11b (11b) 1917 10' green and red on blue green K George V, chalk-surfaced paper, pale olive back, wmkd MCA, perf 14, lightly canceled, scarce used, 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!
Lot #1019 - nigeria
12 (12) 1914 £1 deep purple and black on red K George V, chalk-surfaced paper, Die I, wmkd MCA, perf 14, undercatalogued used, lightly canceled, XF
Lot #1020 - nigeria
12a (12b) 1927 £1 deep purple and black on red K George V, wmkd MCA, perf 14, Die II, a marvelous and perfectly centered top sheet-margin (control # 21) example, vivid color, choice, OG,NH, SUPERB
Lot #1021 - nigeria
38-49 (34-45) 1936 ½d-£1 K George V pictorials, wmkd CA, perf 11½x13 and perf 14, cplt (12), a remarkable, hand-picked, perfectly centered set!, SUPERB
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