1840 - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 31867 - Great Britain - QV (line engraved) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 932d blue, plate 1, block of 4, IK-JL, tiny margins just touched in a couple of places, slight rubbing down right, heavy black MC cancels, v.g.u. RARE. Cat £22000 (image available) {U} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £5,400.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (line engraved) 1840 |
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 Lot 31843 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Hand-illustrated historic postal item c. 1840, Beautiful Contemporary Hand-Water Coloured SPOONER 'Writing' caricature front. [front only] - mounted on card. Mulready derivative. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £180.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31838 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93FORES'S COMIC ENVELOPE NO.1 ORGINAL EXAMPLE. A very fine unused example of the Fore's comic envelope no.1 in black on white wove paper without the usual vertical creasing. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £380.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31839 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 931840 ORIGINAL 'FORES'S MUSICAL ENVELOPE NO.2'. A superb unused original example of the 1840 Fores's Musical Envelope No.2 in black on white wove paper. Very scarce. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £380.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31840 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93UNUSED ORIGINAL SPOONER CARICATURE NO.8. A good unused original example of the Spooner Caricature No.8, with political references and images relating to the domestic life of the sovereign. At upper left is Prince Albert rocking a cradle, at upper right are the Queen and the Duchess of Kent. Below are two figures dressed as nurses probably intended to represent the Government or the Royal Household. Light bends but a superb caricature. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £200.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31841 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93ex STANLEY GIBBONS, Postal Stationery 1840 Southgage No.6 'Papal' Envelope. Superb unused, contemporarily hand coloured example of this scarce caricature. Superb quality. (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £880.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31842 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 931840 ORIGINAL 'FORES'S SHOOTING ENVELOPE NO.7'/HAND COLOURED. A good to fine unused original example of the 1840 'Fores's Shooting Envelope No.7' with superb scenes of hunting, deer and guns. Curious diagonal fold on front but superbly hand coloured and rare. (Ref 116945). (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £380.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 31837 - Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 931840 ORIGINAL SPOONER CARICATURE NO.13, THE 'NAPIER' ENVELOPE/HAND COLOURED. A very fine unused original example of the 1840 Spooner Caricature No.13 with references to the war in Syria and Britannia replaced by Sir Charles Napier. Also images of Turkish and Egyptian soldiers. Superbly hand coloured and rare. (Ref 116937). (image available) {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £1,000.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - QV (Caricatures) 1840 |
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 Lot 15801 - Great Britain - Postal Stationery 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Mulready letter sheet (Forme 2) A17, used from Tonbridge Wells to London, red town & arrival datestamps, very clean Cat £350 (image available) {PS} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £144.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - Postal Stationery 1840 |
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Lot 15802 - Great Britain - Postal Stationery 1840 - UPA UPA Auction UPA 931d Mulready envelope (A141) unused, slight soiling on reverse, fine. Cat £350 {MH} (Start Price / Minimum Bid = £120.00) UPA UPA Auction UPA 93Great Britain - Postal Stationery 1840 |
