1804 stampless folded letter to "Kittery Massachusetts" bearing manuscript "25" rate and "por favour - Capt Davis Schr ann maria", "Norfolk" cds transit stamp on front, early usage, 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 #1274 - tobago
5 (5) 1879 5' slate Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce and undercatalogued, a magnificent, perfectly centered example, probably the choicest example extant!, OG, LH, SUPERB, with Ceremuga certificate
Lot #1275 - tobago
5 (5) 1879 5' slate Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce and undercatalogued, light numeral "A 14" cancel, short perf, F-VF app
Lot #1276 - tobago
8 (8) 1880 ½d purple-brown Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce used, light "A 14" cancel, rich color, well centered, SUPERB
Lot #1277 - tobago
10 var (10w) 1880 4d yellow-green Q Victoria, VARIETY - wmkd CC,inverted, perf 14, quite scarce as probably only one sheet was printed, well centered, light "A 14" cancel, F-VF
Lot #1278 - tobago
12 (12) 1860 1' yellow-ochre Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, in spite of its modest catalogue value this is one of the Colony's rarest used stamps, phenomenally undercatalogued!, light "A 14" numeral cancel, SUPERB
Lot #1279 - tobago
28 (28) 1887 ½d on 6d orange-brown Q Victoria surcharged SG Type 4, wmkd CA, perf 14, scarce used, VF
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