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Postal Auction November 2023 - 339

Bids to be received by Monday 6th of November 2023 1:00 PM

Lots (2165)

Lot 61
OMNIBUS

Great Britain: 1948 Royal Silver Wedding £1 in marginal block of four unmounted mint plus two U/M singles and CDS used single. Fine. SG 493/4.

Estimate £ 90.00
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Lot 62
POSTAL HISTORY

1838 (16 Aug) Entire Letter New York USA to Reims, France, sent per Steamer Great Western leaving New York to Bristol with two line boxed BRISTOL / SHIP LETTER in black on obverse, various chargemarks, and French ANGLETERRE red CDS on obverse. LONDON dated arc, Paris & Reims backstamps.

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 63
POSTAL HISTORY

1838 Entire Letter Charlestown USA to Greenock, Scotland sent per Steamer Great Western leaving New York 20th April to Bristol with two line BRISTOL / SHIP LETTER in black on obverse, various chargemarks, various filing folds. The Great Western steamer left Bristol on 8th April 1838 arriving in New York on 15th April. This cover was on the first outward bound mail from New York and only took half the time sailing ships would make to cross the Atlantic. Scarce.

Estimate £ 600.00
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Lot 64
POSTAL HISTORY

1916-18 PRESENT LOCATION UNCERTAIN three WWI covers with three different handstamps in black or violet two to France, 1917 to Dorset with additional UNDELIVERABLE / A.B.P.O. / RETURN TO SENDER and AUSTRALIA violet single line h/s. Interesting trio.

Estimate £ 28.00
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Lot 65
POSTAL HISTORY

1932 Catapult Flight: Airmail printed cover bearing USA 9c & 11c defins tied NEWARK NJ July 27th cancels addr to Germany carried on SS Bremen and final flight to Southampton, then on Germany with red cachet and two line Frankfurt Flughafen h/s alongside, few minor tones.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 66
POSTAL HISTORY

1934 Deutsche Amerikan Seepost cancel for D. EUROPA N.D.L flag postmark covering two USA 3c Washington pair with Germany 25pf Hindenberg defin affixed over before the cancel applied. Addr to UK, unusual.

Estimate £ 18.00
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Lot 67
POSTAL HISTORY

1937 (16 July) Flight over the roof of the world - Plain postcard bearing newspaper article pasted to obverse for trial Moscow to San Francisco mail flight autographed by three Russians (Alexander Beliakoff, Valeri Chekaloff, Goergi Baibukoff) ending in Vancouver Washington due to fog. additional map pasted on reverse and Byrd Atlantic 3c blue tied NY Station wavy line cancel addr to Chicago signed by the three pilots. Some faults but very scarce flight cover.

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 68
POSTAL HISTORY

1940 (14 Feb) Recovered mail from Norway (Sjernaroy) to Canada water damaged and left Oslo on 17th Feb 1940. Handwritten note 'recovered from torpedoed ship Montreal March 3 1940. No wreck markings, interesting item.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 69
POSTAL HISTORY

1940 (3 Apr) POSTAL SERVICE SUSPENDED / RETURN TO SENDER h/s in violet on Censored cover Willenhall (UK) to Denmark, heavily torn on reverse, good strike.

Estimate £ 20.00
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Lot 70
POSTAL HISTORY

1940s Damaged cover from Argentina to Sheffield with stamp floated off showing DAMAGED BY / SEA WATER two line h/s in violet on obverse, plus sealing labels on reverse on arrival in UK. Unknown origin.

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 71
POSTAL HISTORY

1942 (28 March) DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER boxed handstamp in violet on obverse of illustrated cover for Cawtex Hoisery (smart socks) with one of three stamps floated off soiled from Bombay, Origin unknown.

Estimate £ 75.00
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Lot 72
POSTAL HISTORY

1962 (20 Aug) AVION SINISTRE water damaged airmail cover from Argentina to Amsterdam. Bearing 19p50 combination recovered from Pan-Air Brazil flight which crashed on take off at Rio De Janeiro on 20th August 1962. Bears two line bi-lingual Avion Sinistre h/s in black, and upon arrival on Amsterdam a typed label affixed Beschadigd te Amsterdam CS ontvangen / Post afkomstig van in zee gestort tied by two line boxed AMSTERDAM CS / beschadigde stukken H/S in violet.

Estimate £ 65.00
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