1-8 (1-8) 1901-05 ½d-2'6d British New Guinea Lakatois on thick paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontally), perf 14 (line), cplt (8), 2'6d signed Senf, 6d signed Forbin, OG, HR, VF
Auction #130 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #130 - Public Auction
We welcome you to our exciting first Public Auction of 2019
Packed with great material, including a portion of the exceptional Roy Sass specialized Australia collection featuring some amazing assemblages of North West Pacific Islands.
British African “gems” include: Bechuanaland 2d overprint in green; an ancient British Central Africa £25 from 1895; Kenya & Uganda’s 50R – mint with script CA wmk; Uganda typewritten 20¢-100¢ - including some “V. R.”s and many Togo overprints highlighted by a 1M first setting.
British West Indies “nuggets” feature a used “Cotton Reel” from British Guiana 1850 12¢ blue and a Trinidad 1857 (1d) rose-red, mint.
British Asia has a few “pearls” such as a Selangor 1897 $25 postally used plus a Perak #1, used. Ceylon brings an 1860 1/- slate-purple – perf 13x13.
British Europe “shines” with superb Q Victoria Great Britain. Used: an 1878 10/- (Plate 1) and an 1882 £1; mint: an 1867 5/- plus Officials. The “Kings” are also well represented.
British North America “sparkles” with superb Canada QV Jubilees ($3 never hindged!) and an early used Newfoundland 1857 2¢ scarlet-vermilion and a mint 1860 6¢ orange-vermilion.
But the “jewels” of this Public Auction lie in Oceania! Australia features nine mint £2 Kangaroos; rare Postage Dues – including a 1907 4d dull green perf 11. There is a wonderful 1871 Fiji Times Express 9d mint and seven New Zealand “O.P.S.O.”s plus a Papua 1909 6d perf 12½ mint and Samoa 1/- on 1M “G.R.I.” also mint. That said, North West Pacific Islands features all three sets of “S”s (Types a-c) including the elusive 5/- (this took many years to form – I know as I helped Roy build it!), plus the rare £1 – 38 (118), mint.
P.S. if you do not find all you are looking for (! ? !) here, we encourage you to visit our web site (www.ColonialStamps.com) as we have put up the first few million dollars of our retail stock, with more to follow. There is sure to be something of interest, plus “want lists” are always welcome for us to fill from our 50 volumes of stock – mint and used, by Scott and Stanley Gibbons, and all available as “singles”.
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Lot #867 - papua new guinea
1 var footnoted (1a) 1901-05 ½d black and yellow-green British New Guinea Lakatois on thin paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontally), perf 14 (line), a scarce variety, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #868 - papua new guinea
1-8 var footnoted (9-15, 16a) 1901-05 ½d-2'6d British New Guinea Lakatoi, wmkd Multiple Rosette vertical, perf 14, cplt (8), an exceptionally well centered, hand-picked set!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #869 - papua new guinea
4 var footnoted (4a) 1901-05 2½d black and ultramarine British New Guinea Lakatois on thin paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontally), perf 14 (line), a scarce variety, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #870 - papua new guinea
5a (5a) 1901-05 4d black and sepia Lakatois on thick paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontal), perf 14 (line), VARIETY - deformed "d" at left (row 4, pos 3), perfectly centered, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #871 - papua new guinea
5 var footnoted (13b) 1905 4d black and sepia British New Guinea Lakatoi on thin paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (vertically), perf 14 (comb), scarce, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #872 - papua new guinea
6 var footnoted (14a) 1905 6d black and myrtle-green Lakatoi VARIETY - on thin paper, comb perf 14, wmkd Multiple Rosettes, rare and undercatalogued, top sheet-margin example, OG, NH, VF
Lot #873 - papua new guinea
7 var footnoted (15a) 1905 1' black and orange British New Guinea Lakatoi on thin paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (vertically), perf 14 (comb), scarce as only 205 existed without the overprint, 175 sold in London and there is one sheet of 30 in the De La Rue archives, rare and undercatalogued, OG, VLH, VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #874 - papua new guinea
8 var footnoted (16a) 1905 2'6d black and brown British New Guinea Lakatoi on thin paper, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (vertically), perf 14 (comb), scarce, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #875 - papua new guinea
11-18 (19-26) 1906 ½d-2'6d Lakatois on medium to thick paper, overprinted "Papua." SG Type 3 (large), wmkd Multiple Rosettes, cplt (8) per Scott, an exceptionally well centered, hand-picked set!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #876 - papua new guinea
15 var-18 var (17-20) 1906 4d-2'6d Lakatois on thick paper overprinted "Papua." SG Type 3 (large overprint) at Port Moresby (8 Nov 1906), wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontally), perf 14 (line), cplt (4) per Stanley Gibbons, scarce, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #877 - papua new guinea
17 var (27) 1906 1' black and orange Lakatoi on medium to thick paper overprinted "Papua." SG Type 3 (large overprint) at Port Moresby, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (vertically), perf 14 (line), rare key value, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #878 - papua new guinea
22b var (35) 1907 2½d black and dull blue Lakatoi on thin paper, overprinted "Papua." SG Type 4 (small) at Brisbane, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontal), line perf, rare and significantly undercatalogued, very seldom offered, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #879 - papua new guinea
22 var (35) 1907 2½d black and ultramarine Lakatoi on thick paper, overprinted "Papua." SG Type 4 (small) at Brisbane, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontal), line perf, OG, LH, SUPERB
Lot #880 - papua new guinea
25 var (36) 1907 1' black and orange Lakatoi on thick paper overprinted "Papua." SG Type 4 (small overprint) at Brisbane, wmkd Multiple Rosettes (horizontally), perf 14 (line), the key value to the issue, OG, LH, SUPERB, with BPA certificate
Lot #881 - papua new guinea
39a (70) 1909 6d black and myrtle-green Lakatoi, wmkd Crown over A (sideways), VARIETY - perf 12½, very rare, unused, SUPERB
Lot #882 - papua new guinea
60-73 + vars (93-105, 93a, 945b, 94c, 95b-c, 96a, 96b, 98a-c, 99a, 101b, 102a, 103a) 1916-31 ½d-10' Lakatoi, wmkd Crown over single-lined A, perf 14, cplt (25) with all SG shades less 98a, OG, LH, VF
Lot #883 - papua new guinea
94-109 (130-45) 1932 ½d-£1 recess-printed Pictorials, cplt (16), lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #884 - papua new guinea
94-109, 94a (130-45, 130a) 1932 ½d-£1 recess-printed Pictorials, unwmkd, perf 11, cplt (17) including the late printing ½d, a popular issue, OG, LH, VF
Lot #885 - papua new guinea
J6 (D1) 1960 6d on 7½d blue Postage Due surcharged SG Type D1 in red, exceptional, with NONE of the tropical staining usually associated with this stamp!, OG, VLH, VF
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