Stamps & Postal History (#126MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1301-1348 of 1348. Previous|1...7891011121314|Next1234567891011121314 Lot 1306 OFFICIAL MAIL: OHMS covers with all-different selection of registration labels from Port Morseby x10, Bwagaoia (1933) or Samarai (1930), mostly philatelically inspired with a few better frankings & values to 1/-, condition variable. (12) Symbolc/cl View details Quantity12Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1307 OFFICIAL MAIL: 1915 stampless OHMS cover with 'GOVERNMENT HOUSE/PORT MORESBY' imprint at lower-left and '[crown]/PAPUA' on the flap, to "Camp Commandant/Prisoners of War Camp.../Ahmednagar/India" with Port Moresby cds of 20JUL15, Singapore & rubber 'POSTAL CENSOR/18AUG1915/CALCUTTA' transit b/s, and 'PASSED BY POSTAL CENSOR CALCUTTA/ 5 ' cachet in red, 'AHMEDNAGAR/21AUG15' arrival b/s, insignificant corner defect. Ex Neil Russell. [Mail to & from POWs was free. However, this concession did not e GSTex GSTSymbolcl†Gradea- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1308 OFFICIAL MAIL: 1919 parcel piece endorsed "From/Mines Dept/Port Moresby" with rare Two Issue Franking of Lithographs 4d pair (one with Defective '4' at Left) plus Monocolours 1d 2d & 1/- all punctured 'OS' tied by Port Moresby cds of 19NO19, with a piece of the original fastening ribbon still attached. [The rate was 1/8d for an "interstate" parcel weighing between 2 & 3 pounds + 3d registration] SymbolΔGradea- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 1309 OFFICIAL MAIL: 1919 three OHMS envelopes - one a "penalty" type - with printed 'OFFICIAL FREE' or 'OFFICIAL/FREE' to GB with Monocolours 1d punctured 'OS', registered to Canada with Monocolours ½d pair & 4d, or registered to Victoria with Bicolours 3d pair, also 1939 with 'OFFICIAL FREE' h/s to NSW and January 1942 - a very late usage - with boxed 'OFFICIAL FREE' h/s to GB, a few minor blemishes. (5) SymbolclGradea/b View details Quantity5Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1310 OFFICIAL MAIL: 1928-35 good-size pieces from parcels each with Government Printing Office addressing label, all to Evan Gill in England with Monocolour 'OS' punctures ½d & 2½d or 2d, Monocolours 1d + Bicolours 1d pair, or Bicolours 1d pair, condition variable. Rare Printed Matter articles. (4) Symbolc/clGradea/b View details Quantity4Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 1311 OFFICIAL MAIL: 1930s Government Printing Office OHMS wrapper fronts (one is complete) to Evan Gill in England, various types including for "The Papuan Villager" x2, 1d frankings comprising punctured 'OS' 1d Monocolour x3 & Bicolour x2, overprinted 'OS' 1d or 2d & Pictorials 1d (with part boxed 'PASSED BY CENSOR' cachet), condition variable. (8) SymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity8Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1312 POSTMARKS: Useful duplicated collection on stocksheets including 'BNG' on Queensland x3, 'BNG' in violet on BNG 1/-, unframed 'DARU/BNG', 'REGISTERED/WOODLARKS BNG', 'TAMATA ND' used at Ioma x3, 'KANOSIA', 'POST OFFICE RIGO CD' x4, 29mm 'BWAGAOIA', 'BWAGOIA' Error x3 (two in violet), 'HISIU', 'TAHIRA', etc, ship cancels including 'SS Morinda' & 'MORINDA', arrival cancellations including 'THURSDAY ISLAND' on BNG 1/-, a few other better values & some 'OS' punctures, condition variable but many are Symbolo View details Quantity140Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 1313 POSTMARKS: Modest collection in stockbook, some better stamps to to BNG 1/- & Bicolours 5/-, condition variable. (300+) GSTex GSTSymbolO† View details Quantity300Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1314 1940s-1990s covers including Australia used in PNG with registered covers from Buin, Lae (2), Moresby and Rabaul, PNG Pictorials to 2/- on covers to USA, Austria and Germany, Butterflies 10c single on airmail cover to Solomons, 1970's Gibson Paquebot covers, a few aerogrammes, postmark interest including 'BADILI', 'CAPE RODNEY', 'DOGURA' and 'KAGUA' all on covers with red/black registration labels, 'KAWITO', 'MALAHANO', 'MILFORDHAVEN', 'MUMENG' and 'RABAUL AIRPORT'; also Papua Lakatois 1½d pair SymbolC/PSGradeA/A- View details Quantity76Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 1315 1952-71 annotated collection in two albums, many blocks of 4 from all sheet-corners including 1964 Birds, 1966-67 Butterflies & 1968-69 Shells, unmounted, also some used material & FDCs. Thematic wonderland. GSTex GSTSymbol**/*oc† View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 1316 1976 Tropical Fish complete set of Courvoisier imperf colour separation proofs for unissued denominations 7t & 10t (issued as 30t & 15t respectively) plus 30t (issued as 40t) & 40t (issued as 5t) all affixed to the official archival album pages [#1600/41 & 1601/42]. Superb & unique. An important group. (23 proofs) GSTex GSTSymbolP†Gradea View details Quantity23Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold Lot 1317 1984 Marine Turtles complete set of Courvoisier imperf colour separation proofs affixed to the official archival album page [#1917/17]. Superb & unique. (33 proofs) GSTex GSTSymbolP†Gradea View details Quantity33Estimate$2,300StatusUnsold Lot 1318 1942 (May 28) unfranked cover from USA to Marine Corps serviceman "Joseph J. Reardon, Quartermaster Clk, Formerly in Philippine Islands, American Prisoner in Japan, c/- International Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland" endorsed "Postage Free" with San Diego d/s carried on the first Prisoner of War mail exchange with Japan by the Red Cross ship Gripsholm, US censor tape but without any Japanese censor markings, some edge faults. [The Japanese invasion of the Philippines commenced within hours of t SymbolCGradeB View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Lot 1319 1943-45 three covers sent unfranked plus a letter (without envelope) to US servicemen held in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps in the Philippines with range of censor markings, the first two in early 1943 carried by Red Cross ship Gripsholm on the second POW mail exchange (leaving New York on 2.9.1943 to meet the Japanese ship Teia Maru at Marmogoa, Portuguese India on 15.10.1943) and the other from late 1943 all endorsed "Camp #1" or similar on arrival at Bilibid Prison Camp for delivery to SymbolCGradeB View details Quantity6Estimate$800Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1320 Carton with a modest stamp collection with some better items, an album of covers including a few apparently commercial items, Wedding 10/- on non-FDC, UPU set on illustrated FDC, etc, then a box of unaddressed 1995-2015 First Day Covers. Symbol*oc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1321 MACAU: Expensive Lighthouse hingeless album with 1976-89 issues complete with all the Miniature Sheets, 1990 incomplete, 1991-99 issues apparently complete including M/Ss & numerous sheetlets, unmounted, plus Zodiac booklets, Cat £4000+. (many 100s) Symbol**Gradea View details Quantity100Estimate$1,200Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1322 NORTHERN RHODESIA: 1964 commercial airmail cover to Durban with terrific franking of QEII Arms 4d green with the Denomination Omitted SG 79a - exceptional centring - tied by 'CHOMA 3/21AUG64/N RHODESIA' cds, a few trivial tonespots, Cat £500 plus a significant premium for being used on cover. SymbolvGradea a1 View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1323 1916 Orsk Goldfields Ltd, Eastern Siberia cover sent registered to New Zealand franked with Arms 10k blue x3 tied Cyrillic 'NIKOLAYEVSK ON AMUR/8 8 16' d/s with violet 'R' cachet on face and red/black local (Cyrillic lettering) and international (Roman lettering) 'Nikolaevsk, Siberie, Russia' registration labels on back, carried via Japan and Australia with 'KOBE/2 9 16/JAPAN' and 'REGISTERED/2OC16/SYDNEY,NSW' transit b/s, green & black New Zealand re-direction label (partly removed) tied by fai SymbolCGradeB View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 1324 Mostly used collection on Scott leaves etc with modest Davis Post Office range (printings & perfs not checked by us), handy range of GRI Overprints to '9d' on 80pf including '½d' on 3pf Fraction Bar Omitted x2 in a block of 6, '½d' on 5pf '1' to Left of '2' in Fraction x2 in block of 4, '½d' on 5pf strip of 3 with Misplaced Surcharges, & '2½d' Fraction Bar Omitted in pair, Overprints on NZ KGV set, Peace set, Admirals & Arms to 10/- x2, Huts set etc. (200 approx) GSTex GSTSymbol*o† View details Quantity200Estimate$600Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1325 1858 small 3pp (8vo) letter headed "Matautu/18 Aug 1858" from the missionary Henry Nisbet to his wife at Safotulafai, light vertical filing fold. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 1326 1914 Occupation group all to New Zealand comprising OAS PPCs dated 29.9.1914 ("...I am stationed at the Wireless Station 10 miles from Apia...when off guard am building stone wall fortifcations...We have had two false alarms...which is the nearest we have come to actual war...") & 15.9.1914 ("Vaea [?] Camp Apia...a very hot corner of the earth...plenty of alarms but nothing doing so far. Two big Germans seen off the entrance yesterday [Scharnhorst and Gneisenau]..."; PPC with GRI 1d on 10pf (".. GSTex GSTSymbolcps† View details Quantity8Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold Lot 1327 Denmark including 1792 outer to "Militaire Wahre Magazin", 1853 stampless entire with 'SKANDERBORG' cds, 1863 entire & 1864 outer both with Rouletted 4s brown, later commercial covers and postcards including registered plus a group of first flight and commemorative covers, and postal stationery with good range of Postal Cards Envelopes & Wrappers, mint and used; Danish West Indies 1889 & 1897 postal cards to/from St Thomas and 4öre bi-sects on illustrated envelope & PPC both with 'ST THOMAS' GSTex GSTSymbolCPS† View details Quantity210Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1328 NORWAY: Postal Stationery collection of mostly 20th Century issues, mostly unused but some handy usages/postmarks, condition of the earlier material is very mixed. (160 approx) Symbolps View details Quantity160Estimate$200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1329 Mauritius QV 8c strip of 3 with three good to fine strikes of 'B64' cancel, 1892 & 1896 - registered - philatelic covers to France or Germany, 1901 usage to Germany of '18 CENTS' on 30c Envelope, and 1908 "Victoria Memorial" PPC with KEVII 3c. (5 items) Symbolocps View details Quantity5Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1330 1890-1900 QV Issues SG 1-8, 22-25 & 28-36 all with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint plus 15c blue with Broken 'M' in Overprint (only 12 possible), and the Local Surcharges with 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp comprising SG 26-27 plus an extra '18 CENTS' with Short 'T' in 'CENTS', SG 37-40 plus extra '3 cents' on 36c with 'SPECIMEN' Inverted, and SG 41-45, some of the local issues with characteristic aging but generally fine to very fine, Cat £940 plus the varieties. (35) Symbol*Gradea/b View details Quantity35Estimate$650StatusUnsold Lot 1331 1903 KEVII Issues SG 46-56 all with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, and '3 cents' Surcharges with Local 'Specimen' Overprint (very fine), KGV 2r25c SG 96 & 12c SG 107 with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, also QV Local Surcharges with 'SPECIMEN' h/s SG 26-27 x2 sets plus SG 37-40 & an extra '3 cents' on 16c, condition variable, Cat £550+. (14) Symbol*Gradea/B View details Quantity14Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1332 1917-35 KGV Issues Die I SG 82-97 and Die II SG 98-123 all with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, generally very fine, plus 1935 Jubilee set (no gum) with 'SPECIMEN' punctures, Cat £900. (44) Symbol*ΩGradea/b View details Quantity44Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1333 POSTAL HISTORY: 1906 PPC ("Bethlehem") from the Holy Land with Austrian Levant 5h tied by fine 'JERUSALEM/OESTERREICHISCHEPOST' cds & 'SEYCHELLES/ B /14AP/06' arrival cds. A terrific origin/destination item. [Probably from a Christian in Jerusalem for Easter] GSTex GSTSymbolc†Gradea- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 1334 ENVELOPES: Mostly unused group of Turtle issues comprising First Issue 8c both sizes & 15c, 30c philatelic usages x2 + the 3 values with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, 'SIX CENTS' on 15c & '18 CENTS' on 30c x2, and 'SIX CENTS' on 8c & '18 CENTS' on 30c with different 'Specimen' Overprints, condition variable. (13) SymbolPS View details Quantity13Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 1335 ENVELOPES: 1895 8c carmine "Square" Format Hopson & McCloy (H&M) #E1a endorsed "Pattern Post", to GB in 1896 with code 'A' cds. SymbolpsGradea View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 1336 ENVELOPES: 1895 8c carmine "Rectangle" Format H&M #E1b local usage to the Chief Commissioner of Police with scarce code '5' cds, minor blemishes. [CDS inscribed '1' to '6', believed to be for use in the short-lived Rural Post Service, were despatched from London in 1893 but arrived after the service was terminated. Only '1', '2' (one example only), '4' & '5' have been recorded, '5' for only 6 months in 1895] SymbolpsGradea- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 1337 ENVELOPES: 1895 15c blue "Square" Format H&M #E2a with fancy 'VENTILATOR' (ship?) impressed in red wax on the flap, to England with '1' code cds - used 10 months only - & superb 'STEVENAGE' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. SymbolpsGradea- View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 1338 ENVELOPES: 1895 15c blue "Square" Format H&M #E2a to an Armenian at "Trebizonde/Turquie d'Asie/Mer Noire" (= Black Sea), light cds & octagonal 'MARSEILLE A LA REUNION/12/MAI/06/LV No1' d/s, French Post Offices backstamps of 'PORT SAID', light 'CONSTANTINOPEL-GALATA' & light 'TREBIZONDE/TURQUIE D'ASIE' arrival, a little aged still quite fresh. An extraordinary origin/destination usage. [In our opinion, this is an even more desirable usage than Jeffrey Weiss's 1900 Postal Card to Rhodesia that sol SymbolpsGradeb View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot 1339 ENVELOPES: 1895 15c blue "Rectangle" Format H&M #E2b to a geography teacher in Germany in 1896 uprated with '15/cents' on 16c Die II tied by code 'A' cds & octagonal 'LIGNE T/PAQ FR No 1' marine sorter d/s, superb 'R'-in-oval h/s, 'HALLE (SAALE)/ 2 /ANKUFT' arrival b/s. SymbolpsGradea View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 1340 ENVELOPES: 1895 30c brown H&M #E3 registered in 1895 to Missouri with 12c Die II tied by code '5' cds, oval 'REGISTERED/LONDON' & rubber hooded 'REGISTERED/LONDON/ 6 ' cds in violet plus 'ST LOUIS MO/AUG 11 1895' arrival d/s in purple all on the face. Very attractive. SymbolpsGradea View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 1341 ENVELOPES: 1900 'SIX CENTS' on 8c carmine "Square" Format H&M #E5a to London in 1903 with 3c Die II tied by code 'B' (Sideways) cds, minor blemishes on the reverse, London arrival b/s. SymbolpsGradea- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 1342 ENVELOPES: 1900 'SIX CENTS' on 8c carmine "Rectangle" Format H&M #E5b to England in 1902 with two strikes - one faint - of the scarce 'PRASLIN BAY ST ANSE' cds & code 'B' (upright) transit cds, Cambridge arrival b/s, repaired opening tears at the top well clear of the "stamp" & postmarks. A rare usage. SymbolpsGrade(b) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 1343 POSTAL CARDS: Mostly unused group of QV issues including Specimen Overprints & 6c Reply-Half with 'REPLY' Barred-Out, also philatelic usages mostly to Paul Kiderlen including three with 'LIGNE T/PAQ FR No 4' marine sorter d/s & H Rehlen usage of '3 Cents' on 4c 'LOCAL' issue to London, also an apparently commercial 1911 usage of the '3 Cents' on 6c 'LOCAL' issue uprated with KEVII 2c & 3c with message in German, condition variable. (38) Symbolps View details Quantity38Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 1344 BOER WAR: 1900-01 three covers to Chicago, Illinois endorsed from "Pte G Whitaker 1st North'nd Fusiliers 4369 South Africa" in the Transvaal all forwarded via London with Great Britain stamps added there to pay the UPU 2½d foreign letter rate, the first two originally franked 1d lilac single (MR2/00) or pair (DE5/00) tied 'FIELD-POST-OFFICE/16/BRITISH-ARMY-S.AFRICA' d/s used at Klerksdorp paying single and double concessional rate respectively with Jubilee 1½d purple & green single or pair SymbolCGradeA- View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Lot 1345 BOER WAR: 1902 (Oct 4) Victorian 2d Letter Card to a member of the ".../6th (Victorian) Battalion/3rd Australian Horse/Army PO/Cape Town" endorsed "Per SS Nineveh" with 'CAPE TOWN/JY2/02/+' arrival backstamp. Ex Neil Russell. GSTex GSTSymbolps†Gradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1346 1960s-80s accumulation in abums, sheets and packets with many in blocks and strips, also minisheets, mostly unmounted. Estimated at a fraction of original cost. (1000s) Symbol**GradeA View details Quantity1000Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot 1347 1937 internal cover with superb 'XX ZIONISTENKONGRESS/13VIII37/ VIII /ZURICH' cds & congress registration label, 'GRENCHEN' arrival b/s. GSTex GSTSymbolc†Gradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1348 1945 Prisoner of War Post lettersheet sent airmail to US serviceman at "Tokyo Camp, Japan" with single franking Transport 6c red tied Atlantic City, New Jersey cancel of 7 May paying the forces concessional airmail rate, red crayon "12D" endorsement for delivery to Motoyama (Hitachi) Camp, censored with black '5268' US censor cachet, red "Tokio Fu Ryo Shu Yo Sho Ken'etsu Zumi" [= Tokyo POW Camp Censored] cachet and two oval individual censor cachets alongside, fine condition. [Motoyama (Hitachi) SymbolCGradeA View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1349 Bundle of mostly American 1930s flight covers many with Hawaiian connection & including 1931 Wiley Post Round the World flight per "Winnie May" and 1935 San Francisco-Guam registered with first flight cachet in green, condition variable; 1942 pages from PG Taylor's flight notebook re a "Sneak Flight Pearl Harbor-San Diego" apparently undertaken despite a weather alert; 1935 plain covers with 'On Board/MY Kinkajou/Oceanic Islands Survey' imprint on the flap & endorsed "Via Kinkajou" with '[albatr GSTex GSTSymbolc/cl† View details Quantity50Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1350 1893 Columbus 1c to 50c Scott #230-240, some reperforating is suspected & most (all?) have been regummed, Cat $US1400 (mint); and 1926 White Plains sheetlet (square corners) with Plate Number 18773, some gum loss (not thinning) in the lower margin but the stamps are all unmounted, Cat $US375 (mounted). (11 + M/S) SymbolΩ* View details Quantity11Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 1351 FLIGHT COVERS: 1935 (Jan 11) Honolulu-Oakland cover (241x114mm) endorsed "Carried by air/..." and signed by the pilot "Amelia Earhart" at upper-left and "No.34 of 49 covers" at lower-left, small repaired tear at right. [Amelia Earhart was the first woman to make this non-stop flight solo. She was one of the most illustrious aviators of the pre-WWII period] GSTex GSTSymbolCl† View details Estimate$1,200StatusUnsold Lot 1352 ARCTIC: 1931 (May) Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine Expedition covers each with cachet in purple & straight-line "NEW YORK TO NORTH POLE" or "NEW YORK TO SPITSBERGEN" cachets & with additional frankings of GB 1½d or Norway 10o & 20o. (2) GSTex GSTSymbolC†Gradea View details Quantity2Estimate$180StatusUnsold Lot 1353 Two exhibit pages with 1913 master die proof with blank value tablets & faint guidelines in the margins in black on thin card recessed in a larger mount, 6c violet Postal Card in the same design with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, 1936 25c imperf colour trial pair in purple on white paper with ruled blue lines on the reverse, 1936 Jubilee set on registered philatelic cover, 1952 20c & 50c Aerogrammes unused, etc. Ex "Whiskers". (12 items) SymbolP*psGradea View details Quantity12Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...7891011121314|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
