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Auction: 14022 - Specialised Great Britain Stamps and Postal history
Lot: 956

Great Britain
Collections and Ranges
1840-1951 mint and used collection housed in seven albums and loose contained in a carton, including 1840 Mulready 1d. envelope (2), 1d. letter sheet, Lord Holland forgery, 1840 1d. (11), photographic forgery, 2d. (9 with a strip of three), 1841-53 1d. Black Plates 8 to 11, later plates with numbers in Maltese Cross cancellations, 2d. block of four, 1d. and 2d. Stars with 1855 and 1856 (2) cover to the Crimea franked 3d. or 6d. (2), 1858-79 1d. plate numbers with 225 good used, 2d. plate 12 (5 used), plate 14 part original gum, 1870 ½d. plate 9 (2) used, 1½d. overprinted "specimen", 1847-54 embossed 1/- and 10d. (both cut to shape) on entire letter to Calcutta, surface printed issues with 1855-57 1/- strip of four on cover to New York, 1862-64 9d. (2), 1/-, 1867-80 9d. (3), 10d. (2), 2/- blue (5), 1867-83 watermark Cross 5/- plates 1 and 2, 10/-, 1873-80 4d. vermilion, 4d. sage-green, 8d. (3), 1883-84 10/- (3), 1884 watermark Crowns £1 brown-lilac, 1883 or 1884 with values to 1/-, 1887 £1 green (2), 1900 1/-, Edwards with values to 1/- part original gum, 1911-12 Downy Heads, 1912-24 1d. "q" for "o" variety, 1½d. "pencf" error in a block of six (2), 9d. olive-green (2), 1913 Multiple cypher ½d. (3), 1d. (5), 1913 Waterlow £1 good used, 1915 De La Rue 2/6d., 10/-, 1918-19 Bradbury Wilkinson 5/-, 1924 and 1925 Wembley sets, 1929 P.U.C. £1 good used, 1934 re-engraved 10/- (4), 1948 Wedding £1 (3), 1951 set, 10/- and £1 blocks of four with Post Office training bars, Officials Office of Works 1902-03 ½d. (2), 1d. (2), Government Parcels, 2½d., Board of Education 1902 2½d., Royal Household 1902 1d., Postage Dues 1936-37 set, Postal Fiscals, Postal Stationery, Railway Letter Stamps, etc., mixed condition but many fine and an interesting lot (thousands)

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