Number of results: 31
1088
| Sale number: 18 Nepal: 1933-60 1/2t. to 4t. set of five values used on Stanley Gibbons philatelic enevelope, 2t. and 4t. with small faults. Price Realised £50 |
1900
| Sale number: 21 Nepal: 1977 Birds 5p. in a complete sheet of 35 showing violet omitted resulting in the plumage appearing brown instead of black, also a normal sheet for comparison and 1975 Tourism 2p. in a block of 20 (2x10) with partial omission of design on all stamps, mainly fine unmounted mint. S.G. 310 var., 349var. Price Realised UNSOLD |
3232
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1814 (Dec. 15) entire letter endorsed on ''Service'' and signed at lower left, from Lt. Col. Chamberlain, commanding 24th Regiment (South Wales Borders), at Camp near Puchrouta, Ontaree, addressed to Headquarters. The Regiment had moved up from Patna as part of the 4th Division under command of Major-General Bennet-Marley and was planning the assault on the passes leading to Kathmandu. ''I look to the conduct of this Division with great confidence, all seem actuated by a proper spirit and eager for the day of trial which is still protracted for want of our Artillery which, I understand, cannot be here for 15 or 16 days.'' Photo. Price Realised £250 |
3233
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1814 (Dec. 29) entire letter endorsed ''OHMS'' and signed at lower left, from Lt. Col. Chamberlain, commanding 24th Regiment (South Wales Borders), at Ontaree, addressed to Headquarters. The Regiment remained in camp during a period of planning. However a failure to take proper precautions for defence of the frontier posts led to a successful Nepalese attack three days later on Jan. 1st. inflicting significant losses. ''All here is still & stupid. The Genl. still on his tour of outposts.'' Photo. Price Realised £300 |
3234
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1815 (Mar. 29) entire letter endorsed on ''Service'' and signed at lower left, from Lt. H. Dwyer, A.D.C. of the 21st Bengal Native Infantry at Kashapore, to Headquarters, sent via Moradabad, receiving good strike of the scarce oval ''MORADABAD/POST FREE/(ms.) 30 March 1815''. Interesting contents, Dwyer being part of Col. Jasper Nicholls' Force sent to support Col. Gardner before the key fort of Almora. He relates that that they await the heavy guns before advancing and hope to induce the Kumaonese to join them against the Nepalese. Almora was taken in April and the whole of Kumaon surrendered to the British. Photo. Price Realised £1250 |
3235
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1815 (Mar. 30) entire letter endorsed on ''Service'' and signed at lower left, from Lt. Col. Chamberlain, commanding 24th Regiment (South Wales Borders), now with ''Genl. G. Wood's Force'' (Wood having succeeded Marley on Feb. 20) at camp near Barjan Pokra, addressed to Headquarters. The first phase of the War ended on April 27 with only a month left befor the onsetof the fever season. ''The campaign having avowedly closed, I have yielded to the recommendations of my Medical attendant and proceed tomorrow for Dinapore.'' Photo. Price Realised £300 |
3236
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1815 (Mar. 30) entire letter endorsed on ''Service'' and signed at lower left, from Lt. Col. Chamberlain, commanding 24th Regiment (South Wales Borders), now camped at Amowa, addressed to Headquarters at Futtyghur with indistinct boxed F.P.O. handstamp on reverse. Sickness abounds ''the prevailing disease is a bilious intermitting fever but no death has yet been occasioned by it - almost all the mortality has been owing to dysentery - the deaths last week were three and the total since we took the field in November one officer and 49 men.'' Photo. Price Realised £380 |
3237
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: The Anglo-Gurkha War 1814-15: 1815 (Dec. 23) entire letter signed at lower left, from Asst. Surgeon Thomas Rutherford at Almora, charged 1r.3a., endorsed ''Almora pst pd 1/3 23d Decr 1815'', no datestamps having been introduced since the establishment of a civil post office. Unease remains in the garrison ''We continue here in a state of uncertainty which has now lasted for 8 months, whether we are to have peace or war with these pestilent Gurkhas. The former appears at present the most probable, in which case I shall return to Mordabad.'' Photo. Price Realised £1200 |
3238
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: 1836 (Nov. 4) entire from the Resident, Brian Hodgson, to James Prinsep at Calcutta, rated ''9as''and showing a fine strike of the ''NIPAUL/POSTOFFICE/POSTPAID'' hexagonal hndstamp with red arrival datestamp alongside across join. Photo. James Prinsep (1799-1840), the great epigraphist, was a man of astonishing ability and achievements. Among these, architect (The Mint, St. Mary's Church and Nandeshwar Kothi in Benares, etc.), archaeologist (restorer of the minarets of Aurangzebe's masjid, Benares), engineer (builder of Karmanasa bridge and Circular Canal, Calcutta), artist ("Benares Illustrated"), cartographer (Map of Benares, 1822), demographer (Census and Directory of Benares), engraver, scientist (Fellow of the Royal Society at 28; inventor of evaporometer, fluviameter, pyrometer, assay balance, etc.), journalist (editor-publisher of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, & Gleanings in Science), chemist (Assay Master of Benares & Calcutta Mints), musician, actor and pioneering hieroglyphist, discovering the name of Asoka the Great (B.C. 272-232), the Buddhist monarch, and Kanishka, another emperor, by deciphering their Brahmi and Kharoshti edicts and coins. Price Realised £500 |
3239
| Sale number: 25 Nepal: 1836 (Dec. 29) entire letter from the Resident, Brian Hodgson, to James Prinsep at Calcutta, complanaing of a perceived tardiness in publishing Hodgson's papers, rated ''9as'' and showing a fine strike of the ''NIPAUL/POSTOFFICE/POSTPAID'' hexagonal handstamp partly overlapped by red arrival datestamp. Photo. James Prinsep (1799-1840), the great epigraphist, was a man of astonishing ability and achievements. Among these, architect (The Mint, St. Mary's Church and Nandeshwar Kothi in Benares, etc.), archaeologist (restorer of the minarets of Aurangzebe's masjid, Benares), engineer (builder of Karmanasa bridge and Circular Canal, Calcutta), artist ("Benares Illustrated"), cartographer (Map of Benares, 1822), demographer (Census and Directory of Benares), engraver, scientist (Fellow of the Royal Society at 28; inventor of evaporometer, fluviameter, pyrometer, assay balance, etc.), journalist (editor-publisher of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, & Gleanings in Science), chemist (Assay Master of Benares & Calcutta Mints), musician, actor and pioneering hieroglyphist, discovering the name of Asoka the Great (B.C. 272-232), the Buddhist monarch, and Kanishka, another emperor, by deciphering their Brahmi and Kharoshti edicts and coins. Price Realised £300 |
597
| Sale number: 43 Nepal: A mint or unused collection on leaves, incl. 1899-1900 pin-perf 1/2a. black block of eight with one tete-beche pair, 1941-46 to 1r., 1954 2p. to 2r. set, 1954 Map set, also two stamps of Tibet, etc., varied condition. (54). Price Realised £90 |
616
| Sale number: 46 Nepal: A small selection, incl. Nepal Land Court c1910 1r. violet-blue and 2r. yellow-green unused, etc., mixed condition. (15). Price Realised UNSOLD |
641
| Sale number: 65 Telegraphs: Nepal: A selection on stockleaves, incl. 1917-30 shades, multiples with 1/2a. grey black block (8 x 8), 2a. brown block (8 x 5), also two telegrams, etc., varied condition. Ex Lee. (230) Price Realised UNSOLD |
3139
| Sale number: 69 Nepal: Telegraphs: A selection on stockleaves, incl. 1917-30 shades, multiples with 1/2a. grey black block (8 x 8), 2a. brown block (8 x 5), also two telegrams, etc., varied condition. Ex Lee. (230) Price Realised £120 |
1042
| Sale number: 70 Nepal: 1956 Coronation set in unmounted mint blocks of four, fine. S.G. 97-101, cat. £440+. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
1168
| Sale number: 73 Nepal: Postal Stationery: 1897-1904 a collection of the first type cards in an album, incl. W & W number 5a unused and used, 5bd unused, range of papers and flaws, also with Nepal Catalogue of Postal Stationery by Werner and Wateren and Nepal Postal Stationery by Wateren, etc. (72 items) Price Realised UNSOLD |
1916
| Sale number: 75 Nepal: 1956 Coronation set in unmounted mint blocks of four, fine. S.G. 97-101, cat. £440+. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
1917
| Sale number: 75 Nepal: Postal Stationery: 1897 to 1904, a collection of the first type cards in an album, incl. W & W number 5a unused and used, 5bd unused, range of papers and flaws, also with Nepal Catalogue of Postal Stationery by Werner and Wateren and Nepal Postal Stationery by Wateren, etc. (72 items) Price Realised £450 |
1918
| Sale number: 75 Nepal: A mainly used duplicated range on leaves, 1886 to 1949, incl. several tête-bêche pairs, shades, etc., varied condition, mainly fine. (133 items) Price Realised UNSOLD |
3000
| Sale number: 77 Nepal: 1884 to 2005, a collection in varied condition in an album on leaves and loose with many issues both mint and used, a few covers, etc. (100s) Price Realised £150 |
932
| Sale number: 89 Nepal: An unusual collection of 1940's Court Fee stamps, locally printed on recycled native paper with values from 1pa. to 25r., with a range of personal seals in black, accompanied by ''Nepal Revenues'' article cutting by C. & F. Kiddle (2004). (33). Photo. Price Realised £100 |
1040
| Sale number: 97 Nepal: An accumulation of native covers, from 1860, some identified, mixed condition. (40) Price Realised £160 |
280
| Sale number: 104 Nepal: Revenues: A collection on leaves, values from 1p. to 25r., range of papers, etc. (48) Price Realised £80 |
1336
| Sale number: 107 Nepal: A collection in a stockbook, incl. range of early imperfs. wth tête-bêche pairs (mainly reprints), Siva Mahadeva issues mainly used, 1956 Coronation 1r. mint, 1960 Children's Day 6p. imperf. sheet of four used, later issues to the 1990s, mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised £200 |
1398
| Sale number: 109 Nepal: 1857 to 1999, a collection in three albums, incl. range of early issues with multiples, 1949 definitive, 1954 King and Map, 1956 Coronation, 1957 Nepalese Crown and 1959-60 definitive sets mint, range of covers with pre-stamp, Mount Everest Expedition covers (3), f.d.c's, etc., mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised £550 |
1146
| Sale number: 116 Nepal: Two India 1/2a. postal stationery envelopes, used 1894 (Dec. 2) and 1902 (Jan. 26) from Nepal to India. Price Realised UNSOLD |
1190
| Sale number: 122 Nepal: A collection in a binder, from 1881 to 1991, incl. range of early issues, tête-bêche pairs with 1917-30 4a. pair used with telegraphic crescent and punch hole, 2a. block of four used with the same cancellation, thereafter largely complete with range of Siva Mahadeva issues, 1949 set mint, 1954 King Tribhuvana 16p. to 2r. mint, 1954 Map values to 1r. mint, 1956 Coronation set mint, 1957 to 5r. mint, 1959-60 to 5r. mint, 1960 Childrens Day 12p. mint, a few Officials, etc., not all early issues guaranteed, mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised UNSOLD |
1801
| Sale number: 124 Nepal: A duplicated accumulation of the Bow and Arrow and Kukris issue, incl. multiples, many plated for position, forgeries, etc. (few 100s) Price Realised UNSOLD |
1802
| Sale number: 124 Nepal: A collection in a binder, from 1881 to 1991, incl. range of early issues, tête-bêche pairs with 1917-30 4a. pair used with telegraphic crescent and punch hole, 2a. block of four used with the same cancellation, thereafter largely complete with range of Siva Mahadeva issues, 1949 set mint, 1954 King Tribhuvana 16p. to 2r. mint, 1954 Map values to 1r. mint, 1956 Coronation set mint, 1957 to 5r. mint, 1959-60 to 5r. mint, 1960 Childrens Day 12p. mint, a few Officials, etc., not all early issues guaranteed, mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised UNSOLD |
696
| Sale number: 127 Nepal: A collection in a binder, from 1881 to 1991, incl. range of early issues, tête-bêche pairs with 1917-30 4a. pair used with telegraphic crescent and punch hole, 2a. block of four used with the same cancellation, thereafter largely complete with range of Siva Mahadeva issues, 1949 set mint, 1954 King Tribhuvana 16p. to 2r. mint, 1954 Map values to 1r. mint, 1956 Coronation set mint, 1957 to 5r. mint, 1959-60 to 5r. mint, 1960 Childrens Day 12p. mint, a few Officials, etc., not all early issues guaranteed, mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised UNSOLD |
1377
| Sale number: 129 Nepal: A collection in a binder, from 1881 to 1991, incl. range of early issues, tête-bêche pairs with 1917-30 4a. pair used with telegraphic crescent and punch hole, 2a. block of four used with the same cancellation, thereafter largely complete with range of Siva Mahadeva issues, 1949 set mint, 1954 King Tribhuvana 16p. to 2r. mint, 1954 Map values to 1r. mint, 1956 Coronation set mint, 1957 to 5r. mint, 1959-60 to 5r. mint, 1960 Children's Day 12p. mint, a few Officials, etc., not all early issues guaranteed, mixed condition. (100s) Price Realised £100 |