Lot 1 in the auction was a World foreign collection in a pair of well-filled Ideal albums. This included an excellent range of China issues to the 1930’s which attracted considerable interest. The albums achieved a final price of £9,000.
Elsewhere in the auction covers were very popular.
An envelope posted from British Honduras cover addressed to Hove in 1870 sold for £2,220.
An envelope from Victoria Land in 1913 and with a British Antarctic Expedition cancel sold for £312.
An 1842 printed ‘Post Magazine’ to Norfolk achieved an impressive £840.
In the British Commonwealth section a range of King George V Rhodesia double heads reached good prices, the 5/- sold for £250 and the 10/- sold for £300. A Sierra Leone £5 sold for £780.
In the Great Britain section, a Waterlow 1913 Seahorse 2/6d deep sepia-brown block 6 reached £1,320 and a £1 sold for £430.
A collection of 26 plated 1d blacks on entires reached £5,880, which is over £160 per cover.
