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1862 (1 Aug) Toned cover to India bearing scarce 9d bistre (left edge straight) tied by TUNBRIDGE WELLS / A 1862 cancel and a good array of transit and arrival backstamps in red and black including AGRA, BOMBAY & ALLYGURH, tatty flap and edges otherwise scarce franking, SG 86 Cat £1200 on cover.
1862-63 Collection of 1d stars used on ten covers from different areas incl Macclesfield, Barnsley, Stroud, Gloster, Cheltenham, Reigate, etc. (40)
1864 (18 Aug) Cover Huntingdon to 27th Regiment at Dinapore India sent during the Indian Mutiny period bearing 6d with hyphen tied 396 numeral cancel addr to a Colonel in the regiment.
1864 1d lake-red plate 177 fine used with 118 numeral cancel has the '1' skillfully overpainted to make a nice looking plate 77. Altered from 177. Complete with 2022 Brandon certificate. Nice spacefiller, £500,000 retail as a genuine example.
1867-80 3d rose complete set of plates 4 to 10 seven fine used examples, plate 4 the key stamp is fine used part numeral cancel, 5 is wing margins and 7-9 are CDS cancels, mainly fine, SG 103 Cat £790.
1867-80 Seven examples with plate run sound used for 3d rose plates 4 to 10, pl.7 has straight edge, mainly good strikes incl 76, 93, 466, 75, 87, 159, 89. Cat £790.
1869 (20 Oct) Early use of reused stamp 6d plate 8 (no hyphen) cut from another envelope and pasted onto this cover tied by clear FROME numeral cancel addr to Italy. Creases. Unusual use.
1869 (Dec 18) Front bearing 6d mauve pl.8 tied by Cambridge cancel addr to Tasmania and two line ADVERTISED / BUT UNCLAIMED handstamp in black. very grubby and torn.
1870 1½d rose-red (FJ-JF) plate 1, unused example small part original gum with paper adherence on reverse, centred left and light tones otherwise nice looker, SG 51 Cat £725 mint.
1870 1½d rose-red plate 1 (6) and plate 3 (4) fine used examples with both shades shown, mainly sound Cat £960. SG 51/2.
1873-79 Wmk Spray of Rose 3d rose complete run of plate numbers 11 to 19 mainly sound average used, few perf faults or heavier cancel, all sound SG 144 Cat £640. (8).
1873-83 2½d blue useful run of plate numbers from plate 17 (2, one A25 Malta cancel), 19 (2), 20 (2), 1881 plates 21 to 23 mainly sound used one with Jersey squared circle, good catalogue value £970. (20 including extras).
