The 1/2 bajocchi with variety "tete-beche" is one of great Italian States rarities. This cover showing the error in the centre of a strip of four is unique and obviously spectacular.

The famous "Black & Blue" cover - on May 15, 1840 for the first time a cover franked with stamps crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It was this Mulready One Penny lettersheet additionally franked with 3 x 1840 1d blacks and 2 x 1840 2d blues placed in tandem, totalling prepaid postage of 8 pence. If ever we could talk of beauty and attraction mixed with rarity in classic philately, this item must top the listings!

The 1d and 2d Mauritius "Post Office" stamps are acknowledged as the "Leonardo Da Vincis" of classic philately. This is the greatest rarity combination of all - the two values used together on complete cover going abroad cancelled both locally and with a foreign cancel giving undeniable proof of their validity and usage. There is one cover, and this is it, the Bordeaux cover, the Crown Jewel of all philately!

Registered cover dated 21 January 1884 from Nevis to Berlin (Germany), arrived on 13 February, 24 days later. The 4d stamp paid the registration fee and the 6d the UPU postage to Europe. This is the only cover bearing a 6d lithographic stamp, "Medicinal Sprig" type, printed by Nissen & Parker, and the only mixed franking with De La Rue stamps.

When the French Postal Administration decided to replace the postal department numbers it delivered to Monaco the circular dat-estamp MONACO/Alpes Maritimes as seen on this envelope. The Prince was displeased finding it quite disparaging and it was soon replaced again by the well known MONACO/Principaute. There are few known examples of the former still exiting, this being the finest.