Bowdon/Renishaw Postal Auction October 2020. 6: Catalogue

2003 Presentation pack for Small format high value Machin Shiny printing £1.50, £2, £3 & £5, pack 62, very fine.

2005 Route To Victory Royal British Legion RM Westminster Sheet with 1st Class NVI x 10. Very fine.

2010 Remembrance Commemorative Sheet with 1st class NVI x 10. Very fine in original packaging. CS12.

2010 Wonder of the Wheel Royal Mail Commemorative Sheet with 1st class NVI x 10. Very fine in original packaging. CS11.

COIN COVERS - Useful collection of 38 (incl £5 x 5) mainly Royal Mint coin cover with high original cost noted 2005 Heritage Sites, 2008 Aviation Farnborough, 1999 RW £5, 2007 Diamond Wedding £5, 2008 Machin Anniv., 2008 Wren, 2008 Army, 2005 Nelson £5 x 2, 2006 80th Birthday £5, 2006 Gallery, 2007 Sky at Night, 2007 Scouting, 1998 Diana £5, plus few USA and foreign. Mostly very fine.

Post Office Training: Machin low values in 14 sheets of 100 from ½p to 9p black on orange all unmounted mint each showing cylinders and marginal imprints, total of 14 sheets of 100 (1400 stamps) each cancelled by vertical bars, plus 1979 Training recorded delivery envelope. Only 30p per stamp.

Postage Due: 1956 5d brown-ochre in attr block of 12 fine used 1959 CDS cancels, perf splits on two stamps otherwise nice multiple, SG D52 cat £240.

Postage Dues: 1970 set and 1982 set both unmounted mint, SG D77/101, Cat £64.

RAF Covers: 1987 (1 Apr) The Closure of RAF Hendon illus. cover with special miniature sheet cancelled special handstamps and bearing 7 different signatures. Very fine.

Wildings duplicated used assembly of watermark varieties of approx 1250 in small springback album, huge range of values and issues, STC around £1500.

1841-1951 Mint and used collection on Lighthouse hingeless printed pages noted 1858-64 plates run to 220 mostly complete, 1870 ½d plates (15), QV to 2/6 (mixed), 1934 Re-engraved 10s CDS used, some back of the book etc, very mixed but odd better.

1924-1985 Collection of mint and mainly unmounted mint sets and ranges in four Windsor red printed springback albums, noted 1924/25 Wembley sets mint, 1948 RSW set, 1951 High value set mint, early 1960s better phosphor sets mostly complete, 1971-1985 incl 1977 High vals, Postage dues from 1914 to 5d, 1924 to 1s & 2/6, 1936 to 1s, 1937 to 1s, 1951 set 5, 1959 set to £1, etc, useful for expansion.

Accumulation in a carton with a all periods range loose, in stockbooks and albums, noted enormous overfull duplicated used stock in 64 sided stockbook, loose in packets on and off paper including good range of Castles 1990s duplicated fine used to £5, two binders of prestige booklet panes used up to 2012, 1951 High values set mint, etc, 100s to sort.

Accumulation in a carton with a all periods range loose, in stockbooks and albums, noted loose in packets on and off paper including good range of Castles 1990s duplicated fine used to £5, binder of prestige booklet panes used up to 2006-2012, EDVII low vals all handpicked for CDS cancels plus London MP wavy line 3 1903 cancel, 1880 1d lilacs selected for postmarks, 1858-64 1d plates run, Postage dues, large DAVO album with Machins mint and used, 1979-80 M/S's with some plate interest etc, 100s to sort.

BOX filled with miscellany on leaves, packets, bags and albums and some loose with odd better noted EDVII FDC for ½d, 1½d & 2½d, bag of 1880 1d lilacs on paper (100s), commercial covers EDVII-GVI, postage dues, 1935 Silver Jubilee 6d postal order with counterfoil (small faults), Windsor album with some QV 1d plates etc, etc, 100s. Heavy lot.

Small accumulation including Davo album mainly empty but with 1960s commems ideal for expansion, 1960s Wildings on Hagner pages, GV postcards plus some foreign incl Australia, USA stockcards with W/W etc.

Three Westminster albums containing Wilding defins 1952-54, set of 4 unused control stamps QV ½ vermilion, 1d lilac, EVII 1d red and ½d green plus the "First Grand Slam" commem stamp cover of Andy Murray.

1940 Exhibition Chalon Portrait, Perkins Bacon stamp centenary exhibition labels. Mint although some gum creases which can be seen from front. Black print has tiny bottom right corner fold. Nice items.

Album of 100 covers and cards, Mostly 20th century incl many used PPC. Includes EVII, GV, GVI, some interesting postmarks, mixed condition.

Scottish Islands: Group of GV to QEII commercial covers including Orkney 1950s (11) incl 1934 1st Flight to Inverness (2), Arran, Iona, Shetland Is (6) & Lewis. Mixed but nice group. (20).