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Dear Philatelist, Welcome to the 305th Richard Allan Auction. This sale contains many better or difficult to find singles and sets, as well as desirable studies & collections not often offered. Most of this auction derives from two lovely old time collections broken down into suitable lots for you to enjoy. As well as an all world selection, particular countries that are better represented than usual are Australia, China, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Malaya & States, North Borneo/Labuan and Sierra Leone. Whilst we enjoy sending the catalogues free of charge, it is at this time of year that we have to review our ever growing mailing list, as the costs of producing the catalogues continue to grow, so only if we have not heard from you for a while, a bid form sent into us will help us to continue sending catalogues. You can bid Online Interactively at Richard Allan web site http://livebidding.richardallan.co.uk

The auction contains a variety of Holyland Numismatic and philatelic material. A small section of Holyland Forerunners, British Mandate in Palestine and Minhelet Ha'am stamps and covers. Emphasis on Palestine and Israel Banknotes, Coins and Medals and other Numismatic items. You can bid via StampCircuit.com, or bid online Interactively at Romano's new Website www.romanoauctions.com
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A. KARAMITSOS - SEVEN HILLS auction of Iraq Postal History, stamp and Postcards. TURKISH POST OFFICE, INDEPENDENT KINGDOM, BRITISH POST OFFICE, REVENUE STAMPS, OVERLAND MAIL, AID FOR PALESTINE, OFFICIAL ISSUES. Including a section of PICTURE POSTCARDS.

Auction 12 is our usual large & diverse auction. We thought that by moving the box lots to their own auction we would be able to make our auctions a little smaller, however we still have over 2,000 lots in the auction. The first section of the catalog has 653 lots of non-Australia, PPCS, coins, ephemera etc. Among the more interesting are 3 Ceylon Telegraph stamp proofs (#94), A set of 8 'BERLIN' ovpts in black on Berlin Airlift cvrs (#215), an 1839 Charles Whiting essay (#280). Also within the GB section are some very fine stamps including, a spectacular 9d straw pane of 20 ovpts 'SPECIMEN', a very rare £1 brown-lilac Specimen (#315), a mint £5 orange (#319) and one mint & two used £1 Seahorses (#337-9). Within Southern Africa we have a nice mint 1d PB Cape triangle (#604), a group of Mafeking Siege stamps (#609-12) and a South Africa £1 pale olive-green & red (#614). The second section of the catalogue has 729 lots of Australian Collinies/States and Roos and KGV Heads. Some of the high lights are 1d Sydney View on ribbed paper (#660), a unique Queensland 1898 4d proof of colour block of 6 (#725), a Tasmania 1855 6d dull lilac proof (#777), a 1917 separated and overprinted 1½d Rely Card (#788), an extraordinary 1884Teelegraph Envelope with an apparaently unique 2/- TO PAY as well as an IOU accepted by the Telegraph messenger (#827). We continue with third selection from Ken Smithies' Victorian Postmark collection (#832-906 group). These have been very popular with much fierce competition. We then have another excellent group of Roos with a very fine mint 1st wmk £2 (#1025), a very rare 2nd wmk 1/- JBC monogram single (#1039), 3rd wmk 2/- brown JBC & CA monogram singles (#1090-1) and an MUH Sm Mult £2 (#1160). In the KGV lots there is an ½d green cracked SW corner (#1215), a 1d rose-pink rough paper mint block of 4 (#1232) and a CofA 1d green reversed wmk (#1369). Amongst the many covers is a very rare Large Mult ½d thin fraction on cover. Some of the standout items of the third section are a group of plate number blocks including 1950 2d scarlet plate '2' block of 12 (#1431), 1956 2/- Crocodile plate '9' block of 4 (#1439), 1953 3d green plate '-1-' block of 12 (#1448) and 1962 2d brown plate '3' block of 8 (#1456). There are a range of missing colours including 1965 Hargrave missing purple (#1477), 1969 5c Xmas missing yellow (#1527), 1972 7c Xmas missing brown (#1534), 1974 30c Possum missing red (#1540), 1974 7c Golf missing black (#1541) and a 1979 20c Train missing grey-green (#1559). The Australian Territories include such sought after items as a Nauru marginal mint 5/- Waterlow Seahorse, seven £1 NWPI, a very rare 1st wmk 5/- Roo NWPI use at Nauru (#1898), a rare 1d rosine Die II perf 'OS" NWPI (#1925) and a lovely £5 Bulolo. There is quite an array of Australian Postal Stationery include quite a number of large collections. As you would expect we have a large selection of postal history with rare usages, military, flight covers including a 1920 Herald Aerial Delivery cover (#1786) and a 1939 Guba cover (#1810) etc. Amongst the crash covers is a rare 1952 Venlo cover (#1816).