44 (H10) 1914 1M carmine Yacht overprinted "TOGO Anglo-French Occupation", first (3mm) setting, only 100 copies printed, quite rare, with "Lome" cds, VF, with Brandon certificate
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 #1060 - togo
48 (H14) 1914 3pf brown Kaiser's Yacht overprinted "TOGO Angle-French Occupation", second (narrow) setting, rare and undervalued as only 25 copies were printed, light "Lome" cds, signed Pavoille and Roumet, VF, with Ceres certificate
Lot #1061 - togo
49 (H15) 1914 5pf green Kaiser's Yacht overprinted "TOGO Anglo-French Occupation, second (narrow) setting, only 40 copies were printed, about 16 exist unused, as such quite rare mint, signed Giesecke and Sismondo, OG, VLH, SUPERB, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #1062 - togo
49 (H15) 1914 5pf green Kaiser's Yacht overprinted "TOGO Anglo-French Occupation, second (narrow) setting, only 40 copies were printed, of which about 30 were used, signed Calves and Brun, VF-S, with Briefmarkenprüfstelle certificate
Lot #1063 - togo
66-72 (H34-41) 1915 Sep 14 Registered cover to England franked with set of seven low values (½d-1') and tied with "LOME" cds and red London receiver on reverse, opened at top with some flap separation, otherwise, fine
Lot #1064 - togo
66 var-78 var footnoted (H34a-46a, H38ga) 1915 ½d-20' K George V stamps of Gold Coast, with "TOGO Anglo-French OCCUPATION" local overprints, each with VARIETY - small "F" in "French", wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (13) with both 3d stamps, bright colors, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #1065 - togo
68 var footnoted (H36f) 1915 2d grey K George V stamp of Gold Coast, "TOGO Anglo-French OCCUPATION" local overprint, VARIETY - first "O" in "OCCUPATION" omitted, rare (only 60 printed), fresh, OG,LH, VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1066 - togo
69 var footnoted (H37c) 1915 (May) 2½d bright blue K George V stamp of Gold Coast, overprinted "TOGO Anglo-French OCCUPATION", ERROR - hyphen omitted (row 1, pos 5), exceptionally difficult (apparently missing from the Royal Collection!), drastically undercatalogued, OG, VLH, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1067 - togo
69 var footnoted (H37f) 1915 2½d bright blue K George V stamp of Gold Coast, "TOGO Anglo-French OCCUPATION" local overprint, VARIETY - first "O" in "OCCUPATION" omitted, rare, only 50 printed, OG,LH, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1068 - togo
73 var footnoted (H42c) 1915 2' purple and blue on blue K George V stamp of Gold Coast overprinted SG Type 7, VARIETY - hyphen omitted after "ANGLO" (row 1, pos 5), with photocopy of Brandon certificate for the set this is from, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1069 - togo
76 var footnoted (H46f) 1915 20' purple and black on red K George V stamp of Gold Coast, local overprint "TOGO Anglo-French Occupation", ERROR - first "O" of "OCCUPATION" omitted, rare (only 30 printed), usual perf faults caused by removal from the sheet by the Post Office before issue (they used a knife or scissors), seldom seen, seriously undercatalogued as this is one of the two key values to this very difficult set of errors, OG,LH, F-VF...
Lot #1070 - togo
86a (H53c) 1916 1' black on green K George V stamp of Gold Coast on emerald back overprinted in London "TOGO ANGLO-FRENCH OCCUPATION", scarce (probably only one pane of 60 was printed), fresh, undercatalogued, OG,HR, F-VF, with BPA certificate
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