5 (5) 1895 50c black Missionary, wide letters and format (20-26 mm), with frame-line dashes showing on three sides, unu iss, VF, with BPA certificate
Auction #131 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #131 - Public Auction
We welcome you to our large and exciting Fall Public Auction for 2019
Great Britain includes a mint 4d carmine Q Victoria on bluish, wmkd Small Garter, while the Officials section has a 10d K Edward VII “O.W. Official” of which only 134 were sold! Cyprus has a nice G.B. used in Larnaca – one of 3 known. Egypt has a full set of the Port Fouad overprints and the 1932 U.P.U. set.
Australia features five £2 Kangaroos and quite a few Postage Due rarities. Cook Islands has the very rare 1d imperf between. We have a few “G.R.I.” occupation issues of note. There is a nice, big, New Zealand section and some rare Penrhyn Island items.
Basutoland has a rare key Official (signed T. Allen!). Cameroons has a nice “C.E.F.” used set and a 2/- on 2M with the inverted “s” variety. Cape of Good Hope has a 4d wood-block with the re-touched corner, a Mafeking 3d mint of which few exist. Gold Coast weighs in with at Q Victoria 20/- used (!) and a used K George V £2. We offer 40 large Madagascar Consular Mail stamps – some are ex-Joseph Oster. Mauritius has big section of Express Mail varieties. New Republic has quite a few rare varieties on offer. There are Sierra Leone Elephants to the £5, strong Togo and lots of Zanzibar varieties.
Canada has a nice #1 used with a bottom sheet-margin, a 1¢ Large Queen on laid paper, superb examples of the $3 and $4 Jubilees plus 50¢ K Edward VII. Falklands has a 5/- yellow-orange Penguin that is never hinged!
Barbados shows a rare mint 1/-violet (aniline) Q Victoria and an unsevered pair of the 1d on half of a 5/-
Hong Kong has a $10 K Edward VII used.
P.S. if you do not find all you are looking for (! ? !) here, we encourage you to visit our web site (www.ColonialStamps.com) as we have put up some more of our retail stock. There is sure to be something of interest, plus “want lists” are always welcome for us to fill from our 50 volumes of stock – mint and used, by Scott and Stanley Gibbons, and all available as “singles”.
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Lot #1461 - uganda
26 (26) 1895 5c black Missionary typewritten, narrow letters and format (16-18mm), imperf, frame-lines showing on all four sides, unused, VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #1462 - uganda
35 (35) 1895 5c violet Missionary typewritten, narrow letters and format (16-18mm), frame-lines showing on top and left, unu iss, F-VF
Lot #1463 - uganda
36 (36) 1895 10c violet Missionary, narrow letters and format (16-18mm), with frame-line dashes showing on all four sides, pair tied to small piece, vertical fold along dividing line between stamps, scarce, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #1464 - uganda
38 (38) 1895 20c violet Missionary typewritten, narrow letters and format (16-18mm), scarce, imperf, with frame-line dashes showing on three sides, unu iss, VF
Lot #1465 - uganda
41 var footnoted (41 var footnoted) 1895 45¢ violet Missionary, narrow letters and format (16-18mm), imperf, frame-lines showing on three sides, this denomination was prepared to oblige a local official but were never issued, only 6 examples having been produced by Rev. Millar, aside from this example we can account for only 4 of the other 5, unu iss, F-VF
Lot #1466 - uganda
54a (70a) 1896 1a black Type-set overprinted "L", VARIETY - small "o" in "PoSTAGE" (row 3, pos 1), sheet margin copy, unu iss, VF
Lot #1467 - uganda
55 var (71 var footnoted) 1896 2a black Type-Set, overprinted "L", vertical tête-bêche pair, scarce, unu iss, VF
Lot #1468 - uganda
58a (74a) 1896 8a black Type-set, handstamped "L" (local overprint), VARIETY - small "o" in "PoSTAGE" (R 3/1), imperf, left-hand positional sheet-margin example, quite scarce, SUPERB
Lot #1469 - uganda
58a (74a) 1896 8a black Type-set, handstamped "L" (local overprint), VARIETY - small "o" in "PoSTAGE" (row 3, pos1), imperf, left-hand sheet margin example, used, quite scarce, SUPERB
Lot #1470 - uganda
59a (75a) 1896 1R black Type-set, overprinted "L", VARIETY - small "o" in "PoSTAGE" (row 3, pos 1), imperf, left-hand sheet-margin copy, elusive and undercatalogued, very seldom seen, unu iss, SUPERB
Lot #1471 - uganda
61-68 (54-61) 1896 1a-5R black Type-set, cplt (8), scarce, unu iss, F-VF
Lot #1472 - uganda
61 var (54 var footnoted) 1896 1a Type-set, tête-bêche pair, thin "1", very rare, unu iss, VF
Lot #1473 - uganda
67a (60a) 1896 1R black Type-set, VARIETY - small "o" in "PoSTAGE" (row 3, pos 1), left sheet margin example, unu iss, VF
Lot #1474 - uganda
70 (84a) 1902 1a carmine-rose Q Victoria, canceled by a "GONDOKORO" cds, only opened in 1903 as a small trading post on the White Nile, very rare, VF
Lot #1475 - uganda
71 (86) 1898 2a red-brown Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with very rare "Gundokoro" straight-line cancel, F-VF
Lot #1476 - uganda
77 var (92w) 1902 ½a yellow-green Q Victoria of British East Africa overprinted "UGANDA", SG Type 10, ERROR - wmk CA inverted, rare as only one pane of 60 was printed, OG,VLH, VF
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