October 2018 Issue 40 The FDC BA1810A specialist list

FC838 £250 £50 per month over 5 months 16th June 1971 Ulster Paintings, Portadown Red Hand special postmark, Post Office cover with typed address.

£50 per month over 5 months FC859 £250 25th August 1971 General Anniversaries, Rugby Football Union Centenary Rugby special postmark on Post Office cover with small label address. Another of those postmarks really designed just to be used on a single stamp cover, so full set very rare. FC927B £40 23rd November 1972 Silver Wedding of the FC1008 £175 £35 per month over 5 months Queen and Prince Philip, Buckingham Palace CDS postmark, Post Office cover. British Forces Postal Service cover with Field Post Office 949 CDS. The Queen’s strong connection with the Forces gives this cover a good connection.

FC936F £125 £25 per month over 5 months 3rd January 1973 European Economic Community, Commissioning of the New Parcel Office Southampton Official cover, typed.

FC949B £85 20th February British Trees The Oak, Unaddressed Post Office cover cancelled with an Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Surrey CDS postmark, so a nice tree connection.

FC964 £250 £50 per month over 5 months 18th April 1973 British Explorers, blue eyes on the 7½p shift to the left, Aldershot FDI postmark on clean Post Office cover.

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 1 FC986 £75 4th July 1973 British Paintings, Douglas IOM special postmark on special Post Office Last Day of British Postal Services on the Isle of Man cover, small label address.

FC979 £50 16th May 1973 Centenary of County Cricket, Official TCCB Royal Engineers cover with IBRA Munich Special Forces postmark.

FC993 £500 £100 per month over 5 months

15th August 1973 Inigo Jones, Banqueting House London special slogan postmark on unaddressed Post Office cover.

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FC1012A £150 £50 per month over 3 months 14th November 1973 Royal Wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. The Royal Academy Chinese Exhibition Official cover, London W1 special postmark, small label address.

FC1015 £250 £50 per month over 5 months

28th November 1973 Christmas, set of six Lewis Carroll Official covers each with the Daresbury special postmarks, unaddressed.

FC1034 £75 12th June 1974 Centenary of the Universal Postal Union. National Postal Museum London EC1 postmark on a cover 01303 278137 illustrated with a reproduction of an 1890 Jubilee envelope, EMAIL: [email protected] clean with a small label address.

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 2 FDC40 FC1044 £80 10th July 1974 Great Britons, Royal Tournament British Forces Postal Service special postmark, small label address.

FC1073A £450 £50 per month over 9 months 9th October 1974 Centenary of the Birth of Winston Churchill, pair of Post Office First Day Covers, one cancelled with Winston Darlington CDS, the other Churchill Bristol on a registered cover. Matching typed addressed to a collector who lived in Winston Darlington which we assume gave him the idea.

FC1131A £80 23rd April 1975 European Architecture Heritage year, Cirencester Official Cotswold cover, Corinium 1900 Heritage special postmark.

FC1126 £200 £50 per month over 4 months 19th February 1975 Turner Post office cover. Turner’s Hill CDS on registered cover with registration label and cachet address. Great name connection and very rare.

FC1164 £100 £50 per month over 2 months 11th June 1975 Sailing, unaddressed Post Office cover, cancelled with Cowes Isle of Wight CDS.

FC1176A £80 13th August 1975 Railway, Wylam Northumberland special postmark on Official Round Table cover, just over 1000 of these were originally issued at a cost of £2 each.

FC1218 £75 3rd September 1975 62nd Inter Parliamentary Conference, Windsor Castle CDS on registered Post Office cover with a small handwritten address.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 FC1220A £35 22nd October 1975 Bicentenary of Jane Austen, City of Bath Exhibition official cover. Around 750 were originally issued at a cost of £2 each.

FC1266 £25 28th April 1976 Social Reformers, Norwich FDI postmark plus Elizabeth Fry cachet on Post Office cover. Elizabeth Fry was born in Norwich.

FC1238 £225 £25 per month over 5 months 26th November 1975 Christmas, Angel Hill Sutton CDS postmark and Sutton registration label on Post Office cover with cachet address to A G Bradbury. Extra value at the bottom to make up the cost of registration. FC1301 £50 2nd June 1976 American Bicentenary, Northborough Peterborough CDS on registered Post Office cover. Plus cachet about Northborough Manor being the home of the Claypole Family.

FC1322 £175 £25 per month over 7 months 30th June 1976 Centenary of the Royal National Rose Society, Kew Gardens Richmond CDS postmark on registered Post Office cover with Kew registration label and label address.

FC1345 £60 4th August 1976 British Culture, Headington Quarry Oxford CDS postmark on Post Office cover with small cachet address. Headington Quarry is the home of one of the few surviving original Morris Teams.

Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? FC1370 £110 £55 per month over 2 months Don’t forget to ask about 29th September 1976 William Caxton, Tenterden Kent CDS and Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 registration label on Post Office cover plus cachet which states it is his presumed birthplace. for full details.

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 4 FDC40 FC1379A £75 24th November 1976 Christmas, Royal Academy Pompeii Exhibition Official cover, London special postmark. Only around 100 of these covers were produced, as this was a running postmark official FC1452 £200 £50 per month over 4 months covers can also be found for the next two issues. 11th May 1977 The Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Registered Post Office Cover, Buckingham Palace CDS and London SW32 registration label. The extra 11p stamp is added to make up the correct postal rate.

FC1577 £75 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. FC1497 £60 8th June 1977 Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting, clear House of Lords CDS on Post Office cover. FC4000A £75 25th January 1978 Energy, Post Office cover with a Coalville Leicester CDS postmark, plus registration label. The extra stamps were added to make up the postal rate.

FC4001D £60 1st March 1978 Historic Buildings, Holyrood, Edinburgh CDS on registered Benham Engraved cover, features on the 10½p stamp.

FC4003M £75 31st May 1978 25th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, pair of Benham BOCS gutter pair covers, carried to the Falklands with the Duke of Edinburgh, one of just 25 pairs.

FC4004G £90 5th July 1978 British Horses, Aintree Liverpool CDS on registered Post Office cover, small label address.

Email us at [email protected] www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 FC4005B £125 £25 per month over 5 months FC4007E £120 £60 per month over 2 months 2nd August 1978 Cycling, Unaddressed Post Office cover 7th February 1979 Dogs, Dog and Gun, Liverpool CDS postmark on with Sussex Coast 'Driver Mind That Bike' special slogan. The registered Post Office cover, cachet address. cover has been laid out so the slogan cancelled the top two stamps and the bottom two had a Brighton FDI postmark.

£50 per month over 2 months FC4008B £100 21st March 1979 British Flowers, Spalding Flower Parade FC4009F £150 £50 per month over 3 months special slogan Stuart cover, the bottom two values are 9th May 1979 Parliament, Entente Cordiale Stowmarket official cancelled with a Spalding CDS postmark. twinning cover, doubled in Verneuil Sur Avre France.

FC4010K £100 £50 per month over 2 months 6th June 1979 Horse Racing, cancelled with the Derby Fiesta special slogan, this cancels the top stamps with a Derby FDI postmark in the centre cancelling all four values.

FC4011A £60 11th July 1979 Year of the Child, Barnardos cares about Children special slogan on Post Office cover. The cover was produced by Bradbury who stuck the stamps so the slogan just cancelled the top of one value with the other stamps cancelled with am Ilford FDI postmark

FC4013I £150 £50 per month over 3 months 26th September 1979 150th Anniversary of the British Police Service, North Yorkshire Police Official cover cancelled with Field Post Office 999 CDS postmark.

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 6 FDC40 FC4017BA £75 7th May 1980 London Stamp Exhibition miniature sheet, Earls Court Exhibition BO London SW5 CDS postmark on Post Office registered cover.

FC4016E £75 12th March 1980 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Earlstown Station Exhibition Official cover with carried and posted cachets.

FC4020J £120 £60 per month over 2 months 4th August 1980 Queen Mother’s 80th Birthday, Post office cover, Buckingham Palace CDS postmark plus London SWDO 'B' registration label.

FC4019F £50 FC4022E £40 9th July 1980 Famous Authors, Mrs Gaskell's Cranford Knutsford special slogan on Stuart cover, the 10th October 1980 Sporting bottom two values are cancelled with an Altrincham Centenaries, Nearest and FDI postmark. Dearest The Grand Theatre Blackpool official cover. Originally 500 of these were issued costing £2 each, missed by many as not connected to the stamps.

FC4024G £50 6th February 1981 Folklore, Nottingham FDI on a plain handwritten cover, but signed by all the members of the cast of the Robin Hood society's play.

FC4028C £75 22nd July 1981 Royal Wedding, Lullingstone Silk Farm Benham official cover.

FC4034E £60 28th April 1982 British Theatre, Centenary of the Rating and Want to spread the payments on these Valuation Association London Official cover. Produced in a amazing covers? Don’t forget to ask about limited edition of 1000 by Adrian Bradbury. Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 FC4035S £90 FC4036E £90 16th June 1982 Maritime Heritage, Lincoln Cathedral Captain 23rd July 1982 Textiles, Coldharbour Mill Uffculme official cover. Flinders Port Lincoln official cover, doubled in Port Lincoln Australia.

FC4037E £60 8th September 1982 Information Technology Year, Computertown Central Library Croydon official cover. Just 450 of this official was produced with most others for this issue 1000.

FC4038S £75 13th October 1982 British Motor Cars, NEC Birmingham CDS postmark on Ford Escort registered cover.

FC4041B £85 9th March 1983 FC4040H £60 Commonwealth 26th January 1983 British River Fish, Izaak Walton Day, Dunsmore Tercentenary Stafford official cover. School for Boys Rugby official cover.

FC4043W £85 6th July 1983 The British Army, Telecom Technology Showcase London EC4 official cover.

FC4044P £85 24th August 1983 British Gardens, Hornchurch Cricket Club Bicentenary official cover.

FC4045D £50 5th October 1983 British Fairs, The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain, Staines Middx official cover.

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 8 FDC40 16th June 1971 Ulster Paintings 13th August 1975 Railway FC832S Londonderry special red hand postmark on Stuart cover.....£45 FC1190 Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway official cover, FC834 Exhibition Botanic Gardens, Belfast special postmark on Shrewsbury FDI postmark. Carried with block of 4 10p Railway Letter Stamps...... clean unaddressed Stuart cover...... £100 £50 FC1198 Festiniog railway official carried cover. The stamps have 25th August 1971 General Anniversaries been cancelled with a Portmadoc CDS postmark and FC858 Post Office cover with Rugby Football Union Centenary then the three Railway Letter stamps with a Festiniog ball shaped Twickenham special postmark...... £225 Railway Co cancellation...... £50 Windsor Castle CDS on typed Post Office cover with a FC860 British Legion 50th BFPS 1182 special postmark, small label FC1202 small handwritten address...... address. Very few of these postmarks exist on full set covers, as it £50 FC1206A Single 7p stamp cancelled with 150th S&D Railway would only be connected to the 3p stamp...... £250 Anniversary Darlington special slogan, unaddressed Post 13th September 1972 Office cover...... £100 50th Anniversary of the BBC and Marconi 3rd September 1975 FC910B Set of four Wessex covers each with a block of four stamps and 62nd Inter Parliamentary Conference a Flatholm Island Cardiff special postmark...... £50 FC1215 Unaddressed Post Office cover cancelled with House of Commons 3rd January 1973 CDS postmark. One of the postmarks that everyone wanted for this European Economic Community issue and in fantastic condition...... £50 FC1217 Parliament Street BO London SW1 CDS on registered Post Office Philatelic Bureau special postmark plus Strasbourg CDS on FC932B cover with cachet address and registration label...... £55 Philart cover...... £15 2nd June 1976 American Bicentenary FC940 Brennan Torpedo, BFPS 1343 special postmark on Thames cover with small label address. Not considered to be FC1283A BFPS 1776 Official cover, unaddressed features a British connected with the issue, so fewer postmarked and so and American Soldier together...... £20 1776 Exhibition National Maritime Museum Greenwich now much harder to find...... £60 FC1284A official cover, small label address...... £25 FC944 Harrow and Wembley FDI postmark on special Inter FC1287A Washington Old Hall official cover, Washington Tyne and Wear Common Market Soccer cover produced by Wessex...£50 special postmark, label address and Posted in Old Hall cachet. 16th May 1973 Centenary of County Cricket Originally 2000 of these were produced costing £1 each...... £20 FC975B Official Essex CCC TCCB cover with the Chelmsford special 30th June 1976 Centenary of postmark. This cover was only originally as part of a bigger the Royal National Rose Society collection, making them hard to come by...... £45 FC1310A City of Bath Year of the Rose official cover. Originally around FC975O Official Sussex CCC TCCB cover with special Hove 750 of these were issued at a cost of £1.25 each...... £40 postmark. This cover was only originally as part of a bigger FC1327 Rose Cottage Hull North Humberside CDS postmark on collection, making them hard to come by ...... £45 registered Post Office cover with Kew registration label and cachet address...... 4th July 1973 British Paintings £160 4th August 1976 British Culture FC988 Douglas Isle of Man FDI postmark, Last Day of British Postal Services on the Isle of Man cover, small label address...... FC1344 Corwen Clwyd CDS postmark on Post Office cover with small £60 label address. Cachet states the 1789 Corwen Eisteddfod was 15th August 1973 Inigo Jones the first which allowed the public to be present...... £60 FC991F Exhibition Wilton House Official cover, produced by 29th September 1976 Cotswold covers...... £25 500th Anniversary of William Caxton FC992F Newmarket Home of Racing Official cover, with label FC1355A British Library Exhibition Official cover, London WC. This address to the Rotary and Round Table...... £125 is the first of a series of official covers issued by the British 14th November 1973 Royal Wedding of Library during the 1970s and many would have gone to HRH Princess Anne and Mark Phillips visitors rather than collectors...... £50 FC1363A Cambridge Quincentenary cover with a Cambridge FDI BFPO 1387 Royal Engineers Official cover with an extra FC1004F postmark. Certified limited edition of 500 covers...... £50 Gibraltar stamp added. Only around 500 of these were FC1368 Caxton Cambridge CDS postmark on Post Office cover issued at the time...... £30 plus two other cachets...... £110 FC1006 Great Somerford CDS postmark. This is the village where 11th May 1977 The Silver Jubilee Captain Phillips lived...... £20 of Queen Elizabeth II Sandhurst CDS postmark on Mercury cover with special FC1007 FC1431A Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Official cover, delivery label. The then Second Lieutenant Phillips passed carried with 10p Railway Letter Stamp...... £50 out from Sandhurst as a member of the Queen's Dragoon FC1456 Registered Post Office Cover with Jubilee Fields Shildon Guards in 1969...... £30 CDS postmark...... £35 FC1008 Buckingham Palace CDS postmark, unaddressed Post FC1458 Registered Philart Luxury Cover with Queen Elizabeth Ave Office cover...... £175 Walsall CDS postmark. Small cachet address...... £55 9th October 1974 Centenary of FC1462 Registered Philart Luxury Cover with Windsor Castle CDS the Birth of Winston Churchill postmark and registration label, unaddressed...... £200 FC1474 The Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal, London slogan, Post FC1061F Wanstead and Woodford Synagogue Official cover, Office cover with a small label address...... £125 Woodford Green special postmark...... £50 8th June 1977 Commonwealth FC1063 Post Office cover with Tunbridge Wells FDI postmark Head of Government Meeting plus Posted at Chartwell cachet. This is the nearest FDI FC1496 Clear House of Commons CDS on unaddressed Post postmark to Chartwell...... £35 Office cover...... £50 House of Commons CDS postmark...... FC1067 £125 5th October 1977 British Wildlife FC1552A The Garden Studio Broad Court Covent Garden London official, with posted at the Garden Studio cachet. These Want to spread the payments originally sold for just £1 each...... £20 FC1557AS Norfolk Naturalists Trust official cover, signed by the four on these amazing covers? Don’t Wardens, only 300 were signed...... £25 FC1565 Post Office cover cancelled with a Badgers Mount forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Sevenoaks Kent CDS postmark. Small cachet address and Call 01303 278137 for full details. a Squirrel cachet has also been added...... £75 FC1575 Post Office cover cancelled with Otterferry Tighnaibruaich CDS postmark. Small cachet address and a Squirrel cachet has also been added...... £50 www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 1st March 1978 Historic Buildings Miniature Sheet 6th February 1981 Folklore FC4002B House of Commons CDS on unaddressed Post Office cover...£50 FC4024F Valentines at the British Library official cover...... £75 FC4002C House of Lords CDS postmark on unaddressed Post 22nd July 1981 Royal Wedding Office cover...... £50 FC4028G Exhibition of Royal Pageantry Hagley Hall Dudley special 5th July 1978 British Horses slogan, Post Office cover...... £75 FC4004A Shetland Studs official cover, Haroldswick special postmark...... £50 FC4028M Lincoln Cathedral limited edition of 800 official covers...... £60 FC4004B Sutton on Trent CP School Official cover, Newark special FC4028X Todd Scales Cambridge official cover...... £50 postmark. Originally there were just 350 of these produced 28th April 1982 British Theatre at a cost of £3.50 each...... £75 Little Theatre Leicester Drama Society Diamond Jubilee FC4004L Sport of Kings Brighton official unaddressed cover...... £40 FC4034D Official cover produced by Adrian Bradbury...... FC4004V Ascot Berks CDS postmark on unaddressed Post Office cover.£90 £50 FC4034F 225th Anniversary of the Theatre Royal Norwich official cover...£50 2nd August 1978 Cycling 16th June 1982 Maritime Heritage FC4005A Unaddressed Post Office cover with Reading 'Driver Mind That Bike' special slogan. The cover has been laid out so FC4035B Poole Maritime Trust official cover. Just 500 of these covers the slogan cancelled the top two stamps and the bottom were issued...... £75 two had a Reading FDI postmark...... £125 FC4035D Royal Mail cover with the 'See the Tall Ships in Southampton' ½ FC4005E Charlbury Oxford CDS postmark on Post Office cover. This special slogan cancelling the 15 p stamp. The other values is where the Tandem Club originated...... £90 are cancelled with a Southampton CDS...... £45 7th February 1979 Dogs 13th October 1982 British Motor Cars FC4007A Barking Essex CDS on unaddressed Post Office cover.£40 FC4038G 45th Anniversary of Nuffield College, Oxford official cover. FC4007D Isle of Dogs, London E14 CDS postmark on unaddressed These originally cost £3 each with 1000 produced...... £25 registered Post Office cover, Poplar registration label...... £125 FC4038H Wiltshire Radio Wootton Bassett official cover. These FC4007F Coral Brighton and Hove Stadium Greyhound official cover.....£50 originally cost £3 each with only 450 produced...... £75 FC4038J Royal Mail cover with a Hella of Banbury Motor Show 21st March 1979 British Flowers Oxford special slogan cancelling 15½p value. The other FC4008A Bath Europe's Flora City special slogan on Post Office, three stamps are cancelled with an Oxford FDI...... £60 the bottom three values are cancelled with a Bath FDI FC4038L Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club Towcester official cover postmark, neat cachet address and daffodil cachet....£100 produced by Bradbury...... £50 Primrose Jarrow CDS postmark on registered Post FC4008D 26th January 1983 British River Fish Office cover...... £60 FC4008I Bluebell Hill Huddersfield CDS postmark on registered FC4040J Birmingham Anglers Association official Bradbury cover, Post Office cover...... £60 numbered limited edition of 1000 covers...... £50 FC4008J Botanic Gardens Belfast CDS postmark on registered Post FC4040K Douglas Bader Angling Club for the Disabled, Leicester official Office cover...... £60 cover. These originally cost £4 with around 1000 produced..£50 FC4008K Spring Gardens Lytham St Annes CDS postmark on 9th March 1983 Commonwealth Day registered Post Office cover...... £50 FC4041A The Wilberforce Council, Hull official cover...... £75 FC4008L Kew Gardens Richmond CDS postmark. Registered Post Office FC4041T Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire CDS on registered Royal Mail cover plus special Daffodil First Day of issue cachet...... £125 cover with Perth Registration label and cachet stating the 6th June 1979 Horse Racing Gleneagles Agreement was signed therein 1977...... £60 FC4010A Chigwell School official cover, 450 of this cover were 6th July 1983 The British Army originally produced...... £50 FC4043K 75th Anniversary of the Territorial Army in Wales BFPS 1908 FC4010B Aintree Liverpool CDS, registered Post Office cover with a official cover...... £50 small label address...... £85 FC4043L Soldier Print Society Exhibition Worthing official cover. Produced FC4010C Cancelled with the Come Racing at Great Yarmouth special by Stamp Publicity in a limited edition of 500 covers...... £50 slogan, this cancels the top stamps with the lower values FC4043U Richard III 500th Anniversary Middleham official cover..£50 postmarked with a Great Yarmouth CDS postmark...... £75 FC4043X Rheindahlen Allied Marches, BFPS 1810 official cover..£60 11th July 1979 Year of the Child 24th August 1983 British Gardens FC4011F Alice in Wonderland Llandudno Town Council official cover.....£50 FC4044G Capability Brown Joyce Grenfell Centre Esher official cover. Limited edition of 300 produced by Arlington....£60 24th August 1979 Rowland Hill FC4044H Royal Mail cover with 'Isle of Wight Keep it Tidy' special slogan FC4012BB Block of four stamps taken from the miniature sheet, cancelling the 20p value and the other stamps are cancelled cancelled with House of Commons CDS postmark, with an Isle of Wight FDI postmark...... £50 unaddressed Post Office cover...... £15 5th October 1983 British Fairs 26th September 1979 150th Anniversary of the British FC4045J Rowell Lions Club Kettering official cover. 500 of this cover Police Service were produced selling at the time for £2.50 each...... £60 FC4013A Lincolnshire Police cover, Lincoln FDI postmark...... £60 3rd March 1984 Cattle 12th March 1980 Liverpool and Manchester Railway FC4048E Farmers Weekly Golden Jubilee Sutton official cover...£90 FC4016F TPO Exhibition Crewe Official cover...... £50 15th May 1984 Europa European Parliament FC4016J 150 Years of Mail by Rail, Manchester special slogan, plus other values cancelled with the Manchester special FDI FC4050H Crowborough CDS on Havering registered cover (the postmark is faint)...... postmark, unaddressed Post Office cover...... £60 £50 FC4016K 150 Years of Mail by Rail, Liverpool special slogan, plus 12th March 1985 Insects other values cancelled with the Liverpool special FDI FC4057C Stamp Bug Club official cover with a High Wycombe special postmark, unaddressed Post Office cover...... £60 postmark, label address. It is estimated that around 500 of these full 4th August 1980 Queen Mother’s 80th Birthday set covers were produced costing around £5 each...... £50 FC4020A Saint Mary's Church Ware Herts official cover...... £50 3rd September 1985 Arthurian Legends Grieveson Grant Chess Championship Brighton official cover, FC4020H FC4061B 'Carlisle Worth a Closer Look' special slogan on Bradbury around 500 of these covers were originally issued...... £50 Carlisle Castle cover, the other values care cancelled with a Email us at [email protected] Carlisle FDI postmark...... £75 www.buckinghamcovers.com 10 8th October 1985 Films 16th October 1990 Astronomy FC4062A Royal Mail First Day Cover, the 34p has the Queen's head FC4111A Stonehenge Official cover, produced by A G Bradbury in a dropped below the value. Bristol FDI and a neat numbered limited edition of just 250 covers...... £60 handwritten address, a very impressive error...... £395 8th January 1991 Dogs 21st April 1986 The Queens 60th Birthday FC4113E Buckingham Palace large CDS postmark on registered FC4066A Registered Royal Mail cover with cancelled with a clear Windsor Royal Mail cover, large label address...... £50 Castle CDS postmark. Neat handwritten address to an address in Home Park Windsor which is part of the Castle grounds...... £75 5th March 1991 Scientific Achievements FC4066B Buckingham Palace CDS postmark on registered Royal Mail cover FC4115A Comparex Computer Innovation Wembley official cover. with a neat handwritten address. Extra definitive added to make Only around 40 of these were produced with a massive sure the correct rate was paid...... £125 new issue price of £40 each...... £150 FC4066C Thames Barrier Exhibition official cover...... £75 15th September 1992 Conservation 17th June 1986 The Domesday Book 'Enrico Fermi 50 Years of Controlled Nuclear Fission' Guernsey Post Office CDS plus posted on board Stamplink FC4129C FC4068B special Stoke on Trent slogan. The other values are 86 cachet, Benham L series cover...... £50 cancelled with a Stoke on Trent CDS postmark...... FC4068D Hereford Country Fen Heritage special slogan on £100 unaddressed mercury cover, the bottom two values are 2nd May 1995 Peace and Freedom cancelled with the Burg Peterborough FDI postmark...£80 FC4156A Buckingham Palace CDS on typed Royal Mail cover.....£50 22nd July 1986 The Royal Wedding of 1st October 1996 Classic Cars Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson FC4170ZA Royal Automobile Club London SW1 CDS postmark on FC4070D Daily Mail Air Race official flown and signed cover...... £75 Benham official RAC cover...... £50 20th January 1987 Flowers 29th September 1998 Speed FC4074B Gardeners Question Time, Manchester official cover...£75 FC4190T Speed 98 Sir Malcolm Campbell Silverstone official cover....£75 12th May 1987 Architecture 5th October 1999 Soldiers Tale FC4076B Orient Express Folkestone official cover on Benham FC4203F The Atlantic Star Whitehall official cover, signed by Lord Special Gold cover...... £50 James Callahan...... £50 12th May 1987 Architecture 1st March 2000 Millennium Timekeepers Stamp Show FC4076C Copthorne Luxury Hotel Birmingham special slogan on 2000 overprinted miniature sheet unaddressed Philart cover...... £50 FC4207M Spring Stampex London special postmark. This sheet had 21st July 1987 Scottish Heraldry already been issued at the end of 1999, but without any notice, at Spring Stampex in London, a version became Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh official cover...... FC4078B £40 available overprinted with 'Stamp Show 2000' as part of 10th May 1988 Transport the ticket package for the show later that year. A few cover Sheffield and Rotherham Railway official cover...... dealers were on the ball and managed to get these stuck FC4085E £85 and so produce a very rare FDC, we think only 300 - FC4085L British Forces Post Office 1 Hong Kong CDS on Benham 400 FDC exist in total, a tiny fraction of what would silk cover. The Queen Mary (on the 26p stamp) sunk in normally be produced...... £125 Hong Kong harbour...... £100 FC4207MA Spring Stampex London special postmark on Royal Mail 19th July 1988 400th Anniversary cover with a small cachet address. This sheet had already of the Spanish Armada been issued at the end of 1999, but without any notice, at Spring Stampex in London, a version became available FC4087C St Andrews Plymouth CDS on PPS silk cover, small overprinted with 'Stamp Show 2000' as part of the ticket cachet address...... £20 package for the show later that year. A few cover dealers FC4087D Santander Paquebot cancel (the only official way you can get a were on the ball and managed to get these stuck and so Spanish postmark on British Stamps) on Benham silk cover. Very produce a very rare FDC, we think only 300 - 400 FDC exist hard to do, as had to be posted on ferry to get the correct days in total, a tiny fraction of what would normally postmark when the ship arrives in port. Also you never know be produced...... £150 how good the postmarking will be...... £60 4th August 2000 11th April 1989 Anniversaries The Queen Mother's 100th Birthday FC4094A Royal Mail cover with a NATO 40th Anniversary, Manchester FC4219A Buckingham Palace CDS postmark on unaddressed Royal special slogan...... £100 Mail cover...... £85 5th September 1989 Microscopes 6th February 2002 Golden Jubilee of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II FC4098A Army Blood Supply Depot Aldershot special slogan on Royal Mail cover. The slogan is clear of the stamps so the stamps have been FC4239A Royal Mail cover cancelled with the slightly larger Windsor cancelled with three Aldershot CDS postmarks...... £20 Castle CDS...... £125 FC4098B Balmoral Castle CDS postmark on typed Royal Mail cover...£75 FC4239B Royal Mail cover cancelled with a large Buckingham Palace FC4098C 25th Anniversary of North Sea Oil Development Offshore CDS postmark, unaddressed...... £75 Supplies Office Aberdeen official cover...... £75 25th April 2002 Queen Mother in Memoriam issue FC4098J Windsor Castle CDS postmark on registered typed Royal FC4243A Royal Mail cover, large Buckingham Palace CDS postmark...... £80 Mail cover with Slough Registration label...... £50 2nd May 2002 Airliners 10th January 1990 150th Anniversary of the Penny Black FC4244A 50 Years of Jet Travel Heathrow Airport official Cambridge Stamp centre cover...... £50 FC4101A Victorian Letterbox Dean Heritage Museum official CoverCraft cover. Just 190 of these were issued and they 2nd June 2003 50th Anniversary of the Coronation were / are notoriously hard to get hold of...... £75 of Queen Elizabeth II 10th January 1990 150th Anniversary of the RSPCA FC4259A Large Buckingham Palace CDS postmark, Royal Mail cover, typed...... £75 FC4102B Bunny Nottingham on a registered PPS silk cover...... £25 FC4259F Large Windsor Castle CDS postmark, Royal Mail cover, 5th June 1990 150th Anniversary of Kew Gardens unaddressed...... £125 FC4107C Church in the Wood, St Leonards on Sea Official cover....£50 www.buckinghamcovers.com 11 17th June 2003 21st Birthday of Prince William 18th April 2006 The Queen’s 80th Birthday FC4260A Clear Windsor Castle CDS on unaddressed cover. You FC4301A Royal Mail cover cancelled with a large Buckingham Palace have to work in the Castle to get this postmark and they CDS postmark...... £40 normally insist that you have to write the address on, so to FC4301B Royal Mail typed cover cancelled with a Windsor Castle have a cover in such good condition is very rare...... £150 SL4 1NJ CDS postmark. Unless you work in the Castle this FC4260B Buckingham Palace CDS postmark on Royal Mail cover...... £80 is nearly an impossible postmark to get on a first 22nd March 2005 Castles Definitives miniature sheet day cover...... £100 FC4284A Large Windsor Castle CDS postmark on typed Royal 23rd March 2010 House of Stuart Mail cover...... £100 FC4374A Typed Royal Mail cover cancelled with large Windsor 8th April 2005 The Royal Wedding of the Prince of Wales Castle SL4 1NJ CDS postmark...... £75 and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles Miniature Sheet FC4285A Buckingham Palace CDS postmark on unaddressed Royal Mail cover...... £45 01303 278137 FC4285B Royal Mail cover cancelled with a clear Windsor Castle CDS EMAIL: [email protected] postmark which is where the Wedding took place...... £100

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October 2018

WANT TO SPREAD PAYMENTS? If you want an expensive item, UK POST & PACKING UNDER £200 £2.45 PER SENDING UK SPECIAL DELIVERY £200 AND OVER PER SENDING £6.95 you don’t have to pay for it all at once. We will spread the payment up OVERSEAS POST & PACKING UNDER £200 £.3.45 PER SENDING to 12 months without interest. Tick the box and we will contact you OVERSEAS SPECIAL DELIVERY £200 AND OVER £7.95 PER SENDING to discuss a payment plan that suits you. TOTAL Delivery Details Payment Details ACCOUNT No (If Known) I enclose my cheque/ Postal Orders made out to NAME Buckingham Covers for £ . . . . . I would like to pay by Credit / Debit card. I understand you ADDRESS will keep this number on a secure computer system and I authorise you charge it when my covers become available.

POST CODE EXPIRY DATE START DATE ISSUE No TEL No: SIGNATURE Email: SECURITY CODE* *Last 3 digits on back of card. We cannot process your order without it. BA1810A

Alternatively you can call our small friendly Folkestone based Customer Service team (no call centres) on 01303 278137 BUCKINGHAM COVERS LTD, REGISTERED INwww.buckinghamcovers.com ENGLAND NO. 03877048 IS PART OF INTERNET STAMPS GROUP LTD, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 03497867. REGISTERED OFFICE FOR BOTH: WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY RD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF, UK. TEL. 01303 278137. 12