Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
March 8-9, 2022
This 1,338 lot sale features collections formed by the late John Abrams, Dr.M.K. Blumenthal and other prominent collectors. We begin with United States and Possessions, featuring 19th & 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of book material. A-Z countries include specialized Bulgaria, Ottoman Bosnia & Herzegovina, China with Liberated Areas covers, Germany with a focus on WWII Occupation Issues, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, including Boer War postal history. There are numerous rarities from Italy, Old States and Italian Colonies, as well as classic covers and individual rarities from South and Central America. This auction concludes with solid section of Large Lots and Collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact. For those visiting London 2022, please stop by our both to chat, pick up an auction catalogue or discuss possible sale of your philatelic holdings.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1207 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 1937-52 George VI definitives, selection in glassines and on cards, variety of sets including Great Britain, Canada, with Officials, also Ceylon, Pakistan, Bahawalpur, Bahrain, Kuwait, l.h. or n.h., fine-v.f. (SG £4,350+) */** | Unsold |
 | Lot #1208 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 1938-52 George VI definitives, ten sets in glassine envelopes, with Middle East Forces, Burma, Ceylon, India, Pakistan with Bahawalpur, and Papua New Guinea, mostly l.h. (India used), also included Queen Victoria British Somaliland (SG 1-20), fine-v.f., SG £1,410 *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #1209 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 1952-65 Aden-Virgin Islands, QEII issues, generally complete definitives, sets and few souvenir sheets, neatly arranged in green stock book, better items include sets from Antigua, Ascension, Bahamas, Bermuda, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, South Georgia, Cyprus, Fiji, Kuwait and Qatar (including rare printings), also British Guiana, New Zealand, Turks & Caicos, Tristan Da Cunha and others, some duplication, l.h. or n.h., fine-v.f., SG */** Catalog Value £11,368 | Price Realized $3,750.00 |
 | Lot #1210 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 1952-60s QEII definitives, 83 sets (including a few in pairs or blocks of four) with Great Britain, Australia, British Antarctic Territories, Cook Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast, Kenya, Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia, Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia, Tonga, Zambia, etc., some minor duplication, few l.h., mostly n.h., fine-v.f., SG £4,000+ */** | Unsold |
