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Postal Auction November 2023 - 339

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

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Lot 73
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1978 Tenzing Norgay & John Hunt signed 9p (octagonal) printed front on laid paper unused with printed THE CONQUEST OF MOUNT EVEREST 1953-1978. Unaddressed and scarce.

Estimate £ 75.00
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Lot 74
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1986 Space Shuttle Debris Recovery at Cape Canaveral collection of 55 different covers from the marine Johnson-Sea-Link 2 Harbor Branch each cover detailing the Dive number, date, Depth, Pilot, Observer, Divers, Location and mission to locate wreckage from the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Scarce collection, (55).

Estimate £ 200.00
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Lot 75
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ADVERTISING COVERS / Cards: USA, German, Hungarian mainly 1940s advertising some in colour including Hungary 1917 Cherry Brandy, 1946 Soakwrite laundry soap, 1939 BAD EMS Emser pastilles, Salz, Kranchen, Furstenberg Brau, Evangeline skinned figs, Tabasco sauce, 1953 Schenley Whisky, "When low in spirits call.."., 1944 Pepsi Cola addressed to The Sugar Ration Board from the Rochester Bottling Co. (start of diet Pepsi?), USA 1909 AmaroFelsina Buton Bitters New York to Italy. Some faults but attractive group. (8).

Estimate £ 65.00
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Lot 76
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Arctic: ARLIS II Ice station group of mostly signed cacheted covers from Barrow, USA mainly 1960s including Arlis IV mainly to Germany incl airmail, (12).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 77
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Arctic: Fletcher's Ice Island group of cacheted covers from USA mainly 1960s including Ice Island T3 postmarked Army Air Force, Station Bravo signed from Emendorf AFO, illustrated signed cvr, 1953 (May 21st, scarce) ICE ISLAND T-3 NORTH POLE CDS, (6).

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 78
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ASIA: Small group of commercial covers middle to modern including Afghanistan (5), Tibet early philatelic LHASA (3), Nepal unused aerogramme, 1958 Human Rights Day FDC, Bhutan incl 3D on 1968 FDC (unusual), plus a few modern FDCs incl imperfs & M/S for 1979 YOC, etc, intr little group. (29).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 79
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Australian States: Three items (mixed condition) incl Victoria 1871 with 1d, 2d & 6d combn tied 44 cancel to Somes with various charge marks (torn), 1897 front Victoria ½d & 2d to Switzerland with 118 cancels of Hateford, 1906 PPC of Adelaide Parliament House to Switzerland bearing ½d & 1d defins tied large ADELAIDE double ring cds underpaid in Switzerland hence postage due affixed and tied T 10c & 20c. Intr trio.

Estimate £ 28.00
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Lot 80
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British Africa: Group of interesting covers addr to Switzerland including SWA 1951 combn airmail, 1937 SWA Coronation set in pairs, 1932 Imperial airways printed env to Egypt bearing 10d airmail, 1925 GV SWA singles 1d & 2d from Windhoek, Transvaal 1905 ½d & 2d EDVII from Pietermaritzbueg, 1944 plain postcard bearing war midgets 3d & 6d PASSED BY CENSOR bilingual h/s in violet with German eagle h/s, 1925 S. Africa 1d P/S card uprated with 3d air, ½d green and S A LUGPOS h/s and airmail etiq. Intr lot (5).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 81
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British Commonwealth group interesting covers QV-QEII incl 1898 S. Australia to USA, 1854 Front Montreal PAID incl; 8d & 10d charge h/s in red, 1967 outgoing Tonga tin can mail, Jamaica 1913 1d strip of 6, and pair to UK from Kingston, India 1933 Calendar Manufacturing advertising envelope airmail to London, Hyderabad 1891 P/S env cancelled crescent postmarks, KUT GVI censored & 1945 Duke St Nairobi with Germ Oils advert poster label on reverse, 1962 Br. Virgin Is. 5 surchs on FDI unaddr, Swaziland GVI redirected, Trinidad & Tobago 1938 with typed letter to Canal Zone about Orchids, Zanzibar 1957 PPC to USA, Cyprus 1916 WWII Censor (tatty) cover from Polymedia sent OAS to Newfoundland, Fiji ½d strip of 3 to Canal Zone with South Sea Islands Correspondence Club Natuvu oval h/s in violet. Mixed but intr group (19).

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 82
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British Commonwealth: Unused postal stationery cards useful selection incl OFS VRI ovpt on regd 4d olive P/S env, Sierra Leone QEII 4d brown regd P/S env., S. Africa GV 1d red P/S env., Basutoland QEII 5c on 6d red unused regd P/S env., Br. Guiana 1c grey ship P/S card. Mainly fine. (5).

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 83
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British Empire: Group of 17 covers from 1901 to modern including some more interesting 1901 Transvaal VRI 1d on censored cvr to Diad Waad Camp, St Helena. Morocco Agencies 1917 censor cover, Aden 1955 Address insufficient, Br. Guiana QEII with insufficient stamps, etc, nice little group (17).

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 84
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Catapult Flight Mail: Nice group of eight covers 1929-1935 including flights carried on SS Bremen, (6), Europa (2), with either German or USA stamps tied regular or special flight cancels, each cacheted and handstamped in various ways for each sailing & catapult flight. Some mixed but mainly fine. Attractive collection. (8).

Estimate £ 160.00
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