Post-sale report on May 8^th 2008 auction

Remington Collections

The sale started with the Remington Collection of Interrupted Mails where Lot 20, the Scipio Crash mail from Hong Kong, Singapore etc., made £345, Lot 67 – a small collection of British Damaged in Transit (Bomb, Snails, Oil, etc) Mail reached £920. In the Remington Palestine Mail collection a surprise result was the £505 paid for Lot 174 – the UN peace Keeping Forces covers 1958-65.

Worldwide inc. Great Britain

In the main sale there was the usual scramble for collections & mixed Lots. In fact the one country collections throughout the sale nearly all sold for much above estimate. A Caymans collection (Lot 501) saw a £750 estimate almost doubled to a healthy £1495.

General Postal History saw the SS Sirius cover (1^st East-West transatlantic steamer crossing – Lot 317) make £1035, British Forces in Iceland WWII covers also did well (Lot 346) at £805. Lot 485 was the unmounted imprint block of 20 of the Canada KEVII 7c which was taken to £977, while the Falklands Centenary set mounted mint made £1610 (Lot 520). A fine Gibraltar section saw Lot 557 the 1848 entire with both Gibraltar Ship Letter & Gibraltar Paid marks go to £632 while the QV 2½d die proof (Lot 582) made £690. Top price was the £1035 paid for the KGV 2d stationery die proof (Lot 608). A Hong Kong Treaty Ports cover – Amoy to UK franked QV 30c (Lot 639) made £632 on a £400 estimate.

Great Britain started with a wide range of collections & mixed Lots, most of which sold at excellent prices. Two groups of “spacefiller” 1d blacks (Lots 816-7) made £1725 (for 68 stamps) & £1150 (for 34 stamps). The estimates were £400 & £300!

A plate XI 1d black (small thin) with matching 1d red made £632 (Lot 854) while a Plate 10 1d red with blue MX cancel on cover was taken to £632 (Lot 870). An Archer perf 1d plate 98 on cover surprised a few making £1495 on a £300 estimate (Lot 880) and an 1884 1/- green with inverted watermark, telegraphic & crayon cancels (small fault) also surprised, taking its £100 estimate to £747! (Lot 931). King Edward VII Official covers starred later with (Lot 1050) the Board of Education 2½d to USA making £747 & the pair of Inland Revenue 2½d on 1903 cover to Borkum (Lot 1062) topping out at £1955. An 1840 cover with 1d black cancelled by a Penny Post & Maltese Cross cancel went for  £920 (Lot 1129), the Harwich Ship Letter in blue on 1851 entire achieved the same price (Lot 1160) & last but by no means least – the very last Lot in the sale (Lot 1255) was the Dublin Dockwra on local cover of 1778 which made a cracking £2760 – a fine end to a most fascinating sale. (E & O E)

**All prices include buyer’s premium at 15% 

Next auction 26^th June 2008