GVI period group of Stamp Exhibition covers & mini sheets neatly presented and written up on album pages incls: In date order 1940 Cent Exhib sheetlet in green. 1946 Brighton on illust cover with special cancel. 1947 Birmingham illust cover with special cancel. Set of 4 sheetlets showing industries in different colours in original folder. Birmingham registered cover with exhibition cancel. 1947 registered cover Sevenoaks to Holland with...
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Lot #11618 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 10 Registration envelopes embossed pre paid values in Size F 83x134 or Size G 93x154 all used in slightly mixed condition neatly presented & written up on album pages, incls: 3d Forces FPO 792 to Glasgow with Crown over Shield censor. 5½d Goldthorpe & Birmingham Size F & G. Size G uprated with Liberation 1d to Bulgaria. Size G uprated to 1/6d Airmail to USA. Size F uprated to 6d to Switzerland. 6½d Size F uprated to...
Lot #11619 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 6 Opened by Examiner/Censored covers neatly preented & written up on album pages. India 3½a Shillong 31 Oct 1944 to Wargrave & then re-directed to Reading. PC90 tape at left with octagonal Crown passed censor cachet DHA/9 & further straight line DHA/267 these being Indian censor marks. 1940 Birmingham to USA PC 90 tape at right. 1940 6 July Calne to Int. Red Cross Switzerland, PC 90 tape at right. 1941 16 Aug London...
Lot #11620 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 11 Registration envelopes embossed pre paid values in Size F 83x134 or Size G 93x154 all used in slightly mixed condition neatly presented & written up on album pages, incls: 3d Forces 1945 FPO 642 to 280 Provost Military Police & redirected to Mil Police CMF FPO 776 receiving on back & manuscript Please inform sender of your correct address BR. APO Athens. 5½d Size F North Kensington to Devies. Size G Birmingham sent...
Lot #11621 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 8 covers with commemorative issues, showing different postal rates neatly written up and presented on album pages, incls: 1946 Victory 3d block of 4 on registered cover to Paris, Knightsbridge undated registered oval cancels. Victory issues making up 11½d Airmail rate to Denmark with Woolwich 'Britain Can Make It' slogan. Victory pair on locally produced FDC Bridligton registered cover. 1948 Olypmics set on plain cover 28 Aug...
Lot #11622 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 10 different advertising covers showing different postal rates etc, written up on album pages, incls: BSA Tools Ltd Birmingham on uprated ½d embossed stationary envelope with additional ½d green. John Hind & Sons Belfast window envelope with Crown passed octagonal censor. Garrison Works Birmingham 4d rate to Egypt. Trades Union Congress 1944 Post Early for Christmas slogan PC 90 censor tape Examiner 5014 addressed to Canada....
Lot #11623 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI (mainly), mixed group of 22 postal history covers & cards neatly presented & written up on album pages. Incls: 2½d blue embossed cover uprated to 5½d to pay registration Buckie to Aberdeen. Stationary cards & postcards with slogan cancels. 1941 to California opened by Examiner PC 90 tape. 2 different receipts with GVI stamps North British & Mercantile Ins & Commercial Union Ins. 1949 Thunderstorm report card. 3 E7...
Lot #11624 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 6 Forces covers neatly presented & written up on album pages, incls: Active Service green Honour envelope 1/3d rate paying air mail (otherwise these covers would be sent surface mail), FPO 122 20 Aug 1940 (Palestine) & Crown Passed by Censor oblong cachet. 6d purple Air Letter sheet 1943 Hornsey to India redirected. On reverse very fine strike of 10 Adv Base Post Office. 1½d pale brown concession rate for Armed Forces...
Lot #11625 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 8 different 'Economy Re-use' envelopes neatly written up on album pages, showing various postal rates etc. Incls: Welford Rugby 1945 registered cover. 1938 Law Fire Insurance ½d green perfin stuck on top of previously used ½d also perfin. National Provincial Bank re use label Birmingham 6 May 1948 with part of original stamp showing with 29 April 48 Birmingham cds. Re use label from Crayonne Ltd Bexley Kent with Dartford 1946...
Lot #11626 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI
GVI group of 17 Postal Sttionary items neatly written up on album pages, incls: 2d orange card addressed to Eire 1942 with Crown Passed octagonal censor mark. Two cards showing 1d stationary card uprated with further 1d for increase in postal rate. 2½d Letter Card 1942. 2½d blue embossed stationary envelope uprated to 3d addressed to Brussels. 5d Airmail (correct rate) to POW in Stalag VIB opened by Examiner PC 90 tape. 1941 Save Waste Paper...
Lot #11627 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1937
(10 May) ½d, 1d and 2½d on illust. FDCs, four different designs, all with typed addresses, fine. Cat. £140 (Bradbury 2013). {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £57.60)
Lot #11628 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1937
Coronation on illust. FDC; plus plain printed FDC from Liverpool with WEST COAST/Isle of Man/AIR SERVICE LTD handstamp; plus plain FDC with added ½d green value for George V, Edward 8 and George VI; plus printed reg. plain FDC with values from each of the previous 4 reigns, fine. {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £26.40)
Lot #11629 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1937
½d to 5d on various combinations of plain FDCs, a couple Registered from South Kensington, all with typed addresses, fine. (5 covers). {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £35.20)
Lot #11630 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1937-52
GVI 2 different GVI registered covers, GV 2d photo & GVI 2½d dark blue paying the correct 5½d registered rate tied to cover with Maryvale Road Bournville 23 Oct 1937 cds cancels. Bournville registered label. Addressed locally to Birmingham. On reverse Maryvale cds & Bournville transit. 1952 11 June Ipswich to Cheam Surrey with GVI 6d & 2½d scarlet paying 8½d (registration increased to 6d on 10th May 52), Ipswich registered label....
Lot #11631 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1938
GVI 5d (SG469) 21 Nov 1938 (First Day of Issue), on plain registered cover, Maltby Rotherham cds canel. Very fine & clean. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £16.00)
Lot #11632 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1941-51
Mint sets: 1941-42 definitive set upright wmk complete, 2½d inv wmk; 1950-52 colour change set of 6v wmk upright & sideways complete; 1937 Coronation; 1940 Centenary; 1946 Victory; 1948 Channel Is Liberation; 1948 Olympic Games; 1949 UPU; 1951 Festival of Britain. Total of 38 stamps in mounts on album pages. Cat £36 {UM} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £16.00)
Lot #11633 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1943
GVI 2½d pale ultra x 2 & ½d pale green OHMS registered cover Field Post Office 229 28 Feb 1943 cds cancels. OHMS economy reuse label addressed to OIC Central Clearing House St Pitroc Hotel Ilfracombe. Registration label without office name. Nice clean cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £24.00)
Lot #11634 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1943
GVI 25th March 1943 2½d pale ultra x 2 & 2d pale orange making up 7d Air mail rate to Europe, Buckie Banffshire cds cancels, addressed to the International Red Cross Switzerland. Opened by Examiner 7533 PC90 tape at left and German Eagle & Swastika censor tape on the reverse. Very fine. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £16.00)
Lot #11635 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1944
GVI 1d pale red x 3 paying the Foreign letter rate, cancelled with Willesden 23 Nov 1944 machine wavy line, addressed to Dr Richard Levy Pontacq Basses Pyr France. (Vichy region). Opened by british Censor with PC 90 tape Examiner 7537. French censor tape 'Controle' at right. On reverse boxed 072 & 067 examiner marks. From Lotte Kleinberger Elgin Court London W9. Most interesting cover in excellent condition with potential for research. {C...
Lot #11636 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1945
GVI ½d pale green & 2d pale orange tied with very fine Bromley & Beckenham 15 Aug 1945 Victory Bells slogans cancel. Superb illustrated economy label RNLI with black & white picture of an RNLI crewman and below 'Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Our Life- boats have rescued 26 lives every week since war began'. Addressed to Lewisham Council. Excellent condition Display quality item. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum...
Lot #11637 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1946
GVI 1d pale scarlet on cover Bradford 16 July 1946 Take No Chances slogan. Official Receiver Bradford to Shipley. Marked in manuscript 'Gone Away' with boxed Return to Sender cachet plus Undelivered for Reason Stated Postage Due cachet with 1d inserted by hand. Shipley 19 July 46 cds. 1d postage due applied in Bradford & tied with Bradford 20 July 1946 cds. Written up on album page. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £16.00)
Lot #11638 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1946
GVI underpaid foreign letter, 17 June 1946 Birmingham Don't Waste Bread slogan cancel with 2½d pale blue. (Correct rate 3d), addressed to Austria. Birmingham hexagonal T with BM below on front. Opened by censor tape at left in Austria with Austrian censor cachet & surcharge cachet in Groschen's. On reverse a most unusual boxed in black 'Surcharge owing to insufficient postage prepaid 2½d instead of 3d please advise sender'. Very fine...
Lot #11639 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1946
Peace on illust. FDC (design in blue, war scenes and service women and men), printed address label. Cat £65 {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £23.20)
Lot #11640 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1946
Peace on illust. reg. buff 'Geniality' FDC, used locally in GUERNSEY, typed address. Cat. £80 (Booth 2009). {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £32.00)
Lot #11641 - Great Britain - Covers - KGVI 1946
Peace on buff reg. 'Geniality' illust. FDC, used locally in CROYDON, small address label. Cat £65 {C} [US3] (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £20.00)
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