October 2018 The Portfolio Issue 10 SPM10 Signed Set of 10 Multi-signed 1968 single stamp Anniversary covers (mainly TUC with a few Votes for Women). Signatures Dorothy Hodgkin, Vic Feather, Jimmy Knapp & Tom Jackson SGA092 £600 £120 per month for 5 months 1988 cover for the 80th Anniversary of the First Aeroplane Flight in Britain. Set of 5 Benham 1980 small silk Signed by Sir Richard Attenborough, Richard Todd, Sir Norman railway covers, each one signed Wisdom, British actress Googie Withers, her Australian actor husband by Rev W Awdry, author of the John McCallum, and their actress daughter Joanna McCallum Thomas the Tank Engine series. SGA001J £150 £50 per month for 3 months SGA022J £400 £80 per month for 5 months ONLY 1 IN STOCK 1993 Sherlock Holmes Granada Television cover signed by Jeremy Brett, which features him as The Great Detective SGB068E £225 £25 per month for 9 months Why not spread the cost of your order using FlexiPay ? FlexiPay is a great way of getting covers or collections that you want but can’t pay the full amount straight away. It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Simply divide the total by up to 12 months. Our minimum monthly payment is £10. We will then hold your order safely for you. Talk to any of our team to find a payment plan that suits you. tel: 01303 278137 | email: [email protected] Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Buckingham Covers 2010 Girl Guides cover, into which has been inserted an Olave Baden-Powell signed piece SGB093D £100 £20 per month for 5 months 2007 Beatles cover signed by Peter Blake (designed Sergeant Pepper album cover, Richard Lester (directed Beatles films ‘A Hard Days Night’ and ‘Help’), Pattie Boyd, Eleanor Bron (appeared in the film ‘Help’), Gerry Marsden SGB109K £350 £70 per month for 5 months 1981 Butterflies cover, signed by the cast of the television series ‘Butterflies’ Wendy Craig, Joyce Windsor, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Bruce Montague, Andrew Hall, and Michael Ripper SGC015E £300 £60 per month for 5 months 1985 Benham Famous Trains cover signed by railway artist Terence Cuneo, whose artwork features on the stamps £50 per month for 5 months SGC022F £250 Hugo Chavez signed 6th January 1976 document by military of defence infantry command division stating Chavez as officer of Venezuelan army will handle & deal with material classified as secret and swears to respect & fulfil the law & military rules SGC193 £500 £100 per month for 5 months Casino Royale promotional photo signed by Daniel Craig SGC100A £250 £50 per month for 5 months Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 2 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPM08 1980 Authors cover, signed by Sir Edward Heath, Seamus Heaney, Yehudi 1944 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures cover with Los Angeles postmark and Menuhin, Richard Adams, Chay Blyth, Antonia Fraser, Jilly Cooper and signed by Hollywood Legends Bob Hope Elizabeth Howard, all of whom have written books. SGH001C £175 £35 per month for 5 months SGH005H £250 £25 per month for 10 months First day cover of our choice signed by vet and writer James Herriot SGH023C £100 £25 per month for 4 months Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis, Doris Hare, and Michael Robbins signed 1979 Omnibus plain cover SGV007E £350 £35 per month for 10 months 1992 Good Old Days cover signed by singer Frankie Vaughan SGV005A £100 £50 per month for 2 months 1982 Benham British Theatre cover with Royal Opera House postmark, signed by theatrical Legend Sir Laurence Olivier SGO013C £250 £50 per month for 5 months 1996 Bagpuss cover signed by his creators Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin SGP015A £150 £15 per month for 10 months IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PARTICULAR SIGNATURE TO FILL THE GAP IN YOUR COLLECTION - PLEASE LET US KNOW. CALL TODAY! 01303 278137 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 POLITICS Duke of Wellington signed Freefront, a complete envelope dated 3rd August 1831, with complete seal on the reverse PM021O £400 £40 per month for 10 months George Canning signed 1824 document written in French. It is a passport issued to Colonel Jones, an officer with S.M. Britannique travelling to the Netherlands, and requests safe passage PM019G £350 £70 per month for 5 months Earl Grey signed four page letter dated 6th February 1808 regarding PM George Canning’s parliamentary speech, which was Robert Peel accused of ‘scandalous misrepresentation’ of signed Freefront the Copenhagen dispatches dated 14th June PM022C £750 1844 addressed to a Bank, and £150 per month for 5 months includes the original letter from a member of Peel’s staff. The original seal, on the reverse FlexiPay is a great of the envelope, way of getting covers is in superb or collections that you want condition but can’t pay the full amount PM024P straight away. It’s simple £150 and INTEREST FREE. £30 per month for 5 months Simply divide the total by up to 12 months. Our minimum monthly payment is £10. Mounted portrait of Lord Palmerston with signed piece We will then hold your order mounted below it safely for you. Talk to any of £30 per month for 5 months PM028L £150 our team to find a payment plan that suits you. Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 4 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPM08 POLITICS Earl of Rosebery signed handwritten letter dated 27th August 1901, Benjamin Disraeli hand written regarding a visit letter to Ralph Earle asking ‘Come on to 12th to meet him at 2pm that day, by all means, you signed with his initial ‘D’ must take your PM029H £300 chance as to see us alone!’ Written £60 per month to General Sir for 5 months Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet PM031B £225 £45 per month for 5 months Stanley Baldwin signed vintage postcard featuring an image of himself, the bottom signature is pre-printed and the genuine signature signed in the top left corner PM039B £350 £70 per month for 5 months Harold MacMillan signed piece mounted below a picture of him outside Number 10 PM045J £100 £20 per month for 5 months 1975 Parliamentary Conference cover with House of Lords postmark and signed by Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, and Baron Elwyn-Jones £40 per month for 5 months PM047P £200 Don’t forget you can always use Flexi Pay to spread the cost of your covers. Call today 01303 278137 or email [email protected] for full details. www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 POLITICS 1986 Finchley & Friern Barnet Conservative and Unionist Association cover, signed by then MP (and Prime Minister), Margaret Thatcher PM050AE £100 £20 per month for 5 months 1963 Centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation cover signed by former President, Jimmy Carter USP39A £175 £35 per month for 5 months William Taft signed typed letter dated 14th February 1916 on his personal letterhead. It is addressed to Frederick Jenkins, apologising that he cannot meet him, due to a busy schedule of lectures and addresses. £100 per month for 5 months USP27 £500 1950 American White House cover, in lovely condition, signed across the stamp by the then US President Harry S Truman USP33C £500 £50 per month for 10 months 1979 Metropolitan Police 150th Anniversary cover with New Scotland American cover with 6th June 1944 Victory postmark and signed by Richard Todd, Yard postmark and signed by crime writers Ian Rankin (creator of Jim Wallwork, and Edward Gueritz, who all took part in the Normandy Landings Inspector John Rebus) and Anthony Horowitz (creator of Foyle’s War) £40 per month for 5 months SGT001M £200 SGR209 £100 £25 per month for 4 months Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 6 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SPM08 BUCKINGHAM SIGNED COVERS 2001 Space Tourism signed by NASA astronauts Dave Scott and Don 2001 Space Tourism cover signed by moonwalker Alan Bean (he has Lind written Apollo 12 underneath). Postmarked in Liverpool & Heathrow Airport. BC001Z BC001A1 £175 £35 per month for 5 months £250 £25 per month for 8 months 2001 Buses cover with the full set of stamps and signed by Reg Varney, star of ‘On the Buses’ signed BC007F £125 £25 per month for 5 months 2002 Occasions signed by Lynn Redgrave, double postmarks, in Salisbury for the issue date of 6th February and again on 14th February 2001 in Lover, Salisbury. BC002G £160 £20 per month for 8 months Nobel Prizes signed by Nelson Mandela, Mairead Maguire, and Desmond Tutu BC012I £2500 £250 per month for 10 months 2002 Aircraft, Concorde miniature sheet, signed by Sir George Edwards, one of the designers of Concorde and John Cochrane, with a Heathrow Airport postmark. Doubled with a 1st class stamp and postmark BC019DS £225 £45 per month for 5 months 2002 World Cup miniature sheet cover with Wembley Stadium, signed IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PARTICULAR by former England manager Bobby Robson SIGNATURE TO FILL THE GAP IN YOUR COLLECTION BC020FC3 £175 £35 per month for 5 months - PLEASE LET US KNOW. CALL TODAY! 01303 278137 www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 BUCKINGHAM SIGNED COVERS 2002 Commonwealth Games cover signed by Olympic Gold medallists Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell with Henley-on-Thames Crossed Oars postmark BC021B £125 £25 per month for 5 months 2003 Barn Owl cover with Barn Owl Centre, Brockworth postmark and signed by actress Tippi Hedren, star of the film ‘The Birds’ BC029K £100 £20 per month for 5 months ONLY 1 IN STOCK 2003 DNA cover with Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge and signed by Francis Crick, one of the team who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 BC031C £500 £50 per month for 10 months Great Ormond Street Hospital cover featuring the 2007 Harry Potter stamps, with a Bracknell postmark (the location for Privet Drive in the films) and signed by American film actor Tony Curtis.