Number of results: 26
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| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1937, picture postcard of penguins at South Shetlands (Heyburn AQ-13-aq) bearing G.B. 1d. cancelled on arrival in Chile by Feb. 13 1937 c.d.s. with Valdivia Feb. 15 and Prestatyn Mar. 12 arrival, the sender's message reporting the Falkland Islands as ''very bare''. Photo. Price Realised £230 |
682
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1938 to 1960, an interesting selection of twenty-three variously addressed envelopes with a good range of frankings, etc. incl. 1942 stampless cover to Darwin Harbour, 1943 and 1944 censored covers to U.S.A. (one registered), 1946 O.A.S. cover to the Isle of Wight, 1946 envelope posted on board the ''Highland Monarch'' (containing telegram from Port Stanley), 1951 airmail envelope to Kent bearing 1s. deep blue (1947 ptg.), etc., good to fine. Ex Barton. Price Realised £550 |
683
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Two registered covers, 1938 (Mar. 9) to Scotland franked 4d. and (June 29) to Surrey franked 1s., also 1936 (July 16) local envelope franked Whale & Penguin 1d. (cover faults) and 1937 Coronation set cancelled ''7 JU/37'' on picture postcard (Heyburn AC-10-acz). (4 items) Price Realised £80 |
684
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Censored Mail: 1939 (Nov. 8) envelope to Milford Haven franked 1d. and resealed by Stanley censor label (84mm. inscription), an early example with italic ''s'' (Heijtz type a v1), carried on the ''Lafonia''. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £450 |
685
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1940 (June 7) censored envelope to the Naval Reserve Depot in Williamstown, Australia, franked 1/2d. and 21/2d. with Post Office Crown (PSO.5) at lower left, partially covered by Stanley censor label (84mm. inscription) and with handstamped ''Censor.'', believed unique, vertical filing fold and slight wear. Photo. Price Realised £500 |
686
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1940 (July 27) censored envelope from Mrs. G.J. Felton (ms. endorsement on flap) to Iowa, franked at foreign rate by 2d. and 1/2d., resealed by P.C.90 label (examiner 4743). Photo. Price Realised £95 |
687
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1942 (Jan. 10) censored envelope from Terence Binnie (handstamp on flap) to New Zealand, franked 1d. cancelled PS.2A with thick ''10'', resealed at left by scarce (unlisted by Parry) ''EXAMINED BY/1712'' censor label, Montevideo Jan. 17 transit on reverse. Photo. Price Realised £80 |
688
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1942 (Feb. 23) censored envelope to California, resealed by U.S. label (6143), franked 3d., flap missing, otherwise mainly fine. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
689
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: On Active Service Mail: 1942 (Aug. 9) stampless cover from Pte. J. Robinson of the 11th West Yorks. Regt. to his wife in Leeds, countersigned at lower left, with violet crowned circle censor's cachet no. 4428, red Maritime Mail marking enclosing a seven page letter headed ''Falkland Island Fcs'' and with Oct. 20 receiving note. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £95 |
690
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Evacuee Mail: 1942 stampless envelope endorsed ''EVACUEE'' and addressed to Mrs. L. Sedgwick with light Port Stanley arrival c.d.s. of ''1 OC/42'', clean vertical fold. Very rare, Heijtz notes seven known examples of this concessionary arrangement extended to women and children evacuated from Stanley as a precautionary measure. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £820 |
691
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1943, an unusual censored cover correctly franked 3d. and addressed to Lagos, redirected to Cairo and thence to Khartoum, with May 30 Montevideo transit, resealed by P.C.90 label and ms. receiving (?) note ''18.11.43''. Photo. Price Realised £180 |
692
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1943 (May 6) censored envelope to the U.S.A. franked 3d. and resealed by Stanley censor label (84mm. inscription), carried on the ''Fitzroy'' with Montevideo May 13 transit datestamps on reverse, some peripheral wear. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £80 |
693
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: On Active Service Mail: 1943 (May 22) stampless waterstained cover to Rotherham from a Lance Corporal in the West Yorks. Regt., countersigned at lower left, with violet crowned circle censor's cachet no. 4428, and unusually with two line violet cachet ''DAMAGED BY/SEA WATER'', flap resealed by part G.P.O. official brown label, pencil note on reverse identifies date of sending, the cover carried first by the ''Fitzroy'' to Montevideo before its subsequent misfortune. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £250 |
694
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1943 (Dec. 15) censored cover to Iowa, resealed by Stanley type 1 label (84mm.) partially removed and U.S. clear label (5427), franked 1d., 21/2d. and with Montevideo transit, horizontal crease. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
695
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Privilege Mail: Stampless envelope addressed to Karl Lellman at Darwin, with superb strike of violet ''FELLOWSHIP of the BELLOWS/(bellows)/BLOW TO IT'' cachet, partially overstruck by Port Stanley type PS.2A c.d.s. ''C/13 JA/44'', and with and additional strike of the cachet on reverse, rare, only five such covers are known to exist. The Fellowship of the Bellows was formed in Argentina in 1940, the aim being to collect funds for the purchase of aircraft for the Royal Air Force and to ''raise the wind''. The idea quickly spread to other countries including the Falkland Islands, members undertaking to donate 1d. for each enemy aircraft shot down. Correspondence relating to these fundraising efforts was was permitted to be sent free of charge, the Rev. Gerry Lowe being the local administrator and holder of the handstamp. Photo. Price Realised £1650 |
696
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Airmails, 1944 to 1959, selection of envelopes, airletters, etc. variously rated, incl. some with local airmail labels (Mitchell types 1 (2), 3 and 6), 1944 (Aug. 18) first regular airmail, two envelopes (one registered with type 11 ''Fox Bay'' deleted registration label) to England bearing values to 2s.6d. (2), 1949 (Mar. 27) Fox Bay to London franked 3d. and 1s. pair, (May 10) whaling airmail envelope to Tønsberg with 1s. (2), (Nov. 15) Stanley-Fox Bay f.f.c. with cachet illustration, 1951 (Mar. 10) inland airmail with three line Government Air Service cachet, 1955 envelope and front to London bearing 1952 values to 10s., £1 (5), etc., mainly good to fine. (27 items) Ex Barton. Price Realised £780 |
697
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1945 envelope endorsed ''On Active Service'' and ''AIR MAIL'', with naval tombstone censor in blue, red ''POST/OFFICE/MARITIME/MAIL'' and violet boxed '' DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER'' cachet, stained and with lower flap of reverse missing. It is likely that the incident in which the cover was involved would have been the fire on board the ''Scythia'' which had broken out as she entered the River Mersey on May 23 carrying mail from the Americas and that the cover had been carried by air to North America and thence across the Atlantic. Note on reverse reveals sender as ''J. Bimson HMS Pursuivant c/o GPO London'', this being the base ship for the Naval Officer in Charge at the Falkland Islands. An office at the rear of the church carried the same name. Very rare. Price Realised UNSOLD |
698
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1945 (May 6) envelope from B.G. Ellis of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (endorsement on flap) to London at 1s. airmail rate with etiquette and correctly franked by scarce 1s. dull blue, Third printing Aug. 1944, tied by slightly indistinct c.d.s., ink scribbles on reverse. Price Realised UNSOLD |
699
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1946 envelope to London endorsed ''B.S.A.A.'' at top and with type B ''AIR MAIL'' label in blue at lower left, franked by 9d. and 1s. Photo. Price Realised £100 |
700
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Overseas Air Letter Forms: 1946 (Dec. 17) Army air letter form W.3077 locally overprinted ''FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES'' in large type, franked by 1938-50 9d. and used from Mrs. H. Biggs to Leicester, scarce. Ex Barton. Photo. Price Realised £700 |
701
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1950 (Sept. 20) locally addressed envelope bearing Fourth printing £1 black and bright violet, tied by neat PS.3B c.d.s. Photo. Price Realised £200 |
702
| Sale number: 44 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1950 (Sept. 30) airmail envelope registered to Oregon, bearing 5s. indigo and pale yellow-brown, well tied by fine PS.3B, with transit and Springfield Oct. 18 arrival backstamps. Photo. Price Realised £150 |
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| Sale number: 47 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1939 Battle of the River Plate, a collection on display leaves, etc. contained in one binder and a box file, incl. two 1942 stampless envelopes, incoming (from Germany, censored) and outgoing (to Buenos Aires), from Isla Martin Garcia ''refuge'' camp in Argentina, H.M.S. ''Ajax'' and ''Exeter'' ship Christmas cards, ''Ajax'' and ''Graf Spee'' hat bands, extensive of range of postcards of the ''Graf Spee'', its scuttling etc. incl. Heyburn AQ-18-aqu, 1940 official Government report, later commemorative stamp issues and covers, reproduction photographs, reference articles, etc. Ex Faulkner. Photo. Price Realised £280 |
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| Sale number: 47 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: 1942 (Jan. 13) postcard, privately produced by Karl Lellman with photographically reproduced sketch of the ''Hebe'' commemorating the centenary of the first civil administration, locally addressed in pencil and franked by 1d. cancelled on picture side. Photo. Price Realised £90 |
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| Sale number: 47 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: Evacuee Mail: 1942 stampless envelope endorsed ''EVACUEE'' and addressed to Mrs. L. A. Sedgwick with light Port Stanley PS.2 c.d.s. of ''27 MR/42'', the sender identified as her daughter, ''Una Sedgwick'' by endorsement on reverse, lower flap missing, otherwise fine and very rare. Heijtz notes seven known examples of this concessionary arrangement extended to women and children evacuated from Stanley as a precautionary measure. Photo. Price Realised £980 |
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| Sale number: 47 Falkland Islands: King George VI: Covers and Cancellations: On Active Service Mail: 1942 (Dec. 30) stampless cover from Pte. J. Robinson of the 11th West Yorks. Regt. to his wife in Leeds, endorsed ''ON ACTIVE SERVICE'' and countersigned at lower left, with violet crowned circle censor's cachet no. 4428, red London Official Paid machine arrival and with ms. dated arrival record of Feb. 25 1943, usual wear and upper flap missing marking. Interesting ten page letter enclosed headed ''Falkland Island Fcs'' with Robinson complaining at the 7s. cost of a letter sent by his wife to him by airmail. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
