O44 (O31) 1896 ½d vermilion Q Victoria overprinted O.W. OFFICIAL SG Type 0 3, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, OG, VLH, 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 #52 - Great Britain
O45 (O33) 1896 1d lilac Q Victoria O.W. OFFICIAL, Die II, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, OG,HR, VF
Lot #53 - Great Britain
O51 (O38) 1902 2d yellowish green and carmine-red K Edward VII O.W. OFFICIAL, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, light "Parliament Street" cds, perfectly centered, SUPERB
Lot #54 - Great Britain
O62 (O52) 1903 6d pale dull purple K Edward VII overprinted ARMY OFFICIAL SG Type O6, quite scarce, OG, VLH, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #55 - Great Britain
O63-64 (O91-92) 1902 ½d-1d K Edward VII overprinted R.H. OFFICIAL, well centered, with RPSL certificate for the ½d, OG,VLH, VF
Lot #56 - Great Britain
O65 (O81) 1902 5d dull purple and blue Q Victoria Board of Education Official with SG Type O81 overprint, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, light circular date stamp, well centered, VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #57 - Great Britain
O80 (O109) 1904 1½d dull purple and green K Edward VII overprinted ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL SG Type O 11, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, the higher values of the second Admiralty set are conspicuously undercatalogued by Stanley Gibbons and Scott, a perfectly centered example, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #58 - Great Britain
O83 (O112) 1903 3d dull purple on orange-yellow K Edward VII overprinted ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL SG Type O 11, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, a difficult and seriously undercatalogued stamp, perfectly centered, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #59 - Great Britain
O83 (O112) 1903 3d dull purple on orange-yellow K Edward VII overprinted ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL SG Type O11, wmkd Imperial Crown, perf 14, a difficult and seriously undercatalogued stamp, lightly canceled, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #60 - great britain - channel islands
1969-2007 Black Stockbook with hundreds of complete sets and souvenir sheets, Sterling values throughout, includes Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, Isle of Man, and also includes 20 stamps from the 1953 Coronations issue from 11 countries,
Lot #61 - great britain offices in china
14 (15) 1917 $3 green and purple K George V of Hong Kong overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, this is the key mint value, rarer than the $10 as most were used, vastly undercatalogued, fresh, perfectly centered, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #62 - great britain offices in china
15 (16) 1917 $5 green and red on blue-green (olive back) K George V of Hong Kong, overprinted "CHINA", wmkd MCA, OG, NH, XF
Lot #63 - great britain offices in china
16 (17) 1917 $10 purple and black on red K George V of Hong Kong overprinted "CHINA", undercatalogued mint as a high percentage were used postally, OG, NH, VF
Lot #64 - great britain offices in china
24 var (25a) 1922-27 25¢ purple and magenta K George V of Hong Kong (SG Type B) overprinted "CHINA" SG Type 1, VARIETY - broken flower (row 1, pos 3), OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #65 - great britain offices in morocco
231 (58a) 1935-36 2½d blue K George V of Great Britain overprinted "Morocco Agencies" (15½mm, SG Type 8), rare and undercatalogued mint, as the vast majority were used, OG,VLH, VF
Lot #66 - great britain offices in morocco
437 var (227a) 1936 ½d green K Edward VIII of Great Britain surcharged in French currency "MOROCCO AGENCIES \ 5 CENTIMES" with ERROR - bar through "POSTAGE" on top stamp, with a few perf tips with trivial toning not mentioned in the certificate, bottom-marginal strip of three, a striking variety of which only twelve examples show "POSTAGE" clearly obliterated with the line, a copy of the 1936 Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal article explaining...
Lot #67 - Great Britain Offices in the Turkish Empire
1893-1920 Lot of 8 Postal Stationery items each annotated and mounted to album page, includes 1893 40 paras on 2½d dull blue Q Victoria envelope, 1905 ½d green K Edward VII wrapper overprinted "LEVANT", 3 different sized 1902 K Edward VII size 40 paras on 2d + 1d red-brown registered letter envelopes, 1912 1d carmine K George V postcard and 2 different 1920 4½pi on 1½d red-brown K George V postal cards, all in VF condition and seldom seen, VF...
Lot #68 - aden
1-12 (1-12) 1937 ½a-10r Dhows, wmkd Script CA (sideways), perf 13x12, cplt (12), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #69 - aitutaki
9a (3a) 1903 2½d deep blue Lake Wakapitu of New Zealand, perf 14, overprinted in red with VARIETY - "Ava" without stop, only 128 overprinted with this variety, fresh and bright, seldom offered, OG, HR, VF
Lot #70 - aitutaki
18d, 18e, 18 (14ad, 14ac, 14a) 1917 1' orange K George V of New Zealand overprinted, block of four with ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on third "i" (row 8, pos 11 - 35 printed) thinned, and ERROR - "Tiringi" without dot on second "i" (70 printed -- this is row 8, pos 12), fresh, better-than-normal centered examples of these scarce stamps, errors are OG, NH, rest HR, VF
Lot #71 - aitutaki
36 (32) 1927 2½d black and dull blue To Po, Rarotongan Chief of Cook Islands inscribed "Aitutaki", wmkd NZ and Star, perf 14, very scarce and undercatalogued used, VF
Lot #72 - antigua
1 (1) 1862 6d blue-green Q Victoria, unwmkd, rough perf 14 to 16, ex-Arnhold, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #73 - antigua
3 (7) 1863 1d vermilion Q Victoria, wmkd Star, perf 14 to 16, scarce "C51" St. Thomas barred-oval cancel, F-VF
Lot #74 - antigua
4c (9) 1863 6d dark green Q Victoria, wmkd Small Star sideways, rough perf 14 to 16, OG, HR, VF
Lot #75 - antigua
9 (19) 1879 2½d red-brown Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, a rare and substantially undercatalogued key stamp of the Colony, perfectly centered, OG, VLH, SUPERB
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