Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1883 4d. blue green plate 1 AA imperforate colour trial plate. Of the greatest rarity, unpriced by Gibbons and believed unique in private hands. The adjacent trial lettered AB is in the Langmead collection in the British Library and is endorsed in manuscript "Experimental on Crown 15. 10. 83". Photo.
[Proposed price: £3000-4000]
The Dr. Conrad Graham Collection
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Grosvenor Auctions The Dr. Conrad Graham Collection
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A lifetime’s gathering of scarce and esoteric philatelic material including Cinderellas, Locals, Postal Orders, Revenues, Telegraphs, the Fine and Unusual.
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Lot #418 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Lot #419 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1883 4d. blue green plate 2 AA imperforate colour trial. Of the greatest rarity, unpriced by Gibbons and believed unique in private hands. The adjacent trial lettered AB is in the Langmead collection in the British Library and is endorsed in manuscript "Experimental on Crown 15. 10. 83". Photo.
[Proposed price: £3000-4000]
Lot #420 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey plate 1 BL imprimatur and 1881 watermark Crown sideways-inverted plate 2 SF (touched at left) imprimatur, minor imperfections. Only nine examples of plate 1 and approx. twice that of plate 2 are in private hands. S.G. 212P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-150]
Lot #421 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey plate 1 MG imperforate colour standard overprinted "SPECIMEN", SG imperforate with "SPECIMEN" type 8 (crease and nick at right), also EB used on piece of telegraph form, tied by neat "SHEPTON MALLET/SP 25/77" c.d.s.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #422 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 6d. grey (slightly deeper than issued colour), KE-OH imperforate colour standard, complete pane of 20 on gummed paper, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 11, showing marginal inscription "TELEGRAPHS SIX PENCE", horizontal crease, faint hinge toning at top, otherwise fine. S.G. 212t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £600-800]
Lot #423 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plates 1 to 12 set of imprimaturs, without gum, with varying degree of colour washing and wrinkling. A rare set as no more than nine of each value are known in private hands. Photo.
[Proposed price: £500-600]
Lot #424 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plate 1 imperforate colour standard DE-EF block, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 10, also single MG, fine with gum (two are unmounted). S.G. L215t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £150-200]
Lot #425 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plates 1 to 10, most with gum, a few imperfections, otherwise fine and fresh set. S.G. L215-L224. Photo.
[Proposed price: £250-300]
Lot #426 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plate 4 imperforate colour standard LG-OH block of eight (being two rejoined blocks of four), overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 10, LG just touched at right, otherwise fine with gum. S.G. L218t. Photo.
[Proposed price: £180-200]
Lot #427 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways-inverted 1s. green plates 4 KF used, 5 GB mint and HJ used, 7 IK used, JH used (straight edge at base), 1881 watermark Crown sideways 1s. brown-orange plate 11 EB mint (corner fault), ID-JD used pair and RC used, fair to fine. S.G. L218a, L219a, L221a, L222a, L227.
[Proposed price: £200-250]
Lot #428 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plate 6 TH, a used imperforate with a part single strike of "NEWCASTLE ON TYNE QUAYSIDE/OC 11/78" c.d.s. An uncatalogued imperforate which is not an imprimatur, very large margins at top and base, close at sides, most unusual. S.G.L220 var. Photo.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #429 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. plate 8 imperforate plate proof in black on white wove unwatermarked paper, fine and rare. Originally part of a block of eight from the right of the sheet of which three are held in institutions. S.G. L222P, cat. ﾣ725. Photo.
[Proposed price: £400-450]
Lot #430 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1876 watermark Spray sideways 1s. green plate 8 PE-RH mint block of twelve from the left of the pane (ten are unmounted), showing inscription "TELEGRAPHS ONE SHILLING", minor perf. faults at base and RE has small thin, otherwise very fine. S.G. L222. Photo.
[Proposed price: £250-300]
Lot #431 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1880 watermark Spray sideways 1s. brown-orange plates 10 DF, 12 BF, 1881 watermark crown sideways-inverted 1s. brown-orange plate 11 MG, watermark Crown sideways 1s. brown-orange plate 12 HG, mint, mainly fine. S.G. L225-L228. Photo.
[Proposed price: £200-250]
Lot #432 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1880 watermark Spray sideways 1s. brown-orange plate 10 FD-GD pair, plate 12 KG, 1881 watermark Crown sideways-inverted plate 11 FE-GE pair, watermark Crown sideways plate 12 HL-IL pair, mainly good to fine used with c.d.s. cancellations. S.G. L225, L226, L227b, L228.
[Proposed price: £180-200]
Lot #433 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1880 watermark Spray sideways 1s. brown-orange plate 12 SC without gum and some ink marks on surface, 1881 watermark Crown sideways 1s. brown-orange plate 12 AD, touched at left with top margin folded down and adhering to gum. S.G. L226, L228. Photo.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #434 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. grey-green AA-ED imperforate colour trial complete pane of twenty overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 8, with marginal inscription "TELEGRAPH THREE SHILLINGS" plate number and duty, on gummed paper (all unmounted), a few gum wrinkles, small portion cut out from top margin, otherwise fine and rare. S.G. L229 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £800-1000]
Lot #435 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. claret AI-EL imperforate colour trial complete pane of twenty overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 8, (colour incorrectly written as dull mauve on reverse) with marginal inscription "TELEGRAPH THREE SHILLINGS" current number "523", on gummed paper (all unmounted), gum wrinkles, otherwise fine and rare. S.G. L229 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £800-1000]
Lot #436 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. dull mauve KC-LD imperforate colour trial block of four overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 8, on gummed paper (two are unmounted) showing part inscription "TELEGRAPHS TH", also TH single in brown-lilac (no gum).
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #437 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. slate-blue KI-LL imperforate colour trial block of eight from the left of the pane, overprinted "SPECIMEN" type 8, showing marginal inscription "TELEGRAPHS THREE SHILLINGS", on gummed paper (seven unmounted), a few gum wrinkles, otherwise fine. S.G. 229 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £250-300]
Lot #438 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. slate-blue SC imprimatur, without gum, otherwise fine. S.G. L229 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £80-100]
Lot #439 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. imperforate plate proof TL, printed in black on white wove unwatermarked paper, marginal. Rare, four held in institutional collections. S.G. 229 P. Photo.
[Proposed price: £400-450]
Lot #440 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. slate-blue AA-ED in a complete pane of twenty with marginal inscription "TELEGRAPH THREE SHILLINGS" plate number and stamped duty, all unmounted mint, a few minor gum creases, otherwise fine and fresh. This block is illustrated on the back cover of "The Telegraph Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain, 1851-1954" by Langmead & Huggins (2003). S.G. L229. Photo.
[Proposed...
Lot #441 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1877 watermark Spray sideways 3s. slate-blue BF with watermark sideways-inverted, minor stain at lower left corner, otherwise fine used. S.G. L229a, cat. ﾣ425. Photo.
[Proposed price: £120-150]
Lot #442 - Great Britain post office telegraph stamps
Post Office Telegraph Stamps: 1881 watermark Crown sideways-inverted 3s slate-blue BE, a very fine used example of this rare stamp with neat part "LIVERPOOL/B/6 OC/81" c.d.s. S.G. Spec. L230, cat. ﾣ3,400. Photo.
[Proposed price: £1100-1300]
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