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Continental trade cards, a collection of 13 special albums, some complete, some part complete, some empty, various Countries, subjects & manufacturers inc. two Dutch albums showing birds & nature (both complete), German margarine company album containing a full set of Robinson Crusoe cards (80), another German album with a set of Grimm's Fairy-tale cards & others including one poster stamp album (gen gd)
British Tokens etc, P. Jones Collection, three 17th century tokens, Daniell Martin, Gardner in Reading, 1663, Thomas King Junior (at the Crown) in Reading 1666 & Daniell Prince in Oxon 1667, Marquis Cornwallis Post Office, Bury, Suffolk, J. Palmer Mail Coaches & one other dated 1794, a William Congreve proof copy of the 5d bank note stamp duty, a KG5th silver threepence with handwritten Lord's Prayer, a book, 'The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century, part 11, Anglesey & Wales, 1915 etc (gd)
Postal History/Stationery, 3 Mauritius printed postcards, small size, all with uncancelled Mauritius adhesive stamps, 2 cents, one overprinted, 2 QV. One interesting souvenir of Royal World tour in 1901 of Duke & Duchess of Cornwall, later George V and Queen Mary, not used or written on, (gd/vg) sold with Thailand postcard and stamp, cancelled 1900 (card poor)
Cape Colony censored cover 1901 upgraded registered letter addressed to ‘The Imperial Ostrich Company’ with British fieldpost cds cancels, double ring oval censor stamp, TPO stamp and cds Worcester on reverse, opened at one side with some tearing yet well intact and a splendid item from the Boer War era.
glory box, an assortment incl various cinderellas; Isle of Man sets on large PO PHQs with FD pmks; collections of Bulgaria, France and Rumania, 1989 Macau Portugese Heritage stamp book, good unmntd Portugal collection, SB of Israel 1982-88 definitives in blocks, Austria unmntd , hi cat value lot with original auction estimates of £700+
France military covers 1940/48 Postal military group of covers, various frankings, markings and usage. We note censored mail to Germany, Austria, 1942 PPC for Paris fair with poster stamp, 1946 registration card, 1942 to Red Cross Geneva, 1948 cover to Russian Zone (8). An interesting group in good condition.
A Japanese sword (shingunto), showa era blade 26 in., shinogi-zukuri, gilt copper habaki, tang with inspection stamp (Na), signed to both sides: showa (shichi sen ju?) gatsu, and with two-character mei, regulations officer's mountings with steel scabbard, tsuba, three seppa and fuchi all stamped '209'. Reference: Fuller & Gregory, 'Military swords of Japan'
A Japanese army officer's sword (shingunto), showa era blade 27 in., shinogi-zukuri, exhibiting yakiba and thus possibly gendaito, copper habaki, nakago with single mekugi-ana, Seki arsenal stamp and four character mei (possibly Yoshiaki), regulation tsuka, laquered wooden saya in leather field scabbard.
Zanzibar: Order of the Brilliant Star, Grand Cross breast star in silver, the centre in gold with enamelled portrait of Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini Al-Busaid within a white enamelled circlet, reverse bearing the Sultan's Tughra to the centre, the pin with French boar's head stamp and maker's mark of A.D. Marie. Some crazing to enamel at bottom, otherwise good very fine and rare.
LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. A.L.S., Edward Lear, four pages, 8vo, Genoa, 7th October 1873, to Mrs. Rawson. Lear announces 'I was delighted that Constance was so pleased with the Autographs' and forwards three 'additional specimens' (no longer present), continuing to express his regret at not having seen his correspondent in Sanremo and also reporting 'You will be glad to hear that I am particularly well at present - better than I have been for 3 or 4 years past', further discussing mutual acquaintances ('Arthur is a bad boy for putting a 3d stamp on his letter, whereby I had to pay a shilling') and referring to a planned trip to India, 'My old servt. George returns here on the 23rd to go with me….By letters from the Viceregal party I am to go straight to them to Agra from Bombay, where I hope to arrive on Novr. 16th or 17th'. In concluding Lear writes 'Shall I send Constance a few Elephants or other creatures, if so do you have a park or a paddock at Halifax?' Some light age wear and minor faults, most evident to the final page, although not effecting the signature, G
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