USA 1981-2001 colln of mostly single plate No's, many diff & a few coil join pairs & strips. Mainly used, about 1500 stamps. High cat value.
Public Stamp Auction #36
By: Mowbray Collectables
Mowbray Collectables Public Stamp Auction #36
Welcome to our 36th sale. This bi-annual auction comprises over NZ$1.2 million of estimates. We are honoured to feature stamps from several major collections of outstanding quality, including Hilton Dicken's estate, Peter Robertson's collection of NZ, NZ Postage Dues ex Jim Shaw, and collections and singles ex John Lovis.
Highlights:
• The presentation collection for former Governor General, The late Sir David Beattie (lot 123)
• 185 collections, all world, including about 50 New Zealand.
• A nice range of postal history and stationery.
• Extensive lots of Full Face Queens, about 1,500 in total.
• SG1 and the scarce 1d brown NZ wmk.
• Good range of early New Zealand to GV.
• Some good NZ decimal varieties.
• Over 180 Red & Blue Boy Healths.
• Strong NZ Life Insurance section.
• 1882 5/-, £400 QVLT Fiscals, unlisted by CP & SG.
• Over 90 lots Postage Dues
• Strong Great Britain and British Commonwealth.
• Overall the property of 175 vendors.
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RECEIPT OF BIDS - Last time for receiving bids is 10am NZ time (GMT + 12) Saturday 7th March.
BUYER’S PREMIUM of 17% (plus GST on buyers premium for NZ buyers) will be added to the hammer price of each lot. (All buyers please note: no GST will be added to the hammer price of lots).
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Lot #177 - collections and accumulations
Vatican 1929-91 colln in 2 Lindner hingeless albums, mostly complete, all appear MUH. Noted sets: 1929 Defins, 1933 Holy Year; 1935 Defins; 1949 Churches; 1951 Pius X; 1952 Stamp Centenary m/s (darkened gum). Also s/b used issues c1960s-80s.
Lot #178 - collections and accumulations
Western Australia 1857-c1864 Swans imperf colln on 4 s/b pages with annotations indicating SG No's & provenance. Incl Hillman lithos 2d x 24 & 6d x 23 (noted 6d golden-bronze x 2); Humphrey engraved: 2d x 8, 4d x 2 & 6d x 6. Nearly all used. Mixed cond as to be expected with a few repairs etc but most very presentable examples. Cat conservatively £35,000+. Mint & used.
Lot #179 - collections and accumulations
Western Australia 1861-1907 Swans perf colln/seln on 7 s/b pages. Good range all printings, wmks, perf groups covered. Mostly used but many mint (mostly no gum). Faults as to be expected but overall tidy lot. Incl 127 recess Humphrey designs & 126 typo DLR printings. Conservatively cat £15,000+.
Lot #180 - collections and accumulations
World 1840s-1940s old fashioned & rather muddled colln in Strand album. Noted GB 2 x 4 margin 1d Black; COGH SG 2 2 margin; Labuan 3c & 18c Dues mint; Natal SG 92 mint; Italy 1879 20c mint no gum, short perf (cat £550); Spain 1872 10c mint (cat £375); 1874 10ps telegraph usage; Cuba 10c Express mint; useful Eritrea.
Lot #181 - collections and accumulations
World 1840s-1950s old time colln in battered Imperial album. Almost entirely earlier 19th century with many classics but cond variable & stuck down. Noted: Bolivia SG 36 used (cat £150), Egypt SG 7 mint; Neopolitan Provinces SG 19 mint (cat £600); Norway SG 6 & 26 used; Sicily SG 1b & 4b (cat £1750); Suez SG 24 & 53 used; USA SG 92 & 119 used. High cat stamps with faults incl: Lombardy SG1 (cat £9000); Portugal SG 99...
Lot #182 - collections and accumulations
World Polar 1947-74 mainly MUH (a few FU) duplicated stock in blocks mainly, in sheet file. About 20 diff items (mostly sets). Noted AAT, BAT, FSAT, Belgium, Japan, Chile. Higher cv items incl FSAT 1962 50F Satellite SG 25 x 19 MUH, 1969 Air set SG 54-47 x 6 sets MUH, 1970 30F Met Station SG 59 x 6 MUH (these alone cat £2280). Total SG cat £3330. Fine.
Lot #183 - collections and accumulations
WWI 1914-19 postal history accum - few slightly later. Mainly military covers: c40 covers to/from NZ, 3 Australia; 50+ GB, 50+ Germany & Austria, 11 USA (incl 2 from US occupation of Vera Cruz); 50+ other countries; c30 unused WWI Theme postcards. Many in original Mowbray auction lot packaging. Various lists, clippings etc. Unsorted c250 items. Very varied.
Lot #184 - collections and accumulations
WWI Internment Camps - 1) Netherlands Skampen Internment Camp: letter from camp 7.11.16 to Liege franked with green internee's stamp. Also one mint stamp of similar design in brown. 2) Zeist Camp p/c (picture of camp). On obverse message in French addressed to NY, h/s "Franc de Port Internes" canc Zeist 30.XI.17 ordinary censor mark. 3) Ruhleben (Berlin) camp for British civilians. Unused Ruhleben 1/3d local post PC (service ran July 15...
Lot #185 - collections and accumulations
Yugoslavia c1945-69 mainly mint/MUH colln in s/b. Noted: 1949 Railways m/ss - perf MUH, imperf mint; 1951 100d Air m/s imperf MUH; 1954 Animals & 1956 Art sets MUH; 1956 Olympics set mint; 1961 Insurrection m/s MUH; plus many other key sets.
Lot #186 - COLLECTABLES
Postcards Military theme colln of approx 300 in small box. Incl WWI NZ x 90, with Otago Wounded Fund x 4 diff (& 1 dupn), unused, many RP camp scenes (group photos etc), patriotic, comic, ships, war memorials, Featherston camp & Rimutaka Hill march panorama sets, Apia scene (NZ series publ in GB) posted 11 NO 14 to NZ. Also non-NZ x 70 (incl 10 woven or embroidered silks), p/c booklets (war damage etc) x 5, Boer War related x 5,...
Lot #187 - COLLECTABLES
Postcards: NZ North Island Railways, colln of approx 300 diff (almost all c1905-1920s period) arranged by location in modern album. Formed over many years. Incl numerous scarce & rare cards along with these more often seen. Many "real photo" types, a few locomotive close-ups, many railway stations & diff printings of the same scene. All steam trains. Noted 2 stereograph cards & 1910 folded Xmas card ex Te Kuiti railway staff...
Lot #188 - thematics
Crabs 1960s-2000s five folders of well written up material stamps, p/c, magazines, photos, memorabilia. Exhibition ready.
Lot #189 - thematics
Fungi 1960s-2000s in depth colln in 11 s/bs. Nearly complete to 1996 as per SG "Collect Fungi" 1997 cat & also with unlisted items. Substantial post 1996 referral to c2013-2000s of stamps mainly MUH. Wide open for outstanding exhibit material. Cat £5120 (2017). (Complete list on request).
Lot #190 - thematics
Universities: 1900s-1990s elegantly written up thematic colln in 3 deluxe vols in cases (NZ, Commonwealth, Foreign) plus s/b.
Lot #191 - literature
The Postage Stamps of New Zealand 1855-1873: The Chalon Heads, by RP Odenweller, 362pp hardbound with dustjacket, also supplement 28 pages limp bound. Joint RPSL & RPSNZ 2009 Publ (supplement 2014), as new. Essential references.
Lot #192 - New Zealand - Postal History
Christchurch Exbn 7 JY 82 index letter "D" "A" class cancel on 1d SSF. PO open 10 APR-24 JY 1882 only. Very scarce.
Lot #193 - New Zealand - Postal History
Ngatunui (HN 1916-23) virtually complete slightly smudged 21 AU 23(?) "J" class cancel. Wooders 10. GU/FU.
Lot #194 - New Zealand - Postal History
1855 small letter addressed to J Morgan, New Plymouth & canc New Plymouth AP 12 1855 & with rather indistinct "Paid at New Plymouth" red h/s (SG type CCI). B/s PETRE (Wanganui). Ex Morgan family. SG CC3. Cat £3000.
Lot #195 - New Zealand - Postal History
1863-70 range of 17 covers with FFQ, noted 1864 to Tasmania (3 x 6d red-brown); 1864 to UK with 2 x 2d, 6d black-brown imperf, 1867 Mahurangi (m/s cancel) to UK; 1867 cover to London with pair 4d rose, 1 x 2d blue; 1863 cover with imperf 6d black-brown to UK with Howick m/s cancel; 1866 soldier's letter (1d rate) Wellington to York, UK; plus 6 FFQ [SG 5 x 3 (incl pair), 55, 86 & 106 (double perfs)]. Condition varies but worth inspection...
Lot #196 - New Zealand - Postal History
1894 SS Wairarapa, very scarce small type "SAVED FROM WRECK OF 'WAIRARAPA' " cachet x 2 on long envelope from NSW with 2d x 3 Emu tied by barred "A" (Auckland) pmks, plus packet-boat boxed cachet, address to Auckland. Official seal label over RH end of envelope. Damaged condition. Only 2 covers with this cachet recorded in "MARITIME DISASTER MAIL" by Hoggarth & Gwynn, this is a 3rd example. On well written up exhibit page.
Lot #197 - New Zealand - Postal History
1900 (6 July) envelope from Berne to Sydney, bearing 1900 UPU set of 3 with Express cds, missent to NZ due to the lack of a country in the address with "Australia" added subsequently, showing boxed "MISSENT TO / INVERCARGILL" (31 x 8mm) with the reverse showing Invercargill cds, "R.P.O. DN S/2" TPO (14.8), Sydney (23.8) and Kogarlah cds. The sole recorded example of this h/s. This mail was sent by northbound train from Invercargill to...
Lot #198 - New Zealand - Postal History
1904 1d Wales machine Die I franking machine impression (small vert double ring oval) on unused Wain's Hotel, Dunedin envelope. Some slight staining on envelope. RPSNZ cert (2018). Note: machine was positioned very close to hotel.
Lot #199 - New Zealand - Postal History
Military WWI postal history. Noted 12 NZ-related covers or p/cs, incl 2 nice NZ troopship d/s (NOS 8, 33), NZEF Egypt to NZ, NZ Division cds x 6 (5 diff), unusual NZEF wax seal on regd envelope, 2 fine patriotic machine pmks, NZ Div 1918 Xmas card. Also some cinderellas (incl 1913 Otaki Infantry Brigade) & non-NZ covers. Also 6 Boer War covers (3 to NZ with officers' signatures & 1 ex St Helena POW camp) & rare printed silk...
Lot #200 - New Zealand - Postal History
1922-39 Express Delivery covers (2). 1922 cover to Palmerston North with 6d & 2d GV stamps (unusual not to use Express stamp, but allowed); 1939 cover to Dunedin with 6d Car.
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