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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1399

(x) Channel Islands
Guernsey
Liberation
A collection of covers/cards (42), including 1945 (May) letter card "on active service" to U.K., showing a light F.P.O. 138 datestamp (number just legible) and showing shield type censor cachet at lower left; a little soiled though unusual, and 1945 (June) "On Active Service" envelope (minor imperfections) to Rotherham, showing good strike of "field post office/138" datestamp, no other markings, Official pair Re-Occupation cards (3, one used), "Souvenir of Liberation" cards (5), four used with one showing the rare "2d/paid" handstamp, Bert Hill cards (5), 1945 cards (2) bearing Arms values with one to New Zealand and twenty-one bearing various 1948 Liberation values used in the islands, one from Alderney with Postage Due 3d. applied in Guernsey and one to England with "Contains coin" and with 3d. Postage Due handstamp, and elsewhere

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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£110