Antarctica: 1962 (May 9) airletter from Port Stanley to Winchester, franked Birds 6d. and containing typed message “Still out sledging. Hope to return in a fortnight.” dated Apr. 30 to his parents from geophysicist Mike Cox at Hope Bay on a year’s deployment at Base D, transmitted by Morse code for transcription and despatch, scarce and unusual. Photo.
[Proposed price: £60-80]
Auction of British Empire and Foreign Countries Postage Stamps and Postal History
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A specialised auction of over 1,570 lots, the property of 112 vendors, featuring the first part of the superlative collection of British Levant postal stationery formed by Dr Alan K Huggins MBE, RDP, FRPSL, a further offering of Kuwait from the fine collection of Dr L Philips of Brighton, outstanding Switzerland formed by the late John E Ager of Bookham, and a full section of Falkland Islands & Antarctica including the remarkable study of the 1938–50 Issue created by AG Belfield FRPSL
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Lot #1556 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: later expeditions
Lot #1557 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: later expeditions
Antarctica: 1962 (Nov. 19) airletter from Port Stanley to Winchester, franked Radio Centenary 6d. and containing typed message dated Nov. 7 to his parents from geophysicist Mike Cox at Hope Bay on a year’s deployment at Base D, transmitted by Morse code for transcription and despatch, scarce and unusual. Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-120]
Lot #1558 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: later expeditions
Antarctica: 1963 (Feb. 1) envelope addressed to B.A.S. geophysicist Mike Cox on R.R.S. ”Shackleton”, bearing 1/2d. to £1 set of original set of fifteen.
[Proposed price: £60-80]
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