An extensive and well curated collection of Great Britain postage stamps, Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II, comprising forty 1840 1d blacks, to include a used pair TH TI with all round margins, an unused plate 6 JC with four margins (smudge to right hand margin), a cover with black Maltese Cross cancel to Arthur West, December 1840 and another (in album two) with red Maltese Cross cancel, May 1840, two plate 11 three margin examples with black Maltese Cross cancels CJ and FJ, numerous 1d red plates, many laid out in partial sheet re-creations and plate 225 (in album two) 2d blues including a strip of eight IE to IL and a strip of four TA to TD, all with black cancels, an 1870 1 1/2d (three half pence) with error of lettering OP-PC for CP-PC with Copestake Brampton & Co underprint (complete with British Philatelic Association certificate dated October 1961), SG77 3d carmine rose, a marginal block of four 1/- green GE GF HE HF (rubbed mark across the upper two and feint black cancel to the lower two), an 1867-80 2/- deep blue QB (some marks to face, complete with with British Philatelic Association certificate dated January 1975), 1867-1883 5/- to £1 (used), £5 orange AJ with Manchester Accounts black cancel 28 Jan 1895 (creased), another £5 orange AI with Belfast Ap 3 91 cancel (crayon cancel marks rubbed), 1883-1884 2/6 to 10/- used and unused (unused 5/- and 10/- creased), an 1884 £1 KC and an 1888 £1 LD (both used), SG212 £1 green TA (unused with broken frame), Edward VIII SG266 £1 green (unused), George V SG403 £1 green marginal (unused), 1915-1918 Seahorses 2/6 to 10/- (unused) and 1918-1930 Seahorses 2/6 to 10/- unused including a marginal 5/- example, a 1924-1926 block of four 1 1/2d (three half pence) Tete-Beche (unused), SG438 1929 Postal Union Congress £1 (unused), a block of four 1854-1857 perforated 1d reds KD KE LD LE (unused), 1912-1922 marginal block of six 1/2d greens with perforation faults and a marginal sixpence with perforation faults, a block of six marginal 1935 George V Silver Jubilee 1d reds, a 2d bisect cover Guernsey, cancelled 17 FE 41, all contained in five red Stanley Gibbons Utile albums, together with a Triumph Derwent commonwealth album, a Triumph world album and an album of airmail covers to include Australian Antartic Territory and covers to Argentina and a small album illustrating types of stamp printing (9 albums) PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VIEWING OF THIS LOT IS STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE AND ARRANGE A VIEWING SLOT ON EITHER TUESDAY 15TH OR WEDNESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY

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