Lot 1620

FIRST DAY COVERS: 1979 selection of...

Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5933

Auction: 26 July 2022 at 01:00 BST

£320

Description

FIRST DAY COVERS: 1979 selection of better postmarks including Birds (7) with 'Queen's School, Rheindahlen BFPO 1671' (Queen's School) (2, one with vertical fold), 'Salvation Army 100, Harwich' (Harwich Citadel), 'Wintertime, London' (BL14), Liverpool & Manchester Railway (8) with 'Earlestown, Merseyside' (Newton150), 'Austro-Hungarian Collection' (W&W), 'Wintertime, London' (BL16), London Landmarks (5) with 'Parish Church, Hampton-in-Arden' (H-i-A Church), Famous Authoresses (6) with George Eliot, Nuneaton' (David Fletcher, 'Knutsford' (GPO) slogan postmark, Queen Mother (9) with 'St Marys Church, Ware' (St Mary's), 'Greenwich Mean Time, London' (GMT), 'British Chess Federation, Brighton' (Chess Federation)(2), British Conductors (9) with 'Bedford Music Club' (BMC), 'Sir Geoffrey De Havilland, Hatfield' (Mosquito Museum), 'Moorlands Festival, Leek' (Festival), 'From Tom-Tom to Telex, Warwick' (W&W), 'Birthplace Sir Thomas Beecham', St Helens' (Thomas Beecham), Sporting Anniversary (5) and Christmas (3) with 'Salvation Army, Bramhope' (Historic Relics). Mostly fine to very fine. (52)