British Commonwealth KGVI Mint Never Hinged, etc.

A vintage accumulation in over a dozen volumes, the core being five old-fashioned stockbooks of KGVI mint never hinged sets and varieties assembled as new issues between the late 1930s and early '50s, vivid colours, the great majority in top quality despite occasional gum toning on the usual culprits (Bermuda 12/6d, Ascension earlier printings). Highlights (MNH unless otherwise stated) include GB 10/- dark blue and 1937-38 postage dues set, Australia 'robes' set with high values on both paper types, Ascension to 10/- both types, Bahrain, Bermuda with twelve different key-plate high values (one £1 type and a 10/- plate number are hinged), Brunei 1947-51 set to $10, Burma interim govt. official set (SG.O41/O53, cat. £225), Cyprus first set, Falklands first set with shades to 1/-, Leeward Islands set to £1, good range of Malaysian States, etc. The rest of the books are interesting with individual used issues in small stacks in glassines, especially India with rupee values, Malay leaping tigers, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, etc, additional mint incl. Cyprus full sheets of 1951 ½pi violet and 1½pi green (SG.152a, 155ab, cat. £735 as singles), GB £1 Silver Wedding full sheet (MNH, central column creased), Jamaica and Southern Rhodesia booklets (SB10a, SB4 respectively, cat. £435), and earlier mounted on pages incl. KGV 'Burma Service' to 5rs (O1/O13, cat. £425), a range of Newfoundland classics to investigate, a little postal history, etc. Also an as-new green 'Imperial' album for KGVI that the collector fortunately never got round to mounting the stamps in. Offered intact as received aside from the India book (Lot 115).