5 (5) 1856 2d blue Q Victoria on blue paper, unwmkd, imperf, full margins (to just touching at bottom), lightly canceled, VF, with Odenweller certificate
Auction #138 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #138 - Public Auction
Welcome to our first Public Auction of 2023 - #138
We are offering a marvelous range including many scarce and desirable rarities from a number of estates and collections.
Great Britain and British Europe: Great Britain features a mint “Penny Black”(Plate 6); a 1856 4d Medium Garter, perf 14 mint; 1860 1½d rosy mauve unissued shade; 1880 2/- brown wing-margin mint; 1867 5/- rose mint Maltese Cross (Plate 1); 1882 £1 brown-lilac, superb, used; 1882 £5 orange on blued paper; 1913 £1 green never hinged; 20+ lots of Officials including a mint 5/- “I R Official”; Levant errors; Cyprus has a 1923 £1, rare used.
British Africa: Bechuanaland 1888 2d on 2d green overprint (superb with Brandon certificate); British Central Africa has a 1d on 3/- “PNNEY” error in a block of 9 (few blocks known); Cameroons “C.E.F.” complete used – all very rare thus!; Cape of Good Hope shows a mint 1a(1) with Sismondo certificate, a 4d blue on blue used block of 4; a 39 (46) mint with an RPSL certificate; Mafeking with a “large” mint General Baden-Powell; Gambia with U.P.U. specimen in strips of 5 (one malformed “S”!); Gold Coast 95 (102) £2 very rare used; rare Griqualand pane and large blocks; Kenya mint £4; Madagascar features 16 different; some scarce New Republics; Rhodesia shines with mint £10 and scarce £2 rosy red on thick paper; Sierra Leone has scarce surcharges and a 1923 £5 mint; South West Africa shows a rare used £1 pair; Togo 1914 50pf mint, 1M used (tied to piece), 2M Occupation double overprint used (1 of 8 known!).
British Asia: India 25 (65) 8a carmine – the greatest perforated Q Victoria mint regular issue; Patiala 23 (29) 2R overprint – very rare used; we show some better Jordan; Federated Malaya States 13A (14) $25 – the first used example we have offered by us in our 50 years!
British North America: Canada has a range of choice classics, Jubilees complete, several $ values superb; British Columbia & Vancouver Island features 3 (11) the “key” 5¢ rose imperf, mint, expertized.
British Oceania: Cook Islands and Niue have many great rarities!; Fiji with 4 different “Times Express”; New Britain up to the 3/- on 3M, mint; New Zealand shines with classics and Officials; North West Pacific Islands features rare and key values plus overprint errors.
Did I overlook some additional “good” stamps as I usually do? No doubt!
As always best of bidding luck!
P.S. for over 50 years our personalized want list work has dwarfed our Public Auctions. Please feel free to forward copies of your current lists and it will be bounced against our multi-million dollar, 50 volume, stock. We usually can be of great help!
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Lot #911 - New Zealand
6 (6) 1857 1' green Q Victoria on blue paper, unwmkd, Auckland printing, imperf, four full margins (close at top left), light numeral "14" cancel, VF, with Ferchenbauer and RPSL certificate
Lot #912 - New Zealand
7 (8) 1858 1d dull orange Q Victoria Chalon Head on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, four margins - close to wide (showing portion of adjoining stamp on two sides), barred-oval cancel, VF-S
Lot #913 - New Zealand
10 (17) 1857-63 1' blue-green Q Victoria Chalon Head on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, four close to full margins, light cds, F-VF
Lot #914 - New Zealand
57 (178) 1875 1d deep lilac Q Victoria, wmkd Large Star, perf 12½, scarce and undercatalogued, light "Napier" 1875 cds, fine, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #915 - New Zealand
70-83 (246-59, 250) 1898 ½d-5' Mt. Cook Pictorials, unwmkd, perf 12 to 16, cplt (14), with both 2½d inscriptions, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #916 - New Zealand
86C (271) 1900 ½d black Q Victoria on thick, soft "irie paper, wmkd double-lined NZ and Star (sideways), perf 11, very rare and massively undercatalogued used as it was soon replaced (in March), F-VF
Lot #917 - New Zealand
107-20 (302-03, 318-29) 1902-07 ½d-5' Mt. Cook Pictorials on thin hard Cowan paper, wmkd NZ over Star multiple, perf 14, cplt (14) OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #918 - New Zealand
121 (269a) 1903 2' blue-green Milford Sound, unwmkd, laid paper, scarce Wellington printing (paper of unknown origin was used in a small emergency printing, accounting for its scarcity), OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #919 - New Zealand
121 (269a) 1903 2' blue-green Milford Sound, unwmkd, laid paper, scarce Wellington printing (paper of unknown origin was used in a small emergency printing, accounting for its scarcity), lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #920 - New Zealand
122-25 (370-73) 1906 ½d-6d Christchurch Exhibition set, wmkd NZ and Star (sideways), perf 14, cplt (4), a select and perfectly centered set, unusual as the centering of this set is normally only fair, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #921 - New Zealand
122-25 (370-73) 1906 ½d-6d Christchurch Exhibition set, wmkd Single NZ and Star (sideways), perf 14, cplt (4), with matching "Christchurch Exhibition" cancels, 6d with one small perf, F-VF
Lot #922 - New Zealand
130-39 (386-94) 1908-16 ½d-1' K Edward VII, wmkd Single NZ and star, cplt (10) per Scott, OG, HR, fine
Lot #923 - New Zealand
130E//37E (412-15) 1913 ½d-6d K George V overprinted "AUCKLAND EXHIBITION, 1913." SG Type 59, cplt (4), light cancels, F-VF
Lot #924 - New Zealand
145-59 (416-30) 1915-30 1½d-1' K George V, wmkd Single NZ and star, perf 14x13½, cplt (15) OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #925 - New Zealand
320 (763b) 1958 2d on 1½d brown-lake Q Elizabeth II, ERROR - surcharge on Sc 290 (SG 725), only 14,400 printed, perfectly centered, light "Auckland" cds, SUPERB
Lot #926 - New Zealand
AR21 (unlisted) 1903-15 £3 green Q Victoria Postal Fiscal, wmkd NZ and Star Close (Scott Type 61), perf 12½, unpriced in Scott, light "Dunedin" postal cds, rare, VF
Lot #927 - New Zealand
AR64 (F163) 1931 £2 10' red Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal on thick, opaque, chalk-surfaced "Cowan" paper, with horizontal mesh, wmkd single-lined NZ and Star Close Together, perf 14, scarce, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #928 - New Zealand
AR90 (F207) 1951 £2 10' red Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal on "Wiggins Teape" chalk-surfaced paper with vertical mesh, wmkd Multiple NZ and Star SG Type 98 inverted, perf 14, scarce, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #929 - New Zealand
AR95-98, AR95 var (F212-16) 1942-53 3'6d on 3'6d - 22' on 22' Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal surcharges SG Type F7 on "Wiggins Teape" chalk-surfaced paper with vertical mesh, wmkd Multiple NZ and Star (SG Type 98), perf 14, cplt (5) with both SG Types of the 3'6d, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #930 - New Zealand
B3-4 (546-47) 1931 1d+1d - 2d+1d Smiling Boy Health semi-postals, wmkd Single NZ & Star (sideways), perf 14½x14, cplt (2), OG, NH (rare thus!) VF
Lot #931 - New Zealand
J15 (D20) 1906 2d red and green Postage Due, wmkd NZ and Star Close Together, perf 11, very rare and hopelessly undercatalogued as this stamp turns up regularly on most serious want lists, OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #932 - New Zealand
O9 var (O4) 1899 ½d black Q Victoria, rose/magenta O.P.S.O. overprint, perf 10x11, wmkd NZ and Star 7mm apart (SG Type W 12b), this is position 3 on the RPSL certificate for the block of four (photocopy included) which we split, ex-Rubin, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #933 - New Zealand
O13 (O20) 1898 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, unwmkd, perf 11, very rare, fresh, ex-Pattiz, OG,HR, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #934 - New Zealand
O13 (O20) 1898-1903 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, unwmkd, perf 11, Wellington cds, well centered, VF, with Holcombe certificate
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