Lot 466
Pair of 1s (SG54b) used in Antigua from btm rt of sheet with full mgns and plate no.1 - Est: £10

Lot 467
The reversion to die I 1s, SG87, unmounted mint from the top rt. corner of sheet numbered 030 with full sheet margins, cat. £55+ - Est: £25

Lot 468
Complete r.h pane of 60 of the KG6 2½d light blue plate no.2, apparently ex Spavin and allocated provisionally to 1944 printing - Est: £40

Lot 469
The broken ‘E’ variety on 5s, we will assume SG 112ba but even this lower priced rarity has a cat. £1,200 - Est: £180

Lot 470a
Two pages with the full KG6 definitive set with additional shades and including two additional 10s stamps, all fine mint, cat. £400+ - Est: £90

Lot 470b
Two pages with the full KG6 definitive set with additional shades and including two additional 10s stamps, all fine mint, cat. £400+ - Est: £90

Lot 471
The 1945 and 1952 printings of the £1 (SG114 b and c) in mint corner blocks of four plus two additional mint singles of each – cat. £300 - Est: £75

Lot 472
If you’d rather have the 1952 £1 in used block of four on cover then this is for you SG114c - Est: £40

Lot 473
On 1 July 1949 the colours of six of the lower values of the KGVI definitives were changed, On this page we have a cover to Barbados from St John’s with the six values, dated AU 24 49. More interesting though are the set of six mint corner pairs with plate no. 3 and in the case of the 2d 2 and 3 – these are worth a distinct premium - Est: £30

Lot 474
Page with the short-lived QEII definitive set, fine mint SG126-140 cat. £60 - Est: £12

Lot 475
Leewards used in St Kitts 1890 1d and 4d, Sexagenary 1d, 2½d and 1d on 7d pair – the Sexagenary pmks are less clear than the others - Est: £16

Lot 476
The three 1d surcharges SG17-19 are not difficult, but these are pleasing mint singles with full o.g. cat. £27 - Est: £6

Lot 477a
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477b
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477c
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477d
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477e
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477f
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477g
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 477h
A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion - Est: £30

Lot 478
A cover to Manchester posted on board the RMS Eden and put into the post on MR 18 98. The 2½d postage paid with 2x 1d and a ½d QV Leeward definitives, but these have been inscribed ‘Eden’ in red. The only cover inscribed Eden that we recall was in Graham Booth’s collection where it realised £800 - Est: £250

Lot 479
Somewhat battered envelope from Antigua to Madeira postage 2½d (KE½d, 2x 1d) sent OC 19 04, Funchal arrival 9 NOV 04 on reverse, unusual - Est: £12

Lot 480
OHMS envelope, unusually with the official post office letter still inside, sent registered to Boston DE 9 04, postage 6d paid by SG25 - Est: £15

Lot 481
A locally used ppc sent to Mrs Spooner, Bendals MR 13 12 with KE 1d paying fee – the ppc shows an inside view of the Anglican Cathedral, St John - Est: £8

Lot 482a
Five covers with Leeward stamps used in St Kitts: three Royal Bank of Canada envelopes to Georgetown, BG sent 1925-26 two for 1½d, one for 2d; two regd back to England, 1929 3x 1½d, one 1926 2x 3d (we think deep ultramarine) (2x £60 off cover) - Est: £40

Lot 482b
Five covers with Leeward stamps used in St Kitts: three Royal Bank of Canada envelopes to Georgetown, BG sent 1925-26 two for 1½d, one for 2d; two regd back to England, 1929 3x 1½d, one 1926 2x 3d (we think deep ultramarine) (2x £60 off cover) - Est: £40

Lot 483a
Lower mgnl die II 3d, vert. pair took OHMS cover regd to London in 1926. Flap is partly missing, so we add in another OHMS regd same year to Barbados (b/stamp Barbados RLO). Both were sent from Antigua GPO, and second would be classy, had not its die II 6d been mangled to Kingdom come - Est: £25

Lot 483b
Lower mgnl die II 3d, vert. pair took OHMS cover regd to London in 1926. Flap is partly missing, so we add in another OHMS regd same year to Barbados (b/stamp Barbados RLO). Both were sent from Antigua GPO, and second would be classy, had not its die II 6d been mangled to Kingdom come - Est: £25

Lot 484
On seeing a strip of three farthing stamps on the front of a registered cover to Bath sent 26 FE 29, one’s first thought is how did it get there for that. Turn it over and there is a block of 15 farthing stamps from the bottom three rows of the sheet with plate no. 10 so the 4½d rate is there. - Est: £10

Lot 485
Three covers to Lennards Ltd in Bristol; two sent by airmail from Antigua, via New York was sent OC 31 29 registered for 1s 7½d (Leewards 1½d, 6d, 1s Die I but not plate 23); then mixed franking with Antigua 3d and 4d combining with Leewards 5d to make up a 1s rate AU 15 31 and finally an item from St Kitts postmarked 16 MR 29 which the sender tried to post surface for 1d, the under payment was noted and a 2d postage due added in the UK - Est: £25

Lot 486
On the reverse inscribed ‘trip to Porto Rico postponed, so am posting this in Antigua’. This being an envelope to Farnham, Surrey inscribed on the front ‘P.A.A. via Miami & New York’, an early airmail with Leewards 2s (SG74a) sent FE 7 38 – the stamp has cat. £50 off cover - Est: £25

Lot 487
Two covers from St Kitts, one censored there and one in Antigua. The first sent by airmail 21 AU 1942 for 1s ½d has the St Kitts CH4 fancy lozenge applied in red with the manuscript ‘3’ and has Antigua AU 27 on reverse; the second cover was also sent by air mail, the fare a penny more, to Washington AP 27 43 and was opened in Antigua and resealed with the L7 label of censor 235. Both commercial - Est: £35

Lot 488
Leewards KEVII 2d PSRE uprated 5½d postage to New York 25 Feb 1913. An observant owner notes carried by a Quebec SS vessel and that the pair of 1d stamps includes the small ‘s’ variety. No less than four receiving marks but sadly it is beyond our eyesight to detect the office of despatch. Our records suggest only 500 of this 1910 envelope which folds to the front were printed and of these just four mint and four used survive, we cannot say if this makes five, but clearly scarce - Est: £75

Lot 489
In the KGV period there were three reply PSC, ½ green, 1d violet, and 1½d carmine – all are addressed from Antigua to Beckhaus and without messages, but this was thought to be the only way to get the third of these (but see the next lot) and we add in the 1d carmine card addressed the same way. A bit grubby and battered at the edges but only 1,002 of each of the reply card were ever printed. - Est: £90

Lot 490
However, it appears that there was also Mr Adolphe Schoeller, as a philatelic addressee and here we can offer the 1d violet and 1½d carmine reply PSCs addressed to him in France and sent from Antigua AU 17 28. The condition of these two significantly better than the previous lot - Est: £100

Lot 491
1½d PSE sent from St John’s Antigua to Dolcis Shoe Co, London on JA 28 33, London arrival 16 FE on reverse - Est: £30

Lot 492
We offered one of the scarce 1d carmine PSE’s from Antigua and it realised £120. This year’s envelope is the only one we can recall that was sent registered. The envelope to Glasgow’s School of Accountancy is uprated by 3½d and was sent FE 2 1932, part of the Tercentenary Year slogan cancel also on the envelope. Slightly grubby - Est: £75

Lot 493
Universal key plate size G 3d PSRE sent from St Kitts to Montgomery Ward 19 MR 34 uprated by 2½d, nice straightforward use - Est: £18

Lot 494
Group of eight Leeward postal stationery items, seven used. Mixed condition. Best maybe a ½d KE wrapper sent from Antigua to Barbados. A couple sent from Montserrat - Est: £15

Lot 495a
Eight different Leewards postal stationery wrappers optd Specimen, incl Keyplate ¼d. along with six unused wrappers condn a little variable - Est: £12

Lot 495b
Eight different Leewards postal stationery wrappers optd Specimen, incl Keyplate ¼d. along with six unused wrappers condn a little variable - Est: £12

Lot 495c
Eight different Leewards postal stationery wrappers optd Specimen, incl Keyplate ¼d. along with six unused wrappers condn a little variable - Est: £12