2 (2) 1875 4d magenta Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, scarce, well centered, part OG, 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!
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Lot #588 - gold coast
3 (3) 1875 6d orange Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, rare, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #589 - gold coast
4-8 (4-8) 1876-79 ½d-6d Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, cplt (5), scarce, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #590 - gold coast
12 (10) 1883 1d blue Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, a key rarity to the whole Colony, seldom seen or offered mint, perfectly centered, signed Bloch, OG,VLH, XF
Lot #591 - gold coast
19 (18a) 1888 1' bright mauve Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with "Cape Coast 'P'" cds (probably for parcels), very rare, we have recorded only three strikes, one of which was in the Ashanti collection, VF
Lot #592 - gold coast
26-35 var listed (26s-34s) 1898-1902 ½d-10' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, overprinted "SPECIMEN", cplt (10), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #593 - gold coast
26-35 (26-34) 1898-1902 ½d-10' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (10), used, VF
Lot #594 - gold coast
28 (27b) 1902 2d dull mauve and orange-red Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, extremely rare used (in use for only 3 months), before being replaced by the K Edward VII issue, seriously undercatalogued!, attractive "Accra" cds showing very early usage (1/18/02!), VF
Lot #595 - gold coast
38-48 (38-48) 1902 ½d-20' K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (11), OG, HR, VF
Lot #596 - gold coast
48 (48) 1902 20' purple and black on red K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, scarce used, VF
Lot #597 - gold coast
55 (57) 1906 2' green and yellow K Edward VII on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, scarce used high value from the later printing, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #598 - gold coast
64 (67) 1911 2'6d black and red on blue K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, very rare and considerably undercatalogued used stamp given what actually appears on the market, seldom seen used, easily 20-30 times more difficult than its mint counterpart, light "Accra" cds, F-VF
Lot #599 - gold coast
65 (68) 1913 5' green and red on yellow K Edward VII on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, extremely rare and undercatalogued used, issued in 1913 by October of which it had already been replaced by the K George V 5' as such it saw very little postal usage and is hardly ever seen which accounts for its appearance on most advanced serious want-lists, well centered, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #600 - gold coast
73a, 75c, 76a, 77a, 78a, (77e, 79e, 80b, 81a, 82f) 1921 3d-5' K George V, wmkd CA, perf 14, Die II, cplt (5), deceptively scarce and certainly undercatalogued, especially the 2' most of which seem to have been used!, OG,HR, F-VF
Lot #601 - gold coast
76a (80b) 1921 2' purple and blue on blue K George V, Die II, wmkd MCA, a scarce and undervalued stamp (most were used), bright colors, OG,LH, fine
Lot #602 - gold coast
94 (100) 1921 15' dull purple and green K George V, Die I, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used, F-VF
Lot #603 - gold coast
94a (100a) 1924 15' dull purple and green K George V, Die II, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, vivid rich fresh color, exceptional centering, OG, NH, SUPERB
Lot #604 - gold coast
95 (102) 1921 £2 green and orange K George V, Die I, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, an exceptional perfectly centered example of this key, scarce, and undercatalogued stamp!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #605 - gold coast
95 (102) 1921 £2 green and orange K George V, Die I, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used, vivid rich color, attractive "Accra" cds, VF
Lot #606 - gold coast
J1 (D1) 1923 ½d black Postage Due, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, extremely scarce and significantly undercatalogued used, with light "Seconde" cds, VF
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