The upper corners bore the letters "V" and "R" instead of stars
his wife Alexandria and his five young children were brutally executed by the Bolsheviks
"My Father had either lost his own snuff box on going ashore or in some shop in Palermo and upon mentioning the circumstances at Lady Hamilton’s table where Lord Nelson was one of the party his Lordship handed over to him this identical box and desired him to keep it until he could get a better one
Urged by Kennedy to move to Washington
Previously sold by Stanley Gibbons for £7
China 1949 South West China Yunnan Province set of 4 'unit' stamps, SGSW56/59 Rhodesia and Nyasaland stamps The upper corners bore theChina 1949 South West China People's Republic China general issues, Yunnan Province set of 4 'unit' stamps of Nationalist China to ( ) rose red, overprinted at Kunming, SGSW56 59. Superb set of four unused as issued. A very scarce set of these 'unit' stamps with most attractive designs including steam locomotive, Douglas DC 4, postman on motorcycle and mountains. In March and April 1949 inflation of the Gold Yuan currency became so rapid that it was