BIRDS - Falkland Islands 2003 Rockhopper booklets (35), SG.SB13, Hong Kong 2006 $30 Red Whiskered Bulbul booklets (16), SG.SB63. Cat. £682.
Sale #162
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Corbitts Sale #162
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Lot #219 - thematics thematics
CONCORDE collection of commemorative & flown covers (335) housed in six display albums, incl. multi signed & individual signed (50) incl. Brian Trubshaw (3) etc. (odd non Concorde included). A colourful lot in fine condition.
Lot #220 - thematics thematics
FOOTBALL World Cup Masterfile collection of UM stamps, M/sheets & commemorative covers housed in four albums, highlight two covers signed by 1966 World Cup Team (excl. Bobby Moore) - 10 signatures.
Lot #221 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS accumulation (virtually all M) of Penguin stamps (616) in Hagner folder with, M/Sheets (31), booklets (9) & cinderellas (11), many high value stamps in T.A.A.F. Cat up to £95, Portugal 1898 set Cat. £170 (2005) and related provisionals (£50), Taiwan Specimen set, Hong Kong Jockey Club set and M/Sheet (£40). Minor duplication. Useful KGVI 1s Falklands defin corner block of four (£96). In some cases there are sets incl. penguins...
Lot #222 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Argentina - 1903 unused postcard of Commandante Julián Irízar, who successfully sailed the gunship 'Uruguay' to rescue the crew of the S.Y.Antarctic commanded by Dr Nordenskjöld. CI-12 also 1904 unused postcard Pengüines antárcticos - Islas Orcadas, República Argentina. The ownership of Laurie Island, South Orkneys passed to Argentina in 1904
Lot #223 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Australia - Official notepaper inscribed THE BRITISH, AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION OF 1929-30 S.Y. 'DISCOVERY'. The paper bears 28 impressions of the B.A.N.Z. cancel in black with both types (in the main type the top feather of the tail is above the left bar of the 'X', in the second it is between the 'E' and 'X')
Lot #224 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Australia - 7 MR 48 cover to Sydney with ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY embossed on the flap franked with 8½d in low value defins, cancelled A.N.A.R.E. MACQUARIE.IS with black straight line MACQUARIE ISLAND cachet and purple AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION 1947 cachet alongside.
Lot #225 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Belgium - 1966 Antarctic Expeditions M/Sheet, SG.MS1994 showing Emperor Penguins and the Magga Dan, the imperforate error UM.
Lot #226 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS collection in box containing 83 penguin related covers with postcards from 1905 French Expedition card, many penguin slogans, postcards incl. comic, special pmks. Items with original prices of A$80, £20 etc.
Lot #227 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Djibouti - fine page with the Djibouti 5F triangular SG.103 showing the Pingouin, a French gunboat (Cat. £250) and the same stamp with 0.75 surcharge SG.111 (Cat. £800), also Somali Coast 1931 Paris Exhibition postcard illustrating the same stamp and another card for French India for the same exhibition without the triangular.
Lot #228 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Falkland Islands - 3rd March 1919 letter (in green) from 'Kelper Store, Stanley, Falkland Islands' with large Penguin illustration addressed to Oswald Marsh and sending him 20 1/- War stamps
Lot #229 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - 1906 postcard 'Le 'Gauss' entouré par les animaux antarctiques Palais de la Mer - Section Allemande used from Marseilles to Beziers with purple Exhibition h/stamp. BB-1
Lot #230 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - rare 1924 registered cover from Valros (Hérault) to a Max Laborde aboard the Cercolon on its way to the Kerguelen Islands with instructions to return the cover if not collected. The cover is franked with 1c - 4c Blanc issue and a 75c Ronsard with VALROS registration label with two CAPETOWN d/stamps on the reverse, one from the RETURNED L.O. with red RETOUR cancels on both sides.
Lot #231 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - superb booklet SG.DSB21 with Gibbs advert double pane and advertising cover for rat poison, killing rats being an important factor in maintaining penguin numbers.
Lot #232 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS GB - 1881 cover from Birkenhead to New Brunswick with seal for the PHOSPHO-GUANO COMPANY SEACOMBE CHESHIRE and Penguin at its centre curiously drawn as few had seen Penguins at this date. Back stamps of HALIFAX, HAMPTON, MONTREAL and CARRIER No. 4.
Lot #233 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Italy - three attractive unused comic postcards. For the first year of their five year training to be pilots, students at the Italian Airforce Academy were known as Pinguinos (Penguins), i.e. flightless birds. All cards show penguins and were designed by students. Also four unused postcards showing students dressed up as penguins at a carnival in Alassio.
Lot #234 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Korea - 2003 Antarctic & Arctic set in sheetlets of six - sets of colour separations in cyan, magenta, yellow & black both imperf & perf showing Adélie penguins, seals, walrus, polar bears, albatross, whales etc. (8 sheets in total).
Lot #235 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Literature - small collection of Antarctic based literature with Margery Wharton 'Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions 1898-1958' 1998 & 2007 reprint, 2004 Germania with article by Helen Davis on the German Raider 'Pinguin' (several of the covers illustrated are in the collection under Germany), Ghost Cruiser HK33 by H.J.Brennecke about the 'Pinguin', Beware Raiders by Bernard Edwards, largely featuring the 'Pinguin', Postal...
Lot #236 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Mongolia - 1980 art work for the Antarctic Exploration 60m Emperor Penguin stamp as SG.1319 in full colour with incomplete inscriptions 80mm x 100mm with issued stamp.
Lot #237 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Mongolia - 1980 art work for the Antarctic Exploration miniature sheet on card (background only, no value or inscription) 280mm x 365mm in issued colours with issued sheet.
Lot #238 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - Geographical errors. Wrench card showing a polar bear in the Antarctic looking at a British flag with BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901 inscription carried by Discovery and posted to Lymm from Christchurch on 25 AP 04 with ANTARCTIC EXPDN 1901 S.S.DISCOVERY on the face side. DA-4. Also 1909 card 'GLÜCKLICHES NEUJAHR' issued to celebrate Peary’s success showing polar bears and very strange penguins greeting...
Lot #239 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 'Canterbury Times' postcard of Emperor Penguins superb & very fresh used, addressed to J.J.Kinsey & franked with King Edward VII Land 1d Universal S.G.A1 cancelled FE.27.08, small split top centre. DE-4
Lot #240 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 13 FE 07 New Zealand International Exhibition card No. 11 - 'Antarctic Life at Exhibition SEA-LION, SEALS & PENGUINS' with rare straight line 'THIS CARD WAS POSTED AT THE TOP OF THE N,Z.I.E. TOWER. The card is addressed to Timaru and also bears the circular version on the address side.
Lot #241 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 17 Jan 1913 letter from Francis Drake, the Assistant Postmaster on BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION TERRA NOVA R.Y.S. and Penguin headed notepaper addressed to his cousin 'Just a line to send you a stamp from the furthest South Post Office at Cape Evans which we shall reach tomorrow.' The letter is enclosed in a similarly crested envelope addressed to Essex with New Zealand 1d Dominion overprinted Victoria Land SG.A3,...
Lot #242 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Norway - two different cards used by the Amundsen-Ellsworth flight proposed to fly over the North Pole cancelled KINGS BAY on different dates with Norway stamps on one side and US stamps on the other. One card is the version only sold in Gimbels department store.
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