382nd Auction

1948/2007, Johore, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Penang, Perak, Selangor and Trengganu, attractive mostly mint collection, including some variant, good condition

1860/1970, mostly unused / mint never hinged and used collection with specialties and some covers and postal stationary, including folded cover with GB 4 P. with dublex postmark "MALTA/A25", Mi.-No. 10 in horizontal lower pair with plate number, Mi.- No. 52 unused (sign. Pröschold BPP), Mi. No. 63 unused, Mi. No. 64-80 unused and Mi. No. 115-31 unused/mint never hinged, plus small part British Post Offices in Morocco and Turkey, neatly in two albums of preprints

1819/86, three stampless folded entires, one to London bearing on reverse large cds. "MAURITIUS POST OFFICE  APR 1819", also "The Merchants & Planters Gazette" with superb French maritime octogonal "POSS. ANG. PAQ. FR. T N°4 23 NOV. 86" (Salles 2153/4), fine and scarce group 

1858/61, an interesting group of 2d. blue and 6d. brown, total of 21 singles and 6d. con cover, in a variety of shades and on both soft and hard papers, several with four margins, a few faults though generally of good to fine appearance

1874/95, Halfpenny Newspaper and Sideface Issues, an interesting unused and used collection with many perf and paper varities, some multiples, ½d. with "official repair", plate flaws like 1sh. "Bulbous nose", 1d. "Screwdriver" and "Chisel" flaw etc., all neatly written up on pages

1986/99, collection lot with sheet parts, beautiful motifs and complete series, plus some singles and bank-fresh bank notes, together in two sheet folders

1864/1900 (ca.), interesting group of six covers, starting with two stampless folded entires, better items like a 1900 registered envelope with Five-Colour franking to England, together with some postal stationeries, one overprinted "SPECIMEN"; mostly very fine, a superb specialist assembly 

1823/1902, two stampless folded entires with circular crowned handstamps, one with further crowned "POST OFFICE CAPE TOWN", both addressed to "His Excellency, Lord Charles Henry Sommerset, Governor", also a postcard to France taxed upon arrival, a fine and most interesting group

1898/1913, more than 20 covers and cards with emphasis until 1902 with R-letters, many censors and other specialties

1900/02, group of Boer War covers, mostly franked with overprinted V.R.I and E.R.I, with single, multiple, registered and combination frankings, censored handstamps, mixed condition

1923/27, mint never hinged/unused group of fourteen partial sheets of ½ d., 1 d., 2 d., and postage dues ½ d., 1 d., 3 d., 5d. and 6 d., all neatly mounted on old album pages with plate flaws and printing setting indications, some casual faults, mostly fine to very fine, interesting specialist assembly 

1927/70 (ca.), mostly mint never hinged collection lot incl. postage due with many multiples to complete sheet, including better and complete issues

1934/70, collection "TIN CAN MAIL" with 29 covers with emphasis up to 1940, including registered covers, interesting frankings and many different postmarks incl. Nebenstempel, throughout in good overall condition

1895/1951, group of 13 covers, cards and postal stationeries, with India used in Zanzibar, some toning, mixed condition

Ireland Military 19th Century: 1800/1902 collection written up on over fifty pages, includes British East India Company, Crimea War, Boer War, comprises mail to and from serving personnel, with wide variety of franked and stampless covers, many scarce markings and destinations, many Irish postmarks, noted 1855 green Dublin duplex on envelope to Crimea, in addition many individual documents, also mail from or to USA, Canada, Germany delivery mail, German Navy mail from the Marinepostbureau to Ireland, extremely rare, a Gold medal exhibit. 

1923/27, interesting lot of 46 large-sized covers, mostly with mixed frankings India and Afghanistan, usual condition with some transportation wear

1824/1999 World accumulation of covers, postal stationery and cards, comprising a selection of Mauritius postal history from 1831 to modern, noted 1855 cover with Maritime Packet Letter mark in red, sent via Ceylon, Suez and Marseille to Bordeaux, also a large quantity of mail into Switzerland as well as mail sent from Geneva and Zurich, including printed The News of Soldier envelope sent to Algeria, good range of Romania, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Russia, with a few Austria, France, French Colonies, Norway, India, Italy, Germany, noted stampless 1916 envelope with POW Shipment cachet in violet, datestamped Königsbrück sent to Algeria, a stampless 1824 entire from Odessa to Marseille, some field post, censor mail, air mail, undelivered, redirected and registered, very mixed, with some fine, a scarce assortment of covers.