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Click here to subscribeProperty from a Private London CollectionA Safavid copy of Layla ve Majnun, Safavid Iran, copied in Qazwin by Muhammad Bidakhshi and dated Ramadan 930AH/July 1524AD, Persian manuscript on paper, 86ff., with 11ll of nasta’liq in two columns per page within gilt frames, opening pages with gilt cloud bands and illuminated headpiece, in later brown binding with tooled floral medallions, folio 15.2 x 10cm. .
Property from a Private London CollectionKuliyat 'Iraqi, Iran, early 16th century, Persian manuscript on paper, 15ll. of black nasta'liq in two columns, gold divisions in black rules, green, gold and blue margins between black rules, headings in gold or colours between gold floral panels, buff or pale blue paper margins with gold floral lobed medallions, the corners with palmettes, opening folio with finely illuminated heading, the margins inhabited by gold birds and animals amidst trees and plants the following six bi-folios with similar margins, brown morocco binding with gold stamped medallion, pendants and corner pieces, the reverse with gold foliated border, text block detached and loosening, with evidence of worming, poor condition, 23.4 x 15cm..
An Ottoman compilation text written in several hands,Turkey, dated 1113AH/1701AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 125ff., including the Kitab hadith arba’een of Imam Nawawi (d.1277), and an introduction to prayer, with 17ll. of black naskh to the page, final text with colophon stating that it was copied at Izmir in the medrese of Mahmud Efendi by ‘Ali bin ‘Abd Allah bin ‘Abd al-Qadir in the morning of Yawm al-Arbi‘a’ (8) in the month of Dhu al-Qi'dah 1113 AH (15 June 1701AD), numerous dated 18th and 19th century ownership inscriptions in Arabic, in later brown board binding, folio 19.6 x 13.5cm. Provenance: Private London Collection
Property from a Private London CollectionA lacquered papier-mache pencase (qalamdan), Qajar Iran, 19th Century, of typical oblong shape with sliding tray, the polychrome painted decoration consisting of four portrait lobed cartouches : the central cartouche with a seated pensive youth holding a manuscript possibly the "Conference of the Birds", a turbaned bearded man smoking a pipe above, a bearded man holding his arms crossed over his chest below, one hand holding a crucifix, possibly a hint to Shaykh San'an, all amidst gul-o-bulbul on deep burgundy background, the sides and base with similar plain medallions, the tray painted in red, black and gilt, with old label numbered in Farsi, under lacquer crisscross effect overall, 25.4cm.Condition Report: This lot shows some historical restorations and some pitting and dents overall. The older restorations are mostly found at the end and borders of the qalamdan. The tray's base is rubbed.
Property from a Private London CollectionAn early Qur'an section (Juz'), Mamluk Egypt or Ottoman Turkey,16th century, Juzz Qāla ’l-mala'u (قَالَ ٱلْمَلَأُ), Arabic manuscript on paper, 26ff. with 7ll. of bold black thuluth, opening folio with header in gold, gold roundels throughout, in brown morocco Mamluk binding stamped with latticed roundel with rising and hanging palmettes, with label naming the section in Arabic black script, folio 26.7 x 17.8cmProvenance: Christie's 9 October 2009, Lot 293
A Qur’an, Ethiopia, signed Muhammad ibn ‘Umar ibn Hassan, dated 13 Rabi’ I AH 1256 AH / 1840 AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 219ff., 5fl.,15ll of black harari script per page, vocalised throughout, the opening bifolio with bold circular motifs paired with chequerboard patterns extending to the margins, verse markers and sura headings in red, numerous marginal notes, bound in slightly later goatskin, contemporary, with numerous repairs, text block slightly trimmed, 33 x 24cm.Footnotes: Provenance : United Kingdom art market
Property from a Private London CollectionTo Be Sold With No ReserveAn astronomic manuscript, Near east, 18th century or earlier, Arabic manuscript on paper, substantial fragment comprising tables and star charts from an unidentified astronomical manuscript, disbound and heavily worn, unbound, folio 25.5 x 20.5cm.
A prayer book, including selected suras from the Qur'an, Ottoman Empire, late 19th century, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 85 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in naskh script in black ink, gold dots between verses, inner margins ruled in black and gold, catchwords, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, water staining mostly restricted to outer borders, modern brown leather gilt, with flap, folio 16 x 98cm.Provenance: Private UK Collection
Kitab tahqiq al-shuhur al-maqlub, compiled by Muhammad Yusuf al-Hejrani, possibly Xinjiang, al-Matba’a al-Sha'biyya, dated 1350 AH and 1930/1 CE, a work on the Islamic calendar with reference to the views of scholars in China, Arabic and Chinese lithographed book, with sequential texts, Arabic text with 18ll of naskh per page, Chinese text arranged in 9-10 columns, both within double-ruled frames, full-page diagrams, manuscript amendments pasted over the text, original wrappers with printed Chinese and Arabic label bound in cloth-covered boards.
Property from a Private London CollectionThree album leaves from a copy of Sadi's Gulistan probably copied by Imad Al-Hassani at Aleppo in 1595, the borders with fine drawings in gold of wild and fantastical animals in rocky and leafy landscapes, Persia, Tabriz, circa 1525-30 or Isfahan circa 1595, Persian manuscript on paper, with 10ll. to the page of nasta'liq, intercolumnar and interlinear rules in gold, significant words picked out in blue or gold, folio 29.4 x 18.5cm.; text area 15.3 x 8.8cm. These three pages are likely to originate from the same manuscript as pages now in various public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Leipzig and the Keir Collection, Dallas. For other illustrations and pages see Martin 1912, vol II pls. 250-251; Schulz 1914, vol. II, pls 68-70 and 73; Robinson 1976, nos III 220-222, pls. 51-52; Pope 1939 vol. V, pl. 892; and Welch 1979, nos. 45 and 46. Provenance: Bonhams, 15 October 2003, Lot 16 (part lot)
Property from a Private London CollectionTo Be Sold With No ReserveDivan of ‘Attar, possibly copied in Safavid Iran, late 16th-early 17th century, Persian manuscript on paper, 356ff., 1fl.,with 18ll. of nasta’liq in two columns per page, extensive marginal notes, one giving a date of AH [10]14 / 1605 AD, spaces left for illumination and paintings, trimmed, staining, water-staining, some repairs, sometimes affecting the text, occasional smudges, the first fly leaf with inscriptions in black ink and pencil, three inventory labels, one detached, in later brown binding, the upper cover reverse with H. Kevorkian collection label numbered 821, folio 24.4 x 13.8cm.
A Qur'an juz', China, late 19th century, juz' 18, Arabic manuscript on paper,54ff., 4fl., each folio with 5ll. of black sini script within double-ruled red frames, opening pages and closed with illuminated frames in green, red, and gold, the reverse with the juz' title (Qad 'aflaha') in black ink, the last folio with the title of the following section (wa-qāla ’lladhīna) in black ink, in modern binding with flap, incorporating remnants of earlier boards and retaining a fragmentary paper label, 28 x 19.5cm.
A Qur'an Juz', China, 19th century, Juz'22, Arabic manuscript on paper, 107 ff., 2 fl., 4 to 5ll. of black sini script per per page within double-ruled red rules, first page with illuminated roundel, opening pages and closing pages with finely illuminated panels in red, green, blue and gold, final page with elaborately calligraphed and illuminated roundel, perhaps added by a second artist ; contemporary cloth-covered boards with flap, Chinese manuscript titles on flap and board, text-block split, one folio torn and taped
A Qajar prayer book, Qur’an excerpt (6:72-101), copied by Ibn Muhammad ‘Ali 1313 AH (1895-96AD), Arabic manuscript on paper, 10ll. of black naskh to the page within gold and outer blue rule, polychrome and gold marginal decoration, in stamped black leather binding, folio 16 x 8cm. diam. Provenance: Private French collection
A group of Arabic manuscript fragments, including a 19th-century manuscript model of the Prophet’s sandal inscribed with prayers on paper, a vellum bifolium of a non-Quranic text in an early round script, 9th-11th century, and a medieval Arabic note on paper, undated, loose in a folder inscribed “Arabe pour Prof. J[?]”, (3)Provenance: The Collection of Dr Adolf Grohmann (1887-1977); Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired at at Sotheby’s London, 14th December 1987, lot 148.
An Ottoman Qur'an, signed Isma’il al-Zuhdi, a student of Suleiman al-Kashifi, apparently dated 1289 AH, but perhaps 1219 AH (1804AD), Ottoman Provinces, Arabic manuscript on paper, 606ff., with 15ll. of neat black naskh script within gold outer border per page, corrections in red, gold roundel verse markers, headers in white naskh on gold, some polychrome marginal decoration possibly added later, opening bifolio with roundels containing text within a polychrome and gold border, restored brown leather binding with lattice design, folio 24 x 13cm.Provenance: Private UK Collection since 1975Footnotes: See Derman, M. Uğur, Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı Collection, Istanbul, 1998, no. 26 for anothr work by Isma’il al-Zuhdi.
Prayers and excerpts from the Qur’an copied by ‘Omar ibn Hassan, Sudan,19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, approx. 500ff., with 9-16ll of Sudani script per page, numerous minuscule interlinear and marginal annotations, loose in limp leather boards and folding wrapper with flap and tie, retaining hair, with loosely inserted note “Copy of Koran - Given to the Hastings Museum by the late H. E. Dresser, the eminent ornithologist. Said to have been taken from a dead soldier at the Battle of Omdurman”, folio 23 x 17cm. The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan on 2nd September 1898.Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions, 09/07/2009, lot 30Henry Eeles Dresser (1838-1915) was a prominent ornithologist. The reverse of the note is a printed invitation from the Committee of the Haslemere Educational Museum, inscribed to Mr Ruskin Butterfield. William Ruskin Butterfield was a curator of the Hastings Museum.
An illustrated tantric manuscript, Nepal, 19th century or earlier, 14ff., with black and opaque pigments on yellow paper, the manuscript opening both ways and with script to both sides, 7ll. of horizontal script to the page, with 4 cosmic diagrams, and numerous paintings of deities and animals, the cover red leather with flap (damaged to one corner), folio 22 x 9cm.
A Qur'an juz', China, 19th century, juz' 25, Arabic manuscript on paper, 50ff., 2fl., 5ll. of sini per page within double-ruled red frames, opening bifolios with illuminated frames, in a contemporary blind-stamped binding with flap, text block crudely re-sewn with leaves detaching at beginning and end, 28 x 21cm.
A Qur'an juz', China, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 54ff., 1fl., each folio with 5ll. of black sini script, within double-ruled red frames, opening pages and closing pages with illuminated frames in red, green, and gold, with geometric patterns and peonies, disbound, some staining and marginal wear
Juz’ 18 from an Ottoman 30-part Qur’an, Turkey, 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 27ff., written entirely in gold, with 7ll. of gold naskh per page, outlined in black, fully vocalised, with gilt verse markers and a fine illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, with some marginal restoration, in modern pastiche binding with flap, folio 27.5 x 19.2cm.Parts from the same set have been offered in these rooms (Lot 282 on 28 April 2023) and Bonhams (Lots 7 and 10 on 8 April 2014).
Dala‘il al-khayrat, Muhammad bin Sulayman al-Jazuli (d.1465AD), Morocco, 19th century, 218ff., incomplete, Arabic manuscript on paper, square-format, with 7ll. of Maghribi script within red and blue frames per page, section headings in gold, important words written in red or blue, with full-page diagrams, contemporary deep red blind-tooled binding with flap, folio 12 x 11cm.
A Qur'an juz', China, late 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, juz’ 7, 26ff., 4fl., 5ll of black sini script within double-ruled red panels, opening pages 3ll. of black similar script within illuminated frames in red, blue, and gold, the covers wit modern blue cloth and flap, opening fly-leaves perhaps supplied at a later date, some light staining sometimes affecting the text, very occasional smudges, 24.2 x 18cm.
Property from a Private London CollectionKashkul of Baha al-Din al-Amili, Iran, 19th century, with possibly added date of AH 1065 / 1655 AD, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 114ff., 2fl., with 29ll of nasta’liq per page, important words overlined in red, 3 parts in one, final part mis-bound, in 19th-century light brown blind-stamped and ruled Qajar binding, library label to lower cover, collection inventory number to inner upper cover, seal and stamp impressions to fly-leaf, 26.8 x 17cm.
REICH ILLUMINIERTE RUSSISCHE ALTGLÄUBIGEN-HANDSCHRIFT IN KIRCHENSLAVISCH 125 von 129 Blättern, es fehlen die Blätter 1,2, 4 und 122, paginiert in kyrillischer Nummerierung, wohl 18. Jh.20,4 x 16 x 4 cmJedes Blatt zeigt eine biblische Szene, gemalt mit Tinte und Wasserfarben, auf der Vorderseite und auf der Rückseite einen mit Tinte geschriebenen kirchenslavischen Text. Das letzte Blatt ist leer.Original blind gestempeltes Leder über Holz, zwei Verschlüsse, mit Lederrücken und Endpapieren erneuert, wahrscheinlich in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jh.RICHLY ILLUMINATED RUSSIAN CHURCH SLAVONIC OLD BELIEVERS MANUSCRIPT125 of 129 leaves, leaves 1,2, 4 and 122 are missing, paginated in Cyrillic numbering, probably 18th c.20,4 x 16 x 4 cmEach leave shows a biblical scene, painted with ink and watercolors, on the front and on the back a Church Slavonic text written in ink. The last leave is blank.Original blind stamped leather over wooden boards, two clasps, rebound with leather back and endpapers renewed, probably in the first half of 19th c.
London.- Horwood (Richard) Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark and Parts adjoining Shewing every House, large bound wall map of London, 22 sheets only (of 32, lacking sheets D2, E3, E4, F3, F4, G3, G4, H1, H3, and H4), presented on a scale of twenty-five inches to the mile, lacking title sheet (H1) but with imprints to lower centre of each sheet, extending from Angel to Limehouse, and Kennington to Brompton, engravings on cream wove paper with watermarks 'Horwood's Map of London', each individual sheets approx. 560 x 650 mm (22 x 25 1/2 in), on stubs, sheet A2 from another copy, minor offsetting, scattered surface dirt, otherwise occasional minor nicks to extremities, later half calf, covers detached, lacking spine, manuscript inscription to upper cover, very worn, elephant folio, [cf. Howgego 200], [c.1792-1799]; together with two impressions of Rocque's single sheet map A Plan of London on the same scale as Paris... 1766, engravings, each sheet approx. 530 x 710 mm (20 7/8 x 28 in), central folds, toning and surface dirt, unframed, 1766 (3) ⁂ The largest map printed in Georgian Britain, and a defining study of London at the end of the eighteenth century. Horwood's plan was the first map of London to attempt to show every individual property, and took over 7 years to complete following numerous logistical and financial obstacles.
NO RESERVE Voyages.- Mackay (William) Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Juno, off the coast of Aracan, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at beginning, ex-library Nottingham Public Libraries with occasional ink-stamps throughout, broken hinges, contemporary boards, upper cover detached, title in manuscript to backstrip, paper label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 8vo, Edinburgh and London, 1831.
East Midlands.- King (William) A Map of a Tract of Country Surrounding Belvoir Castle including extensive Districts of the Counties of Leicester, Lincoln & Nottingham; and the whole of the County of Rutland, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, sheet 1150 x 1460 mm (45 1/4 x 57 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some offsetting and minor surface dirt, folding with publisher's printed label to upper panel into contemporary marbled slipcase, splitting and worn, manuscript label to upper cover, 4to, William Faden, 1806
NO RESERVE Europe.- Bos (G. J.) Geocostumeerde Optogt gehouden door de Leden van het Leidsche Studenten-corps den 12den Junij 1855 ..., title and contents loosely inserted, folding hand-coloured panorama, bookplate, scattered spotting, original cloth, manuscript paper label to upper cover, faded spine, ties, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Leiden, [1855] § Album Officiel Fete des Vignerons Vevey 1889, folding colour panorama, scattered spotting, concertina binding, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [1889] § Riccordo di Pompei, plates, some panoramas, concertina binding, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed, n.d. § Le Panorama Paris s'amuse No. 10, illustrations, original paper wrappers, a little rubbed, Paris, n.d.; and others similar, v.s. (c.45)
Shropshire.- Baugh (Robert) To the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Powis Lors Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Counties of Salop and Montgomery, This Map of Shropshire..., large county map with vignette and title in the upper right corner, engraving, sheet approx. 1400 x 1420 mm (55 1/8 x 55 7/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt and light browning in places, slightly rough edges, folding into marbled slipcase with manuscript label to upper cover 'Baugh/ Map of Shropshire', rubbed and scuffed, 4to, [1808].
Kent.- Andrews (John) & Andrew Drury & William Herbert. [A Topographical Map of the County of Kent in Twenty Five Sheets on a Scale of Two Inches to a Mile, from an actual survey], folding index map, and 23 engraved double-page sheets in 18 sections, lacking title section [no. 5], and blank sea section [no. 21], some hand-colouring, sheets of various sizes, all dissected and laid onto linen, scattered surface dirt and minor browning, each section with numbered ink inscription to endpanel, folding into marbled box with manuscript label, [circa 1769].
Persia.- [Sandys (George)] A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610 ... containing a description of the Turkish Empire ..., third edition, engraved title, engraved panorama, double-page map, tear to bottom edge with old repair verso, illustrations, of which two nudes appear to have been scored out by a previous owner, previous owner's ink signature to title head, one or two manuscript notes, G4 lacking bottom corner affecting text, I6 & R3 with tears and neat old repairs, later half-calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [STC 21729], small folio, for Ro. Allot, 1632.⁂ "The work was first published in 615 and reprinted many times during the 17th century. At that time it was the most elaborately illustrated English book on the Levant." (Blackmer)
Middle East.- Field Notes. Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917., 3 folding tables, of which one detached and loosely inserted, folding map in pocket at beginning, scattered spotting and light soiling, original cloth envelope binding, rubbed and worn, Calcutta, 1917; Field Message Book, 3pp. printed instructions at beginning, neat ink manuscript notes and diagrams, most notes appear to be made during training with some suggesting a base near Oxford, original paper wrappers, rubbed and worn, 1917; 8vo (2).
JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, Manuscript. An Alphabetical Kallender of the Journals of the House of Lords from the Restauration of His Majesty King Charles the Second 1660 to the Year 1723 inclusive. 2 vols. 623pp. Folio. Old calf; together with A Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords from the Year 1723 to the Year 1732, one vol., 542pp, folio, in old calf uniform with the other two vols. Very well written ink manuscript throughout. Bookplate of Sir Lucius O'Brien Bart. (Distinguished Irish politician and scholar) (3).
Documents & Ephemera - Cheshire - Macclesfield. Late 19th to early 20th century extensive archive of the Trustees of George Roylance & Co. Ltd., Builders, Wheelwrights, Smiths & Dealers in building materials, with wills, conveyances, property & land plans, investments, correspondence, bank books, printed Articles of Association for the Company, 1906 sale particulars plus plan of the timber yard & building land. Manuscript inventory of trading stock, machinery etc. at the Wind Mill Brow Dyeworks (11 pages), etc.
GROSART REV. ALEXANDER R. Songs of the Day & Night or Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public & Private Praise & Reading. Large paper ltd. ed. of only 100. 509pp. Uncut cream col. brds., some light damp stng. & fading but sound. Subscriber's list. Catalogue of other works by this author (of Blackburn, Lancashire). Slipped in short manuscript letter from the author. Printed for Private Circulation only, 1890.
Sub-Office Cancels. QV-KGV Stamps and pieces with sub-office cancels, many from small outer islands, mainly circular datestamps but including a few mailbag seal handstamps, many early and scarce, including Acklins and Rum both in manuscript, Hope Town, Clarence Town, Arthurs Town, Harbour Island, Rock Sound, Crooked Island (the only recorded example), etc. (186). Also stamps (24) and covers (2) with Paquebot or manuscript cancels. A fine and scarce lot, the result of many years of searching through collections. (210 + 2 covers). Photo on Page 72.
Registered Mail. 1941-45 Registered covers to Gibraltar (2), Paraguay, Dutch forces in Canada (2, one redirected to G.B) or sent locally in Jamaica, three with Kingston "4" c.d.s and circular "GIBRALTAR / CAMP", two cancelled by the double ring "GIBRALTAR CAMP" c.d.s, a sixth cover written from the camp but posted in Kingston. The covers all with differing registration labels, comprising a "GIBRALTAR" label with manuscript "Camp" (8 May 1941, the label presumably brought from Gibraltar with the refugees), blank label with manuscript "Camp Gibraltar" (24 Jan. 1942), "GIBRALTAR CAMP" (20 May 1942), "CAMP GIBRALTAR" (19 Oct. 1943) and a blank label with manuscript "Gib Camp" (15 Oct. 1945). A rare and exceptional group. (6). Photo on Page 134.
Revenues. 1875-1903 Mint and used revenues, 1875-79 1d - £1 Chalon Head type in orange (43) with some varieties including 2/- pair and strip of three (central stamp with wide gap in value) both imperforate vertically, 3d varieties "THRFE" (2) or "PFNCE", 2/- varieties "TVVO" and "SHILLNG" (2), mint 1d with manuscript "Postage", 1d on piece with c.d.s (2), 6d with c.d.s (2), forged 3/- value on piece with c.d.s; 1884 1d surcharges (4) including 1d with c.d.s, 1½d variety "THRFE"; 1884 issue (14) with 3d and 6d imperforate proofs, 1d with c.d.s, £1 mint; 1903 £1. (62). Photo on Page 136.
British Military Administration. 1945-46 Covers (8) and a front, pieces and stamps (43) with B.M.A stamps cancelled by temporary handstamps, including two line "POST OFFICE / B. BHARU" on cover franked 2c + 3c (2) to Penang and on pieces (3); similar "POST OFFICE / SERDANG" on covers to Penang or Singapore franked 8c or 3c + 6c + 8c + 10c, an airmail cover to England franked 25c (2) and on stamps and pieces (10); single line "P. SERAI P.O" on local cover franked 8c, air mail cover to England franked 10c (5) and on a front, pieces or stamps (15); straight line "YEN KEDAH" on stamps (4); unclear circular occupation cancels on registered covers from Bandar Bharu and Padang Serai; pieces with circular violet handstamps of Lunas (8), Jitra, Sungei Patani, etc., most with manuscript dates. (52).
British Military Administration. 1945-49 Covers (13) with 1945 (Oct. 6/13) stampless covers from Alor Star to Kulim or posted within Kulim both carried free of charge prior to the issue of B.M.A Malaya stamps, 1945 (Oct. 19) B.M.A Malaya F.D.Cs from Alor Star (2), stamped covers from Alor Star (6, three registered), Sugei Patami (2, registered) or Kulim (2, one registered). Also 1946 pieces with B.M.A stamps cancelled by prewar type datestamps of Karangan (3), Kuala Ketil (7, with date in manuscript) or Kulim (7). (30).
1886-1903 Specimen overprint stamps affixed with part own gum to two pages from the Royal Swedish General Post Office U.P.U Specimen collection, comprising 1886-87 2½d, 4d and 1/- on a printed stamp album page and 1903 KEVII ½d - 5/- set of ten affixed to a plain page with manuscript country name and date. Two unique archival pages. S.G. 27/40s, £475 as stamps. (13).
British Military Administration - Baling/Bedong. 1946 covers (5), pieces and stamps (11) with cover to Sungei Patani bearing 10c block, covers to Penang franked 2c + 6c or 1c (2) + 6c, and pieces or stamps (7) all with violet circular "BEDONG / KEDAH" cancels, Air Mail covers from Bedong to G.B with 50c or nine stamps totalling 50c cancelled circular "BEDONG / SYBURI", and pieces (4) with similar "BEDONG" cancels, dates in manuscript. (16). Photo on Page 162.
Batu Mengkebang. 1907-08 Stamps and pieces cancelled by manuscript "B.M" and date with single ring "KALANTAN" c.d.s applied in Khota Bharu, comprising 1887-91 12a on piece with 16.8.07 cancel, 1905-09 8a with 1908 cancel and 12a on piece with 14.6.07 cancel, very scarce. (3). Photo on Page 164.
Maritime Mail - Paquebots. 1911-40 Covers (4), pieces (36) and stamps (67) with undated cover from Bangkok to E.A Dickson, British Agent, Trengganu (Dickson only being the British Agent in 1913) with Straits KGV 3c cancelled by fancy "Paquebot" (not recorded by Hosking), all the Trengganu stamps and pieces and a 1936 cover bearing 5c strip of three with Singapore Paquebot cancels, also two covers from Besut or Setui to Singapore (one endorsed "From S.S Asdang") with 1915 5c cancelled in manuscript. (107).
Cancellations. 1903-38 KEVII and KGV Stamps with village cancels including Castle Bruce, Coulibistrie, Delices, Dublanc, Grand Bay, Mahaut, Vieille Case, etc., (146 + cover). Also maritime cancels or overseas cancels (74 + 3 coves) including handstruck (2) or manuscript "YARE", paquebots, cancels from various other West Indies islands, etc. An interesting lot. (220 + 4 covers). Photo on Page 100.
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