Stamps, Postal History & Postcards

1840 1d black, plate 3, used on cover on Sunday 31st May, from Manchester to Milnthorpe with clear red datestamp on reverse.The stamp with four ma...

1840 1d black, unplated, four margins, tied by red Maltese cross on cover postmarked Jan 14 1841, addressed to Lady Sophia Hastings, daughter of t...

1840 penny black plates, ten stamps of nine different plates 1a, 1b (x2), 2, 3 (x2), 4, and 7 to 9, all four margins (plate 8 very close left). Th...

1840 penny black plate 9 pair, with margins all round save touching points at top, tied on piece by complete scarce Chard town postmark dated 24.5...

1840 2d blue plate 1, four even margins, beautiful bright shade contrasting with crisp strike of the red Maltese cross. An ideal stamp. ...[more]

1840 trio of 2d blues, all four margins, plate 1 B-I with red Maltese cross, plate 2 B-A with neat black MX and C-G with slightly heavier yet stil...

1840 2d blue plate 2, four-margins, cancelled solely by clear town dated postmark of Dorchester (Feb.23 1842), a lovely example. Cat. £7,000. ......

1840-41 penny black and black-plate penny red printings: two matched pairs, position O-B from plate 2 and position J-F from plate 9. All attractiv...

1841-51 1d red pair with four margins, cancelled by '12' in Maltese cross. Small bleach stains or natural skips in blueing only discernible from t...

Magnificent quality set of the twelve numbers-in-cross postmarks on penny reds, all with four clear and even margins, assembled to this collector'...

1841 line-engraved used group on album pages, 1d reds incl. SG.9 worn plate strip of five with margins all round, then an excellent page of 2d blu...

1847-54 embossed trio, each showing the date portion of 'spoon' type duplex postmarks, unusual as such. The 10d with small thin, the 1/- with four...

1847-54 embossed set with bar-cancels, a nice looking group with different printings of the 6d and 1/-. ...[more]

1850-54 early 1d red 'stars' printings (7) starting with an Archer perf 16 example (SG.16b) letters L-G matched with a government printed version ...

1854-55 early 2d blue 'stars' printings (5) incl. two SG.20a plate 5 examples with cds postmarks. Cat. £1,120. ...[more]

1855-58 2d blue 'stars' printings: SG.27 pair with light duplex cancel 'AP23 1856' and two examples of SG.36a (though blued paper), one with super...

1855-57 later 'stars' type 1d reds and 2d blues, sixty-four stamps on quadrille pages, including SG.22 vertical strip of four tied on piece by Liv...

1858-76 2d blue plates complete, all with cds postmarks, including two examples of plate 15. Cat. £400. ...[more]

A delightful display of the 1864-79 penny reds with circular datestamp postmarks, over 450 stamps in generally excellent quality organised by plat...

1869 2d blue plate 13, two beautiful blocks in different shades with crisp cds postmarks, immaculate perforations, rich colour etc. The block of f...

1870-79 ½d plates complete (2x pl.20), all select cds examples including the plate 9. Along with a page of three 1½d cds examples. Cat. £1,950. ....

1855-57 first surface-printed issues with no corner letters. Fourteen stamps assembled for superb quality and presented on album pages, including ...

1862-64 small corner letters, an album page of fifteen mostly cds examples, all different varieties, including 3d deep shade (SG.75), 3d pale shad...

1865-67 large uncoloured corner letters, watermarks Large Garter and Emblems, seventeen stamps all with cds cancels, displayed on an album page, i...

1867-78 group of wmk Maltese cross high values: two shades of the 5/- plate 1, the 5/- plate 2 and 10/-, the latter two with pulled upper right co...

1867-80 large uncoloured letters continued, on watermark Spray of Rose, an outstanding display of cds postmarked examples on album leaves, 48 stam...

1880 1/- brown plate 13, watermark Spray of Rose inverted, SG.151Wi, beautifully used with cds of Greytown, Nicaragua, SG.Z17, cat. £375 for bar-c...

1873-83 large coloured corner letters issues, 64 stamps on nine album pages with a lovely range of postmarks incl. Shannon, Kilmarnock, Kinver sup...

1874 5/- rose plate 2 with Maltese cross watermark, blue cds postmark and no faults. A lovely stamp. Cat. £1,500. ...[more]

1875 2½d rosy mauve watermark anchor (SG.138), plate 3 on blued paper, tied on cover to Constantinople with clear Birmingham duplex, the red 'Brit...

1880 2/- brown, used with superb Liverpool squared-circle cds postmark. In our opinion this example must be re-perfed horizontally, however there ...

1882 5/- rose plate 4 on white paper, SG.134, a great example very well-centred with clear squared circle datestamp and entirely without faults. C...

1882 £5 orange, SG.137, used with perfect central strike of Lancaster 11.FE.02 cds. A few minute abrasions, owner's mark in purple in the centre s...

1883 10/- grey-green plate 1, SG.135, completely without faults, beautifully centred and with crisp strike of Knightsbridge cds. Perfection. Cat. ...

1883-84 high values on white paper set superb used, with both shades of the 5/- (SG.179/181, 183), along with the three values again, all neat cds...

1884 £1 brown-lilac, watermark crowns (SG.185), extremely nice looking example with light registration cancels, horizontal ironed crease and a cou...

1880-1900 later Queen Victoria issues, 44 stamps selected for quality cds usage and presented on album pages, including 1880 2d pale and deep rose...

1891 £1 green, very fine used with neat strike of small oval Liverpool registered postmark. Cat. £800. ...[more]

1902-1912, mint group of thirty-six different KEVII printings on values 1d to 1/-, mostly very lightly hinged and attractive quality. The 6d SG.24...

EdVII De La Rue printings used, 64 stamps, min. cat. £4,600 (not giving benefit of the doubt to some varieties possibly mis-identified by the coll...

Harrison and Somerset House printings used, an excellent range of the varieties, 47 different, in the highest feasible quality, incl. 6d royal pur...

1911 Somerset House £1 deep green SG.320, an impeccable example, postmarked with very light yet still legible Guernsey cds, cat. £750. ...[more]

KGV lower values incl. 1913 6d perf 14 (SG.385a, cat. £110), two sets of the multiple Royal Cypher watermarks, sideways watermarks on 2d oranges o...

Waterlow seahorses set including two shades of the 2/6d, all with cds postmarks and strong colours, cat. £2,750 ...[more]

De La Rue seahorse issues (7) on album page incl. 2/6d grey-brown SG.407 with Salonika field-post cds and a beautiful trio of 10/- shades with pot...

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. seahorse printings, 25 stamps on album pages, all cds postmarks, incl. 2/6d on ribbed paper SG.spec.N65(4)v, 10/- blacki...

1929 UPU Congress £1 black, SG.438, used with light central cds, some faint additional marks running vertically across. Cat. £550. ...[more]

King Edward VIII to QEII superb cds used collection of over 120 stamps with comprehensive watermark varieties including on the 1958 graphite lines...

Assembled Great Britain from a stockbook of interesting odds and ends (Lot 68), including Mulready envelope (opened out, loss to rear), penny blac...

Group of 29 nineteenth century covers to various destinations, with interesting postmarks incl. 1832 ’Night’ red octagonal datestamp on mailed che...

Group of 26 nineteenth century covers (and card), including 1862 correspondence of four stampless covers from the Bank of England addressed to Syn...

1876 3d rose plate 19, strip of three with perfect horizontal strike and another neat partial strike of the C37 cancel in blue, SG.Z6. Cat. from £...

1862 6d lilac pair with C40 bar cancel, SG.Z36. 1872 6d buff SG.Z40 plate 11 with C40 cancel and 1873 plate 12 with Coquimbo cds. Cat. from £420. ...

1867 9d. straw plate 4, wing-margin pair (reinforced) with C40 cancel, SG.Z46. Cat. £550 as singles. ...[more]

Line-engraved group: ½d plate 11 (SG.Z54), 1d plate 209 pair, 1½d plate 3 single and pair, and 2d blue plate 9 pair with full cds portion of the p...

1867 9d straw plate 4 wing-margin strip of three, SG.Z80, with horizontal duplex C30 cancel showing the full cds portion. A couple of nibbled perf...

1867 5/- rose plate 1, superbly used with centrally and horizontally placed cds portion of the C30 duplex. A short perf, nevertheless seldom seen ...

1867-1877 range with 3d rose pair (SG.Z62), 9d straw (SG.Z80), 10d red-brown with superb cds (SG.Z81) and 6d grey pair (SG.Z75, reinforced). Cat. ...

1867-1880 range with 9d straw with cds portion only (SG.Z80), 6d grey plates 14, 15 and 16 (SG.Z75. the latter two plates with reduced wing-margin...

1877 4d sage-green plate 15 and plate 16 examples with C30 bar cancels, the plate 15 a very attractive wing-margin example with neat strike. SG.Z6...