Trafford Books: Book Auction

Great Britain 2000-2008 UM collection in two stockbooks,

Hong Kong 1862 96c brownish grey, no wmk, a VG mint o.g. example, hinge remains, slight gum toning. Very scarce. SG 7. Cat £3750

Cyprus 1923 £1 purple & black on red, a fine UM marginal example with plate number

Collection in modern album with VG/Fine WWI Silks (18) including woven Lord Kitchener, regimental embroidered South Staffordshire, …

Great Britain 19th Century Covers, Wrappers and ELs mostly with 1d Red frankings;

British Warblers, Collins New Naturalist series No.71

The Natural History of Orkney, Collins New Naturalist series No.70

Great Britain 1840-1921 ranges on old leaves; mainly used including 1d Black ‘NL' and 1d Grey-Black ‘MI' both FU four-margined, the former thinned;

Hong Kong 1876-77 28c on 30c, a VG mint o.g. example, small hinge remains, traces of dealer's guarantee mark on reverse o/w fine & fresh. SG 21. Cat £1600

Great Britain 1816-1861 wrappers & some ELs in binder, opened out for display, mostly franked with 1d Red imperfs plus nine with 1841 2d imperfs (one 4-margined);

Collection of British Commonwealth and some foreign in loose-leaf album, mostly mint GVI with many short sets to 1/-;

Great Britain 1841-1960 used collection in album, with much QV Line-Engraved including 2d Pl. 9 mint strip of 3 (2 UM)

GB Decimal Booklets collection including Prestige types (28) from mid-1990s to 2008

Hong Kong 1876-77 16c on 18c, a VG mint o.g. example, hinge remains and few toned perfs visible on reverse. Fine colour. SG 20. Cat £2250

Collection of Cyprus and Great Britain in album, mainly QV to GV, mostly used;

Great Britain pre-stamp to 1850s ELs and correspondence of the Swainson and Dickson family of Bath, Liverpool and Preston;

Ranges in album with much UK topography including many street scenes

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray,

Six Letters on the subject of the Armed Yeomanry, addressed to the Rt. Hon. Earl Gower Sutherland, Colonel of the Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry.

East African Railways Locomotive Diagrams,

GB 19th Century Covers (50) in binder

Carton with mainly 19th Century to 1950s accumulation

Great Britain Perfins collection in stockbook, QV to early QE2 including high values (e.g. QV 5s & Seahorses to 5s) and some mint.

London Transport buses, a collection of b/w PC size photos, with some mixed quality but including many fine near-distance/close-ups. (556)

Rochdale collection including several Hollingworth Lake, mostly