O43 (O78) 1902 1' dull green and carmine K Edward VII overprinted GOVT. PARCELS on medium wove paper, wmkd Crown, perf 14, OG, NH, SUPERB
Auction #131 - Public Auction
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COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #131 - Public Auction
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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 #52 - Great Britain
O46 (O32) 1902 ½d blue-green Q Victoria O.W. OFFICIAL, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, a very fresh example, OG, NH, SUPERB
Lot #53 - Great Britain
O53 (O40) 1903 10d dull purple and carmine K Edward VII O.W. OFFICIAL, 1344 printed but 1200 were officially destroyed leaving only 134 copies sold, lightly canceled, SUPERB, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #54 - Great Britain
O63-O64 (O91-O92) 1902 ½d-1d K Edward VII overprinted R.H. OFFICIAL, fresh OG,LH, F-VF
Lot #55 - Great Britain
O70 (O86) 1904 5d dull purple and ultramarine K Edward VII Board of Education Official on ordinary paper, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, an extremely rare stamp very seldom offered!, a remarkable, perfectly centered, lightly canceled example of this great rarity!, SUPERB, with BPA certificate
Lot #56 - Great Britain
O83 (O112) 1903 3d dull purple on orange-yellow K Edward VII ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL SG Type O11, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, a difficult and seriously undercatalogued stamp, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #57 - great britain offices in china
13 (14) 1917 $2 carmine-red and grey-black K George V of Hong Kong overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, perf 14, OG, NH, VF
Lot #58 - great britain offices in china
14 (15) 1917 $3 green and purple K George V of Hong Kong overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, perf 14, this is the key mint value, rarer than the $10 as most were used, vastly undercatalogued, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #59 - great britain offices in china
14 (15) 1917 $3 green and purple K George V of Hong Kong overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, perf 14, F-VF
Lot #60 - great britain offices in china
15 (16) 1917 $5 green and red on blue-green (olive back) K George V of Hong Kong, overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #61 - great britain offices in china
15 (16) 1917 $5 green and red on blue-green (olive back) K George V of Hong Kong, overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #62 - great britain offices in morocco
9 (5f) 1898 40c orange-brown Q Victoria of Gibraltar overprinted "Morocco Agencies" in blue-black (from only a small part of the Second Setting), a rare and seriously undercatalogued stamp (usually found on 99% of all Morocco want lists), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #63 - great britain offices in morocco
11 (7f) 1898 1pe bistre and ultramarine Q Victoria of Gibraltar with blue-black "Morocco Agencies" overprint (from only a small part of the Second Setting), a most difficult and key stamp to all of Morocco, undercatalogued, as relatively few seem to have been printed, signed Bloch, OG, VLH, VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #64 - great britain offices in morocco
422 var, 422 (212 var, 212) 1935 (8 May) 5c on ½d green K George V Silver Jubilee of Great Britain surcharged in French currency (SG Type 17), block of 9 with center stamp showing the "ghost 5" where the overprint was defectively printed (row 5, pos 5) and listed in Ainscough's book, also note defective overprint at row 4, pos 6, a seldom offered constant variety occurring at the end of the overprinting run, OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #65 - great britain offices in morocco
437 var (227a) 1936 ½d green K Edward VIII of Great Britain surcharged in French currency "MOROCCO AGENCIES \ 5 CENTIMES" with ERROR - bar through "POSTAGE" on top stamp, with a few perf tips with trivial toning not mentioned in the certificate, bottom-marginal strip of three, a striking variety of which only twelve examples show "POSTAGE" clearly obliterated with the line, a copy of the 1936 Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal article explaining...
Lot #66 - aden
12 (12) 1937 10R olive-green Dhow, wmkd MSCA sideways, perf 13x12, F-VF
Lot #67 - aitutaki
9a (3a) 1903 21/2d deep blue Lake Wakapitu of New Zealand, perf 14, overprinted in red with VARIETY - "Ava" without stop, only 128 overprinted with this variety, fresh and bright, seldom offered, OG, HR, VF
Lot #68 - aitutaki
13 (12) 1914 1' vermilion K Edward VII overprinted SG Type 1 and 7, wmkd Single NZ and Star, perf 14x14½, perfectly centered, tied by "Aitutaki" cds to piece, very rare and undercatalogued, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #69 - aitutaki
18c (14ab) 1917 1' orange K George V of New Zealand overprinted, ERROR - "Tai" without dot on "i", a scarce stamp (only 105 of this variety were printed), bright fresh color, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #70 - aitutaki
18d (14ac) 1917 1' vermilion K George V of New Zealand overprinted, ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on second "i" (row 8, pos 2 or row 10, pos 7), a very scarce stamp (only 70 printed), unusually well centered example of this variety, OG,HR, VF-S
Lot #71 - aitutaki
18d, 18e, 18 (14ad, 14ac, 14a) 1917 1' orange K George V of New Zealand overprinted, block of four with ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on third "i" (row 8, pos 11 - 35 printed) thinned, and ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on second "i" (70 printed -- this is row 8, pos 12), fresh, better-than-normal centered examples of these scarce stamps, errors are OG, NH, rest HR, VF
Lot #72 - aitutaki
18e (14ad) 1917 1' vermilion K George V of New Zealand overprinted, ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on third "i", row 8, pos 11, (only 35 of this variety were printed), a fresh, better-than-normally centered example of a rare stamp, OG,HR, VF
Lot #73 - antigua
1 (1) 1862 6d blue-green Q Victoria, unwmkd, rough perf 14 to 16, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #74 - antigua
1 (1) 1862 6d blue-green Q Victoria, unwmkd, rough perf 14 to 16, light cancel, in our experience scarcer used than mint, small thin, fine
Lot #75 - antigua
4c (9) 1863 6d dark green Q Victoria, wmkd Small Star sideways, rough perf 14 to 16, fresh, rich deep vivid color, OG, LH, F-VF, with BPA certificate
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