Lot 2
Postal History. 1887 Jubilee eight...
The Royal Palm Collection of Great Britain | 5940
Auction: 25 October 2022 at 01:00 BST
£420
Description
Postal History. 1887 Jubilee eight covers, fronts or Parcel tags plus a wrapper. 1889 front to Ladysmith with 2d, 6d and 1/-, Leatherhead duplexes; 1887 postal stationery envelope to Germany, ½d vermilion and 1d lilac pair; 1887 mourning envelope to Anderson's Bay, NZ, pairs of 2½d lilac and ½d vermilion, some delamination; 1894 parcel tag to Geneva with 1/- dull green, Prescot CDS, fine; 1900 parcel tag to Switzerland with ½d blue-green (unoverprinted) and 40p on 2½d, Smyrna CDS; 1901 ½d blue-green unoverprinted on small envelope to Philadelphia, Smyrna CDS (unsealed letter rate); 1900 registered envelope to Philadelphia with nine ½d blue-greens, Albert Square Manchester CDSs; 1902 Queen Victoria In Memoriam card, sent on the day of her burial. The ½d wrapper bearing two additional ½d vermilion (one overlapping the top edge), to Lisbon. A good group
