'JUBILEE' ISSUE
Army Official mint Control block of 24
153864.
1/2d blue-green, SG042 o/pd ARMY OFFICIAL.
Fine mint Control R Block of 24 with date cut under the first stamp in the bottom row.
A couple of stamps with folded perfs
An impressive Display/Exhibition item.
Price: £395.00
Unmounted/mounted mint Marginal block of 63 1/2d SG197.
153844.
1/2d SG197, a fine marginal block of 63.
The right margin has the complete 'POSTAGE' watermark
and the top margin a portion of it.
This part pane appears to come from the top right side of
the top half sheet of the Post Office Sheet: the division markings in the margin top left.
This stamp was issued to a Post Office in a sheet of two panes of 120
separated by an interpane margin.
Some 59 stamps are unmounted and the other 4 very lightly mounted.
About 20% of the stamps have light horziontal creasing.
The perfs in the top margin have been strenthed in places by hinges.
A very fine item bearing in mind it ssize and becoming increasingly scarce.
It would make a superb display page of the first 'Jubilee' 1/2d issue .
An attractive and very scarce item.
Price: £85.00
1/2d SG197: used in JERSEY mostly Squared Circles on piece
153800.
31 examples of 1/2d SG197, all are tied to a small piece,
and all used in JERSEY between 1891 and 1899.
Twenty five are cancelled by Jersey squared circles and six by Jersey double ring cds’s.
The assemblage includes five pairs, a strip of three and a ‘block of five'.
All are fine/very fine/superb used.
A very unusual and scarce grouping.
Price: £50.00
New Brighton Squared Circle
153730.
Neat envelope used locally in New Brighton, February 27th 1897.
The 1/2d SG197, is tied by a very fine upright strike of the squared circle from this location.
A very scarce cancellation and seldom found so finely used.
A very attractive item.
Price: £35.00
NB: the
envelope
is in finer condition than the scan suggests.
1/2d Inverted Watermark
153422
1/2d SG197: a fine used example with Inverted Watermark
and cancelled by the 'FB' of the Foreign Branch.
Very much undervalued by Gibbons with their price of £60
especially in fine condition.
Price: £65.00
A moving Mourning Envelope
153708a.
Mourning envelope from Warwick to Droitwich.
It was franked by four single QV 1/2d SG197, replaced by the Edward 7th 1/2d on January 1st 1902.
The stamps were cancelled by a number of Warwick date stamps for May 17th 1916.
This QV stamp was demonitised almost a year previously in 1915 and so not valid for paying the 1d postage fee on this item.
The sender knew this as on the reverse they placed two single current King George 5th 1/2d ‘s and
the Post Office cancelled these with the same Warwick May 17th 1916 date stamp with the same time: 9:15pm.
Also on the back is the largest seal in BLACK we have ever seen.
Clearly appropriate for a mourning envelope.
Its size presumably reflects the sadness felt by the sender.
A very unusual and moving item which displays well.
Price: £35.00
1/2d SG213 strip of five: earliest multiple usage to Australia
153799.
A fine strip of five, 1/2d SG213.
This stamp was issued on APRIL 17th 1900.
This strip of five is tied by Birmingham APRIL 30th 1900
date stamps to a clean envelope to Victoria, Australia.
On the reverse are transit date stamps and a fine printed intertwined initials ‘AW’?
This is believed to be the earliest, and largest, known multiple usage of SG213 to Australia.
On the reverse are printed entwined initial 'HW'?
A very scarce item.
Price: £35.00
SG213: Interpane Pair
153796.
1/2d SG213: an unmouted mint interpane vertical pair.
The interpane margin has a horizontal crease: as is usual:
this stamp issued in two panes of 120 with vertical blocks in the interpane margin
between the top and bottom halves of the Post Office sheet..
Because of the size of a full 240 stamp sheet, the Post Office clerk or subpostmaster/mistress
usually folded the sheet along the interpane margin.
The stamps are unmouted mint; the top stamp has a few marks on the gum possibly
from aa small amount of offset from another stamp.
An attractive and scarce item.
Price: £30.00
Early multiple usage of this stamp
153731.
Envelope, peripheral fault at top, from Manchester to Holland.
A franking of seven pence halfpenny is with a pair and a single, SG201.
The pair is very fine, the single trimmed.
The duplex cancellation has a date of February 22nd 1887.
This ‘Jubilee’ stamp was issued on January 1st 1887.
As specialist collectors and dealers in the ‘Jubilee’ issue over a number of decades,
survivors of any value from this issue used in January or February 1887 are very difficult to find.
The few that do appear are on stamp alone not on cover.
Covers from this period are seldom found and a multiple on cover is rare.
The item offered here is the earliest multiple franking on cover of the 2d1/2d we have seen.
Price: £45.00
Block of 10 used in Ireland
153412
Twopence halfpenny, SG201, used block of ten, in a shade close to or at Deep Purple,
cancelled by ADARE Co Limerick date stamps for November 28th 1891.
The left hand vertical pair have a crease as in the scan.
This value is rarely found in used blocks larger than four
so a block of ten, especially used in Ireland, is rare.
An attractive display item.
Price: £40.00
SG206 used marginal group
153413.
A rare marginal grouping of SG206 in their original shade.
Some faults but an attractive base for further expansion.
Would make an interesting display page.
Price: £45.00
NB: the top left item has faint marks in the margin but far less pronounced than the scan suggests.
5d Die 1 clear profiles
153797.
5d Die 1, SG207: a very fine used pair both stamps with partial cds’s
which leave both with a clear profile and most of QV’s head.
Gibbons prices a single 5d Die 1 at £120.
Price: £45.00
1/- 'SG214': a puzzling forgery and unique?
153419
1/- 'SG214': an apparently used example with gross misperfing.
However, under a glass the image is fuzzy and has many small black dots.
But the London cancellation for July 16th 1900 appears genuine
and the stamp is printed on CROWN Watermark paper as in the scan.
We have over a number of decades dealt in, and collected, the 'Jubillee' issue
and have never seen such an item as offered here.
We have sold examples of SG214 in the same shade as the item here.
The forgery on correctly watermarked paper is a rarity in itself.
The provenance is unknown of this unique item.
Offered as is.
Price: £58.00
2d SG070 and 070b with an unlisted shade of the value tablet.
153209.
2d SG070, Block of 6 and a single tied to a piece by a DUBLIN parcel cancellation.
The single 2d is damaged at the right; the block of six is fine but the top left stamp has a very small fault in the top margin.
The central top stamp has the listed variety SG070b, ‘Dot to left of T’ and priced by Gibbons at £125.
A single SG070 priced at £50 and an estimate for a block of four is £225 without the variety,
hence £335 pro rata for a block of 6 without the variety.
The 2d value tablet has been printed in the scarce scarlet shade:
Gibbons only list SG070 in green and carmine.
A very unusual multiple especially with the variety and in the scarlet shade.
We can not recall seeing a used block of this Govt Parcels with this variety.
A very rare item.
Price: £125.00
Very early usage: January 1887
153202.
Two pence halfpenny, SG 201, tied to a commercial entire, dated January 18th 1887,
from London to Turin, by a lightly struck but visible London cds, for this same date.
This ‘Jubilee’ stamp was issued on January 1st 1887
and the example offered here is the earliest we have seen,
or been able to offer, on cover.
Rare item.
£45.00
NB: the browning at the top of the entire is a trick of the scanner.
It is almost as white as the lower section.
10d SG210 interpane blocks
153184.
10d SG210: an attractive and very scarce marginal used pair.
Lightly cancelled with a registered oval, clear head and profile: date unclear.
Interpane blocks at the left.
Some wrinkling/light creasing bottom right corner of the bottom stamp not visible from the front.
Very scarce to find used multiples with the interpane blocks.
Price: £38.00
A rare used example of the only plate variety on this stamp
153132.
1/- SG214: a used example showing the variety ‘Frame broken at left, Row 19/1’, SG Spec K41b.
The Portsmouth parcel cancel is well clear of this rare variety which is the only known plate variety on this stamp.
The green is fine and better than in the scan.
There is some creasing and a few very small brown marks.
The green has maintained its colour by the reverse retaining some of the original paper to which it was affixed.
Only the third used example of this variety we have been able to offer.
Priced and illustrated by Gibbons in the latest QV Specialised Catalogue ie 2011 Edition, at £350
and much undervalued in our experience.
A very
collectable example which shows the variety superbly.
Price: £80.00
3d printed on ORANGE paper, SG204, registered Notice of Objection
153067.
3d SG204
A very fine example of this rare stamp tied by a fine duplex of Cambridge, August 19 1892,
to a registered printed ‘Notice of Objection’ to Sutton, Ely.
The 3d is for a registration fee of 2d and a 1d postal charge.
The scan does not do justice to the orange paper of this rare printing.
This is only the third example we have been able to offer of this rare stamp on cover
and the only usage we have seen on a Notice of Objection.
There are a few small peripheral faults
and a light paper crease near the top which is clear of the stamp.
Gibbons prices a mounted mint SG204 at £800 and unmounted at £1,300.
This stamp on cover is rarer than either mint or unmounted mint examples.
A very rare item of Exhibition quality.
Price: £635.00
NB: It is offered with an example of SG203, printed on yellow paper,
and cancelled by a Barnstable cds for December 29th 1893.
Used on the Day of Issue
152901.
1/2d SG213: a fine example used on the Day of Issue, April 17th 1900.
This is the first example, not on cover, we have been able to offer.
Examples on cover we have sold for four figures.
An opportunity to have the First Day of Issue of this stamp in your collection
at a fraction of an on-cover price.
A rare item.
Price: £62.00
A colourful franking to New Zealand
152843.
1/- SG211, 5d SG207a and 1/2d SG197:
each fine/very fine and tied to a part postcard by a very fine strike
of a Fancy Geometric Type of squared circle, London E C, for November 13th 1896.
On the reverse is an adress in Auckland, New Zealand
with a part Auckland receiver for December 21st (1896).
A scarce cancellation and a scarce destination.
An attractive item.
Price: £47.00
Superb unmounted mint block of SG198.
152851.
Three halfpence SG198:
superb unmounted mint top marginal block of four
in Post Office fresh condition.
Price: £68.00
SG201: superb unmounted mint block
152850.
Twopence halfpenny SG201:
superb unmounted mint side marginal block of four
in Post Office fresh condition.
Printed in a shade close to that of deep purple.
The side margin allows the blue paper to be seen to advantage.
A very attractive item.
Price: £68.00
NB: the scan does not do justce to the shade.
A Front to Algiers 1887
152815.
Two pence halfpenny, SG 201, tied to a fine Front of the Whitaker's Almanack advertising Mulready caricature.
The stamp is tied by a squared circle of ENFIELD for October 14th 1887.
The destination, Algiers, makes this a rare item.
Price: £75.00
NB:
The apparent brown areas are a trick of the scanner
except for a few which are far fainter than the scan suggests.
2d SG199 on a redirected registered envelope.
152809.
A clean and uncreased registered envelope from London to Plymouth.
The 1d postage has been paid by a fine 1d lilac Die 2 and the Registration fee by a very fine ‘jubilee’ 2d SG199:
the value tablet in a scarlet shade.
Each has been cancelled by a South Western District Office cds for December 15th 1899.
There is a Registered S.W.D.O oval for December 15th 1899 applied next to, but not overlapping, the cds SWDO date stamp.
On receipt in Plymouth, the envelope has been readdressed to Babbicombe, Torquay and a very fine 3d, SG202,
affixed to pay the postage and registration fee: it is tied by a very fine Registered Plymouth oval for December 18th 1899.
On the reverse are six transit date stamps and, remarkably, none overlap.
The Plymouth receiver cds is for December 16th 1899; the Plymouth Registered oval is for December 18th 1899
as is the Torquay Registered oval and the Babbicombe receiver.
There is no date for December 17th 1899 as this was a Sunday.
An attractive and rare item with well struck date stamps none of which overlap on the front or the back.
It would make a very fine Exhibition/display page.
Price: £285.00
NB:
SG199 is priced by Gibbons at £260 used on a stamp not on cover and a cover price, for the less scarce SG202/203,
at more than five times the used price.
Hence an estimated Gibbons price for SG199 on cover is in excess of £1,300 and that is without
the 50% premium for the very fine cds cancellation.
The shade of the value tablet is characteristic of the SG199 from printings in the latter part of the 1890’s
and tends to be more ‘vermilion’ than that of the early printings that resulted
in SG199 examples.
The scan does not do justice to the shades of this
SG199
item and the envelope is cleaner than the scans.
The Alice in Wonderland Postage - Stamp - Case Invented by Lewis Carroll
152758.
When originally sold, the contents were contained within a brown printed envelope:
very flimsy which was originally torn probably when opening in a hurry to take out the contents.
The periphery has suffered but it did its job in protecting the contents as you will see from the scans.
At least it
survived and is very
rare: the first we have seen.
The contents
are:
A Postage – Stamp-- Case with its own enclosure and a small 39 page booklet entitled ‘Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing’ by Lewis Carroll.
The Postage-Stamp Case has on the front a superb coloured picture of Alice nursing the Duchess’s Baby.
Carroll comments in the booklet on Letter Writing: ‘This picture of Alice is an entirely new combination as it does not occur in the book.
When the enclosure is suddenly pulled out the Baby has turned into a Pig! If that doesn’t surprise you,
why, I suppose you wouldn’t be surprised if your own Mother-in-Law suddenly turned into a Gyroscope!’
He goes on to write ‘the Case is not intended to carry about in your pocket.
People seldom want any other stamps than Penny-Stamps for letters, Sixpenny Stamps for telegrams and
a bit of
stamp-edging for cut fingers – it makes capital sticking plaster and will stand
three or four washings, cautiously conducted’.
On the reverse
of the case is a coloured picture of the smiling Cheshire cat sat in a tree.
The enclosure when opened out has pockets, that according to Lewis Carroll, can hold six stamps each comfortably, with the denominations from 1/2d to a 1/-.
With the exception of the 1d pocket, which was for the 1d lilac, the other pockets would have taken the then current Jubilee Issue values.
Carroll further writes in the booklet: ‘What made me invent it was constantly wanting stamps of other values, than the 1d, for foreign letters, Parcel Posts etc.
Since I have possessed a ‘Wonderland Stamp Case’, life has been bright and peaceful'.
I believe the
Queen’s (Victoria) laundress uses no other.
According to my experience, the 5d, 9d and 1s stamps are hardly ever
wanted’.
The condition of the Stamp Case and the enclosure with the stamp pockets and the Booklet on Letter Writing is excellent .
As said, the
brown envelope did its job protecting them and despite its faults is a
very
rare survivor: this is the only one we have seen.
It is interesting to reflect that Lewis Carroll would have kept his Jubilee Issue stamps in such a Stamp Case.
I do not know if
his Stamp Case survived and was amongst his belongings now in various museums.
A fascinating and rare item especially in such complete and fine condition with the brown envelope
and one that would make an interesting and memorable Display.
Price: £375.00
NB: the browning on the Letter Writing Booklet is an effect of the scanner and is not present.
One wonders if his
Dundee Registered to Aachen
152753.
A fine twopence halfpenny stationery envelope from DUNDEE to Aachen.
Registered to Germany, the additional postage paid by a fine 2d ‘Jubilee’, SG200,
and tied by a fine, and scarce, Dundee Registered oval for December 18th 1893.
This mark is also neatly struck on the reverse and a superb Aachen receiving date stamp, December 21st 1893.
A very attractive item with none of the cancellations overlapping and displays superbly.
Price: £48.00
Rgistered envelope to Switzerland
152752.
A very fine registered envelope from BRADFORD, Yorks, to Switzerland, September 14th 1892.
The twopence halfpenny postage and 2d registration fee paid by a
very fine right side marginal ‘Jubilee’, 2d SG200 and a fine twopence halfpenny SG201.
The stamps placed Contrary to Post Office Regulations at the top left, missed the Bradford Registered oval cancellation
and were subsequently cancelled, and tied by the ‘R’ in black, with a second off the stamps.
This is the first registered item we have been able to offer cancelled in this way.
A very scarce and attractive item.
Price: £55.00
1/2d SG197: INVERTED Watermark
152513.
1/2d SG197, fine lightly used, very small wrinkle at the base,
with Watermark INVERTED, SG197Wi.
A rare stamp used and grossly underpriced by Gibbons at £60.
Price: £66.50
Hartlepool to Japan and redirected locations over almost a year
151950.
Two pence halfpenny, SG 201, envelope
from Hartlepool to
A remarkable amount of redirection, including to India, for this letter as it followed
Mr Gill, Second Engineer to his various ports of call over an almost 12 month period!!
One wonders if he ever did receive it:
let us hope so after such effort by the various postal administrations.
A very fine, rare and memorable display item.
A remarkable and much-travelled survivor.
Price: £145.00
NB: in better condition than the scan and very fine considering its travels!
There is information on the internet re SS Albion, a Cargo Vessel, built in 1892.
She sank in 1908 and details are again on the internet.
From the redirection date stamps it could be possible to track the route of SS Albion
1/2d SG197: INVERTED WATERMARK Block of FORTY
152372.
1/2d SG197Wi: an irregular unmounted mint marginal block of FORTY with INVERTED watermark,
There is some light overall toning, much less than in the scan, and some perfs slightly overlap
on some stamps in the horizontal row next to the marginal fold as per the scan.
In the early 1990’s, the last complete sheet of the 1/2d SG197 with inverted watermark
was reported to have been broken up.
The item offered here was acquired in 1993/4 and is from that sheet.
From our researches it is the largest known block extant with inverted watermark and
with the exception of a control block of 48 of the 1d lilac with inverted watermark, which we also recently acquired,
there is no larger known block of any QV stamp with inverted watermark.
A remarkable, and important, Exhibition item.
Price:
£1,775.00
The item is offered at less than half the Gibbons price
as singles.
4d: strong original colours
152369. 4d SG205:
very fine/superb used block of 4 with the green in its original colour, small corner crease bottom left.
The scan does NOT do justice to the green shade.
Light cds cancels for April 30th 1898 leaving two stamps with clear QV profiles/head.
It has a very clean back and is well centred.
This stamp off cover is very difficult to find in such a fine condition and especially so in a block.
Gibbons prices a used block of 4 at £90 plus 50% for the cds cancellations well centred.
A rare multiple in this condition and from our experience underpriced by Gibbons.
Price: £55.00
Fourpence halfpenny: unmounted mint Pane of 20 from Pane G
152321. Fourpence halfpenny SG206, a complete unmounted mint pane of 20 with margins.
Some 3/4 stamps have light gum creases and the rest are fine.
The colours of both the head plate and duty plate are in the original shade and NOT as the scan suggests.
The gum is NOT brownish as again the scan suggests.
On the reverse is a small offprint from another sheet of similar stamps caused when the Mill Sheet
from which this pane was printed was put on top of another when the ink was not fully dry.
In the bottom left corner margin is a small watermark cross and on the right hand bottom margin a red coured dot.
These features confirm that this pane of 20 comes from the bottom left of the Mill Sheet of 16 panes of 20 ie from PANE G.
There is some marginal thinning in the top margin as per the scan but not affecting the stamps.
An attractive item with the enhanced feature of being able to know its position on the Mill Sheet.
Price: £145.00 SOLD
NB: the condition of this item is in finer condition than the scan suggests.
SG206a with Certificate
152215.
Fourpence halfpenny, SG206a, Green and Deep Bright Carmine:
with a light cds, July 1895, and tied to a small piece.
Priced by Gibbons at £650 before the 50% premium for so lightly cancelled is added.
Offered with a clean PEGB Certificate confirming the shade.
The light cancel allows the carmine shade to be seen to advantage
and not having been soaked off has helped preserved the shades.
Price: £335.00
NB: the scan does not do justice to the shade
ARMY OFFICIAL: unmounted mint block of 24
152362. 1/2d SG197 overprinted ARMY OFFICIAL, SG041:
a very fine unmounted mint block of 24 from the bottom left corner of the Post Office sheet.
Two stamps, Row 18, (11 and 12), have some creasing with the rest in very fine condition.
Over the years this stamp has become scarce in mint blocks greater than four,
and this is one of the largest, and the finest, we have been able to offer.
Gibbons prices a mint block of 4 at £40.
An attractive and rare/very scarce item especially in such fine condition.
Price:
£150.00
10d SG210 a USED Pane of 20
152228. 10d SG210 a superb used full pane of 20 with margins.
Cancelled by superb upright Guernsey, Gibbons G56, parcel post sans –serif strikes all neatly applied.
There is a large watermark cross in the bottom right corner: indicating that the pane is from
the left half of
the Mill Sheet and from a Pane ‘D’ position on the issued Post Office sheet of
four panes of 20.
The arrangement of the interpane pillars shows those of the Second Marginal Setting.
The purple rules cut away at the corners are rounded showing the printing is from for Head Plate 1:
in Head Plate 2 the rules are cut sharply on the diagonal.
There is apparently a date cut in the purple rule at the right which we have never seen on this 10d value mint or used.
There is no
mention of any such
breaks in the Jubilee line in the ‘De La
Rue Years’ by Wiseman.
The colours of the purple and carmine are excellent and the purple is as deep as we have seen on any mint examples.
As per the scan of the reverse side, a few perfs have been strengthened with small hinges.
That so few perfs have been strengthened, bearing in mind the pane has been removed from its original parcel, is remarkable.
There is a light
horizontal crease/wrinkling on Row 3.
Only four complete used panes that are known to exist and all used in Guernsey with this same parcel post cancellation.
We have seen each and sold one of them some time ago but its condition was nowhere near as fine as this one.
The pane of 20
offered here is by far the finest of those extant and the only one with such
clear upright Guernsey strikes.
A
truly exceptional item and considerably rarer than mint panes from Setting 2.
A very attractive and memorable item of Exhibition importance.
Price:
£1,675.00
T
Jubilee Issue on envelope to Paris from the 1890 July 2nd Exhibition
152113. 1/2d SG197 and 2d SG200( fault bottom left corner), on a very clean envelope to PARIS from the Exhibition.
The stamps tied by the special Exhibition cancellation: the Calais transit cds for July 3rd 1890 has been
considerately applied between the Exhibition cancellations. On the reverse is a Paris Distribution cds for this same date.
An attractive item and scarce to an overseas destination from this Exhibition.
Price: £67.50 SOLD
NB: the 2d is close to or at SG199; the scan does not do justice to the very fine green colour.
1/- SG211: block of 4 and a pair
151979. 1/- SG211: a partially severed block of four and a pair
attached to a small piece of a linen envelope, some light wrinkling and overlapping of perfs.
Cancelled by six Glasgow cds’s for October 23rd 1890.
Very fine colour and priced by Gibbons for a block of four and two singles at £560
which increases to £840 when the cds premium is added.
Price: £85.00
NB: the green colour is very fine which the scan does not show.
5d Die 1
151951. 1887 5d Die 1 SG 207: fine used
block of 4,
Very scarce stamp in a block, and
priced by Gibbons at £260 including premium for cds cancels.
Price: £78.00
SG213 Block of 9: largest known block used on the DAY of ISSUE
151949. 1/2d SG213, superb used BLOCK of 9, tied to a registered envelope from London to Budapest.
The registration fee of 2d and the ordinary postage of 2 1/2d, paid by a superb block of nine 1/2d green
and tied by Charing Cross Registered Ovals for APRIL 17 1900 – the DAY OF ISSUE.
On the reverse is another Charing Cross Registered April 17 1900 date stamp
and a Budapest arrival cds for April 20 1900.
The largest multiple of this value we have previously seen, used on its Day of Issue, is a marginal pair
which we sold in 1986 on a cover to New Zealand and
a block of 4 that we saw in an International Exhibition in 1995: the latter was not on cover.
In the 2017 Booth FDC Catalogue, a single on cover with a First Day cds is priced at £1,800.
A single example on a postcard, used locally within London,
sold inclusive of the Buyers Premium for £1,426 at a London sale in October 2017.
A considerable rarity and the largest block extant of SG213,
or any other Jubilee value, used on its Day of Issue.
It would make a truly memorable Exhibition item.
Price: £2,985.00 SOLD
NB: from our researches, we can find only one larger multiple of ANY QV value used on its Day of Issue:
the well known block of ten 1d blacks used on May 6th 1840.
The browning effects on the front are a trick of the scanner and the browning on the reverse is much paler than in the scan
Deep grey-green printing: rare used block of 6
151482. 2d SG200, superb block of SIX, tied to piece by
a Registered Cannon Street BO oval for August 29th 1896 with 1/2d SG197.
The 2d's are printed in the scarce deep-grey green shade, SG SpecK30(4).
Gibbons prices a used block of 4 in this shade at £170 and
with the lightly used premium of 50%, at £255. Pro rata for a block of 6, the figure is £380.
This is the finest and largest used block of this scarce shade we have seen.
Price: £95.00 SOLD
NB; the scan does not do justice to the shades or condition.
Very Rare Money Office: no number in diamond in oval of bars
151501. 6d SG208, three pairs and three single on piece:
each stamp cancelled by the 'diamond in oval - no number' variety,
Parmenter, 'Barred Numerals of London', Page 294, the Money Order Office, London.
Each stamp has also been pen cancelled over the oval in bars.
Parmenter gives this cancellation the highest rarity 'H' grading: very few exist,
and notes that it has been recorded on stamp only.
A remarkable and extremely rare item that is likely to be unique with
a multiple usage in this size.
Price: £225.00
NB: we have seen only one other multiple of the 6d used with this
cancellation and vertical pen line and that in a block of 4.
Block of 12: Liverpool Roller.
151499. SG197, fine/very fine used Block of 12:
cancelled by neatly applied three lines of the LIVERPOOL roller canceller used on parcels.
Very clean reverse with two stamps very light wrinkles.
Attractive and scarce so fine in this size of multiple and with NO perf separation.
Price: £55.00
Block of 12: Hackney Parcel.
151500. SG213, superb used Block of 12, HACKNEY, London, double ring cancellation used on parcels.
Extremely clean reverse with two small hinge remnants and NO perf separation.
A superb deep colour.
Very scarce/rare so fine in such a large block.
Price: £46.00
Hand illustrated envelope with contents
151661. Envelope, trimmed very slightly at the base, used locally within Leeds,
two 1/2d SG197, tied Leeds duplex, July 23rd 1895.
Fine hand drawn sketch on the front of the envelope - roughly opened on the reverse top flap.
Contents are a printed letter from the Yorkshire Union of Institues and Yorkshire Village LIbrary.
The letter also has, after 'Yours truly', a sketch of the sender, Frank Curzon, instead of his signature.
From our researches, we are aware of one other of his letters, not hand illustrated, also 'signed' in this way.
The sketch has incorporated two Jubilee issue stamps.
In finer condition than the scan.
An unusual item.
Price: £90.00 SOLD
NB: we can not recall seeing a letter signed with a drawing of the sender.
9d SG209
151870. 9d SG209, superb unmounted mint left side marginal example
in Post Office fresh condition.
Price £60.00
4d SG205a with INVERTED WATERMARK
151875. 4d SG205a, used example with only a trace of cancellation at the top.
A damaged top corner but it has INVERTED watermark.
Priced by Gibbons at £650 and at £975 with the 50% premium for so lightly cancelled.
There is a small paper adhesion bottom left and an area on the front
where it might have been hinged for displaying the reverse.
The green is slightly pale but a collectable example of a
rarely offered watermark variety.
Price: £95.00
NB: the green of the head
plate is
much greener than the scan.
British Levant: used in BEYROUT
151817. SG5 5d Die 2, overprinted 80 paras, superb/very fine used block of 4 cancelled virtually by
a single central BEYROUT Britsh Post Office hooded circle date stamp for August 1 (18)98.
Parmenter in 'GB Used Abroad' records this cancellation in use to February 1906.
Very attractive and very scarce in such superb condition.
Price: £46.00 SOLD
Oil Rivers Niger coast Protectorate
151818.
Niger Coast Protectorate
Oil Rivers:
SG5, 5d Die 2,
superb
unmounted mint block of 4.
Because of the climate on the Niger Coast, these overprinted
‘Jubilee’ issue stamps were sent from Britain between blotting paper.
Consequently, mint stamps often have reddish fibres on the gum from the blotting paper.
There is some slight evidence of this on the reverse.
In the Gibbons ‘Great Britain Numbers Issued1840-1910’ by Rikki Hyde,
the number of the Oil Rivers Protectorate overprints is given.
For the 5d only 33,540 were printed.
A superb item.
Price: £100.00 SOLD
2d Value Tablet in the INTENSE CARMINE SHADE
151609a. 2d SG 200 in the Intense Carmine Shade:
a truly superb and exceptional unmounted mint marginal block of 12, printed
in the deepest intense carmine shade we have seen
in more than 40 years of specialising in the 'Jubilee' issue.
The broken marginal rules, of the third and final marginal setting, show the colour to advantage.
This distinctive and known colour variety is as yet unpriced by Gibbons
even though they occasionally offer mint examples for sale.
From our considerable experience of the 'Jubilee' issue, we can say with certainty that
this shade is significantly scarcer than the listed Green and Scarlet, SG199,
priced by Gibbons at £550 for an unmounted mint single stamp.
This is the second largest known block in this rare shade that we have seen:
we sold the largest known block, one of 15, in 1996.
A fabulous item for which the scan does not do justice to the shades.
Price: £1,585.00
NB: the green is much stronger than the scan and is in its original colour.
Penny Letter Card: second day of usage
151750. 1d Letter Card pale carmine printed on pastel blue card:
superb complete example, no message inside, sent from London to Antwerp.
The two pence halfpenny postage made up with a 1d lilac and a Jubilee 1/2d SG197.
All cancelled by very fine London E C scrolls for FEBRUARY 12th 1892 - the SECOND DAY of issue.
First Day of Issue examples sell for up to £2,000.
Booths Catalogue, 2017 Edition, prices a FDI at £2,150.
A rare item especially in such superb, and complete, condition.
Price: £275.00 SOLD
NB. The scan does not show the pastel blue colour at all well.
The earliest usage of a Jubilee issue stamp we have seen on this Letter Card.
1/- SG214: superb unmounted mint
151738. 1/- SG214:
superb unmounted mint vertical pair in Post Office issued condition.
The scan does not do justice to the superb fresh original colours.
Price: £120.00
4d from bottom right corner of the Mill Sheet
151272. 4d, SG 205, very fine block of 6, 5 stamps UNMOUNTED,
and the sixth very very lightly mounted.
Couple of light gum wrinkles but an attractive corner marginal positional piece.
The small cross in the bottom left corner indicates that this block was
from the pane 'H' position on the bottom right corner of the Mill Sheet.
Price: £220.00
The next FOUR items all show examples of Jubilee issue values in unusual combinations
with earlier issues eg line engraved and surface printed.
Two different 1d Fiscals with 1/2d on a Registered Envelope
151576. 2d embossed envelope: very fine and registered from London to Germany, April 17th 1893.
The additional twopence halfpenny postage fee paid with a 1/2d SG197 and two different 1d fiscal stamps:
1d SG F19 (issued initially in 1868) and 1d SG F22 (issued initially in 1878) tied with Registered WCDO cds's.
F19 priced by Gibbons on cover at £140 and F22 at £120 - priced in the latest, 2011, Edition of QV Volume 1.
A rare usage of two different fiscal issues.
An attractive and rare item.
Price: £125.00
First Day of usage: Edward 7th 1/2d and 1d on Victorian Envelope
151538. KEV11, two 1/2d's and 1d used on a fine Registered item sent within London, January 1st 1902 - the Day of Issue.
Used in combination with the 1/2d SG213 that was being replaced.
Unusually a label issued to commemorate Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 also attached.
Attractive and scarce item.
Price: £275.00
Very Late Usage 1d SG40 in 1890
151376. Registered envelope from London to New York City, March 17th 1890 (St Patrick's Day):
the 2d registration fee and the two pence halfpenny postage charge paid by a 1/2d SG197 and
TWO pairs of 1d SG 40, originally a block of 4, 'HH-II'.
SG40 issued in 1857 so a very late usage of this stamp.
'II' perfs damaged on the letter being opened, overlapped onto the back of the envelope,
and 'HI' crossed by a registered blue crayon but 'HH-IH' are very fine.
Registered SMP (London) ovals for March 17th 1890.
The latest usage of 1d SG40 on registered mail we have seen.
Rare item which displays well.
Price: £145.00
Late usages on Registered Envelope to Germany.
151467. February 2nd 1891: 2d SG200 used with 1d red imperf, 1d plate 160 and 2d SG168
on One Penny embossed envelope, Registered to Germany.
Small part of top flap removed but late usages
of SG8, SG 43 and SG168.
Some faults but a rare example of a late usage of
line engraved, surface printed and with a current Jubilee issue stamp.
Price: £185.00
NB: envelope in better condition than the scan.
An attractive and very scarce/rare combination
151301. 2/6d SG178 together with a pair of 10d SG210:
fine used and tied to piece by the Lombard Street LS/6 duplex
for October 6th 1893, rated uncommon by Parmenter.
The 2/6 has a very small corner wrinkle/crease bottom left corner.
A very scarce/rare combination especially so on an original piece.
Price: £70.00 SOLD
Rare combination
151356. 5/- SG181, fine used with 5d Die 2 SG207a:
the latter with some light wrinkling/creasing.
Tied to piece by the Lombard Street squared circle for October 3rd 1897.
The 5/- is in a superb and very deep shade.
Very scarce/rare combination.
Price: £79.50
NB: the scan does not do justice to the shade of the 5/-.
The unique block with DUBLIN CITY perfin: top row is INVERTED
151669. 1/2d SG213 a fine/very fine used block of SIXTEEN,
a few stamps with light creases/wrinkles, tied to a piece by
Dame Street DUBLIN cds's for 27th September 1901.
Each stamp perfinned by the distinctive and scarce CITY of DUBLIN Arms design
illustrated in 'The Handbook of British Perfins' by Nelson.
There is no separation of the perfs horizontally between the rows.
The top row has the perfins INVERTED the bottom row are UPRIGHT:
this may have occured because a sheet or large block of stamps
was folded in two before the perfinning of the stamps.
Examination of the horizontal join of this block does show evidence that it was folded along this join.
The last time we were able to offer an example of this City of Dublin perfin was in 2001.
This was on a single used 1d lilac: the perfin was upright and it sold for £18.
A very rare item indeed which is likely to be unique.
Price: £285.00
NB: the item is finer than the scan suggests.
SG198 IMPRIMATUR
151388. SG198, IMPRIMATUR:
very fine lightly mounted mint with full margins:
the scan does not show the very fine green of the Duty Plate.
The Duty Plate in the definitive condition before any wear and tear.
Priced by Gibbons at £725 in their latest, 2011, Edition of QV Volume 1.
A rare example in such fine condition.
Price: £435.00
SG198: Deformed Leaf Variety, Spec K29e, and pre-repair states
151657. SG198, three halfpence, five mounted mint examples, some creasing, gum creases and hinge remains.
The first example shows the duty plate in fine condition without wear:
the second, third and fourth examples, show wear around the leaves and damage to berries at the left side.
These are pre-repair states of the well-known variety: Spec K29e 'Deformed leaf, Duty Plate 4, Row 19/1'.
The wear was such that the first leaf above the Duty Tablet at the left was, very badly, redrawn,
and a number of the leaves at the left were strengthened.
The fifth stamp, with brownish gum, shows this variety, Spec K29e,
which Gibbons prices at £800 in the latest Edition, 2011, of QV Volume 1.
The pre-repair state examples are rare and the first we have seen.
A very rare grouping.
SOLD
NB: the enlarged image of K29e is from a mint block we previously sold.
Major Retouch: Spec M8d
151668. SG211, fine/very fine used with a Windsor cds for April 14th 1903.
The stamp shows the listed variety, Spec M8d:
'Retouch left of value tablet and around large figure '1', Plate 4, Row 10 stamp 2'.
The example here shows enormous wear/damage to the retouched area of the duty tablet;
the most extensive we have seen and also shows the 'falling leaf' variety to the left of the tablet.
This variety bears witness to the decline in De La Rue's standards.
Forcing the plates until printing was not just poor but impossibe, meant stamps appeared which defeated
the careful work put into ensuring they were perfect when accepted by the authorities, ie when proofed.
Duty Plate 4 was eventually destroyed on June 28th 1904.
This variety is unpriced used by Gibbons in the latest, 2015 Edition, Volume 2,
'King Edward V11 to George V1' but at £350 for mounted mint.
SOLD
INVERTED Watermark
151647. Corner block of Six, SG197, with INVERTED Watermark.
Very fresh and lightly mounted on the top right stamp, the rest are unmounted.
Some diagonal creasing affects two of the bottom stamps as seen in the scan.
A very scarce positional block with this watermark variety.
Price: £220.00
INVERTED Watermark
151648. A superb unmounted mint block in Post Office fresh condition.
Very scarce/rare to find blocks in this condition.
Gibbons prices a single unmounted mint at £90:
no price is quoted for a block of four.
Price: £225.00
Double Frame Line variety
151645. 2d SG200, mounted mint pair:
very faint age marks affecting a few top perfs but more obvious on the reverse.
The right hand stamp is a superb example of the listed variety,
Spec K30b, 'Double Frame Line at Left, Head Plate 5, Row 20/12'.
Not very clear in the scan, but the doubling of the frame line runs fully from top to bottom.
Priced as mounted mint by Gibbons in the latest edition, 2011, QV Volume 1, at £325.
Price: £145.00
2d Green and Scarlet
151646. 2d SG199, fine unmounted mint block of 4: blunt corner perfs top two stamps.
From the colour of the Duty Tablet this block is possibly from the earlier printings of this value.
The bottom pair are very fine.
Priced by Gibbons at £550 for an unmounted mint SINGLE in this shade.
From the shade of the value tablet, this block is from the early printings in 1887.
Price: £650.00
NB: the scan does not do justice to the colours.
DEEP INTENSE CARMINE
151644. 2d SG200, a very fine unmounted mint block of 4:
the top right stamp has a small preprinting paper crease near the top
and some offsetting from another stamp.
The Duty Tablet has been printed in an INTENSE CARMINE SHADE
and the ink is almost suffusing through the paper as seen in the scan.
Unlisted by Gibbons but offered for sale by them on occasion.
The deep intensity of the carmine is such that it could well come
from the same printing and sheet as the unmounted block of 12, Item 151609a.
Scroll up to view it.
Price: £435.00
NB: the scan does not do justice to the shades.
Unique multiple usage: November 1911.
151577. Large envelope, 31.5cm by 13cm, used locally in BRIGHTON, November 23rd 1911 with Brighton cds's on the reverse.
The 8d franking is made up of a 1d SG166, a 1/2d SG 187, the entire top row of 12 of 1/2d SG213
and a single from the interpane area of the sheet with vertical pillars.
The 1d SG166 was issued on January 1st 1880 and replaced by the 1d lilac the following year.
The 1/2 SG187 was issued on April 1st 1884 and replaced by the 1/2d vermilion on January 1st 1887.
SG166 and SG187 were demonitized on June 1st 1901.
Although not demonitized until July 1st 1915, SG213 was replaced on January 1st 1902 by the KE 7th issue.
A remarkable and unique item in fine condition for its size.
A memorable Exhibition item!!
SOLD
Unofficial Adverising Ring on full cover.
151559. 1d pink envelope with an UNOFFICIAL advertising ring for
'Publishers of the Permanent Stamp Album Brighton'
with a 1d lilac and a 'Jubilee' 1/2d vermilion tied by the Preston Rd, Brighton duplex, May 29th 1891.
The envelope was sent to Rotterdam with a Rotterdam receiving cds on the reverse for May 30th 1891.
The envelope has been opened at the base not the top and has a small peripheral fault at the centre top.
This adverising ring is illustrated by Arundel in 'Advertising Rings'.
His listing for this one is 36.2, 'the 1d pink envelope with an Orange Ring'.
It is priced at £75 for a cut out example and he comments
that the price on cover for the scarcer ones,
of which this is one, is 4 to 10 times the cut out price.
A rare item and one of the few Unofficial examples
we have been able to offer on full cover.
Price: £280.00
NB: the brown mark at the top is not as pronounced as in the scan.
1/- SG211: the Earliest Known Usage
151563. 1/- green, SG211: a fine/very fine example in a
TRUE deep green shade which the scan does not show.
Tied to a small piece by a London EC scroll for JANUARY 2nd 1887.
This stamp was issued on January 1st 1887 and in 40 years of
specialising in the 'Jubilee' issue, this is the EARLIEST usage we have seen.
This is reflected in the Booth 2017 catalogue of FDC's which
does NOT quote for this stamp used on its day of issue.
A rarity.
SOLD
A franked stamp fraudulenty used
151337. Mourning envelope to London, 1d postage paid by two 'Jubilee' 1/2ds, SG197.
The left hand one has been lightly used previously and this is the
only instance we have seen of any 'Jubilee' issue being reused in this way.
It got through the system and cancelled by a very fine and scarce
Rock-Ferry Birkenhead square circle for June 16th 1892.
Price: £63.50
SG214: scarce block fine colour.
151540. SG214, fine/good used block of four:
some creasing/wrinkling but priced by Gibbons at £700.
The green is much deeper than in the scan.
Price: £60.00
5d SG207a: used on a Registered Wooden Box/Crate
151495. 5d SG207a (Die 2):
tied to part of a wooden case/box by a Registered Oval - date unclear.
Addressed to The Town Clerk, EXETER.
Remarkable item of which we have never previously seen the like
in more than 40 years specialising in this issue.
An interesting display item that would promote discussion!
Very rare/unique usage.
Price: £80.00