Lot
3428 
Worldwide Topicals, British Empire Expositions, 1879-1938. Over 120 covers & cards, beginning with 1879 Metropolitan International Exhibition, Kilburn, on Royal Agricultural Society postal card; 1887 cds "American Exhibition" at Earl's Court London (to New Mexico!!), various 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee illustrated entires & postal cards; 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition (on illustrated half penny postal card), also an elaborate illustrated cover with Chelsea Hospital cancel; 1893 Gardening and Forestry Exhibition illustrated postal card with fancy purple commemorative cancel, 1900 Cystal Palace, 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition, 1902 Wolverhampton Exhibition with Canada Pavilion view; several Queensland cards for 1908 Franco-British Exhibition, 1909 Ballymaclinton /Shepherds Bush; 1909 Imperial International Exhibition cancel; 1914 Anglo-American Exposition, several 1910 Japan-British Exhibition cards; various entires & postal cards for British Empire Exhibition 1924 & 1925; several commemorative cancels on covers from New Zealand, Bermuda, Kenya and Uganda, South Africa, India (including a card with red Everest Expedition / 1924 / Base Camp cancel tying blue Mount Everest Exped label; Malacca, British Guiana; fascinating collection worth close evaluation. Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $2,700