Lockdales Auction 157 14-15 July 2018

86 1828 European Architectural Heritage Year FDC with Chester Heritage City pmk 23 April 1973. Scarce £30 - £35 1829 Flight Cover collection in 2x untouched and original albums. Many GB first flight covers, many from Southampton to various destinations eg Guernsey (Guernsey Airways) 1939 to US and Canada, 1933 to India. Varied number inc 1938 Honolulu to UK, Canal Zone to UK, 1933 Morocco Agencies (Lara-che) to Rio de Janeiro with 6 sided red Zeppelin cachet, Shanghai to London front via Moscow, Berlin. 1930 Belgium to London etc. 3x 1911 UK Aerial Post Cards, one sponsored by Nobel Explosives, Hungary 1931 with 1931 Zeppelin opt 2p stamp with Zeppelin cachet Imperial Airways First Air Post 1932 cover with associated telegram to Southampton mentioned stranded in swamp in Rhodesia. Crash Covers etc. It is hard to explain how nice a collection this is. Viewing a must ! Over 200 items. (2) £1000 - £1200 1830 GB - unusual mix of FDC's (some of the better defins), exhibition souvenir sheets, etc. 1940 Stamp Centenary FDC with Philatelic Exhibition Bournemouth cancel x3. An interesting mix worth a loser look (qty) £40 - £45 1831 GB 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee unillustrated FDC, Bury St Edmunds p/m '7 MY 35'. Clean both front & back, cat £650 (1) £50 - £60 1832 GB FDC's - large box of material in 2x albums and the majority loose, few better noted (qty) Buyer collects £40 - £45 1833 GB FDC's - large qty of loose with various pmks, mostly late 1970's - 1990's (qty) Buyer collects £25 - £30 1834 GB FDC's in large green plastic crate, loose and in albums, better noted (qty) Buyer collects £40 - £45 1835 GB FDC collection housed in 4x Royal Mail Albums, c1990's - 2000's (Buyer collects) £25 - £30 1836 GB FDC & Event Covers collection in 5x albums, several better postmarks noted (qty) £35 - £40 1837 German Bundersrepublik commemorative covers c1993/1994 in special album Ersttags-Sammelblatter (x70) £20 - £22 1838 History of World War 2, special cover collection housed in special binders (5x albums) £25 - £30 1839 Large banana box of GB FDC's in 5x albums, plus loose (qty) Buyer collects £25 - £30 1840 Large box of GB FDC's in several albums (Buyer collects) £40 - £45 1841 Large tray of mostly FDC's in albums (x7) GB up to c2000. South Africa, Aviation inc WW2 coin covers (x14) etc. Heavy (Buyer collects) £60 - £65 1842 Pacific Islands covers, noted British Solomon Islands postal agency (18 different), Fiji, Nauru, New Hebrides, Tuvalu etc (approx 150 covers) £50 - £70 1843 QE2 Cunard First Visit to Boston after Serving the Royal Navy to Liberate the Falkland Islands from Argentine Occupation 8/12/1982 Cover £20 - £22 1844 RAF hand signed 1981 commemorative cover, Arthur T. Harris (Bomber Harris). Scarce £50 - £55 1845 Red binder of GB pre decimal FDC's, many better items inc 1957 Sutton Coldfield pictorial pmk x3 different covers, 1957 Parliament Conf - London SW1 pmk, 1960 G.L.O. Lombard St, 1962 Productivity Year - Southampton wavy line cancel etc. A good range of non - illustrated KGVI definitive issues. Better than normal lot, needs viewing (qty) £60 - £65 1846 Selection of Military, RAF and other Aviation related Commemorative Covers, many with signatures (approx 78) Worth closer inspection £40 - £45 1847 Shoebox of clean GB FDC's (qty) £22 - £24 1848 Signed Covers, 9 mainly Military, 40th Anniversary of VJ Day by Paddy Lucas, 40th Anniversary of D-Day by Richard Todd, Liberation of Paris by Maurice Buckmaster SOE, Halifax Bomber 1983 by James Tait, 50th Anniversary RAF by Rod Learoyd V.C., 40th Battle of Britain 5 sigs., Arnhem 1994 by John Hackett, Ballooning etc. £40 - £50

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