1576

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: John Dickinson: 1837 London District Post essay 1d. yellow-buff, two examples folded to envelope and letter sheet format, one with small abrasions on front, otherwise fine and fresh. Huggins E1a. Photo.

Price Realised £250

1577

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: John Dickinson: 1837 London District Post essay 2d. letter sheet essay in green, very fine. Huggins E1b. Photo.

Price Realised £310

1578

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: A line-engraved essay in a similar design to the 1840 1d., lettered GL, in black on unwatermarked wove paper, thought to have been produced by Carmichael, fine. Photo.

Price Realised £180

1579

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: 1840 (c.), the ''VR'' design in blue (later reprinted as part of the obverse side of the 1848 Art Union Journal page) on wove paper, some soiling and other imperfections mainly clear of the essay. Photo.

Price Realised £200

1580

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: An embossed sample produced by the Congreve process, printed in indigo and blue on pale blue card with decorative frame and head of Lord Brougham embossed in colourless relief. Photo.

Price Realised £580

1581

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: An embossed sample produced by the Congreve process, printed in greenish blue and Wedgwood blue on grey card with decorative frame and head of Lord Byron embossed in colourless relief and with ''WHITING PATENTEE'' twice within the frame at left. Photo.

Price Realised £580

1582

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ imperforate finished example in red-brown, exceptionally fine and fresh with almost full original gum, shows clear break at corner of NW frame. S.G. Spec. DP71(b). Photo.

Price Realised £350

1583

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ imperforate finished example in red-brown, fine and fresh with part original gum. S.G. Spec. DP71(b). Photo.

Price Realised £290

1584

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ imperforate finished example in red-brown, fresh with large part original gum, small faults. S.G. Spec. DP71(b). Photo.

Price Realised £150

1585

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ imperforate finished example in red-brown, fresh with part original gum, black ink mark at foot, otherwise fine. S.G. Spec. DP71(b). Photo.

Price Realised £85

1586

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: Local Stamp Essays: An engraved essay for a ''LOCAL POSTAGE STAMP'', in pale blue on white wove paper, fine. Photo.It is believed that these were produced in around 1861 by Bradbury Wilkinson.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1587

Sale number: 15

Essays and Trials: Local Stamp Essays: An engraved essay for a ''LOCAL POSTAGE STAMP'', in grey on white wove paper, fine. Photo.It is believed that these were produced in around 1861 by Bradbury Wilkinson.

Price Realised £95

1875

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: John Dickinson: 1837 London District Post essay 1d. envelope essay in yellow-buff and 2d. letter sheet in green, former with four faint lines of printing offset at foot, latter with some splitting at folds and other small imperfections, otherwise fine. Huggins E1a & b.

Price Realised £150

1876

Sale number: 16

Charles Whiting: A quite remarkable volume entitled ''THE ROYAL CAMEO SCRAP BOOK OF EMBOSSED HEADS'', containing magnificent examples of Charles Whiting's work using the Congreve process. Published by Kendall and Son, 477 West Strand, London, and containing ten embossed plates, as follows; an address and title plate, an inscription plate and Cameo portraits of King William IV, Queen Adelaide, The Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Lords Brougham and Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Moore. Each of the Cameos is printed in three colours except that of King William which is printed in four, on card with the vignettes and borders strongly embossed. Each, apart from the Cameo of Queen Adelaide, has a facsimile signature beneath the Cameo, most also show ''WHITING PATENT'' inscription within the borders. The title plate includes the following ..''KENDALL & SON have the honour to inform the Public that the heads contained in this Work are produced under a Patent. The engravings are struck in Steel at a cost of several hundred pounds, and the result may be justly considered to be not only unique, but producing a combination of very singular and beautiful effects. It may perhaps add to the interest of the Work to state that his deceased Majesty, George IV, claimed his share in the invention of the Art.'' Photo.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1877

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: 1d. essays (P.P.C. numbers 10, 12 and 17) printed together in black and red on wove paper (125 x 155mm), very fine. Photo.

Price Realised £1050

1878

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: Essays number 25 in red and blue, 26 in blue, together with the larger ''VR'' design in blue, printed together on soft wove paper (103 x 127mm), these three essays were later reprinted as the obverse side of the 1848 Art Union Journal page. Photo.

Price Realised £580

1879

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: Charles Whiting: The page of reprinted essays from the 1848 Art Union Journal, damaged clear of the essays which are fine.

Price Realised £80

1880

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ imperforate finished example in red-brown, without gum, some creasing not affecting appearance and other small imperfections, otherwise fine. S.G. Spec. DP71(b). Photo.

Price Realised £190

1881

Sale number: 16

Essays and Trials: 1850 Prince Consort 1d. essay FJ finished example in black, perforated 16, without gum, shows clear frame break at lower right, small faults but very fine appearance and scarce. S.G. Spec. DP71(c), cat. £1,500. Photo.

Price Realised £1300