Cover Lover the Magazine for First Day and Commemorative Cover Collectors MYTH MAGIC 16Th October 2018
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OCTOBER 2018 CL214 Cover Lover The magazine for first day and commemorative cover collectors MYTH MAGIC 16th October 2018 MORE SPELLBINDING COVERS ON Page 3 Christmas has come early! Well it has in the stamp calendar 1st November 2018 Unwrap the secret of Christmas on Page 6 Buckingham Covers - The First in First Day Covers A WORD FROM “It was nice to hear from other BRIAN dealers that Buckingham Covers BUCKINGHAM COVERS, SPECIALIST COVER EXPERT always fetch good prices” Dear Collector, magic in this issue, both the stamps and the miniature sheet when you put it under a UV light. Much to my wife’s disgust, who has When I visited Autumn Stampex in September 2017, I really hit read all the books and seen all the films more than once, I know a wall and after not finding anything by 3pm I decided to call it nothing. I have seen one and a half films (I fell asleep during the a day. Fast forward a year, I spent all day hunched over boxes, second one). talking to collectors and dealers and all of a sudden it was gone 5pm and I realised I needed another day! I was still in the hall on Ignoring my bad taste in films, we have lots of different Thursday when the call went out that the show would be closing combinations in this issue and have even managed to include a in 10 minutes. couple for railway collectors. So what did we learn? It was nice to hear from other dealers that If Mr Potter is not your thing, then don’t miss out on our Buckingham Covers always fetch good prices as well as nice early lovely Christmas cover plus a special edition marking the 175th covers commanding good prices if you can find them. I saw some Anniversary of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. offered at way above what we can sell them at, but it is good to see other dealers thinking the same as us, plus I know how good Finally we are already starting to think about rounding up this year our stock is (Just have a look under our Portfolio button on the and as mentioned above next, so don’t miss our list of the popular website). We can now also start working on next years issues as Maritime Series, plus the 2018 list. Now is a good time to think we have a secret outline from Royal Mail. about guaranteeing your 2019 Buckingham Covers by joining one of our clubs. www.buckinghamcovers.com/clubs. As you will see from the front page, the last secret issue of the year is Harry Potter. This time the stamps concentrate more on the Happy Collecting films, for those of you who remember eleven years ago the stamps Brian Austin then had the books covers on them. As you would expect there is October 2018 Starting your early collection easy as (sixty) one, (sixty) two, (sixty) three Yes I know it is a corny gag, but when we have three good clean covers from the first three years of the 1960s it had to be done (and they would make a FC196 £15 Offer £12.50 great Christmas gift) 1961 CEPT, Torquay Special slogan postmark FC205 £85 Offer £75 FC224 £40 Offer £35 1962 National Productivity Year, National Productivity 1963 Paris Postal Conference, Dover Packet Year special slogan Service special postmark All three covers £100 (yes amazing value) 2 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL214 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] MYTH MAGIC 16th October 2018 Full set of Harry Potter stamps cover two magical covers BC616 £18.50 Club Price £17.50 Mystical Stag design element with five stamps including Harry Potter, Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley. Includes special Privet Drive, Bristol sponsored ink postmark BC616S TBA TBC BC616A £18.50 Club Price £17.50 Magical Tree design element with five stamps including Hagrid’s Motorbike, the Knight Bus and Neville Longbottom. Includes a special, London N1 postmark, where Kings Cross and of course Platform 9¾ is situated. TBC BC616AS TBA The Hogwarts Professors Miniature Sheet is featured on our special ‘Magical Methods’ cover Club Price £17.50 BC616M £18.50 Harry Potter miniature sheet with Hogwarts Professors stamps including the one and only Severus Snape. This magical miniature sheet has all the elements of the film’s Marauder’s Map with special features only visible under a UV light! Pure Magic! Includes a special Wizard Way postmark. TBC BC616MS TBA BC616MB £18.50 BC616MBS TBA Barcoded Miniature sheet Signed TBC BC616MA £18.50 Magical Methods cover design featuring the stamps from miniature sheet. Postmark London N1, where Kings Cross and of course Platform 9¾ is situated. BC616MAS TBA TBC CL214 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 MYTH MAGIC 16th October 2018 The ultimate full set cover! Limited Edition BC616SP £45 - A RTI ET ST Y S - A RT S The ultimate full-set T IS I E T A M Y S - A RT S T IS I N P E T A M Y R cover! All ten Harry S G S E A I N P I M S R S G S E P I E N I Potter stamps, the S S O R D G S E I E N K I S S O D R - S E A N N professor stamps from K I M O T O D S P R O - A N N K M O T S P R O - the miniature sheet plus A N M O T S P O the vertical se-tenant pair of Professor Dumbledore & Lord Voldemort from - A RTI ET ST the 2011 Heroes & Y S S A I - A RT M T IS YE T P S Villains issue. The first N T - A RTI S R S E T A I G Y S M E I S S P S I A M N S time they have been R E G I P N I E O D R S S N G K S I E E R issued like this. Postmark I S - S O D A N S E M O N T I S K P O O D R - A to be confirmed. N N K M O T R S P O - A N M O T S P & O BC616HV £12.50 Magical methods cover design with new vertical se-tenant pair of Professor Dumbledore & Lord Voldemort stamps originally from the 2011 Heroes & Villains issue. Plus two Isle of Man 2004 Harry Potter stamps with special cachet. Special Extras! STP032 £26.95 Set of ten PHQ stamp cards with special postmark on the front STP032A £16.95 Set of five PHQ miniature sheet stamp cards as above 4 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL214 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Alternative pair of covers, featuring the full set, split into characters and transport BC616B £18.50 Magical methods cover design featuring the five Harry Potter character stamps. BC616BA £18.50 Goathland Station (Hogsmeade) cover design featuring the five Harry Potter transport and portkey stamps London N1 postmark, where Kings Cross and of course Platform 9¾ is situated. GOATHLAND BC616R £18.50 STATION Our Owl cover featuring the (HOGSMEADE) Retail booklet which includes the COVERS Hermione Granger and Harry Potter 1st Class stamps. PAGE 13 Postmark to be confirmed. BC616LSET £29.50 Specials & Extras Pair of Owl covers which feature the smiler stamps and a corresponding film still label. A fantastic pair of collectable covers that we think would make for the perfect present for any Harry Potter fan! BC616L £10.95 Owl cover featuring a single smiler stamp with a corresponding film still label (our choice) CL214 www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 Christmas 1st November 2018 BC617 £18.50 Club Price £17.50 Christmas has come early, in the stamp world anyway! Festive scene of people posting their Christmas post and visiting the local shop in the snow. Eight stamp issue showing different postboxes in wintry settings from towns to countryside. Postling, Hythe Kent special postmark. BC617S TBA Signer TBC BC617M £18.50 Club Price £17.50 Miniature sheet cover featuring a snowy holly berry scene with Christmas miniature sheet postmarked Bury, Greater Manchester. Signer TBC BC617MS TBA BC617MB £18.50 Barcoded Miniature sheet BC617MBS TBA Signed TBC Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas carol’ 175th Anniversary of Charles Dickens book ‘A Christmas Carol’, our cover features the 1993 Dickens Christmas Carol stamps & picture label, postmarked Ebenezer Road, Hastings. Artists Impression BC617D £16.50 6 WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY ROAD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF CL214 TEL 01303 278137 FAX 01303 279429 email [email protected] Post & Go Mail by Bike 12th September 2018 BC614 £18.50 What better than a British summer morning with a Postman cycling through the centre of the village, we hope you agree this cover makes a lovely setting for the stamps. (Bureau stamps) BC614S £28.50 We are delighted to be able to offer these signed by Mark Heap, actor and comedian, who played postman Thomas in Larkrise to Candleford. BC614B £19.50 Machine stamps BC614BS £28.50 Machine stamps - signed Mark Heap SPECIAL STAMPEX POSTMARKS AVAILABLE The first day of Stampex is issue day for these stamps BC614A £18.50 BC614A2 £18.50 and there are two special postmarks at the exhibition and we feel they will be popular fitting in so well with Stampex Magnifying glass Stampex Mail by Bike the issue. postmark (Bureau stamps) postmark (Bureau stamps) Latest Definitives 12th September 2018 Following a change of printer, from De La Rue to International Security Printers, Walsall, the low value 2018 prints constitute a non-visible change.