Great Britain

including the Leathart collection of Queen Victoria Specimens

June 16, 2026 at 10:00 CET

Great Britain

Including the “Leathart” collection of Queen Victoria Specimens

Tuesday, June 16 & Wednesday, June 17, 2026 from 10:00 CET

Everness Hotel & Resort

Chavannes-de-Bogis, Vaud, Switzerland

Great Britain & British Empire

Including the “Leathart” collection of Queen Victoria Specimens

and Ireland with the “Bokhara” & the “Madigan” Collections

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Summer Auction Series

June 16-20, 2026

Discover a carefully curated selection of

world-class philately, broad in geography,

rich in material and high in philatelic value!

From seasoned collectors to new enthusiasts,

this auction series offers something for every

level of interest and ambition.

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• Canada, the “Anna” Pence Issue Postal History Collection

• Latin America, including Mexico and Argentina

• Asia, including Dan Walker’s Nandgaon, the “Hamburg” Collection and Tibet, India, Indian States, Nepal,

Afghanistan and China

• Great Britain & British Empire, including the “Leathart” collection of Queen Victoria Specimens and Ireland

with the “Bokhara” & the “Madigan” Collections

• France & French Colonies, with some exceptional French classics and the French Expeditionary Corps in

Mexico (1861–1867) Collection formed by Alain Vernot

• Europe, Overseas & All World Collections, with important sections of Greece and Italian States

The

TOMASINI COLLECTIONS

Lot 20046 – Sold for £622’500.

Lot 30157 – Sold for CHF 44’820

Lot 20142 – Sold for £ 19’920

Lot 30007 – Sold for CHF 14’940

The sale of the first part of

the Tomasini Collections

of Classic Great Britain and

Sicily, offered on 26 March

2026, saw almost every lot

find a new home, confirming

our proven ability to handle

the greatest collections and

successfully bring them to

today’s market environment,

even in segments that

have experienced subdued

conditions in recent times.

Both collections,

distinguished by their rigorous

construction and scholarly

approach, demonstrate

that rarity, condition and

provenance remain decisive

factors in defining results.

Part I – Results highlights

Including some

outstanding philatelic

treasures not seen for

over six decades!

of Classic

Great Britain

& Sicily

The second part of the

Tomasini Collections, to

be offered in early autumn

2026, will present a further

selection of material

of comparable calibre.

Continuing the same rigorous

standards of formation,

it will include numerous

outstanding pieces combining

rarity, condition, and

distinguished provenance.

We invite collectors to take

part in this forthcoming

auction and to consider the

many opportunities it will

offer to acquire material of

notable quality.

Part II of both collections coming

early autumn 2026

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Part II – Still to come

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Auction Agenda

Autumn Auction Series – June 16-20, 2026

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DATE

TIME (CET)

CATALOGUE

CURRENCY

Tuesday, June 16

10:00

Great Britain (including the Leathart

collection of Queen Victoria Specimens)

& British Empire (I. Aden-Hong Kong)

GBP

Wednesday, June 17

10:00

British Empire (II. Ireland-Zanzibar)

GBP

14:00

France & Colonies françaises

EUR

Thursday, June 18

10:00

Europe & Overseas & Collections

CHF

Friday, June 19

10:00

Egypt

CHF

15:00

Latin America

CHF

17:00

Canada – The “Anna” Pence Issue

Postal History Collection

CHF

Saturday, June 20

14:00

Asia – China • Tibet • India • Indian

States (including Richard Azizkhan’s

Tibet, Dan Walker’s Nandgaon and

the “Hamburg” Collection)

CHF

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CONSULTANTS

Mr Tay Peng Hian’s Grand Prix Collection of

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES 1655-1870

Part I will come to auction in early autumn 2026. Be sure to be part of this

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From June 16

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Introduction

Dear Collector and Client,

It gives us great pleasure to present in this

catalogue nearly 650 lots of Great Britain,

nearly 400 lots of Ireland and over 600

lots of British Empire. Plus, don’t miss

all the India and Indian States lots in our

specialised Asia catalogue as well.

Our auction week kicks off on Tuesday 16th

June at 10am CET (that’s 9am UK time) with

this catalogue and the David Leathart FRPSL

collection of GB Queen Victoria Specimens

including Revenues and Telegraphs. It is

an honour to present this collection which

is an amazing achievement and I hope you

agree looks fabulous in this catalogue!

Despite the seminal work of Marcus Samuel

on Specimen stamps (and from the sale of

his collection back in 2003 which seems

to have been the last major offering of

specimens), the rare examples still seem

to be underappreciated and undervalued.

Though this isn’t helped by the specialised

catalogue not pricing the different types for

each stamp, pricing only the most common

variant. So I’m sure there will be items in

David’s collection that specialist collectors

will not have seen before. And for those

interested in developing a collection of

Great Britain, “SPECIMEN” overprints also

offer a much more affordable way to form a

collection, in particular when it comes to the

high values and the “abnormals”.

This is then followed by the general GB,

kicking off with one of the most beautiful

collections that I have had the pleasure to

view; Stewart Gardiner FRPSL’s Large Gold

Medal Exhibit Collection on Sealing the

Envelope, offered intact. I know it doesn’t

sound particularly sexy but believe me

that is, so please go and see the complete

collection scanned on our website.

The Line Engraved section includes important

rarities such as the VR corner marginal pair

with plate letter, as well as mint blocks of

four from plate 2 and plate 4. After the usual

offering of Perforated Line Engraved and

Surface Printed is a collection of British Post

Offices abroad (see also the section of Niger

Coast from the same collector). The Kings

section has a range of proofs, QEII has plenty

of modern errors, and we finish with Officials,

Telegraphs and Collections.

The British Empire section has good

spread of material, with better sections

of Bermuda, BOIC, Cyprus and Hong

Kong. And we continue our run of offering

important sections of Ireland, with

further portions from the “Bokhara” and

“Madigan” collections, with pre-stamp

postal history, forerunners, overprinted

issues, commemoratives, definitives and

revenues. The auction continues with

impressive Mauritius, Niger Coast, rarities

from Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia

and St. Vincent. South Africa includes

a section of Cape of Good Hope as well

as better Mafeking including a newly

discovered example of only six inverted

surcharges on the 3d.

The David Feldman team strives for

excellence in the lotting and promotion of

every property entrusted to us, and we’d

like to thank all our vendors for showing

their faith in us to present their items

and collections in a catalogue worthy

of displaying their philatelic treasures

in their best possible light. We wish you

success with your bids and satisfaction

with your purchases.

Ricky Verra

Director of Philately

Geneva, May 2026

Great Britain

The Leathart collection of

Queen Victoria Specimens

Literature and Philatelic Documents

10000

1839 Treasury Competition

10001-10002

1840 Mulreadys & Caricatures

10003

Postal Notices

10004

Postal Stationery

10005-10009

1841 1d Red

10010-10011

1841 2d Blue

10012-10013

1854-70 Perforated Line Engraved

10014-10037

1847-54 Embossed

10038-10042

1855-1900 Surface Printed

10043-10184

King Edward VII

10185-10190

King George V

10191-10194

King George VI

10195

Queen Elizabeth II

10196

Officials

10197-10208

Postage Dues

10209-10210

Revenues

10211-10232

Telegraphs

10233-10251

Collections

10252-10255

Ireland

10256-10259

The Leathart Collection of Queen Victoria Specimens

including Revenues and Telegraphs

My Philatelic career had a somewhat unusual start.

Yes, I did have some stamps as a boy, but model trains

and girls then intervened. My mother had a lovely

pre-WWII Eastern European which sadly disappeared

after her death. I started as a Flatelist. In 2004 Terry

Pratchett introduced to the world his latest Discworld

Book, “Going Postal” and introduced to the world of

Ankh Morpork Post Office and its Postmaster one Moist

Von Lipwig. As part of this a little outfit in Wincanton,

“Discworld Emporium” introduced a series of Discworld

stamps. I started collecting these and Yes, I was

hooked! The stamps are still being sold.

However, in 2006 with retirement on the horizon my

partner, Penny Taylor, suggested that whilst she did

not like Discworld stamps, understandable, what about

postage stamps as our retirement project? In April

2006 we duly went to Norwich stamp fair and met Tony

Hender of Arun stamps. Penny asked him, “What has a

beginning and an end?” Tony suggested Postage Dues

1914 to 1996. So, off we went. But as you can see in

the Catalogue, we somewhat lost track of that after we

had collected the Postage Dues and Penny went off

hunting Mint 1887 Jubilees and Errors and Misperfs. As

can be seen I chased most things with SPECIMEN and

CANCELLED Overprints, (OP’s).

By 2014 we had joined King’s Lynn PS, and I had joined

the GBPS. In 2014 I entered the GBPS Competition and

won a trophy. Penny was winning Club trophies. I was

then asked if I could enter Stampex in February 2015

and managed 4 frames and to my utter amazement got

a Gold!

So why collect OP’s? It seemed at that time, by now

about 2009, few people were collecting them and

prices seemed reasonable. Also, they had OP’s that

were put onto the first printed sheets of each issue,

so they were truly mint. A kind dealer sent me Samuel

and Huggins “Specimen Stamps and Stationery of

Great Britain.” This gave me the impetus I need to

start seriously collecting. At the stamp shop in Carlisle,

I asked about SPECIMEN stamps and was told, “Oh,

that’s a bit specialist.” However, I did rather enjoy

the chase and the hunt of what a lot of folk saw as a

somewhat obscure side of the hobby.

So, what is so special about collecting SPECIMEN and

CANCELLED OP’s? Well, there seems to be about 360 or

so Postage stamps with SPECIMEN OP’s on them. Ther

are somewhat fewer CANCEELLD OP’s. I think there are

about 220 Postage SPECIMEN OP’s in this sale. This is

how I see where SPECIMEN OP’s fit into a collection.

Collectors need to be aware that the OP Handstamps

can very similar. Types 1 and 2 look the same but on

Type 2 the bottom stroke of the ‘E’ is shorter. Types 8,

10 and 11 seem the same but Type 8 is shorter than

or 11 Type 10 has a broad ‘M’ and Type 11 a narrow

‘M’. Then the Dr Perkins stamps has an unrecorded OP,

though Samel mentions it. It looks like a Type 10 but

longer so a Type 10A?

There are also some stamps can be found with several

different OP’s. E.g. 1867 10d Red-Brown a lovely stamp

can be found with Types 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11, so there

are 7 stamps to collect. The 1867 2/- Blue has Types 2, 5,

6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 so further 7 to collect.

1. Is a common stamp with a common SPECIMEN OP

Types 6, 8, 9 & 11. E.g. 1887 Jubilee low value Type 9.

There are about 115 Type 9 OP’s with about 8 different

versions.

2. Is a Common stamp with a Rare OP Types 1, 2, 3,

7, 13 & 16 and CANCELLED 14 and 18. E.g. 1855

4d Small Garter Type 3. The first Surface Printed

stamps.

3. Is a Rare stamp with a Common OP. E.g. Types 6, 8,

9 & 11. E.g. 1880 2/- Brown Type 9.

4. The ultimate is a Rare stamp with a Rare OP. E.g.

Types 1, 2, 7, 13 & 16 and 14 & 18. E.g. 1862 3d

Carmine with dots, Abnormal stamp with Type 2.

There is only one known of this stamp with an OP.

5. Extras are given to Double or Treble Overprinted OPs

and Inverted OPs.

This Auction mainly devoted to SPECIMEN and

CANCELLED OP’s is the first I am aware of since the

Spink Marus Samuel one of 2003 same year as Harmers

Koh-I-Noor Auction. The earliest is Harmers of 1983.

David Leathart FRPSL

Norfolk, England, April 2026.

Foreword