MAIDSTONE STAMP EMPORIUM

PH 1

This cover with 12 in maltese cross sent from High Wycombe May 17th 1843   £100

PH 2  

This wrapper has 4 in maltese cross with a Lombard Street cross back stamp dated 3rd February, sent to Brighton with a receiving mark with date FE 4   18 4 (missing the first 4)

Price £260

PH 3

1868 entire from London to Salvador bearing a 2/- colbalt blue  SG 120a. It comes with a David Brandon certificate. current catalogue value off cover £3000

Price £975

PH 4

Fine advertising cover from Manchester to USA posted 12th December 1878 with engraving on the reverse.   £75

Reverse of cover above.

PH5  Letter sent from London to Indiana via New York in 1853 with a 1/- embosed stamp, it has recieved a 5c charge giving rise to the N.YORK BṚ  PKṬ  PAID mark dated 19th May. 

£275

PH 6  Early letter dated 1700 with Bishop Mark.

£65

PH 7

This letter from Trinity College Dublin has two plate 12  ½d stamps   £22

PH 8   A cover to France in 1856 with a 4d stamp small garter watermark.

£60

PH9 

A cover from London to Italy with a 6d plate 12, posted February 6th 1874

                                   £70

PH 10   1843 Envelope with 5 in cross on 1d red, with a back stamp dated JU-29-1843

£45

PH 11  A registered cover from Birmingham to San Francisco posted 8th May 1925 arriving New York on the 15th May 1925 then air mail to San Francisco with a 2/6 charity stamp placed on the back.

£90

PH 12  Fores's coloured caricature.

£250

PH 13

           3d up-rated to 7d postal stationery envelope

                               £16

PH 14  1851 envelope to Hereford with a scarce  inspectors delivery mark. 

 £50

PH 15

An envelope sent from Sommertown to Oxford with a SOMMERTOWN UDDA cancel and a faint Wandsworth double arc dated 1847. On the front there is a manuscript 1d strike and an Oxford double arc receiving mark dated November 8th 1847 shown below.

  £12

PH 16

         I.R. OFFICIAL stamp on cover posted at Bromley Kent dated 17th January 1903, the flap is missing but still a very good cover.

                                          £35

PH 18 

            An unortherised bisect used on 24th December 1935

                                                £50

PH 19

           1781 wrapper sent from Bristol to London with a large straight line BRISTOL mark with a Bishop mark for the 22nd of October.

£20

PH 20

           1d red on wrapper with a London 11 in cross    

£80

PH 21

          A small envelope with a plate 6 1d black, 4 margins Taunton to London dated May 18th 1841

  £150

PH 22

          A Victorian 6d + 2½d postal stationery envelope up-rated with a 4d adhesive ( SG 192 ) cancelled by a hooded London cancel dated 6 MAY 86, with back stamp MANNHEIM dated 7/5/86

  £110

PH 23

          A Wm Brandt's Sons & Co wrapper from London to France using a plate 13 2½d WBSCo perfin.

  £27.50

PH 24

    June 1855 wrapper sent from the Glasgow to Baltimore with an embossed 1/- green     

  £250

PH 25

            1882 morning envelope with R in circle topped with a crown to indicate that it had been redirected in the same postal district with no extra charge added.

  £17.50

PH 26

            1872 wrapper Leith to Caen with a plate 6 3d  SG 103 stamp cancelled with the Leith 221 duplex.

  £30

PH 27

            1870 wrapper Falkirk to Edinburgh with a plate 13 2d blue

  £17.50

PH 28  1881 envelope postally used with a 1d Inland revenue stamp, back stamps are from NEWTON STEWART, WIGTOWN And GIRVAN.

  £25

PH 29

              1852 envelope Stirling to Bombay with a 4 margin 1/- green embossed stamp.   

  £340

PH 30

              1876 printed matter from Oxford to Haarlem, Netherlands with a plate 3 2½d rosy mauve  SG 141  cancelled by an Oxford 603 dupllex.

  £50

PH 31/Bar 12

               British Empire series postcard showing a postman of Barbados. On the back is a printed message from J&J Colman Ltd. saying their representative will call on them to take an order as shown here, The  ½d Edward VII stamp is a  perfin stamp of the company ( J&J C)

To see the front please view it at COMMONWEALTH STAMPS AND COVERS / BARBADOS Bar 12

  £18

PH 32  September 6th 1840 wrapper from Devizes to London with a four margin 1d Black plate 2 (HG) cancelled in red.

  £175

PH 33  An envelope sent from Peasmarsh via Lamberhurst to Oxford in October of 1840 with a 1d black cancelled in red, on the reverse a fine clear PEASMARSH undated double arc as shown below.

  £175

 PH 34  An envelope sent from London in December of 1840 with a 1d black cancelled in red and a London Colxey Penny Post mark. Creasing at the top of the envelope.

 £155

 PH 35  A British Empire Exhibition 1924 postcard of the EAST AFRICA AND GOLD COAST BUILDINGS with a 1925 1d British Empire Exhibition stamp cancelled with the exhibition machine cancel dated August 14th 1925.

 £9

 PH 36  A British Empire Exhibition 1924 postcard of the MALAYA PAVILION with a 1925 1½d British Empire Exhibition stamp cancelled with the exhibition machine cancel dated June 27th 1925

 £25

 PH 37  A postcard with a View from the Flip Flap, Japan-British Exhibition  with the official hand-stamp from the exhibition dated September 10th 1910.

 £2

 PH 38  A postcard of the Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907 showing the Bridge & Water Chute with the official hand-stamp from the exhibition dated July 11th 1907.

 £5

 PH 39  A tatty postcard of St. Johns Gate, Clarkenwell, London with the Imperial International Exhibition cancel dated July 21st 1909.

 £4

 PH 40   1840 Victorian 2d Blue plate 2 badly cut left hand side, on a wrapper with a boxed CUPARANGUS cancel on the back dated April 11th 1842.

 £90

 PH 41  An Official Coronation Exhibition 1911 postcard showing the Mountain Railway  with the official hand-stamp from the exhibition dated July 20th 1911.

 £15

 PH 42  An Edinburgh,  Dead Letter Office, Returned Paid Letter  envelope, with a back stamp for Glasgow dated December 31st 1856. 

 £35

PH 43  1702 letter from J. Rogers at Christchurch  College Oxford to his father in Newcastle on Tyne, the letter has the  Bishop mark for October 6th.

 £120

PH 44  1857 envelope sent from London on 29th May 1857 arriving in Wells Somerset the next day ( the appropriate mark on the back) postage paid with a plate 5 2d blue

 £45

PH 45  1931 flight cover to Australia bearing both 1924 British Empire Exhibition stamps plus the set of the 1929 U.P.U. there is a little damage to the edge of the envelope. Posted on the 3rd April 1931 arrived at Melbourne on the 29th April .

 £30

PH 46   Mulready letter sheet posted on the 12th November 1840, no content and some minor damage.

 £75

PH 48   A 1777 entire with a PENNY POST PAID Dockwra  mark.

 £95

PH 49   1860 entire to New York via Ireland with a 1/-  green plate 1, the 5 cent & PAID  marks applied in New York.

 £120

 PH 50  1844 envelope with a 4 margin 1d red cancelled by a London 66 numeral postmark (Lewisham)and a straight line New St. V.S. ( New St. Vincent Square) in red.. It has a tear from the top of 1" and a bit toned.

 £5

SOLD

 PH 51  1843 1d Mulready letter sheet going to Maidstone cancelled with a 11 in cross maltese cross

 £200