15th Mar, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Two splendid examples of red Maltese crosses of Scotland: Edinburgh tying plate 5 (four margins, very close along top) on cover of 29th July 1840, and the distinctive Perth cross tying plate 6 (four margins) on cover of 12th August 1840.
Sold for £300
Estimated at £300 - £350
Auction: Stamps, Postal History & Postcards, 15th Mar, 2023
This is once more an exciting sale with several family estate sections which include Irish and Great Britain new issues of the 1920s carefully stored for a century, a series of specialized Eastern Europe collections with excellent Batum and German local occupations of Poland, as well as extensive Great Britain singles with much line-engraved, and through to a very solid finale of postcard collections including a wonderful subject collection with forty Louis Wain, a strong aviation collection with 300 from the 1920s onwards, a large collection of Southern counties topography and much more.
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Tuesday 14 March 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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