Worldwide 1840-1940s Ideal Albums

Two-volume red 'Ideal' collection 1840-1940s, with many hundreds of stamps mint and used, offered intact as received, including four penny blacks, two having four margins of which one with generous margins and interesting ink smudge at value tablet. Other line-engraved includes four margins mint 1d red (creased) with lower sheet margin inscription, imperf 2d lines in bright shade with neat black MX, etc. Will be much more here to discover, especially in the China, France, Latin America incl. stationery cut-squares, US incl. 1898 50c Trans-Mississippi used and 1904 St. Louis set mint save 5c, etc. In the second book, spaces are to 1920s so lots of sets mounted outside, incl. 1935 jubilees, 1938/41 Northern Rhodesia set to 20/- mint, the top value with flaw breaking 'T', South Africa pairs to 10/- mint, Spain to 10p MNH (were loose, now in stockcard), Italy 1945-48 part-set including the scarce 100L carmine with wmk. (SG.669, cat.£550) - all these being new issues at the time of assembly, and the collection untouched since. A recommended viewing.