MO12 (A13) 1911 10pi black and mauve Arab Postman overprinted "Army Service" SG Type A3, wmkd Multiple Star and Crescent, rare as only about 200 were overprinted, very well centered, lightly canceled, SUPERB
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 #1177 - sudan
MO15 (A16) 1906 10pi black and mauve Army Service Arab Postman Official overprint SG Type A3, wmkd Quatrefoil, perf 14, scarce and elusive, undercatalogued as only 400 were printed!, scarce used, perfectly centered, SUPERB
Lot #1178 - swaziland
1a (4a) 1889 ½d grey Coat of Arms of Transvaal overprinted "Swaziland" in black, perf 12½, ERROR - overprint inverted, scarce, signed "S.G. Ltd.", OG,HR, F-VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #1179 - swaziland
1b (4b) 1889 ½d grey Coat of Arms of Transvaal, overprint ERROR - "Swazielan", tied to piece, scarce, fine, with RPSL certificate
Lot #1180 - swaziland
6 (7) 1890 2'6d buff Coat of Arms of Transvaal overprinted "Swazieland" SG Type 1 in black, unwmkd, perf 12½, rare and undercatalogued, especially used, with "Bremersdorp" squared-circle cancel, signed, F-VF
Lot #1181 - swaziland
9a (10a) 1892 ½d grey Coat of Arms of Transvaal overprinted "Swazieland" in carmine, ERROR - overprint inverted, perf 12½, well centered, slight perf restoration, OG, LH, VF, with RPSL and Sismondo certificate
Lot #1182 - swaziland
9b (10b) 1892 ½d grey Coat of Arms of Transvaal overprinted "Swazieland", ERROR - carmine overprint double, perf 12½, unwmkd, genuine, faulty -- a good reference example, part OG, fr app, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1183 - tanganyika
1 (63) 1921 12¢ slate-grey K George V of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika overprinted "G.E.A." SG T ype 1, wmkd Script CA, scarce used, F-VF
Lot #1184 - tanganyika
1-7 (63-68) 1921 12¢-5R K George V of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, overprinted "G.E.A." in black SG Type 1 or 2, wmkd Script CA, cplt (6), scarce and undercatalogued, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #1185 - tanganyika
3 (65) 1921 50¢ black and dull purple K George V of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika overprinted "G.E.A." SG Type 1, wmkd Script CA, exceedingly rare and seldom seen used, severely undercatalogued, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1186 - tanganyika
4 (66) 1921 2R red and black on blue K George V of East Africa and Uganda overprinted "G.E.A." SG Type 2, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, quite scarce and undercatalogued used, with double-ring cds, fine
Lot #1187 - tanganyika
5 (67) 1921 3R gray green and violet K George V of East Africa and Uganda overprinted "G.E.A." SG Type 2, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, considerably undercatalogued - much rarer used than mint, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1188 - tanganyika
7 (68) 1921 5R blue and dull purple K George V of East Africa and Uganda, chalk-surfaced paper, overprinted "G.E.A." SG Type 2, wmkd Script CA, an astonishingly rare used stamp ( the late Ritchie Bodily told me he had never had one!), lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1189 - tanganyika
8-9 (72-73) 1922 1¢-10¢ K George V of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika overprinted "G.E.A." SG Type 3 (locally at Dar-es-Salaam), wmkd Script CA, cplt (2), quite scarce and undercatalogued used, rarely offered, each with light double-ring cds, F-VF
Lot #1190 - tanganyika
10-22, 23a, 24a, 25, 26a, 27, 28a (74-92) 1922-25 5¢-£1 K George V Giraffes, wmkd MSCA (sideways on 1'-£1), cplt (19) per Stanley Gibbons, a popular and attractive issue, F-VF
Lot #1191 - tanganyika
29-44 (93-107) 1927-31 5¢-£1 K George V, wmkd MSCA, perf 14, cplt (16), 32 (96) creased, 39 (102) damaged at top, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #1192 - tanganyika
29-44 (93-107) 1927-31 5¢-£1 K George V, wmkd MSCA, perf 14, cplt (16), used, F-VF
Lot #1193 - tanganyika
N121 (61) 1917 20R black and purple on red K George V of East Africa and Uganda overprinted "G. E. A." SG Type 2, wmkd MCA, undercatalogued, OG, LH, VF
Lot #1194 - tanganyika
NL22 (M5B) 1915 20 heller black and red on yellow German East Africa Yacht with "G.R. MAFIA" handstamp in purple, very rare and undercatalogued, perfectly centered, with fresh color, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #1195 - tobago
4 (4) 1879 1' green Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #1196 - tobago
8 (8) 1880 ½d purple-brown Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used!, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #1197 - tobago
11 (11) 1880 6d stone Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce mint, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #1198 - tobago
12 (12) 1860 1' yellow-ochre Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, in spite of its modest catalogue value this is one of the Colony's rarest used stamps, phenomenally undercatalogued!, VF
Lot #1199 - tobago
24 (24c) 1896 1' orange-red Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, this stamp was printed in the color of the 6d by mistake, extremely rare and undercatalogued used as this was the last issued stamp-almost immediately replaced by T&T stamp and there was a mint remainder of 6000 copies of this issue sold after the fact by the Crown Agents in London, partial light numeral "A 14" cancel, SUPERB
Lot #1200 - tobago
29a (29a) 1889 1d on 2½d dull blue Q Victoria surcharged SG Type 4, VARIETY - figure further from word (4¼mm instead of 3¼mm), pos 7 in the second setting, OG, LH, F-VF
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