1 (1) 1902 1d carmine Commerce of New Zealand handstamped "NIUE" in bluish green, Pirie paper, wmkd Double-lined NZ and Star, perf 11, scarce (only 1200 printed), a nice fresh example, OG, HR, F-VF, with BPA certificate
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 #837 - niue
1 (1) 1902 1d carmine Commerce of New Zealand handstamped "NIUE" in green, Pirie paper, wmkd Double-lined NZ and Star, perf 11, scarce (only 1200 printed), a nice cds cancel (16 SEP 1902) glued on piece so probably part of the shipment affected by dropping in the sea during unloading, F-VF
Lot #838 - niue
3a var footnoted (3b "a" var) 1902 ½d green Mount Cook of New Zealand on Basted Mills paper, wmkd double-lined "NZ" and Star, perf 14, overprinted "NIUE. ½ PENI." SG Type 2 in red, combination ERROR - surcharge inverted with SG listed VARIETY spaced "U" and "E" (row 3, pos 3, 6 or row 8, pos 3, 6), centering is as normal for the inverted surcharge, rare as Buckingham reported only 4 copies of this variety were printed (one sheet of inverted...
Lot #839 - niue
13c (15) 1903 1' brown-orange New Zealand Kea and Kaka overprinted "NIUE \ Tahae Sileni", ERROR - "Tahae" (one word, which translates locally into "thief") instead of "Taha e" (two words), known as the "Thief Shilling", only 96 copies were sold, normal centering for this error, fine for issue, OG,LH, , with RPSL certificate
Lot #840 - niue
20a, 20 (22a, 22) 1917 3d chocolate K George V of New Zealand recess printing overprinted "NIUE" (SG Type 5) and surcharged SG type 6, ERROR - no stop after "PENE" on bottom right stamp of this bottom margin block of four (only 35 examples of this variety printed, row 10, pos 4), margin watermark confirms error position, top stamps with HR, error is NH, F-VF
Lot #841 - niue
30-34 (33-37) 1918-23 2'-£1 Q Victoria Postal Fiscals of New Zealand, overprinted "NIUE", cplt (5), only 1200 overprinted of the £1, OG,LH, F-VF
Lot #842 - niue
32 var-34 var footnoted (37a-37c) 1927-29 5'-£1 Q Victoria Postal Fiscals of New Zealand overprinted "NIUE", thick opaque "Cowan" paper, perf 14½x14, cplt (3), only 1200 overprinted of the £1, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #843 - niue
(58 var footnoted) 1932 2½d black and slate-blue Islanders working Cargo ERROR - inverted center, unwmkd, perf 13, very well centered, fresh and bright color, OG, NH, SUPERB
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