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FEBRUARY 2017CL183

Cover LoverThe magazine for first day and commemorative cover collectors

On 14th March 2017 music icon David Bowie becomes the first ever solo artist to be commemorated with a brand new set of postage stamps.

We showcase these on our stunning limited edition covers.

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FULL RANGE OF DAVID BOWIE

COVERS AND COLLECTABLES

A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIEMusic Giants II - 14th March 2017

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Dear Collector,

We have been sworn to secrecy about this issue for months, then one of his fan sites let the issue slip out, so we were told by Royal Mail that we could go ahead with our advertising, that was quite a busy morning.

Our trip to York went well and we bought some nice bits and pieces, Craig has a lovely cover (see below). We are now getting ready for Stampex, if this magazine arrives in time you may still have time to visit (14th – 17th February – Call us for more details).

For this magazine Sarah has put together a nice couple of pages of music signed covers and we also have the first Cover Lover pages from Vickie, the RAF 50th Anniversary of World War II series which we have not done in a while.

We are still trying hard to promote our clubs. Tony used an idea ‘Recommend a Friend’, where if one of your Friend’s became a club customer there were bonuses for both of you. Club customers will receive details of this re-vamped idea with the next main sending, but if you want details before, just drop us an email.

It seems strange to be offering new single high values

again, I remember the £1.41 Parcel Post that came out just after I started in stamps back in 1985, now we are up to a single £5 stamp. As then, the cylinder numbers have proved to be popular, but I guess putting barcodes on stamp sheets had not been thought about in the ‘olden’ days.

Finally I have been thinking what news from the office I can give you this month. I think you will have to ask Craig about his York Ghost Bus Tour! Also, congratulations to our three runners in the Folkestone Park Run last week with

• Jake 21:50 • Farai 28:06 • Clair 31:22

I had already volunteered as timekeeper that week so could not take part, but think I would have finished between Farai and Clair. I am looking forward to the re-match, as long as Clair promises not to get any faster.

Happy Collecting

Brian AustinFebruary 2017

BUCKINGHAM COVERS, SPECIALIST COVER EXPERT

A WORD FROM

BRIAN“At last we can mention the secret David Bowie issue and show you all our covers.”

We have just bought a fantastic cover which has been carried on two classic transport icons. This cover was not only flown on the first USA to Germany flight of the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg but also then carried on the maiden voyage of RMS Queen Mary from Southampton to New York. The cover features a flown cachet from the LZ 129 Hindenburg and several arrival stamps. This is a brilliant cover linked to two historic transport feats.

LZ 129 HindenburgLZ 129 Hindenburg was a German passenger airship named after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. The airship was in service from March 1936 until it was destroyed on May 6th 1937 when it caught fire during an attempt to dock at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary was an ocean liner built for Cunard-White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on May 27th 1936 and had achieved the Blue Riband by August; holding it for the majority of the next 15 years. During World War II she was converted into a troopship but returned to passenger services after the war. RMS Queen Mary departed Southampton on her final voyage on October 3 1st 1967 to the port of Long Beach, California, where she remains moored to this day.

ARZ49 £450 £50 per month over 9 months

LZ 129 HINDENBURG &

RMS QUEEN MARY

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The Miniature sheet contains 4 stamps,

each featuring a Bowie tour image:

Ziggy Stardust 1973The Stage Tour 1978

The Serious Moonlight Tour 1983

A Reality Tour 2004

A TRIBUTE TO ‘STARMAN’ DAVID BOWIEMusic Giants II - 14th March 2017

The cover features our special Heddon Street, London postmark - the location used on the front of Bowie’s

1972 album ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’. Today there is a black plaque to Ziggy Stardust on the

wall at 23 Heddon Street.

Our miniature sheet covers feature a fantastic stardust image. Bowie’s iconic status is, in part, due to his ability to reinvent himself throughout his career. He is perhaps best remembered for his most stage persona ‘Ziggy Stardust’ - although he had earlier success, it was the Ziggy Stardust

Tour and album that catapulted him to stardom.

The album covers featured on the stamps are:

Hunky DoryAladdin SaneHeroesLet’s DanceEarthlingBlackstar

On 14th March 2017 music icon David Bowie becomes the first ever solo artist to be commemorated with a brand new set of postage stamps. We showcase these on our

stunning limited edition covers.

BC555M £16.95

Cancelled with our Stardust Crescent, Swindon postmark

on the first day of issue BC555MB £16.95 Barcoded Miniature sheetAlso Available


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BC555R £16.95

David Bowie cover featuring the Retail Book.

STP026 £19.95

STP026A £13.95

BC555V £94.95

David Bowie water jet cut 7” Vinyl art, hand finished, mounted and box-framed alongside our very own David Bowie Stamps First Day Cover. Price includes Special Delivery postage.

Set of PHQ cards - featruring the 6 album cover stamps

Set of PHQ cards - featruring the 4 stamps from the miniature sheet

BC555MA £16.95

Stamps from the miniature sheet with Stardust Crescent postmark.

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17th February 2017

100th Anniversary of gordon campbell’s ‘mystery’ vc

• Produced in partnership with The National Museum of the Royal Navy

• Features a portrait of Gordon Campbell VC

• VC 20p stamp and 50p Machin

• Postmarked Saltash on the anniversary date 17/2/17

BCN01 £10.95

BCSP43S £39.95

BCSP43 £10.95

This beautiful cover, designed by

Katherine, celebrates Dame Vera Lynn.

Postmarked on her 100th birthday with a special Bluebird over

Dover CDS. Signed by Vera Lynn herself in her

100th year.

Unsigned

dame vera lynn

20th March 2017

Gordon Campbell joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1900, and in 1917, by the age of 31, he had reached the rank of commander. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 17 February 1917. Whilst commanding HMS Farnborough (Q.5) (one of the “mystery” Q ships) in the North Atlantic he sighted a torpedo track. He altered course and allowed the torpedo to hit. A ‘panic party’

got away convincingly, followed by the U-boat. When the submarine was within 100 yards of Q.5 the commander gave the order to fire, sinking the German U-Boat. Campbell sent a famous distress signal: “Q.5 slowly sinking respectfully wishes you goodbye.” Within an hour two British destroyers arrived to tow Q.5 to safety. Campbell remained on board with a volunteer skeleton crew to assist.

Campbell’s VC citation was deliberately vague: “In recognition of his conspicuous gallantry, consummate coolness, and skill in command of one of HM ships in action.” The vagueness backfired, as the press started referring to him as “The Mystery VC.” Two further acts in 1917 saw Campbell’s crew awarded with VCs, Campbell himself might have been awarded a second VC for either action but declined on both occasions; he was however awarded second bar to his DSO medal.

On the 20th March 2017 Dame Vera Lynn, ‘the Forces Sweetheart’ turns 100 years old. She has personally signed this beautiful cover

celebrating her centenary.

This cover is automatically reserved at just £9.95 for Members of our Maritime Club. This is just

one of the benefits of joining a Buckingham Club. Sign up to make sure you don’t miss out.

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windsor castle 100 Years of the House of Windsor

15th February 2017

FDC Club Customers £15.95

Signer to be confirmed

On 17th July 1917, George V declared that the Royal family would henceforth be known as the House of Windsor. In February 2017, Royal Mail will release a set of stamps celebrating Windsor Castle, the historical seat of the Monarchy. What better way to honour the first century of this illustrious Royal House than with these superb covers celebrating the castle and it’s namesake - The House of Windsor.

Signer to be confirmed

Barcoded miniature sheet

Barcoded miniature sheet, Signer to be confirmed

FDC Club Customers £15.95

Retail Booklet

Stamps from the miniature sheet

Stamps from the miniature sheet. Signer to be confirmed.

Retail Booklet

01303 278137EMAIL: [email protected]

• 6 stamps featuring famous rooms and views associated with Windsor Castle.

• Cancelled with our special Windsor postmark dates the first day of issue

• Designed by Clair Palmer

• Features the 4 monarchs of the house, headed by it’s founder, George V

• Miniature sheet featuring St Georges Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle

• Cancelled with a London SW1 postmark dates the first day of issue


• Focusing on the future House of Windsor, with a beautiful portrait of the young family the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, including Prince George & Princess Charlotte

• Retail booklet features 4 Machin stamps and 2 pictorial stamps

• Postmarked on the day of issue 15/2/17

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BC553MA £16.95


windsor castle cont. 100 Years of the House of Windsor

15th February 2017

Set of 4 covers with our Windsor and London SW1 postmarks

Set of 4 covers postmarked on the day of issue with mixed postmarks

post & go MAIL BY RAIL 15th February 2017

Signed Peter Johnson

Machine Stamps

Machine Stamps. Signed Peter Johnson

Our Windsor cover with the Post & Go Mail by Rail stamps with our Windsor postmark.

Our Post & Go Mail by Rail cover with the Windsor Castle stamps and our Post & Go postmark.

ONE DAY TWO ISSUES!

• Prestige Booklet for the Windsor Castle issue which focuses on the history of Windsor Castle and the changes made to the exterior and interiors by different monarchs over the years

• Features a beautiful view of the Royal standard flag and Windsor Castle

stampex special • Windsor stamps cover, with full set of six Windsor Castle stamps


• Spring Stampex Windsor First dayof issue postmark 15/2/17

• February sees the celebration of mail travelling by rail with the stamps depicting the Travelling Post Office; Bag Exchange, loading, sorting and on the move. Also including the Night Mail and the Underground Mail Rail.

• Designed by Katherine Pitt

• Postmarked on day of issue 15/2/17 at London W2, as the inaugural run started at Paddington station

• Signed Peter Johnson author of 3 books about TPO including Mail by Rail Stampex pmk

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BC553PSB £63.80

BC553A £16.95

BC554 £16.95

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BC554S £26.95

BC554B £17.95

BC554BS £26.95

BC554V £16.95

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BC440AS7 £49.95

Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. Highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, he is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre. He devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic; it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives.

The Centenary of the 1st British Military Aviator Captain Lanoe Hawker to win the Victoria Cross this sheet presentation pack has a dramatic scene of a DH2 Lanoe Hawker in it’s battle.

triple signed alan turing cover

BCSHEET87S £36.95

outerspace treaty

captain lanoe hawker vc

BCU06 £12.95

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty this cover WILL BEdouble postmarked firstly on 27.1.17 SW1 for the signing then 10.10.17 with our ‘On This Day’ running postmark the day it came into effect

Briton’s of Distinction - 2012 Alan Turing First Day Cover with Alan Turing Stamp postmarked Bletchley Park 23/02/12 and doubled with ‘Station X Bletchley Park’ stamp and postmark 10/4/12.

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Signed by Spooks Actors Peter Firth (Sir Harry Pearce), Gemma Jones (Connie James) & Nicholas Jones (Michael Collingwood)

Limited Edition of 40

27th January 2017

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15th February 2017stampex specials

BCE16D £12.95

BCD37E £8.95

Our Coronation cover with Royal Seal stamp, postmarked on the 60th anniversary of the Coronation, Coronation label and 65th Anniversary of the accession cachet. Doubled with Spring Stampex Machin overprint stamp and Spring Stampex postmark.

Post & Go Machin cover with Spring Stampex Machin overprint stamp and Spring Stampex postmark.

On the 15th February Royal Mail will release a special Stampex overprinted Machin stamp and issue a special postmark. These are only available at Stampex. However, we are producing a limited number of covers with the stamp, postmarked at the show. These will be very limited numbers and are offered subject to availability.

new definitive - £5 High Value6th February 2017On 6 February it will be the 65th anniversary of the Accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In order to mark this anniversary, Royal Mail will be producing a new Sapphire £5 high value Definitive. The last one was issued in 1977!

• Features the new £5 Machin high value with modern security features and iridescent overprint

• Designed by Katherine Pitt

• Postmarked with a London SW1 on the First day of issue 6/2/17

• Top border pair taken from sheet

• Features barcode

• London, SW1 special accession postmark

• Bottom block of four including border

• Cylinder showing in left hand border

• London, SW1 special accession postmark

BCD37B £24.95

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The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway officially opened on 21 February 1842. The route ran between Glasgow and Edinburgh and was Scotland’s first trunk

line. Our cover celebrates the anniversary and features the Almond Valley Viaduct, the longest structure on the line.

A 1st class definitive and an 8p North British Railway stamp (the NBR acquired the Edinburgh & Scotland Railway in 1865) are cancelled with our special Glasgow postmark on the 175th anniversary.

Broad Gauge was pioneered in Britain by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the late 1830s for the Great Western Railway. A number of other new railway Companies adopted the specification, creating a network that spread across much of South West England and South Wales.

On the 1st March 1867, through trains from London Paddington to Penzance began running and included fast services such as the 10:15 Cornishman and 11:45 Flying Dutchman. Our cover, celebrating the 150th anniversary of these broad gauge services, features a stunning painting by Railway Artist John Wigston showing Brunel’s Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.

the edinburgh & glasgow railway

paddington to penzance

21st February 2017

1st March 2017

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SGP063C Carson Wayne Newton is an American singer and Las Vegas entertainer. His best known songs include 1972’s “Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast” and his vocal version of “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” (1965). Signed by singer Wayne Newton, who also appeared as Professor Joe Butcher in the Bond Film “Licence to Kill” £15

SGP063E Grace Barnett Slick is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and former model. Her music career has spanned four decades, and involved The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, as well as a sporadic solo career. Signed by singer Grace Slick £25

SGP063F Melvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since 1962, he has released more than 20 major-label albums and has charted more than 35 singles on the Billboard country music charts. Signed by Lee Greenwood £20

SGP063G Dion Francis DiMucci, better known simply as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, rock and R&B styles and straight blues. He had 39 Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s with him solo, with the Belmonts or with the Del Satins and is known for the singles “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer”. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Signed by singer Dion £25

SGP063H Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music singer, songwriter, actress and record producer. She has sometimes been referred to as “The Queen of Country” and she is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 85 million records worldwide. Signed by Reba McIntyre £20

SGP063I Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He is credited with six Grammy Awards and forty No. 1 country hits. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Signed by Ronnie Milsap £20

SGP063J John Benson Sebastian is an American-born singer- songwriter, who is best known as a founder of The Lovin’ Spoonful, for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and for his #1 hit in 1976, “Welcome Back”. Signed by singer John Sebastian £25

SGP063K Patricia Lynn “Trisha” Yearwood is an American country music singer, author, and actress. She is a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Signed by Trisha Yearwood £20

SGP063L Kenny Vance is an American singer, songwriter, and music producer. His career spans from the 1950s to today, with projects ranging from starting doo-wop groups to music supervising to creating solo albums. Throughout his career he served as a mentor to a generation of younger musicians that included Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (Steely Dan). Signed by singer/producer Kenny Vance £20

SGP063M The Statler Brothers were an American country music, gospel, and vocal group. The quartet was formed in 1955 performing locally and in 1964 they began singing backup for Johnny Cash. As a result, they wrote a tribute song to Johnny Cash, who discovered them. The song was called “We Got Paid by Cash”, and it reminisces about their time with Cash. Signed by country singers the Statler Bros £20

SGP063N Bobby Rydell is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music and in the early 1960s, he was considered a teen idol. His most well-known songs include “Wild One” and “Volare” (cover), and he appeared in the movie Bye Bye Birdie in 1963. Signed by singer Bobby Rydell £35

Signed Elvis Presley CoversWe recently bought in a collection of Elvis covers, postmarked 29th January 1993 in Memphis, and signed by an assortment of musical talent, some of them contemporaries of Elvis.

SGP063E £25

SGP063H £20



SGP063O Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (initially credited as The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett) was an American pop rock group active in the late 1960s. Their biggest hits were “Woman, Woman”; “Over You”; “Young Girl”; and “Lady Willpower.” Signed by singer Gary Puckett £30

SGP063Q Rodney Marvin “Rod” McKuen was an American singer- songwriter, musician and poet. He was one of the best- selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. Signed by American singer/poet Rod McKuen £35SGP063R Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter. She was a vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold. Since 1969, she has been married to singer Billy Davis, Jr., the founder and co-member of the 5th Dimension. Signed by American singer/actress Marilyn McCoo £25

SGP063S Marilyn Mason is an American actress, producer and screenwriter. Her acting credits include roles in Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible, The Fugitive, The Invaders and Ironside. Mason also appeared in the film The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley. Signed by American actress Marilyn Mason £25

SGP063U Victoria Ann “Vicki” Lawrence is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She was a regular on The Carol Burnett Show, where she appeared from 1967 to 1978. In 1973, she became a one-hit wonder on the U.S. chart with “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”. Lawrence has multiple Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 1976. Signed by American actress & singer Vicki Lawrence £15

SGP063V Abbe Lane is an American singer and actress. The most successful of her albums was a collaboration with Tito Puente, titled Be Mine Tonight released in 1958. She also played guest roles in such series as The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Brady Bunch and Hart to Hart. Her last movie appearance was in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Signed by American actress & singer Abbe Lane £25

SGP063W Stonewall Jackson is an American country singer, guitarist and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country’s “golden” honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s. Stonewall is not a nickname; he was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. He became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. Signed by singer Stonewall Jackson £20

SGP063X Bobby Goldsboro is an American pop and country singer- songwriter. He had a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including his signature No. 1 hit “Honey”, which sold over one million copies in the United States. It also became his first country hit. Signed by singer Bobby Goldsboro £25

SGP063Y Amy Lee Grant is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress. She is known for performing contemporary Christian music (CCM) and has been referred to as “The Queen of Christian Pop”. As of 2009, she had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum. Signed by American singer Amy Grant £20



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SGP063Z Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that endured over a 50-year career. He guest-starred on several television shows, including Sesame Street and The Simpsons two-part episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”. Signed by American Latin-Jazz musician Tito Puentes £20

SGP063ZA Fabiano Anthony Forte professionally known as Fabian, is an American singer and actor. Forte rose to national prominence after performing several times on American Bandstand. He became a teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Signed by American singer Fabian £20

SGP063ZB Peter Duchin is an American pianist and band leader. Duchin formed his first professional band in 1962 and their style and genres have been described as “a musical approach that incorporates big bands, swing and Broadway songs (and nowadays, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll)”. Signed by American pianist & band leader Peter Duchin £20

SGP063ZD Vic Damone is an American singer, songwriter, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer, of Italian descent, best known for songs including “You’re Breaking My Heart”, “On the Street Where You Live” (from My Fair Lady), and “My Heart Cries for You”. Signed by American singer Vic Damone £25

SGP063ZE Rita Coolidge is an American recording artist and songwriter. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard’s pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts and won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and former husband Kris Kristofferson. Signed by American singer Rita Coolidge £25

SGP063ZF Vikki Carr is an American vocalist and humanitarian who has had a singing career for over four decades. Originally from El Paso, Texas, born to parents of Mexican descent, she has performed in a variety of musical genres, including country, jazz, and pop while her greatest success has come from singing in Spanish. Signed by American singer Vicki Carr £15SGP063ZG Deborah Anne “Debby” Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, “You Light Up My Life”, which led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Signed by American singer & actress Debbie Boone £15

Signed Elvis Presley Covers Continued...

Marty Wilde, MBE (born Reginald Leonard Smith, 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky, Kim and Roxanne Wilde. 13/05/08 USA Frank Sinatra cover signed by British singer Marty Wilde.

SGW149 £35

Brian Hyland is an American pop recording artist who was particularly successful during the early 1960s, although he continued recording into the 1970s. Although his status as a teen idol faded, he went on to release several country-influenced albums and had additional chart hits later in his career. Brian Hyland signed American cover, our choice, famous for “Sealed with a Kiss”.

SGH101 £35



Sir Cliff Richard OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Cliff Richard, signed 1998 Christmas Angels cover.

SGR016L £90

Julian Miles “Jools” Holland, OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2. 16/06/93 USA Legends of Popular Music cover signed by Jools Holland.

SGH185 £45

Artcraft USA Blues & Jazz Legends cover signed by American singer, actress and game show panellist Jaye P Morgan.In 1950, Morgan recorded “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries”, which reached the Top 10 in the US. Soon after, she received a recording contract, and she had five hits in one year; her biggest hit reached number 3. In the mid ‘70s she was a regular panellist on the popular game The Gong Show. She also appeared in the 2002 George Clooney directed film ”Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”, a fictionalized version of the life of Chuck Barris, who created The Gong Show.

SGM192 £25

Larry Adler was an American musician known for his skill with a harmonica. He performed many works written especially

for him, and also collaborated with a number of other famous names later in his career, including Sting, Elton John and Kate

Bush. As a composer, he once received an Oscar nomination for the score he wrote for the 1953 film Genevieve. Larry

Adler, signed 1996 Classic Cars, Genevieve coin cover (C4).

SGA010A £75

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PORTFOLIO

18th July 1958 Sixth Commonwealth Games, Empire Games Village Barry special slogan on Philatelic Traders Society illustrated cover, neat typed address

£55 per month over 2 months

14th November 1962 National Productivity Year, phosphor stamps, typed address and London Chief Office CDS postmark

7th July 1960 400th Anniversary of the General Letter Office, illustrated cover with the International Postal Conference Eastbourne special slogan, neat typed address. Good clear slogan, which is hard to find


3rd May 1951 Festival of Britain, illustrated cover, cachet address to The Stamp Shop in the Festival Gardens, cancelled with a Battersea wavy line slogan cancel


28th August 1961 Centenary of the Post Office Savings Bank. Registered cover with a West Kensington, Blythe Road, London CDS postmark and Express Delivery Label. Glue marks next to the illustration so a lower retail price.


1966 World Cup Double postmarked Philart cover, the set has a Wembley FDI and the winners stamp Harrow and Wembley. It is always surprising how few of these doubles were done


21st March 1963 Freedom from Hunger, illustrated cover with Tenth Anniversary London special postmark plus express Delivery label, typed address

FC134 £110

FC182 £110

FC193 £195

The Fabulous 50’s and the Swinging 60’s

FC189 £150

FC209 £125 £50 per month over 3 months

£100 per month over 5 monthsFC560 £500

FC216 £125

FC621 £150

24th April 1967 British Wild Flowers, registered GPO cover cancelled with clear Kew Gardens CDS and postmark and registered ‘C’ label, typed


15th August 1963 Red Cross Centenary illustrated cover with both the ordinary and phosphor sets. West Wellow, Romsey CDS postmark with registration label on St Margaret’s Church cover, signed by the village Vicar


5th August 1964 10th International Botanical Congress Connoisseur cover, phosphor stamps, registered with a clear Kew Gardens CDS and label. Neat typed address and in good condition


The 1970s - Rare Postmarks & Errors

1st April 1970 Anniversaries, Post Office cover, unaddressed with Florence Nightingale London special postmark. Missing green on the 1/- value so the tablecloth is yellow rather than green

£100 per month over 5 months25th August 1971 General Anniversaries, unaddressed Thames cover with Rugby Football Union Centenary ball shaped Twickenham special postmark

1977 Silver Jubilee, Clear Buckingham Palace CDS postmark, neat unaddressed cover.


21st March 1979 British Flowers, Post Office cover with Kew Gardens Richmond CDS postmark, neat cachet address and daffodil cachet.

28th July 1971 Literary Anniversaries, John Keats Shanklin special postmark on Philart luxury cover with small label address.


To find our rare covers on our website, just type ‘Portfolio’ into the search box www.buckinghamcovers.com

FC329 £250

FC267A £175

FC799C £500

£75 per month over 3 monthsFC858 £225

FC171Q £140

FC185L £100

FC849 £120


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Comet 1

ARC01A £75

1952 London to Johannesburg

NOW £60

ARC01B £75

1952 Johannesburg-London

NOW £60

ARC02A £501952 London-Cairo NOW £45

ARC02B £501952 Cairo-London NOW £45

ARC04A £201952 London-Singapore NOW £15

ARC03A £251952 London-Colombo NOW £17.50

ARC03B £251952 Colombo-London NOW £17.50ARC05A £301953 London-Tokyo NOW £22.50

ARC05B £301953 Tokyo-London NOW £22.50



Comet 4

ARC06A £151959 London-Tokyo NOW £10

ARC06B £151959 Tokyo-London NOW £10

ARC10A £151963 London-Auckland NOW £10

ARC10B £151963 Auckland-London NOW £10

ARC07A £12.501959 London-Sydney NOW £10

ARC07B £12.501959 Sydney-London NOW £10

ARC11A £151959 London - Johannesburg NOW £10

ARC11B £151959 Johannesburg-London NOW £10

ARC08A £12.501960 London-Santiago NOW £10

ARC08B £151960 Santiago-London NOW £10

ARC12A £15NOW £101959 London-Singapore

ARC12A £15NOW £101959 Singapore-London

ARC09A £151961 Comet 4 London-Manila NOW £10

ARC13A £30

NOW £22.50

1958 London-New York

ARC13B £30

NOW £25

1958 New York-London


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Invasion of Belgium cover with stamp & BFPO postmark issued 1990 signed by VC winners B Reid, E Kenna, I Fraser, J Hinton, T Gould, P Gardner, R Annand, R Burton, R Learoyd & E Wilson.

Captain Charles Upham VC/Bar signed 1980 New Zealand 35th Anniversary of VE Day Cover

1990 Battle of Britain cover, signed by Victoria Cross winners Bill Reid, Rod Learoyd and Ian Fraser, plus 11 other Battle of Britain pilots including Dennis David, H Bird-Wilson & A MacGregor.

Philip Gardner VC, signed 50th Anniversary of Operation

Compass cover, also signed by Field Marshal The Lord Carver.

Victoria Cross for Valour, George Cross for Gallantry cover postmarked 1997 signed by VC winner Gaje Ghale. Also signed by GC winners Stuart Archer, Carl Walker, Tony Gledhill, Margaret Purves, and 3 more.

Benham 50th Anniversary VE Day with set of Peace & Freedom stamps postmarked

Edinburgh 1995, signed by Ganju Lama VC.

60th Anniversary Operation Chastise The Dambusters Raid 617 Squadron RAF cover with single Boy VC stamp and BFPO postmark 2006, signed by VC winner John Cruickshank.

Bernard Freyburg VC, signed Christmas Card showing Mount Hikurangi

01303 278137

£49.50 per month for 10 months

VCX0002 £495

THE VICTORIA CROSS

VCU001 £200

VCF030A £400

£100 per month for 4 months


VCZ039 £150


VCC034 £25

VCG001A £60

VCG021 £95

VCL004 £90


50th Anniversary of the Invasion of Belgium cover with GB stamp & BFPO pmk 28/05/1990, signed by VC winners John Cruickshank, Bill Reid, Richard Annand and Rod Learoyd.

Gallantry cover, signed by VC winners Pat Porteous, Harold Ervine Andrews, Bill Reid & Rod Learoyd. Plus Carl Walker GC, Bob Doe, Gen Napier Cookenden, Alastair Pearson, Lewis Brandon, Awcock, E Rodley.

11cm x 8cm approx Royal Hospital, Chelsea piece mounted on paper signed by VC winner, George S White.

1995 Victoria Cross Remembrance programme,

signed by winners Keith Payne, Edward Kenna,

Rod Learoyd, John Kenneally, Tommy Gould,

Gaje Gale, Bill Reid and John Cruickshank plus 9

GC winners1983 British Army cover signed by VC winners, Keith Payne, Edward Kenna, Eric Wilson, Pat Porteous, Philip Gardner, John Hinton & Harold Ervine-Andrews. Also signed by Brig Alastair Pearson, Brig Jameson.

1983 St Kitts Military Uniform cover, signed by Gerald Norton, Lama Ganju, Keith Payne, Edward Kenna, John Kenneally, Pat Porteous, Eric Wilson, Ernest Smith, Ian Fraser and Tommy Gould.

National Army Museum VC cover with stamp & BFPO postmark issued 1970 signed by VC winners Tommy Gould, Edward Kenna, John Cruickshank, Godfrey Place, Ian Fraser, Jack Hinton & Rod Learoyd and 1 other signature.

The Spirit of Britain Churchill cover with set of medal stamps & postmarked 1990, signed by VC winners Rambahadur Limbu, W Apiata & E Kenna. Also signed by 6 GC winners.



VCR010P £100 £50 per month for 2 months

VCW018 £275

VCZ100A £250

VCZ092D £250 £50 per month for 5 months

VCZ3007 £150 £50 per month for 3 months

VCZ121 £400 £50 per month for 8 months

VCZ7007 £395 £79 per month for 5 monthsVCZ4001 £200 £50 per month for 4 months


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TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT (HORNBY)

18/09/03

BC038D £65

Margate postmark signed Frank Martin,

Chief Executive of Hornby, PLC of the year.

BC038A Margate postmark ..........................................£55BC038E Stampex postmark, one of the venues where Hornby launched “Live Steam” .....................£55BC038F Miniature sheet with Stampex postmark .....£70BC038MSA2 Hornby postmark doubled with a Hornby TPO postmark ..........................................................£50BC038MSA3 Margate postmark doubled with a Hornby TPO postmark ..........................................................£50

BC038G £80

Miniature sheet signed David Shepherd, rail artist and enthusiast.

BC038K £575

Set of six covers with mix of up and down TPO postmarks.


BC038P £60

Hornby Model Rail Sheet FDC with 42p Hornby stamp and the Cinderella miniature sheet with Stampex postmark.

150TH ANNIVERSARY OF JANE EYRE

24/02/05BC216 Keighley, Yorkshire postmark ..........................£20BC216A2 Official Bronte Society postmark ....................£25BC216M Miniature sheet with Brontë Society postmark £25BC216MA Miniature sheet with pictorial postmark .........£25BC216MA2 Miniature sheet with Official Brontë Museum pictorial postmark .............................................£25BC216MS Miniature sheet signed Susannah York, she played Jane in the 1971 film ........................................£40BC216PSB1 Set of four Jane Eyre covers, each with a different booklet pane from the PSB and different postmark ............................................................£75

BC216S £50

Signed Joanna Trollope and Jilly Cooper, two great modern authors.

BC216S2 £40

Signed by Sally Hawkins, played Mrs Reed in the 2011 film Jane Eyre.

BC216MA2S £35

Miniature sheet signed Alan Bentley, Director of the Brontë Museum.

BC216MS2 £45Miniature sheet cover

signed Janet Suzman and Susannah York.



20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALKLANDS

CONFLICTBCSP202C £45

Signed Lord Carrington and Sir John Knott.

BCSP201A 2nd April and 19th March Falklands Chapel postmark ..........................................................£20BCSP202A 2nd May HMS Conqueror postmark and 5th April Falklands Chapel postmark ...........................£25BCSP203A 14th June Portsmouth special postmark and 20th June Falklands Chapel ...................................£15BCSP202B Signed Sir John Nott ....................................£25BCSP203C Signed Captain Chris Wreford-Brown.......£35BCSP203EA Signed Sir Henry Leach, Sir Michael Beetham, Admiral Sir Peter Herbert, and Admiral Sir John Sandy Woodward, only 6 produced .£50BCSP202H St Helena cover ...............................................£15BCSP202I Ascension Island cover ..................................£15

BCSP203B2 £75

Signed Sir Michael Clapp, Major General Sir Jeremy Moore, Major General Julian Thompson, Admiral Sir John Sandy Woodward, and Sir Rex Hunt, only 5 produced.

BCSP203C2 £45

Signed Captain Chris Wreford-Brown and Sir Rex

Hunt, only 6 produced.

BCSP202HW £30

St Helena cover signed by Sharkey Ward.

BCSP202IT £45

Ascension Island cover signed Sir Henry Leach,

Sir Michael Beetham, and Admiral Peter Herbert.

BCSP203EA2 £75

Signed Sir Henry Leach, Sir Michael Beetham, Admiral Sir Peter Herbert, Admiral Sir John Sandy Woodward, and Sir Rex Hunt, only 10 produced.

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

20/06/06BC239 Official Architecture Review cover with official

London postmark ........................................... £25

BC239A Non-Buckingham London postmark .............£30

BC239SET Set of 4 covers each with a different pictorial

postmark ..........................................................£45

BC239S £60

Signed architect Sir Norman Foster.

BC239DBL £30

Non-Buckingham ‘Gherkin’ postmark,

doubled with an Isle of Man Centenary of John

Betjeman stamp and FDI (he wrote for the review).


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JS39/01 £5

JS39/04 £5

JS40/03 £5

JS40/06 £5

JS39/02 £5

JS40/01 £5

JS40/04 £5

JS40/07 £5

JS39/03 £5

JS40/02 £5

JS40/05 £5

JS40/08 £5

JS39/01S £75

JS39/04S £20

JS40/03S £60

JS40/06S £20

JS39/02S £10

JS40/01S £25

JS40/04S £90

JS40/07S £20

JS39/03S £20

JS40/02S £15

JS40/05S £15

JS40/08S £15

Britain Declares War

Bomber Command North Sea

Invasion of Belgium

The Battle of Britain

Battle of The Atlantic

The Invasion of Norway

Evacuation from Dunkirk

Operation Judgement

Battle of The River Plate

Invasion of The Netherlands

Fall of France

Operation Compass

WWII 50th AnniversaryWWII 50th Anniversary

Former Prime Minister Lord Home

Air Marshall Sir Gareth Clayton & Sqd Leader John Haskins

2nd Lt.Richard Wallace Annand

CPO J.H Youngs and Lt. Cdr Instance

Sir Kenneth Cross & Major RT Partridge

Capt.Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews

Major O Patch & Capt.AWF Sutton

Ad.Sir Desmond Dreyer and R Ad ARB Sturdee

Volkert Stolp and Johannes Christiaan De Keijzer

Lt.Gen.Sir Derek Lang & Mr Gordon Skelton

Field Marshall Lord CarverAir Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley Norris & Wing Commander NPW Hancock


JS41/01 £5

JS41/04 £5

JS41/07 £5

JS42/01 £5

JS41/02 £5

JS41/05 £5

JS41/08 £5

JS42/02 £5

JS41/03 £5

JS41/06 £5

JS41/09 £5

JS42/03 £5

JS41/01S £35

JS41/04S £12.50

JS41/07S £35

JS42/01S £20

JS41/02S £20

JS41/05S £40

JS41/08S £15

JS42/02S £25

JS41/03S £20

JS41/06S £15

JS41/09S £30

JS42/03S £20

The British East African Campaign

Battle of Crete

Operation Crusader

Operation Cerberus

The Battle of Cape Matapan

Sinking of the Bismarck

Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse

Fall of Singapore

Evacuation from Greece

Operation Halberd

Capitulation of Hong Kong

Operation Biting

WWII 50th AnniversaryWWII 50th Anniversary

Eric Wilson VC

Mr M G Comeau M.M & Mr N J Darch M.M

Capt.Philip John Gardner MC

Capt.M Haworth & Capt. D Napper

Capt. E S Carver & Commander F.A Swanton

Lt.WM Graham & Commander RAW Poole

Private Duncan Ferguson & Gunner Richard Lee

Lt Cdr. Kingsmill & Cdr. Lee

Wing Commander E A Howell & facsimile signature of John Hinton VC

Flight Lieut.John King Norwell & Chief Albert Dennis Saunders

James Allen Ford & Alexander Sutherland

Major General J D Frost

STANDARD CODE - FLOWN COVER

CODE ENDING S - SPECIAL SIGNED (ILLUSTRATED)


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JS42/04 £5

JS42/07 £5

JS42/10 £5

JS42/13 £5

JS42/05 £5

JS42/08 £5

JS42/11 £5

JS43/01 £5

JS42/06 £5

JS42/09 £5

JS42/12 £5

JS43/02 £5

JS42/04S £30

JS42/07S £150

JS42/10S £20

JS42/13S £20

JS42/05S £25

JS42/08S £15

JS42/11S £30

JS43/01S £12.50

JS42/06S £25

JS42/09S £20

JS42/12S £25

JS43/02S £20

Operation Chariot

The Retreat to El Alamein

Operation Jubilee

Battle of The Kumusi River

The Baedeker Raids

Convoy PQ17

The Battle of El Alamein

The Capture of Tripoli

Operation Millennium

Operation Pedestal

Operation Torch

The Battle of The Ruhr

Captain M C Burn MC & Corporal G R Wheeler

Major General Henry Bowreman Foote VC

Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC

Lord Mayor of Canterbury (Pat Burke) and Exeter (Anthony Fry)

Arthur E Clayton DSM & Vice Admiral Sir John Hayes

Major Gen.Edward Maitland-Makgill Crichton & Major Peter Watson

Flt.Lt Reginald Thackeray & facsimilie signature of Major Harold Simpson

Wing Commander Gwyn Jones & Flight Lt Gwyn Martin

Admiral of the fleet Lord Lewin

Brigadier Stanley J.Ledger Hill & Brigadier Alastair Stevenson Pearson

Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon Capt.P.J Parkins, Col.C.J Brewer & Group Capt.A J White


JS43/03 £5

JS43/06 £5

JS43/09 £5

JS44/01 £5

JS43/04 £5

JS43/07 £5

JS43/10 £5

JS44/02 £5

JS43/05 £5

JS43/08 £5

JS43/11 £5

JS44/03 £5

JS43/03S £15

JS43/06S £15

JS43/09S £20

JS44/01S £15

JS43/04S £45

JS43/07S £20

JS43/10S £20

JS44/02S £10

JS43/05S £60

JS43/08S £15

JS43/11S £20

JS44/03S £35

The First Arakan Campaign

The Battle of The Atlantic

The Invasion of Italy

Operation ‘Shingle’

The End of The War in North Africa

Operation ‘Husky’

The Battle of Berlin

The Advance in The Arakan

Operation Chastise

The Sicilian Campaign

Sinking of The Scharnhorst

Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

Gen. Sir Thomas Pearson

Sqd.Leader Terence Bulloch

Lord Healey of Riddlesden

John Kenneally VC. Lance Corp.J Kenneally

Lt.Dennis Patten Galpin

Sqn Ldr G Haworth & Sqn Ldr L W Pilgrim

Brigadier L.F.RichardsBrigadier Geoffrey Curtis

Lt.Basil Feneron & Lt.Dudley Heal

Brigadier Walker Wingate-Gray & Flight Lt.David Warner

Mr F Birch & Mr M J Salter

Sqn.Ldr. B.A James & Flt.Lt. I.P Tonder


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JS44/04 £5

JS44/07 £5

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JS44/13 £5

JS44/05 £5

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JS44/06 £5

JS44/09 £5

JS44/12 £5

JS45/01 £5

JS44/04S £30

JS44/07S £15

JS44/10S £20

JS44/13S £40

JS44/05S £20

JS44/08S £20

JS44/11S £10

JS44/14S £20

JS44/06S £10

JS44/09S £10

JS44/12S £35

JS45/01S £20

Operation Overlord

The Warsaw Uprising

Liberation of Brussels

Sinking of the Tirpitz

V-1 Flying Bomb Attacks

Operation Dragoon

V-2 Rocket Attacks Begin

The Road to Mandalay

Operation Goodwood

Liberation of Paris

Operation Market Garden

Operation Bodenplatte

Cpt. R.A Todd

Mrs D Wisniowiecka & Mr W Zlotnicki

Andree Antoine & Raymond Itterbeek

Wing Commander R P Beamont

Flt.Lt. Les Colquhoun

Facsimile signatures of Jean Mialet & Jean Michel

Cnl.H.R.R Conder

Brigadier A G Heywood

Cpt.Lucien Duval & Jean Jacques Piot

General Sir John Hackett

Air Marshal Sir Ivor BroomGroup Cpt.James Tait & Flt.Lt. Bob Knights

Awaiting ImageAwaiting Image

Awaiting Image


JS45/02 £5

JS45/05 £5

JS45/08 £5

JS45/11 £5

JS45/03 £5

JS45/06 £5

JS45/09 £5

JS45/13 £5

JS45/04 £5

JS45/07 £5

JS45/10 £5

JS45/14 £5

JS45/02S £12.50

JS45/05S £20

JS45/08S £15

JS45/11S £15

JS45/03S £15

JS45/06S £20

JS45/09S £17.50

JS45/13S £20

JS45/04S £15

JS45/07S £15

JS45/10S £20

JS45/14S £20

The End of the Extermination Camps

Capture of Mandalay

The Advance to the Elbe

Operation Dracula

Operation Veritable

Operation Plunder

Liberation of the Concentration Camps

Liberation of Borneo

Opening of the Burma Road

End of The War in Itay

Operation Manna

Liberation of Burma

Paul Halter & Aaron Rene Raindorf

Major Vernon Page Sams

Gen. Sir Kenneth Darling

Brigadier Sir Jeffrey Darell

Gen.Sir Robert Ford

Charles Brusselairs, Maurice Eyben & Baron Arthur Haulot

Lt. Colonel R C HayCapt. R A Wilding

Major L.J Ralli

Major Gen.Sir George Burns

Sqn Ldr D J Butters & Wg Cdr B.A Templeman-Rooke

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bernard Chacksfield


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Official Sussex CCC TCCB cover with special Hove postmark.

Official Yorkshire CCC TCCB cover with Headingly

special Yorkshire V Hampshire postmark.

ALL THREE CRICKET COVERS FOR £105


5th October 1977 British Wildlife Post Office cover cancelled with Otterferry

Tighnaibruaich CDS postmark. Small cachet address and a Squirrel

cachet has also been added.

5th October 1977 British Wildlife, Post Office cover cancelled with a Haresfield, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire CDS postmark. Small cachet address and a Squirrel cachet has also been added.

5th October 1977 British Wildlife, Post Office cover cancelled with a Badgers Mount Sevenoaks Kent CDS postmark. Small cachet address and a Squirrel cachet has also been added.

5th October 1977 British Wildlife, Post Office cover cancelled with a Squirrels Heath Romford Essex CDS postmark. Small cachet address and a Squirrel cachet has also been added.

Official Essex CCC TCCB cover with the Chelmsford

special postmark.

16th May 1973 Centenary of

County CriCket

These covers were only originally as part of a bigger collection, making them hard to come by.

ALL FOUR COVERS £250 £50 per month over 5 months

FC975B £45

FC975O £45

FC975R £45

F175HA £75

F175HH £75

F175JS £75F175JB £75


1937 Coronation Rare illustrated covers

The 1937 Coronation of King George VI is a landmark issue in collecting First Day Covers, as for the first time dealers all over the country and commonwealth produced illustrated covers, everyone from a Printers in South Shields to Selfridges Department store. Well over 200 illustrations are known and ever since they have been very collectable, in fact some people collect nothing else. We like to think we have quite a good stock, with most just one or two available.

West Coast Air Service flown first day cover, flown

Hewson and Saywell cover

Perry illustrated cover

ORDER 3 OR MORE FROM THIS LIST AND CLAIM £5 DISCOUNT PER COVER

FC065A £35FC065R £35

FC065AF £20

Picking bands and belting green

illustration (has punch hole)

FC065ZN £35

Brown Illustration of the king in a square frame

FC065B £35Stamp Collecting Ltd cover

FC065H £35Purple frame cover

FC065F £35 Ph B Papachristidias cover

FC065ZJ £35Picture of the couple in two oval frames

FC065W £35 Westminster Stamp Co

FC065AA £35Blue rectangular portrait of the King illustration

FC065ZQ £20

Small blue head and shoulders of the King

FC065ZP £30 J Crabb illustrated coverFC065ZK £25Jansen Display cover

FC065ZR £35

FC065ZU £20

J Stephens Display cover

FC065ZT £25

Dibden and Son Display cover


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BRUNEL 23/02/06

BC233 £40Featuring a steam train chugging over Brunel’s

Royal Albert Bridge, (also featured on 1st class

stamp), this cover has a full set of Brunel Bicentenary stamps issued 23/2/06.

Postmarked at Saltash.

BC233G £25Brunel cover bearing 6 stamps from the Guernsey issue, very relevant to GWR, on miniature sheet cover.

BC233M £40

Celebrating the achievements of engineering genius, Brunel, this cover shows the Royal Albert Bridge & Great Western ship. Features bicentenary miniature sheet issued 23/2/06. Postmarked at Paddington.

BC233MS £55Brunel miniature sheet cover based on paintings by J.E. Wigston, postmarked at Paddington and signed by the railway child who grew up to be the railway mother in the “Railway Children”, Jenny Agutter!


BC233PSB2 £85

Complete set of Brunel first day covers, each with different pane from the Brunel Prestige Booklet issued 27th February 2006 and each postmarked at Saltash (home of Brunel’s famous Royal Albert Bridge).

BC233PSB1 £80

Complete set of 4 Brunel covers, each with different pane from the Brunel Prestige Booklet issued 23 February 2006 and each with different postmark.

BC233S £65

Stunning cover featuring Cuneo’s painting of The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash with full set of Brunel stamps issued 23rd February 2006 & signed by Carole Cuneo, daughter of the artist.

BC233SET £250£50 per month for 5 months

Set of 10 Brunel covers (various designs), each with full set of Brunel stamps issued 23.02.06 and each with different pictorial Brunel first day postmark.


WORLD OF INVENTIONS 01/03/07

March 2007 saw the release of the World of Inventions issue, and what better illustration than Concorde and the Jet engine. And our Prestige Stamp Booklet sets features the Union of South Africa steam locomotive.

BC304A £20

Celebrate Royal Mail’s “World of Invention” stamps issued 1/3/07 with an incredible cover celebrating icon of the skies: Concorde. With full set of stamps and a stunning image of the 1st lady of the skies.

BC304AM £25

Celebrate Royal Mail’s “World of Inventions” miniature sheet issued 1/3/07 with a superb cover celebrating icon of the skies: Concorde.

BC304PSB2 £65

BC304PSB3 £65

Set of World of Inventions PSB covers. Each with our official Jet postmark.

Limited Edition of just 10 sets.

Set of 4 World of Inventions PSB covers, each with our official Concorde postmark.

Limited Edition of just 10 sets.

BC304S2 £39.95Celebrating Frank Whittle’s 1st Jet Flight with a superb cover, signed by first British female airline captain Yvonne Pope Sintes & John Wilson with full set of “Inventions” stamps.

BC304T £19.95

Set of 4 World of Invention covers, each with a set of 6 stamps, issued on 01/03/07 and a special pictorial postmark (non-official).

Stamp and label with 40th Anniversary of First British Flight of

Concorde postmark, dated 9/4/2009, plus set of 3 1969 Concorde stamps with special “45 1969-2014” cachet.

Signed by Prof. Ffowcs Williams.

BC304SET £60

For more flight covers see the Take Off! Magazine www.buckinghamcovers.com/family | www.buckinghamcovers.com/magazines


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WW001 1939 Germany invades Poland £15

WW002 1939 Britain declares War on Germany £12.50

WW003 1939 The first act of War, the sinking of SS Athenia

£12.50

WW004 1939 The Railway Executive Committee £15

WW005 1939 The Battle of River Plate £12.50

WW006 1939 Soviet troops invade Eastern Poland

NOW £10

WW007 1939 The Daylight bombing raids £10

WW008 1939 HMS Royal Oak torpedoed £15

WW009 1940 The German Invasion of Norway £12.50

WW010 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister

£12.50

WW011 1940 The Evacuation from Dunkirk, Dover

£15

WW012 1940 The German Invasion of Denmark £10

WW013 1940 The German Invasion of the Low Countries

NOW £7.50

WW014 1940 The Evacuation from Dunkirk, Ramsgate

£15

WW015 1940 The RAF harry the Germans in Northern France

£10

WW016 1940 The Treaty of Compiegne £10

WW017 1940 The Evacuation from Dunkirk £15

WW018 1940 The Evacuation from Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo

£15

WW019 1940 Italy declares War £10

WW020 1940 The German occupation of the Channel Islands

£10

WW021 1940 Bomber Command attacks Invasion Barges

NOW £7.50

WW022 1940 The first phase of the Battle of Britain

£10

WW023 1940 The Battle of Britain begins £15

WW024 1940 The first bombs fall on London £10

WW025 1940 First bombing raids on Berlin £10

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WW001 £15 WW003 £12.50 WW007 £10

WW008 £15

WW011 £15

WW013 £10

WW015 £10

WW020 £10

WW025 £10


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1939 Soviet troops invade Eastern Poland.

1942 Guadalcanal, American landing.

1940 The German Invasion of the Low Countries.

1942 The Battle of Alam Halfa.

1940 Bomber Command attacks Invasion Barges.

1943 The Battle of Bismark Sea.

1942 The Fall of Sevastopol.

1943 The Schweinfurt Raids.

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WW026 1940 The Battle of the Atlantic £12.50

WW027 1940 The destruction of Coventry £10

WW028 1940 The Battle of Taranto £10

WW029 1940 The Second Great Fire of London £12.50

WW030 1941 The British East African Campaign £10

WW031 1941 British Commandos raid the Lofotens

£12.50

WW032 1941 Battle of Cape Matapan £10

WW033 1941 London attacked, The last night of the Blitz

£10

WW034 1941 The Battle of Crete £10

WW035 1941 The Sinking of the Bismarck £12.50

WW036 1941 The Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

£15

WW037 1941 Operation Barbarossa, The Invasion of Russia

£12.50

WW038 1941 Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland £12.50

WW039 1941 British and Russian forces move into Iran

£10

WW040 1941 The Siege of Leningrad begins £10

WW041 1941 Operation Battleaxe £10

WW042 1941 Invasion of Syria and Lebanon £10

WW043 1941 Operation Halberd £10

WW044 1941 Operation Crusader £10

WW045 1941 The loss of the HMS Ark Royal £10

WW046 1941 The Sinking of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales

£15

WW047 1941 Pearl Harbour attacked £12.50

WW048 1941 Hong Kong falls £12.50

WW027 £10

WW029 £12.50

WW036 £15

WW043 £10

WW047 £12.50

WW006 £12.50 WW013 £10 WW021 £10 WW068 £10

WW069 £10 WW072 £10 WW080 £10 WW087 £12.50

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the SPeCiaLiSt LiSt - 1969Regular Cover Lover readers know we list covers by the postmark, rather than the type of cover. Working on our website and listing covers for the Portfolio has made us start to re think this. This is our first big

list where you also have the chance to choose the type of cover you would like.

15TH JANUARY BRITISH SHIPS

3RD MARCH CONCORDE

Cutty Sark special postmark, GPO cover.

FC710A Cutty Sark special postmark, Philart Luxury cover ............................ £30FC710B Cutty Sark special postmark, Thames cover ...................................... £30FC710C Cutty Sark special postmark, Philart cover ......................................... £30FC710D Cutty Sark Special postmark, Connoisseur cover .............................. £30

FC711G Lloyds Coffee House London special postmark, GPO cover ................................................................................................................. £80FC711P Lloyds Coffee House London special cover, Philart cover .................................................................................................................... £80

FC716H Filton FDI, Thames cover ....................................................................................................................................................................... £20FC716Q Filton FDI, French Mobile Silk cover ..................................................................................................................................................... £20

FC712C Portsmouth FDI postmark, Philart cover .....................£20FC712D Dover FDI postmark, Philart cover ...............................£20FC712E London EC FDI, GPO cover............................................£20FC712F Rochester and Chatham FDI. GPO cover.....................£20FC712G Glasgow FDI postmark, Thames cover .......................£20FC712N Newcastle FDI postmark, Philart cover .......................£20

FC712PA Plymouth FDI, GPO cover ..............................................£20FC712PB Plymouth FDI postmark, Thames cover ......................£20FC712PC Plymouth FDI postmark, Philart cover .........................£20FC712SG Southampton FDI, GPO cover .......................................£20FC712SU Southampton FDI, Stuart cover ....................................£20

Southampton FDI, pair of Cunard covers.


Plymouth FDI, Philart Luxury cover.

Southampton FDI, Philart cover.

Southampton FDI, Trident cover.

Filton FDI, British Aircraft Corporation cover.

Filton FDI, GPO cover.

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Filton FDI, Connoisseur cover. Filton FDI, Philart cover.

FC710G £30

FC712A £25

FC712P £20

FC712ST £20

FC712P £20

FC716A £20

FC716C £20

FC716G £20

FC716P £20

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Filton FDI, Stuart cover.

Filton FDI postmark, plus Strasbourg Conseil De L’Europe CDS.

2ND APRIL BRITISH ANNIVERSARIES

1969 French Concorde FDC, Toulose special postmark, silk cover.

Alcock and Brown special postmark, GPO cover.

FC722T Alcock and Brown special postmark, Trident cover ..............................£35

Hounslow FDI postmark, Philart Luxury cover.

Hounslow FDI, Trident cover.

FC726G Hounslow FDI, GPO cover ............................................................................... £25

28TH MAY BRITISH CATHEDRALS

St Pauls, Abbey cover.

St Pauls, Philart Luxury cover.

FC730C St Pauls, Connoisseur cover ............................£20FC730D St Pauls, Cameo Stamps cover .......................£20FC730G St Pauls, GPO cover ..........................................£20FC730P St Pauls, Philart cover ......................................£20FC730U St Pauls, Trident cover .....................................£20FC730W St Pauls, Wessex cover ....................................£20

St Pauls, Trident cover featuring St Pauls.

York Minster, GPO cover.

FC731A York Minster, Abbey cover .......................................................................£25

FC731P York Minster, Philart cover .......................................................................£25

FC731U York Minster, Trident cover ......................................................................£25

Liverpool Metropolitan, Trident Liverpool cover.

FC732B Liverpool Metropolitan, Abbey cover .........................................................£25FC732G Liverpool Metropolitan, GPO cover .............................................................£25FC732P Liverpool Metropolitan, Philart cover .........................................................£25FC732U Liverpool Metropolitan, Stuart cover ..........................................................£25


FC716D £30

FC716B £15

FC716U £20

FC727L £25

FC727T £25FC722G £35

FC730A £20

FC730L £20

FC730T £20

FC731G £25

FC732A £25


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Canterbury FDI, Philart cover.

FC733B Liverpool FDI, Stuart cover ....................................................................£25FC733CC Canterbury FDI, Connoisseur cover ......................................................£20FC733CG Canterbury FDI, GPO cover ....................................................................£20FC733CU Canterbury FDI, Trident cover ...............................................................£20FC733DP Durham FDI, Philart cover .....................................................................£25FC733DT Durham FDI, Thames cover ...................................................................£25FC733E Edinburgh FDI, GPO cover .....................................................................£25

German British Culture Week Official cover.

1ST JULY INVESTITURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES

Royal Engineers, Ulster Recruiting Official cover.

Caernarvon FDI, GPO cover.

Caernarvon FDI, Floral Clock Gardens, Hove cover.

FC737D Caernarvon FDI, Connoisseur cover .....................£12FC737E Caernarvon FDI, AJE Hole woven cover ...............£12FC737P Caernarvon FDI, Philart cover ...............................£12

FC737S Caernarvon FDI, Stuart cover ................................£12FC737W Caernarvon FDI, Wessex cover .............................£12

Margam Abbey, Thames cover.

FC738G Margam Abbey, GPO cover ......................................£100FC738W Margam Abbey, Wessex cover ................................£100

FC742B Forces Post Office 37 CDS, Philart cover .................. £25

Festiniog Railway carried cover.

13TH AUGUST GANDHI CENTENARY

Hackney Exhibition, GPO cover.

Hackney Exhibition, Philart Luxury cover.

Hackney Exhibition, Stuart cover.

Hackney Exhibition, Wessex cover.

FC753P Hackney Exhibition, Philart cover .........................£25FC753T Hackney Exhibition, Thames cover ......................£25FC753U Hackney Exhibition, Trident cover ........................£25

FC733CP £20

FC734G £30

FC734F £30

FC737H £12

FC737G £12

FC738T £100

FC739A £40

FC753G £25

FC753S £25

FC753W £25

FC753L £25


1ST OCTOBER POST OFFICE TECHNOLOGY

Posted in the Tower, Connoisseur cover.

Posted in the Tower, Philart cover.

FC755G Posted in the Tower, Post Office cover .....£20

FC744L Posted in the Tower, Philart Luxury cover £20

FC755N Posted in the Tower, National Postal Museum

cover .............................................................£20

FC755S Posted in the Tower, Stuart cover .............£20

FC755T Posted in the Tower, Thames cover ..........£20

FC755U Posted in the Tower, Trident cover ...........£20

FC755W Posted in the Tower, Wessex cover ..........£20


Giro Exhibition, Post Office cover.

Giro Exhibition, Philart Luxury cover.

FC756P Giro Exhibition, Philart cover ............................ £15FC756U Giro Exhibition, Trident cover ............................ £15

26TH NOVEMBER CHRISTMASBethlehem FDI, Post

Office cover.

Bethlehem FDI, Stuart cover.

FC762P Bethlehem FDI, Philart cover ......... £12.50

FC762T Bethlehem FDI, Thames cover ....... £12.50

FC762U Bethlehem FDI, Trident cover ........ £12.50

FC762W Bethlehem FDI, Wessex cover ....... £12.50

Jerusalem, Philart cover.

FC766C Jerusalem, Connoisseur cover ..............................................................£40

FC766G Jerusalem, Post Office cover .................................................................£40

FC766L Jerusalem, Philart Luxury cover ............................................................£40

FC766S Jerusalem, Stuart cover .........................................................................£40

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FC755P £20

FC756L £15

FC756G £15

FC762G £12.50

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Queen Elizabeth IIDefinitive Covers

5th December 1952 First definitives, 1½d and 2½d, illustration in oval.

31st August 1953 definitives, ½d, 1d and 2d, red & blue text illustration in red flower head border

16th September 1968 2/- Booklet, Se-tenant Pane, Windsor. 16th September 1968 10/- Booklet, Se-tenant

pane only, with any other postmark.

9th February 1959 definitive - 4½d, plain cover our choice.

1st July 1964 second se-tenant holiday booklet, Bournemouth postmark.

1st July 1964 second se-tenant holiday booklet, 2½d Carmine type II sideways watermark from holiday booklet.

5th June 1967 4d Sepia, 1/- Violet and 1/9d Green, Windsor FDI postmark.

8th August 1967 3d Violet, 9d Dark Green and 1/6d Indigo, Windsor FDI postmark.

1st July 1968 5d, 7d, 8d and 10d, Windsor FDI postmark.

6th January 1969 4d Vermilion and 8d Light Blue, Windsor CDS postmark.

Offer £20

Offer £40

Offer £25Offer £40

Offer £20

Offer £12.50 Offer £30

Offer £5

Offer £5

Offer £5

Offer £12.50

Illustrations are our choice,

please let us know

if you only require the one shown

FD250C £25

FD256D £50

FD270 £50

FD336 £15 FD342 £40

FD379 £8

FD381 £8

FD383 £6

FD391 £15

FD411 £30

FD418 £50


Offer £5

Offer £12.50

5th March 1969 Machin High Values, Windsor FDI postmark.

27th August 1969 First Multi-Value 1/- Se-Tenant Coil, National Postal Museum postmark.

3rd March 1969 2/- Booklet, illustrated cover, Canterbury postmark.

10th December 1969 1/6d all over phosphor, CDS postmark.

15th February 1971 5p Se-Tenant Coil, Windsor FDI.

4th September 1974 61⁄2p 2 phosphor bands, Windsor FDI postmark.

13th November 1974 4½p all over phosphor, Windsor CDS postmark.

6th December 1972 £1 Black Re-drawn, Windsor FDI.

24th June 1974 3½p one phosphor band, Windsor.

17th June 1970 First Decimal Machin High Values 10p, 20p, 50p Windsor special postmark.

1st December 1969 se-tenant strip, Milk Marketing special postmark.

Offer £15

Offer £15Offer £30

Offer £15

Offer £12.50

Offer £4

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shown

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FD434 £20

FD439 £20

FD431 £40

FD454 £25FD456 £20

FD467 £20

FD506 £15FD565 £15

FD627 £25

FD632 £5

FD646 £25


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Legendary Signatures

BC003A £75

2001 Queen Victoria cover, signed by acting royalty Dame Judi Dench who played the Queen in Mrs Brown.

BC006D £120

2001 Submarine Museum cover, signed by two Submarine Victoria Cross winners Thomas Gould (which he won by helping to dislodge two unexploded bombs on HM Submarine Thrasher) and Ian Fraser (won on a midget submarine attack).

BC007A £75

2001 Buses Magazine cover, signed by London Mayor Ken Livingstone. I recently saw him give a talk and he is still fantastically controversial.

BC009C £85

2001 Hats Royal Ascot cover, signed by two of the most famous Jockeys of all time, Willie Carson and Lester Piggott. We think this will work well with this year’s horseracing cover.

£25 per month for 5 monthsBC012DS £125

2001 Nobel Prizes cover, signed by prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an opponent of apartheid and the first black South Africa Archbishop of Cape Town.

BC014B £90

2001 Christmas cover, signed by actor, the late George Cole, who played Flash Harry in the St Trinian films and Arthur Daley in Minder.

£30 per month for 4 monthsBC019OS £120

2002 50th Anniversary of the Comet cover, signed by Test Pilots, John Wilson, Neville Duke and Peter Twiss, a great group together.

BC022H £752002 London Bridges

cover signed by the former EastEnders star, Wendy

Richard (Pauline Fowler). Also known for her roles in Are you being served? and

two carry on films.




Buckingham Covers£25 per month for 4 monthsBC027S3 £100

Peter Pan Great Ormond Street cover, Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney signed just 30 of these for us.

BC208S2 £80

2004 Snowdonia National Trust Welsh Official cover, one of a limited edition of 50 signed by Lord Snowdon, who recently passed away.

BC224A2BS2 £90One of our great Avengers covers signed by Patrick

MacNee (Steed) and Honor Blackman (Cathy Gale).

BC226AS3 £100

Madonna and Child Christmas at Canterbury cover, signed by acting father and daughter, Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, who of course starred together in Paper Moon (Tatum won an Oscar).

BC243S2 £100

2006 Sounds of Britain Tribute cover to, and signed by the King &

Queen of British Jazz, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine.

BC304AS4 £85

2007 Concorde Design Icon cover, signed by the star of Airplane the great Leslie Nielson, just one of over 100 films he appeared in.

BC306AS £135

2007 St George’s Day cover, signed by the Queen’s Cousin, The Duke of Kent.

BC308S £75

2007 Wembley Stadium cover, signed by ‘Our ‘Enry’ Sir Henry Cooper, who had his first fight against Muhammad Ali there in 1963.



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FOOTBALLGeoff Hurst made 302 appearances for West Ham and later played for Stoke City and during his domestic career he won the F.A Cup, and European Cup Winners Cup. He earned 49 England caps, scoring 24 goals including the most famous hatrick in history in the 1966 World Cup Final.

GEOFF HURST

FB10B Sir Geoff Hurst signed 1966 World Cup FDC ..................................... £40

FB10E Sir Geoff Hurst signed 1996 30th Anniversary of the World Cup Benham

coin cover ................................................................................................ £45

FB10I Sir Geoff Hurst signed 8 x 6 colour photograph from the end of the final

with 40th Anniversary of the World Cup stamp ................................... £30

FB10J Geoff Hurst signed 1996 Football Legends FDC ............................... £40

George Best signed 1968 European Cup Final cover, Manchester Utd V Benfica

George Best was a Northern Irish footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. In 1968 he won the European Cup with United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. He is described by the Irish Football Association as the “greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland”

GEORGE BEST

FB82D George Best signed plain 1996 Football Legends single stamp cover, special Old Trafford postmark .............................. £100

Sir Tom Finney was an English footballer famous for his loyalty to his league club, Preston North End. Finney played 569 times for the Lilywhites scoring 187 goals and won 79 England caps between 1946 and 1958.

SIR TOM FINNEY

FB110 Sir Tom Finney signed Euro 96 cover .................................................................. £25

FB110A Sir Tom Finney signed Benham 1988 Centenary of the Football League cover ..... £25

FB110B Sir Tom Finney signed 2002 Football World Cup Combined Services

Football cover ........................................................................................................... £25

FB110F Sir Tom Finney signed Football Association Cover, featuring the 1923 FA Cup

final cover .................................................................................................................. £25

Gordon Banks signature inserted into a 2013 Buckingham Football Heroes FDC with single 1st class Gordon Banks stamp

Gordon Banks is one of, if not the greatest English goalkeeper to have worn the national shirt. A world cup winner, he made 73 England Caps and was six-time FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year. He spent most of his domestic career with Leicester and Stoke City, making 293 and 194 appearances for them respectively.

GORDON BANKS

FB10A £45

Sir Geoff Hurst signed 1966 World Cup card with special England v West Germany postmark on the day of the final on 30th July, produced by a German dealer.

FB82B £250£10 per month for 10 months

FB110N £30

Sir Tom Finney signed Preston North End Cover, our choice.

FB86A £40

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Terry Venables is a former football player and manager who during the 1960s and 70s played for several clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers. He played twice for England but later managed the national team from 1994 to 1996 and led them to the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships.

TERRY VENABLES

Sir Stanley Matthews signed 1988 Centenary of the Football League cover.

Sir Stanley Matthews is regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game. He is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year awards. Matthews’ nicknames included “The Wizard of the Dribble” and “The Magician”.

SIR STANLEY MATTHEWS

FB111C Sir Stanley Matthews signed 1995 The Football Association Hall of Fame .£75FB111J Sir Stanley Matthews signed 1996 Football Heroes FDC ...............................£75

FB740 Wes Morgan signed 1988 Sport FDC ................................................... £15

FB1042 Mark Schwarzer signed 1988 Sport FDC ............................................ £15

FB1364 Christian Fuchs signed 1988 Sport FDC.............................................. £15

Ray Wilson was a left back who played 266 games for Huddersfield Town and 116 for Everton with whom he won the FA Cup. He also won the World Cup in 1966 and won 63 England Caps.

RAY WILSON

FB209B Ray Wilson signed 2006 40th Anniversary of the World Cup win cover .... £30

They will go down in history as part of the greatest sporting upset in history as Leicester beat every expectation and won the 2015/16 Premiership Title.

LEICESTER TITLE WINNING LEGENDS

FB1335A £30

Terry Venebles signature inserted into a 1988 Sport FDC with special Question of Sport postmark.

FB111 £75

FB209I £40

Ray Wilson signed 1966 England Winners FDC.

Marc Albrighton signed 1988 Sport FDC.

FB739 £15

ALAN BALLAlan Ball was a diminutive midfielder who played for Blackpool, Arsenal, Southampton, and Everton. He made 208 appearances at Goodison Park during which time he won the Football League Division 1 title in the 1969-70 season. Ball was the youngest member of the 1966 World Cup winning England team and went on to win 72 England caps, scoring 8 goals.

FB07A £100

Alan Ball signed 1966 World Cup FDC.

FB07B Alan Ball signed colour 8 x 6 photograph from the end of the final ................................................................................................£100FB07E Alan Ball signed Benham 1988 Centenary of the Football League cover ........................................................................................ £65FB07F Alan Ball signed 2001 World War I Truce in the Trenches cover ............... £50


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BUCKINGHAM COVERSRAIL SERIES 1

R01 Hornby TPO SOLD OUT - BUYING

R02 Eurostar high-speed train SOLD OUT - BUYING

R03 Great Central Railway £35.00

R04 NRM - Great Age of Steam £25.00

R05 Centenary City of Truro’s speed record £30.00

R06 Flying Scotsman £40.00

R07 Flying Scotsman’s recorded 100mph £25.00

R08 Forth Rail Bridge £35.00

R09 Golden Arrow 80th Anniversary £40.00

R10 175th Anniversary Liverpool Manchester £25.00

R11 180th Anniversary Stockton & Darlington £20.00

R12 The Menai Bridge £20.00

R13 Isambard Kingdom Brunel SOLD OUT - BUYING

R14 The Cornish Riviera £35.00

R15 30th Anniversary High Speed Train £20.00

R16 125th Anniversary Brighton Pullman SOLD OUT - BUYING

R17 25th Anniversary Advanced Passenger Train £30.00

R18 Egyptian Arch Dublin to Belfast Railway £30.00

R19 70th Anniversary Princess Elizabeth £30.00

R20 Terence Cuneo Centenary SOLD OUT - BUYING

R21 200th Anniversary Mumbles Railway SOLD OUT - BUYING

R22 Last Steam Train to Folkestone Harbour £60.00

R23 145th Anniversary Royal Scot leaving Euston £20.00

R24 75th Anniversary Cheltenham Flyer £15.00

R25 70th Anniversary LMS Coronation Scot £15.00

R26 80th Anniversary Royal Scot locomotive £15.00

R27 80th Anniversary Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch SOLD OUT - BUYING

R28 Anniversary of the Master Cutler £15.00

R29 Naming of 100th A4 Pacific, Sir Nigel Gresley SOLD OUT - BUYING

R30 60th Anniversary The Act of Transport £20.00

R31 Last Eurostar into Waterloo station £20.00

R32 First Eurostar St Pancras to Brussels £20.00

R33 First Eurostar St Pancras to Paris £20.00

R34A 85th Anniversary Railway Grouping - GWR £20.00

R34B 85th Anniversary Railway Grouping - Southern £15.00

R34C 85th Anniversary Railway Grouping - LMS £15.00

R34D 85th Anniversary Railway Grouping - LNER £15.00

R35 80th Anniversary Tyne & Wear Bridges £40.00

R36 170th Anniversary Travelling Post Office SOLD OUT - BUYING

R37 Flying Scotsman Doncaster Works £40.00

R38 Flying Scotsman King’s Cross to Waverley SOLD OUT - BUYING

R39 75th Anniversary Northern Belle £30.00

R40 70th Anniversary Mallard Record Breaking run £30.00

R41 40th Anniversary Oliver Cromwell SOLD OUT - BUYING

R42 160th Anniversary George Stephenson’s Death £20.00

R05 £30

R10 £25

R14 £35

R23 £20

R39 £30


R43A Tornado, Great Central Railway Trials £20.00

R43B Tornado, Main Line Trials £20.00

R43C(1) Tornado, first VIP passengers £20.00

R43C(2) Tornado, first general passengers £20.00

R43C(3) Tornado, The Yorkshire Pullman £15.00

R43C(4) Tornado, The Settle & Carlisle Line £12.50

R44 70th Anniversary 6229 Duchess of Hamilton £30.00

R45 140th Anniversary St Pancras Station £30.00

R46 50th Anniversary Poppy Line £20.00

R47 20th Anniversary Class 91 £20.00

R48 110th Anniversary Great Central Railway £15.00

R49 100th Anniversary Stephenson Locomotive Society £25.00

R50 75th Anniversary Railway Air Service £25.00

R51 150th Anniversary of Brunel’s Saltash Bridge SOLD OUT - BUYING

R52 15th Anniversary The Channel Tunnel £25.00

R53 80th Anniversary The Golden Arrow £40.00

R54 50th Anniversary Sir Nigel Gresley £25.00

R55 Hitachi Class 395 £30.00

R56 100th Anniversary K1 Garratt £25.00

R57 30th Anniversary Steam magazine £15.00

R58 Hitachi Class 395 Ashford £15.00

R59 150th Anniversary Death Robert Stephenson £20.00

R60 100th Anniversary Stephenson Locomotive Society £15.00

R61 South Eastern High Speed Train £15.00

R62 50th Anniversary Ivor the engine £25.00

R63 50th Anniversary 92220 Evening Star SOLD OUT - BUYING

R64 reopening of the East Hill Lift Hastings £35.00

R65 100th Anniversary Pullman carriages £35.00

R66 180th Anniversary Canterbury Whitstable £15.00

R67 175th Anniversary Great Western Railway £30.00

R68 50th Anniversary Middleton Railway £15.00

R69 50th Anniversary Bluebell Railway £25.00

R70 Great British Railways - GWR £15.00

R70A Great British Railways - Southern £25.00

R70B Great British Railways - LMS SOLD OUT - BUYING

R70C Great British Railways - LNER £20.00

R70D Great British Railways - BR £20.00

R71 160th Anniversary Royal Border Bridge £20.00

R72 185th Anniversary Stockton Darlington £15.00

R73 Alstom & Virgin Trains £12.50

R74 Extension to Pontypool & Blaenavon railway £20.00

R75 170th Anniversary Standardised Railway Time £15.00

R42 £20

R46 £20

R55 £30

R58 £15

R67 £30

R71 £20

R44 £30


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ON TOP OF THE WORLDSir Edmund Hillary was the first person confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary started mountaineering while still in secondary school, and went on to become one of the greatest mountaineers the world has ever seen. Hillary also trekked to the North and South Poles, making him one of a small number of elite explorers to reach the poles as well as stand atop Everest. After making history on Everest, Hillary founded the Himalaya Trust through which he devoted the rest of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal.

Sirdar Tenzing Norgay was a Sherpa mountaineer born in Nepal. He climbed Everest alongside Hillary, and they reached the summit together on May 29th 1953 at 11.30am. Earlier on in the expedition to Everest’s summit, Norgay saved Hillary from a near-miss when he fell into a crevasse - Norgay’s quick thinking secured Hillary’s rope thus preventing him from hitting the bottom. As a result, Hillary made Norgay his climbing partner of choice for the final ascent.

Lord John Hunt was a British army officer and is best known for leading the expedition to Everest in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the mountain’s summit for the first time in recorded history. As a child, Hunt spent much time in the Alps where he started developing his mountaineering skills. He continued climbing throughout adulthood, and when, in 1931, his military regiment was posted to India he began climbing various parts of the Himalayas. After WWII, in which Hunt achieved the rank of Colonel, he was chosen to lead the Everest expedition on account of his military leadership skills as well as his proven abilities at climbing. In later life he became the first Director for the Duke of Edinburgh awards, and in 1966 was awarded life peerage for his work with young people.

Edmund Hillary and John Hunt were knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and Norgay received the George Medal for his efforts.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sirdar Tenzing Norgay, signed 1978 25th Anniversary of the First Ascent of Mount Everest FDC with a silver coin, supplied in a special presentation folder.

Lord John Hunt, signed 1990 200th Anniversary of George Everest cover.

Tenzing Norgay and Sir John Hunt, signed 7p 25th

Anniversary Post Office card.

Tenzing Norgay and Sir John Hunt, signed 8.5p 25th Anniversary card.

1978 25th Anniversary of the Ascent cover, signed

by Hunt & Tenzing.

Lord John Hunt, signed 1978 Coronation Everest 25th Anniversary cover.

SGH006C £450

SGH029B £150

SGH029C £250

SGH029D £250

SGH029E £200

SGH029I £100

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£50 for 3 months

£50 for 5 months

£50 for 5 months

£50 for 5 months

£50 for 2 months


12/03/80 Railways - 150 Years of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (set of 5).

22/01/85 Famous trains - Flying Scotsman, Golden Arrow, Cheltenham Flyer, Royal Scot, Cornish Riviera (set of 5).

22/01/85 Famous Trains, small silk set of 5, alternative postmarks.

NOW £4518/01/94 The Age of Steam Railways, set of 5 small silks - Flying Scotsman, Mallard, Battle of Britain class ‘Winston Churchill’, Duchess of Hamilton & King George V. NOW £27

03/05/94 The Opening of the Channel Tunnel small silks with Royal Mail stamps, Folkestone postmark and carried on freight train.

NOW £45

03/05/94 Channel Tunnel, set of four carried covers, with the French stamps and Calais postmark.

NOW £18

13/01/04 Classic Locomotives set of 6 covers with Tywyn Gwynedd, Bo’ness West Lothian, Kidderminster Worcestershire, Loughborough Leicester, Horsted Keynes East Sussex and Keighley West Yorkshire, postmarks.

BUY ALL 7 SETS FOR £240


BS80/2 £45

NOW £40

BS85/1 £50 NOW £45

BS85/1A £50 NOW £45

BS94/05 £30

BS94/01 £50

BS04/01 £20

BS94/05A £20


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Professor Sid Watkins signed 2010 Silverstone cover.

17/07/2008 Air Displays cover with a full set of 6 stamps and our 5th Anniversary of the Final Flights, Heathrow, running pmk. Signed by Mike Bannister who was British Airways Chief Concorde Pilot.

Diamond Jubilee cover with black & white image & 4 colour stamps & Buckingham Palace pmk. 9d stamp & carried in the flotilla cachet, signed by The Rt. Hon Lady Rayne.

26/01/2011 Birds Post & Go 2 cover with 6 operation stamps from the machine, with pictorial labels attached, featuring Garden Birds and signed by Pauline Quirke.

01/02/2011 Cover marking Peckett Type R2 with stamps torn from miniature sheet for the Classic Locomotives of England 1 issue, signed by the artist of the illustration on cover John Wigston.

01/02/2011 Cover marking YR 1093 J4 with stamps torn from miniature sheet for the Classic Locomotives of England 1 issue, signed by the artist of the illustration on cover John Wigston.

01/02/2011 Cover marking BR WD Austerity with stamps torn from miniature sheet of the Classic Locomotives series of England issue, cover signed by the artist of the illustration John Wigston.

01/02/2011 Cover with stamps torn from miniature sheet from the Classic Locomotives of England series 1 issue, with illustrations of four loco’s by John Wigston signed Prof Colin Divall.

21/05/2012 Cover with superb image of The Mall looking up to Buckingham Palace with the single Post & Go Union Flag issued by the Bureau, Sir Michael Beetham Marshall of the RAF.

London 2012 Olympic Games this cover, Official LOCOG approval with the stamps from m/sheet pmk Straford signed great 1980’s 100m winner Alan Wells.

08/08/11 Buckingham Christmas miniature sheet with illustration of St Martins Church and signed by Cannon Stewart Jones.

16/09/1986 JSF 9 46th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, with BFPS 2123 postmark, flown, signed by Keatings, Gibson, Steinhilper, Benn, Cox, Miska and Daniels.

05/03/1986 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Spitfire, special BFPS 2110 postmark, signed by Neville Duke, A Gear, Gibson, Ayerst and 5 others.

05/03/1986 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Spitfire, special BFPS 2110 postmark, signed by Neville Duke, Dennis David, Ayerst, Benn, Gear, Gray, Leggett, Hearn, Keatings and Winskill.

Sir John Hackett, 1984 Arheim cover, also signed by Dr Elsa Caspers, Koos Meyer and Hen Idenburg.

28/11/78 Leigh Mallory Historic Aviators cover signed by John Keatings, Jocelyn Millard, David Mansfield, Gordon Sinclair, and William Walker.

SALE ITEMS SALE ITEMS SALE ITEMS

CS1660 £25 CS1819 £25 CS1823 £25 CS3096 £25

CS1981 £25 CS1126 £25 CS1661 £25 CS3131 £25

CS1820 £25 CS1395 £25 CS1140 £25 CS3169 £25

CS1142 £25 CS1143 £25 CS1144 £25 CS1149 £25


Royal Wedding Set of four covers. Our choice.

27/07/2011 Olympics Tribute to Amy Williams cover featuring 5 stamps from the Olympics issue. Signed by Amy Williams.

09/09/2011 Centenary of Aerial Post covers featuring the stamps torn from the m/sheet. Covers will be flown Hendon-Windsor Windsor- Hendon & will bear 2 cachets & both £1 air stamps.

22/03/2011 Elephant cover officially produced with the Born Free Foundation featuring the 4 stamps torn from the miniature sheet & Mount Stuart Square pmk, signed Jenny Seagrove.

05/08/39 Imperial Airways First regular service between Great Britain and USA, our choice.

01/02/2011 Cover with stamps torn from miniature sheet from the Classic Locomotives of England series 1 issue with illustrations of four loco’s by John Wigston signed by Pete Waterman.

08/05/95 50th Anniversary of the End of WWII, Cayman Islands cover, with at least 1 VC winner, 4 GC winners, BOB and Military Medal winners.

17/03/36 British Airways Limited London - Sweden first flight.

12/04/2011 400th Anniversary of The Tempest with stamps torn from the RSC miniature sheet, signed by Dame Janet Suzman, with Stratford postmark. Limited edition of 50.

12/04/2011 400th Anniversary of The Tempest by William Shakespeare with full RSC miniature sheet signed Peter Hall.

12/04/2011 Recognising the Royal Shakespeare Company our cover has an illustration of Romeo & Juliet with full set of stamps, signed by great Shakespearean actor John Nettles.

14/06/2011 Official cover marking the 65th birthday of Thomas and the centenary of the birth of Rev W Awdry with stamps from m/sheet, signed Michael Angelis the narrator since series 3 in 2003.

11/06/2011 Thomas the Tank Engine cover with a full set of six stamps and our Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway postmark. Carried on board Thomas during their celebration weekend.

Thomas the Tank Engine alternative cover design, featuring the Retail Booklet and Engine Rd, Oldbury postmark. Signed by Ben Small.

27/07/2011 Olympics Tribute to Geraint Thomas cover featuring 5 stamps from the Olympics issue, signed by Geraint Thomas MBE.

05/03/1986 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Spitfire, special BFPS 2110 postmark, signed by Neville Duke and 6 others.

SALE ITEMS SALE ITEMS SALE ITEMS

CS1150 £25 CS3170 £25 CS1156 £25 CS2202 £25

CS3171 £25 CS1162 £25 CS1163 £25 CS1164 £25

CS1165 £25 CS1658 £25 CS1167 £25 CS1170 £25

CS1171 £25 CS1172 £25 CS1173 £25 CS1176 £25


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Spotlight OnThe First Commemorative Phosphor Issues - The Southampton T Slogan

These experimental issues were only available in certain areas. The main one being Southampton as they had the special sorting machine, which gives us the Southampton T slogan postmark.

These ran for nearly all issues between 1962 National Productivity Year and 1967 Flowers, over the last five years we have noticed they are all becoming much harder to find, and not just the early ones, we feel some of the later ones may be even harder to find, we list here what we have.

1962 National Productivity Year

SPECIAL OFFER £601963 Freedom from

Hunger

1963 Paris Postal Conference

1963 National Nature Week

SPECIAL OFFER £50

SPECIAL OFFER £75

SPECIAL OFFER £85

1963 International Lifeboat Conference1963 Red Cross

1963 Commonwealth Pacific Cable

1964 20th Geographical Conference

SPECIAL OFFER £125

1964 Forth Road Bridge

FC212 £175

FC217 £75

FC246 £60

FC226 £60

FC256 £80

FC266 £90

FC312 £150

FC340 £40

FC283 £100


TUCKS WORLD WAR II POSTCARDSWe offer here a set of 14 different mint postcards featuring Wartime Leaders from postcard producer Tucks.

These include some stunning images including three great pictures of Churchill, a card featuring Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meeting in Teheran and one of the main seven leaders of the Allied Armies.

Considering the poor quality of the card used, we guess they come from either during or just after World War II, they are in fantastic condition. The only other thing we can guess about them is they were produced for the Dutch market, as this seems to be the language used to describe ranks and people featured.

We have never seen or offered these before, but thought they would make a great addition to a military collection or even framed

All 14 Cards Just £75

TCS540 £75


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COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUM

Collection of over 300 Flight covers


Massive lot of 300 flight covers, from 1929 - 2003, individual retail from £5 - £20+ so at less than £2.70 per cover great value, maybe a little duplication.

We have just had one of the biggest collections of space covers arrive that we have seen for a very long time and wanted to offer it as a collection first.

Included are over 3500 covers which range from between 1959 - 2012, with the strength in covers from 1973 - 1983. With an amazing range of postmarks, cachets and dates included.

All we have done is to sort it into years, the rest is up to you. We guess there will be some duplicates and maybe some you already have, but have priced it at below £1.70 per cover, which we think makes it very good value.


American Space Cover Collection

COL2235 £5950

COL1579 £795

Collection of 54 Royal Marine /Military covers

Collection of 54 Royal Marine / Military / Stamp publicity signed covers, the unsigned covers are common, rarely see the signed ones.

COL1881 £250£50 per month over 5 months


Collection of 28 Homemade TPO covers

Collection of 28 homemade full print TPO covers, photo illustrations covering 2003 - 2004. Each cover mounted on its own page, very good.


Dawn First Day Covers


Collection of Dawn First Day Covers depicting Trains named after Football teams. 25 in the collection from January 1994 to October 1996.

Collection of 36 Benham coversCollection of 36 covers from Benham, commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Regrouping of Britain Railways.


COL2086 £200

COL2090 £400

COL2140 £175 £35 per month over 5 months

Collection of 40 Big Four Benham covers

Collection of 40 2007 Farewell to the Big Four Benham covers. 10 covers for each of the Big Four companies, including those for Flying Scotsman, Royal Scot, Saltash Bridge & Shakespeare Cliff Tunnel.

£35 per month over 5 monthsCOL2146 £175


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32 Channel Tunnel Postcards

2 Albums of Channel Tunnel covers

£99.50 per month over 10 months

Unique collection of 95 high standard handmade Channel Tunnel covers in 2 albums, marking various Channel Tunnel related anniversaries.

Collection of PHQ CardsCollection of PHQ cards including 73 Inigo Jones, 73 Royal Wedding, 74 Trees, 74 Fire Service, 74 Churchill, 75 Sailing, 75 Railway, 76 Social Reformers, 76 Roses - retail value of £650.

Collection, in album, of 32 Channel Tunnel postcards, each with the full set of stamps and Cheriton CDS postmark for issue date.



40 Benham GWR Anniversary covers


Collection of 40 Benham GWR 150th Anniversary covers with Exhibition Train postmarks from 1st June (Didcot) to 28th September 1985 (Hereford) &13 Gloucester Steam Special covers - different dates.


COL2177 £195

COL2178 £995

COL2218 £450

COL243W £295


32 Channel Tunnel Postcards

Collection of PHQ Cards

COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUMCollection of over 50 Cotswold covers

1976 - 1988, most seem to be in good condition with special postmarks

1964 Shakespeare covers

Matching set of unaddressed 1964 Shakespeare covers, 12 from the Commonwealth and 1 GB cover. With this years issue, a nice little lot to add to your collection

50 Mercury single stamp covers which we think should make into sets, from the late 1990’s to early 2000’s, includes GB issues, the Submarines Prestige booklet and Liberia Planes. We don’t see very many of these and to get 50 together is hard

1999 Total Eclipse of the Sun1999 Total Eclipse of the Sun, collection of sixteen signed covers, signatures include Sir Martin Rees, Sir Bernard Lovell, Dr Patrick Moore and Sir Francis Graham Smith. We could split this lot up, but it always seems a shame, some good signatures


10 Halley’s Comet signed covers

1986 Halley’s Comet, 10 signed covers, includes Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Fred Hoyle, Arthur C Clarke (2) and Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman. The signatures listed must add up to more than the collection cost, great value


COL2181 £100

COL2191 £175

Mercury single stamp covers

COL2184 £100



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COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUM17 Signed Concorde De - Icing Trials coversConcorde De-Icing Trials, 17 Covers signed by celebrity passengers, includes Nicholas Parsons, Roy Hudd, Edward Hardwicke and Noel Edmonds. We don’t know how many covers make up a complete lot of these, but we think this is a good selection at a great price

15 Signed Concorde Nairobi 75

Maritime Signed coversFive 1969 Maritime signed covers, two first day and three Cutty Sark, with 18 signatures from people connected. These must have been done at the time and have the details of the signatures either inside or typed on the back, very unusual

Postmarks on plain covers


Collection of 33 postmarks on plain covers produced by leading philatelist and postmark collector George King. We are a fan of his covers and many do need further research to find out why he did them.

Concorde collection of 88 covers, plus phone cards, mint stamps, photos and even a photograph signed by Mike Bannister. From very early covers through to the British Airways flown one, still in their original album, not sure you would find a phone box to use the cards now

88 Concorde Covers




COL2215 £450

COL2204 £140


COL2195 £200

Concorde Nairobi 75, 15 celebrity passenger signed covers includes Bonnie Langford, Donald Sinden, Bernard Cribbins, Craig Douglas and Susan Hampshire. Some really good signatures in this collection


COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUM11 Key Phosphor FDC

Mini collection of the 11 Key phosphor FDC issued between 1962 - 64. All good condition, includes Southampton T on NPY, special

slogan on Freedom from Hunger and Bureau on Compac.

Royal House EnvelopesCollection of 14 covers from around 1910 - 1922. They all to be in official Royal House Envelopes to a Mrs Hammond thanking her for her Birthday greetings to members of the Royal Family. It gives an interesting selection of rare cachets and headed paper from various houses.

Scotsman British Rail Series

Through the history of cover collecting, there are certain dealers who changed the ways that covers were collected. In the ield of railway covers, that person

was Colin Williams, and the series was his British Railway (BR) series, sometimes referred to as Scotsman covers. There were railway thematic covers before that, but his was the first numbered series covering important events and anniversaries. After the ‘baton’ was passed to the Benham railway series and now the Buckingham

series. The British Rail series started in 1973 and ran till 1978, the numbered series goes from No 1 to 50, but there are a few varieties, so we say a standard collection is 60 covers. These are as popular today as they were 40 years ago, and completing a collection is hard. We have looked at our stock and we think we can supply around 10 complete collections. If bought from us individually they would cost over £650, but as a special offer we can offer them for £500, eg just over £8 per cover.

Benham Queen’s 60th Birthday

Benham 60th Birthday Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Fifteen covers, limited edition of 500. Very rare

50 covers from 1973 - 1975

Over 50 covers from the period 1973 - 1975, with special postmarks but a rather large typed address, so priced very low to clear. Small selection shown here.


£50 per month over 10 months COL1568 £500

COL243E £45



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33 sets of maxi-cards (1966 - 1973), most with connected postmarks and seem to be in good condition, a great PHQ card forerunner collection. We are rarely able to offer complete lots of these, this lot has been with the same collector since they were collected as new issues, not to be missed.

Maxi Cards

1890 Jubilee1890 Jubilee, 5 covers and 1 card, includes 3 commercially used and 1 with three postmarks, but all grade II, hence low price.

Hi-De-Hi! Holidays in Bognor Regis

This is a lovely collection of 9 mixed First Day Covers issued between 1963 - 1965, all in great unaddressed condition but what we especially like is each was posted at the Post office in Butlins so has a Butlins Camp Bognor Regis CDS postmark. Most of them, as you expect, are from the summer months, as we guess then the camp was not open during the winter. We think it is more likely they were done by some-one working there rather than a visitor. A lovely set.

Maritime Collection

All of these I meant to list individually but I am up to my neck in work so it is a great buy for ship collectors. Covers retain a value each from £5 - £50, normal retail would price them at £250 - £300.

Early TCCB Collection, 100 Years of County Cricket, 18 full set official covers for the 1973 Cricket issue, no album but complete on the pages. Could either be kept like this as a collection or used to get signed.

Early TCCB Collection




COL1990 £200

£59 per month over 5 monthsCOL1722 £195£33 per month over 5 monthsCOL1683 £150

£30 per month over 5 monthsCOL340A £150


COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUMBenham Cat covers

MASSIVE LOT OF 130 BENHAM CAT COVERS, mostly issued between 1995 and 1999, offered here we think below the new issue price. These originally started with the idea to just do one set and then grew into a popular series with covers from all over the world


16 Pilgrim Royalty covers, mainly from the 1990’s, photo illustrations of the actual events, hard to find.

US Navy Station Norfolk, 8 ‘Welcome to Norfolk’ covers marking visits of foreign ships between 1957 - 1970, there may be more, but this is a great way to start a collection.

US Navy Station covers

Pilgrim Royalty covers

A collection of 43 Full set 1985 British Film Year FDC plus a few extras. We would normally have split this up for getting signatures, but this is far too good, including an amazing selection of connected CDS postmarks. These catalogue at over £650, if you could find them individually, but we think they should be kept together so priced to do this.


Collection of 34 cricket signatures on card, an ideal lot for mounting and framing, signatures include Ted Dexter, Mike Gatting, Gladstone Small and Stuart Broad to name a few. As an added bonus they all seem to be identified.

34 Cricket Signatures

COL2030 £295£59 per month over 5 months

COL2076 £175

COL2075 £75

COL2122 £400

43 British Film Year FDC

COL2115 £125



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COLLECTIONSCOMPENDIUMCOL1600 Festiniog Railway collection of 37 covers ......................................................................................................................................... £125COL1601 Talyllyn Railway collection of 21 covers ...............................................................................................................................................£75COL1668 Collection of 30 Vale of Rheidol Railway covers from the 1960s to the 1980s ............................................................................ £135COL1875 Set of 8 Leaders of the World covers from Tuvalu featuring Richard Trevithick, Timothy Hackworth, George Stephenson and Daniel Gooch ....................................................................................................................................................................................£25COL1879 Collection of 23 covers from the British Railways Series - basic 1 to 20 plus a few extras ......................................................... £125COL1994 Benham collection of Britain’s Preserved Railway Heritage covers. Complete collection of 36 covers with information cards all postmarked 21st February 2004 .................................................................................................................................................. £175COL1995 Benham collection of 20 Quest for Speed covers with information cards all postmarked 3d July 2008 for the 70th Anniversary of Mallard’s Speed record ................................................................................................................................................£75COL1996 Benham collection of 16 covers for the Railway Stations of England ...............................................................................................£60 COL2002 A Benham collection of 10 Britain’s Great Railway covers (The Caledonian) all postmarked 1st March 2010 ...........................£30

I recently produced a list of Rail collections and the following are just a few of those listed. If you have any questions about those listed below, just ask.

Collection of 70 first flight/airmail covers, would retail at £2000 if marked up individually

First Flight and Airmail CollectionWe’ve had an excellent collection come into the office comprising of an

assortment of first flight covers and airmails.

Included inside is one of the best selections of 1938 North Eastern Airways first flights I’ve seen for a long time, including five which have been signed by the pilot - Flight Officer Boitel Gill. On top of that there is a selection of 1933 Western Air

Express, 1933 Provincial Airways, 1934 Highland Airways, and 1934 Railways Air Services first flights, including one pilot signed from each airway.

Furthermore there are several illustrated Imperial Airways first flights including London - Rangoon, Calcutta - London, and London - Singapore. The oldest cover is from the UK Aerial Post in 1911 which flew from Hendon to Windsor, the postcard has the dark brown dye 2 illustration.

Finally there is a mixture of mint air mail labels including Western Air Express, GWR, Island Air Express, and the Portsmouth and South Seas Service.

£250 per month for 6 monthsCOL2158 £1500

I will put my hands up and say these should have gone to Sarah, but I did say I would like to list them first. I bought the biggest lot of Isle of Man Railway covers I had ever seen. Over 240 Isle of Man Train and Tram covers, which seem to start in 1971 and go through to 2014, with a large num-ber of more modern ones, may have been produced by M J Southall. Lots of nice postmarks and Railway Letter Stamps

240 Isle of Man Train and Tram covers

COL2286 £395


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Complete collection of the 50 Original Fluegel covers, the first time we can offer one like this since for four years. All seem to be in good condition and we think it will be a while before we can put together another one, many will soon be 75 years old.


50 Original Fluegel covers


COL2173 £1995

60 Concorde Covers Mixed collection of 60 Concorde covers of which 21 are signed, includes Barbara Harmer and Brian Walpole.

£29.50 per month over 10 monthsCOL2226 £295

1988 Benham TPO 150th Anniversary collection, 40 covers in the official album with write-up. These are also all First Day Covers and of course sadly TPOs have now stopped running.


Benham TPO Collection

COL243N £150

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