75 MAY 2020 VE DAY MIL02 Tucks World War II Postcards We offer here 14 different mint postcards featuring Wartime Leaders from postcard producer Tucks. These include some stunning images including three great pictures of Churchill, a card featuring Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meeting in Teheran and one of the main seven leaders of the Allied Armies. TCS540 £75 BCFL10 £10.95 Working in association with the Boultbee Flight Academy, this stunning cover features an image of Silver Spitfire and BCSP50 £12.50 our postmark which marks 125 years since the birth of the original inventor, R J Mitchell. 2018 75th Anniversary of Operation Chastise - The Dambusters Raid. BC527 £20 2015 75th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain, flown in a Spitfire. BC605S £30 2018 Centenary of the RAF, Spitfire flown and pilot signed cover. Our choice. BC410C £40 Britain Alone Churchill cover, limited edition of just 100 covers. BC513SP £17.50 2014 Prime Ministers cover, Churchill special cover. FC1058 £10 1974 Centenary of Winston Churchill, House of Commons special postmark, our choice of cover Find us online at www.buckinghamcovers.com BC221 £25 2005 Battle of Britain Monument cover. BC410MS £50 2010 Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, signed by Dunkirk Veteran Thomas Cooke. BCSP04F £15 2004 60th BC610S £45 Anniversary of 2018 Dad’s Army Appreciation Society, signed by both Ian D-Day cover, Lavender (Pike) & Frank Williams (Vicar) in the original series flown in a Spitfire. BCSP12 £15 60th Anniversary of VJ Day, postmarked in London and New York. BCSP35 £20 2015 75th Anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill BCSP10AS £30 becoming Prime The London Battle of Britain Monument, signed by Minister. the Ace, Neville Duke. FC351 £20 1965 Sir Winston Churchill, Bladon FDI postmark. CALL US ON 01303 278137 www.buckinghamcovers.com/family | www.buckinghamcovers.com/magazines 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf MIL02 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] BCSP58 £15 2019 Great Escape 75th Anniversary cover. FC091 £75 1946 Victory FDC with Don’t Waste Bread slogan postmark. FC4156 £7.50 1995 Peace and Freedom, our choice of special postmark. FC113E £50 1948 Liberation, Guernsey slogan, Gacon green illustration. VCZ025 £35 Signed Silhouette images of Victoria Cross winners A/ Flight Lieutenant William Reid VC and Wing Commander Roderick Learoyd VC (18cm x 25cm). FC428 £20 1965 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, FDI postmark. R353 £10.95 Railways played a major role VCZ2077 £35 in the second world war. This cover features an image of a 2000 National Ex-Prisoner soldier guarding the railway in of War Association 55th 1939. An evacuating children Anniversary cover, signed by End of War stamp and our Victoria Cross winners Down Street, London W1J Ian Fraser & John Cruickshank. postmark which is where the WW147 £12.50 Railway Executive Committee were based during the war. 1945 The Return of the Islanders. www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 WISHART’S WAR John Wishart Esquire is a bit of a mystery, but what we do know is he knew his dates and covers. We recently bought a mixed box of covers he produced, at first glance we could not make head or tail of it, but after a couple of hours we managed to split it into three distinctive lots. 30TH JULY 1937 King George VI 1½d brown FDC FD146FA £10 Small Window FD146F £40 envelope, first day of the 1½d plus the The 1½d plus the Coronation stamp three earlier issued and the Edward definitives and a VIII, all 1½d values. pair of Coronation stamps. 29TH JULY 1938 Last day of sale for the King Edward VIII defi nitives 01303 TCS525A £25 278137 Single 2½d value plus the same George V and VI value. TH 30 SEPTEMBER 1938 ST Chamberlain declares ‘peace in our time’ 1 SEPTEMBER 1939 Germany invades Poland TCS522 £75 TCS393 £75 The four King Block of 4 1937 Edward VIII Coronation definitives. stamps. TCS522A £50 TCS393A £75 A pair of Coronation The four King Edward stamps and plus a 2½d VIII definitives. King George VI definitive. TCS522B £50 The 2½d stamps TCS393B £60 of Kings George V, Edward VIII and The 2½d stamps of Kings George VI. George V, Edward VIII and George VI. 1937 CORONATION FC065YG £35 A nice cachet illustration and Nottingham CDS Single stamp. with a choice of either single stamp, pair or block of four, unusual after over 80 years. FC065YGB £50 Block of four FC065YGA £40 stamps. Pair of stamps. 4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf MIL02 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] JERSEY WARTIME FOOL So was it just a coincidence that the Jersey 1d Arms was issued on April Fool’s Day on 1st April 1941. At this point supplies of stamps were running low and the German authorities asked Major Rybot to design a stamp in the style of the Display cover with 1d Jersey Guernsey Arms issue. Arms ‘Atrocious Adolf’. The Major agreed and in each corner FD200 £125 he added a letter ‘A’ with a plan to tell the Germans if questioned it was £25 per month just continuing the tradition of letters over 5 months in the corners started with the Penny Black. In a letter to King George VI after the war he told him the letters stood for Ad Avernum Adolphe Atrox, roughly translated as ‘To hell with you atrocious Adolf’. So maybe it was the occupying Germans who were the fools on Display card with ½d issue day. Jersey Arms ‘Bloody Bonito’. The Major did not stop there though, FD202 £40 if you look closely at the initials in the corners of the ½d issued on the 29th January 1942, you will notice the bottom letters were changed to ‘BB’ BUY BOTH FOR £140 Bloody Bonito (Mussolini). £70 per month over 2 months 1943 JERSEY VIEWS FULL SETS FD214G £300 FD214L £300 FD214T £350 Flexi-pay available on all items! No interest charged - payment options up to 12 months www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 BENHAM WORLD WAR II SERIES SALE WW003 £12.50 £10 WW004 £15 £12 WW005 £12.50 £10 WW006 £12.50 £10 1939 The First Act of War, 1939 The Railway Executive 1939 The Battle of 1939 Soviet troops invade The Sinking of SS Athenia. Committee. River Plate. Eastern Poland. WW007 £10 £8 WW008 £15 £12 WW009 £12.50 £10 WW010 £12.50 £10 1939 The Daylight 1939 HMS Royal Oak 1940 The German Invasion 1940 Winston Churchill bombing raids. torpedoed. of Norway. becomes Prime Minister. WW012 £10 £8 WW013 £10 £8 WW014 £15 £12 WW014A £25 £20 1940 The German Invasion 1940 The German Invasion 1940 The Evacuation from 1990 Evacuation from Dunkirk of Denmark. of the Low Countries. Dunkirk, Ramsgate. signed by Beachmaster Commander S. A Nettle. WW014B £25 £20 WW014D £25 £20 WW014E £20 £15 WW015 £10 £8 Signed by Commander C. Signed by Anne Shelton. Unknown signature. 1940 The RAF Harry the J Jerram who travelled on Germans in Northern France. the Sundowner. WW016 £10 £8 WW017 £15 £12 WW018 £15 £12 WW019 £10 £8 1940 The Treaty 1940 The Evacuation from 1940 The Evacuation from 1940 Italy Declares War. of Compiegne. Dunkirk, Dunkirk. Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo. WW020 £10 £8 WW021 £10 £8 1940 The German occupation 1940 Bomber Command of the Channel Islands. attacks Invasion Barges. 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf MIL02 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] WW022 £10 £8 WW023 £15 £12 WW024 £10 £8 WW025 £10 £8 1940 The first phase of the 1940 The Battle of Britain 1940 The first bombs fall 1940 First bombing raids Battle of Britain. begins. on London. on Berlin. WW026 £12.50 £10 WW028 £10 £8 WW030 £10 £8 WW031 £12.50 £10 1940 The Battle of the Atlantic. 1940 The Battle of Taranto. 1941 The British East African 1941 British Commandos Campaign. raid the Lofotens. WW032 £10 £8 WW033 £10 £8 WW034 £10 £8 WW035 £12.50 £10 1941 Battle of Cape Matapan. 1941 London attacked, The 1941 The Battle of Crete. 1941 The Sinking of Last Night of the Blitz. the Bismark. WW037 £12.50 £10 WW039 £10 £8 WW040 £10 £8 WW041 £10 £8 1941 Operation Barbarossa, 1941 British and Russian 1941 The Siege of 1941 Operation Battleaxe. The Invasion of Russia. forces move into Iran. Leningrad begins. WW042 £10 £8 WW043 £10 £8 WW044 £10 £8 WW048 £12.50 £10 1941 Invasion of Syria 1941 Operation Halberd. 1941 Operation Crusader. 1941 Hong Kong falls. and Lebanon. WW049 £10 £8 WW050 £10 £8 1941 USA Declares War 1942 Operation Cerberus. on Japan. www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 RAF WWII 50TH ANNIVERSARY Britain Declares War Battle of The Atlantic Battle of The River Plate JS39/01S £75 JS39/02S £20 JS39/03S £30 Signed by former Prime Minister Signed by C.P.O J H Youngs & Lt. Signed by Admiral Sir Desmond Lord Home Cdr Instance. (Parry) Dreyer GCB CBE DSC & Rear Admiral A.R.B Sturdee CB DSC. Bomber Command North Sea The Invasion of Norway Invasion of The Netherlands JS39/04S £20 JS40/01S £25 JS40/02S £15 Bomber Command North Sea Signed by Sir Kenneth Cross Cross KCB Signed Volkert Stolp and Shipping Searches. Signed Air CBE DSO DFC & Major R T Partridge DSO. Johannes Christiaan De Keijzer Marshall Sir Gareth Clayton & Squadron Leader John Haskins Invasion of Belgium Evacuation from Dunkirk Fall of France JS40/03S £60 JS40/04S £90 JS40/05S £15 2nd Lt.Richard Wallace Annand Signed Capt. Harold Marcus Signed Lieutenant General Sir Ervine-Andrews Derek Lang KCB DSO MC DL & Gordon Skelton.