1 (3) 1863 ½d buff Q Victoria, hard white paper, unwmkd, perf 14, OG,VLH, F-VF
Auction #134 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #134 - Public Auction
We welcome all of you back to our Auction 134.. We hope that you have all weathered the pandemic in good order! It looks like things are beginning to come back to normal, but sadly we lost a few old friends. It was an unusual year for us, but the Private Treaty / Want List Department surprisingly thundered ahead at great speed. Clients had a lot of time to work on their collections, I moved the 50 volumes of stock into my home February (2020) and conducted business from my “kitchen table” to a strong 7-figure effect, both in purchases and sales.
Auction 134 contains the results of months of work, booth in purchases as well as several important consignments we received. In the pages of this catalogue you will find many great interesting lots and rarities!
Great Britain includes many important items with a mint £5 orange QV through to scarce Officials. Cyprus is almost complete to the £5. Gibraltar has all the “Key” stamps including £5 mint.
New South Wales has mint examples of some scarce stamps and South Australia features both £5 and £10 mint as well as the 2/6d “O. S.”!
Australia showcases 6 mint £2 Kangaroos. Fiji features 4 “Times Express” issues! New Britain has the very rare 5/- on 5M mint. Strong New Zealand with 7 “O.P.S.O.”s! There are rarely seen multiples of North West Pacific Islands and a rare used high value.
Bahamas has a 1854 2d bisect cover. British Guiana opens with a 12¢ blue Cotton Reel plus rare provisionals (6¢ Official – mint!). Strong Canada and Provinces: British Columbia with all the mint rarities; Newfoundland with mint treasures (6d orange-vermilion and a NH 1930 “Columbia” Air Mail); Nova Scotia’s 1/- mint on bluish is a rarely seen stamp; Canada backs up a complete set of Jubilees with an almost impossible mint 1¢ on one-third 3¢ “Port Hood” (ex-Dale Lichtenstein!). Cayman Islands has major rarities and Falklands features the popular Tercentenary” set complete mint. Malta has the key 10/- wmkd MCA
Quite a few Bechuanaland items of interest. There is a good run of Cape and Mafeking. Rare Griqualand multiples, and a highlight of this Auction is Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika with all the mint K George V high values £1-£10! Large section of Madagascar Consular Mail issues (25!); 50 lots of Rhodesia to the £10 plus double heads and Admirals. Sierra Leone has “key” £5s and we feature a marvelous run of Zanzibar – rare overprint errors, all the highly popular Sultan’s Palace and Dhow issues.
We close the Auction with both a large British Colonies collection and a great big German States and Colonies lot.
Did I forget a few good stamps and sections? No doubt! As always:
Happy Hunting!
Sale Terms
Lot #781 - Malta
1a (3a) 1863 ½d pale buff Q Victoria on thin, hard white paper, unwmkd, perf 14, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #782 - Malta
6 (16) 1878 ½d yellow-buff Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14 x 12½, a remarkable, perfectly centered example - rare thus!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #783 - Malta
49-61, 63-64 (69-88) 1914-21 ¼d-5' K George V, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (12), F-VF
Lot #784 - Malta
65 (96) 1919 10' black Shipwreck of St. Paul, wmkd MCA, perf 14, rare (only 1530 issued in error on the wrong watermarked paper), the great "key" rarity of Malta, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #785 - Malta
71 (102) 1922 6d dull purple and bright purple K George V on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, a scarce used stamp as it was replaced by the succeeding overprinted 6d in under 30 days!, VF
Lot #786 - Malta
73 (104) 1922 10' black Shipwreck of St. Paul, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, a very scarce and undercatalogued used stamp, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #787 - Malta
82 (111) 1922 2' purple and blue on blue K George V overprinted "SELF-GOVERNMENT" (SG Type 20), wmkd MCA, perf 14, light double-ring cds, VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #788 - Malta
85 (105) 1922 10' blue-black Shipwreck of St. Paul with red "SELF-GOVERNMENT" overprint, wmkd CC, perf 14, light "Malta" cds, VF
Lot #789 - Malta
91 (119) 1922 6d dull and bright purple K George V on chalk-surfaced paper, overprinted "SELF-GOVERNMENT" in black, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, quite scarce and undercatalogued as it was replaced about 100 days later by the following issue!, used, F-VF
Lot #790 - Malta
98-114, 98 var, 105a, 114a (123-40, 123a, 130a) 1922-26 ¼d-£1 Malta Allegories, cplt (20) with all Stanley Gibbons shades and both £1, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #791 - Malta
98-114 (123-40) 1922-26 ¼d-£1 Malta Allegories, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (18) with both £1 shades,, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #792 - Malta
98-114 (123-40) 1922-26 ¼d-£1 Malta Allegories, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (17), several values, especially the 2½d, 3d and 10' are rare and undercatalogued used, the £1 is exceptionally well centered, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #793 - Malta
114 (140) 1925 £1 black and bright carmine Allegory of Malta, wmkd Script CA upright, perf 14, quite rare used, unusually well centered for the issue, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #794 - Malta
114a (139) 1922 £1 black and carmine-red Allegory of Malta, wmkd Script CA sideways, perf 14, rarely seen used, well centered, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #795 - Malta
116-29 (143-56) 1926 ¼d-10' Allegories overprinted "POSTAGE" SG Type 25, cplt (14), OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #796 - Malta
116-29 (143-56) 1926 ¼d-10' Allegories overprinted "POSTAGE" SG Type 25, cplt (14), the 2' is especially scarce and undercatalogued used, F-VF
Lot #797 - Malta
131-47 (157-72) 1926-27 ¼d-10' K George V and St. Paul "POSTAGE" set, wmkd Script CA, cplt (17), scarce used, with RPSL certificate for the 10' high value, F-VF
Lot #798 - Malta
148-66 (174-92) 1928 ¼d-10' St. Paul "POSTAGE AND REVENUE" overprints, wmkd Script CA multiple, perf 14, cplt (19), all lightly canceled, exceptionally well centered, a difficult used set, especially in this quality!, SUPERB
Lot #799 - Malta
167-83 (193-209) 1930 ¼d-10' St. Paul inscribed "POSTAGE AND REVENUE" set, wmkd Script CA multiple, perf 14, cplt (17), especially scarce used!, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #800 - Malta
J1 (D1) 1925 ½d black Typeset Postage Due, imperf, horizontal pair with large margins, right-hand stamp with unlisted VARIETY - "1" of "½" shifted 2mm to the left, unusual, OG, NH, SUPERB
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