Lot
607 
Great Britain, Hand-Illustrated Cover Balance, a diverse group of 5 covers and 25 fronts from 1850-1910's with 10 hand colored, wide range of subjects, frankings and skill levels as well as condition with the covers tending toward the lower end and the fronts toward the higher, includes three 1859 Cambridge fronts with two depicting skillfully penned Ship Scenes incorporating stamp into mast flag, a wonderful matching group of four Edwardian pen and watercolor Caricature Scenes. Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $1,150
Lot
608
Great Britain, Hand-Illustrated Covers, 1879-1908, group of three pen & ink illustrated covers; 1879 London depicting Man Holding Goose and Looking at Bull Behind Fence, 1904 Maida Hill showing Skinny Hen "Get Thee To A Hennery!" and 1908 Windsor with reverse showing Dogs and Banner; some flaws, F.-V.F. overall. Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $110
Lot
609
Great Britain, 1903-14, The Mather correspondence, group of about 40 covers and cards, much of which pertains to Edwardian politics and in particular to the early days of the Labour Party; the correspondence is mainly from Albert E. Allen, secretary of the Leeds & County Fabian Society to Frederick M. Mather of the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen & Clerks; Allen was apparently a very talented cartoonist and his illustrations, as well as his letters are full of political satire on such topics as the Boer War, Women's suffrage and the importation of Chinese labor; in all there are 11 illustrated covers (9 of which contain letters) and 4 illustrated postcards from the 1903-1914 period, as well as numerous "decorated" postcards, a few Allen letters without envelopes (including two written on the back of Independent Labour Party broadsides) and miscellaneous materials from this friendly correspondence; also includes a 1935 typed letter signed by Philip Snowden, later Viscount Snowden, a friend of the Mather family, who was national chairman of the I.L.P. between 1903 and 1906 and was later Chancellor of the Exchequer; condition of some of the covers is a bit rough around the edges due to the rather thick contents, but all-in-all an intriguing and entertaining look into British political issues at the turn of the 19th century. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,450
Lot
610 
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Great Britain, Illustrated Envelope Balance, of seven items; includes 4 different unused Deraedemaker reprints including Forbes & Southgate designs, used Fores Dancing caricature front, also a used Mulready front and Ocean Penny Postage envelope (faulty), a Fine group. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $350
Lot
611
Great Britain, Printed Illustrated Covers, two covers with matching design of Caricature Hammering in Signpost incorporating stamp into sign; 1876 London to Berlin, Germany franked with 2½d rose, and 1897 Liverpool cds tying 1d lilac; later missing backflap, otherwise Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $75