Great Britain & British Empire 2025

Great Britain & British Empire December 8 & 9, 2025 at 10:00 CET

Lot n°

Symbol(s)

Estimate (£)

110 | Great Britain & British Empire

50404

CC C H F Collection 

1840-2000, in three albums nice personally mounted collection with some prephilatelic material, 1d

Mulready, nice classic stamps (2d Penny blue), complete sets, 80s/90s face value and more, high CV

and good overall quality.

300 - 500

50405

CC C H Collection 

1841-1988, in two Davo albums mint and used collection, mostly used before 1950, all mint ** MNH

after, some good classic stamps, very extensive modern part, high CV about £6000, fine condition.

600 - 1’000

50406

F 

1855-1900, accumulation of postal history in a small box, incl. plenty from Edinburgh with a range of

“131” duplexes at 1d rates so mostly 1881 1d lilacs (incl. die I 14 dots), OHMS printed covers, also

packet of fragments from similar source, many Dalkeith, mixed to fine (120+ covers), and 1862-71

group of 16 covers to France, mostly from London, at 3d or 4d rate, mixed condition

100 - 200

50407

C H Collection 

1864-1887, in a small stockbook accumulation of mint and used classic stamps with among others SG

n° 45 2d blue mint * (18), n°95 4d vermillion mint * (7), n° 102 3d rose mint * (9), n° 118 2s blue in pair

used, n° 126 5s rose used (10), n° 152 4d vermillion in pair used and many others, huge CV more than

£34’000, mixed condition with defects but many fine to very fine, must see.

1’000 - 2’000

50408

F 

1866-88 Bessie Rayner Parkes, one of the most prominent English feminists and campaigners for

women’s rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist, an interesting correspondence

of some thirty-six (36) covers and stationery envelopes addressed to Bessie Rayner Parkes and her

mother-in-law, an interesting historical lot (36)

150 - 200

50409

CC C H J F 

1881-1960s, Collection on album pages with 1887 Jubilee set to both 1s mint l.h., some multiples,

1881 1d lilacs including block of 60 with inverted ‘X’ in margin, 1883-84 creased top marginal 2s6d

mint n.h. plus some random later issues.

300 - 500

50410

F 

Hoster Cancellations: Finely displayed collection with covers and cards showing a variety of types

starting with type III 1885 2 1/2 d cover to Switzerland, type IVa with 1d stationery card to Germany,

type IVb 1d pink stationery card and 1d lilac cover, type VIb 1d stationery cards (2), type VIIa items

with some varieties within the cancel, type VIII 1d UPU card to Holland, type IX including 1d stationery

envelope to Karlsruhe, plus examples of Hoster modified date Die; good to fine condition

400 - 500

50411

H 

1902-13 group of used high values on Hagner, good, sound examples with 2s6d x 6 (incl. SG 316 with

Hatton Garden cds), 5s x 5 (incl. SG 318 with Jersey cds) and both 10s issues, each with Registered

oval cancel.

120 - 150

50412

A 

Harrisons and DLR artwork and printed samples including bank notes for National Bank of Congo, also

with internal DLR 1963 newspaper, Mercury Heads, etc. also with a greetings Telegram artist work

depicting Elephants, plus seven further issues telegrams mostly with messages; an unusual lot

500 - 800

50413

CC J 

1953-73 booklet collection of over 150 different on pages with a range of 2s types, 2s6d (11, incl F34),

4 x 3s9d, 5 each of 4s6d and 5s (incl H4 and H25) with ranges of the 1868-70 types. Also 6s QP32 and

19 from the Birds series, ranges of the 10p etc. Unusually, there are listed varieties throughout (2s6d

F58 2 1/2d with “Swan’s head” etc). A useful lot.

300 - 500

50414

CC C H Collection 

1980-2010, in a box hundreds of mint and used modern stamps, stockards, glassines, stockbook with

strong face value, also booklets and a Royal Wedding mint collection, item to sort, high CV and fine condition.

150 - 250