Cover Lover the Magazine for First Day and Commemorative Cover Collectors

JUNE 2016 CL171 Cover Lover The magazine for first day and commemorative cover collectors

MUSIC GIANTS 7th July 2016 Celebrating British Rock Legends PINK FLOYD 10 years ago, musician and Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett passed away. To commemorate him and the remarkable achievements of this ground breaking, iconic British group, Royal Mail will be releasing a set of six stamps on July 7th. Each stamp features the artwork of the band’s most famous albums - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here and The Endless River.

Clair has designed this tribute cover combining the distinctive landmark of Battersea Power station and the rainbow, famously used on the Animals and Dark Side cover artwork. It features the full set of six stamps and our special Pink Green postmark. BC543 £17.95 FDC Club Customers £16.95 BC543S £26.95 Signed by Bob Harris Bob Harris Renowned music presenter Bob Harris, best known for being a host of the BBC2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, and as a co-founder of the listings magazine Time Out.

There will also a be a miniature sheet celebrating Pink

7 July Floyd’s prowess as a live act featuring images from 2016 MUSIC GIANTS famous tours such as The Wall and the Division Bell. Floyd Road London SE7 Clair has also designed this great cover featuring the miniature sheet and special Floyd Road postmark.

7 July BC543M £16.95 2016 MUSIC GIANTS Floyd Road FDC Club Customers £15.95 London SE7 BC543MS £TBC Signature TBC

THE QUEEN’S 90th & PRINCE PHILIP’S 95th BIRTHDAYS

BCE18B £14.95 This fantastic double postmarked cover features a new Queen’s 90th 1st class stamp with Windsor FDI postmark 21st April 2016 and doubled with a Golden Wedding Anniversary 63p stamp plus 1p definitive and London SW postmark 10th June 2016.

GUM & SELF ADHESIVE DOUBLE

Features the 4 gummed stamps from the miniature sheet plus 2 self adhesive stamps of the Queen and Prince Charles from the retail booklet with FDI postmark dated 21/04/16. There will be another retail booklet issued in June with the remaining 2 self adhesive stamps of Princes William and George, which will be postmarked on the issue date, making this a great doubled cover. BC540DBL £22.95 90th BIRTHDAY SOUVENIRS SELLING FAST! SEE WHAT IS STILL AVAILABLEArtists impression ON PAGES 6-8 Tony’s Last Words PUFFING BILLY FINALLY RAN OUT OF PUFF It’s good bye from me. I If any of you get IPF my advice is do everything you had a great innings but the want to do as quickly as possible, it’s amazing how googly finally got me. I quickly it moves. have enjoyed helping cover I am lucky to have such great staff to continue things in collectors for 50 years, Folkestone and I know they will continue the great work. raised over £1,000,000 for various good causes, employed 100’s and Sad as it is to leave the stage I have been privileged contributed millions to the economy. to have met so many amazing people and had such a wonderful occupation. It’s not always been easy but in the end I have always had fantastic customers who have made it special.

Thank you for your letters particularly in the last Tony Buckingham year or so. May 2016

TONY BUCKINGHAM 28th April 1945 - 12th May 2016

FUNERAL DETAILS FRIDAY 10TH JUNE 2016 12 NOON

BARHAM CREMATORIUM Canterbury Road (A260) Barham, Nr Canterbury Kent CT4 6QU

A Just Giving page in Tony’s memory has been setup requesting for donations instead of flowers please http://www.justgiving.com/tonybuckingham

As well as the justgiving site, donations by cheque made out to the British Lung Foundation can be sent to the undertakers, Chittendens of Hythe, 1 - 3, Windmill St, Hythe, Kent CT21 6BH

2 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] THE GREAT WAR 21st June 2016 On 21st June, Royal Mail will be releasing the third instalment of Worker Lottie Meade, a painting of ‘Travoys Arriving with Wounded’ their five years of World War I stamp series, Centenary of the First by John Stevens, Thepval Memorial at the Somme in France and World War. . The stamps this year include the ‘Battlefield Poppy’ by Captain AC Green’s Battle of Jutland Commemorative Medal. Giles Revell, a Vera Brittain quotation from ‘To My Brother’, Munitions

FDC Club Customers £15.95 BC542 £16.95 Postmarked with our postmark on day of issue, London SW1, this cover will make a great addition to your collection! BC542S £25.95 Signed by Cheryl Campbell. New Signer! Cheryl Campbell will be signing our Great War stamps cover! Well known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in ‘Testament of Youth’ (1979) for which she received the Best Actress Award at the BAFTAs.

BC542M £16.95 FDC Club Customers £15.95 This fantastic cover, features Royal Mail’s ‘Post Office at War’ miniature sheet, postmarked with our postmark on the day of issue, London EC1. BC542MS £25.95 Signed by Duncan Barrett.

BC542MB £16.95 Barcoded miniature sheet. BC542MBS £25.95 Signed by Tony Jordan. Signing for us: The main miniature sheet cover will be signed by the author of ‘Men of Letters’ Duncan Barrett. Men of Letters tells the story of the Post Office Rifles during the First The only miniature World War. sheet to be issued in The barcoded miniature sheet cover is signed by Tony Jordan, a British Television writer . Among many others he wrote the whole 5 year series a TV drama ‘The Passing Bells’, a five-part drama broadcast on BBC1 in 2014 The series is set during World War I. It to coincide with the shows events through the eyes of two very ordinary teenagers, one from England and one from Germany, who enlist in Royal Mail 500 the war, which they expect will be over within months. STAMPS FROM MINIATURE SHEET BC542MA £16.95 Stamps torn from the miniature sheet with our London EC1 postmark. BC542MAS £25.95 Signed by Tony Jordan. Signing this cover: Tony Jordan will be signing these covers. A British Television writer and among many others he wrote a TV drama ‘The Passing Bells’.

BC542A £16.95 Our fantastic cover commemorating 100 years since Britain’s formation of the War Department Light Railways during WWI. This cover features the full set of 6 Great War stamps.

Also available as part of our Rail Series with a single stamp from the Great War issue - see page 11

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 GREAT WAR PRESTIGE STAMP BOOKLET Prestige Stamp Booklet set of 4 covers with a beautiful poppy field sunset image, each featuring a different pane from this year’s Great War booklet.

BC542PSB £63.80 Set of 4 covers postmarked on the day of issue with mixed postmarks.

BC542PSB2 £63.80 Postmarked with our own handstamps.

5th June 2016 BC510K £12.95 Centenary of the Death of Earl Kitchener - Great War cover. Single 1st Class Poppy stamp and postmarked at St Paul’s Cathedral, London E.C where there is a Memorial of Earl Kitchener. Also includes brilliant ‘Your Country Needs You!’ cachet marking the Centenary of his Death.

centenary of anzac day 25th April 2016 Pair of Poppy covers, each with 5 stamps & labels from the Royal Mail Anzac Commemorative Sheet, one cover postmarked London SW1 and one cover postmarked at Telford. BCSP39 £24.95

Alice in Wonderland 27th May 2016 LIMITED EDITIONS To celebrate the release of the new film on the 27th May this year, we will be postmarking our brilliant Alice in Wonderland covers (our choice) with a stamp from Royal Mail’s Alice in Wonderland issue 2015, postmarked on the film release date, London WC, with a special cachet. BC516V £11.95

On 1st December 2015 Tristan da Cunha issued their own set of six Alice in Wonderland stamps. We are delighted to be able to offer this full set on our Alice cover, postmarked on the first day of issue in Tristan da Cunha. BC516T £11.95

4 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] ANIMAIL 17th May 2016 Michael and Clare Morpurgo will both be signing these covers! 40 years ago they set up the charity Farms for City Children which enables children from inner city areas to become farmers for a week. The charity runs three farms around the country, in Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire and North Devon. Each farm offers children and teachers from urban primary schools the chance to live and work in the countryside for a week, BC541 £17.95 Unsigned and gain hands-on experience. Many of the teachers report that children learn more in one week on the farms than they do in the classroom and gain in confidence, FDC Club Customers £16.95 understanding and self-worth. BC541S £27.95 For more information about the work of Farms for City Children, Michael and Clare Morpurgo signed. please visit www.farmsforcitychildren.co.uk

THESE COVERS FEATURE A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION BY QUENTIN BLAKE - PATRON OF FARMS FOR CITY CHILDREN

For this fantastic cover we have worked with the Charity Farms for City Children set up by Michael and Clare Morpurgo. To mark its 40th Anniversary this cover features a Quentin Blake image, who is patron of the charity. The self-adhesive miniature sheet contains six endearing animal characters within that will wrap around an envelope or cling on to a postcard, these are perfect for adorning a piece of mail and making someone smile before they have even opened the envelope. Postmarked St David’s Hill Exeter 17/05/16. BC541B £17.95 BC541BS £27.95 BC541MB £17.95 Barcoded miniature sheet, unsigned. FDC Club Customers £16.95 Michael and Clare Morpurgo Barcoded miniature sheet, signed by Our Farms for City Children cover with signed. BC541MBS £27.95 Michael and Clare Morpurgo stamps from the miniature sheet.

THE QUEEN’S 90th & PRINCE PHILIP’S 95th BIRTHDAYS

GUM & SELF ADHESIVE DOUBLE

Signed by Camilla Tominey BC540S £26.95 Camilla Tominey Royal Editor of the Sunday Express in London, a Royal Expert for the American television network NBC and a regular commentator on the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky News and Australia’s Channel 9. Our unsigned stamps cover is now SOLD OUT! Alternative design just available This lovely alternative stamps cover features Queen Elizabeth II radiantly dressed in bright pink, and has the full set of six stamps issued by Royal Mail celebrating Her Majesty’s landmark birthday. Also postmarked on the day of issue, 21st April 2016, with our special Windsor handstamp.

BC540B £16.95 SPECIAL HISTORIC MINIATURE SHEET

The new Royal Mail Queen's 90th Birthday miniature sheet is VERY SPECIAL. Released on Her Majesty's birthday, 21st April 2016, it features a brand new official portrait of 4 generations of the line of succession including Prince George. Postmarked London SW1.

BC540M £16.95

BC540MBS £29.95 Miniature sheet with barcode signed by Nadiya Hussain

4 x 1st class stamps torn form the new special miniature sheet on our PSB cover design, The cover features a lovely painting of Windsor Castle along with a black and white portrait of the Queen issued for her 89th birthday in 2015. Postmarked on the day of issue with our Windsor postmark.

BC540A £16.95 Signed by Nadiya Hussain BC540AS £26.95 Nadiya Hussain Winner of 2015’s Great British Bake Off, has agreed to sign our stamps from the miniature sheet cover and our barcoded miniature sheet covers! Nadiya has recently had the honour of baking the cake for the Queen’s 90th birthday! She enjoyed great success since winning the 6sixth series of the GreatWARREN British Bake HOUSE, Off, amongst SHEARWAY numerous television ROAD, appearances, FOLKESTONE, Nadiya has been KENT writing CT19 for The 4BF Times MagazineCL171 and Essentials Magazine TELas well 01303 as writing 278137 her own cookbookFAX 01303 which 279429 will be coming email out [email protected] June. REAL 22CT GOLD limited edition of 90 This lovely cover features an image of the young Princess Elizabeth within a frame embossed on the cover in REAL 22ct GOLD. This limited edition of 90 will have the four stamps from the miniature sheet with our Windsor postmark. BC540GA £29.95

limited edition of 500 l Specially embossed with REAL 22ct Gold. l 5 stamps including 1 NEW stamp with image of the young Princess with her father. l Beautiful black & white portrait of Princess Elizabeth with a beloved corgi.

BC540G £26.95

Featuring a 1st class stamp from the new 90th birthday set issued All are postmarked with our special London SW1 handstamp. The by Royal Mail on 21st April 2016, showings a portrait of the toddler cover will feature a Jersey stamp with a portrait of the Queen's Princess with her father, King George VI this cover also has a 1976 grandfather, George V, on the year of her birth and cancelled with 50th birthday rose stamp (our choice), a 1986 60th Birthday stamp a Bruton St, Mayfair cachet, the place where Her Majesty was born. (our choice) plus a 2006 80th birthday stamp (our choice).

RETAIL BOOKLET - PAIR OF COVERS NOW AVAILABLE!

Retail booklet issued by Royal Mail to commemorate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The booklet features 4 Machin stamps and 2 pictorial stamps from the miniature sheet. Available here on our PSB cover design and postmarked on the day of issue, 21st April 2016.

BC540R £16.95

Second cover with Princes William and George retail book. Makes a fantastic pair!

BC540RA £16.95

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 Artists impression THE CELEBRATIONS CONTINUE LONG TO REIGN STREET PARTY ON THE MALL REGIONAL DOUBLES 12th June 2016 9th September 2015 & 21st April 2016

BC529SP £49.95 Set of four Long to Reign portrait covers BC506AV £9.95 Marking the mass street party on The Mall 12th featuring a stamp from the ‘Long to Reign’ miniature sheet and a June 2016. The cover features a stunning image of Buckingham Palace regional stamp postmarked in a connecting region on 9th September viewed from The Mall with two coronation labels, two first class union 2015. Doubled with a stamp from the new 90th Birthday set and flag stamps postmarked SW1 12.6.2016 and special cachet. regional CDS, 21st April 2016. PRE-ORDER YOURS NOW!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - 400 YEARS 5th April 2016

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. To celebrate, Royal Mail produced 10 stamps which feature quotes from some of his most famous work. Jo produced two stunning covers, each features a beautiful painting of scenes from one of Shakespeare’s plays.

BC539 £16.95 Our first cover focuses on Ophelia from Hamlet with an FDI postmark 5/4/16 London SE1. Signed by Mark Rylance. BC539S £29.95 Mark Rylance Recent Oscar and BAFTA Winner Mark Rylance, awarded for his portrayal of Cromwell in ‘Wolf Hall’ is signing our Hamlet cover. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005 and has been awarded the Olivier Award for Best Actor in Much Ado About Nothing in 1994.

The second of our pair of covers has a stunning image of Venus and Adonis, postmarked at Shakespeare’s birth place Stratford-Upon-Avon on first day of issue 5/4/16.

BC539A £16.95 BC539AS £27.95 Signed by David Edgar. David Edgar David Edgar is a well known British playwright with an impressive 60 plays to his name. He has been associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1976, becoming the Company’s literary consultant from 1984 - 1988, he also became the Company’s honorary associate artist in 1989. A truly great autograph to have on our beautiful Venus & Adonis cover. 8 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] 1966 50th ANNIVERSARY 2016 ENGLAND’S WORLD CUP VICTORY

BCF12 £14.95 30th July 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of England’s World Cup victory over Germany in 1966. Working officially with the National Football Museum, Nikki has designed this brilliant cover to commemorate this historic event. It features an iconic image of that full time scoreboard and an English lion stamp with our specially designed Wembley Twin Towers postmark, cancelled on the anniversary date. The cover also features 3 World Cup stamps and special scoreboard cachet.

Bobby Moore 12th April 2016 BC238V2 £12.95 The 12th April marked the 75th Anniversary of Bobby Moore’s birth, to celebrate one of the greatest footballers of all time, we have doubled this great World Cup cover with a London E20 postmark and a special cachet.

Anthony Joshua 9th April 2016 Gold Medal single stamp cover celebrating Anthony Joshua winning Boxing Men’s Super Heavyweight Gold at London 2012 & doubled with Union Flag stamp & Olympic Stadium postmark 09/04/16 for becoming I.B.F Heavyweight World Champion. BCOG29D £21.95

Danny Willett 10th April 2016 Celebrating Golf cover with Union Jack Flag stamp & Congratulations postmark dated 10/04/16. Includes a special cachet celebrating Danny Willett becoming Masters Champion at the 80th Masters Tournament, Augusta, Georgia. Willett also became the first Brit in 20 years to win the Green Jacket. BCGOLF02 £12.95

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 GAME SET & MATCH Hot (or wet) summer days, Pimms, strawberries and cream - Wimbledon 2016 is fast approaching and to whet your appetite here is a selection of covers celebrating some great British achievements in the sport over the last few years!

BC472 £17.50 Andy Murray Wimbledon win stamps cover with an approved image of Andy raising the cup, this cover has the 4 stamps from miniature sheet issued 8/08/13 with our Murray Rd Wimbledon postmark

BC472M £17.50 Andy Murray Wimbledon win miniature sheet cover with approved image featuring the Union Jack & Scottish flag and Andy in action with full miniature sheet postmarked London SW19 8/8/13

BC472SP4 £20 Andy Murray Wimbledon win with Olympic gold medal stamp pmk’d 7/7/13 doubled with 1st class cup or court stamp from Royal Mail issue with our Murray Road Wimbledon postmark 8/8/13

BC4SP02 £17.50 Cover first postmarked 14th July 2009 BC4SP02A £15 Jonny Marray and Freddie Nielsen - winners when Andrew Murray became the Queen’s Club champion for at Wimbledon 2012 with stamp & postmark dated 7th July 2012, the first time, doubled with 8th July 2012 stamp and postmark at the date they won the Men’s doubles, unsigned Wimbledon (his first Wimbledon final)

Signed by Olympic and Wimbledon Champion ANDY MURRAY!

Gold Medal Collection single stamp cover celebrating Andy Murray winning Tennis: Men’s Singles 05/08/12. Genuinely signed by Andy Murray.

BCOG10S £125

10 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] THE ROAD TO RIO!  We will produce a cover for every Team GB gold medal!  Postmarked on the day of the win  Sign up for the collection so you don’t miss out! Quote RIO2016  We hope to have signed options too. These are likely to race out the Please quote RIO16S door! Register yourArtists interest now - contact us for details. MAKE SURE impression YOU DON’T TEL: 01303 278137 MISS OUT!

175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MAIN LINE - LONDON TO BRISTOL 30th June 2016 R305 £10.95 Rail Club Customers £9.95 The Great Western Railway main line, London to Bristol will celebrate it’s 175th anniversary on 30 June 2016. To commemorate this special occasion, Clair has designed this great cover featuring a beautiful painting by John Wigston. The cover also features a GWR King Class stamp and postmarked at Paddington, London W2.

CENTENARY OF LIGHT RAILWAYS 21st June 2016 Rail Club Customers £9.95 R304 £10.95 This year will also mark an important moment in railway history. It will be 100 years since Britain’s formation of the War Department Light Railways during WWI. This beautiful cover shows one of the finished railway lines in action. With poppy stamp from this year’s Centenary of WWI issue, postmarked first day of issue 21st June 2016. JOIN THE BUCKINGHAM RAILWAY SERIES TODAY AND MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS OUT! We produce around 10 - 15 covers per year Exclusive and early offers - Club members Club members save £1 on each offer were reserved the now SOLD OUT Flying Scotsman sets first No obligation to buy every cover CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com Simply call: 01303 278137 or email: 11 Special token scheme towards free albums betty@ buckinghamcovers.com to sign up 5TH SERIES COVER BuckinghamCOVERS CHECKLIST 2014 - STANDARD SHOULD YOU BE A MEMBER CODE DESCRIPTION CLUB PRICE NOW FEW LEFT OF ONE OF OUR CLUBS? BC501 Children’s Television - Bagpuss £13.95 £25 1 Our club customers are automatically allocated new issue covers BC502 Working Horses - Horse Society £13.95 £25 2 before they are advertised, so guaranteeing they don’t miss out on any issues. BC503 Locos of Wales - LMS No.7720 £13.95 £17.50 6 BC503B Locos of Wales - Hunslet No.589 £13.95 £15 With the fifth series we have carried on our usual rules of producing covers to the highest standard and being strict with BC503C Locos of Wales - No.822 The Earl £13.95 £15 numbers, some have already sold out and more are very close. BC503D Locos of Wales - BR5600, GW5652 £13.95 £17.50 7 Call us today on 01303 278137 – To join one of our BC503M Locos of Wales miniature sheet £13.95 £20 clubs and guarantee your Buckingham Covers BC503R Retail Booklet - Locos of Wales £13.95 £20 9 BC504 Post & Go - Spring Flowers Bureau £Buying £15 BC504B Post & Go - Spring Flowers Machine £13.95 £30 1 BC505 Remarkable lives - Roy Plomley £13.95 £17.50 BC505A Remarkable lives - Spitfire £13.95 £20 BC506 Buckingham Palace £13.95 £25 2 BC506M Buckingham miniature sheet £13.95 £20 BC506R Retail Booklet - Buckingham Palace £13.95 £20 1 BC507 Celebrating British cinema £13.95 £30 3 BC502 BC507M Celebrating British cinema m/sheet £13.95 £17.50 BC508 Sustainable Fish - Fisherman’s Beach £13.95 £20 BC508R Retail Booklet - Sustainable Fish £13.95 £15 BC509 Commonwealth Games Glasgow £13.95 £20 BC509R Retail Book - Commonwealth Games £Buying £12 BC510 Centenary of the First World War £Buying £15 BC511 Post & Go - Symbolic Flowers Bureau £13.95 £20 9 BC511B Post & Go - Symbolic Flowers Machine £13.95 £20 9 BC506M BC512 Seaside Architecture - Southend Pier £13.95 £25 5 BC512M Seaside Architecture m/sheet Brighton £13.95 £20 BC513 Prime Ministers Downing Street £13.95 £20 BC514 Christmas - Last Day of Term cover £13.95 £20 BC514M Christmas miniature sheet £13.95 £20 BC515 Post & Go - Winter Greenery Bureau £13.95 £17.50 BC515B Post & Go - Winter Greenery Machine £13.95 £17.50

2015 - STANDARD BC512M CODE DESCRIPTION CLUB PRICE NOW FEW LEFT BC516 Alice in Wonderland - Red Queen £15.95 £20 BC516A Alice in Wonderland - Mad Hatter £15.95 £20 BC516R Retail Booklet - Alice in Wonderland £Buying £12 BC517 Happy Families £15.95 £20 9 BC517M Happy Families miniature sheet £15.95 £20 BC518 Post & Go - Working Sail Bureau £15.95 £20 10 BC518B Post & Go - Working Sail Machine £15.95 £25 BC516

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CODE DESCRIPTION CLUB PRICE NOW FEW LEFT BC519 Inventive Britain, Cambridge £15.95 £25 BC520 Bridges - Forth Rail Bridge £15.95 £20 9 BC520A Bridges - Royal Border Bridge £15.95 £20 BC521A BC521 Comedy - Heritage Foundation cover 1 £15.95 £20 BC521A Comedy - Heritage Foundation cover 2 £15.95 £20 BC521R Retail Booklet - Comedy £15.95 £25 3 BC522A Penny Post, Bath £15.95 £20 BC522M Penny Post miniature sheet £15.95 £25 9 BC522R Retail Booklet - Penny Post £Buying £12 BC523 Post & Go Heraldic Beasts Bureau £15.95 £20 6 BC523B Post & Go Heraldic Beasts Machine £15.95 £20 BC522M BC524 Great War £16.95 £20 BC525 Magna Carta £17.95 £20 BC526 Waterloo £15.95 £20 6 BC526M Waterloo Miniature Sheet £Buying £12 BC527 Battle of Britain Miniature Sheet £15.95 £17.50 BC528 Bees £16.95 £17.50 BC528M Bees Miniature Sheet £15.95 £17.50 BC528R Bees Retail Booklet £15.95 £17.50 6 BC526M BC529M Long to Reign Miniature Sheet £15.95 £20 BC530 Post & Go Sea Travel £15.95 £25 4 BC530B Post & Go Sea Travel Bureau £16.95 £20 BC531 Rugby World Cup £Buying £12 BC531R Rugby World Cup Retail Booklet £15.95 £20 BC532 Science Fiction £15.95 £17.50 BC532M Science Fiction Miniature Sheet £15.95 £18.50 BC533 Christmas £19.95 £25 2 BC534 BC533M Christmas Miniature Sheet £19.95 £22.50 BC534 Post & Go Fur and Feathers £15.95 £17.50 BC534B Post & Go Fur and Feathers Bureau £16.95 £18.50 2016 - STANDARD CODE DESCRIPTION CLUB PRICE NOW FEW LEFT BC535 Shackleton £18.95 £22.50 BC536 Royal Mail 500 £Buying £12.50 BC535 BC536M Royal Mail 500 Miniature Sheet £15.95 £20 9 BC536R Royal Mail 500 Retail Book £Buying £12.50 BC537 Post & Go Royal Mail Bureau £Buying £12.50 BC537B Post & Go Royal Mail Machine £16.95 £20 4 BC538 British Humanitarians £15.95 £18.50 BC539 Shakespeare - Hamlet £15.95 £17.50 BC539A Shakespeare - Venus & Adonis £15.95 £17.50 BC540 Queen’s 90th £15.95 £16.95 BC538 CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 13 ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary started mountaineering while still in secondary school, and went on to become one of the greatest mountaineers the world has ever seen. Hillary also trekked to the North and South Poles, making SGH006C £450 him one of a small number of elite Sir Edmund Hillary and Sirdar Tenzing Norgay, signed 1978 25th Anniversary of the First explorers to reach the poles as well Ascent of Mount Everest FDC with a silver coin, supplied in a special presentation folder. as stand atop Everest. After making history on Everest, Hillary founded the Himalaya Trust through which he SGH029B £150 devoted the rest of his life to helping Lord John Hunt, signed the Sherpa people of Nepal. 1990 200th Anniversary of George Everest cover. Sirdar Tenzing Norgay was a Sherpa mountaineer born in Nepal. He climbed Everest alongside Hillary, and they reached the summit together on May 29th 1953 at 11.30am. Earlier on in the expedition to Everest’s SGH029C £250 summit, Norgay saved Hillary from a Tenzing Norgay and Sir near-miss when he fell into a crevasse John Hunt, signed 7p 25th - Norgay’s quick thinking secured Anniversary Post Office card. Hillary’s rope thus preventing him from hitting the bottom. As a result, Hillary made Norgay his climbing partner of choice for the final ascent. SGH029D £250 Lord John Hunt was a British army Tenzing Norgay and Sir officer and is best known for leading John Hunt, signed 8.5p the expedition to Everest in which Sir 25th Anniversary card. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the mountain’s summit for the first time in recorded history. As a child, Hunt spent much time in the Alps where he started developing his SGH029E £200 mountaineering skills. He continued 1978 25th Anniversary of climbing throughout adulthood, and the Ascent cover, signed when, in 1931, his military regiment by Hunt & Tenzing. was posted to India he began climbing various parts of the Himalayas. After WWII, in which Hunt achieved the SGH029I £150 rank of Colonel, he was chosen to lead the Everest expedition on account of Lord John Hunt, signed his military leadership skills as well 1978 Coronation Everest 25th as his proven abilities at climbing. In Anniversary cover. later life he became the first Director for the Duke of Edinburgh awards, and in 1966 was awarded life peerage for his work with young people. SGH029L £125 Edmund Hillary and John Hunt were Sir Edmund Hillary, signed knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and Centenary of the Royal Norgay received the George Medal Society of New Zealand cover. for his efforts.

14 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] star Signatures BING CROSBY Bing Crosby, signed American cover, our choice. Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby’s trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best- selling recording artists of the 20th century. He was a star in many genres, music, television, film, and radio, and is one of only 22 people to have 3 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Billboard’s statistician Joel Whitburn determined Crosby to be America’s most successful recording act of the 1930s, and again in the 1940s. In 1962, Crosby was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

SGB072E £400 £100 per month for 4 months RAY CHARLES CARMEN MIRANDA

£50 per month for 3 months SGC171 £150 Ray Charles, signed American cover our choice. SGM110A £295 £59 per month for 5 months Ray Charles was an American musician often called “The Carmen Miranda, signed 1944 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures. High Priest of Soul”. Charles’ influence on music is legendary, and this is reflected by Rolling Stone magazine’s listing him at Carmen Miranda, nicknamed ‘the Brazilian Bombshell’, was a number two in their “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” list. Frank Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer and film star. Her singing Sinatra once said that Charles was “the only true genius in show career began in 1929, and over the next 10 years she became a business”. Whether true or not, it’s hard not to be captured by huge star in Brazil. Her trademark outfit, featuring a large fruit-hat the brilliance and charisma of Charles who in 2004 had a film turban and fruit jewellery, was, however, not a part of her image at made about his life and career. this point. Only when she moved to the US in 1939 and began her career in Hollywood did this costume make its first appearance. American audiences lapped up her exotic look, catapulting her into LUCIANO PAVAROTTI super-stardom and making her the highest paid woman in the United States at the time. Tragically, she died at the age of 46 from a heart attack. However, her legacy has lived on, with global fashion still feeling the influence of her unique style to this day.

£35 per month for 5 months SGP029A £175 Luciano Pavarotti, signed cover, our choice, the great Tenor.

Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian opera singer known for his tenor voice. Perhaps the most famous tenor of all time, and certainly one of the most successful, Pavarotti became associated with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, who together became known as The Three Tenors. Already having had a long career, international stardom came for Pavarotti when his rendition of Nessun Dorma was used as the theme song for the BBC’s coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. Although involved in a tax scandal late in his life, Pavarotti was also known for his charity work, particularly in aid of refugees and the Red Cross.

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VCC023 £275 £55 per month for 5 months 1977 Special 90th Birthday of Sir Barnes Wallis cover with GB stamp & pmk 07/10/1977 signed by Leonard Cheshire VC and Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris MRAF & Wing Cmdr David Shannon DSO Dambuster Pilot 617 Sqdn.

VCD002 £275 £55 per month for 5 months Signed piece 25cm x 17.5cm with the signature of Job H C Drain VC. £25 per month for 5 months VCSET01 £125 Set of six JS Victory in Europe covers, each one signed by a different VC winner: Philip Gardner VC, Bill Reid VC, John Cruickshank VC, Richard Annand VC, John Kennedy VC and Pat Porteous VC.

VCZ010 £100 £50 per month for 2 months 50th Anniversary of the RAF cover with GB stamp & Digby Aerodrome pmk 29/05/1968, signed by Bill Reid VC & John Cruickshank VC. Also signed by Dennis David, James Tait, Roland Beamont & Neville Duke.

VCZ025 £35 Bill Reid and Rod Learoyd, double signed Victoria Cross silhouette style print 18cm x 25cm.

£50 per month for 3 months VCZ030A £150 Australian Bicentenary cover with set of Australian stamps & pmk’d 21/06/1988, signed by Australian VC winners, Sir Roden Cutler, Edward Kenna and Keith Payne. 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected]

16 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] VCZ071 £225

£45 per month for 5 months VC x 5 1982 New Zealand Armistice Day cover, Signed by VC winners, Cpl C R G Bassett, Sgt J D Hinton and Captain C H Upham, plus the facsimile signatures of Sgt A Hulme, Sgt H Laurent and Sgt K Elliott.

VCZ5004 £150 £50 per month for 3 months 80th Anniversary of the RAF cover with stamp & postmarked 1998, signed by VC winners, Pat Porteous, Eric Wilson, Ian Fraser, VCZ107B £125 £25 per month for 5 months Philip Gardner & John Kenneally. Battle of Jersey cover, signed by Victoria Cross winners Ganju Lama, Ian Fraser, Eric Wilson, John Kenneally, Tommy Gould, Pat Porteous and Rambahadur Limbu.

VCZ107C £250

£50 per month for 5 months Raflet Stamp Club Room cover, signed by VC winners Pat Porteous, Edward Kenna, Ernest Smith, John Kenneally, R Limbu, Ian Fraser and Tommy Gould plus 18 others.

VCZ6001 £100 £50 per month for 2 months 50th Anniversary of the RAF Rescue Services cover with VC stamp & BFPO postmark 1991 signed by VC winners, Bill Speakman, Ian Fraser, Edward Kenna, John Cruickshank, Bill Reid & Rod Learoyd.

£65 per month for 5 months VCZ7018 £325 Large 32cm x 23cm The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen covers with Jersey pmk 1984, signed by VC winners L Cheshire, J Cruickshank, N Jackson, R Learoyd, B Reid, L Trent & F West.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 17 DIAMOND JUBILEE BuckinghamCOVERS With all the recent celebrations for The Queen’s 90th Birthday, I was reminded of one of the last major Royal Celebrations - the Diamond Jubilee of 2012.

BC448 £35 Diamond Jubilee cover with black & white image of The Queen & Prince Philip, 4 coloured stamps (later years) from the set of 8 stamps, issued on 31/05/12, with a Buckingham Palace postmark plus river pageant carried cachet.

BC448AS £40 Diamond Jubilee cover with colour image & 4 black & white stamps & Windsor pmk, 9d stamp & carried on the flotilla cachet. Signed by The Rt Hon Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.

BC448A £30 BC448C £45 Cover with a colour image and the four black Early image of the queen in & white stamps (early years) from the set of central diamond border, with 8, with a Windsor postmark plus river pageant Isle of Man stamp & first day of carried cachet, on 1969 9d ship. issue postmark, single GB stamp & Buckingham Palace 31/5/12 postmark plus 1969 ship stamp with carried River Pageant cachet and extra carried cachet.

BC448G £15 Diamond Jubilee PSB cover with Post & Go Union Flag stamp with Diamond Jubilee overprint BC448D £35 postmarked Autumn Stampex 26/9/12. Diamond Jubilee Definitive miniature sheet issued February 2012 on PSB design cover with late entry Buckingham Palace Royal Mail postmark issued BC448IOMA £25 06/02/12, unsigned. Gold block ‘Her Majesty The Queen Diamond Jubilee’ PSB cover with Isle of Man miniature sheet and first day of issue postmark. Not carried.

BC448S £45 Diamond Jubilee cover with BC448RA £20 black & white image & 4 colour stamps & Buckingham Palace Cover marking the Diamond Jubilee with colour postmark, 9d stamp & carried image of The Queen & Prince Philip, retail booklet in the flotilla cachet, signed by stamp and Windsor postmark (3rd June), doubled The Rt. Hon Lady Rayne. with IOM stamp & postmark, with river pageant carried cachet.

18 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] DEFINITIVES BuckinghamCOVERS

BCD10S £25 Cover featuring the new Recorded Delivery definitive stamps, issued on 17/11/09. Signed by Patrick Malahide.

NEW TARIFF DEFINITIVES 29/03/11

BCD13E £12.50 BCD13S £10 English regional only. Scottish regional only.

BCD13I £10 Northern Ireland BCD13W £10 regional only. Welsh regional only.

BCD22E £10 England cover with 88p Green regional stamp from 27th March 2013 issue.

BCDE1 £9 An English Oak Tree is the emblem for the new English stamp, issued 5th April 2005. Our cover shows beautiful Windsor Castle in the early morning light.

BCDE2 £10 The postal rates went up on 1/4/06. This Windsor Castle cover features the new English Regional 44p & 72p stamp. Limited edition of 150, including signed covers (BCDE2S). Issued 28/3/06.

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CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 19 SP(M03)01A £400 £40 per month for 10 months Alan Shepard signed Mercury cover with ‘Americas First Space Flight Freedom 7’ ‘ slogan and 18/07/61 Virginia Beach postmark, also with facsimile Shepard signature.

SP(R)025 £150 £75 per month for 2 months Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyayev signed 1965 Russian space cover.

SP(R)037 £75 Pavel Belyayev signed postcard photograph of himself SP(M09)01E £100 £20 per month for 5 months sitting alongside Gordon Cooper signed Mercury 9 cover with launch day Alexey Leonov. 15/05/63 Cape Canaveral postmark, also with a facsimile Cooper signature.

SP(M08)01C £125 BACK £25 per month FRONT for 5 months Wally Schirra signed Mercury 8 cover with 03/10/62 launch day postmark, plus a Wally Schirra autopen signature.

SP(A08)01D £175 SP(A07)02B £250 £50 per month for 5 months £25 per month Don Eisele signed JFK Space Center NASA official for 7 months postcard with Kennedy Space Center postmark. Frank Borman signed Apollo 8 splashdown cover with 27/12/68 landing date landing date Cape Canaveral postmark.

SP(A09)01B £125 £25 per month for 5 months James McDivitt signed Apollo 9 £50 per month for 2 months SP(A09)03A £100 space cover with 03/03/69 launch Rusty Schweickart signed Apollo 9 cover with Cape day postmark. Canaveral 03/03/69 launch day postmark.

20 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] POLITICS PM016 £400 £50 per month for 8 months Lord Grenville signed letter dated 22nd December 1826 regarding the future of a Mr. Trevelyan and whether he plans to return to office or retire.

BACK FRONT

FRONT BACK

£65 per month for 5 months PM038A £325 Andrew Bonar Law signed handwritten letter dated 20/08/20 on 11 Downing Street headed paper sending his regards to the recipient and sorry that he has been having a bad time of late, with signed envelope.

SGG055A £350 £50 per month for 7 months Mikhail Gorbachev signed 1993 USA 250th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s Birth FDC, Gorbachev visited the US during the celebrations and delivered a speech honouring Jefferson. SGS190 £275 £55 per month for 5 months SGS189 £40 William Henry Smith signed 1878 envelope addressed to Manny Shinwell Montagu Curry (private secretary of Benjamin Disraeli). Smith signed Conference of was behind the major expansion of his family firm WH Smiths the Inter-Parliamentary into the brand we know today. He also served as an MP, First Union FDC, a high Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of ranking trade union the Treasury, and Leader of the House of Commons. official, Labour politician, and one of the leading figures of 01303 278137 Red Clydeside. EMAIL: [email protected]

We can also offer covers signed by several of the leading bookmaker’s favourites to replace David Cameron if he should step down after the upcoming referendum.

SGG107 Michael Gove signed politics cover, our choice...... £15 SGJ009 Boris Johnson signed politics cover, our choice...... £25 SGJ045 Sajid Javid signed politics cover, our choice...... £12.50 SGM164 Theresa May signed politics cover, our choice...... £15 CL171 21 SGO043 George Osborne signed politics cover,www.buckinghamcovers.com our choice...... £50 Fantastic Flight Covers

ARA101A £350 £35 per month for 10 months Grp. Cpt. Kenneth Hubbard signed 1957 First Megaton Trial cover with BFPO Christmas Island CDS, he piloted the Valiant Bomber which dropped Britain’s first live H-Bomb on15/05/57 during Operation Grapple.

ARA108 £150 £50 per month for 3 months 13/04/31 Walter Hinton signed 1931 Service to Aviation US Tour which Hinton was a part of, flown.

ARE78 £500 £50 per month for 10 months 18/02/1911 Indian ARA137 £150 £50 per month for 3 months First Aerial Post, this was the first 02/12/26 - 04/12/26 Demonstration Flight flown by aerial post to take Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Gladys Cobham, New part anywhere in the York - Philadelphia - Washington, initialled ‘AJC’ by Sir world, comes with Alan J Cobham, our choice of leg. the violet ‘First Aerial Post/U.P. Exhibition Allahabad’ illustrated cancellation.

ARP137 £250 £50 per month for 5 months ARH41 £100 £20 per month for 5 months Postcard of an early 07/06/69 First England - Australia Helicopter flight, aircraft at Camp de Mailly, signed by pilots English, Clark, and Bradley - scarce signed by 5 French cover from the Trident series which most collectors Aviators including Lieut. missed out on. Desire Lucca, Lieut. Gabriel Battini, Lieut Etienne Cheutin, Lieut. Alfred Bordage, and Lieut. Adolphe Varcin.

ARP143 £250 £50 per month for 5 months Vintage postcard of a Vedrines monoplane in flight, issued for ARP138 £200 £25 per month for 8 months the 1911 Aviation Vintage postcard of a Bleriot monoplane in flight signed Week in Marseille, by four French aviators including Edmond Perreyon signed by Jules (former world altitude record holder) and Eduardo Vèdrines. Chavez, unsure of the other two.

22 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Flight Collections

ARE264 £120 £20 per month for 5 months Collection of 8 flight covers all sent from Wallasey, Cheshire to various European destinations in the mid-1930s, nicely written up by a previous collector.

ART161 £350 £50 per month for 7 months Collection of RAF Goodwill Tours from the 1930s/40s/50s, 13 pilot signed and three unsigned flown covers plus newspaper cuttings and photos, all very well written up by previous owner.

ARI82 £300 £30 per month for 10 months Collection of 10 Imperial Airways airmails on plain covers from 1920s and 1930s, involving flights from England to India, Iraq, and Egypt. Nicely written up by its previous owner.

ARI86 £395 £39.50 per month for 10 months Collection of 14 Imperial Airways covers on flight from England to Hong Kong/Singapore/India/Iraq/Siam/ S.W.Africa e.t.c Plus two original Imperial Airways letters and UK Air Ministry ‘White Paper’.

ARP131 £225 £25 per month for 9 months Collection of Schneider Trophy items, mainly postcards but also featuring some commemorative covers, including several signed versions.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 23 PORTFOLIO - RARE COVER SALE

FC001B £295 £250 £50 per month over 5 months 23rd April 1924 British Empire Exhibition Wembley. The pair of stamps cancelled with the Wembley Park Empire Exhibition special slogan. Plain brown cover with a neat handwritten address, sent to Zürich Switzerland. The cover is very clean and in good condition, the postmark has been run through twice.

£45 per month over 5 months £225 FC011 £250 23rd April 1924 Wembley 1½d letter card. Wembley Park special slogan, cachet address to stamp Dealer W T Wilson in Birmingham. The right hand edge has been removed, but overall seems to be in £70 per month good condition. FC029AL £400 £350 over 5 months 10th May 1929 Postal Union Congress four low values with Liverpool oval registered cancel. Handwritten address to Lark Lane in Liverpool, opened at the top.

FC029I £395 £350 £35 per month over 10 months 10th May 1929 Postal Union Congress low values on matching set of FC049E £100 £85 four plain covers with handwritten addresses. Each cover is cancelled with a Herne Bay, Kent wavy line slogan cancel. Mr Wilmot has added 7th May 1935 Silver Jubilee, the four values over local in the bottom left hand corner of each. a set of three covers with London EC slogan postmarks on matching typed covers. Some hinge marks and a repair due to some heavy postmarking, but still quite a bright set of covers.

£650 FC046 £750 £130 per month over 5 months 7th May 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George V. Illustrated cover with embossed label stuck in the centre. The stamps are each cancelled with a clear London 248 CDS postmark. The cover was interestingly sent Airmail to Bristol. A classic early FDC.

24 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] £50 per month FC060D £250 £200 over 4 months 17th May 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George VI. Westminster Stamp Company cover, Turks and Caicos Issue. The British Issue on this cover would cost well over double this.

£400 FC098G £450 £40 per month over 4 months 26th April 1948 The Silver Wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Registered cover with crossed flags illustration. Addressed to Lieutenant Yaldren who we guess was the cover producer and then sent to Halifax, slightly ‘fuzzy’ West Ealing CDS postmark, just below grade one and priced accordingly, still a nice little cover.

FC099J £125 £100 £25 per month over 4 months 26th April 1948 The Silver Wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, matching pair of plain typed covers, each cancelled with FC099F £110 £90 Stamford Bridge York CDS postmarks. £45 per month over 2 months 26th April 1948 The Silver Wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, plain blue cover, cancelled with a clear Belfast CDS. This is the cover created by M L Gordon & Daughter, but the address has been struck through with pen.

FC173 £200 £150 £25 per month over 6 months 12th September 1957 46th Inter Parliamentary Conference, registered illustrated cover with block of four stamps, Big Ben special postmark.

£80 FC177C £100 12th September 1957 46th Inter Parliamentary Conference, unaddressed illustrated cover, matching pair of illustrated, handwritten covers with Big Ben 5.15pm timed special postmark. One has a stamp, the other, the cut out label from the Air Letter.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 25 £160 FC194B £200 £40 per month over 4 months 28th August 1961 The Centenary of the Post Office Savings Bank, Express Good Wishes, Greetings Telegrams, special slogan. Neat handwritten address.

FC287 £100 £80 3rd December 1963 Commonwealth Pacific Cable, phosphor stamp cancelled with neat Philatelic Bureau First Day of Issue slogan postmark and cachet address. This is the first issue with a Bureau postmark and most were on plain covers, so an £40 per month illustrated one and with the phosphor stamp is extremely rare. FC193B £150 £120 over 3 months 28th August 1961 The Centenary of the Post Office Savings Bank, London EC slogan postmark, neat typed address.

£80 FC287 £100 23rd April 1964 William Shakespeare, Stratford FDI postmark on typed cover with rare 2/6 black proof stamp. Yellow glue mark on front, so lower price than normal.

FC306A £300 £250 £50 per month over 5 months 1st July 1964 Geographical illustrated cover, neat typed address. Cancelled with a ‘Leave No Litter’ Birmingham Special slogan cancel. A little faint, but you have to remember that this is a machine cancel, that could have as easily torn the cover, so we think it is quite acceptable.

FC555B £500 £450 £50 per month over 9 months 8th August 1966 British Birds, plain cover with a typed address. Rare error with the green missing green, so the twig the Robin is on is missing.

26 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] £400 FC560C £450 £50 per month over 8 months 1966 Ronald Antinoris World Cup triple postmarked cover, 3rd December 1964 Monaco FIFA issue, 1st June World Cup issue with Wembley FDI postmark and then 30th July 1966 World Cup Final Wembley special postmark (plus a Harrow and Wembley CDS on the same day).

FC597T £125 £110 £55 per month over 2 months 1st December 1966 Christmas issue on the reverse of a German Christmas Postcard, cancelled with a BFPO 1000 British Stamp Exhibition postmark, to this has been added the two 1967 Christmas issues cancelled with a Forces Post Office 50 CDS cancel. May be a unique item and done against all GPO regulations.

STAR ITEM

£2200 FC479A £2500 £200 per month over 11 months 15th November 1965 International Telecommunications Union, Ordinary and phosphor stamps on the same cover, missing pink on the 1/6d (ordinary). A very impressive error.

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Don’t forget, you can always use - our Flexible Payment service It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Divide the total by up to 12 months. We then hold your order safely for you. It is extremely popular and flexible. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. And it’s much better for you than putting it onCL171 your credit card and paying www.buckinghamcovers.cominterest to the bank! We prefer you to pay by credit or debit card for this 27 service. Our minimum monthly payment is £10.FlexiPay FC593 £1000 £850 £170 per month over 5 months 14th October 1966 Battle of Hastings, GPO cover with a typed address, Swindon FDI postmark. Rare missing blue error, so water is not coloured and three of the soldier’s chain mail is white rather than blue. The only example known on FDC.

£500 FC728A £600 £100 per month over 5 months 2nd April 1969 Anniversaries, GPO cover with neat handwritten address. Missing black on the 1/6d NATO stamp, so the German flag has a blue strip rather than black.

FC739F £100 £80 1st July 1969 Investiture of the Prince of Wales, Croeso 69 cover, Tywyn Merioneth special postmark. Carried on the Talyllyn Railway with 1 / 2 Railway Letter Stamp.

FC759A £200 £160 £40 per month over 4 months 1st October 1969 Post Office Technology Post Office cover with a neat handwritten address. Cancelled with the ‘Remember to FC799D £200 £35 per month over 4 months £175 Use the Postcode’ slogan cancel. We would not normally offer a 1st April 1970 Anniversaries, Post Office cover with Canterbury handwritten cover from this period, but we have in this case as it is special stamps postmark with a neat handwritten address. Black such a rare postmark. printing shift on the 1/6 value, making the printing blurry.

28 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] £25 per month over 4 months £100 F188Z £125 11th July 1979 Year of the Child, Give a Child a Home special slogan on Cotswold cover with a small cachet address. 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 a clear and crisp Leeds CDS.

F191C £600 £500 £100 per month over 5 months 24th October 1979 Rowland Hill Error Miniature Sheet on typed Post Office cover. This sheet is known with most colours and even the Queen’s Head missing. This missing yellow error is one of the harder ones to spot, what you have to look for is the middle of the church tower on the 11½p appears white rather than yellow. There is also colour differences on the 15p, but this is harder to make out.

£130 FD010A £150 £26 per month over 5 months 2nd July 1890 Jubilee cover, South Kensington, South Kensington Museum (blue ink) and South Kensington Museum special postmarks, some foxing. FD006A £200 £175 £35 per month over 5 months Unusual Victorian Double special FD009A £100 £80 postmarked cover. An 1890 Embossed 2nd July 1890 Jubilee cover, cover first cancelled on the 16th May 1890 South Kensington and South with the Postal Jubilee Guildhall special Kensington Museum (blue postmark and then on the 2nd July with the ink) special postmarks, South Kensington special postmark. A few slight foxing, unaddressed. ink marks round the postmark, but for its age in good condition.

£350 FD036B £400 £50 per month over 7 months 22nd June 1911 ½d Green marking the Coronation of King George V on the Junior Philatelic Society cover. This one is cancelled in London and was sent to Havana Cuba; with the receiving marks looking like it arrived on July 3rd. Even after such a long journey this cover is in very good condition, has not been stuck down and still folds out, so you can read the message from the society’s secretary inside. CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 29 LONDON BRIDGES BuckinghamCOVERS 10/09/02

BC022B £45 Tower Bridge signed Barbara Windsor.

BC022A £35 London Bridge, London SE1 postmark.

BC022D £30 Coventry Cathedral cover with Bridges stamps.

BUY ALL FOUR FOR £150 £50 per month for 3 months BC022H £75 London Bridges signed Wendy Richard. ASTRONOMY 24/09/02 BC023B £85 Signed Sir Bernard Lovell.

BC023Y £100 Signed Sir Bernard BC023A £45 Lovell and Alec Miniature sheet with Jodrell Bank, Boksenberg. Macclesfield postmark.

BUY ALL FOUR FOR £225 BC023F £35 Coventry Cathedral official FDC £75 per month for 3 months with Astronomy stamps.

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30 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] PUB SIGNS 12/08/03 BuckinghamCOVERS

BC037B £75 Signed Air Chief Marshall Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris.

BC037A £35 Shepherd Neame, Faversham, Kent postmark.

BC037C £100 Signed Paul Tibbets.

BC037E £40 Flown from Biggin Hill in a Spitfire MkVb.

BC037J £30 Westminster Cathedral FDC with Pub Signs stamps. BC037F £60 Signed John Pattison and Mick Shand.

BC037L £95 Signed Neville Duke. BC037M1 £125 Signed Alex Henshaw and Wing Commander ‘Paddy’ Barthropp.

BC037Q £100 Signed Alex Henshaw. BUY ALL NINE FOR £550 £50 per month for 11 months

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 31 brigadier general paul tibbets (1915 - 2007)

Brigadier Tibbets was the pilot of the bomber Enola Gay, which on the 6th August 1945 dropped the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Today this is can be looked at in two ways, thousands of people sadly lost their lives, but then it can also be argued that this act brought World War II to an early end and possibly saved many more people being killed.

Whatever your viewpoint, as the pilot he is one of the key RAF signatures in any World War II collection. Years ago we sent him two small lots of American covers which he agreed to sign. These are all illustrated postmarked on the actual key dates:

The city of Hiroshima is bombed RYT014AA £200 6th August The covers all have been signed by Paul Tibbets plus he added his own 6th August 1945 Atomic Bomb dropped 1945 cachet below each signatureon Hiroshima cover.

The city of Nagasaki is 8thbombed August 1945 RYT014BA £150 8th August 1945 Russia Declares War on Japan cover. Japan announced it’s willingness to surrender RYT014EA £150 10th August 14th August 1945 General Douglas 1945 MacArthur cover.

Victory over Japan Day 14th August 1945

The surrender RYT014EB £150 document2nd was signed 14th August 1945 Victory and Peace Nielsen cover. September 1945 RYT014EC £150 14th August 1945 Flash Special GHA cover.

RYT014EE £150 14th August 1945 Abraham Lincoln cover.

RYT014EF £100 14th August 1945 Glase Eagle V Day cover.

32 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] RYT014GA £100 2nd September 1945, VJ Day Black Stephen Anderson cover.

RYT014EG £125 14th August 1945, Finis! World War II cover. RYT014GD £100 2nd September 1945 General Douglas MacArthur cover.

RYT014ZA £250 8th May and 2nd RYT014ZB £250 September 1945 8th May and 2nd September 1945 Double Double postmarked, postmarked, ‘The Infantry Who Travels the Last Air Corps ‘Greetings Hundred yards to victory’ cover. for the Nips’ cover.

RYT014EM £150 14th August 1945, The More You Write, The Better He’ll fight cover

RYT014ET £150 RYT014ES £150 14th August 1945 14th August 1945 Go Ahead, Please Take Day Off cover Beauty and the Beast VJ Day cover.

RYT014EV £125 14th August 1945 VJ It’s Over Over There cover.

RYT014EZ £150 14th August 1945, Do you Know that The Japs are licked cover.

RYT014FA £100 15th August 1945, The Son Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men cover www.buckinghamcovers.com

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 33 Catalogues Helping you become an expert We are often asked about rare postmarks, values and dates, well these Collectors Guides can help.

1) The 2) The Stirling and Gravedigger’s Definitive Issues Apprentice 1840 – 1970. Tony’s autobiography, Earlier this year we published, a a great read taking you third, combined edition of this through his life and colourful popular catalogue. Includes more career – from a gravedigger’s tips and advice from Tony and apprentice to the early days new sections on Air Letters and of Benham. Forged postmarks. TBCAT09 £8.95 TBCAT01B £9.95

3) The Decimal Issues 4) 1970 - 1974 Buckingham Published last year this is the first Covers catalogue edited by Siobhán O’Brien. She has looked in detail at what we have sold Covers our main series from this period over the last ten years 1 – 4, edited by Emma and also quizzed Tony and Brian. We feel Whyte, all prices have this period is very underestimated and this been looked at and this is the first catalogue to look at the period edition is much more in detail, includes masses of information, user friendly. with tips, dates and postmarks. TBCAT03A £6 TBCAT05 £6 Also available... 5) Collecting The Booth British First Catalogue Day Covers 31st Edition 34th Edition The original edition was produced in the early 1970s The Catalogue for Official by Tony Buckingham and Cover Collectors and a Bernard Townsend. Jeffrey must if you collect post Booth was involved in the decimal issues. original discussions and LAST FEW COPIES, bought it in 1992, publishing SOLD OUT IN MANY his first edition the following PLACES. year. Includes all British First TBCAT10 £29.75 Day Covers from 1840 - date and now runs to just under 500 pages.

(including postage) JBCAT5 £19.95

34 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] COMPLETE 1969 BOOKLETS Pilgrim were the masters of booklets. The covers might say Philart but all were serviced by Pilgrim hence the Canterbury CDS.

FD425 £85 4/6d Booklet 8th January 1969.

FD429 £100 6/- Booklet 28th February 1969. FD425A £100 10/- Booklet 8th January 1969.

SPECIAL OFFER COMPLETE 1969 SET OF 4 COVERS FOR £280 FD431 £80 Special Offer £40! £70 per month for 4 months 2/- booklet 3rd March 1969.

JOHN STONEHOUSE LABOUR MINISTER, RUSSIAN AGENT

John Stonehouse was the last Postmaster General, in SGS033A £50 fact the last day of the post was October 1st 1969 the John Stonehouse signed same day as the Post Office Technology stamps. a number of 1969 covers Stonehouse drowned on a beach in Miami, the only trace while he was PMG, all are interesting but the best of him was a pile of clothes. However, he was arrested has to be the Post Office in St Kilda Australia in 1974. Reggie Perrin did the same Technology FDC. on Brighton Beach. He was deported to Britain, where in August 1976 he was convicted and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment on 18 counts of theft, fraud and deception after a marathon 68-day trial. The charges related to a string of failed SGS033B £40 fraudulent businesses set up before his disappearance. It He also signed the 1969 later emerged he was a Russian Agent recruited by the Investiture cover. Czechoslovakia Secret service as a spy. OFFICIAL POSTMASTER GENERAL SEAL BUY BOTH FOR £75 01303 278137 CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 35 British fdc 1930s - 1970s

COL1976 £150 NOW £100

COLLECTION OF OVER 55 GRADE II BRITISH FDC 1930S - 1970s, need sorting, priced to sell. Either handwritten or not quite up to our normal standard.

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Medals Special Signed Collection

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MEDALS SPECIAL SIGNED COLLECTION OF 19 COVERS, each cover has a silk illustration of the medal and is signed by up to seven winners. Each cover includes well known and hard to get signatures, who won that particular medal, only Group Captain Randle could have done this.

Benham Cat covers The Queen Mother

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MASSIVE LOT OF 130 BENHAM CAT COVERS, mostly issued between £35 per month over 4 months 1995 and 1999, offered here we think below the new issue price. These QUEEN MOTHER, 80 COVERS, with a large number to mark her originally started with the idea to just do one set and then grew into a 100th Birthday, and these are mostly with the full miniature popular series with covers from all over the world sheet so high face value. A good selection of postmarks

36 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] OFFICIAL COVERS

F156DF £80 1975 Architecture, Cirencester Official cover.

F156GF £40 1975 Architecture, Wilton House, Official F157EF £60 Cotswold cover. 1975 Sailing, Royal Dorset Yacht Club Official cover.

F164FF £15 1976 Bicentenary, Washington Old Hall, County Durham Official cover.

F164HF £15 1976 Bicentenary, British 1776 Official cover.

F165EA £40 Looking for a particular cover? 1976 Roses, Year of the Rose Bath special postmark on Give us a call on official pink City of Bath cover. 01303 268137

F172DF £35 1977 Commonwealth Parliament, Beating the Retreat BFPS 8677 Official cover.

F172F £15 F199DF £20 1977 Parliament House of Commons machine cancel. 1980 Queen Mother, York Official cover.

F199ZB £10 1980 Queen Mother, Forces Help official cat £15. F199EF £20 1980 Queen Mother, Windsor Official cover.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 37 FIRST DAY COVERS 1975 - 1978 As you know we always say that after 1974 we only really stock our own covers, but a few in good condition slip into our stock, offered here on our choice of covers, so if you just want the ones illustrated let us know.

F156E £15 Offer £12.50 1975 Architecture, St Georges Chapel Windsor special postmark.

F154B £5 Offer £3.50 1975 Charity, Philatelic Bureau special postmark. F157D £15 Offer £12.50 1975 Sailing, Royal Thames Yacht Club London special postmark.

Offer £12.50 F157E £15 1975 Sailing, Royal Dorset Yacht club Weymouth special postmark.

F160C £10 Offer £8 1975 Jane Austen, Steventon Basingstoke F159C £8 Offer £6 special FDI postmark mail coach. 1975 Parliament, Conference Royal Festival Hall London postmark.

F164E £7.50 Offer £6 1976 Bicentenary, 1776 Exhibition, Greenwich special postmark. F163B £5 Offer £3.50 1976 Reformers, Philatelic Bureau special postmark.

F164H £6.50 Offer £5 1976 Bicentenary, BFPS 1776 special F165E £12 Offer £10 postmark. F165F £12.50 Offer £10 1976 Roses, Year of the Rose Bath 1976 Roses, Northampton special postmark. special postmark.

38 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] F170C £7.50 Offer £6 1977 Chemistry, Royal Institute London WC special postmark.

F169D £12 Offer £10 1977 Sport, Badminton Association Avon postmark.

Offer £8 F171I £10 1977 Silver Jubilee, Duke of Edinburgh’s Offer £5 F170E £6.50 Award London SW1 special postmark. 1977 Chemistry, Starch Derivatives, Battersea special postmark.

F173D £7.50 Offer £6 1977 Silver Jubilee 9p, Exhibition, North Devon.

01303 278137 F175E £9 Offer £7.50 EMAIL: [email protected] 1977 Wildlife, Norfolk Wildlife Trust Norwich special postmark.

F155C 1975 Turner, London WC special Palette FDI postmark... £7 F167J 1976 Caxton, Printing and Paper Study Group, London SE1 F156C 1975 Architecture, Chester Heritage City special postmark...£20 special postmark...... £7.50 F156D 1975 Architecture, Cirencester Corinium 1900 special F167K 1976 Caxton, Royal Charter Quincentenary Cheltenham postmark...... £35 Special Postmark...... £30 F156F 1975 Architecture, National Trust for Scotland, Charlotte F168C 1976 Christmas, Bethlehem special FDI postmark...... £7.50 Square Edinburgh special postmark...... £25 F168F 1976 Christmas, British Corps, BFPS 1923...... £30 F156G 1975 Architecture, Wilton House Salisbury special F169C 1977 Sport, Squash Racket Association special postmark... £8.50 postmark...... £35 F171C 1977 Silver Jubilee, Windsor special FDI postmark...... £6 F160E 1975 Jane Austen, Bath Exhibition special postmark...... £8 F172C 1977 Commonwealth, London SW special pmk...... £4 F161C 1975 Christmas, Bethlehem special FDI postmark...... £7.50 F172EA 1977 Parliament, House of Commons CDS postmark.....£50 F162C 1976 Telephones, Taunton Museum special postmark... £7.50 F173C 1977 Silver Jubilee 9p, Windsor special FDI postmark.... £2.50 F163CF 1976 Reformers, Folkestone FDI postmark (Lord F173F 1977 Silver Jubilee 9p, Borough of Blackburn special Shaftesbury died here)...... £12.50 postmark...... £8 F164D 1976 Bicentenary, Bath Museum special postmark...... £5 F173I 1977 Silver Jubilee 9p, Nuneaton Council special postmark.... £8 F164F 1976 Bicentenary, Washington special postmark...... £7 F173K 1977 Silver Jubilee 9p, Trafalgar Square Exhibition London F165C 1976 Roses, Society Oxford special postmark...... £10 WC2 special postmark...... £8 F165D 1976 Roses, Rose Society St Albans special postmark..£10 F174BW 1977 Jubilee double dated cover, both Windsor special F167D 1976 Caxton, British Library special postmark...... £10 FDI postmarks...... £40 F167F 1976 Caxton, Westminster special printing postmark...... £7 F175D 1977 Wildlife, Bear Steps Shrewsbury special postmark£10.

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BC302S £40 1st February, Sea Life, signed by Television presenter Kate Humble.

BC301S £50 9th January, The Beatles, signed by their BC303S £135 first manager, Allan Williams. 13th February, The Sky at Night, signed by moonwalker Captain Ed Mitchell (1930 - 2016).

BC304AMS £30 1st March, World of Inventions miniature sheet, signed by former Concorde Captain, Jock Lowe. BC304MS £40 1st March, World of Invention miniature sheet, signed by Test Pilot Peter Twiss DSC*. BC304AS £35 OFFER £30 1st March, World of Invention, signed by the second holder of the Frank Whittle medal, Professor John E Ffowcs-Williams, who worked on Concorde.

BC304S £45 1st March, World of Invention, First Jet Flight, signed by Comet Test Pilot, John Wilson.

BC306S £50 23rd April, Celebrating England miniature sheet, signed by playwright, Sir Alan Ayckbourn. BC305S £40 22nd March, 400th Anniversary of the Settlement of America, signed by famous BC307S £50 rower and yachtsman, Sir Chay Blyth. 15th May, Beside the Seaside, Blackpool, signed by actor in the TV series David Morrissey.

BC308S £75 BC309S £35 OFFER £30 17th May, Wembley Stadium Miniature 5th June, Machin miniature sheet, signed by sheet, signed by great British boxer Sir photographer Professor John Hedgecoe Henry Cooper (1934 - 2011). (1932 - 2010), Hedgecoe took the photograph that the stamp is based on.

40 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] BUCKINGHAM SIGNED COVERS BuckinghamCOVERS 2007 BC310S £100 3rd July, 50th Anniversary of the Grand Prix, Nigel Mansell, which he has signed.

BC310AS £75 3rd July, 50th Anniversary of the Grand Prix, BC311S £60 Sir Stirling Moss, which he has signed. 26th July, Scouting Centenary, signed by both Lord and Lady Baden-Powell.

BC312S £50 4th September, British Birds, signed by Bill Oddie, bird spotter, presenter and star of The Goodies. BC313S £50 OFFER £45 20th September, British Army Uniforms, BC314MS £95 signed by author of the Sharpe novels, 16th October, The Queen’s Diamond wedding Bernard Cornwell. Anniversary miniature sheet, signed by HRH the Princess Alexandra, who was one of the Bridesmaids.

BC314S £50 16th October, The Queen’s Diamond Wedding Anniversary cover, signed by Lady Pamela Hicks, who was one of the Bridesmaids.

BC315MS £50 6th November, Christmas miniature sheet, A Christmas Carol, signed by actor Simon BC315S £45 OFFER £40 Callow who has played the great man. 6th November, Christmas, Worcester Cathedral, signed by the Bishop, John Inge.

BC317MS £45 OFFER £40 17th July, Harry Potter miniature sheet, signed by Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang in the films. Cho is Harry’s first girlfriend (and first kiss!). BC316MS £35 BC316S £35 8th November, Lest We Forget miniature 8th November, Lest We Forget, signed by sheet, signed by Falklands veteran Simon Earl Haig, direct descendant of the First Weston OBE. World War commander.

BC317S £75 17th July, Harry Potter, signed by Tom Felton who plays Draco Malfoy in the films. www.buckinghamcovers.com

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 41 CRICKET Bill Edrich was prolific test batsman for England during WWII and later flew Bristol Blenheims for Bomber Command. This Bristol Blenheim cover is known to exist with a fantastic array of cricketing signatures and this month we offer our stock at fantastic prices. CR024B Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Peter May, Eric and Alec Bedser, Tony Lock, Mike Gatting, Graeme Hick and David Gower £175 Special Offer £140

CR024C Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, David Gower, Graham Gooch, Colin Cowdrey and Geoff Boycott...... £100..... Special Offer £70

CR024D Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, Graham Gooch, David Sheppard, Don Bradman, Colin Cowdrey, Geoff Boycott, and Alf Gover £300. Special Offer £240

CR024E Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Tony Lock, Bob Willis, Dennis Lille, Godfrey Evans, Tom Graveney, Bill Edrich, Richie Bernaud, Bill Lawry, Les Ames, Mike Smith, Simon O’Donnell, Geoff Boycott, plus 3 £250 Special Offer £200

CR848 Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, Colin Cowdrey, Geoffrey Boycott and David Gower ...... £80 Special Offer £65 CR848A Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, Colin Cowdrey, Alec Bedser,David Gower, Mike Gatting, Graeme Hick, and Geoffrey Boycott...... £80 Special Offer £65 CR848B Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, Alec Bedser, David Gower, Mike Gatting, Graeme Hick, Eric Bedser and Peter May...... £80 Special Offer £65 CR848C Bristol Blenheim cover signed by Bill Edrich, Tony Lock, Graham Gooch, Geoff Boycott, Chris Cowdrey and David Shepard...... £80 Special Offer £65

CR848D Bristol Blenheim cover signed by 19 cricketers including Bill Edrich, Geoff Boycott, Henry Blofield, Bob Willis, Godfrey Evans, Tony Grieg, John Snow, Bob Taylor, Alec Bedser, Clive Lloyd ...... £200 Special Offer £175

CR1027 Bristol Blenheim cover signed E. Bedser, A. Bedser, Colin Cowdrey, David Shepherd, Ted Lester, Bill Edrich, Fred Trueman, Reg Simpson, Godfrey Evans, Trevor Bailey, Willie Watson, Brian Close,Ken Clanston, Ted Dexter, Ray Illingworth, and Tony Lock ...... £120 Special Offer £100

42 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] CR160G Benham Summertime Cricket cover signed by 16 players including Dean Jones, Bill Lawry, Dickie Bird, Colin Croft, Graham Gooch, Dennis Amiss, Barry Richards and Tony Grieg £125 Special Offer £95 CR160I Benham Small Silk Cricket cover signed by at least 12 players including Bob Willis, Dennis Amiss, Ian Chappell, Ray Illingworth, Tony CR260B 2001 Ashes Greig, Freddie Trueman, Dennis Lille, Bill Lawry Tour cover signed Ian ...... £125 Special Offer £95 Botham, David Gower, Geoff Boycott, Ian Healey, Bob Willis, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch plus 4, and the printed signature of Sir Don Bradman £150 Special Offer £115

CR260C 1988 Australian Bicentenary FDC signed by at least 12 Australian Cricketers including Alan Border, Ian Healey, Merv Hughes, Steve Waugh and David Boon...... £125 Special Offer £95

CR260D 2002 Indian Tour cover signed by Brian Close, Alec Stewart, Geoff Boycott, Graham Gooch, Mike Atherton, David Gower, and Ian Botham £85 Special Offer £60

CR260F Benham Cricket Small Silk Cover signed by at least twenty players including Tom Graveney, Geoff Boycott, Richard Hadlee, David Gower, Graham CR260E 2000 Cricket Summer signed by 12 players Gooch, John Edrich and including Geoff Boycott, Bob Willis Alec Bedser, Mike Brearley Michael Holding, Graham Gooch, Wes Hall, David £125 Special Offer £95 Gower, Colin Croft, Ian Bishop, Viv Richards, Botham, and Mushtag Ahned £150 Special Offer £115 CR260K Benham Cricket Small Indies cover signed by 12 West Indies Players including Gibson, Drakes, Hooper, Murray, Benjamin, Walsh, Richardson, Ambrose, Browne, Bishop, Campbell and Dhanraj £150 Special Offer £75

CR260H 1980 TCCB Cricket cover signed by at least CR818A 12 players including Colin Leaders of the World cricket cover Cowdrey, John Snow, Gordon signed by 14 players/commentators Greenidge, John Edrich, Alan including Richie Benaud, Gary Sobers, Butcher, Mike Smith, Phil Alec Bedser, Geoff Boycott, Mike Edmonds and David Lloyd Atherton, David Gower, Ian Chappell £100 Special Offer £75 £150 Special Offer £115

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 43 Queen Elizabeth II Definitive Covers

FD250C £25 Offer £20 FD270 £25 5th December 1952 First definitives, Offer £20 9th February 1959 definitive - 4½d, plain 1½d and 2½d, illustration in oval. FD256D £50 Offer £40 cover our choice. 31st August 1953 definitives, ½d, 1d and 2d, red & blue text illustration in red flower head border

FD379 £8 Offer £5 5th June 1967 4d Sepia, 1/- Violet and FD336 £15 Offer £12.50 FD342 £40 Offer £30 1/9d Green, Windsor FDI postmark. 1st July 1964 second se-tenant holiday 1st July 1964 second se-tenant holiday booklet, Bournemouth postmark. booklet, 2½d Carmine type II sideways watermark from holiday booklet.

FD391 £15 FD381 £8 Offer £12.50 Offer £5 6th January 1969 4d Vermilion and 8d 8th August 1967 3d Violet, 9d Dark Green Light Blue, Windsor CDS postmark. and 1/6d Indigo, Windsor FDI postmark. FD383 £6 Offer £5 1st July 1968 5d, 7d, 8d and 10d, Windsor FDI postmark. Illustrations are our choice, please let us know if you only FD411 £30 Offer £25 require the 16th September 1968 2/- Booklet, FD418 £50 Offer £40 Se-tenant Pane, Windsor. 16th September 1968 10/- Booklet, Se-tenant one shown pane only, with any other postmark.

44 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Illustrations are our choice, please let us know if you only require the one shown FD434 £20 Offer £15 5th March 1969 Machin High Values, Windsor FDI postmark.

FD431 £40 Offer £30 FD439 £20 Offer £15 3rd March 1969 2/- 27th August 1969 First Multi-Value 1/- Se-Tenant Booklet, illustrated cover, Coil, National Postal Museum postmark. Canterbury postmark.

FD456 £20 Offer £15 01303 FD454 £25 Offer £20 10th December 1969 1/6d all over 278137 1st December 1969 se-tenant strip, Milk phosphor, CDS postmark. Marketing special postmark.

FD506 £15 Offer £12.50 15th February 1971 5p Se-Tenant FD565 £12.50 Offer £10 FD467 £20 Offer £15 Coil, Windsor FDI. 6th December 1972 £1 Black Re- 17th June 1970 First Decimal Machin drawn, Windsor FDI. High Values 10p, 20p, 50p Windsor special postmark.

FD632 £5 Offer £4 1 4th September 1974 6 ⁄2p 2 phosphor bands, Windsor FDI postmark. FD627 £25 Offer £20 FD646 £25 Offer £20 24th June 1974 3½p one phosphor 13th November 1974 4½p all over phosphor, band, Windsor. Windsor CDS postmark.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 45 The RAF 50 - The Collection The Signatures all collectors should have

Group Captain Randle was ‘the’ the 50th Anniversary of his first cover, we thought now would be producer of RAF covers, producing a good time to select the fifty signatures, we feel, every collection thousands of covers, getting hundreds should have. of signatures and most importantly raising thousands for charity. The problem is from the hundreds of All these are offered on our choice of RAF cover, but if you signatures, which ones should you collect, and as 2018 marks particularly want the cover shown just let us know.

Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (1909 - 1982) Record breaking female aviation pioneer. In the 1930’s she held many aviation flying records including England - Australia (breaking Amy Johnson’s record by four days) and back, plus England - Brazil. The war put an end to her flying and she became a recluse ‘The Greta Garbo of the Skies’.

RKB01 £50

Wing Commander Roland Prosper ‘Bee’ Beamont Adolf Galland (1912 - 1996) CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (1920 - 2001)

RKB02 £20 World War II Ace pilot who took part in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain. Went on to be a Test pilot for Hawker, later shot down and taken prisoner. After the war he returned to testing and in 1952 he was the first pilot to double cross the Atlantic by Jet. Luftwaffe Ace pilot, who flew 705 missions claiming 104 Victories, which included surviving being shot John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham CBE, down 4 times. In later life he became friends with Douglas Bader. DSO**, DFC* (1917 - 2002) RKG01 £50 RKC02 £25 World War II ace pilot and Squadron Leader Neville Frederick nightfighter, given the nickname ‘Cat’s Eyes’ by the press, who were Duke DSO, OBE, DFC & Two Bars, told to say his diet of carrots gave AFC, FRAeS (1922 - 2007) him great night vision, when in fact it was the Airborne Radar. Later went on to be Chief Test Pilot of the de Havilland Engine Company and in March 1948 he set the World Altitude record of 59,430 feet.

Air Commodore Alan Deere DSO, OBE, DFC & Bar (1917 - 1995) RKD04 £25 Fighter pilot who flew over the RKD02 £40 beaches of Dunkirk and took part One of our great pilots, during World War II he was the in the Battle of Britain, finishing highest scoring Ace pilot in the Mediterranean with 27 World War II with 17 victories. Victories. He went on to be a Test pilot for Hawker and Famous for his escapes including in 1953 set the World Speed Record of 727.63 mph, bailing out of a Spitfire to discover which made him one of the heroes of the Coronation year. his parachute did not fully open, but surviving by landing in a cess pool.

46 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader CBE, DSO and Bar, BDF and Bar, FRaeS, DL (1910 - 1982) Probably the best known Ace of World War II and Colditz’s best known inmate, his exploits were featured in the film Reach for the Sky. RKB03 £100 Marshal of the Royal Air Force General James Harold “Jimmy” Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, 1st Baronet Doolittle (1896 - 1993) GCB, OBE, AFC (1892 - 1984) RKH02 £125 The sometimes controversial Commander in Chief of Bomber Command during the second half of World War II. Implemented Churchill’s policy of ‘Area Bombing’

RKD03 £75 An early aviation pioneer, but best known for leading the Doolittle Raid on Japan, taking off from Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific, Gerhard Barkhorn (1919 - 1983) knowing that even if they were successful they would not have enough fuel to return. The second highest scoring Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard fighter ace with Edward Johns a total of 301 GCB, KCVO, CBE (1939 - ) Victories, but not before flying in both the Battle of France and Battle of Britain without hitting a plane. RKB05 £250 Air Vice Marshal James Edgar “Johnnie” Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar (1915 - 2001) He was the greatest British Ace RKJ01 £35 In the 1960’s he was of World War II with 34 victories a fighter pilot, in 1971 he taught the Prince of from 700 missions, even though he Wales to fly, in 1991 he planned the British missed the Battle of Britain because he involvement in the Gulf War. Between 2000 crashed during training in a Spitfire. He - 2007 he was Governor of Windsor Castle. flew though out World War II and even saw action with the Americans during the Korean War in the 1950s. RKJ02 £40

Colonel Maurice Buckmaster OBE (1902 - 1992) and Vera Atkins CBE (1908 - 2000) Col Buckmaster was the leader of the French Section of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and Vera Atkins was an Intelligence Officer with the section. RKB04 £125

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 47 Sir Frederick Alfred Laker

RKL01 £50 (1922 - 2006) Though best known as the founder of the first ‘no- frills’ airline Laker Airways, he started in aviation much earlier with his first small fleet on cargo planes being used in the Berlin Airlift in 1948-9.

Mary Lindell OBE Captain Kenneth Lockwood MBE (1911 - 2007)

(1895 - 1986) RKL03 £40 He was one of the first British prisoners of war to arrive at Colditz in 1940. He made and assisted in a number of escape attempts, but was still at the castle when it was liberated in April 1945. He was the honorary secretary of the Colditz Association for 50 years.

Brigadier Alastair Stevenson Pearson CB, DSO & Three Bars, OBE, MC, TD, DL (1915 - 1995) RKL04 £75 A British nurse who lived in RKP02 £30 France during World War II, she set up escape lines, One of the great military and though she was captured and sentenced to leaders of World War II, death, she survived the war. Her story was made into taking part in the Tunisian the film Life Against the Wind in 1991. Campaign, the Invasion of Sicily and Normandy Landings. Oliver Lawrence Spurling Philpot, All this was achieved even MC, DFC (1913 - 1993) though he suffered from poor health and was also demoted after a very good night out.

David John Shannon, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (1922 - 1993)

RKS01 £50 An Australian bomber pilot best known as a pilot of AJ - L in the “Dambusters” raid RKP01 £60 on the night of 16/17 May 1943. In total he flew a total Was a World War II RAF pilot best, during an attack on a German convoy off Norway he was shot down of 69 Bomber missions during and picked up by the German navy ending up in Stalag World War II before being Luft III. This is where he took part in the famous taken off active duties. Wooden Horse attempt and was one of only three men to make a home run.

Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS (1888 - 1989)

RKS02 £60 In 1912 he set up Sopwith Aviation, supplying 18,000 Aircraft during World War I, by World War II he was Chairman of Harker Aircraft and remained connected with the company till 1980. He was also a great yachtsman taking part in the Americas Cup and with his boat the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940.

48 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (1912-2011)

RKW04 £125 British Special Operations Executive agent during the latter part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the Maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war. Henri Tardivant, the leader of Nancy’s Maquis unit. Famously remarked: “She [Wake] is the most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. And then she is like five men.” Group Captain James Brian Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, “Willie” Tait DSO & Three FRS, RDI, FRAeS (1887 - 1979) Bars, DFC & Bar (1916 - 2007) Engineer and inventor best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used in the Dambuster’s raid, which featured in the 1955 Film. RKT01 £30 He took part in 101 RKW02 £400 missions during World War II including the one that finally sunk the German Battleship Tirpitz. Though recommended for a VC he was awarded a 3rd Bar to his DSO, a unique achievement. Group Captain Peter Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF (1914 - 1995) Peter Twiss OBE DSC (1921- 2011)

RKT02 £60 Battle of Britain Squadron Leader finishing World War II with nine victories. RKT04 £35 He was then Equerry to both King George VI and World War II fighter pilot, who later went on to be a Test Queen Elizabeth II, but best known for his romance pilot with Fairey aviation and in 1956 he set the World Air with Princess Margaret. Speed record at 1132mph.

The Wooden Horse - Eric Williams MC and Oliver Philpot MC DFC

This was one of the most famous escape attempts of World War II where a vaulting Horse was used to get the entrance to a hidden closer to the fence and so freedom. The cover is signed by Eric Williams MC (1911 - 1983) and Oliver Philpot MC DFC (1913 - 1993) two of the three men to make home runs from this escape.

RKW01 £100

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BCON006 £35 £30 30th Anniversary of her 1st Washington passenger flight. BCON005 £30 £27 Postmarked A tribute to Concorde: marking the 30th Anniversary of her in London & first flight to Bahrain. With stamps & label from our exclusive Washington, with stamp & label from exclusive Concorde sheet. Flown to Concorde sheet & full set 1969 Concorde stamps. Washington on the day.

£22.50 BCON007 £25 Concorde cover featuring a single stamp and label from our final customised sheet postmarked 22nd November, the 30th anniversary of Concorde’s 1st flight to New York.

BCON009 £20 £17.50 Concorde cover featuring a single stamp and label from our final Concorde BCON008 £20 £17.50 customised sheet Concorde cover featuring a stamp and label from our and 2nd November final Concorde customised sheet and 9th December 2007 postmark, to commemorate Concorde’s 1st flight to Barbados 30 years ago. 2007 postmark, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Concorde’s 1st flight to Singapore.

BCON011 £40 BCON010 £25 £22.50 £35 Set of four Concorde covers, each with 3 Nauru Concorde stamps and postmark. Concorde cover featuring a single stamp and label from our final Concorde customised sheet and 20th August 2007 postmark, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of prototype 101 (01), retiring to the science museum at Duxford.

£17.50 BCON012 £20 Concorde - Design Icon of the 20th Century cover with a Jersey Concorde stamp.

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BCON014 £20 £17.50 Cover commemorating the 5th anniversary of the final commercial flight of Concorde from BCON013 £20 £17.50 Paris to New York. Cover commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Concorde being unveiled at Toulouse.

BCON016 £17.95 £15 Cover commemorating the 5th anniversary of the final commercial flight of Concorde from London to New York.

BCON017 £20 BCON015 £20 £17.50 £17.50 Cover commemorating Cover commemorating the 5th anniversary of the the 5th anniversary of final commercial flight of Concorde to Barbados. the final commercial flight of Concorde from New York to London.

£17.50 BCON021 £20 Cover celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1st ever flight of British Concorde on 9th April 1969, postmarked on the anniversary date at Filton, where Concorde 002 BCON020 £20 £17.50 made her maiden flight. Cover celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1st ever flight of Concorde. Postmarked Toulouse on 2nd March and featuring a scarce 1969 French Concorde stamp BCON022 £20 and cachet. £17.50 Cover commemorating the 40th anniversary of when the British & French Concordes met at the Paris Air Show.

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FD200 £125 1st April 1941 Jersey 1d Carmine on illustrated cover FD202 £125 29th January 1942 Jersey ½d Green illustrated cover

FD191 £150 18th February 1941 Guernsey Arms Definitive 1d Carmine illustrated cover FD197 £125 12th April 1944 Guernsey Arms 2½d illustrated FDC typed.

FD193 £50 7th April 1941 Guernsey ½d Green on 01303 a Display Cover 278137

Two Jersey FDC and three Guernsey FDC normal price £490 (Illustrations may vary) SPECIAL OFFER £400 THE FIVE FDC £50 per month for 8 months

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It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Divide the total by up to 12 months. We then hold your order safely for you. It is extremely popular and flexible. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. And it’s much better for you than putting it on your 52 credit card and payingWARREN interest HOUSE, to the SHEARWAY bank! We prefer ROAD, you FOLKESTONE, to pay by credit KENTor debit CT19 card 4BFfor this service.CL171 Our minimum monthlyTEL 01303 payment 278137 is £10. FAX 01303FlexiPay 279429 email [email protected] Early Decimal FDC 1971 - 1972

The early years of decimal covers are not easy as most dealers were struggling with the aftermath of the postal strike. There were lots of great postmarks many are rarely seen a great area to look at. 16th June 1971 ULSTER PAINTINGS 95% of all special postmarks are Belfast all other red hand ones are rare. 1971 FC832 £45 This month £35 Londonderry special red hand FDI

FC833 £45 This month £35 Philatelic Congress Norwich. Special Offers FC836 £90 This month £75 Ulster Paintings Set of 3 covers with connected CDS.

FC844 £250 Rare Newry special red hand. 28th July 1971 LITERARY ANNIVERSARIES Covers are listed by postmark, so the illustration on the cover sent may vary. Let us know if you only require the illustration shown.

FC848 £50 This month £40 FC849 £120 This month £90 Thomas Gray Stoke Poges postmark. John Keats Shanklin postmark. 25th August 1971 GENERAL ANNIVERSARIES

FC858 £225 Rugby Football Union Centenary.

FC855 £20 FC856 £15 This month £12.50 This month £15 York special FDI postmark. Maidstone special FDI postmark.

FC857 £17.50

This month £15 FC858A £25 Rugby Official cover with 9P stamp. Twickenham special FDI postmark. Set of 3 01303 278137 covers £40 EMAIL: [email protected]

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 53 13th October 1971 22nd September 1971 MODERN UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS CHRISTMAS

FC868 £15 FC869 £15 This month £12.50 This month £12.50 FC877 £10 Canterbury special FDI. Aberystwyth. Southampton.

1971 YEAR SET OF 4 Pick any 4 covers and deduct another 10% FC871 £15 This month £12.50 FC870 £15 This month £12.50 Colchester. Leicester. Set of 4 covers £45

16th February 1972 BRITISH EXPLORERS

FC880 £15 1972 This month £10 London WC FDI.

26th April 1972 GENERAL ANNIVERSARIES

FC889 £40 This month £30 FC891 £40 This month £30 FC890 £40 This month £30 Tutankhamun Exhibition postmark. Hartland Point Bideford. Vaughn Williams Down Ampney postmark.

All three special postmarks with full sets £80

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It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Divide the total by up to 12 months. We then hold your order safely for you. It is extremely popular and flexible. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. And it’s much better for you than putting it on your credit card and paying interest to the bank! We 54prefer you to pay byWARREN credit or HOUSE,debit card SHEARWAY for this service. ROAD, Our FOLKESTONE,minimum monthly KENT payment CT19 is £10.4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] FlexiPay 21st June 1972 VILLAGE CHURCHES

FC897 £45 This month £35 Earls Barton special postmark. FC899 £35 Helpringham, Sleaford special postmark.

FC896 £45 This month £35 FC900 £45 Greensted World’s Oldest Church, This month £35 Ongar special postmark. Huish Episcopi Exhibition FC902 £200 special postmark. St Mary’s Langley rare postmark.

13th September 1972 BBC 50th AND MARCONI 75th ANNIVERSARIES

FC911 £75 This month £65 FC909 £40 This month £35 FC910A £40 This month £30 Humberside Home Service Philatelic Display, Marconi-Kemp Chelmsford special postmark. Flatholm Island, Cardiff special postmark. Hull special postmark.

18th October 1972 FC912 £75 This month £65 CHRISTMAS First World and British Relay TV Network, Gloucester special postmark. FC914 £75 This month £65 Local Radio Leicester special postmark.

20th November 1972 SILVER WEDDING

FC920 £10 Bethlehem special FDI.

1972 YEAR

FC924 £25 This month £20 SET OF 6 Pick any 6 covers and BFPO 1307 special postmark. FC928 £175 This month £160 deduct another 10% FC925F £60 This month £50 Buckingham Palace CDS. Royal Lancers Official cover. FC923 £15 Westminster Abbey.

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 55 B AMAZING SALE OF SIGNED U the C royal ROYAL MAIL BUCKINGHAM SHEETS K Many of these are scarce unsigned so these are great prices. They not only I mail look good in albums but would frame nicely, in fact if you ask nicely we will N sheets send a free mount! G BCSHEET09M £85 Now £65 H Limited edition stamp sheet created to mark the 40th anniversary of the A cruise ship, QE2. Signed by the 25th M Master of the Ship and Captain Ian McNaught.

BCSHEET06S £110 Now £80 Customised smilers sheet, featuring 10 “Firework” smilers stamps and labels which show images of the 1985 railway stamps. Signed by BCSHEET13S £45 Terence Cuneo’s daughter Carol. Now £35 BCSHEET12M £75 Now £50 Official RNLI customised stamp 90th Anniversary of the RAF sheet, signed by Sir Chay Blyth. customised sheet. Signed by Peter Twiss, Tony Iverson DFC, Johnny BCSHEET14S £75 Johnson & Sir Michael Beetham. Now £45 Customised stamp sheet commemorating the 5th anniversary of the final flights of Concorde in 2003. Signed by BCSHEET18S £45 Now £35 Captain Mike Bannister who A tribute to the end of a 1960s flew both the major last flights. icon. QE2 retired in 2008, after over 40 years of service. This limited edition stamp sheet was officially produced with Cunard and was carried onboard and is signed by the Captain.

BCSHEET20S £55 Now £35 Lest We Forget stamp sheet, remembering the Sailors who fought during WW1. Signed by Alfred Lowe GC.

BCSHEET28M £65 Now £45 BCSHEET21S £60 Sheet presentation pack Now £40 celebrating the 60th anniversary Lest We Forget stamp sheet, BCSHEET25M £75 Now £40 of Comet’s 1st flight on 27th July 1949. Multi signed by the Test remembering the soldiers Sheet presentation pack celebrating pilot John Wilson, Peter Duffey who fought during WW1. the 40th anniversary of the 1st flight and Terence Henderson. Signed by Willie Apiata VC. of Concorde. Signed by Michel Retif, Peter Holding and Mike Addley.

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BCSHEET29S £100 Now £80 BCSHEET33S £40 Now £30 BCSHEET35M £45 Now £35 Stamp sheet presentation pack 75th anniversary of the Flying Stamp sheet presentation pack celebrating the 90th anniversary of celebrating the 40th anniversary Scotsman 100mph speed record the first non-stop Transatlantic flight by Alcock & Brown. Signed by of the first moon landing. Officially stamp sheet presentation pack, Concorde Pilots Tim Orchard & Les Scott who hold the speed record. produced with the National issued in conjunction with the Science Museum. Signed by 6th National Science Museum. Signed BCSHEET42S £60 man to walk on the moon, Dr by William McAlpine. Now £35 Edgar Mitchell. Special customised stamp sheet presentation pack celebrating the end of WWII, VE and VJ Day. Signed by forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynne.

BCSHEET43S £85 Now £60 BCSHEET38T £65 Now £45 BCSHEET40S £45 Now £35 Warrior sheet presentation Platinum edition stamp sheet Centenary of Edward VII funeral pack signed by the patron signed by Sqn Ldr Tony Iveson sheet presentation pack, signed of the Warrior Preservation DFC, Sqn Ldr Benny Goodman by Timothy West who played the Trust Princess Alexandra. DFC (Pilot), Colin Cole and Dennis title role in the 1970’s television Cooper (wireless operators) and production ‘Edward the King’. Basil Fish (navigator). Now £35 BCSHEET44S £50 Sheet presentation pack celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the first double channel crossing by Charles Rolls of Rolls- Royce, signed Peter Twiss OBE DFC & BAR who broke the speed record over the South Coast in 1956.

BCSHEET56S £45 Now £35 Customised stamp sheet presentation pack commemorating the 100th anniversary of the coronation of King George V, signed by Dame Eileen Atkins DBE who played Queen Mary. BCSHEET64S £40 Now £30 75th Anniversary the Coronation EVEN BETTER - Buy all 20 sheets for just of King George VI sheet £800 (or £100 per month for 8 months) presentation pack signed by Eve AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A FREE Best, who played Wallis Simpson LUXURY ALBUM in the film ‘The Kings Speech’. CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 57 You Can Own A Genuine Penny Black Used On A Wrapper* In Good Condition For Just £350

Stanley Gibbons catalogues these at £700 for the cheapest ones. Ours have been selected and represent excellent value. The Victorians often wrote the letter then folded it sealing it with wax, thus you may get an original letter. They also did the same and put the letter inside the wrapper, envelopes were very unusual.

PH0005 £350 £50 per month for 7 months

The 1840 Two Penny Blue This was supposedly issued on the 6th May though I personally think it was the 8th May. These are much rarer than the 1d Black on cover. Gibbons catalogues them at £2500. The 2d Blue shown is a typical example - each one is unique. If you buy on flexi pay we will colour copy your cover back and front and show you what you will be getting. Obviously all covers are subject to your full approval

I have managed to buy a few nice ones and can offer at a very attractive price.

PH0006 £800 £200 per month for 4 months

*A Wrapper is the letter folded up Buy the Pair for £1100 to make an envelope. A much more (£100 Per Month For 11 Months) common way for Victorians to send letters. and get a good 1841 Penny Red Cover FREE

The 1841 Penny Red To combat fraud the Penny Red was introduced in 1841. I The 1841 Two Penny Blue always think these are overlooked as the poor relation to the Almost identical to the 1840 but has white lines top and bottom Penny Black but they are still 175 years old. We offer good under postage and above two pence. Many collectors have been clean examples on cover. sold this as an 1840 example over the years. These catalogue £250.

PH0007 £20 The imperf penny red PH0008 £125 The 1841 Two penny blue

EACH IS UNIQUE - SO COVERS/WRAPPERS SENT WILL DIFFER

58 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] The 1854 Two Penny Blue Stars Again with stars at the top and not in use for long, so these covers are not as easy to find. Catalogues £140 on cover.

PH0009 £75

The 1858 Penny Red With Plate Numbers Now with letters at top and bottom. Every schoolboy’s dream! When I was young, my goal was to find plate 77 which today catalogues a mere £160,000! 225 was also good (£700). I am afraid it’s unlikely you will find either but there are still good ones to be found and of course you could try to get as many on a cover as possible. Meanwhile we offer a good example here at £12. PH0012 £12

The 1870 Bantam 1/2d A special postage rate for printed matter was introduced on 1st October 1870 and as it was cheap the GPO saved paper issuing a The 1854 Penny Red Perforated Star half sized stamp. Again, had various plates 1-20. Number 9 is the The first major change after 1840 was the perforation machines good one. We offer good covers with the bantam for £40. stopping the counter clerks cutting up the sheets of stamps. There PH0013 £40 1/2d 1870 are many varieties of these “Star” Reds. They have letters at the bottom and stars at the top. On covers they catalogue up to £400. We offer SG 29 which catalogues £35 on cover. These are rather nice as they were debt letters returned to the solicitor “not known” 1870 Penny Half Penny Rose Red “gone away” etc. PH0011 £15

PH0014 £225 On the same day as the ½d bantam, Britain’s first penny halfpenny stamp was issued. A rosy mauve one was printed in 1860 but not issued and the stock was destroyed but apparently a few examples are known to have been postally used. Find one cover and it would be worth thousands. I find it extremely difficult finding this stamp on cover and reckon The 1858 Two Penny Blue Plates the £250 cat value to be a true indication of value. Again, these have letters top and bottom and plate numbers I have one in stock at last thus filling the missing gap in the Line 7-15. Not as easy to find as 1d plates and a good long term bet. engraved section. This one costs £225 PH0010 £50 1858 Two penny blue plates After this issue stamps were surface printed other than the 1847/54 Embossed issues. EACH IS UNIQUE - SO COVERS/WRAPPERS SENT WILL DIFFER CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 59 10 offers from the 1960s Supplied on our choice of covers - let us know if the one illustrated is required.

FC195 £10 OFFER £8.50 1961 CEPT, CDS or slogan postmark.

FC280 £25 OFFER £22 1963 Commonwealth Pacific Cable, CDS or Slogan postmark.

FC453 £15 OFFER £12.50 1965 Opening of the Post Office Tower, FDI postmark. FC350 £10 OFFER £8.50 1965 Sir Winston Churchill, any FDI postmark.

FC508 £10 OFFER £8.50 1966 900th Anniversary of Westminster Abbey, Ord, any postmark.

FC478 £15 OFFER £12.50 FC606 £10 1965 International Telecommunications Union, OFFER £8.50 FDI postmark. 1967 EFTA, FDI or CDS postmark.

FC709 £10 OFFER £8.50 1969 British Ships any postmark. FC646 £10 OFFER £8.50 1967 Discovery & Invention, any postmark.

FC754 £10 OFFER £8.50 www.buckinghamcovers.com 1969 Post Office Technology, any postmark. all ten covers £90 £45 per month for 2 months

60 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL171 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] 10 offers from the 1970s Supplied on our choice of covers - let us know if the one illustrated is required.

FC847 £10 OFFER £8.50 1971 Literary Anniversaries London EC special FDI postmark.

FC786 £25 OFFER £22 1970 Anniversaries, Canterbury special postmark.

FC869 £15 OFFER £12.50 1971 Universities Southampton special FDI postmark.

FC946 £15 FC922 £10 OFFER £8.50 OFFER £12.50 1972 Silver Wedding Windsor special FDI. 1973 Trees Stampex London SW1 postmark.

FC983 £15 OFFER £12.50 1973 British Paintings London Sir Joshua Reynolds special postmark.

FC967 £20 OFFER £17.50 1973 Cricket Downend Bristol special postmark.

FC992 £15 OFFER £12.50 1973 Inigo Jones Newmarket special postmark.

FC1033 £20 OFFER £17.50 FC1001 £10 OFFER £8.50 1974 Universal Postal 1973 Royal Wedding Windsor FDI postmark. Union Southampton special postmark.

all ten covers £120 £40 per month for 3 months

CL171 www.buckinghamcovers.com 61 IN OUR OPINION THE BEST FIRST DAY COVER ALBUM ON THE MARKET!

I looked at the available luxury albums and decided that the Safe 800 series was the best for our Buckingham Covers. The 14 ring mechanism is quality nickel-plated easy to use and only available from Safe. The album lies perfectly flat and you can remove pages or covers easily. It has two heavy-duty sheet lifters. The luxury binder is padded and the matching slip-case again looks quality as indeed it is. The leaves are the best available and your first day covers look superb. Yes, they sound expensive with only 11 leaves, but we are selling them well below the proper price so they are a bargain.

ALB01 £70 Blue £70 ALB01A £70 Red including ALB05 £70 postage Blue album for smiler sheets or 45 Extra leaves are available tokens at £12.50 for 10 ALB01L £12.50 Double Leaves Covers not included ALB05L £12.50 Single Leaves

Album without slip case - It sounds ridiculous but the slip case is very expensive to produce, so, if you prefer, we can supply the album without a slip case at 01303 £50 including postage. 278137 THE COVER ALBUM BARGAIN WE KEEP SECRET! £20 POST FREE

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We can offer this great album, containing 15 polypropylene* leaves that Covers not included will take 60 FDC. SCA01 £20 Red It fits our covers perfectly and they look great in it! Available in Red and Dark Blue and now in Brown SCA01A £20 Blue with ‘Railway Cover Album’ blocked onto the spine, specifically for your rail collection. SCA01B £20 Rail Album Outside *Polypropylene is a clear material which according to the experts is totally You can also claim safe. Some album leaves are dangerous as they suck out ink from the covers. PVC in particular can be lethal to your covers and if you have old one for 18 tokens PVC pages in albums the leaves should be replaced.

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£50 per month for 5 months FB1264 £250 World Cup Final 1966 Official Match Day Programme, England vs West Germany, a historic collectable.

FB1362 £950 £190 per month for 5 months Bobby Moore, Jackie Charlton, Martin Peters, Ray Wilson, Roger Hunt, Alf Ramsey, Bobby Charlton, George Cohen, Alan Ball, and Geoff Hurst signed 1982 Spanish World Cup cover.

FB30X £1750 £175 per month for 10 months 1966 pair of covers signed by 20 of the 1966 England Squad plus a colour photograph signed by match commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme.

FB06J £1250 £250 per month for 5 months Sir Alf Ramsey and Bobby Moore signed 1966 World Cup FDC.

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