3b var (3b) 1854 4d deep dull blue Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), imperf, four margins, marvelous rich color, OG, VLH, XF
Auction #132 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #132 - Public Auction
To all our valued friends and clients in these difficult times, we wish you all continued good health and happiness together we will overcome this current situation.
A bright spot for all of us is by staying home we have an unrivaled opportunity to work on our stamp collections, a happy thought.
Welcome to our 132nd consecutive British Colony Stamp Auction. Enclosed within is an unusually nice range of rare and difficult material.
British Africa: Madagascar includes items from two recent collections we acquired. Nyasaland, the £10 K Edward VII mint. Saint Helena, B1-4 Tristan Relief Set Mint. Sierra Leone, postal fiscals, K George V £5 mint. Togo, includes 80pf second setting etc. Zanzibar #2 mint and strong "2½" provisionals - from the landmark John Griffith-Jones collection (of which we were, by far the largest outright buyers!)
British West Indies: Bahamas #1 used. British Guinea, strong mint perforated "ships" and provisionals. Cayman Islands ½ on 5 shilling double overprint mint, the scarce 2½ on 4d provisional. Falkland Islands largely complete, South Georgia provisional 2½d on 2d mint and used, £1 Tercentennial mint and used. Nevis, the one shilling "laid paper" used (only 17 recorded.)
British Europe: Cyprus rare used 45pi Edward "CA", the £5 mint. Gibraltar, £5 mint. Great Britain, the 10 penny imperf XF OG, unissued 1½d and 8d brown, superb mint £5 orange.
British Asia: Ceylon imperf 4d rose very fine. India, strong mint section of Victorian issues. Jordan, first portion of an important new collection plus later many rarities currently off for certificates. Mesopotamia, the most comprehensive used range of these difficult provisional stamps we have ever been able to offer.
British Australasia: Australia £2 Kangaroos (times 3 mint plus one used!), the key 20 shilling green "slash" postage due mint and hundreds of other rare and desirable key items. New Zealand, mint #2 OG VF (ex the gold medal Joseph Hackmay collection.)
We wish you happy hunting.
Yours,
George and Kevin
Colonial Stamp Co.
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Lot #77 - australia / western australia
6 (2) 1854 1d black Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), rouletted 7½ to 14 and compound showing on all four sides), significantly undercatalogued as it is 10-20 times more scarce than its imperf counterpart, ex-Pearson, with color photocopy of the RPSL certificate for the pair that this is the right-hand example, F-VF
Lot #78 - australia / western australia
24D (46) 1861 1' deep green Swan, wmkd Swan (sideways), perf 14 to 16 very rough, rare, Kallow noted only 1560 printed, the overwhelming majority of which were used postally! massively undercatalogued, rarely even offered (we do not recall ever having had a mint example in 45 years!), unused as usual, SUPERB
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