

(Postage Dues) 1948 (24 Aug) airmail cover to Shanghai bearing single franking 1/- ‘1948 Olympic Games’ tied ‘Blood Donors’ Birkenhead slogan cancel, underfranked with tax handstamps and manuscript, reverse with 1948 Postage Dues blocks of ten of $10000 on $300 and $30000 on $1000 tied by Shanghai cds. Fine and scarce.

(Scarpanto) 1943 Government envelope with hand stamp Stazione Carabinieri Reali/ Scarpanto to National Fascist Institute with 50c. and 1L. Postage Dues tied Rodi cds; light central vertical filing crease, unusual item.


(Ship Mail) 1913 (12.6.) stampless picture postcard with ASTRAKHAN NIZHNII steamship oval date stamp with Doplatit Par Astrakhan Nizhnii postage due oval handstamp, “6k.” inserted by hand; fine and scarce.


(Somalia) 1927 incoming underfrankd cover from Bombay, India bearing circular-framed T handstamp and crayon "20c" charge, arrival cds on front whilst on reverse 20c on 2c lion affixed as a postage due and tied cds; fine and rare usage.


(Taiwan) 1954 illustrated Chiang Kai-shek Birthday cover underfranked with 10c., postage due ‘T’ handstamp on front and on reverse 1953 20c. on $100 olive postage due added and tied native date stamp; good condition.


(Tibet) 1948 underfranked cover to Nepal bearing on reverse 3p. and 1 ½a. tied Pharijong date stamps, cursive framed postage due handstamp of Pharijong and larger unclear one, presumably arrival alongside.


(Transvaal) 1906 embossed ‘stamp’ postcard with a further smaller Christmas illustration of military band, attached by paperclips, from Ermelo to Stellenbosch, franked at ½d. postcard rate but not accepted as this with handstamped ‘T’ , “1d” manuscript charge and endorsed “Letter Rate”. Fine condition.


(Treaty Ports) 1886 incoming envelope from United States to its consulate at Foochow, franked 5c grey-brown that appears not to have been cancelled though there is some discolouration at top right, faint blue Hampton cds alongside, fine black ‘25/T’ charge handstamp applied at Foochow, reverse with San Francisco transit, Hong Kong transit (MR 4) and Foochowfoo arrival (MR 11); fine and scarce.


(Treaty Ports) 1917 incoming mourning cover to HongKong Shanghai Bank branch at Foochow, China, underfranked 1d. KGV from North Finchley with hexagonal framed T/30 handstamp, no charge apparently being collected, reverse with very clear Shanghai Br. P.O transit and on front British Post Office Foochow arrival.


(Used Abroad) c.1876 stampless cover to Bombay cancelled on reverse in brownish BASHIR date stamp and, in the same ink a framed Postage Due with manuscript “2as” charge, arrival cds alongside, with contents.


(Used Abroad) Undated and unfranked cover to Bombay cancelled on reverse Busreh cds of 2 Mar and Bombay arrival of Mar 17, also with framed POSTAGE DUE/ “1a” charge.


(Wurttemberg) 1898 (19 Feb) registered card to Brousse bearing a multi-franked, philatelically inspired underfranking from Langenargen, T handstamps and a blue manuscript erased in pen as reverse with 3pf. and 10pf. cancelled only on arrival, further transit on front together with arrival cds; striking item.

(Wurttemberg) 1898 (7 Apr) philatelically inspired cover to Brousse underfranked with 1894 2pf. grey tied Langenargen cds, also franked by Portuguese 5r. and a French 5c. postage due, framed T handstamp and manuscript “22 ½ cts”, intaglio T seal on arrival and 5pa. on 10pa black and red surcharges added tied arrival cds; unusual


1744 (21 Jan) entire from France to Dublin, rated “2” in error, deleted and re-rated showing a very fine strikes of the horseshoe COUNTERFEIT/ 2 and RECHARGED alongside. Extremely rare handstamps, the latter unrecorded in this format, slightly rubbed horizontal filing crease, small corner fault clear of handstamps. An exceedingly rare and important item.


1870 wrapper put into the British post at Buenos Ayres, addressed to Naples. On reverse LONDON transit with their accountancy mark 'GB/1F60c' on the obverse alongside the subsequent French handstamp 'F.56'. Rated 10 decimes on arrival and 1L postage due affixed.


1873 (24th Oct) entire to Genova annotated to be carried by the “Liguria”, this ship had left Buenos Aires on Sept 15th and passed through Gibraltar. The cover has been prepaid in Gibraltar by ½d. and 1d. Great Britain that remained uncancelled and not considered valid by the Italian Post Office who applied a 40c postage due charge. Fine and unusual.


1873 stampless outer letter sheet to Genova bearing Buenos Aires company handstamp, rate handstamp '10' and framed 'F.*56' acountancy, somewhat unclear French octagonal maritime Buenos Aires date stamp, reverse with Paris transit and upon arrival 1L. Postage due applied and tied cds; fine condition.


1877 cover to Hamburg bearing very fine negative Correos de la Chimba Bolivia with illustrated Ship centre, framed FRANCA and oval-framed fancy CANCELADO, the reverse with three-line La Chimba/ Enero date stamp, routed via British Post Office at Panama with three-line handstamp on front, London transit and arrival backstamps, receiving in Hamburg a handstamped 'T' and manuscript "360" charge. Peter Holcombe Certificate.


1877 German parcel card from Berlin to Gothenburg franked on reverse with 1874 Postage Dues 1o. black (2) and 24o. grey in block of eight and irregular block of three tied by Goteborg cds, card with small tear at top. Nils Svensson Certificate.


1878 (NO 27) cover to Plymouth underfranked with two 1d red, plate 181, NJ and NK, tied by ‘A26’ duplex (early first damaged state, break in circle by ‘B’ of ‘Gibraltar’), nlack handstamped ‘T’ and “3” manuscript charge raised ( ½d. underpayment plus full postage of 2½d.). Plymouth arrival backstamp of DE 2; some repairs to envelope.