10 (6) 1894 1d blue Q Makea Takau, wmkd NZ and Star Wide Apart, perf 12x11½, horizontal pair plus a diagonal bisect forming the correct 2½d rate, tied by "Rarotonga" cds to piece, rare, unrecorded by Stanley Gibbons or Scott, 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:
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Lot #505 - cook islands
26 (22) 1901 1d brown Queen Makea Takau with Crown overprint in black, only 2400 were overprinted, horizontal pair with distinct sharp overprint, very well centered for the issue, scarce as a multiple, particularly with gum, OG,LH, VF-S
Lot #506 - cook islands
67-71 (76-80) 1921 2'-£1 New Zealand Postal Fiscal stamps overprinted "RAROTONGA" SG Type 15 in blue or red on chalk-surfaced "De La Rue" paper, wmkd NZ, perf 14½x14, cplt (5), scarce, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #507 - cook islands
126C var (136w) 1954 £5 indigo-blue Postal Fiscal Coat of Arms of New Zealand overprinted "COOK ISLANDS" in red, VARIETY - wmk Multiple N.Z. and Star inverted, well centered, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #508 - cook islands
192-94 (219-21) 1967 $2 on £1-$10 on £5 New Zealand Postal Fiscal surcharges, overprinted "COOK ISLANDS." in black or red, cplt (3) per Scott, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #509 - cook islands
192-93 (219-20) 1967 $2 on £1-$6 on £3 New Zealand Postal Fiscal surcharges, overprinted "COOK ISLANDS." in black or red, well centered, light cancels, SUPERB
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