Lot n°
Symbol(s)
Estimate (£)
96 | Great Britain & British Empire
50334
CC
S.G. 469 var
1937-47 5d. brown block of six with doctor blade flaw, fine unmounted mint.
80 - 100
50335
CC F
S.G. 474a
1937-47 11d Plum group with single franking on cover to France, cover with India with 11d and 1d and
mint n.h. lower left corner pair with “spot in G” variety (SG. Q27c).
30 - 40
50336
CC P
S.G. 476-478c var
1939-48 Arms High Values 2s6d to £1 set of six imprimaturs, mint n.h., all side marginals, the £1 brown
perforated, each with “BPMA” handstamps on reverse, very fine and very rare.
5’000 - 8’000
50340
50337
50337
CC
S.G. 485a
1941-42 1/2d pale green mint n.h. imperforate pair from the left of the sheet, a very rare variety; cert.
Brandon (2022).
850 - 950
50338
DCE J
1946 album containing a most interesting correspondence between a collector and Harrison & Sons,
with the collector claiming to have discovered the KGVI 1d printed on the yellow paper of the postage
due issue, with the said stamp included in a block of four and single, then Harrison’s response after
their meeting that it is a chemically treated stamp, and with further experiments by the collector to dye
stamps or portions of stamps yellow.
70 - 100
50339
C F
1947 “CONGRES POSTAL UNIVERSEL À PARIS 1947/ TIMBRES-POSTE BRITANNIQUES” red
leatherette and gold tooled album including photographs of the inception of stamps and also showing
“current stamps” to 10/- and postal stationery items mounted on pages; scarce so fine and intact.
60 - 100
50340
A
S.G. 501 var
1949 6d. Universal Postal Union, a superb hand painted essay for the 1949 UPU set, erroneously dated
at foot “1874-1948”, finely executed on lined paper in grey wash, pencil and Chinese white, the central
vignette depicting the UPU building in Berne. An extraordinarily rare and unique essay.
600 - 800