Local Interest - Croston (James), Chantrey's Peak Scenery, Or Views in Derbyshire, Engraved by W.B. and George Cooke After Drawings by Sir Francis L. Chantrey, R.A., With Historical and Topographical Descriptions, the only copy printed on Japanese vellum, Frank Murray, Derby and Hamilton, Adams, & Co., London, 1886, 15pp, 29 etched and engraved plates, full contemporary vellum, each board gilt embossed with title and the Anglo-Saxon Eyam churchyard cross, raised banded spine enclosing brown leather title label, marbled endpapers, gilt-edged text block, crown folio; working unfinished proof copy, Bemrose (William), The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., Commonly Called "Wright of Derby", With a Preface by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, Bemrose & Sons, London [c. 1885], [12] and further blank pages, all contemporaneously bound, including title-page, 4 pages of first chapter, full-page plates, further illustrations applied, some annotated in pencil, green buckram boards, gilt embossed title, crown folio (2)
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Local Interest - Kirke White (Henry, of Nottingham), Clifton Grove, A Sketch In Verse, With Other Poems, Dedicated (by Permission) to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, first edition, N. Biggs [...], London 1803, xiv, 102pp, later 19th century quarter-black morocco and marbled boards, gilt-embossed title to spine within two raised and beeded bands, contemporaneous ink MS owner's inscription to title-page Margaret Elizabeth Ev**y Nov 23 1808, 16mo
Twiss (Richard, F.R.S.), A Tour In Ireland In 1775, With A View of the Salmon-Leap at Ballyshannon, first Irish edition, Meffrs. (sic) Sheppard [...], Dublin 1776, [ii], 224pp (lacks 221-224), index [ii, lacking half from tear], late 19th century quarter oxblood morocco and marbled boards, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription and notations to endpaper, title-page and its verso, 16mo
Medals, B.E.M., WW1 Royal Marines, WW2 ARP, 1937 Coronation, 1953 Coronation, group of six, B.E.M. (Civ.), GRI (Walter W. Ryle) L/G 10.6.1948; British War Medal (PO. 11008/S W.W. Ryle, Pte., R.M.; Victory Medal 9PO.11008/S W.W. Ryle, Pte., R.M.; WW2 Defence Medal/ARP badge, 1937 Coronation Medal, GRI; 1953 Coronation Medal EIIR, pin-mounted for wear in an incorrect order, the last medal mounted later; research, including Royal Marines Short Service papers, First World War Medal Roll & SWB certificate, 1937 & 1953 Coronation Medal Rolls (HM Treasury Messenger/Office Keeper) and L/G dated 10th June 1948 for his B.E.M. awardWalter William Ryle was born in Islington, November 10th 1895, and enlisted in the Royal Marines at Southampton on October 14th 1915. Serving in ships and shore establishments under war conditions, including active service with the Royal Marine Brigade in France from September 1916 to March 1917. He was invalided as unfit for further service on July 4th 1917 and is entitled to the WW1 SWB (not included). He subsequently served in HM Treasury pre and post-WW2, based in London, and died there aged 74 in 1970
Medals, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Chief Petty Officer's First Gulf War Medal, group of three, 1992 Gulf War Medal (no clasp) - (CPO [Plumb] G. Wright, RFA); Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal 1952-2002 (unnamed as issued); Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service Medal (CPO [E] G. Wright, Medal 21.6.04) - early issue, each medal in original named box of issue, with original packaging, spare ribbon and documentation
Antiquarian Books - Art History/Portraiture - Bates (William), The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "Illustrious Literary Characters", With Memoirs Biographical, Critical, Bibliographical & Anecdotal Illustrative of the Literature of the Former Half of the Present Century, With Eighty-Five Portraits, first edition, Chatto and Windus, London 1883, illustrated with full-page monochrome lithographs, contemporary buckram as issued, thick 12mo; Steuart Erskine (Mrs), Beautiful Women In History & Art, Printed at The Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, London 1905, xi, 283pp, the illustrated throughout with plates engraved by Hallett Hyatt of The Rembrandt Studio, allegorical title-page and ornamental headpieces from designs by W.L. Bruckman, pictorial blue cloth, contemporary bookseller's label W. Erskine Mayne, Belfast, 4to [2]
Antiquarian Books - Equine - Meade-King (Eric), The Silent Horn: Summer Sketches of Horse and Hound, Collins Publishers, London 1938; Hitchcock (Captain F.C., M.C.), "Saddle Up": A Guide to Equitation and Stable Management, Including Hints to Instructors, With a foreword by Sir Frederick Hobday, sixth impression; Henry Wynmalen; other books, Thirty Pictures by Deceased British Artists, Engraved Expressly For The Art-Union of London by W.J. Linton, [London] 1860, gilt-embossed green buckram boards, folio; Dolin (Anton), autobiography, Ballet Go Round, first edition 1938 [7]
Ile Rouad: 1916-20 set of 13 to 20p on 5f (SG 4/16) c.t.o. used on manila envelope by Ile Rouad cds for 31.5.19, also short mint set to 4p on 1f (top val defective), Lebanon 1943 first flight cover to Algiers, France 1935 'Normandie' Maiden voyage cover and small used collection of France on pages which is stc cat £1,000+ (Scores)
Mount Everest Expeditions: 1924 Expedition, four 'Captain Noel' souvenir postcards, two used from Calcutta with standard type IIa cachet in red, one unaddressed but label cancelled by favour with same cachet in black, last unused, first two fine, third minor imperfections, last creased and other faults but unusual
Mount Everest Expeditions: 1936 Expedition cover from Shekar Dzong to London, initially unfranked but bearing on face boxed 'EVEREST, 1936' handstamp with 'Shekar Dzong, Tibet' in manuscript, reverse bears large 'POLITICAL OFFICE/SIKKIM' h/s, over which has been affixed a type-written label inscribed "Suffered detention in Gangtok post/office owing to the Postmaster's/failure to affix postage stamps and/to forward them in time. The post-/master has been sent jail for his offence.", this is one of a small batch of expedition mail that was stolen and later found buried in a tin in the Sikkim forest, when it eventually arrived in England a KEVIII 1½d adhesive has been applied and cancelled Dorking 26 JAN 37, a fascinating and rare item, accompanied by three other covers to same address posted from various Indian post offices including Simla S.W. (10 JLY 36), Kalimpong (22 JLY 36) and Joshimath (19 SEP 37), the first with contemporary? pencil annotation on reverse 'From Frank Chapman, Mount Everest Expedition
Accumulation in albums and loose of coin first day covers, incl 'British Isles Coin Cover Collection', Royal Mail/Royal Mint Philatelic Numismatic Covers albums (3), also several 'Proof Coin Collection' in the original cases and a tin box of world wide coins, mostly 20th Century and few older taking from circulation, mixed condition (Few hundreds)
Large accumulation of Flight First Day Covers from the 1960`s to the 1980`s, many signed by pilots incl Cotswold, Stuart, Boac, Bea, British Airways, R.A.F., Concorde, Heathrow Airport ; many fdc`s tied by 'Hounslow Middlesex cds`s, also some Commonwealth and foreigns, few PHQ cards incl 1974 British Trees (2nd issues) used, 1974 Fire Engines used, interesting lot for the specialist collector (Few Hundreds)
1973-75 Small group of mostly plain first day covers, unaddressed and with Peking cds, better sets include 1973 Children's Day, Canton Fair, 1974 Gymnastics, Acrobatics, Mao's Taching/Tachai Directives, UPU, Country Doctors, 25th Anniv of PRC, 1975 Confucius & Lin Piao, Country Women Teachers and People's Congress, a few faults but mostly fine (22)
Collection in three stock books from 1913 to 2001, mostly used with some sets from 1980s also present mint, a few better items including 1913-14 recess 6d kookaburra, 1915-25 to 5s, 1934 Victoria Centenary and 1935 Jubilee, some later issues with first day cancels, also 1981 and 1996 year books and volume of fdcs from 1990s to 2001, condition rather mixed (Few Hundreds)
1942 3p slate with 'Peacock' overprint type 5 applied at Henzada (SG J22), range of unused multiples written up for display on sheets including u/r corner block of 80, blocks of 4 and 12 with h/s double, 3p, 9p, 1a, 4a overprint at Myaungmya incl blocks of 4 first two, overprint type 6 on 3p to 4a, also Henzada overprint on 2a in state 1 and selection of other Peacock overprints plus later 'Farmer' types incl odd variety
1940 Two red 'Formula Registered Envelopes' addressed to the USA, the first franked 1938-50 ½d, 1d, 2d and 2½d tied by POST STANLEY cds dated July 12th , the other franked 2d and 4d with similar cds dated 22 August, each with Stanley registration labels, both with 'P.C. 90 OPENED BY EXAMINER' tape affixed in Bermuda and arrival backstamps, a most interesting and scare pair of covers
1950 (1-31 October) First Anniversary of the People's Republic of China, set of 5 from original printing (SG NE 293/97), each cancelled by favour with part to large part Tientsin cds, all but $5000 and $10000 with year '51' visible, $5000 trivial tone and $10,000 tiny inclusion, although not used in North East China these very scarce
Hong Kong used in: Shanghai, 1862-63 12c greenish blue, no watermark, two examples with fine 'sunburst' cancels, one in blue, the other in black and overstruck with B62, also 1863-76 4c grey with similar cancel to first and 2c brown used by part SHANGHAE cds (Yang type 1) overstruck with B62, adhesives all with faults but good strikes (Z767, 772/73)
1968 First Triennale Art Exhibition, New Dehli, 15p orange, royal blue and light blue, vertical row of five with sheet margins at top and foot, lower two stamps error 'orange omitted' (actually a dry print) (SG 564/564a), the adjoining stamp with a slight loss of orange, a rarity as only the lower two rows of one sheet were affected, resulting in 14 possible examples, very fine u/m, BPA cert (2006)
1905-1906 Group of five picture postcards, each used from F.P.O. No 1 (Peking) to the same addressee in England, with BASE OFFICE transit cds, all 1a rate paid by a variety of adhesives including 1900 3p carmine (4), ½a blue-green (2), 1904 QV 1a carmine and 1905-11 1a carmine, first a few tones but with 'BRITISH LEGATION GUARD' h/s in blue, others fine but without this mark
1897 (March) 8c on 6ca chocolate, large figure surcharge, spaced 2½mm on Dowager Empress first printing (SG 53a), left marginal reconstructed block of 4 (block has been split into two horizontal pairs and carefully re-joined with hinges), somewhat off centre but fresh and generally lightly hinged, large part o.g., a rare multiple, cat £15,000
Postal History: Small collection on pages 1922-51 including 1924 GB Post Office OHMS envelope h/s 'RIALTAS SEALADACH NA hEIRANN', 1940 cover from Cork to Dublin, readdressed to Rome with 85c in Italian postage dues, 1931 First England-Australia flight from Dublin to Sydney, franked 1s 8d in 1922 Provisional Government opts incl 10d, 1933 (22 Oct) airmail from Galway to Berlin with special cachet in green, 1939 North Atlantic Air Service with large violet cachet, 1949 Airmail to Austria with Bregenz balloon flight cachet, 1929 O'Connell 2d and 3d on first day cover, also some stationery and other odds (41)
Forerunners: 1907-16 Sinn Fein "Hibernia, Harp & Wolfhound" propaganda labels, small group including 'wide crown' perf 11¼ horizontal tete-beche pair (Hibernian L17b), left marginal block of 4 and two singles (L17), 'narrow crown' singles incl roulette 10 (L18) and two perf 11¼ (L19), odd small fault but most incl first two items fine, part to full o.g.
Diverse accumulation in carton including 1937 Coronation, 1946 Victory and 1949 UPU (Commonwealth countries only) omnibii in stockbook, appear largely complete except Canada (Victory) and French New Hebrides (UPU), almost all u/m, also South Africa 1946 Victory, UPU and 1953 Coronation in large part sheets, first two including listed varieties, remainder a mixture of rather sparse old-time albums and assorted stamps taken off the post (Few Hundreds)
Substantial worldwide collection in four cartons, however almost all value in KGVI Commonwealth countries with better areas including Ascension to 10s with some perf types, Bermuda 'Key Plates' to £1 (mostly mint hinged) with better perfs shades incl 2s6d line perf and 10s first printing, Canada 1951 $1 Fisherman u/m, Cayman Is 1938-47 to 10s, Ceylon to 5r, Cook Is 10s Arms, FID 1948-49 thin maps to 1s, Gibraltar 1938-51 to £1 (also some older Gibraltar), Leeward Is 1938-51 10s (2) and £1 (5), Pitcairn 1949 RSW 10s, also some odds of GB and quantity of mostly WW2 to early 1950s censored commercial covers, condition typically mixed but much fine (Few Thousands)
Interesting collection of Balkan War and other occupation issues in one volume including Ikaria 1912 set to 5d grey mint, Limnos 1912-13 black opt odds to 10d, two covers to Paris, 20l or 25l rate, Samos 1912 'Map' to 25l, Hermes to 50l, 1913 Turkish Evacuation to 25d, 5d, 10d and 25d signed Diena, 1914 'ELLAS' opt to 50l, 1915 Vathy Hospital Fund 1d orange with red opt inverted, Lesvos 1912 to 10pi dull red (mix of mint and used), also with 'B' opt to 2pi used, 1912 (Nov) Greek currency surchs to 2d on 1pi including 1d on 20pa with 'B' opt, 1912 1pi black/crimson postage due, Kavalla 1913 most values incl 10l on 10st black and red (signed Diena) and 1d on 30st black and blue, Khios 1913 25l ultramarine, Italian Occupation of Corfu and Paxos 1941 postage issue to 100d lake (excl SG 3), most on presentation sheet, others on pieces, all with Kerkyra first day cancels, also postage dues to 100l with similar cancels, Greece 1912-13 'New Territories' opts odds to 10d, condition mixed in places and a few forgeries but mostly fine (130+)
Useful collection of "Hermes Heads" in one volume with most printings represented, mostly used but with odd mint multiple and cover present, better items (used unless noted) include 1861 Paris printing 10l, 40l (2), 80l unused pair with full o.g., July 1862 cover Patras to Livorno f/w 10l and 40l, 1861-62 First Athens printing 2l grey-brown/straw, coarse ptg (SG 9A) unused block of 4, 2l fine ptg block of 6 used, 80l rose fine ptg strip of 3, 1862-67 Second Athens ptg 80l rose-carmine l/l corner block of 6 unused with full o.g., 1866 5l, 20l, 40l on cover Argostolion to Kerkyra, 1867-69 from cleaned plates 2l used block of 6, 20l with partial double '20' at back, 80l unused large part o.g., Jan 1868 1l, 5l and 20l on cover from Argostolion, Nov 1871 5l, 20l, 40l on cover Syra to Genoa, 1872-75 thin transparent paper 40l with double '40' at back, 1874 cover Zakynthos to Trieste f/w 5l (3) and 40l, 1875-80 on cream paper 10l pair, one with '00' on reverse, 1881-87 without figures 20l ultramarine, also a few later issues on stockpages including forgery of 1896 Olympics 10d, condition mixed in places but generally above average (250+)
First Day Covers: Collection in eight albums from 1967 to 2012, the early period through to 1988 with local cancels and many with hand written addresses, the later mostly Royal Mail with Bureau, Tallents House or the alternative available cancel incl commemoratives, definitives with values to £10 and Regionals, booklet panes and miniature sheets etc, generally fine (Hundreds)
First Day Covers: Collection in 15 volumes plus loose from 1967 (a few earlier odds) to Christmas 2015 including commemoratives, definitives, and good range of PNC covers, issues to late 1980s a mixture of Philatelic Bureau and local f.d.i. cancels, later issues almost entirely the former, virtually all fine except a few of the earlier covers (Few Hundreds)
First Day Covers: Extensive collection in 48 volumes of mostly Benham (also some Colorano) 'silk' and GPO/Royal Mail covers from mid-1960s to around 2007, also seen are a few 'coin' covers (not PNCs), some signed covers and non first day commemorative covers, a number of better cancels noted from early 1980s onwards, condition generally very fine (Hundreds)
Collection from 1971 to Christmas 2010 with mint definitive and commemoratives (latest issues loose) with values to £10 and 90%+ of spaces filled, a few non-standard items including 2001 Consignia sheets (a few marginal tones), balance comprises first day covers from late 1960s to Christmas 2009 (appears quite comprehensive) in 14 volumes, these also containing some commems in mint strips of three, also a few loose odds and ends, some earlier fdcs affected by toning but mint stamps fine (Hundreds)
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