SG123 6d a Certificated Unrecorded Variety

Very fine copy of 6d SG123 plate 11 with plate damage to a number of areas including the base of the Queen’s head.  The item has a 1994 RPS certificate. A major new surface printed variety.

 Price:  £240.00

 SG126 1867 5/- Rose plate 1

 with C88 Cancel of St Jago de Cuba. A superb used copy of SG126, plate 1, cancelled by the very scarce C88 of St Jago de Cuba.  Gibbons records this as existing, (Z32), but no price is quoted. A very rare stamp,  The stamp has a PEGB Certificate.  

Price: £885.00

SG130 1883 5/- plate 4, AB-AC

Very fine/fine used pair with a Lombard Street L1/LS5 duplex. AB with almost clear profile, AC corner crease, excellent colour and perfs with good centering.  Catalogued £8,000 as singles.  Attractive and a rare multiple in such fine and overall condition.  

Price: £1125.00 

1880 Advertising Envelope, London to Vienna , January 6 1880. Rare printed envelope from The Royal Alhambra Theatre London advertising ‘Rotho Mago, The Magic Watch’ with a golden pocket watch showing the time of the performance. The 3d rate to Austria has been paid by a 3d plate 15 SG143.  Rothomago or The Magic Watch was a grand Christmas musical fairy spectacular in 4 acts and 17 tableaux by H B Farnie. It opened on December 22 1879.  A superb and rare item.  

Price: £235.00   

 VR Scroll Cancel and Board of Trade Perfin with Certificate

 4d SG160 plate 18 with an almost complete and upright strike of the VR scroll cancel for September 1884.  The stamp has some clipped perfs on the left but is perfinned Crown/BT of the Board of Trade.  A very scarce/rare combination of cancel and perfinning.  The stamp has a 1995 PEGB Cert.

 Price:  £125.00

SG162 1883 very fine 6d on 6d

 tied to small piece by the VR  London Scroll JY 1884.  Stamp also perfinned by the  Crown BT of the Board of Trade.  A  rare combination of cancellation and perfin and possibly unique on this stamp.          

Price  £150.00

July 2 1890: 3d British Empire card posted at the Exhibition to Australia with an interesting message on the reverse together with a Melbourne receiving cds. Some wrinkling at right but this is an exceptional item. In The Report of the Controller of the London Postal Service, R C Tombs, for the May 1890 Exhibition, of the 20,508 ordinary postcards sold on its first day, only 1,208 were of a type for the foreign service and only about 12 were addressed to Australia. In The Report of the Controller about the July 2 1890 Exhibition, he mentions that 2,166 postcards were sold there and of these only 311 were sold as were used for the foreign service. Hence the number of the 3d cards sent to Australia from the Exhibition will have been very small and very possibly less than the dozen sent from the May 1890 event. Hence this item is of exceptional rarity and may well be a unique survivor.   

Price: £825.00  

July 1890 Harry Furniss black printing of his caricature of the Post Office Jubilee envelope and insert with each of them signed by him.  Both the envelope and insert are in wonderful condition. Rare item.  

Item: £575.00  SOLD

July 31 1890: Harry Furniss caricature of the Post Office Jubilee envelope. Very fine/superb envelope used locally in London with 1d lilac tied by a superb Lombard Street cds for July 31 1890.  An extremely rare used example with only three or four contemporarily used examples known.  This is the third earliest usage with the earliest recorded just 5 days before this one.  Exceptional and a rare opportunity to acquire such an item.  

Price: £750.00  SOLD

The QV ‘Jubilee’ 2d Printed in the Intense Carmine Shade

A superb unmounted mint marginal Block of 12 in this known and distinctive, but as yet uncatalogued, shade even though Gibbons offer it themselves occasionally. We have considerable experience of the ‘Jubilee’ issue and this shade is scarcer than the catalogued Green and Scarlet, SG199.  

Price: £2250.00