Lockdales Auction 168 14-15 September 2019

134 2798 New Imperial Stamp Album from Stanley Gibbons 1840- 1936 GB and British Empire Vol 1. GB and Antigua to Malta somewhat picked but many useful stamps remain. Vast majority used GB 1d Black with 4 margins (2 very close) with heavy MX. 2d blue with 3 margins and no obvious faults, sparse surface printed but noted SG107, 109 (plate 8 & 9), SG95 (plates 9 & 13), SG69. General run with many shades. Hong Kong & Indian States of interest. Needs a look. (Qty) £350 - £400 2799 New Imperial Stamp Album from Stanley Gibbons Vol 2 1840-1936 Mauritius to Zululand. Mostly used (some items noted with faults) but normally restricted to the £200+ cat stamps. Far to many to mention in detail but countries of particular note and value inc Australian States a very comprehensive selection eg W.Australia, S.Australia, Victoria, plus New Brunswick, natal, etc. S.W.Africa, Trinidad. Other countries inc Straits Settlements, S.Rhodesia, Samoa with covers, etc etc. Lots of material (qty) £1700 - £1800 2800 New Imperial Stamp Album from Stanley Gibbons Vol 2 1840-1936 Mauritius to Zululand. With approx half the stamps being mint. A very impressive collection where viewing will be the only way to full appreciate. Contents inc good Mauritius, Montserrat, Morocco Agencies, Natal, Nauru, Rhodesia, South Africa Co, Seychelles, Uganda, all nearly complete. Extensive range of Australian States, Samoa inc NZ Occupation, St Kitts- Nevis, Papua, St Helena, etc etc. Needs viewing (Qty) £3000 - £3500 2801 New Imperial Stamp Album from Stanley Gibbons, for Great Britain, The British Empire, Egypt & Iraq Vol 1. 1840-1936. GB and Antigua to Malta. Mint and Used original and unpicked top quality collection. It is easier to describe what is missing rather than what is actually present ! GB 1840 Penny Blacks x8 inc 4x with four margins. Mulready stereo A246 with interesting contents. 2x 1840 2d blue, Penny Reds complete except for 77 & 225, extensive Surface printed, values to £1. Excellent Australia with key values, postage dues and officials. Superb early Barbados m & u. Impressive East Africa, other countries worth inspection British Guiana, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Cook Is, Egypt, Falkland Is, Gambia, Hong Kong, India and Indian States. A must view lot. (Qty) £5000 - £5500 2802 New Zealand 1960 2d stamp with error black omitted affecting country name and plant description. There is a light ghost of some letters of country name. SG.783a unmounted mint, cat £550. £30 - £40 2803 Nineteenth Century 'Postage Stamp Album' 4th edition. A classic 500 page quality album with metal clasp in unusually good condition for age. Set for stamps no later than 1895. Well picked but a few items worth consideration. £24 - £26 2804 Norway collection in one country albums, early to modern mm and um, SG1 (4 margins dated example). Posthorns m& u from 1872 and 26x from 1893 set, values to 50ore (m). King Haakon VII 1907 SG128 & 129 (u). Many complete sets mint, noted 1930 North Cape set. Good lot of officials phos & non phos (m). Davo album approx 80% complete except for some earlies, HV's and modern M/Sheets. Clean lot, better condition than normal. (Qty) £200 - £250 2805 Norway collection in stockbooks, mainly used with some better earlier, duplication in places, eg SG5 x5, SG21 x11, SG29 x10, etc. MM & UM from c1943 onwards as well as used. High Cat lot, condition varies so closer inspection needed. (Buyer collects) £170 - £180 2806 Nova Scotia 5c and 10c stamps overprinted SPECIMEN, SG.16,24. £25 - £30 2807 Odd lot of material on stocksheets, album pages, etc. QE2 Morocco opts, KGVI Commemorative set UM, high value definitives mm, bogus KGVI with Stalin on 1½d Coronation style label. Re-engraved Seahorses. Wembley issues. 3d Wilding tete beche pair. Plus various tete beche pairs or blocks from South Africa, India and Germany etc. Very mixed. (Qty) £40 - £45 2808 Old large blue/grey suitcase with a large mixture of material, better noted (Qty). Buyer collects £50 - £60 2809 Old Strand Album with original and unpicked used collection, majority pre 1960, some countries well represented inc Canada, USA, GB, Australia, Netherlands. Low values French Colonies noted. Main value in GB with 2x Penny Blacks (one 4 margin with closed tear, other no margins. 1841 2d Blue strip of 3, QV 1867 2/6 and 5/- perfins. Worth a closer look. (Qty) £50 - £55 2810 Original World collection in albums, plus an album of 1960's Presentation Packs and Covers, plus various loose material. (Qty) Buyer collects £30 - £40 2811 Palestine: The Levant: a collection housed in 2 albums of c1852-1917 postal history covers, picture postcards, stationery postcards and stamps incl Foreign Post Offices with French, German, Turkish, range of cancellations, etc, noted Austrian 1884 cover to USA franked by 10sld tied by "GERUSALEM" cds (approx 130 items) £550 - £650 2812 Papua New Guinea extensive and valuable postal history collection of mainly covers, inc 1948 cover to GB franked by Australia ½d, 1d (2) with manuscript "Trobrana Islands" and Losuia datestamps, Abau, Bainings, Banz, Finschafen, Madang 1957 cover to NZ franked by Stamp Duty 1d-on-6½d (5), Namatanai, Rigo, instructional marks, good range of registered mail etc. Includes many photos of post offices, unusual small colln matchbox labels advertising the Steamship Trading Co most depicting native artefacts, groups of trade cards, etc (8 albums, 432 items) £600 - £700 2813 Papua New Guinea flights postal history 1933-34 Covers comprising 1933 (Feb 3) Sydney to Salamaua cover carried by sea to Port Moresby and then flown by Guinea Airways, franked 7d, the first official Australian acceptance for mail flown over Papua New Guinea air services; and 1934 (July 24) first Australia to Papua New Guinea flight in "Faith in Australia" covers flown Sydney to Port Moresby, or from Sydney, Brisbane or Rockhampton to Port Moresby and back to Sydney via Lae (Rockhampton cover signed C.T.P Ulm), Melbourne, Townsville or Rockhampton to Lae via Port Moresby, Sydney to Lae via Port Moresby and back to Sydney, Melbourne to Cairns and back to Melbourne, Port Moresby to Sydney via Lae (unusually with flight cachets dated June and July), Cairns to Brisbane, also an unused flight envelope (13) £380 - £420 2814 Persia 1941 SG878 30R green & black. Mohammed Riza Pahlavi, UM marginal example, cat £900+, slight gum bends noted £80 - £85