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WORLDWIDE & GREAT BRITAIN
THURSDAY 6th MARCH 2008
1.00pm.

SALE 703

VIEWING AT CAVENDISH HOUSE

Tuesday 4^th March 9.30am-4.30pm
Wednesday 5^th March 9.30am-4.30am
Thursday 6^th March 9.00am-11.45am

Viewing may be possible Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday ONLY prior to viewing week strictly by appointment. Contact Mrs. Hilary Whitehurst or Mr. John Paulson (01332-250970)

JANUARY 23^rd/24^th SALES

£12,650 FOR A PENNY RED COVER? !

READ ON FOR MORE GREAT PRICES **(The number in brackets is the auction lot number)

WORLDWIDE - January 23^rd Sale: Worldwide stamps & Postal History were offered first which included the enormous range of material from the estate of the late James MacKay. Collections were as popular as ever. The Mackay perfins collection (3) making almost double estimate at £2990, a collection of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Burma (77) surprised a few with the estimate of £300 easily exceeded at £1380, a Pacific Islands collection (84) made £1495 & a seemingly innocuous collection of Thailand, Turkey & Vietnam (97) was also taken to £1495. James Mackay’s thematic collection of Scotland (120) went for a healthy £920.

Then followed the impressive collection of Maritime Disaster Mail formed by Norman Hoggarth, among the highlights, the newspaper salved from the wreckage of the PS Stadt Lindau in 1887 (190) made £805, a scarce type 5 cachet from the “SS Jebba” wreck (220) was taken to £690. Top realisation in this section went to the cover salved from the wreck of the “SS Aeon” off the Christmas Islands in 1908 (227) at £862, closely followed by another £805 for the cover ex the “SS Kong Haakon” in 1924 (271).

A surprising price was the £552 paid for the collection of airmail labels & publicity stickers (379) estimated at £150. A resurgent Australian States market meant that the very mixed & duplicated collection (419) was sold for £2760 while a mainly modern 4 volume collection of Australia & Norfolk Islands (411) almost made four figures at £977. China is perennially popular and the somewhat disorganised collection (469) that included much Taiwan, beat its conservative estimate of £500 handsomely to top out at £2760! The following lot (470) was the rare Mei Lan-fang miniature sheet, which, despite minor imperfections almost made full catalogue price at £2070. A fascinating collection of 1954-56 Ocean Drift cards dropped by Britain into the Atlantic & washed up in the Faeroes (523) made £862 for the 22 cards. A German collection of “Stadtposts” (580) made £977 against a £700 estimate. There followed the highly collectable section of correspondence from James Crichton in Macao, Canton & St.Helena from 1765-1823 where there were several four-figure realisations; top dog was the 1843 “British Government Agency Office /Macao” cover front & top flap which was taken to £2760 (653). A sign of renewed interest in Indian stamps was the £1840 paid for the used blue Scinde Dawk (661). Under Malta we find the 1919 10/- black watermark MCA (696) mint, with toned gum, making £1150. Rhodesia provided one of the best results of the day when the Dr Livingstone letter(747) from the Zambezi Expedition made £3910. In the St.Helena section the 3 Crichton letters (758-760) of 1790 & 1794(2 letters) reached £1035, £862 & £1380 respectively. The next lot (761) was a plate pair of the 1922-37 15s mint, with minor defect which reached £977. In the USA lots a heavily mounted mint 1893 $5 Columbus with fine centering made £747 (812).

GREAT BRITAIN – January 24^th Sale:

The Collections did well, as expected, then the 1840 claim for ink for cancelling the new stamps from Spittal Post Office (846) made a surprising £1495, a 3 margined 1d black with a circular cancel reaches £805 (852) & a collection of 455 1d plates in mixed condition, with perfins, (866) made a healthy £747. A mint corner block of 48 of the 1870 1⁄2d plate 12 (885) proved very popular, and was taken to £2990 against the £800 estimate. The used £5 orange (903) with several faults still managed to make a very good £805 (Always a popular stamp) while a surprise was in store for the 1887-92 Jubilee issue collectors, when the complete sheet of mint 41⁄2d green & carmine (909) reached £862, against its £100 estimate. The Edward VII De la Rue £1 mint (912) made a respectable £920 as did the Somerset House 10/- unmounted mint (914). The 1907 2/- Voucher booklets with cancelled panes (970-971) made £1035 & £977. To end the adhesives section of GB the Board of Education 1/- fine used (979) made a heady £3220 and the 1902-04 5d used (also in this lot (980)a forgery of the 10d), made an equally impressive £2530. A group of 20 Ocean Drift cards, which were recovered from the Irish islands (1954-55), with Irish frankings (1025), reached a very fine £805 (see also lot 523). Then we all held our breath, as the 1841 1d red cover to the Isle of Wight, with a red Maltese Cross cancel, was taken to £12,650. After that, even the impressive £1150 paid for the three unused 1883 privately printed parcel labels (1085) seemed tame! (Although probably not to the eventual buyer!). A rare 1^st type “Cross Posts” “Registered letter” green wrapper from 1840/41 (1136) made £1035 in a postal history section which saw much ex James Mackay material make serious prices.

The “Rossfield” Collection of Great Britain: The majority of lots being were from the 19^th century, and a good start came in the form of a £1495 price tag for the Vegetarian Society propaganda cover with Birmingham Spoon cancel (2009). This was quickly followed by a £690 realisation for the late 1863 use of a 2d Mulready envelope (2012) and a Treasury Competition Essay by Charles Whiting at £1035 (2017), another of his Essays made £920 (2019). Of the 4 Rainbow Colour trials (2024-2027) the example in black (2027) was the winner, topping out at £4830. A Plate 3 1d black on cover with boxed “Missent to/Liverpool” made £1035 (2047) while a violet Maltese Cross on a creased plate 5 1d black reached a respectable £1495 (2056). A pair of plate 9 1d blacks made £690 (2078) while a nice plate 11 example reached £1495 (2089) the following plate 11, with a matching 1d red, making £1035 (2090), while a third example (2091) made £747. An 1841 1d red from black plate 9 unused, made £632 (2111) an another example showing the “Q flaw” on cover was taken to £862 (2112). An imperf proof of the 1841 2d with blank letter squares (2117) was well over double-estimate at £805. Then came three “sparkling” results – with the Used Treasury Roulette (2123) making £2530 against £1000 estimate, the 1d black Prince Albert Essay (2124) at £3450 and the red brown Prince Albert Essay at £1840 (2125). Then, a strip of 3 mint 1857 large Crown, perf 16, Die II, Alphabet II 1d reds (2135) reached £3220, while a South Kensington Exhibition Proof in black was taken to £747. £690 was paid for a 10d embossed on piece with part

Chester Spoon cancel (2153). The Stock Exchange Forgeries made £1150 for the one with normal lettering, & £506, for the example with impossible lettering (2177-2178). An 1867-80 2s milky blue made £1092 (2182) and a 2s brown made £1035 (2183). Some high prices were noted for some QV High Values with £2300 for the 1878 Maltese Cross watermarked £1 brown-lilac used (2188) and £3910 for the 1882 £1 Anchor watermark (2191) amongst other four-figure realisations in this group. £3220 was the price for the unissued 8d purple brown (2208) while the die proof of the 8d (2209) realised £920. Another die proof, that of the 1880-81 1d Venetian Red, made £805 against a £340 estimate. In the KGV section a lovely unmounted mint marginal example of the 1912 1d scarlet-vermilion (2259) was taken to £920 & an unmounted marginal 1912-22 2d intense bright orange made £1035 (2268), of the 21⁄2d values, the Pale Milky Blue mint marginal made £747 & the Prussian Blue shade £805 (2270 & 2272). The £1 green, mounted mint, of 1913 reached £1840 (2284), a stamp really back in demand as was seen in the next lot (2285) a fine used example at £1035! A De La Rue 10/- used was taken to four figures at £1092 (2292). A few covers ended the sale and an 1861 cover bearing a broken up block of 8 x 2d blue plate 9, made £747 (Estimate £100) (lot 2337) and the very last lot (2348), a 3d rate cover from Crimea in 1854, sailed in at £690 to end a very strong sale, emphasising the strength of the GB market and the shortage of quality material.

All prices realised include Buyer’s premium.

Next Sales in Derby:

6^th March Worldwide including specialised China, Hong Kong and Japan plus GB 1d red Die II,Alphabet II on cover.

8^th May Worldwide inc. Great Britain

27^th May Literature auction (Postal only)

	WORLDWIDE & GREAT BRITAIN THURSDAY 6th MARCH 2008 1.00pm. SALE 703 VIEWING AT CAVENDISH HOUSE Tuesday 4^th March 9.30am-4.30pm Wednesday 5^th March 9.30am-4.30am Thursday 6^th March 9.00am-11.45am Viewing may be possible Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday ONLY prior to viewing week strictly by appointment. Contact Mrs. Hilary Whitehurst or Mr. John Paulson (01332-250970)

JANUARY 23^rd/24^th SALES £12,650 FOR A PENNY RED COVER? ! READ ON FOR MORE GREAT PRICES (The number in brackets is the auction lot number) WORLDWIDE - January 23^rd Sale**: Worldwide stamps & Postal History were offered first which included the enormous range of material from the estate of the late James MacKay. Collections were as popular as ever. The Mackay perfins collection (3) making almost double estimate at £2990, a collection of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Burma (77) surprised a few with the estimate of £300 easily exceeded at £1380, a Pacific Islands collection (84) made £1495 & a seemingly innocuous collection of Thailand, Turkey & Vietnam (97) was also taken to £1495. James Mackay’s thematic collection of Scotland (120) went for a healthy £920. Then followed the impressive collection of Maritime Disaster Mail formed by Norman Hoggarth, among the highlights, the newspaper salved from the wreckage of the PS Stadt Lindau in 1887 (190) made £805, a scarce type 5 cachet from the “SS Jebba” wreck (220) was taken to £690. Top realisation in this section went to the cover salved from the wreck of the “SS Aeon” off the Christmas Islands in 1908 (227) at £862, closely followed by another £805 for the cover ex the “SS Kong Haakon” in 1924 (271). A surprising price was the £552 paid for the collection of airmail labels & publicity stickers (379) estimated at £150. A resurgent Australian States market meant that the very mixed & duplicated collection (419) was sold for £2760 while a mainly modern 4 volume collection of Australia & Norfolk Islands (411) almost made four figures at £977. China is perennially popular and the somewhat disorganised collection (469) that included much Taiwan, beat its conservative estimate of £500 handsomely to top out at £2760! The following lot (470) was the rare Mei Lan-fang miniature sheet, which, despite minor imperfections almost made full catalogue price at £2070. A fascinating collection of 1954-56 Ocean Drift cards dropped by Britain into the Atlantic & washed up in the Faeroes (523) made £862 for the 22 cards. A German collection of “Stadtposts” (580) made £977 against a £700 estimate. There followed the highly collectable section of correspondence from James Crichton in Macao, Canton & St.Helena from 1765-1823 where there were several four-figure realisations; top dog was the 1843 “British Government Agency Office /Macao” cover front & top flap which was taken to £2760 (653). A sign of renewed interest in Indian stamps was the £1840 paid for the used blue Scinde Dawk (661). Under Malta we find the 1919 10/- black watermark MCA (696) mint, with toned gum, making £1150. Rhodesia provided one of the best results of the day when the Dr Livingstone letter(747) from the Zambezi Expedition made £3910. In the St.Helena section the 3 Crichton letters (758-760) of 1790 & 1794(2 letters) reached £1035, £862 & £1380 respectively. The next lot (761) was a plate pair of the 1922-37 15s mint, with minor defect which reached £977. In the USA lots a heavily mounted mint 1893 $5 Columbus with fine centering made £747 (812).	GREAT BRITAIN – January 24^th Sale: The Collections did well, as expected, then the 1840 claim for ink for cancelling the new stamps from Spittal Post Office (846) made a surprising £1495, a 3 margined 1d black with a circular cancel reaches £805 (852) & a collection of 455 1d plates in mixed condition, with perfins, (866) made a healthy £747. A mint corner block of 48 of the 1870 1⁄2d plate 12 (885) proved very popular, and was taken to £2990 against the £800 estimate. The used £5 orange (903) with several faults still managed to make a very good £805 (Always a popular stamp) while a surprise was in store for the 1887-92 Jubilee issue collectors, when the complete sheet of mint 41⁄2d green & carmine (909) reached £862, against its £100 estimate. The Edward VII De la Rue £1 mint (912) made a respectable £920 as did the Somerset House 10/- unmounted mint (914). The 1907 2/- Voucher booklets with cancelled panes (970-971) made £1035 & £977. To end the adhesives section of GB the Board of Education 1/- fine used (979) made a heady £3220 and the 1902-04 5d used (also in this lot (980)a forgery of the 10d), made an equally impressive £2530. A group of 20 Ocean Drift cards, which were recovered from the Irish islands (1954-55), with Irish frankings (1025), reached a very fine £805 (see also lot 523). Then we all held our breath, as the 1841 1d red cover to the Isle of Wight, with a red Maltese Cross cancel, was taken to £12,650. After that, even the impressive £1150 paid for the three unused 1883 privately printed parcel labels (1085) seemed tame! (Although probably not to the eventual buyer!). A rare 1^st type “Cross Posts” “Registered letter” green wrapper from 1840/41 (1136) made £1035 in a postal history section which saw much ex James Mackay material make serious prices. The “Rossfield” Collection of Great Britain: The majority of lots being were from the 19^th century, and a good start came in the form of a £1495 price tag for the Vegetarian Society propaganda cover with Birmingham Spoon cancel (2009). This was quickly followed by a £690 realisation for the late 1863 use of a 2d Mulready envelope (2012) and a Treasury Competition Essay by Charles Whiting at £1035 (2017), another of his Essays made £920 (2019). Of the 4 Rainbow Colour trials (2024-2027) the example in black (2027) was the winner, topping out at £4830. A Plate 3 1d black on cover with boxed “Missent to/Liverpool” made £1035 (2047) while a violet Maltese Cross on a creased plate 5 1d black reached a respectable £1495 (2056). A pair of plate 9 1d blacks made £690 (2078) while a nice plate 11 example reached £1495 (2089) the following plate 11, with a matching 1d red, making £1035 (2090), while a third example (2091) made £747. An 1841 1d red from black plate 9 unused, made £632 (2111) an another example showing the “Q flaw” on cover was taken to £862 (2112). An imperf proof of the 1841 2d with blank letter squares (2117) was well over double-estimate at £805. Then came three “sparkling” results – with the Used Treasury Roulette (2123) making £2530 against £1000 estimate, the 1d black Prince Albert Essay (2124) at £3450 and the red brown Prince Albert Essay at £1840 (2125). Then, a strip of 3 mint 1857 large Crown, perf 16, Die II, Alphabet II 1d reds (2135) reached £3220, while a South Kensington Exhibition Proof in black was taken to £747. £690 was paid for a 10d embossed on piece with part	Chester Spoon cancel (2153). The Stock Exchange Forgeries made £1150 for the one with normal lettering, & £506, for the example with impossible lettering (2177-2178). An 1867-80 2s milky blue made £1092 (2182) and a 2s brown made £1035 (2183). Some high prices were noted for some QV High Values with £2300 for the 1878 Maltese Cross watermarked £1 brown-lilac used (2188) and £3910 for the 1882 £1 Anchor watermark (2191) amongst other four-figure realisations in this group. £3220 was the price for the unissued 8d purple brown (2208) while the die proof of the 8d (2209) realised £920. Another die proof, that of the 1880-81 1d Venetian Red, made £805 against a £340 estimate. In the KGV section a lovely unmounted mint marginal example of the 1912 1d scarlet-vermilion (2259) was taken to £920 & an unmounted marginal 1912-22 2d intense bright orange made £1035 (2268), of the 21⁄2d values, the Pale Milky Blue mint marginal made £747 & the Prussian Blue shade £805 (2270 & 2272). The £1 green, mounted mint, of 1913 reached £1840 (2284), a stamp really back in demand as was seen in the next lot (2285) a fine used example at £1035! A De La Rue 10/- used was taken to four figures at £1092 (2292). A few covers ended the sale and an 1861 cover bearing a broken up block of 8 x 2d blue plate 9, made £747 (Estimate £100) (lot 2337) and the very last lot (2348), a 3d rate cover from Crimea in 1854, sailed in at £690 to end a very strong sale, emphasising the strength of the GB market and the shortage of quality material. All prices realised include Buyer’s premium. Next Sales in Derby: 6^th March Worldwide including specialised China, Hong Kong and Japan plus GB 1d red Die II,Alphabet II on cover. 8^th May Worldwide inc. Great Britain 27^th May Literature auction (Postal only)