2 (3) 1861 6d rose Q Victoria, unwmkd, wove paper, rough perf 14 to 16, OG, VLH, F-VF
Auction #134 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #134 - Public Auction
We welcome all of you back to our Auction 134.. We hope that you have all weathered the pandemic in good order! It looks like things are beginning to come back to normal, but sadly we lost a few old friends. It was an unusual year for us, but the Private Treaty / Want List Department surprisingly thundered ahead at great speed. Clients had a lot of time to work on their collections, I moved the 50 volumes of stock into my home February (2020) and conducted business from my “kitchen table” to a strong 7-figure effect, both in purchases and sales.
Auction 134 contains the results of months of work, booth in purchases as well as several important consignments we received. In the pages of this catalogue you will find many great interesting lots and rarities!
Great Britain includes many important items with a mint £5 orange QV through to scarce Officials. Cyprus is almost complete to the £5. Gibraltar has all the “Key” stamps including £5 mint.
New South Wales has mint examples of some scarce stamps and South Australia features both £5 and £10 mint as well as the 2/6d “O. S.”!
Australia showcases 6 mint £2 Kangaroos. Fiji features 4 “Times Express” issues! New Britain has the very rare 5/- on 5M mint. Strong New Zealand with 7 “O.P.S.O.”s! There are rarely seen multiples of North West Pacific Islands and a rare used high value.
Bahamas has a 1854 2d bisect cover. British Guiana opens with a 12¢ blue Cotton Reel plus rare provisionals (6¢ Official – mint!). Strong Canada and Provinces: British Columbia with all the mint rarities; Newfoundland with mint treasures (6d orange-vermilion and a NH 1930 “Columbia” Air Mail); Nova Scotia’s 1/- mint on bluish is a rarely seen stamp; Canada backs up a complete set of Jubilees with an almost impossible mint 1¢ on one-third 3¢ “Port Hood” (ex-Dale Lichtenstein!). Cayman Islands has major rarities and Falklands features the popular Tercentenary” set complete mint. Malta has the key 10/- wmkd MCA
Quite a few Bechuanaland items of interest. There is a good run of Cape and Mafeking. Rare Griqualand multiples, and a highlight of this Auction is Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika with all the mint K George V high values £1-£10! Large section of Madagascar Consular Mail issues (25!); 50 lots of Rhodesia to the £10 plus double heads and Admirals. Sierra Leone has “key” £5s and we feature a marvelous run of Zanzibar – rare overprint errors, all the highly popular Sultan’s Palace and Dhow issues.
We close the Auction with both a large British Colonies collection and a great big German States and Colonies lot.
Did I forget a few good stamps and sections? No doubt! As always:
Happy Hunting!
Sale Terms
Lot #608 - Grenada
5a (8) 1863-71 6d dull rose-red Q Victoria, wmkd Small Star sideways, rough perf 14 to 16, horizontal pair, light "A 15" cancel, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #609 - Grenada
21a (31a) 1883 1d carmine Q Victoria inscribed "GRENADA POSTAGE", tête-bêche pair, wmkd CA, perf 14, very elusive and undercatalogued, seldom seen!, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #610 - Grenada
33 (41a) 1888-91 4d on 2' orange Q Victoria revenue stamp, wmkd CC, perf 14, surcharged "4d POSTAGE" (SG Type 16), VARIETY - upright "d" (R 5/6), rare as it occurred only once in each pane of 60 (of SG 41), very difficult, seriously undercatalogued, fresh, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #611 - Grenada
48-57 (57-66) 1902 ½d-10' K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (10), an exceptionally well centered, hand-picked set, OG,HR, SUPERB
Lot #612 - Grenada
58-67 (67-76) 1904-06 ½d-10' K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (10), quite scarce, seldom seen, undercatalogued, exceptionally well centered, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #613 - Grenada
78 (83) 1908 10' green and red on green Badge of the Colony, wmkd CA, perf 14, quite rare and undercatalogued used, light "G.P.O. Grenada" cds, F-VF
Lot #614 - Grenada
J5 (D5) 1892 1d on 8d grey-brown Q Victoria surcharged SG Type D2 locally, scarce mint, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #615 - Grenada
J6 (D6) 1892 2d on 6d mauve Q Victoria Postage Due surcharged SG Type D2, wmkd CA, perf 14, on 1892 Cover from St. Lucia franked with 1d on 4d (Scott 42, SG 55), this is one of only two such commercial usages we have seen connected to this Grenada Postage Due issue, very rare, VF
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