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GREAT BRITAIN (QUEEN VICTORIA) - 1847-54 Embossed issue complete set, each overprinted "SPECIMEN", cut to shape and mounted on white card. Very rare, Spec cat £9800 (3 stamps)

CANADA - NOVA SCOTIA - 1851 1d red brown on bluish paper, SG 1, very fine mint, large part og. Close but clear margin at left and large margins to other 3 sides. Lovely original colour. Cat SG £3000.

PORTUGAL - 1855 5r red-brown,Dom Pedro with straight hair, Die III, Afinsa 5 (SG 10) mint part original gum. 2014 Dias Certificate states mint without gum, four close to large margins and fresh colour. A very collectable example of this rare stamp. Cat €15,000 (£13,300)

BOLIVIA - 1867-68 5c dark bottle green Condor (4th re-engraved plate, 1st stage) - A COMPLETE SHEET OF SEVENTY-TWO STAMPS (12 x 6), lovely fresh mint with full original gum. Displayed to exhibition standard with notes regarding the most significant identification features and their positions. Stunning!

GREAT BRITAIN (QUEEN VICTORIA) - 1867-80 2s dull blue, Wmk Spray, SG 118, mint good part og, cat £4200.

GREAT BRITAIN (QUEEN VICTORIA) - 1867-83 10s greenish grey Wmk Maltese Cross, SG 128, very fine used with small cds cancel & fresh colour. A lovely example.

RUSSIA - 1875-79 2k black and rose on vertically laid paper, Michel 24y, very fine used.

MAURITIUS - 1887 2c on 13c slate SURCHARGE DOUBLE, ONE ALBINO, SG 117 variety, mint large part og. DISCOVERY COPY and so far the only known example of this variety. Brandon certificate.

GREAT BRITAIN (QUEEN VICTORIA) - 1887-1892 £1 green, SG 212, mint lightly hinged with a tiny pin hole in left margin. Cat £4000. Lovely looker! (1 stamp)

BECHUANALAND - 1890 Protectorate (19mm) opt'd ½d vermillion, SG 55, mint with large part OG

CANADA - PRINCE EDWARD IS - 1893 STAMP ESSAY. 1893 3c green "Widow's weeds" design essay inscribed "Pince Edwards Islands" on thick gummed paper, perf 13½. A rare item.

NORTH BORNEO - 1897-1902 Pictorial set, SG 92/109, plus listed 1c, 3c and 8c shades, mainly fine mint, the 12c with small thin. (17 stamps)

BAHAMAS - 1902 KEVII £1 green & black, SG 70, very fine, lightly hinged mint

GREAT BRITAIN (EDWARD VII) - 1902-10 £1 dull blue green De La Rue opt'd "SPECIMEN", SG 266s, mint lightly hinged, very slight surface rub at left but fresh and appealing.

K.U.T. - 1903-04 50r grey and red-brown, SG 16, unused without gum, good colours, pulled upper left corner perf, cat £2500.

AUSTRALIA - 1911-1930 POSTAL STATIONERY FINE UNUSED COLLECTION, all different, inc Envelopes 1d window envelope privately printed, 1924 1½d, 1928 1½d & 1930 2d (x2 different), Registered Envelopes 1925 4½d, 1928 4½d, 1930 5d on 4½d & 1930 5d, Letter Cards 1911 1d ending with "any" & 1913 1d Kangaroo (x3 different), Postal Cards 1911 1d & 1913 1d and Wrapper 1913 ½d. Mostly good to fine condition. (16 items)

FALKLAND ISLANDS - 1912-20 KGV High Values, 3s to £1 (SG 66, 67b, 68 and 69), fine/ very fine NEVER HINGED MINT. Attractive and scarce! (4 stamps)

ALBANIA - 1913 20pa rose carmine, Pl II, overprinted Bihe and subsequently "Eagle" in black, variety "overprint inverted", SG 13var (Mi 13var), very fine used. Signed H. Bloch.

GREAT BRITAIN (EDWARD VII) - 1913 TRIAL PRINTING 1d definitive in blue on gummed paper with wavy line watermark (slightly larger format than the issued stamp), - a superb never hinged mint example of the trial printing by Bruckmann (Munich) as part of the tendering process for the GB stamp printing contract.

AUSTRALIA - 1915-27 1s blue-green 'ROO, Die IIB (SG40b), with VARIETY "1" for First "I" in "SHILLING," Brusden White 33(4) l, fine mint.

AUSTRALIA - 1916-18 1d rosine (Rough Paper), SG 47c, centred low & left, never hinged mint

SWEDEN - 1918 80o black Gustav V, SG 84 (Facit 94) never hinged mint, a light diagonal crease is not easy to see from the front. Only 1000 issued at Varnamo, this with Helena Obermuller Wilen photo certificate mentions 'weak fold'.

GREAT BRITAIN - 1918-19 Bradbury Wilkinson Seahorses set, SG 415/417, used with each stamp bearing a SUPERB MATCHING SINGLE- RING CDS postmark of Harrow 4th April 1927. Individual examples with cancellations of this quality are extremely scarce, a set with matching cancels of this quality almost unheard of (3 stamps)

COOK ISLANDS - 1921-23 Postal Fiscal (QV Tall type) set, SG 76/80, very fine mint (5 stamps)

BRUNEI - 1922 "Exhibition" overprints complete set, SG 51/59, fine mint, fresh colours. (9 stamps)