Trafford Books: Books, Autographs, Photographs, Ephemera, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History, 431, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 08, 2025 - January 08, 2025
Page Size: 281 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
249

R. Kirk "Australian Mails via Suez 1852 to 1926"

1989 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
250

The Postage Stamps...of the British Colonies in the West Indies together with British Honduras and the Colonies in South America

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
251

The Bulletin of the Fiscal Philatelic Society, Vols.1&2

1908-28 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
252

Philatelic Literature including Mackay "Registered Mail of the British Isles"

1982 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
253

Stanley Gibbons "Stamps of the British Empire" catalogues for 1900 and 1908

1900 and 1908 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 Unknown
254

Assortment including GB used in Levant, East Germany

1957 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
255

Covers & Cards from pre-stamp, plus few items on piece; main interest in WW2 period with censors and military mail especially Serbia,

WW2 period GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
256

Assorted covers & cards, some unused postal stationery, WW2 to 1970s,

WW2 to 1970s, GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
257

Air Mail covers & cards (35 in all), mostly 1920s/30s first & special flights, notably Canada, plus Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and others.

1920s/30s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
258

Postal History mix with interest in India WW2 (6)

1904 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
259

Shoebox of covers & cards with numerous used postal stationery cards of India QV/EVII, much USA, some Sweden & others;

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
260

Covers & Cards, mostly British C/Wealth, some GB & Russia, with main interest in Falkland Is and B.A.T., S.W. Africa, and others.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
261

World ranges on stockleaves, in stockbooks & loose,

20th Century GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
262

First Day & Commemorative Covers, mostly GB, Isle of Man and Channel Islands

1960s to 2000s, GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
263

British Forces mail 1941-66 from Libya (12) and Aden (4), with different FIELD POST OFFICE cancels

1941-66 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 Unknown
264

World War I Military Mail, chiefly French forces, some British & American. Wide variety of postal markings and military cachets, a few from POWs.

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
265

Prisoner of War and Internee mail

1939-47 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
266

First Day and Commemorative covers in albums and loose, mostly GB, some Netherlands and others

1960s to modern. GBP 10.00 - 20.00 Unknown
268

Great Britain pre-stamp to 1952 covers & cards

1952 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
269

Great Britain QV to QE2 Covers & Cards, mostly QE2 with Field Post Office cancels of wide variety including some Hong Kong.

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Unknown
273

Hastings Wright & A.B. Creeke "A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles available for Postal and Telegraph purposes"

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
274

Philbrick & Westoby "The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain",

1881 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
275

Edward Mogg "Paterson's Roads",

London 1824 GBP 40.00 - 70.00 Unknown
276

Mynott "The Postal History of Preston, Garstang and the Fylde of Lancashire"

1987 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
277

Frank Bottomley "The Franking System in the Post Office 1652-1840",

1988 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
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