5b (18) 1857-59 1d red Q Victoria "Post Paid" on bluish paper of poor quality, worn Impression, imperf, four full to large margins, sheet position 8, scarce, unused, VF, with Brandon 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 #802 - Mauritius
9 (27) 1858 (4d) green Britannia on bluish paper, imperf, a remarkable four margin example with sheet-margin at left, very lightly canceled, a gem!, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #803 - Mauritius
11 (29) 1859 (9d) dull magenta Britannia, imperf, four margins, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #804 - Mauritius
11 (29) 1859 (9d) dull magenta Britannia, imperf, three and a half margins (touching at lower left), barred oval cancel, F-VF
Lot #805 - Mauritius
17 (44) 1859 2d pale blue Q Victoria, Dardenne lithograph on white laid paper, imperf, four full margins, a lovely example, crisp barred-oval cancel, signed Richter, VF
Lot #806 - Mauritius
19 (34) 1859-61 1' vermilion Britannia, unwmkd, imperf, four margins, fresh, ex-Sovereign & Dr. Dauer, OG, HR, VF
Lot #807 - Mauritius
21 (35) 1861 1' yellow-green Britannia, unwnkd, imperf, four full to close margins, OG, LH, VF
Lot #808 - Mauritius
23 (55) 1862 1' deep green Q Victoria, unwmkd, intermediate perf 14 to 16, "B 53" numeral cancel, F-VF
Lot #809 - Mauritius
24-31 (46-53) 1860-63 1d-1' Q Victoria, unwmkd, perf 14, cplt (8), scarce, F-VF
Lot #810 - Mauritius
36 (63) 1863 6d dull violet Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, OG,LH, fine
Lot #811 - Mauritius
38 (66) 1872 9d yellow-green Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, OG, VLH, fine
Lot #812 - Mauritius
38 (66) 1872 9d yellow-green Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, exceptionally difficult and undercatalogued, considering how seldom a used example is met with, perfectly centered, VF
Lot #813 - Mauritius
59-67 (92-100) 1879-80 2¢-2.50R Q Victoria, wmkd CC, cplt (9), 13¢ and 38¢ are very rare and undercatalogued used, F-VF
Lot #814 - Mauritius
78 (114) 1883 16¢ on 17¢ rose Q Victoria, wmkd CC. perf 14, with provisional overprint SG Type 28a, exceptionally rare and grossly undercatalogued as only a few occurred in the original setting with the two more common types, very difficult and a challenging, very seldom offered, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #815 - Mauritius
84 (117) 1887 2¢ on 13¢ slate Q Victoria surcharged SG Type 31 in red, local printing, as there was little call for this provisional, only 100 were sold over the Post Office counter, such few used examples as exist emanated from these sales, the mint balance of the issue was later sold by the Crown Agents to dealers in London, a substantial used rarity, lightly canceled, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #816 - Mauritius
84a (117a) 1887 2¢ on 13¢ slate Q Victoria, local surcharge SG Type 31 (Sc Type j) in red, ERROR - surcharge inverted, VF
Lot #817 - Mauritius
101 (144) 1902 5¢ dull purple and bright purple on buff Coat of Arms, wmkd CA, perf 14, astonishingly rare and vastly undercatalogued used as it was replaced in only 4 months!, perfectly centered, lightly canceled, SUPERB
Lot #818 - Mauritius
118-23 (157-62) 4¢-2R50¢ Q Victoria "Postage & Revenue" overprints, cplt (6), including the massively undercatalogued used 2R50¢, light cancels, F-VF
Lot #819 - Mauritius
199 (241) 10R 1924 green and red on emerald K George V, Die II, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, extremely rare and vastly undercatalogued used, light cancel, F-VF
Lot #820 - Mauritius
E3b (E3a) 1904 15¢ on 15¢ ultramarine "EXPRESS DELIVERY" overprint, ERROR - surcharge inverted, quite scarce, undercatalogued, OG,HR, fine, with RPSL certificate
Lot #821 - Mauritius
E4a (E6b) 1904 15¢ grey-green Coat of Arms (without value in label) "EXPRESS DELIVERY (INLAND)" surcharge SG Type E3 (Scott Type SD4) in red, ERROR - surcharge double, scarce, fine, with RPSL certificate
Lot #822 - Mauritius
E4b (E6a) 1904 15¢ grey-green Coat of Arms (without value in label) "EXPRESS DELIVERY (INLAND)" surcharge SG Type E3 (Scott Type SD4) in red, ERROR - surcharge inverted, scarce, light cancel, fine, with RPSL certificate
Lot #823 - Mauritius
E4d var (E6c) 1904 15¢ grey-green Coat of Arms (without value in label) "EXPRESS DELIVERY" locally surcharged in red, ERROR - double surcharge, one "LNIAND", elusive and undercatalogued, with a lovely full strike of "Mauritius 2" cds, SUPERB, with BPA certificate
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