Ended on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 10:30 AM.

SHIPS ON STAMPS, EPHEMERA, COVERS, POSTCARDS... A delightful collection of stamps, revenue stamps, booklets, cigarette c

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Start of the sale:
Friday, February 22, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Item n°722368483
Sale ends:
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 10:30 AM
Lot:
#5115
Catalog:
Sandafayre 7289
Estimated price:
between £800.00 and £1,200.00

SHIPS ON STAMPS, EPHEMERA, COVERS, POSTCARDS... A delightful collection of stamps, revenue stamps, booklets, cigarette cards & cinderella labels supported by early engravings & ephemera ("Emigrate to America" etc), all depicting sailing and other seagoing vessels from War Canoes to modern Destroyers and the trading ships of antiquity to racing yachts. Cleverly displayed in a large album plus a deep pile of large photograph album pages (the stamps are in proper mounts) and includes such things as the post-WWI 'Lost German Colony' Kaisers Yacht mouning labels, contemporary newpaper cuttings of WWI sinkings by torpedo, Bahamas 1939 Sea Floor special cover, 1898 GB ½d Jubilee on cover with shipping firms perfin + matching cachet, specialised stamp ranges incl good study of the Grenada 1938-50 Pictorials to 10s (5 mint examples incl SG 163, 163a, 163b, 163d cat £775), 1840 1d black Mulready envelope front, 1899 Suez Canal Ferdinand de Lessops Statue Inauguration p/card (also a set of Canal forgeries affixed to a Post Said booksellers cover, who preumably sold them), 1937 Tonga Tin Can Mail PLUS SO MUCH MORE with probably more in Commonwealth than 'Foreign' material. Highly recommended (1200+ stamps & m/sheets, 200+ covers, cards & other items) For more images, please visit https://www.sandafayre.com/itemdetails.aspx?s=639913

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Sandafayre LTD

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Sandafayre Ltd is a well established company trading for over 30 years from Knutsford, Cheshire, just south of Manchester, England. We were one of the first ever mail bid auction companies; distance selling stamps and philatelic material by post and have grown to be the biggest mail auction company for stamps in the world.
We are probably the largest speciality auction on the Internet!

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SHIPS ON STAMPS, EPHEMERA, COVERS, POSTCARDS... A delightful collection of stamps, revenue stamps, booklets, cigarette c

Sandafayre LTD