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Auction: 17022 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Ronnie Winchester Collection and fine sections of Belgium, Cape of Good Hope Rectangular Issues and Griqualand West
Lot: 1097

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1871-1964, mint and used collection housed in three large Yvert albums contained in a carton, including a range of Cats heads and other early issues, 1909 2p. blocks of nine and twenty-four, 1r. lilac-brown sheet of fifty, 1909 Official Parcel Post (-) dull green (two sheets of two), 1920 New Currency 10p. on cover, 20p., 1921 Parcel Post 10p. five tête-bêche pairs, 30p. tête-bêche pair, 1924 Independence 10p. (4), 1925 Independence 10p. (2), 1926 Independence 10p. with three sheets of four, 1927 Independence (half tone 10p. sheet of four, 1928 Independence 15p. sheet of eight including tête-bêche pair, 1928 Parcel Post 3a. with four imperf. sheets of four, 1928 40p. two sheets of twenty each containing tête-bêche pair, 1929 Bacche Saqqao issue including 40p. block of four containing tête-bêche pair, 1929-31 40p. tête-bêche pair contained in a block of six and two sheets of twenty, 1929 Parcel Post 3a. sheet of four, 1929-31 Air Mail overprint essays (15), 1932 National Council set in imperf. sheets, 1932 Independence 1a. (two blocks of eight), 1937 Independence 50p. imperf. block of eight, 1938 Independence 50p. imperf. sheet of twenty, 1948 United Nations 1a. 25 sheet of nine, later issues, etc., condition is mixed as would be expected but a fascinating lot with many complete sheets, varieties, etc. and with tremendous scope for expansion

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