PENGUINS collection in box containing 83 penguin related covers with postcards from 1905 French Expedition card, many penguin slogans, postcards incl. comic, special pmks. Items with original prices of A$80, £20 etc.
Sale #162
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Corbitts Sale #162
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Lot #227 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Djibouti - fine page with the Djibouti 5F triangular SG.103 showing the Pingouin, a French gunboat (Cat. £250) and the same stamp with 0.75 surcharge SG.111 (Cat. £800), also Somali Coast 1931 Paris Exhibition postcard illustrating the same stamp and another card for French India for the same exhibition without the triangular.
Lot #228 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Falkland Islands - 3rd March 1919 letter (in green) from 'Kelper Store, Stanley, Falkland Islands' with large Penguin illustration addressed to Oswald Marsh and sending him 20 1/- War stamps
Lot #229 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - 1906 postcard 'Le 'Gauss' entouré par les animaux antarctiques Palais de la Mer - Section Allemande used from Marseilles to Beziers with purple Exhibition h/stamp. BB-1
Lot #230 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - rare 1924 registered cover from Valros (Hérault) to a Max Laborde aboard the Cercolon on its way to the Kerguelen Islands with instructions to return the cover if not collected. The cover is franked with 1c - 4c Blanc issue and a 75c Ronsard with VALROS registration label with two CAPETOWN d/stamps on the reverse, one from the RETURNED L.O. with red RETOUR cancels on both sides.
Lot #231 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS France - superb booklet SG.DSB21 with Gibbs advert double pane and advertising cover for rat poison, killing rats being an important factor in maintaining penguin numbers.
Lot #232 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS GB - 1881 cover from Birkenhead to New Brunswick with seal for the PHOSPHO-GUANO COMPANY SEACOMBE CHESHIRE and Penguin at its centre curiously drawn as few had seen Penguins at this date. Back stamps of HALIFAX, HAMPTON, MONTREAL and CARRIER No. 4.
Lot #233 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Italy - three attractive unused comic postcards. For the first year of their five year training to be pilots, students at the Italian Airforce Academy were known as Pinguinos (Penguins), i.e. flightless birds. All cards show penguins and were designed by students. Also four unused postcards showing students dressed up as penguins at a carnival in Alassio.
Lot #234 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Korea - 2003 Antarctic & Arctic set in sheetlets of six - sets of colour separations in cyan, magenta, yellow & black both imperf & perf showing Adélie penguins, seals, walrus, polar bears, albatross, whales etc. (8 sheets in total).
Lot #235 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Literature - small collection of Antarctic based literature with Margery Wharton 'Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions 1898-1958' 1998 & 2007 reprint, 2004 Germania with article by Helen Davis on the German Raider 'Pinguin' (several of the covers illustrated are in the collection under Germany), Ghost Cruiser HK33 by H.J.Brennecke about the 'Pinguin', Beware Raiders by Bernard Edwards, largely featuring the 'Pinguin', Postal...
Lot #236 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Mongolia - 1980 art work for the Antarctic Exploration 60m Emperor Penguin stamp as SG.1319 in full colour with incomplete inscriptions 80mm x 100mm with issued stamp.
Lot #237 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Mongolia - 1980 art work for the Antarctic Exploration miniature sheet on card (background only, no value or inscription) 280mm x 365mm in issued colours with issued sheet.
Lot #238 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - Geographical errors. Wrench card showing a polar bear in the Antarctic looking at a British flag with BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901 inscription carried by Discovery and posted to Lymm from Christchurch on 25 AP 04 with ANTARCTIC EXPDN 1901 S.S.DISCOVERY on the face side. DA-4. Also 1909 card 'GLÜCKLICHES NEUJAHR' issued to celebrate Peary’s success showing polar bears and very strange penguins greeting...
Lot #239 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 'Canterbury Times' postcard of Emperor Penguins superb & very fresh used, addressed to J.J.Kinsey & franked with King Edward VII Land 1d Universal S.G.A1 cancelled FE.27.08, small split top centre. DE-4
Lot #240 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 13 FE 07 New Zealand International Exhibition card No. 11 - 'Antarctic Life at Exhibition SEA-LION, SEALS & PENGUINS' with rare straight line 'THIS CARD WAS POSTED AT THE TOP OF THE N,Z.I.E. TOWER. The card is addressed to Timaru and also bears the circular version on the address side.
Lot #241 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS New Zealand - 17 Jan 1913 letter from Francis Drake, the Assistant Postmaster on BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION TERRA NOVA R.Y.S. and Penguin headed notepaper addressed to his cousin 'Just a line to send you a stamp from the furthest South Post Office at Cape Evans which we shall reach tomorrow.' The letter is enclosed in a similarly crested envelope addressed to Essex with New Zealand 1d Dominion overprinted Victoria Land SG.A3,...
Lot #242 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Norway - two different cards used by the Amundsen-Ellsworth flight proposed to fly over the North Pole cancelled KINGS BAY on different dates with Norway stamps on one side and US stamps on the other. One card is the version only sold in Gimbels department store.
Lot #243 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Russia - 2006 7r 50th Annive of Antarctic Research showing icebreaker with Adélie and King Penguins - two imperf colour trial sheets of twenty with backgrounds in magenta & deep blue.
Lot #244 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS South Africa - fine 1841 entire from N.G Rogers aboard the U.S.S. Boston in Cape Town to his brother in New York. The long letter describes Tigers! and gives a description of egg collecting among the (jackass) penguins. With complete transcription.
Lot #245 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Tasmania - 1871 demand for road rate from Penguin to Campbell Town postally used, bearing PENGUIN 14.11.71 in m/s in black ink. The Launceston Post Office Crown/FREE is struck twice on the reverse in red on 16th and 30 NO 1871.
Lot #246 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1956 Die Proof in sepia of the 50c Rockhopper Penguin as SG.4. The proof is unfinished with the value, ARCHIPEL DES CROZET, ANTARCTIQUES FRANCAISES and POSTES blank and sketched in in pencil. The outer surround has been reduced to 78mm x 90mm.
Lot #247 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1960 Die Proof in sepia for the 85f King Penguin stamp (SG.15) 140mm x 110mm.
Lot #248 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1956 Die Proof for the 50f Postes Aerienne defin as SG.16 featuring the Emperor Penguin hand coloured in green, blue, yellow & orange 140mm x 110mm.
Lot #249 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1969 Possession Island 50f as SG.54 Die Proof 125mm x 161mm in dark green showing 'ILES des PINGOUINS' at lower left'. Signed by the artist.
Lot #250 - thematics thematics
PENGUINS Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises - 1976 imperf trial colour plate proof imperf strip of five of the 1f 40c Gentoo Penguin as SG.103 with margins both sides strip of five in two shades of orange, sepia, indigo and a combination of the colours. Also a copy of the issued stamp.
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