1d (1e) 1866 5pa grey Turkish Suzerainty, VARIETY - perf 13, very rare, unused, fine
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 #561 - Egypt
78-91 (98-110) 1922 1m-200m Egyptian Pictorials overprinted SG Type 43 ("The Kingdom of Egypt"), perf 14, cplt (13) per Stanley Gibbons with both watermarks, undercatalogued, OG, HR, VF
Lot #562 - Egypt
81b (101a) 1922 4m green Giza Pyramids K Fouad overprint, ERROR - overprint inverted, left margin single (pos 21), very rare as only 12 are known (per Charles Hass), unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, some toning which is usual for known examples, OG,HR, F-VF app, with Charles Hass certificate
Lot #563 - Egypt
121-24 (141-44) 1926 5m-50pi Inauguration of Port Fouad overprints, cplt (4), key set of the country, as only 1500 of the 50pi were printed and the whole issue sold out on the opening day of sale in a matter of hours, signed, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #564 - Egypt
121-24 (141-44) 1926 5m-50pi Inauguration of Port Fouad overprints, cplt (4), key set of the country, as only 1500 of the 50pi were printed and the whole issue sold out on the opening day of sale in a matter of hours, lightly canceled, well centered, 50pi with Brandon certificate and signed Brun, VF-S
Lot #565 - Egypt
155 var-58 var footnoted (178a-81a) 1929 5m-20m Crown Prince Farouk Ninth Birthday trial color proofs with black or brown centers (and clearer portraits), only 2000 sets issued, fresh, scarce, OG,NH, VF
Lot #566 - Egypt
177-90 (219-32) 1934 1m-£1 Khedive Ismail Pasha (10th Congress of U.P.U.), cplt (14), imperf proofs handstamped "Cancelled" on reverse, ex-Kink Farouk, SUPERB
Lot #567 - Egypt
177-90 (219-32) 1934 1m-£1 Khedive Ismail Pasha (10th Congress of U.P.U.), cplt (14), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #568 - Egypt
M9 (A10) 1935 1pi ultramarine British Forces in Egypt Silver Jubilee overprint, the scarce key value to the issue - perennially sought after, undercatalogued, OG, VLH, VF
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