Public Auction Altrincham February 2026 - 380

Bids to be received by Tuesday 3rd of February 2026 2:00 PM

Lots (627)

Lot 553
Sierra Leone

1954-57 Three 4d brown QEII Registered postal stationery envelopes one uprated with GVI 1/3d tied MOYAMBA cds and regd etiq., 1957 BLAMA uprated with QEII defins 2d pair and 6d pair and 6d brown airmail from KAILAHUN all to UK, some faults. (3).

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 554
Sierra Leone

1955 (8 Feb) Regd airmail cover (faults) sent from a Corporal at the Police Training School based in Freetown from PTS Hastings addr to a Shoe manufacturer in UK. Bears 3d & 6d pair tied HASTINGS cds cancels, Sent by a corporal Bendugu, No.1223, PTS Hastings, Freetown S. Leone. This was sent the day before the general strike was announced over wage increases, where over the next few days local police and British Troops shot and killed 20 people and dozens of others injured to quell the civil unrest.

Estimate £ 25.00
Lot 555
Sierra Leone

Group of covers for GVI/QEII including 1940 GVI 3d brown regd P/S env uprated 3d to UK from PORT LOKKO, MAGBURAKA, LUNSAR, 1958 Cambridge Exped h/s, MAKENI, group of 1959 airletters from same correspondence etc. Very mixed but intr and useful lot. (19).

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 556
Singapore

1955-59 Complete set to $5 unmounted mint, SG 38/52.

Estimate £ 40.00
Lot 557
SOLOMON IS.

1946 (17 Apr) Registered cover LUNGA to UK bearing GVI 2/6, 5s & 10s with the 10s only tied by LUNGA cds cancel, other two remain uncancelled, regd violet h/s No. 385.

Estimate £ 35.00
Lot 558
SOLOMON IS.

1955 Registered cover to Grimsby bearing GVI ½d & 3d pair tied HONIARA cds cancels and regd h/s in red No. 946. Fine.

Estimate £ 25.00
Lot 559
SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE

Officials: 1904 8a grey-black and pale blue mounted mint showing No Stop after M variety, complete with 1977 BPA certificate. SG O13a.

Estimate £ 200.00
Lot 560
South Africa

1941-46 War Effort & 1942-44 War Effort both sets unmounted mint, SG 97/104, 88/96.

Estimate £ 36.00
Lot 561
South Africa

1943-44 Censored WW2 Covers (4) incl to London (multi franked), Redirected from Ceylon, 1944 Internee Post o Germany PASSED BY CENSOR from 497/40 Baviaanspoort Internment Camp, Pretoria, 1943 On Service Department of Defence OFFICIAL FREE & boxed PASSED BY CENSOR 70 & Arms h/s in violet tying censor label. Nice group (4), mixed.

Estimate £ 25.00
Lot 562
South Africa

Boer War: 1900 (22 Oct) Multi franked philatelic cover bearing GB 1887-1900 six different defins to 1s carmine and green tied by seven strikes of FIELD POST OFFICE B.O. / BRITISH ARMY S. AFRICA d/r cds * cancels. Addr to J G Marchant, C/O Col. Ricardo, Pretoria. No backstamps but small hinge or paper adherence on reverse and ink smudging on obverse. Pretty combination.

Estimate £ 450.00
Lot 563
South Africa

Local British Occupation issues 1900-02: Wolmaranstaad; 1900 (June) Cancelled / V-R-I in violet on 1d rose-red and green affixed to unused Leask envelope as provisional pre-stamped stationery.

Estimate £ 100.00
Lot 564
South Africa

Official Mail: OHMS three covers addressed to the Ministry of Supply Adelphi London from Johannesburg two with official stamps ovptd affixed 6d, or 5½d as 1d strip of 5 & ½d, tied local cds and each cacheted TECHNICAL LIASON OFFICER / DEFENCE / ESCOM HOUSE. One addr to Director of Tank supply. Faults but nice trio.

Estimate £ 45.00

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