15th Mar, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
'T.P. Pall Mall' receiving house cancel tying plate 1a penny black (heavily worn impression) with red MX on cover to Cambridge with red italic 'Too Late' postmark. The stamp with margin along frame upper right, nevertheless an appealing cover. Also a very attractive four-margined plate 1b example tied on front by bright vermilion Maltese cross and with Botesdale straight-line.
Sold for £380
Estimated at £250 - £300
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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