Auction 258 March 2024
Some highlights:
- 'Ramones' Collection of Great Britain
- Field post WWII, Legion issues and Propaganda forgeries (including Dr. Keizer collection)
- Extensive collection of Turkey
- Postal Stationery Netherlands (including change of address cards Verhoeven collection)
- Many original country collections including British Commonwealth
Auction order
Thursday 14 March
09:00 1-314 Netherlands and Colonies, collections & stock
350-420 Netherlands and Colonies, collections & stock in large boxes
13:00 450-953 Coins
Friday 15 March
10:00 1000-1064 Picture Postcards
10:30 1100-1611 Foreign countries, collections & stock
1800-1936 Foreign countries, collections & stock in large boxes
Saturday 16 March
09:00 2000-2367 Netherlands and colonies single lots
11:00 2500-2633 Foreign countries single lots
13:00 3000-3261 Ramones Collection of Great Britain
15:00 3500-3588 WWII Collection of Dr. Keizer
1858 2d. plate 6 (Spec. F8 large crown perf 16) specialised collection with 44 singles, 3 pairs, 2 strips of three and 1 strip of four, including re-entries, mostly in good to very good condition, cat. £ 22.000
1854-1862 1d. red-brown, very fine group Spec. B1 to C13, including C1 strip of four, C9 (SG 38) unused and C10 (SG 40) late use maltese cross cancellation with 1981 BPA certificate, all neatly described
1864-1879 1d. plates 71-225 complete (except 77). Fine group in good to very good condition including many cds cancellations, plate 96 with the Oxford OUS overprint, plate 225 with very clear plate number, cat. £ 2.000
1858 2d. blue plate 7 (HG) with the major Re-entry (ST in neck Victoria), fine to very fine used, cat. £500
1858 2d. blue plate 7 (HG) with the major Re-entry (ST in neck Victoria), fine to very fine used on entire sent from Edinburgh 1859 to Kilmarnock (arrival postmark on reverse) cat. £500+
1861 2d. blue plate 9, a fine specialised group of 32 single items, 2 pairs, 2 blocks of six, including watermark types I en II, the repaired impressions etc.
1861 2d. blue plate 9 plate reconstructions (3x complete), including watermark types I en II, not checked for repaired impressions in Safe album
1861 2d. blue plate 9 specialised collection rows M, N, O and P, including Watermark I and II, Corrosion marks, repaired impressions, etc. totally 330 ex, and 27 covers (including (PA) together with SG 97 plate 5 sent to Canada and strip of three (PI-PK) sent to Cairo) in 2 Safe albums
1939 Literature - Great Britain Twopence Plate Nine - A study of The plate and Its repairs by H. Osborne, book in overall good condition with notes in pencil - a very rare book -
1858-1876 2d. blue plates 7-15, a fine specialised group of 24 single items, strip of four, block of four (plate 7) including re-entries, watermark inverted, envelope with the plate 7 HG re-entry etc.
1870-1879 ½d. Bantam plates 1-20 complete and 1½d. plate 1 and 3. Fine group in good to very good condition including many cds cancellations, plate 9 with very clear plate numbers, cat. £ 1600
1870 1½d. plate 1 - showing the OP-PC error of lettering a fine to very fine example of this classic error, lightly cancelled with the O and C cleary visible, including 1973 RPS certificate, cat. £ 2000