1c (1b) 1903 ½a yellow-green Q Victoria of India overprinted "BRITISH SOMALILAND", ERROR "1" for first "I" in "BR1TISH", light "Berbera" cds, 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!
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Lot #1130 - somaliland protectorate
2b (2a) 1903 1a carmine Q Victoria stamp of India overprinted "BRITISH SOMALILAND", ERROR - "BRIT SH" for "BRITISH", in horizontal pair with normal, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1131 - somaliland protectorate
3b (3c var) 1903 2a pale violet Q Victoria stamp of India overprinted "BRITISH SOMALILAND", unrecorded VARIETY - overprint double, one albino, listed, but unpriced, in Scott, the discovery example and the only know example from the first issue, OG,VLH, VF, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #1132 - somaliland protectorate
14-20 var (18-24 var) 1903 2½a-5R Q Victoria stamps of India overprinted "BRITISH SOMALILAND" SG Type 1 at bottom, cplt (7), VARIETY - Type B overprint with "B" over "OM" (only occurred 58 times per pane of 240), very scarce as only about 200 were sold of the 3R with this variety, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #1133 - somaliland protectorate
27-39 (32-44) 1904 ½a-5R K Edward VII, wmkd CA or CC, cplt (13), OG, LH, SUPERB
Lot #1134 - somaliland protectorate
O3b (O3b) 1903 2a pale violet Q Victoria Official stamp of India with additional "BRITISH SOMALILAND" overprint SG Type O1, VARIETY - second "I" missing in "BRIT SH" (row 8, pos 4 of the lower pane), undercatalogued, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #1135 - somaliland protectorate
O5 (O5) 1903 1r green and carmine Q Victoria Official stamp of India (overprinted "On H.M.S.") with additional overprint "British Somaliland" (SG Type O1), very rare and undercatalogued used, light "Berbera" cds, F-VF
Lot #1136 - somaliland protectorate
O6 var (O6e) 1903 ½a green K Edward VII of India overprinted in Calcutta, prepared for use but not issued, VARIETY - "SERVICE" in wrong fount (SG Type O2a, row 1 pos 7 of lower pane), surprisingly rare and undercatalogued, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1137 - somaliland protectorate
O13 (O12) 1904 2a dull and bright purple K Edward VII Official overprinted "O.H.M.S." SG Type O3, wmkd CA, perf 14, only 960 ptd, the "key" stamp to the Colony, a seriously undercatalogued mint stamp as the vast majority were used!, a very challenging stamp, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #1138 - somaliland protectorate
O15 (O15) 1904 1R green K Edward VII overprinted "O.H.M.S." Official SG Type O3, wmkd CC, scarce, only 960 printed, and only 554 were sold, OG, LH, VF
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