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                 Collections and Mixed Lots.                                                      

        1     Very large accumulation in four document storage boxes - world stamps in packets,
               hundreds of world commercial covers and cards (mainly fairly modern), bundleware,
               dupl. NZ on stockcards, with UK covers, slogan pmks, and others. (Many 1,000s) þ              £120.
        2     Large world accumulation in 26 stockbooks. Wide range, but nothing seen of particular
               value. (Many 1,000s) þ               ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                £120.
        3     Medium carton with a bundle of pages and stockleaves , some foreign in two bad photo
               albums, Commonwealth on small stock sheets, bundle of stockcards with mixed items, etc.
               Little bulk/common material, many less common, sets, part sets, etc. (1,000s) þ  70.
        4     Bundle of fifteen remainder club books of Commonwealth, plus a few USA, PTSA £283.
               (generally at about 20% to 25% cat.) þ          ..               ..                   ..               ..                    60.
        5     Large carton with very varied odds and remainders. {Not available for viewing until day
               of sale.} þ                ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    50.
        6     Large plastic storage box with world stamp collection in three albums, several albums of
               world covers (mainly commercial), and others loose. (1,000s) þ           ..               ..                    45.
        7     Over 19kg weight in c.t.o. sheetlets of Oman (mainly), Dhufar, Isö, and Nagaland, etc.
               Heavily duplicated, only 20 different main types. þ           ..                   ..               ..                    45.
        8     Carton well-packed with binders, pages, stamps in packets, and so on. All sorts of things.
               (1,000s) þ                ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    40.
        9     Large carton with world remainder/accumulation; five plastic tubs of USA, stockbook of
               USSR, some club book remainders, other stockbooks and folders, small tin of Malta, many
               others in packets/folders. (1,000s) þ               ..               ..                   ..               ..                    40.
      10     Large carton with 23 plastic tubs, on and off-paper mainly sorted by country. Also two
               stockbooks of mainly used UK. (1,000s) þ    ..               ..                   ..               ..                    35.
      11     Mixture with a batch of unsold Buy or Bid Sale lots (these s.t.c.£700.), plus a colln. of UK
               1981-87 used commems, a few postcards, and others. þ ..                   ..            30.
      12     Half-a-dozen mixed stockbooks, plus other world stamps on cards, dupl. UK in envelopes,
               etc. (1,000s) þ         ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      13     Triumph album with general foreign (non-Commonwealth) collection stopping about 1960s
               (also many loose between pages), plus some covers and odds (inc. a UK Jan 1947 2/6
               booklet, cat.£85. but with faults). (100s) þ     ..               ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      14     Suitcase well-packed with all sorts of odds and remainders. (1,000s) þ ..            30.
      15     Falklands to Funchal in binder – a mix with much France, and with main interest in the pre-
               1939 era. (c.740) þ  ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      16     Saar to Switzerland in two binders – a mix with much Straits, Sweden, Switzerland, and
               with main interest in the pre-1939 era. (c.820) þ              ..                   ..               ..                    24.
      17     Small box of stockcards and packets with mainly medium value singles and sets. Many bits
               of interest. (100s) þ                     ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    26.
      18     Wine box with a few remainder club books of Commonwealth, a tin of kiloware, a few
               items of Indian States stamped paper, two Scottish £1 notes, and a slim stockbook of
               Commonwealth. þ    ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    26.
      19     Small or medium stockbooks of Australia, Canada, Scandinavia, France, USA, B.W.I., etc.
               (100s) þ                   ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    24.
      20     Carton with thousands of world stamps sorted into packets, a couple of binders, etc. þ                24.
      21     Basutoland to Burundi in binder – a mix with much Brasil and Bulgaria, and with main
               interest in the pre-1939 era. (c.410) þ            ..               ..                   ..               ..                    22.
      22     Album of mixed mainly non-Commonwealth countries inc. France, Germany, Brasil, Spain,
               etc. (100s) þ            ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    20.
      23     Medium box with mixed items – modern mint Norway, German souvenir book, three of
               USA Wildlife sheet, numerous varied others, but much of the mint is stuck down. þ 20.
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      24     Four small cover albums (UK 1d red covers, other UK, some IoM packs, etc.), some open
               packets of mounts, etc. þ             ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    20.
      25     Small box with thousands of world off-paper, little modern. þ               ..               ..                    16.
      26     Flat box with mixed pages (Iran, USA, and others), a few mint C’wealth, etc. (100s) þ                15.
      27     Medium box with some loose stamps, couple of albums, a 1950 astronomical atlas, etc. þ           15.
      28     A flat box with world off-paper mix (1,000s), a cover album with mix of USA covers, and
               a good 2^nd-hand Simplex Standard album with some unused leaves. þ ..            15.
      29     Long box with roughly 250g net weight of world off-paper loose stamps. þ            ..                    12.
      30     A similar lot. þ          ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      31     A similar lot. þ          ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      32     A similar lot. þ          ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      33     Box with just under 2kg of UK and world kiloware. The UK has very little of just the
               standard common defins. þ          ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                      8.
      34     British Commonwealth; interesting mix of items, many of which might have made it as
               single lots but for one of several reasons; too low an individual value, smaller or larger
               faults (some tiny tiny faults - we're sometimes just so fussy !), misidentification, uncertainty
               over authenticity, etc. A wide range of countries, and the majority QV to KG5, though some
               later, and inc. a number of classics. Very high cat. (Some thousands of pounds, probably
              about £10,000.) (239, 1 cover) þ                   ..               ..                   ..               ..                £400.
      35     --; extensive collection on pages in twenty binders, sometimes quite sparse, but with a
               reasonable standard in places. Includes many medium values, some defin short sets, etc.
               (1,000s) þ                ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                £150.
      36     --; traditional collection in Triumph album, with stamps up to about the 1960s. Includes a
               scattering of mint KG5/KG6/QE worth a few pounds here and there. (100s) þ                            75.
      37     --; m.m. ranges on pages, mainly about 1950-70 with much Fiji, Dominica, Cook Is., and a
               few others. S.t.c.£570. (c.270, 1 m.s.)             ..               ..                   ..               ..                    65.
      38     --; eleven remainder club books (plus further two of Ireland), PTSA £300+ (nothing above
               ⅓ cat., often much less) þ            ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    60.
      39     --; fifteen remainder club books of UK and Commonwealth, PTSA £277. (generally at
               about 20% to 30% cat.) þ           ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    50.
      40     --; seln. on a few pages of QV-QE stamps with varieties of various types (printing types/
               flaws, shades, oddities) some of which are actual, others fanciful. (103)  ..            40.
      41     --; four stockalbums of mint stamps, often in sets, and sometimes with dupl. Includes NZ,
               Australia, Tuvalu, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, etc. Also a few foreign. (100s) þ         ..                    30.
      42     --; specimen overprints on QV-KG5 Cyprus (2), Labuan, Mauritius, Nyasaland, Trinidad,
               and UK, poor to fine. (7)              ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      43     --; QV to QE (little after about 1965) mainly m.m. on stockleaves, inc. a number of 1937
               Coronation sets. (c.200, 2 m.s.)    ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    28.
      44     --; a few pages of mixed stamps collected for their postmarks inc. numerals on Cape of
               Good Hope (28), others (32).       ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    10.
      45     --; Atlantic Islands; 1992 S.S.A.F.A. souvenir folder containing the u.m. miniature sheets
               for Falkland Liberation Anniv., from Falklands (cat.£6.), S.Georgia (£7.), Ascension (£4.75),
               and St.Helena (£5.50).                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                      8.
      46     --; Omnibus; a few varieties comprising 1935 Cook Is. 2½d m.m. with narrow "E" (ca.£3½),
               S.Africa 1d pair with "cleft skull" f.u. (£7½ for m.), 1945-46 Victory N.Rhodesia 1½d perf.
               13½ f.u. (£12.), and Somaliland 1a perf.13½ m.m. (£14.) ..                   ..            10.
      47     --; Covers; 1937-59 seln. of mainly FDCs inc. a few 1937 Coronation, two pairs of NZ
               1959 Health sheets. (15)               ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    15.
      48     Asia; mix on pages and loose of Pakistan, Tuva, N.Vietnam, Mongolia, S.Korea, etc. (100s)       12.

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      49     Europe; ten remainder club books of Scandinavia and Western Europe, PTSA £230+
               (nothing above ⅓ cat., often much less)            ..               ..                   ..               ..                    60.
      50     --; stockbook of m. & u. with Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany (inc. some W.Germany
               better used values, 1959 Beethoven m.s. u.m., DDR u.m. plus some c.t.o. sheets), couple of
               Greenland Pakke Portos, etc. (Many 100s) þ ..               ..                   ..            35.
      51     --; USSR stamps with opts. of Latvija (4), Pernau (6), Lietuva (8), Lietuva/Zarasai (1), and
               Vilnius (1), all-different u.m./m.m. Sold “as is”. ..               ..                   ..              8.
      52     Foreign; two-volume New Ideal album (a bit worn and faded) for stamps up to about 1936.
               Fairly sparse, but some interest here and there. (100s) Also three New Age albums for
               foreign countries, but with very few stamps. þ ..               ..                   ..            50.
      53     --; stockalbum of dupl. material, generally in even quantities of sets or short sets. Mainly
               about 1920s-60s m. & u. (1,000s) þ              ..               ..                   ..               ..                    40.
      54     --; unusual seln. on a few stockcards of San Marino, Palestine, and Algeria, being between
               3 and 24 each of 32 different u.m. stamps, nearly all fine. S.t.c.£400.     ..            28.
      55     Middle East; 1950-65 small m.m. seln. of all-different sets of Saudi Arabia (15 stamps)
               and Yemen (24). (S.t.c.£180+ for u.m.)           ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      56     Overseas; small colln. on pages of generally 1960s-80s m. & u. Comoros (68), Gabon
               (c.80), St. Thomas & Prince (34), Senegal (c.140), Somalia (61).          ..               ..                    12.
      57     Scandinavia; medium stockbook from some early to about 1970s used, and a Sweden
               1988/89 year book (cover marked). þ           ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      58     Thematic; Birds; seln. of u.m. sets of Albania (4), Andorra (4), E.Germany (6, one of
               these m.m.), Bulgaria (2), Faroes (3), Alderney, Surinam. S.t.c.£100. Mainly fine, but some
               with toning.                ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    12.
      59     --; --; packet of 100 different, generally modern c.t.o.       ..                   ..               ..                      2.
      60     --; Dinosaurs; packet of 50 different, generally modern c.t.o.                ..               ..                      3.
      61     --; Flags; packet of 50 different, generally modern c.t.o.   ..                   ..              2.
      62     --; Football; packet of 100 different, generally modern c.t.o.                 ..               ..                      2.
      63     --; Motorcycles; packet of 25 different, generally modern c.t.o.            ..               ..                      2.
      64     --; Olympics; packet of 100 different, generally modern c.t.o.               ..               ..                      2.
      65     --; Postal; largely m.m. (a few used) seln. of stamps for stamp centenaries, 1949 UPU,
               stamp exhibitions, and other postal themes, with nothing after 1970. Little dupl. Much
               Europe and Latin America, and inc. Belgium 1949 Cent^y. 50f (cat.£38.), Israel 1950 UPU
               set with half-tabs (£85. with full tabs), Italy 1949 UPU (£50.), San Marino 1949 UPU 300l
               (£23.). S.t.c.£900+ (c.790, 15 m.s.)                ..               ..                   ..               ..                    80.
      66     --; Railways and Locomotives; packet of 100 different, generally modern c.t.o.  3.
      67     --; Religion; a few stockleaves of world stamps showing the Madonna, plus a few others
               related. (c.400), with an empty album in which to mount them ! þ          ..               ..                    20.
      68     --; Triangular Stamps; packet of 25 different, generally modern c.t.o.  ..              2.
      69     --; World Wildlife Fund; two presentation albums of 1987-93 issues of various countries –
               17 different issues, each represented by u.m. set, set of FDCs, and set of maxi cards. þ               35.
      70     Covers; box with a varied batch of approx. 400+ mixed periods and types, the majority
               middle-modern. Much is standard, but numerous more unusual also. þ  ..            40.
      71     --; two cover albums of mainly commercially used 1960s/70s airletters from many countries
               inc. Australia, India, Jamaica, USA. (100s) þ  ..               ..                   ..            20.
      72     --; Europe; mainly 1960s-70s bundles of FDCs of Belgium (c.120) and France (c.150).
               Mixed condition (especially France, which has many toned, but still with many clean). þ               12.
      73     --; a few mixed FDCs of Brunei, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, China, etc. (38)               ..                    10.

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      74     Perfins; pocket stockbook with c.350 UK and foreign, plus two packets of loose (several
               hundred, mainly UK).                   ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    35.
      75     --; mixed seln. of various countries and ages. Includes numbers of UK and USA plus fewer
               of mixed other countries, some Victoria (Aust.) on piece, five UK censor covers. (c.150)              20.
      76     --; packet of UK pre-QE (80), UK QE (150), and foreign (50).            ..               ..                    20.
      Ü     --; see also Japan, U.S.A., UK
      77     Cinderella; small box of mainly German, Swiss, etc. letter seals (inc. some official), crests,
               and labels. (c.150) þ                   ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    10.
      Ü     --; see also German States (Saxony), Germany, Spain, USA (Locals), U.K.
      78     Forgeries; small stockbook with an interesting seln. of mainly late-19^th Century forgeries.
               Largely Commonwealth plus a few foreign. (59) þ           ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      Ü     --; see also Italian States (Tuscany).

      79     Literature; SG Stamps of the World catalogue 1999 edition (3 volumes), quite worn; also
               two other catalogues. þ               ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    10.
      80     --; SG Commonwealth catalogue 2000 (2 volumes). þ   ..                   ..               ..                    10.
      81     --; Collect British Postmarks by Whitney (6th edition, 1993), a bit worn but often asked for;
               also four other books/cats. þ       ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                      8.
      82     --; The Railway and Airway Letter Stamps of the British Isles 1891-1971 by H.T. Jackson,
               1979. þ                    ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                      5.
      83     --; English & Welsh Postmarks Since 1840 by James A. Mackay, 1980. þ         ..                      4.
      84     --; Penny Posts of Scotland by Auckland and Oxley, 1978.                 ..               ..                      3.
      85     --; Scots Local Cancellations by C.W. Meredith, 1953.                      ..               ..                      2.
      86     --; Philately in Scotland (magazine) complete from vol.1 no. 1 to November 1933. (18)               5.
      87     Supplies (Second-Hand); SG/Davo hingeless albums for Australia and A.A.T. 1913-2003,
               with some pages added. Four volumes (2 SG titled binders, 2 plain Davo). Good condition,
               but some signs of wear. (Current retail £273.) þ               ..                   ..               ..                    60.
      88     --; thirteen various stockbooks and stockalbums, mixed types, sizes, and quality. þ 22.
      89     --; five mixed Lighthouse, and two KA-BE, binders (mixed springback, peg-fitting, and post)
               with various GB pages. þ             ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    35.
      90     --; five Lindner ring binders with a mix of GB pages. þ                          ..               ..                    30.
      91     --; big lot consisting of 21 various binders, some with used pages – some more expensive
               types included. þ      ..                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                    30.
      92     --; small contemporary printed album for the 1953 Coronation omnibus issue, unused and
               fine but for some minor spots at page edges. þ                 ..                   ..               ..                      5.
      93     --; SG Devon album with about 60 pages, a bundle of about 400 unnamed 4-ring quadrille
               pages, and a 1992/93 Stamps of the World cat. (2 vols., worn). þ       ..               ..                    15.
      94     --; four double-pocket cover albums (2 are SG Malvern, two others). þ               ..                    16.
      95     --; Lindner hingeless printed album for Isle of Man 1989-96. þ             ..               ..                    10.

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           Non-Philatelic Items
      96     Cigarette Cards; Players; 1913 Characters from Thackeray part set (24/25) mainly g./f.
               but three badly cut down. Cat.£31.                                   ..                   ..               ..                      8.
      97     Banknotes; Hong Kong; 1974 Mercantile Bank $100 unc. Krause 245 cat.$160. 24.
      98     --; Thailand; 1987 commem. 60b note – four EF/unc. examples, each with envelope of
               issue. Also a few coins.                 ..                 ..               ..                   ..               ..                      8.
      99     Postcards; accumulation in three large shoeboxes of mixed cards, almost all very modern,
               UK/foreign, used/unused. (Est. c.2,000) þ      ..               ..                   ..               ..                    20.
    100     --; Africa; bundle of mixed countries, many N.African, and a few Aden seen also. (c.300) þ       40.
    101     --; Americas; bundle of Panama, Jamaica, W.Indies, and other Central America. (c.125) þ        15.
    102     --; Asia; bundle of India and Ceylon, mainly unused. (c.150) þ             ..               ..                    20.
    103     --; Australia; almost all unused, bundle of c.90 cards. þ  ..                   ..            12.
    104     --; Austria; mixed bundle, mainly unused (c.155) þ         ..                   ..               ..                    22.
    105     --; Czechoslovakia; unused and used bundle (c.80) þ    ..                   ..               ..                    12.
    106     --; Europe; bundle of Greece and Turkey, unused. (c.110) þ               ..               ..                    12.
    107     --; --; bundle of Gibraltar and Malta, nearly all unused. (c.135) þ          ..               ..                    20.
    108     --; --; bundle of Eastern European countries (c.220) þ     ..                   ..               ..                    30.
    109     --; --; shoebox of Belgium plus some Luxembourg, mainly unused. (c.500) þ         ..                    50.
    110     --; Far East; bundle of c.160 Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and others, almost all unused. þ           24.
    111     --; France; large shoebox of mixed cards, mainly unused, and inc. some Monaco. þ                    50.
    112     --; Germany; shoebox with about 600 mainly unused cards. þ             ..               ..                    60.
    113     --; Italy; box with accumulation of c.520 cards, mainly unused. þ         ..