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Lot 067
‘One Penny.’ on 3d yellow-buff, SG16 in good used condn, Cat £350
Lot 068
Numerals 6, 8, 9 (fair only) and 15 on 1d CA (3) and 4d orange-red – the other three are better examples
Lot 069
3d CC yellow-buff cancelled type K3a ‘12’ at 11.20 of the clock. It’s the right background to give satisfactory clarity, which a habitually dry inkpad diminishes with other shade. Our estimate is, of course, based partly on substantial cat. for the stamp – we allow for a thin also
Lot 070
Do you yearn for the days when numerals like type K4a ‘17’ were findable and didn’t cost the earth? This example (on ½d stone) sits tall on SE quadrant, thus revealing a smidgen of its duplex
Lot 071
5 ppcs: the unused begin with South Shore (coloured but unfriendly); the Cedar Bar, Bermudiana Hotel (thinly populated); then switch in b/w to the 23,000 ton Monarch of Bermuda, born 1931, died 1967, on a second Real Photo version (unreal ones had yet to come into fashion) with amplified specification added by a fan, post-demise. Finally comes a less glossy version, posted from PAGET (1961 we judge from its 1½d stamp) to a lady in Massachusetts, who may not have appreciated that M. Anderson was greeting all the girls (our emphasis). We doubt that a fairy tale ensued
