1 (4) 1857 3d rose Crown and VR embossed, imperf, four margins, light Crown Natal cds cancel in blue, F-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 #895 - natal
25 (43) 1869 1' green Q Victoria, overprinted "Postage" SG Type 7c (13¾mm), wmkd CC, perf 14, a massively undercatalogued great rarity, very seldom seen!, F-VF
Lot #896 - natal
49a (83b) 1876 6d violet Q Victoria, overprinted "POSTAGE" SG Type 18 (14½mm, no stop), VARIETY - overprint inverted, wmkd CC, perf 12½, exceptional centering and lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #897 - natal
63 var (93x) 1879 1d on 6d rose Q Victoria VARIETY - wmk CC reversed, very rare mint -- unpriced mint in Stanley Gibbons, well centered, OG, LH (gum crease), VF
Lot #898 - natal
81-96 (127-42) 1902-03 ½d-£1K Edward VII, wmkd CA or CC, perf 14, cplt (16), 6d with slight offset on gum, 10' faded, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #899 - natal
81-96 (127-42) 1902-03 ½d-£1 K Edward VII set, wmkd CC and CA, light cancels, F-VF
Lot #900 - natal
81-97 (127-43) 1902-03 ½d-£1.10' K Edward VII, wmkd CA, cplt (17) through the £1.10', bright colors, light cancels, F-VF
Lot #901 - natal
81-98 (127-44) 1902-03 ½d-£5 K Edward VII , wmkd CA or CC, a selected set with neat postal cancels, F-VF
Lot #902 - natal
97 (143) 1902 £1.10' green and violet K Edward VII, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #903 - natal
O1-6 (O1-6) 1904 ½d-1' K Edward VII Officials, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (6), scarce and undercatalogued, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #904 - natal
O1-6 (O1-6) 1904 ½d-1' K Edward VII Officials, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (6), scarce and undercatalogued, used, F-VF
Lot #905 - natal
(T14b) (Hiscocks 14b) 1902 6d on 9d dull mauve Q Victoria Telegraph surcharge (1.8mm gap), ERROR - surcharged ON BOTH SIDES SG Type 3, inverted in relation to the front and displaced upwards, one of the few surviving examples from the one pane of thirty, OG,LH, F-VF
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