5 var (5"s" var) 1860 6d dull lilac Q Victoria, wmkd Pineapple, imperf, four margins, overprinted "SPECIMEN", scarce, part OG, 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 #711 - jamaica
6a var (6a"s" var) 1862 1' purple-brown Q Victoria, wmkd Pineapple, perf 14, overprinted "SPECIMEN", unused with HR, two small perfs, fine
Lot #712 - jamaica
16-23, 28-30 (16-26) 1883-97 ½d-5' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (11), OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #713 - jamaica
22a (22) 1883 4d red-orange Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, very rare and undercatalogued mint as the vast majority was postally used, rarely offered, OG,LH, VF-S
Lot #714 - jamaica
33//59 (37-56) 1905-11 ½d-5' Q Victoria and Arms of Jamaica, cplt (20), including the scarce (and undercatalogued) 2' and 4d shades, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #715 - jamaica
40 (49) 1910 4d black on yellow Q Victoria on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, an astonishingly rare and vastly undercatalogued used stamp, rarely ever seen!, lightly canceled, superb centering, SUPERB
Lot #716 - jamaica
49 (48) 1908 4d red-brown Q Victoria on ordinary paper, perf 14, scarce, especially used, light oval registry cancel, F-VF
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