Leon Norman Williams (1914–1999)

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THE MOST FAMOUS RARITIES : Post Office Mauritius, British Guiana: 1856, ‘Cottonreels’ W. Australia 1854, US 1918 ‘Inverted Aeroplane’, Swedish 1855 5 skilling - banco, ‘Missionaries’

BRITISH RARITIES: Penny Black — Penny Red — mid-Victorian" ‘Abnormals’ — unused high values —1910 low values — early George V -- 1935 Silver Jubilee — George VI errors of perforation — Elizabeth II errors and varieties — colour omissions — ‘Headless Queen’ — 1964 show more ‘value omitted’ — 1965 Red Cross Centenary — official overprints

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH RARITIES: Barbados ‘Britannia' —New Brunswick ‘Connell’ — Bermuda Postmasters — Canada" ‘Three Pence’ Postmaster; 1851 ‘Twelve Pence’; 1959 Seaway Invert — "triangular Capes — early Ceylons — 1886 Dominica — 1889 Gibraltar —Gold Coast: 1883 provisional; 1889 — India: 1852; 1854- "Inverted Head’ — Jamaican 1922 inverted Frame — 1893 Lagos — 1893 Niger Coast high values - 1879 South Australia surcharge omitted — Virgin Islands Missing Virgin — First World War provisionals

EUROPEAN RARITIES: Early Austrian — Austrian Italy — ‘Mercuries’ — Baden 1851 -— Bavarian 1895 provisional —
Saxony: 1850; 1851 — France: early varieties; 1369 value omitted —pro-Unification Italian — ‘Moldavian Bulls’ "-- 1851 Spanish —- 1872 Swedish ‘Tretio error’ — first Zurichs — ‘Double Geneva’ — ‘Basle Dove’ — 1849 Geneva

AMERICAN RARITIES Early Postmasters — 1869 inverted centres — 1893 CoIumbian Exposition — 1901 Pan-American Exhibition — 1922-5 1 cent green — Confederate States Postmasters Provisionals — Brazil ‘Bulls’ Eyes’ — ‘Montevideo Suns’— Mexican 1892; 1921

RARITIES OF THE AIR Newfoundland: ‘Hawker’; ‘Martinsyde’ —" de Pinedo — 'Columbia’ -Balbo —Ross- Smith vignette — ‘Black Honduras’ — Colombia 1919 airmail — ‘Buffalo’ Balloon — ‘Vin Fiz’ — ’Ile de France’ seaplane

RARE LOCAL AND TELEGRAPH STAMPS Gauthier Freres, Trinidad ‘Lady McLeod’,Steamship Companies : Zala-Somogyi; Asia Minor; Turkish Admiralty, Sutherland and Co. Tiflis 1869 Kotelnich — British Telegraphs 1877 Netherlands 1866 Russian Indian telegraphs show less