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This auction took place on 24 March 2021. Estimates and realised prices are shown below for information only.
Sale 165 - Thematics
Lot Thumbnail   Description of lot Estimate Realised
  • Aircraft
73
Used (on letter or envelope)
AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIRFORCE & collection of mainly black & white photographs, many 9x6 or postcard size, good variety, approx 150 (high proportion) mounted up and identified. £50 to 65 £72.00
  • Birds
74
Block larger than four or stamp booklet
BIRDS Falkland Islands 2003 Rockhopper booklets (35), SG.SB13, Hong Kong 2006 $30 Red Whiskered Bulbul booklets (16), SG.SB63. Cat. £682. £90 to 120 £90.00
75
 M
Used (on letter or envelope)
BIRDS substantial collection of stamps, M/Sheets, PPC's, covers, stationery, cigarette or trade cards etc. housed in fourteen spring back albums (Simplex or similar) £200 to 300 £320.00
76
 UM
 Used
BIRDS world collection housed in four hagner albums & nine stock books, a high percentage is UM. £400 to 500 £400.00
  • Football
77
 UM
Used (on letter or envelope)
FOOTBALL World Cup Masterfile collection of UM stamps, M/sheets & commemorative covers housed in four albums. Noted - two covers signed by 1966 World Cup Team (excl. Bobby Moore) - 10 signatures. £200 to 250 N/S
  • Olympics
78
Used (on letter or envelope)
OLYMPICS collection of eleven Benham Olympics commemorative illustrated covers, each signed by a Gold Medal Winner incl. Jonathan Edwards, Lynn Davies, Sally Gunnell, Steve Redgrave, Chris Boardman etc. £50 to 60 N/S
  • Penguins
79
 M
PENGUINS accumulation (virtually all M) of Penguin stamps (616) in Hagner folder with, M/Sheets (31), booklets (9) & cinderellas (11), many high value stamps in T.A.A.F. Cat up to £95, Portugal 1898 set Cat. £170 (2005) and related provisionals (£50), Taiwan Specimen set, Hong Kong Jockey Club set and M/Sheet (£40). Minor duplication. Useful KGVI 1s Falklands defin corner block of four (£96). In some cases there are sets incl. penguins with other thematics. Huge catalogue value. £350 to 450 £280.00
80
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS Argentina - 1903 unused postcard of Commandante Julián Irízar, who successfully sailed the gunship 'Uruguay' to rescue the crew of the S.Y.Antarctic commanded by Dr Nordenskjöld. CI-12 also 1904 unused postcard Pengüines antárcticos - Islas Orcadas, República Argentina. The ownership of Laurie Island, South Orkneys passed to Argentina in 1904 £80 to 100 N/S
81
  PENGUINS Australia - Official notepaper inscribed THE BRITISH, AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION OF 1929-30 S.Y. 'DISCOVERY'. The paper bears 28 impressions of the B.A.N.Z. cancel in black with both types (in the main type the top feather of the tail is above the left bar of the 'X', in the second it is between the 'E' and 'X') £800 to 1000 N/S
82
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS Falkland Islands - 3rd March 1919 letter (in green) from 'Kelper Store, Stanley, Falkland Islands' with large Penguin illustration addressed to Oswald Marsh and sending him 20 1/- War stamps £80 to 100 N/S
83
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS France - 1906 postcard 'Le 'Gauss' entouré par les animaux antarctiques Palais de la Mer - Section Allemande used from Marseilles to Beziers with purple Exhibition h/stamp. BB-1 £50 to 60 £40.00
84
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS France - rare 1924 registered cover from Valros (Hérault) to a Max Laborde aboard the Cercolon on its way to the Kerguelen Islands with instructions to return the cover if not collected. The cover is franked with 1c - 4c Blanc issue and a 75c Ronsard with VALROS registration label with two CAPETOWN d/stamps on the reverse, one from the RETURNED L.O. with red RETOUR cancels on both sides. £250 to 300 £200.00
85
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS Italy - three attractive unused comic postcards. For the first year of their five year training to be pilots, students at the Italian Airforce Academy were known as Pinguinos (Penguins), i.e. flightless birds. All cards show penguins and were designed by students. Also four unused postcards showing students dressed up as penguins at a carnival in Alassio. £80 to 100 N/S
86
  PENGUINS Korea - 2003 Antarctic & Arctic set in sheetlets of six - sets of colour separations in cyan, magenta, yellow & black both imperf & perf showing Adélie penguins, seals, walrus, polar bears, albatross, whales etc. (8 sheets in total). £150 to 200 N/S
87
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS Mongolia - 1980 art work for the Antarctic Exploration M/Sheet on card (background only, no value or inscription) 280mm x 365mm in issued colours with issued sheet. £200 to 250 £200.00
88
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS Russia - 2006 7r 50th Anniv of Antarctic Research showing icebreaker with Adélie and King Penguins - two imperf colour trial sheets of twenty with backgrounds in magenta & deep blue. £1000 to 1200 N/S
89

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1956 Die Proof in sepia of the 50c Rockhopper Penguin as SG.4. The proof is unfinished with the value, ARCHIPEL DES CROZET, ANTARCTIQUES FRANCAISES and POSTES blank and sketched in in pencil. The outer surround has been reduced to 78mm x 90mm. £200 to 250 N/S
90

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1960 Die Proof in sepia for the 85f King Penguin stamp (SG.15) 140mm x 110mm. £300 to 350 N/S
91

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1969 Possession Island 50f as SG.54 Die Proof 125mm x 161mm in dark green showing 'ILES des PINGOUINS' at lower left'. Signed by the artist. £120 to 150 N/S
92

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1977 1f.20 Magga Dan and 1f.40 Thala Dan issues SG.118/119 with Magga Dan imperf plate proof in black and Thala Dan imperf plate proof in scarlet. £80 to 120 N/S
93

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1987 Macaroni Penguin 4f 80c hand coloured Die Proof of SG.226 reversed i.e. the penguin faces left. Partially coloured with the crest in ochre, the bill and eye in shades of red and the rocks in yellow. The black engraved portions of the two smaller penguins in black. No country name or value. Signed in large embossed surround. £300 to 350 £300.00
94

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1987 Macaroni Penguin 4f 80c hand coloured Die Proof of SG.226 with country name and value. White background, the penguins in red, blue & yellow. Signed in large embossed surround. £300 to 350 N/S
95

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1999 Épreuve de luxe of the 1999 2f 70c Chinstrap Penguin stamp SG.394 with a copy of the stamp cancelled 1/1/99 in Kerguelen. Numbered proof in indigo without value, RF, POSTES 1999 and name of country. £120 to 150 N/S
96

PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1989 17f 70 15th Anniv of the Antarctic Consultative Meeting SG.258 (SG. list it as Atlantic?) die proof in black in large surround 16cm x 13cm signed by the designer Pierre Béquet, also normal stamp. £150 to 200 £80.00
97
Used (on letter or envelope)
PENGUINS USA - pair of Operation Highjump covers, the exercise in the Antarctic designed to introduce American troops to polar conditions. The first is a 1947 cover from the U.S.S. Mount Olympus to Holland, there charged with an 8c postage due. Fine Operation Highjump penguin cachet on the reverse. The second cover is a pictorial cover incl. letter and a rare copy of the Penguin Special, the ship's newspaper dated 23 JAN 1947 from the NAVY SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION with penguin from the U.S.S. Philippine Sea to the USA with ship’s cachet on the reverse £100 to 120 £125.00
98     NO LOT £0 to 0 N/S
 
   
       
   
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