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
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 #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
Lot #1262 - trinidad and tobago
12-20 (206-15) 1921-22 ½d-£1 Britannia, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, cplt (9), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #1263 - trinidad and tobago
20 (215) 1921 £1 green and carmine seated Britannia on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, very rare and hardly ever seen used, undercatalogued as in practice what is seen is 50 to 1 in favor of the mint!, light registration cds ("SP 29 21"), F-VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #1264 - trinidad and tobago
J5 (D22) 1944 5d black Postage Due, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, very scarce and undercatalogued used as it saw very little use before the next issue, with centrally struck cds, SUPERB
Lot #1265 - trinidad and tobago
J7 (D24) 1945 8d black Postage Due, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, very scarce and undercatalogued used as it saw very little use before the next issue, lightly canceled, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #1266 - trinidad and tobago
J8 (D25) 1945 1' black Postage Due, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, very rare and undercatalogued used high value that saw very little use before the next issue, perfectly centered, light cds, SUPERB
Lot #1267 - trinidad and tobago
O1 (O11) 1913 ½d green Britannia Official with SG Type O3 overprint, wmkd MCA, perf 14, very rare and seldom seen used, severely undercatalogued, VF
Lot #1268 - trinidad and tobago
O2 (O12) 1914 ½d green Britannia Official with SG Type O4 overprint, wmkd MCA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and vastly undercatalogued as very few were used, tied to piece, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1269 - trinidad and tobago
O3 (O14) 1916 ½d yellow-green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O5 (with stop), wmkd MCA, perf 14, vastly undercatalogued used, tied to piece by "Port of Spain" cds, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1270 - trinidad and tobago
O4 (O13) 1914-17 ½d green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O5 (without stop), wmkd MCA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and vastly undercatalogued as very few were actually ever used!, tied to piece by "Port of Spain" cds, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1271 - trinidad and tobago
O5 (O15) 1917 ½d green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O6, wmkd MCA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used, tied to piece by "Port of Spain" cds, SUPERB, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1272 - trinidad and tobago
O5 var footnoted (O15a) 1917 ½d yellow-green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O6, wmkd MCA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used, tied to piece by "Port of Spain" cds, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1273 - trinidad and tobago
O5 var footnoted (O15a) 1917 ½d yellow-green Britannia overprinted "OFFICIAL" SG Type O6, wmkd MCA, perf 14, exceptionally rare and undercatalogued used, tied to piece by "Port of Spain" cds, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #1274 - tristan da cunha
1946 1d Potato local typographed (value 4 potatoes), designed and produced by Allan Crawford, examples were attached to the May 10, 1946 Tristan da Cunha petition requesting own postage stamps, a fresh upper left corner example, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #1275 - turks islands
6 (6) 1879 1' lilac Q Victoria, wmkd Small Star (sideways), perf 11-12x14½-15½, rare, the Challis handbook estimates that only around 100 were issued without the later overprints - 13 different provisionals, signed, OG, LH, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
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