Great Britain & British Empire 2025

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

Lot n°

Symbol(s)

Estimate (£)

154 | Great Britain & British Empire

50608

C F P Collection 

Canada and New Foundland airmail collection including private airmails, incl. airmail covers and

vignettes with 1924 Laurentide imperf and rouletted vignettes, perforated red label on 1925 Trans

Canada Flight, Elliot-Fairchild air vignettes and cover, Jack v. Elliot Service vignettes and covers, Elliot

Fairchild, Patricia Airways, Western Canada Airways, Yukon Airways , Cherry red Airways and others,

nearly all with the vignette loose and also on cover; a fine lot with thirty covers.

2’000 - 3’000

Ceylon

50609

P 

1929 reprint proof of the 1857 Chalon issue with duty tablet erased, two examples with one in brown

and one in black, on wove paper affixed to card.

100 - 150

50610

P 

S.G. 20a

1851 5d chestnut with “Ormond Hill” cancelled handstamp, pos.1 from the block of six, very fine and

very rare, only 4 examples recorded of which one is in the Royal collection (illustrated by Jaffé in

“Cancelled by Perkins Bacon”); cert. RPS (2004) (S.G. £9’000).

Note: In 1861 Ormond Hill, nephew of Roland Hill, requested hat Perkins Bacon supply him with six

copies of each stamp they had printed. The printers took the precaution of obliterating them with a barred

oval handstamp with the word “CANCELLED”. The blocks of six were broken up and distributed among

the Hill family. When word of this became know, the printing contract was taken away from Perkins Bacon

and handed over to De La Rue.

6’000 - 8’000

50611

C 

S.G. 37

1861-64 2s dull blue, rough perf. 14-15½, a wonderfully fresh well centred example, with brilliant large

part OG, an exceptional example, rare so fine; cert. BPA (1985) (S.G. £800).

300 - 400

Collections

50612

H Collection

Chalon accumulation with imperf range including two 2d pairs and 1d strip of three plus single 2d

(2), 5d (2), 6d (4) and 1s, all with variable margins, 1857 1/2d mauve with part red company chop,

perforated issues with wmk Star values to 2s and some wmk Crown CC values; variable condition

400 - 500

50613

H Collection 

Telegraphs: Seldom-seen collection featuring India Telegraph stamps used in Ceylon together with

Ceylon Telegraph stamps presented as both separated and uncut sets with range of cancellations from

Anuradhapura, Batticaloa, Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, and Trincomalee, all

recorded in R. Lowe’s catalogue. A fine and rare opportunity to acquire a specialist-level assembly

(100+) illustrating the telegraphic postal history link between India and Ceylon.

400 - 500