Postal Auction December 2023 - 340

Bids to be received by Thursday 21st of December 2023 1:00 PM

Lots (2255)

Lot 865
India

1862 Cover Calcutta to Edinburgh bearing 2a dull pink and 4a black tied octagonal cancels with INDIA / PAID two line boxed h/s in red on obverse, two GPO cds in red and Edinburgh arrival backstamp. Original letter written inside the envelope.

Estimate £ 200.00
Lot 866
India

1894-1968 A selection of fifty covers and fronts. Includes 1948 King George VI 2rs on typed cover to USA. 1936 King George V nine pies with green stripe in margin from Bombay plus a number of covers have multiple stamps.

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 867
India

1904 China Expeditionary Force: Chinese lady coloured postcard to UK bearing CEF ovpt on 1s plum tied light FPO No.4 cds and BASE OFFICE B cds at Tientsin. Few minor stains otherwise sound.

Estimate £ 50.00
Lot 868
India

1915 ( 7 & 25 May) Two tatty stampless covers to same correspondence in London both with PASSED BY CENSOR / INDIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE / 41 in red or 23 cancel in violet, with FPO CDS on reverse No.28 & No.311. Both have tatty edges but mainly good strikes of censor h/s.

Estimate £ 50.00
Lot 869
India

1937 4a brown Mail Train in attractive top marginal block of 4 unmounted mint, fine, SG 255.

Estimate £ 32.00
Lot 870
India

1937-1951 GVI Collection hinged mint complete for the period including 1937-40 set of 18 to 25r (cat £600), 1940-43 set of 14 (cat £45), 1948 1st Anniv. Ghandi low vals to 12a, 1949-52 set (cat £325), 1949 UPU, 1950 Inauguration, 1950-51 defin set 3. Cat £1139. (73). Very useful lot.

Estimate £ 320.00
Lot 871
India

1939 Twenty-eight postal stationery postcards from Jaipur State with various cancels.

Estimate £ 8.00
Lot 872
India

1950 Inauguration set in commemorative folder neatly affixed to the inside, mainly fine, SG 329/332.

Estimate £ 20.00
Lot 873
India

1973 25p brown Ghandi defin (17 x 20mm) in a complete unmounted mint sheet of 100, pencil mark in margin otherwise very fine and fresh, SG 732a Cat £750.

Estimate £ 250.00
Lot 874
India

1983 50p brown Ghandi defin in a complete unmounted mint sheet of 100, pen mark and pencil mark in margin otherwise very fine and fresh, SG 1073 Cat £450.

Estimate £ 150.00
Lot 875
India

1988 60p black Ghandi defin in a complete unmounted mint sheet of 100, few light bends otherwise very fine and fresh, SG 1320 Cat £175.

Estimate £ 50.00
Lot 876
India

Officials: 1913 Wmk Star 10r green and scarlet fine mounted mint example with very fresh appearance, SG O94 Cat £130.

Estimate £ 52.00

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