Tooveys: Stamps, Cigarette and Trade Cards, Postcards, Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera, 52026, West Sussex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 275 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3001

Great Britain stamps in stock book

1870 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 300.00
3015

1840 2d blue, two used, used pair with red Maltese Cross and four margins but thinned and 1841 cover from Trowbridge to Liverpool with two margined 2d blue

1840; 1841 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 300.00
3016

Great Britian 1d red brown mint stamp and 1d unused (2), 1d perforated (2) and 1855 2d blue plate 5 (SG 34) unused with gum

1855 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 375.00
3017

Great Britain 1847-54 embossed stamps with 6d pair specimen, 10d used and 1 shilling green on 1851 cover from Dublin to New York

1847-1854 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 550.00
3018

Great Britain 1855-57 4d, 6d and 1 shilling stamps unused part gum

1855-1857 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 475.00
3019

Great Britain 1862-64 3d, 4d, 6d, 9d, 1 shilling stamps unused with gum, high catalogue value

1862-1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 600.00
3020

Great Britain 1865-67 3d plate 4 marginal, 4d plate 12, 6d plate 5, 9d straw, 1 shilling green plate 4 stamps unused with gum

1865-1867 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 575.00
3021

Great Britain 1952 Wildings mint, 1955 Castles unmounted mint set of four, 1972 £1 imperf pair unmounted mint, 2000 19p imperf trial pair, two colour shifts

1952; 1955; 1972; 2000 USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 137.50
3024

Norway postal history, group of covers from 1896 Princess Maud to Princess Henry of Prussia, 1919 'FOLGEBREV' with 5 krona indigo and 1 krona green, 1920s-1950s, and 1930 cover with 14 ore on 2sk (2) to Manila

1896; 1919; 1920s-1950s USD 50.00 - 80.00 USD 37.50
3025

Great Britain 28 Oct 1840 1d black plate 7 (A.D.) four margins, London Black Experimental Maltese Cross, with T.P. Peckh. Rye in frame

1840 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 125.00
3026

Great Britain 1d Mulready envelope used 6th May 1840 (first day), fine red Maltese Cross and straight line 'T.P. Twickenham' (two penny post) with one penny crossed out with blue crayon, includes letter which starts 'I have no other purpose in troubling y

1840 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
3034

Great Britain stamps in eleven albums from 1840 1d blacks (10 all damaged with faults), George V control singles and blocks, shades, George VI watermark varieties, Elizabeth II Wildings, Machins, and 1955 Castles

1840; 1955 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 350.00
3043

Rhodesia stamps in an album from 1892 values to £10, probably fiscally used, 1892 surcharge set of 4 mint, 1897 £1 used (2), 1898 - £2 used, £30 revenue stamp used, 1905 Victorian Falls set mint and used, 1909 £1 mint, 1910 Double Heads mint and used, Adm

1892; 1897; 1898; 1905; 1909; 1910; 1924; 1938 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,125.00
3047

Great Britain used stamp collection in Windsor album from 1840 1d black and Jan 1841 cover with 1d black plate 5 with red Maltese Cross (both four margins), 1d reds, 2d blues, 1883-4 10sh, Edward VII £1 green, 1929 PUC £1, 1918 Seahorses, 1939-48 high val

1840; 1841; 1883-1884; 1918; 1924; 1929; 1939-1948; 1955 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
3054

South and Central America airmail covers and postcards, mostly 1930s-19050s, with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, some postal stationery cards, and Second World War censor covers

1930s-1950s USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
3059

World stamps in seven albums with Great Britain decimal mint commemoratives, few prestige booklets and presentation packs, British Commonwealth Bermuda 1938-51, and Bermuda 12 shillings 6d used

1938-1951 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 150.00
3065

Swiss airmail collection of covers from 1913-1935, written up in two boxed Oriel albums with 30.3.1913 Bern-Burgdorf card (without vignette), 28.5.1926 Basel to Lucerne, 1926 First African Flights, 1930 2nd African Flight to Benghazi, many covers with app

1913-1935 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 450.00
3081

Airmail covers, written up collection on album leaves of Scottish Airmails with Highland Airways, 29 March 1934 from Kirkwall to Inverness pilot signed, 31st July 1939 North Ronaldsway to Kirkwall, 8th January 1935 scarce salvaged cover, 25th January 1937

1934; 1935; 1937; 1939; 1954; 1970s-1980s USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 875.00
3099

World stamps in stock book, approval books (27), Netherlands 1913 Centenary to 50 cents mint, Switzerland, few covers including 1971 ' Missent to Korea'

1913; 1971 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 31.25
3105

Great Britain mint commemorative stamps in five albums from 1952-2014, value in decimal unmounted mint stamps plus greetings and self adhesive booklet panes, miniature sheets

1952-2014 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 937.50
3113

Great Britain Victoria to Elizabeth II commemorative mint stamps, including 1887-1900 ½d to 1 shilling, mostly 1950s, further British stamps, a group of Victoria State Australia stamps, a postage cover international Dunedin, New Zealand and South Seas cov

1887-1900; 1948; 1950s USD 50.00 - 80.00 USD 106.25
3125 Taddy

A group of 13 Taddy ‘Prominent Footballers (without footnote)’ Brighton & Hove Albion cigarette cards, together with 9 Taddy ‘Prominent Footballers (with footnote)’ Brighton & Hove Albion cigarette cards

N/A USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 106.25
3126 Barratt

A group of six Barratt ‘Cricket Team Folders’ cards, comprising Sussex No 2, Kent No 3, Nottinghamshire No 4, Worcestershire County No 17, M.C.C. Team No 18, and All India Cricket Team No 19

N/A USD 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
3127 W. & F. Faulkner

A part-set of 18 (of 20) W. & F. Faulkner ‘Cricketers Series’ cigarette cards circa 1902, (lacking numbers 6 & 8), together with a single duplicate of No 11

circa 1902 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
3128 A & BC

Footballers (Make a Photo), 1st Series; Footballers (Make a Photo), 2nd series

N/A USD 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.