1Ba (9a) 1920 1m sepia black East of Jordan overprint, ERROR - overprint inverted, perf 14, undercatalogued, perfectly centered, OG,VLH, SUPERB
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 #718 - jordan
21 var footnoted (23 var) 1922 4/10th on 4m scarlet provisional surcharge in black, perf 14, ERROR - surcharge SG Type 2 double, unrecorded by Stanley Gibbons - the discovery example, fresh, very scarce, OG,VLH, VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #719 - jordan
42 (39) 1922 3m yellow-brown, red-purple Arab Government handstamp, perf 15x14, spectacularly rare and vastly undercatalogued, missing from several major collections we have helped to build in the past, fresh, OG,VLH, F-VF, with Najjar certificate
Lot #720 - jordan
52a (42ba) 1922 2p olive, violet Arab Government of the East overprint with first surcharge SG Type 1a, very rare, OG,VLH, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #721 - jordan
57 (44a) 1922 9p ochre of Palestine, violet Arab Government of the East handstamp, perf 15x14, violet overprint, fresh, well centered, OG,LH, VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #722 - jordan
64b (89b) 19231/8pi chestnut stamp of Saudi Arabia overprinted SG Type 10, VARIETY - overprint inverted, OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #723 - jordan
69a (94a) 1923 3p brown stamp of Saudi Arabia overprinted SG Type 10, VARIETY - overprint inverted, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #724 - jordan
73a var (68ga) 1923 20p pale grey, black Arab Government of the East overprint SG Type 5, VARIETY - overprint inverted, rare, OG,HR, VF, with Najjar certificate
Lot #725 - jordan
73 var (68g var footnoted) 1923 20p pale grey, black Arab Government of the East overprint, perf 14, the very rare ERROR with overprint transposed--the second and third lines are at top and the first line at bottom, OG,HR, VF, with Holcombe certificate
Lot #726 - jordan
141 var (154 var) 1925 5p deep purple stamp of Palestine overprinted "East of Jordan" SG Type 19, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, VARIETY - "long" stamps (25mm, only one row per sheet was produced as it was caused by a faulty registration of the perforating machine), OG,LH, F-VF
Lot #727 - jordan
142a (155a) 1925 9p ochre, black East of the Jordan overprint SG Type 19, perf 15x14, OG,NH, SUPERB, with Najjar certificate
Lot #728 - jordan
143a (156a) 1925 10p light blue, black East of the Jordan overprint, ERROR - "E.F.F." in bottom panel instead of "E.E.F." (row 10, pos 3), scarce, OG,LH, F-VF, with Najjar certificate
Lot #729 - jordan
145-57 (159-71) 1927-29 2m-1000m Emir Abdullah, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (13), well centered, OG,VLH, F-VF
Lot #730 - jordan
169a-78a (194c, 195a, 196b, 197b, 198b, 199a, 200b, 201a) 1939 1m-20m Emir Abdullah, wmkd Script CA, perf 13½x13, cplt (8), rare, OG,VLH, F-VF
Lot #731 - jordan
NJ8 (PD22) 1948 1m red-brown Palestine Occupation overprint, unwmkd, perf 13½, one of the great Postage Due rarities of the 20th-Century Empire, a perfectly centered block of four (almost certainly unique!), OG,NH, SUPERB, with BPA certificate
Lot #732 - jordan
O1 (O117) 1924 ½p scarlet Official, black Arab Government of the East overprint, rare and substantially undercatalogued in both Scott and Stanley Gibbons, truly a great rarity of which only a few examples are known, lightly canceled, fine, with Brandon certificate
Lot #733 - jordan
O1a (O117a) 1924 ½p scarlet Official, black Arab Government of the East overprint, ERROR - "1242" instead of "1342", extremely scarce, P.O. fresh, OG,NH, fine
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