10 (5) 1863 4d on 6d carmine Q Victoria, surcharged "FOUR PENCE" (SG Type 3) with bar 15½-16½mm, wmkd CC, imperf, four margins, remarkably fresh rich deep color, a choice example, signed Roumet, OG, LH, XF, with Philatelic Federation of Southern Africa certificate
Auction #136 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #136 - Public Auction
Hello fellow Collectors!,
Welcome to our 136th consecutive specialized British Colonial Public Auction featuring, as always, a marvelous range of rarities from all points of the compass.
An overview of some of what you will find in this catalogue:
Great Britain & British Europe:
GB commences with a strong section of scarce and key items and includes most of the “big square” Q Victoria high values – in unusually nice quality. Cypress shows several rare early plate numbers, and a £5. Gibraltar has £5 both mint and used plus Malta rare 10/- both mint and used.
British Africa (always a house favorite!):
British Central Africa has the first set, to the £10, and a rare 1895 £10 arms unwatermarked postally used! . Cape of Good Hope shows a mint 1/-yellow-green, 4d “wood block” with retouched corner, and the rare ½d on 3d Crown CC mint. East Africa and Uganda features K Edward VII 50R plus a K George V 100R mint. Gold Coast has a spectacular rare used £2 K George V. Kenya and Uganda has a 50R K George V (wmkd Script CA!). Madagascar shines with a spectacular range of “large ones” – 50 lots! Mauritius highlights include a 4a (8) 1849-54 used 2d – SUPERB, and the unissed 1876 ½d on 9d red surcharge! New Republic 18 lots! Niger Coast SG 2a – reversed overprint on a 1d mint! Rhodesia has 2 each £10 and £5 values. St. Helena is highlighted by the Tristan Relief set – mint and also used blocks! Sierra Leone has 2/- Postal Fiscal, K George V - both £5 values. Togo (British Occupation) shows values to the 1M. Zanzibar with strong provisional overprints, Dhows to the 200R, and a few rare Postage Dues.
British West Indies
Bahamas shines with a 1863 6d rose-lilac. Bermuda has a scarce 1873 3d orange and British Guiana with a nice 1853 deep blue 4¢, mint, an 1878 2¢ on 8¢, mint, and a $4 large “4” (Type II). Cayman Island shows wonderful examples of the 1908 2½d on 4d, mint and used. The large Falkland Islands section features the 1933 £1: Specimen, mint & used! Sprinkled among many never hinged items.
British Asia / Oceania:
New South Wales has a nice mint 1850 1d reddish rose Sydney View. Tasmania features a choice 1853 pale blue Van Diemen’s land (mint & VF). Australia highlights include six (!) £2 Kangaroos, as well as a 20/ “slash” Postage Due (the “key” stamp of the country!). Ceylon features a scarce used 1859 dull rose imperf QV plus an 1857 ½d on blue glazed paper, mint; India includes nice early items and a lovely 1909 K Edward VII 25R, mint. Iraq includes the rarest used stamp of the area: 1931 25R K Faisal Official! Jordan shows many nice items including a very rare SG 83b; used. Malacca has a nice NH Occupation overprint (SG JD16). A strong New Britain overprints including 3 Mark values. New Zealand shows a nice #2, mint, and a strong section of “O.P.S.O.”s (9 values!). Penrhyn Island features many scarce 1d varieties (many as pairs); Straits Settlements has a nice 1911 $25 K Edward VII, mint, and Tonga finishes off the area with a rare “hafl-“ typewritten error
Did I forget some other good stamps or sections? No doubt! As always:
Happy hunting and much success to all the bidders!
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Lot #1386 - st. helena
50 var-52 var (55 var-57 var) 1903 ½d-2d K Edward VII Pictorials, wmkd CC, perf 14, cplt (3) on bluish papers, unrecorded in Stanley Gibbons, but listed in both B & K and Michel, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1387 - st. helena
61-70 (72-81) 1912-16 ½d-3' K George V, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (10), a difficult and undercatalogued used set, F-VF
Lot #1388 - st. helena
73-74 (85-86) 1913 4d-6d K George V, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (2), the 6d is astonishingly rare and vastly undercatalogued used!, light cancels, F-VF
Lot #1389 - st. helena
75-77 (89-91) 1922 1d-3d K George V, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (3), scarce used, seriously undercatalogued, VF
Lot #1390 - st. helena
79-93, 84 var (97-112, 103d) 1922-27 ½d-10' K George V and Badge of St. Helena, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (16) with both 5d Stanley Gibbons shades, OG-HR, F-VF
Lot #1391 - st. helena
94 (113) 1922 15' grey and purple on blue K George V and Badge of St. Helena on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MSCA, perf 14, the key value to the issue, very scarce, OG, VLH, VF-S
Lot #1392 - st. helena
99 (96) 1922 £1 grey and purple on red K George V and Badge of St. Helena on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #1393 - st. helena
101-110 (114-23) 1934 ½d-10' Centenary issue, wmkd Script CA, perf 12, cplt (10), OG,LH, F-VF
Lot #1394 - st. helena
101-110 (114-23) 1934 ½d-10' Centenary issue, wmkd Script CA, perf 12, cplt (10), scarce and undercatalogued used as we find 20-30 mint sets for each used set!, F-VF
Lot #1395 - st. helena
B1-4 (172-75) 1961 2½¢-10¢ Tristan da Cunha Marine Life decimal currency stamps surcharged "St. Helena Tristan Relief" SG Type 49 by Govt Printer, Jamestown, cplt (4), only 434 sets were sold from Oct. 12, 1961 until they were withdrawn on Oct. 19, 1961, more than half of the sets were postally or philatelicly used, with one Brandon certificate for the set of four, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1396 - st. helena
B1-4 (172-75) 1961 2½¢-10¢ Tristan da Cunha Marine Life decimal currency stamps surcharged "St. Helena Tristan Relief" SG Type 49 by Govt Printer, Jamestown, cplt (4), only 434 sets were sold from Oct. 12, 1961 until they were withdrawn on Oct. 19, 1961, wonderfully fresh lower left corner blocks of four (pos31, 32, 41, 42) showing three of the minor overprint varieties, all four have one first day cancel (Oct 12, 61) centrally struck on...
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