6 (12) 1857 (1d) rose-red Britannia on white paper, imperf, a very rare Classic issue, rare, undercatalogued, and seldom seen!, OG, VLH, VF, with Philatelic Foundation certificate
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!
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Lot #1244 - trinidad
12a (15 var) 1855 (1d) greenish blue lithographed Britannia, second issue, imperf, three full to clear margins, light numeral "21"grid cancel, F-VF
Lot #1245 - trinidad
15 (25) 1859 4d grey-lilac Britannia, imperf, four full margins, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #1246 - trinidad
16 (28) 1859 6d deep green Britannia, unwmkd, imperf, four margins, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1247 - trinidad
17 (29) 1859 1' indigo Britannia, unwmkd, imperf, four margins, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #1248 - trinidad
25 var (42) 1859 6d yellow-green Britannia, unwmkd, pin-perf 13½-14, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #1249 - trinidad
47 (67) 1863 1' bright mauve Britannia, unwmkd, perf 13, scarce, numeral cancel, VF
Lot #1250 - 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, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1251 - 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 #1252 - trinidad
77 (116) 1900 1d dull purple and rose Britannia, SG Type II (oval "O"), a scarce and extremely difficult mint stamp, considerably undercatalogued as the vast majority were postally used, OG,VLH, F-VF
Lot #1253 - trinidad
89 (123) 1896 10' green and ultramarine Britannia on ordinary paper, wmkd CA over Crown, perf 14, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1254 - 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 #1255 - 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, VF
Lot #1256 - trinidad
92-104, 92a + var, 93a, 95 var (133-45, 133a-b, 134a, 138a) 1904-09 ½d-£1 Britannia, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (17) with all Stanley Gibbons papers and shades, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #1257 - trinidad
J1-9 (D1-9) 1885 ½d-1' slate black Postage Dues, wmkd CA, rarely seen cplt set, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #1258 - trinidad
J3 var (D3w) 1885 2d slate-black Postage Due, perf 14, VARIETY - wmk CA inverted, until this discovery of this example it was thought not to exist in the mint state!, a major Postage Due rarity, fresh, OG,VLH, VF-S
Lot #1259 - 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 #1260 - trinidad
O9b (O9c) 1909 1d rose-red Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O2, ERROR - overprint inverted, with red pen mark, wmkd MCA, perf 14, fresh example of this seldom offered scarce error, ex-Kanai, ex-Gilbert, OG, HR, small part OG, XF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #1261 - trinidad
O10 (O10) 1910 ½d green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O2 on ordinary paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, very rare used, horribly undercatalogued, well centered, lightly canceled, SUPERB
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