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Lot 167:
Description
A comprehensive philatelic collection comprising multiple first day covers, commemorative sets, and international stamps housed in albums and folders. The lot includes a red presentation box for a Royal Mail issue, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, containing a block of four stamps with photographic portraits in denominations of 2nd, 1st, £1.70, and £2.55. Several first day covers are present, including a British Painters issue featuring works by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Henry Raeburn, and two commemorative covers for the 125th Anniversary of Waterloo Station dated July 1948 and September 1993 with locomotive cachets and circular date stamps. International specimens include a Trinidad and Tobago butterfly set with Port of Spain circular date stamps dated February 1978. Open albums display a range of Portuguese Possessions stamps including issues for Angola, Cape Verde, and Guinea, alongside pages of Chinese and British Commonwealth definitives. A plastic packet is present labelled Rare Animals of Kenya containing wildlife thematic issues.
Condition report:
The stamps and covers generally appear in good order, though some covers exhibit mild toning and edge wear consistent with age (photo 1). The Prince Philip presentation set appears to be in mint condition within its original box (photo 1). Album-housed stamps show typical hinging and mounting marks, with some loose stamps showing minor perforation irregularities.
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