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1925 King George V British Empire Exhibition Wembley Park Party Ticket, very scarce to have both parts of the ticket kept together and this would be an ideal purchase to add alongside your Wembley collection.

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Embossed James Valentine envelope franked with two 1d red-browns and 791 Harling Numeral cancel, sent February 1856 from Roydon in Norfolk to Diss, a beautiful and scarce envelope. James Valentine (1815 - 1879) was a Scottish photographer who produced envelopes for many campaigns most famously his Five Moral Reform Causes - Ocean Penny Postage, Peace, Universal Brotherhood, Anti-Slavery, and Temperance.


Fantastic 1854 envelope franked with a 1/ green embossed, 1841 2d blue (plate 4 & initials NJ), and a 1d red-brown (plate 197 and initials QE), all tied by a London Inland 17 and French double circle cancels, sent 16th December to Paris with arrival mark on the 7th January. This is a very scarce combination of stamps and frankings.

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1850 Theodore Maurisset illustrated envelope of Les Patineurs, less than half a dozen recorded, very rare. Theodore Maurisset (1803-1860) was a French painter, engraver, and caricaturist who produced many fantastic envelopes, the Les Patineurs (Skaters’ Waltz) was composed by Emile Waldteufel in 1882 inspired by the ‘Rink of Skaters’ at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

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1911 First UK Aerial Post red-brown illustrated die 4 postcard and sent on the first day of flights on September 9th. The postcard has been signed by Thomas Wareham Smith (1874-1938) who was a newspaper publicity director and founded the famous Ideal Home Exhibition.

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1911 First UK Aerial Post with scarce Zog Cleaning Paint logo, several companies paid for adverts on the postal stationary flown with this Zog example being one of the rarest to find, in good condition for its age.

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1912 King George V Ideal Stamp Exhibition postcard franked with a 1d and Special Event postmark dated 17th October, sent to Germany.

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1910 Postcard with illustration of Charles Rolls after his return journey over the Channel on 2nd June. Charles Rolls (1877-1910) co-founded Rolls-Royce and became to the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident during a display over Bournemouth.

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1949 illustrated card flown on the Dutch Air Ballon Henri Dunant with an attractive flown cachet. This was the first air ballon to start its flight from Great Britain when it took off on September 24th from Ulster in Northern Ireland, a scarce item.

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Unused WWI German Air Fleet Union Military postcard with an illustration of a Schutte-Lanz Airship bombing Warsaw, they were sold to finance Germanys ‘lighter than air fleet’.

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1910 Postcard with illustration of American aviator John Armstrong Drexel sent on August 16th, four days earlier on the 12th he had broken the world altitude record by flying at 6,750 feet at Blackpool in a Bleriot monoplane.

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1912 Waterplane Daily Mail UK Tour Aerial postcard, with illustrated

‘Promoted by the Grahame White Aviation Co’ cachet. It was sent

from Portsmouth to London with a 6th August postmark.


1930 Postcard with an illustration of R-100 Zeppelin, it features a Canadian 5c and Aerodrome St Hubert Airport cachet dated 1st August which is also signed by Geo Faille the postmaster, plus a Montreal, Canada 13th August CDS, scarce aviation cover and amazing condition for its age.


1931 King George V High Value 2/6 Seahorse on attractive envelope from London to Melbourne Australia, and an illustrated Abel Tasman first flight cachet, the plane was named after famous Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji.


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1852 Lake-Red shade, plate 164 and initials FG, sent from London to Bakewell.



1897 Jubilee Issue 2½d and 2d, however contrary to postal regulations the 2d has not been cancelled, nether the less it was sent registered from London to Prague.


1869 6d Deep Shade plate 8 with Devonport cancel dated 11th October 1869, sent to a Captain Mills on a ship in Hamburg with ‘Care of American consul’ added to the envelope.

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1890 with two 8d Jubilee Issue stamps franked with a Manchester 498 Duplex dated 21st June, sent to Vera Cruz in Mexico via New York with an arrival date on the reverse, an unusual destination.



1897 Strip of five ½d Vermilion Jubilee stamps tied by a Paddington P13 Duplex dated 21st May 1897, sent to Leipzig in Germany. This is an unusual usage of five half pennies as larger values were available and would normally have been used instead.

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1893 ½d Vermillion tied to an On Her Majesty’s Service envelope with a Brighton 132 Duplex and Brighton Station CDS dated 25th June 1893, the Brighton Station must be a very rare CDS.


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1885 ½d Slate Blue tied to an On Her Majesty’s Service wrapper by a Dundee 114 Duplex dated 2nd October, sent to Brechin and arrived on the 3rd.

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Pre-stamp wrapper sent from London to Quebec dated 22nd February 1835, fantastic three page letter which amongst other references mentions travelling to ‘the Land of Frogs’ and learning French! In 1835 the cost of postage would still have been per page so to have a three page letter sent aboard is scarce.


Pre-stamp wrapper addressed to Perkins Bacon & Petch with letter written from Belfast on 31st July and an arrival mark of 8th August 1839 on the reverse. The letter is written by a Belfast Bank regarding the next payment sending. Perkins and Bacon were a printer most famous amongst us philatelists for printing the Penny Black.

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Pre-stamp wrapper dated 17th January 1823 with a very fine Newport Isle of White/105 Mileage cancel, sent to Buckingham and with the original letter inside plus a nice wax seal.


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Uniform 4d post, dated 10th December 1839, sent from Leeds to Halifax.


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1937 King Edward VIII block of four ½d Greens and King George VI Coronation 1½d, tied by a 1937 Cherbourg/Maritime Manche cancel and a lovely ‘RMS Asturia Posted on High Seas’ cachet, sent to Paris with an attractive emblem on the envelope flap.



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1896 WM. P. Thompson & Co, Solicitors of British & Foreign Patents envelope franked with a ½d vermillion and

double ring Liverpool cancel dated January 8th, sent to New York, lovely example of a transatlantic rate.



1852 Transatlantic mail sent from Devon to New York via London and Liverpool. 1/ Packet Postage rate paid plus a 1d late fee. It has ‘per Atlantic from Liverpool’ written which is referring to the Collins Steamship ‘Atlantic’ however it missed this steamship which sailed on 11th February so in spite of paying the late fee it would have been carried by the Cunard ship ‘Africa’, which sailed on the 14th and arrived on the 28th.

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1863 C.Moller’s illustrated Steam Ship Circular sent from London to

Leith franked with a 1d red and London 88 Duplex, attractive envelope and fascinating contents inside the letter relating to the steam ship business including the selection of ships available.

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1891 Advertising postcard ‘Anglo Australian Navigation Company’ postal stationary, sent London to Sowerby Bridge, superb London Fancy Geometric Type V strike, and details of SS Port Adelaide on reverse.

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1890 Myer’s Ocean Penny Postage reprint by Deraedemaeker on Grey ‘Wove’ paper, fine example.


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1890 Anelay Ocean Penny Postage reprint by Deraedemaeker on Grey ‘Wove’ paper, fine example.


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1885 ½d Deep Green tied to

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March, sent to Brechin, inside the wrapper is a Remittance Letter from the Inland Revenue Office for

both Gun and Dog licenses, very interesting contents.

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1899 3d Pink Parcel Post envelope with an illustrated

advert for the Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Company in Altrincham, sent to London.


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1863 Norwich Union Life Insurance Society wrapper franked by a 1d Rose-Red with initials NK and a fine Bristol 135 duplex dated 1st April, sent to Newport in Shropshire with an arrival CDS dated 2nd. Inside there is information about the company such as prices, a lovely postal history item.

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1840 Genuine 1d Mulready letter sheet with a very fine Maltese Cross and printed Atlas Assurance Advertisement dated 23rd November.


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1880 Whitaker’s Almanack advert on a Mulready designed envelope franked with 1d Venetian red tied by a London Duplex dated 8th May, sent to Royston with an arrival mark of the 9th. Whitakers used the Mulready design as a chance to advertise their world famous reference books.


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1840 William Spooner Number 2 Mulready Caricature envelope, scarce example.

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1840 Southgate Blarney Stone Number 4 Mulready Caricature, rare example.


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1840 Fores’s Dancing envelope Mulready caricature, rare example.

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1840 Southgate Number 5 Pickwick Mulready caricature envelope.



MULREADYThe Mulready was ridiculed by contemporaries for its overly elaborate design and many caricature envelopes were produced by publishers including Fores’, Spooner, Southgate, and Menzies. Their ridicule proved so effective that the Mulready was withdrawn just two months after its publication. We have six Mulready examples below including four of the caricatures.

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