Great Britain 1885 10d Rate Cover Helston to Hong Kong & Returned to Sender
Cover franked with 3 lilac (pair and single) and 1d lilac (Die II) paying the rate for the second weight group (1/2 - 1oz) to Hong Kong, likely sent via Brindisi, Hong Kong receiver (SP 7), address crossed-out and readdressed to Cornwall, where it was returned to sender, Hong Kong despatch c.d.s. struck on front (SP 7), Holston receiver backstamp (DE 21), light edge creasing and some pieces removed from back flap, a desirable example.
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Great Britain 1885 8d UPU 2x Weight Folded Letter London Buenos Aires Argentina
Folded letter franked with 4d dull green vertical pair, tied by London hooded c.d.s. (17 JA), to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with c.d.s. arrival and sorting office backstamps (FE 17), the 4d pair paying the double UPU rate for mail under 1oz, likely sent via Liverpool in closed mail, a fresh and fine example of this rate.
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Great Britain 1891 Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley Signed Cover & Letter to Canada
O.H.M.S. cover franked with 1d lilac & 1-1/2d Victoria Jubilee issue, tied by Dublin duplex (DE 29), to the Department of State, Ottawa, Canada, signed "Wolseley" in black ink at lower left, printed "Commander of the Forces' Office, Dublin" below, with unsigned contents in a secretarial hand conveying Lord Wolseley's gratitude to the recipient for forwarding an article on military reform, very fine.
A BOLD SIGNATURE OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BRITISH MILITARY LEADERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, WHO COMMANDED THE RED RIVER AND ASHANTI EXPEDITIONS AND LED THE NILE EXPEDITION TO RELIEVE GENERAL GORDON IN KHARTOUM.
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Great Britain 1891 Liversedge Yorkshire Mills Advertising Stationery Cover
2&1/2d rose postal stationery cover, with advertising for Cook & Sons & Co, with illustrations of Brussels & Power Kidder Factory, and Spinning Mills of Liversedge, Yorkshire, postmarked with London hooded c.d.s. (8 MY), to Rotterdam, Netherlands, with c.d.s. arrival backstamp, lovely quality.
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Great Britain 1931 Experimental Flight “CITY OF CAIRO” CRASH Cover Netherlands Indies
Cover franked with 4d and 1/- KGV, tied by London machine cancel (Apr 3), Imperial Airways Experimental Flight to Australia, carried on the DH66 Hercules "City of Cairo", crashed on the leg from Karachi and Koeping in the Netherlands Indies, with mail being forwarded onwards to Darwin by Kingsford-Smith in the "Southern Cross", Darwin c.d.s. backstamp (Ap 31), scarce and fine.
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Great Britain Australia 1934 Rosecoe Turner Signed Mac Robertson Air Race Airmail Cover
Cover franked with 1/2d KGV of Great Britain, tied by London machine cancel (11 Oct), and 1d KGV of Australia, tied by Melbourne c.d.s. (23 OC), violet Mac Robertson Air Race flight cachet signed "Roscoe Turner" below, no backstamps, scarce and fine; Roscoe Turner was a 3-time Thompson Trophy Air Race winner.
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