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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1479

The Postage Due Stamps of Ireland 1922-93 exhibit, a comprehensive collection made up of, as the main part, an exhibit mounted on 112 pages, knowledgeably described, chronologically arranged, starting with the 1922-25 transitional period when unoverprinted G.B. postage due adhesives were used in the Irish Free State, including a unique ½d block of four with the Dublin "Emergency" cancellation used shortly after the Easter 1916 Uprising, mixed frankings including extraordinary incoming mail from Canada taxed on arrival with fee being collected by a unique combination of G.B. 1d due and 1922 Dollar overprinted ½d -used as postage due when G.B. examples of this denomination were lacking-, very rare piece with Irish and G.B. postage dues, additional incoming British mail taxed with G.B. dues applied in Ireland, the Irish issues being very well represented, rich in multiples and complete sheets, also plate blocks and gutter pairs, including various new research studies, a wide range of varieties with rare examples also featuring multiples, scarce specimen stamps, frequently enriched with postal history including inland and external incoming mail also bearing varieties and some exotic origins; in addition, a consistent second part of material not mounted for exhibition and gathered in four large Lighthouse albums and one large envelope, all reinforcing the main exhibit with similar material, of these four, two being dedicated to taxed postal history, the other two with numerous multiples and complete sheets used and unused, as well as few Hamilton-Bowen accompanying certificates for specimen stamps, generally in very good condition, a very infrequent lot which deserves an accurate inspection.

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