Another fine auction for us here at Warwick and Warwick, with strong bidding and good prices achieved across the board.
Highlights from the miscellaneous world lots include lot 1, an old-time world collection in a Stanley Gibbons Ideal First Edition album, full of better material that seems to have never been picked over, which sold just overestimate for £3,600.
Foreign and Commonwealth single-country ranges and items also performed well, with notable highlights including lot 184, a USA collection in three Lighthouse albums covering 1847-1997, which achieved a hammer price of £3,600; lot 162, a collection of Germany in a Stanley Gibbons Davo album spanning 1872-1945, selling for £1,450; and lot 152, a Sierra Leone 1912-21 £5 orange and green, very fine mint marginal example with plate number, which sold for an exceptional £975.
Great Britain, as always, flourished, especially with the Queen Victoria collections and individual items. Highlights include lot 214, an unused marginal example of the 1840 1d black, a very rare item which sold for £875; lot 216, a very fine used strip of five penny blacks scarcely seen in such a multiple, with a hammer price of £1,550; and lot 220, a very fine pair of unused 1840 2d blues selling for an incredible £3,000!
