1 (1) 1854 1d black Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, four margins, fresh early impression, unused, VF, with APS certificate
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 #134 - australia / western australia
1 (1) 1854 1d black Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, four margins, used, VF
Lot #135 - australia / western australia
2 (15) 1858 2d brown-black on red Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, clear margins (to just touching at left), a very rare mint stamp, unused, fine
Lot #136 - australia / western australia
2b (15a) 1858 2d brown-black on red Swan, VARIETY - printed both sides, imperf, full to touching (at sides) margins, numeral-less cancel attractively frames the Swan, F-VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #137 - australia / western australia
3 (3) 1854 4d pale blue Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, three full margins (partial sheet-margin at bottom), signed Kneitschel, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #138 - australia / western australia
3 var (3b) 1854 4d deep dull blue Swan, wmkd Swan sideways, imperf, four margins, marvelous rich color, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #139 - australia / western australia
4 var (19) 1859 6d grey-black Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, full margins on three sides to close at bottom, numeral "8" cancel, this example displays lovely characteristics of erased transfers at T-R and B-L, a lovely specialist item, F-VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #140 - australia / western australia
5 (4c) 1855 1' pale brown Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, four large margins, unused (as usual), VF-S
Lot #141 - australia / western australia
5 (4c) 1855 1' pale brown Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, full to close margins, numeral "9" barred-oval cancel, F-VF
Lot #142 - australia / western australia
5b (4a) 1854 1' deep red-brown Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, large margins, cancel neatly frames the Swan, a choice example, XF
Lot #143 - australia / western australia
9 (22) 1857 6d black-bronze Swan, rouletted 7½ to 14 and compound, largely full roulettes, light numeral "3" cancel, F-VF
Lot #144 - australia / western australia
9 var (23) 1857 6d grey-black Swan wmkd Swan, rouletted 7½ to 14 and compound, unusual -- full roulettes on all four sides!, light cancel, VF-S
Lot #145 - australia / western australia
15 (26) 1860 4d orange Swan, color trial on wove paper, scarce, imperf, four margins, VF
Lot #146 - australia / western australia
15 var (26a) 1864 4d blue Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), locally printed, imperf, four margins, unused (as usual), VF
Lot #147 - australia / western australia
17 (30) 1860 2d orange-vermilion Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), rouletted 7½ to 14, scarce and undercatalogued, well centered, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #148 - australia / western australia
19 (32) 1860-64 6d sage-green Swan, rouletted 7½ to 14, showing on all four sides -- scarce thus!, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #149 - australia / western australia
20 (33) 1861 1d rose Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), intermediate perf 14-16, OG, HR, VF-S
Lot #150 - australia / western australia
24B (44) 1861 1d rose-carmine Swan, wmkd Swan, perf 14 to 16 very rough, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #151 - australia / western australia
24D (46) 1861 1' deep green Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), perf 14 to 16 very rough, rare, Kallow noted only 1560 printed, the overwhelming majority of which were used postally! massively undercatalogued, rarely even offered (we do not recall ever having had a mint example in 45 years!), unused as usual, SUPERB
Lot #152 - australia / western australia
24 var (43a) 1861 1' yellow-green Swan, wmkd Swan (upright), clean-cut perf 14 to 16, unused (as usual), VF-S
Lot #153 - australia / western australia
25 (38) 1861 1d rose Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), perf 14 at Somerset House, an exceptional, perfectly centered example!, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #154 - australia / western australia
38 var (74y) 1881 4d carmine Swan, wmkd Crown to right of CC and reversed, perf 14, rare and massively undercatalogued, rich deep color, a choice example, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #155 - australia / western australia
47 (84) 1883 4d carmine Swan, wmkd CA, perf 12, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #156 - australia / western australia
103 var (172a "w" var) 1912 1d on 2d yellow Swan with provisional Melbourne surcharge in black, ERROR - wmk inverted, perfectly centered, lightly canceled, unrecorded, VF, with Brandon certificate
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