7 (10) 1854 (1d) dark grey Britannia on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, block of four, full margins, choice, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Auction #137 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #137 - Public Auction
Welcome to our Fall Public Auction. We are offering a marvelous range including many scarce and desirable rarities.
Great Britain and British Europe: GB features a 4-margin mint 10d embossed as well as a 1½dgrey mauve and 8d purple-brown unissued values. Cyprus and Gibraltar £5 stamps are here as is Malta’s “key” 10/- both mint and used.
British Africa: British Central Africa (Nyasaland) offers £5 and £10 values. Madagascar shows 28 lots of the large Consular Mail issues. Natal highlights a £5 (mint and used) St. Helena showcases the “Tristan Relief” set (never hinged!). Sierra Leone ranges up to £5 values and Togo features nice British Occupation rarities and overprint varieties. Zanzibar shines with 25 lots of the challenging “2½” surcharge provisionals.
British Asia: Hong Kong has a superb mint $10 Q Victoria, there are some interesting stamps of Malaya (and states) and India (with a few states).
British North America: Canada has superb mint Jubilees to the $5 and Newfoundland the 1860 1/- orange-vermilion. Cayman Islands shows the ½d on 5/- double overprint and Grenada weighs in with a mint #1 – 6d bluish green.
British Oceania: Fiji has some “Times Express” stamps (4!) while New Britain features British Occupation overprints to the 1M. New Zealand closes with several “O.P.S.O.” lots and the Australian state of Victoria has the very rare 1850 1d bright rose imperf Q Victoria (SG 27b, with certificate and huge margins).
We look forward to greeting, at shows, our many friends planning to attend (especially Monaco!). If you can forward us your current “want list” we can bring along items especially for your needs and consideration.
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Lot #1049 - trinidad
8 (9) 1854 (1d) deep purple Britannia on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, block of four with full margins and sheet-margin at right, fresh, scarce, OG, NH, SUPERB, with BPB certificate
Lot #1050 - trinidad
9a (15) 1855 (1d) pale blue to greenish blue lithographed Britannia, second issue (thinner paper and less distinct impression), imperf, four margins, attractive numeral "2" cancel, VF, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #1051 - trinidad
15 (25) 1859 4d grey-lilac Britannia, imperf, four full margins, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #1052 - trinidad
16 (28) 1859 6d deep green Britannia, unwmkd, imperf, four margins, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1053 - trinidad
65 (102) 1882 4d bluish grey Brittania, wmkd CA, perf 14, rare and undercatalogued mint as the vast majority were used, ex-Burris block of four, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1054 - trinidad
67b (formerly Scott 66) (103) 1882 1d on 6d bright yellow-green Britannia, manuscript black surcharge by hand, perfectly centered, "T16" (Chaquanas) numeral cancel, an extremely rare and vastly undercatalogued stamp, very seldom ever offered!, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #1055 - trinidad
74-90 (114-24, 116, 127-32) 1896-1906 ½-£1 Britannia set, wmkd CA or CA over Crown, cplt (17) per Scott, includes the scarce 1d SG Type II (oval "O"), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1056 - trinidad
77 (116) 1900 1d dull purple and rose Britannia, SG Type II (oval "O"), wmkd CA, perf 14, a scarce and extremely difficult mint stamp, considerably undercatalogued as the vast majority were postally used, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1057 - trinidad
90 var footnoted (124a) 1906 £1 green and carmine Britannia on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd CA over Crown, perf 14, from a small late printing released shortly before the change of watermark to MCA!, elusive and rarely met with, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #1058 - trinidad
92-104 (133-145) 1904-09 ½d-£1 Britannia, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (13), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1059 - trinidad
J1-9 (D1-9) 1885 ½d-1' slate-black Postage Dues, wmkd CA, cplt (9), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1060 - trinidad
O1-7 (O1-7) 1894 ½d-5' Q Victoria Officials with "O S" overprints SG Type O1, wmkd CA, perf 14 (5' wmkd CC, perf 12½), cplt (7), OG, VLH, VF
Lot #1061 - trinidad
O10 (O10) 1910 ½d green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O2 on ordinary paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, scarce, especially used, with right sheet-margin, with photo copy of the Sismondo certificate for a block of 18 that this is from, VF
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