Lot No
9377
Cat No
7
Description Great Britain - Covers - QV - continued
1841 1d red-brown, from ‘black’ plate 5, four examples LJ, LI, LA and LB, i.e. two separate pairs, all with 4 small to good margins except LJ just shaved at lower left, the STATE 1 (EARLIEST STATE), on Entire from Fakenham, Norfolk, black MC cancels, smudged cancels/soiled on reverse, tear at bottom, a very scarce item. SG Spec AS26. Cat pro rata approx £1000+. US4 (image available online only) ........................ £175
9378
9379 9380
9381 9382
9383 9384
9385 9386 9387 9388 9389 9390 9391
9392 9393 9394 9395
9396 9397
9398 9399 9400 9401 9402 9403 9404 9405 9406 14
8 8
14 8 8 8a 8 7 14 8 14f 14f 8
8 9 7
14f 14 12b 8l 8 10 8m 8 8 8 8 8
1841 2d blue, plate 4, LK, 4 small to huge margins, with SHIFTED TRANSFER (upper shift), light cancelled on 1854 EL used locally in Edinburgh, horizontal fold. SG Spec ES14e. US4 .................................... £77
1841 1d red-brown, plate 26, PG, 4 mostly good margins, tied to small envelope by neat MC, used from Southport to Chester. Cat. £120 US4 .... £24
1841 1d red-brown, plate 27, TD and RA slightly overlapping on 1843 (June) EL from Kendal to London, latter just touches at right, horizontal fold. Cat. £180 US4 ............................................................................. £29
1841 2d blue, plate 4, BH, 4 tiny to large margins, with SPECTACLES VARIETY (partially obscured by postmark), on 1855 Entire from Edinburgh to Dunkeld. Very scarce indeed on cover. SG Spec ES14o. Cat £1000 as stamp only. US4 (image available online only) ............................... £205
1841 1d red-brown (shades), the plates 88 to 91 Group, an example from each plate used on cover/Entire/EL, all with 4 small to large margins, good to fine. All mounted on card and well written up. (4 items) US4 .... £50
1841 1d red-brown, plate 62, FH, 4 small to very good margins, on 1847 EL from London to Loughborough, fine. US4 ......................................... £15
1841 Entire to London with good MORTON-IN-MARSH town cds, franked 1d red on very blue paper, plate 16, BA, 4 good to large margins, full strike of black MC does not actually tie stamp to cover, attractive. Cat. £120 US .............................................................................................. £36
1841 1d red-brown (shades), the Plates 92 to 101 Group, an example of each plate (except pl. 100) on cover/Entire/EL, ALL WITH 4 MARGINS (tiny to large), good to fine, all mounted on card and well written up. (9 items) US4 ..................................................................................................... £106
1841 1d red-brown, from ‘black’ plate 5, RH, 4 small to large margins, STATE 1 (Earliest State), on 1841 (7 Sept) EL from Lowestoft to Andover, small ink mark through ‘R’, tone patch on cover. Scarce. SG Spec AS26. Cat. £400 US4 ..................................................................................... £73
1841 2d blue, plate 3, horizontal strip of 4, CH-CK, margins all around except just shaves CJ and CK at bottom, tied to 1843 (Aug 19) EL by light indistinct MC cancels, slight creasing. Scarce. Cat pro-rata £1000++. US4 ..................................................................................................... £175
1841 1d red-brown, plate 21, QC (with Double Letter Q), 4 small to good margins, tied to 1842 (Mar) Entire by black MC, alongside is WELLS SOMERSET cds struck over boxed ‘No. 1’ in blue. SG Spec BS10b. Cat. £120 US4 ............................................................................................ £26
1841 2d blue, plate 3, EC, 4 tiny (just clear) to huge margins, tied by NUMBER 9 IN CROSS cancel to 1843 Entire to Dublin. Very scarce. Cat. £3200 US4 PH Plate 63 ..................................................................... £703
1841 2d blue, plate 3, horizontal pair, FC-FD, margins all around except just touches at upper right, each cancelled by NUMBER 4 IN CROSS, tied to 1844 EL from London to Macclesfield. Very scarce. Cat. £3000 US4 PH Plate 63 ........................................................................................ £586
1841 1d red-brown, plate 30, TK, 4 good to large margins, just tied to 1843 (Jan) EL (extremely early use) by upright black MC, from Cirencester to Warrington. Scarce on cover. Cat. £250 US4 ..................................... £41
1841 1d red-brown, plate 61, TE, 4 very large margins, with Basal Shift, on 1846 EL from London to Loughborough. SG Spec BS28e. US4 .......... £16
1841 1d pale red-brown, plate 25, TD, 4 small to good margins, tied to 1843 (Mar) Entire by black MC. Cat. £120 US4 ..................................... £21
1841 1d red-brown, from ‘black’ plate 5, HD, 4 margins, just tied by neat black MC on EL from BRIDPORT to Dorchester, fine. Cat. £400 US5 ....... £80
1841 2d blue, plate 3, BL, 4 tiny to huge margins, guide line though value and L square, tied to 1844 EL to Macclesfield by NUMBER 11 IN CROSS cancel. Very scarce. BPA Cert (1970) Cat. £2800 US4 PH Plate 63 ....... £586
1841 2d blue, plate 4, TI, 4 small to huge margins on 1853 Entire from Edinburgh to Kelso, soiling on reverse. Cat. £350 US4 ........................... £58
1841 1d prang-brown, plate 57, JI, 4 small to huge margins, with listed major re-entry, tied to 1846 envelope from Bakewell to Halifax by dark blue 1844-type postmark, light tone patches on cover. Scarce. Cat £750++ on cover. US4 (image available online only) ..................... £108
1841 cover from Southampton to Ross, franked 1d red-brown, AE, 4 tiny (just about clear) to huge margins, cancelled by faint but just discernible Maltese Cross, slight soiling. Cat. £175 US ............................................ £27
1841 1d red-brown, plate 21, horizontal pair KG-KH, small to good margins all around, tied to 1842 (Mar) part EL by neat black MC cancels. Cat approx £200. US4 .......................................................................... £35
1841 1d deep red-brown, plate 20, JC, 4 small to good margins, on 1842 (Mar) part EL from Glasgow to Hawick, cover soiled, vertical fold. Cat. £120 US4 ............................................................................................ £19
1841 1d red-brown, plate 30, RD, with P CONVERTED TO R (hand-cut tail) variety, 4 tiny to huge margins, tied to 1843 (Aug) mourning Entire to Basingstoke by crisp NUMBER 5 IN CROSS cancel, fine. Must be very scarce on cover. SG Spec BS19d. US4 (image available online only) ............. £141
1841 1d red-brown, plate 119, IE, 4 tiny (just clear at top right) to very good margins, on printed Life Insurance EL from London to Cheadle, vertical fold. US4 .................................................................................. £14
1841 1d red-brown, plate 18, GI, 4 small to good margins, on 1842 (June) Entire to Liverpool, superbly struck Bowness/Penny Post handstamp in blue on obverse, slight ageing. A scarcer plate. Cat. £220 US4 .............. £35
1841 1d red-brown, plate 17, HB, 4 small to large margins, with BASAL SHIFT, tied to 1842 (Jan) Entire from Oxbridge to London by neat crisp MC cancel, horizontal fold. SG Spec BS6d. Cat. £120 US4 ........................... £24
1841 1d red-brown, plate 43, horizontal pair GI-GJ, small to very good margins all around, on 1844 EL with numeral cancels of Leominster, vertical fold. Cat. £120 US4 .................................................................. £22
1842 neat small envelope from London to Haverfordwest franked 1d red- brown, IB, 4 margins, tied by neat black MC, in corner is “T.P./Blackfriars Rd” handstamp. Cat. £175 PH Plate 61 .............................................. £50
135 9424 9425
9426 9427 9428
9429 9430 9431
9432 9433
9434 C6 29
29 33 C6
29 29 21
34 29
19
9419 9420
9421 9422 9423
(17) C6
32 17 17
9413 9414 9415 9416 55 16b 9409 9410
9411 9412
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Lot No
9407 9408
Cat No
8m 8l
Description Great Britain - Covers - QV - continued
1843 Entire from London to Cambridge, franked red (PB, three margins) with upright NUMBER 7 IN CROSS cancel, light filing fold through adhesive, neat and attractive. Scarce. Cat. £450 US (image available online only) ....................................................................................... £89
1844 EL from Old Kilpatrick to HARLESTON, franked 1d red-brown, CD, 4 margins, tied by neat upright MC cancel, receiving cds alongside, Carlisle and Grantham transit cds cancels on reverse, plus boxed 2d (possibly a late payment fee), couple of vertical folds clear of adhesive. Cat. £175 US ....................................................................................................... £44
1846 Entire from Ipswich to Saxmundham, franked 1d red-brown, plate 67, EB, 4 small to good margins, tied by light ‘405’ numeral cancel, vertical filing crease, neat. US ............................................................... £18
1846 ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY/POST PAID fine circular cancel on neat envelope to Edinburgh, Moorgate St 1D Paid and red Paid cds. US2 ..................................................................................................... £35
1846 (Nov) neat ‘Huth’ entire from Anvers to London, Sshowing fine ‘PAID SHIP LETTER LONDON’ in red, despatch and arrival cds’s. US2 ..... £32
1847 UNIFORM PENNY POST (Sept) printed pictorial invoice from a paint, colours, cement and mustard factory in Hull, to Aberdeen, and showing Beverley cds in blue, ‘1D’ in red (YK348), plus Paid cds, Hull and arrival cds on reverse. US2 .................................................................... £39
1849 (September) envelope to New York with original engraved letter head of Necropolis, Glasgow and written from Bridgeton, showing fine octagonal framed ‘PAID AT LIVERPOOL’, plus on arrival ‘5 CENTS’ and cds all in red on address side, US2 .............................................................. £59
1850 HENRY ARCHER trial perf 16 1d red-brown, plate 97, KD, used on 19th Sept 1853 cover from Leeds to London, slight ink smudging, very scarce indeed. Cat. £2600 US4 PH Plate 63 ........................................ £703
1850 EL from Ross to NEW YORK, rated 1s, endorsed ‘for British Mail Steamer from L’pool prepaid’, red curved ‘PAID’ and ‘5/CENTS’ applied on arrival, fine and attractive. US ........................................................... £22
1851 cover from Liverpool to Rhodes Island, USA, franked embosses 1s green, Die 1, endorsed for Steamer ‘Canada’ and with fine large BR. PACKET/PAID cds in red on obverse, handstamped ‘5/CENTS’ charge mark applied on arrival, roughly opened and hinge stains on reverse, very fine appearance. Very scarce. Cat. £1900 US4 PH Plate 63 .................. £396
9417 54
1851 small cover from Oxford to a Captain in the 60th Royal Rifles in Cape of Good Hope, franked embossed 1/- pale green, just shaves at top o/wise huge margins, not tied (but correct numeral ‘603’) large manuscript ‘8’ (?) on obverse, some toning, scarce. Cat. £1900 US4 (image available online only) ......................................................... £322
9418 19
1854 small Crown perf 16 2d blue, plate 4, FD (centred to left), on 19 Dec 54 EL from London to Liverpool, usual backstamp, a letter from one solicitor to another but commences, strikingly, with the words “I can have no desire to insult a Gentleman who is a strange to me personally”. Stamp stained at right, horizontal fold at bottom. Cat. £200 .................. £48
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 1d brick-red, plate 201, QF, centred to left, on 1855 mourning cover from Perth to Edinburgh. US4 ......................... £20
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, Die 2, Alphabet 2, plate 16, MA, centred to NW, on slightly soiled cover to Dublin tied by Gloucester Spoon cancel. US4 ................................................................................ £21
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d brown-rose, plate 36, AI, on 1857 Entire from York to London, horizontal fold. US4 ............................................. £18
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 1d red-brown, plate 171, separated pair CF and CE on 1854 cover from London to Peterborough. Cat. £95 US4 ...... £18
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 1d red-brown, off-centre to SE, tied to 1855 cover to Huddersfield by GREEN sideways (town and numeral) duplex of Nottingham, slight ink smudging on front. Very scarce. SG Spec CI (1) vc. Cat. £1300 US4 ..................................................................... £220
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, Die 2, Alphabet 2, plate 1, two examples TD and TI on 1856 cover from London to Crickhowell, ink smudges on reverse. US4 ...................................................................... £24
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, plate 32, FI, small NW corner stain, on 1856 cover from Leeds to Bradford, circular faint North Street namestamp on reverse. US4 ....................................................... £10
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, IG, Alphabet 3, on 1857 cover from London to Alfreton, roughly opened. US3 ............................. £9
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d pale orange-brown, plate 27, SJ, on 1856 cover (staining) from Fareham to Rochdale. US4 .......................... £14
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, Die 2, Alphabet 2, plate 19, GK, on 1856 (Jan) Entire from Manchester to London, horizontal fold. A scarce plate, Cat £110 off-cover. US4 .................................................... £29
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, plate 38, ID, on 1856 (Sept) cover from Cheltenham to Bury St. Edmunds, some soiling. US4 ............ £12
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d red-brown, plate 23, NI, on tiny 1856 cover from Deal to London. Cat. £50 US4 ............................................. £18
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 1d red-brown, Die 2, plate 5, block of 4 KA-LB, centred to bottom, on 1855 EL from Stonehaven to Aberdeen, lightly cancelled, vertical fold at left. Scarce. Cat £600 off-cover. US4 .... £118
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 2d blue, plate 5, JI, on 1856 EL from London to Newcastle, Staffs, horizontal fold. Cat. £200 US4 .................. £32
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d orange-brown, plate 38, PC, on 1857 cover to Ayr (reinforced flap tip), tied by boxed MONKTON namestamp. US4 ..................................................................................................... £18
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 2d blue, plate 4, block of 4, RI-SJ, centred to SE, on 1855 EL from London to Lyon, usual corrosion marks in letter squares, fine. Blocks are scarce and Cat £1800 off-cover; the normal premium for used on cover is x 2. US4 (image available online only) ................................................................................................... £469
9435 9436
17 C6
1854-57 small Crown perf 16 1d red-brown, plate R6, HJ, centred to NE, on 1855 cover from Cheltenham to Birmingham. US4 ........................... £14
1854-57 large Crown perf 14 1d yellow-brown, Die 2, Alphabet 2, PLATE 3, GD, on 1855 (Oct) cover from London to Huddersfield, central stain, but RARE ON COVER. SG Spec C6(2). Cat £1700 off-cover. US4 (image available online only) ....................................................................... £469
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