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Lots (1063)
1883 White Paper 10s ultramarine very fine unused with SPECIMEN overprint, SG 183s. Cat £550.
1883 White Paper 15s crimson very fine unused with SPECIMEN overprint, SG 181s. Cat £450.
1884 (11 Feb) Cover from Queen Victoria to Bishops Storford bearing 1d lilac tied by rare London hooded cancel V.R. / 11 FB 84 / D cancel. Signed bottom left Th. Q. (The Queen). Queen Victoria gave up her free mail privilege in 1840 after the Penny postage system as a goodwill gesture. She continued to sign the bottom left of all her letters.
1890 (2nd July) Jubilee Penny Postage handstamps (two different) in blue or violet on unposted 1d brown Postal stationery card for the first day of the South Kensington exhibition, few tone spots otherwise good strikes.
1891 £1 green sound fine used with three oval registered cancels of FENCHURCH ST, good perfs and colour. SG 212. Cat £675.
Advertising Rings: Smith Elder & Co c1862 1s embossed centre with green advertising ring used with incomplete numeral cancel, rubbing but still attractive.
Mulready Caricature: 1840 Spooners Number 3 envelope hand coloured unused envelope, corner fold otherwise in fine condition.
Mulready Caricature: 1840 Spooners Number 5 / No.1 contemporary forgery with Spooner Number 5 design on the front and Southgate No. panel on reverse. Very scarce and rarely offered, minor faults and a wonderful envelope.
Mulready Caricature: 1846 Southgate's Number 1 envelope Pick Pocket hand coloured unused envelope, in fine condition.
Mulready Caricature: 1846 Southgate's Number 3 envelope The peg leg Sailor hand coloured unused envelope, in fine condition.
Mulready Caricature: Valentine's original printed envelopes on blue or white laid paper, BRITAIN! BESTOW THIS BOON AND BE IN BLESSING BLEST / OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE. Some wrinkles or light tones. (2).
Mulready Forgeries: Two examples for One Penny & Two Penny both printed on buff paper, fragile or slight faults, Two Pence appears to be of German origin. (2).
