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Lot
1985 ![](http://www.rumseyauctions.com/images/mint.gif)
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Great Britain, 1887, 6d purple on rose red, block of 4, o.g., never hinged, pristine color & gum, Very Fine. SG No. 208 £120 ($194). Scott No. 119 $130 for hinged.
Realized: $170
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Lot
1986 ![](http://www.rumseyauctions.com/images/mint.gif)
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Great Britain, 1887, 9d dull purple & blue. Interpanneau corner margin block of 4 on Repp paper, outstanding freshness & color, Very Fine; with 1980 P.F. certificate. SG No. 209 £240 ($388). Scott No. 120 $260 for hinged.
Realized: $280
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Lot
1987
Great Britain, 1890, 10d dull purple & carmine. Tied by 1902 "Registered Thread Needle St, BC.EC." oval date stamp on 2d blue registry entire to Germany, Breslau receiving backstamp, Very Fine. Scott No. 121. SG No. 210 Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $95
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Lot
1988
Great Britain, 1890, 1d Penny Post Jubilee Envelope First Day. Uprated with 1887, ½d vermilion + 3d violet on yellow paying the registry rate to Germany, all tied by "Old Trafford, Manchester, Jy 2, 90" cds's, registry oval date stamp, Very Fine. SG No. 197+202 Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $170
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Lot
1989
Great Britain, Royal Navy Exhibition, London S.W., Post Office, Eddystone Lighthouse, 11 Ju, 1891. Blue commemorative cds on 1878 ½d red brown postal card with illustrated lighthouse on reverse, Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200.
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Lot
1990
Great Britain, 1891 Royal Navy Exhibition, London S.W. Special blue 1891 slogan cancel on ½d postal card, reverse with Eddystone Lighthouse illustration and exhibition print; light toning on reverse, otherwise Very Fine. Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $80
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Lot
1991
Great Britain, "London, Mar 17, 2-30P, 1898, England" Involute Flag Cancel. Complete strike tying 1887, ½d vermilion on cover to Rotherhithe, receiving backstamp; allover cover toning, still a Very Fine strike, a Great Pioneer Machine Cancel Rarity, With This Being the Unique on Cover Example of The London Experimental Flag Machine Postmark. SG No. 197 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Mr. Martin V.B. Ethridge approached the British Post Office in 1898 and attempted to sell them his rapid postmarking machine manufactured by his new company, Empire Canceling Machine Company. Trials for this machine were held only four days, March 15, 17, 18 and 21, 1898, for one hour each day with only 3,200 pieces of mail canceled. This is Britain's only pioneer machine cancel in her flag's design ever to be used on mail. Four other examples are known of this postmark are known - one on a postal card, one on a cover front and two cutouts from envelopes. As this is the only complete and intact, receipt marked survivor of the only usage of a flag cancel in any land's history, writer's have called this "The Rarest Flag Cancel in the World". .
Realized: $3,750
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Lot
1992
Great Britain, 1902, £1 dull blue green, De La Rue printing. In combination with 1902-10, ½d yellowish green + 1sh dull green & carmine, pair + 5sh bright carmine, two singles + 10sh ultramarine on registered part paste-up cover to Columbia, S.C., all canceled by "Edinburgh, George Street, Au 23, 05" cds's; £1 with nibbed corner perf and blue crayon registered marking lightened, F.-V.F., a rare high franking cover. SG No. 266+218+257+263+265 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $2,400
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1993 ![](http://www.rumseyauctions.com/images/mint.gif)
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Great Britain, 1906, 4d green & chocolate brown, chalky paper. De La Rue printing, right margin block of 6, pristine never hinged, Very Fine; with 1980 P.F. certificate. SG No. 236a. Scott No. 133 $345 for hinged.
Realized: $270
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Lot
1994
Great Britain, 1941 Salved From The Sea. Violet handstamp on wreck cover franked with 2½d definitive canceled by "London, Jan 16, 1941" machine postmark, addressed to Cairo, Egypt with Cairo, 25 Jne receiving backstamp, Very Fine, This mark is mentioned in Hopkins as used on mail recover from the S.S. Heinan destined for England in 1940. Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $125