4 var (5 var) 1874 4d carmine Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, overprinted "CANCELLED", fresh, well centered, very scarce, as few exist, unused, VF
Auction #133 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #133 - Public Auction
We welcome all of you to our 133rd consecutive British Colony Auction, and sincerely hope that all of you are well – face masks at the ready!
We are continuing to work on filling want lists every day. I am happily amazed at the number of lists coming in realizing we all have a lot more time to work on our own collections! I have then had a chance to work on our Reference Collections as well. We continue to acquire material every month (into 6 figures,) and ship out an equal amount to help insure that we can supply great material, big and small, to help fill-in your want list needs. So keep them coming and you will be pleasantly surprised at the exceptional depth of the stock!
The current Public Auction starts off with a strong range of Great Britain to the £5 (x2). British Africa contains many scarce to rare items BCA (Nyasaland) includes SG 53a, Cape of Good Hope has fine triangles and the all but impossible mint SG 39! Strong Gold Coast plus Kenya SG 111b mint (the second one we have had in over 60 years!) and 17 large Madagascar Consular issues. Natal shows £5 K Edward both s & m and New Republic is 19 lots strong. Niger Coast provisionals and strong Rhodesia which includes double heads and Admirals (including SG 236a – a great mint rarity!) Togo shows rarities and there is a major Zanzibar section.
British West Indies has an Antigua #19 mint and there are better early Bahamas items plus strong Barbados, British Guiana, Falkland high values, and scarce Trinidad.
British Oceania is highlighted by a wide run of New Zealand classics (including SG 1) and the impossible “O.P.S.O.”s. North West Pacific Islands and Niue have rarities and interesting items as well.
Did I forget the almost 100 lots of Canada and Provinces? Australia? British Asia? As always:
Happy Hunting!
Sale Terms
Lot #731 - lagos
6 (8a) 1875 1' orange Q Victoria with value 16½mm long, wmkd CC, perf 12½, with very rare "Lagos" code "B" cds (much scarcer than the code "A"!), well centered, two short perfs, F-VF appearance
Lot #732 - lagos
7 (10) 1876 1d lilac-mauve Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, an exceedingly rare example with a light cds (in excess of 99% of all used copies bear the oval grid cancel!), perfectly centered, SUPERB
Lot #733 - lagos
15 var (22w) 1884 1d rose-carmine Q Victoria, VARIETY - wmk CA inverted, perf 14, scarce, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #734 - lagos
22 (20) 1882 4d carmine Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with extremely rare "Lagos" cds, in practice over 99% of the used 4d carmines were canceled with the normal oval bar grid cancel, an astonishingly difficult usage!, VF
Lot #735 - lagos
23 var (24w) 1884 4d pale violet Q Victoria, perf 14, VARIETY - wmk CA inverted, quite elusive and undercatalogued as only 1 pane was printed (we have had only 3 examples in the last 40 years, one of which is in our reference collection), used, F-VF
Lot #736 - lagos
33 var, 35 var, 37 var listed (27s-29s) 1886 2'6d-10' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, overprinted "SPECIMEN", perf 14, scarce, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #737 - lagos
33 (27) 1886 2'6d olive-black Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare as only 900 issued, lightly canceled and exceptionally well centered, SUPERB
Lot #738 - lagos
35 (28) 1886 5' blue Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare as only 600 were issued, fresh and nicely centered, OG, LH, VF
Lot #739 - lagos
36 (40) 1887 5' green and blue Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, sizeably undercatalogued used as the ratio of what is seen is easily 50:1 in favor of the mint!, light cds, SUPERB
Lot #740 - lagos
47 (51) 1904 2'6d green and carmine K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, only 1440 printed, but a very rare used stamp as it was only in use a few months, not 10% were used!, rarely seen and vastly undercatalogued used, perfectly centered, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #741 - lagos
48 (52) 1904 5' green and blue K Edward VII, wmkd CA, seldom seen, it saw only a few months of usage before it was replaced by the MCA in December 1904, only 1680 printed, at most 10% were used, astonishingly rare and undercatalogued used, SUPERB, with Brandon certificate
Lot #742 - lagos
49 (53) 1904 10' green and brown K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, only 720 issued, undercatalogued, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #743 - lagos
59 (63) 1904 10' green and brown K Edward VII on ordinary paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, rare and undercatalogued used as the ratio of what is seen is easily 20:1 in favor of the mint!, well centered, lightly canceled, VF
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