘F.S.’ in circle (Foreign Section) with handstamped “By French Packet” alongside. Rösing Bothers & Co. logo on envelope flap. Interesting and unusual. | £24.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | G854 | 1931 First Flight Cover London-Capetown franked with GV 2d. & 10d. (scarce value Cat. £40) cancelled with “London F.S.” double ring cds. | £24.00 | |
| | G867 | 1937 Anglo-American Goodwill Coronation Flight – New York – London & London – New York piloted by Dick Morrell. Franked with 1937 Coronation stamp & 2 x U.S.A. stamps. Coronation stamp is postmarked London on First Day of Issue. | £26.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | G1185 | 1938 Leeward Is (Antigua) Cover to USA – Re-Directed to Huddersfield franked with GV 2½d cancelled “St. John’s Antigua” then forwarded to England with “Camden N.J.” machine cancel on reverse. | £8.00 | |
 | G874 | 1960 ‘Knitmaster’ Advertising Envelope with 3d. postage meter impression plus a 3d. postage meter label attached. | £11.20 | |
 | 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 | |
 | V11481 | ‘Too Late’ in Red + ‘More to Pay’ 2 attractive covers | £25.00 | |
 | V11489 | Leeds Handstruck No’1’s | £12.50 | |
 | G1165 | 1826 Pre Stamp Entire to Chesham Bucks. endorsed ‘single sheet’ (a very large one with personal letter written both sides). Franked with the rare boxed “Kilvedon Py Post” on the reverse. Slightly frayed at the edges but a scarce marking. | £24.00 | |
 | V11484 | 1837 Inspectors Star | £12.00 | |
 | V11483 | 1838 Inspectors Crown | £12.00 | |
 | VR9412 | 1843 1d Pink Envelope with Nice MX Cancel | £10.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | VR8599 | 1847 1d Pink Envelope. | £15.00 | |
 | G1167 | 1850 O.H.M.S. Cover. A pre-printed letter, of 16th April 1850, from the Inspectors of Poor, Edinburgh sent to Falkland. Nice, attractive circular ‘Paid at EdinR Apr 24 1850’ in red on front. Indistinct boxed ‘Falkland’ receiving mark on reverse. Nice cover. | £32.00 | |
 | ST780 | 1850 Letter To Italy with Variuos Markings | £8.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | P12160 | 855-1858 Irish Spoon cancels eight covers all franked with 1d ‘stars’ or 2d ‘stars’ (1) all cancelled with Belfast spoons –several diff types Scarce little group. | £228.00 | |
 | V11485 | 1861 Posted since 7 last night | £10.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | P10598 | Rare 1895 Private Postal Stationery envelope franked with two impressions of the 2½d grey addressed to Rarotonga New Zealand. Cancelled with London fancy geometric cancels dated 29th Nov and backstamped ‘Auckland NZ’ 30th Jan 1896 and with ‘Rarotonga’ arrival datestamp for 30th Jan 96 on front. Rare destination. | £18.75 | |
 | P16947 | 1902 PPC with scarce mailbag seal at lower left franked with EVII ½d blue green cancelled with superb Walkerburn CDS. | £31.25 | |
 | P13400 | 1904 Glasgow & Carlisle S.C. cover franked with EVII 2d & ½d blue green perfinned ‘J J & Co’ with John Jackson & Co Glasgow logo on flap. Superb CDS cancel on each stamp. Addressed to USA. Very scarce cover. | £48.00 | |
 | V11492 | 1905 two Christmas PPc’s both with ‘Posted in advance for delivery on Xmas Day’ cancles of Manchester. Odd small imperfecations but strikes clear enough. | £72.00 | |
 | P6297 | 1906 Advertising Envelope for Armour & Company Ltd. with ‘Script’ slogan on reverse “You ought to have some of Armours Extract of Beef – everybody seems delighted with it”. EVII ½d Embossed Impression cancelled with “Liverpool” c.d.s. | £10.50 | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | V11490 | 1920 superb illustrated advertising envelope for Buck 7 Ryan Lathes & Machinery with illustrated logo on front and full illustration on reverse. Franked with GV 2½d and addressed to Germany. | £27.00 | |
 | 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 | |
 | P20821 | De La Rue ESSAY PLATE PROOF OF ‘HEAD OF PRINCE EUGENE’ (Son of Emperor napoleon III) in blue on white paper, corner crease. (this is far rarer than The head of the King of Portugal Essay). | £93.75 | |
 | V11538 | SG ME2 1d Mulready envelope good used example, with interesting pre printing paper fold at top right | £110.00 | |
 | V11660 | Average used Mulready 1d Lettersheet with advert can collin with Black MC & datestamp alongside of MR-2-1844 stuck down on card. Cat £700. | £78.00 | |
