9-16 (9-16) 1897 ½d-5' Q Victoria Diamond Jubilee overprint issue with SG Type 3 handstamps, wmkd Crown CA, perf 14, cplt (8), OG, LH, F-VF
Auction #127 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #127 - Public Auction
This new Public Auction contains many interesting and valuable stamps from all parts of the Empire!
• Great Britain includes high value 10/- large squares, Sea Horses to the £1 and a good Officials section.
• British West Indies has key Antigua stamps; Bahamas shows an 1865 1/- in unusual “superb” quality; Barbados features a unique ½d double overprint (both in black) ex-Ferrary; a Bermuda highlight is a KGV 2/6d in bright orange-vermilion; British Guiana features classic perforated issues; Grenada has the all-but-impossible second issue Postage Due set, mint (a different set than last time!); Turks Island shows a nice range of overprints.
• British Africa is very well represented, including Bechuanaland 4d on 4d, 26 (25), a great used rarity; Cape of Good Hope shows a nice 1/- yellow-green Triangle, mint, and the scarce ½d on 3d overprint, wmkd CC, mint; Egypt weighs in with 50pi Port Fouad, mint and used; there are over two dozen large Madagascar Consular Mail stamps; Natal features a 1/- green “Postage.”, used, 25 (43); Niger Coast features a very scarce mint 27 (336) ½d on 2½d; many rare Togo overprints to the 1M; and a large range of Zanzibar overprints finishes the continent.
A careful review should reveal many useful items!
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Lot #765 - leeward islands
16 (16) 1897 5' green and blue Q Victoria with Diamond Jubilee handstamp SG Type 3, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare (only 784 issued), scarce, exceptionally well centered, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #766 - leeward islands
29-45, 29a, 33a, 43a (29-45, 29a, 33a, 38a) 1905-11 ½d-5' K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, cplt (20) with all Stanley Gibbons shades and chalk-surfaced papers, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #767 - leeward islands
32 (32) 1906 2½ dull purple and ultramarine K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, difficult and undercatalogued mint as the vast majority were used postally, a habitual occupant of most advanced mint want lists, fresh, signed, OG,VLH, F-VF
Lot #768 - leeward islands
46-57 (46-57b) 1912-22 ½d-5' K George V, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (12), lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #769 - leeward islands
57 var (57c) 1920 5' green and red on orange buff K George V, wmkd MCA, scarce later printing, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #770 - leeward islands
58-60 (51a, 54a, 57a) 1913 3d-5' K George V surface-colored paper (whitebacks), wmkd MCA, cplt (3), the 3d and 5' are extremely rare and undercatalogued used as they saw very limited usage mostly in Montserrat (the 3d was sold only in Montserrat), lightly canceled, VF
Lot #771 - leeward islands
60 (57a) 1913 5' green and red on yellow surface colored paper (white back) K George V, chalk surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, very rare and undercatalogued used, perfectly centered, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #772 - leeward islands
115a (114) 1938 £1 brown-purple and black on red K George VI on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MSCA, perf 14, OG, VLH, SUPERB
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