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Commonwealth Collections

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1414		Great Britain, Postage Hoard, n.h., approx. £12,000 face value in commemoratives and definitives, singles and block and some booklets, good variety, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $5,000-6,000. View details	Realized $10,925
Lot 1415		/o/ Great Britain, Penny Plate Exhibit Balance, hundreds of used, mint (incl. several blocks) and covers mounted on pages or in stockbook, plate 71 to 225, noted interesting cancels incl. Azemar machine "A1" (7, incl. 1 on cover), Newspaper Bureau (2), re-entry and watermark inverted on plate 71 used, mint incl. block of 9 plate 81, block of 6 plate 111, block of 9 plate 125, block of 12 plate 129, block of 9 plate 137, "imprimatur" of plate 176 (rubbed on face), imprint blocks of 4 plate 193, 197 and 219, top left imprint pair plate 222, plate 225 on mourning cover (fault at right), Foreign destinations on covers incl. Italy, Guatemala, Malta, Germany, Poland, Canada, U.S., France, Mexico, India, Greece, lovely group to expand, Fine or better. Estimate $1,500-2,000. View details and photo	Realized $2,645
Lot 1416		Great Britain, Mail Carried on Cunard Line, 20 to U.S., various vessels, 1850s to 1900, on well annotated pages, numerous rates and markings, nice group, generally Fine. Estimate $800-1,200. View details and photo	Realized $920
Lot 1417		/o Great Britain, Collection on Homemade Pages, few hundred mint and used, starts with #1 (2 used), a group of #3 used incl. pairs and a strip of 3, some better unused early issues, later mostly mint with fresh colors incl. 111-122, 127-138, 187-200, GVI issues, few Offices, usual mixed condition 19th Century, otherwise Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details and photo	Realized $1,955
Lot 1418		/o Great Britain, Collection to 1995, couple thousand mint and used in 3 Lighthouse hingeless albums, classics used incl. #1 (4), 2, 4 (regummed), 96 (2), 108, later mix of used and mint, QEII generally n.h., lots of modern postage, mixed condition on 19th and early 20th Century, otherwise Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details and photo	Realized $1,438
Lot 1419		Great Britain, Postage Lot, approx. £3,400 face value in singles (commemoratives and definitives) in glassines plus shoe box of booklets incl prestige type, some of singles will be slightly stuck together, but are usually easily separated, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $900-1,500. View details	Realized $2,760
Lot 1420		/ Great Britain, Mostly Mint Collection, n.h. to l.h. in 2 Lighthouse hingeless albums, except for very few used, starting with Penny Reds and other classics, Scott #58 with most plates represented, scattered mint through EVII and GV, incl. 185-86 and 203-04, GVI 286-89, then QEII incl. 309-12, 317-33, and misc. sets to 1990, extensive representation of Machins, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $700-1,000. View details	Realized $863
Lot 1421		/o Great Britain, Mint and Used Accumulation, hundreds organized in stockbooks, on album pages and extra stockpages, classics used incl. #1 (5 copies), 109, Seahorses to 10/- values, modern mint, some modern booklets, inspect, generally Fine. Estimate $500-750. View details	Realized $661
Lot 1422		o Great Britain, Used Stock, 194 diff., mostly better singles on dealer sales pages, 1841 to 1939, plus a plating of Scott #20 (missing 7 positions), mixed condition. Scott $14,450 (Owner's). Estimate $600-800. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1423		Great Britain, Penny Plate Postal History, about 100, noted usages from Ireland and Scotland, lovely hand illustrated piece, destinations incl. India, U.S., Poland, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France, nice group, generally Fine. Estimate $500-750. View details and photo	Realized $633
Lot 1424		Great Britain, Channel Islands Collection to 2005, compl. n.h. in 2 Scott specialty albums (2 first issue Dues sets l.h.), Guernsey, Alderney, Isle of Man and Jersey, clean lot, Very Fine. Estimate $400-600. View details	Realized $518
Lot 1425		Great Britain, Channel Islands Collection, n.h., Isle of Man appears compl. in 2 White Ace albums to 1997, Jersey, Guernsey in well filled Lighthouse album to late 1980s, clean lot, Very Fine. Scott approximately $2,500 (Owner's). Estimate $350-500. View details	Realized $546
Lot 1426		/o/ Great Britain, Mint and Used 1970s to 1990s Collection, strength in decimal definitives, in 4 binders (2 are stockbooks used) on homemade pages, incl. booklets, FDs used with multiples, dupl., mostly identified to some degree, value in mint, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $374
Lot 1427		Great Britain, Postal History, Box of a couple hundred covers from stampless to 1960s, mostly before 1945, good range of material with a good showing of military, Fine. Estimate $250-350. View details	Realized $276
Lot 1428		o Great Britain, Penny Plate Used Accumulation, about 1500 sorted in stockbook by plate numbers, with dupl., only missing #71, 224 and 225, few scattered mint, excellent for cancels and study, generally Fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $311
Lot 1429		Great Britain, Military Maritime Mail, Collection of 40 WWI and WWII Naval covers with wide variety of franking and markings, generally Fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1430		o Great Britain, Penny Plate Foreign Usages, consists of "C61" (San Juan, P.R.) pair and strip of 4, "C" (Constantinople), "C83" (Rio de Janeiro), "A26" (Gibraltar) 4 copies, "F69" (Savanilla), "BO2" (Suez) block of 6, looks like "D27" (Amoy?), nice group, Fine. Estimate $150-200. View details and photo	Realized $431
Lot 1431		o Great Britain, Penny Plate "Underprints", 9 copies, consists of Oxford Union Society (5, incl. 1 on front), Great Eastern RR, J and C Boyd (2) and Copestake, Moore Crampton & Co., nice group, Fine. Estimate $150-200. View details and photo	Realized $150
Lot 1432		Great Britain, 1998 to 2005 Mint Collection, n.h., virtually compl. in Scott specialty album, high face, Very Fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $431
Lot 1433		/ Great Britain, Aerogramme Collection, over 100 mostly unused, stamped to order, POW, 1911 used flight postcard noted, inspect, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $322

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