1 var (1 var) 1874 1d lilac-mauve Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, with "CANCELLED" overprint, straight-edge and shortish perfs, very rare, part OG, fine
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 #748 - lagos
5 (6) 1874 6d blue-green Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, with "Lagos B" cds VARIETY - "B" inverted, only occurred in January 1875, rare, small faults, F-VF app
Lot #749 - lagos
6 (8a) 1875 1' orange Q Victoria with value 16½mm long, wmkd CC, perf 12½, OG, LH, XF
Lot #750 - lagos
6a (8) 1875 1' orange Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, value 15½ mm, rare and seldom offered, signed Diena, OG, HR, VF
Lot #751 - lagos
12 (16) 1879 1' orange Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, value 16½mm long, rare mint as the majority were postally used, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #752 - lagos
13 (21) 1885 ½d dull green Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with "BAOGAY - B" village cds, scarce, VF
Lot #753 - lagos
13, 15 (21-22) 1903 ½d green and 1d rose-carmine Q Victoria, each in horizontal pair, tied by "IBADAN - B" village cds to a commercial cover (front) addressed to Berlin, with manuscript routing indicators, scarce and seldom seen, F-VF
Lot #754 - lagos
15 (22) 1884 1d rose-carmine Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with very rare example of the small village "EPE" cds, few exist!, F-VF
Lot #755 - lagos
23 var (24 var) 1884 4d pale violet Q Victoria, wmkd CA, very rare imperf plate proof color trial in the issued shade, four margins, a rarely seen specialist piece, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #756 - lagos
26 var (25 var) 1884 6d olive-green Q Victoria, wmkd CA, very rare imperf plate proof color trial in the issued shade, four margins, a seldom seen item for the specialist, OG,VLH, SUPERB
Lot #757 - lagos
33 (27) 1886 2'6d olive-black Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare as only 900 issued, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #758 - lagos
33 var, 35 var, 37 var (27s-29s) 1886 2'6d-10' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, overprinted "SPECIMEN", scarce, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #759 - lagos
35 (28) 1886 5' blue Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare as only 600 were issued, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #760 - lagos
37 (29) 1886 10' purple-brown Q Victoria, wmkd CA, the rare key value as only 420 were issued, well centered, used, F-VF
Lot #761 - lagos
47 (51) 1904 2'6d green and carmine K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, only 1440 printed, but a very rare used stamp as it was only in use a few months, not 10% were used!, rarely seen and vastly undercatalogued used, light "Calabar" cds, VF
Lot #762 - lagos
49 (53) 1904 10' green and brown K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, only 720 issued, one of the greatest USED rarities of this Colony, as it was issued in November of 1904 and replaced less than a month later by the MCA wmk, easily 20 or 30-to-1 in favor of the mint, significantly undercatalogued, seldom ever offered, light "Lagos" cds, ex-"Nashville", VF
Lot #763 - lagos
50-59 (54-63) 1904-05 ½d-10' K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (10), very rare used as the high values in actuality are 10-20 times more difficult used than their relatively common mint counterparts, and as such significantly undercatalogued, F-VF
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