O1 (O7) 1891-1906 1d rose Q Victoria, rose O.P.S.O. handstamp, perf 11, very well centered, scarce mint, ex-Pattiz, OG,HR, VF, with Sismondo certificate
British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 2
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
Aste Attive
Jul 10, 2026 America/Los_Angeles
COLONIAL STAMP CO. British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 2
Friday Jul 10, 2026 12:00 to 22:00 America/Los_Angeles America/Los_Angeles
Welcome to Colonial Stamp Company's 144th consecutive British Colony Auction. Enclosed for your philatelic enjoyment, is our current auction in which I am reasonably sure will yield a fair number of items which have "languished" on your personal wantlist for a while! You can, as usual, mail, fax, call or email any bids, or you can wait and bid online at auction.colonialstamps.com. Be sure to register if you have not yet done so.
Our current catalog includes the second portion of two Malaya State collections including several major five figure rarities! Among the highlights of the auction are: Great Britain 1848 10d brown embossed, the 4d mint SC#22(SG 62a), 1882 £1 brown lilac. South Australia Victorian £5 and £10 mint high values, Victoria SC#156a (SG306b) used (only 8 recorded!), Australia roos mint to £2 and, 20 shilling postage due (the key major number of the country). Barbados mint SC#56a (SG82), Bechuanaland, the second rarest stamp of the colony SC#27 (SG23c) – missing in 99.9% of all collections. Strong British Guiana early “ships” Nova Scotia 1 shilling imperf unused. British Columbia & Vancouver Island, mint SC#3 (SG4) and others. The Canada contains many exceptional quality classics. Cape of Good Hope includes SC#39 (SG46), Falkland Islands with all the key later high values. Gold Coast with one of the few known postally used £2, strong early Jordan overprints, a run of Madagascar counselor mails and great run of Penrhyn Island overprints as well as a fine range of Zanzibar provisionals which serves to round out the sale.
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Showing 176 - 200 of 510
Price: $ 2,600.00
Lot #687 - New Zealand
O3 var (O11 var) 1892 2½d ultramarine Q Victoria, perf 11, VARIETY - rose "O.P.S.O." overprint, part OG, F-VF, with Sismondo certificate
Price: $ 2,600.00
Lot #688 - New Zealand
O4 (O14) 1891 5d olive-black Q Victoria, magenta "O.P.S.O." handstamp, perf 12x11½, very well centered, signed Bloch, OG,VLH, SUPERB, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 3,000.00
Lot #689 - New Zealand
O4 (O14a) 1891 5d olive-black Q Victoria, violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, perf 12x11½, unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, lightly canceled, signed several including T Allen, F-VF
Price: $ 1,120.00
Lot #690 - New Zealand
O9 var (O4) 1899 ½d black Q Victoria, rose/magenta O.P.S.O. overprint, perf 10x11, wmkd NZ and Star 7mm apart (SG Type W 12b), this is position 4 on the RPSL certificate (included) for the block of four which we split, ex-Rubin, OG, NH, F-VF
Price: $ 1,800.00
Lot #691 - New Zealand
O9 var (O4) 1899 ½d black Q Victoria, rose/magenta O.P.S.O. overprint, perf 10x11, wmkd NZ and Star 7mm apart (SG Type W 12b), this is position 3 on the RPSL certificate for the block of four (photocopy included) which we split, ex-Rubin, OG, LH, F-VF
Price: $ 1,800.00
Lot #692 - New Zealand
O12 var [Sc 76 var] (O19 var [SG 252 var]) 1902 4d bright rose White Terrace, unissued violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, block of four, a Post Office overprint produced for exhibition with genuine handstamp, ex-Midas, OG,VLH, VF, with RPS of New Zealand certificate
Price: $ 14,800.00
Lot #693 - New Zealand
O13 (O20) 1898 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, unwmkd, perf 11, signed Bloch, OG, HR, F-VF, with photocopy of Brandon certificate
Price: $ 3,000.00
Lot #694 - New Zealand
O13 (O20) 1898-1903 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, violet "O.P.S.O." handstamp, unwmkd, perf 11, well centered, lightly canceled, scarce, SUPERB, with Friedl certificate
Price: $ 2,000.00
Lot #695 - New Zealand
O14 var (O22 var) 1897 1' red-brown Q Victoria, violet O.P.S.O. handstamp, perf 11, though genuine, this design and denomination has, to date, never been recorded as existing in the issue, and we have never seen another example and feel it may well be unique, fresh, ex-Pattiz, OG,VLH, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Price: $ 4,400.00
Lot #696 - New Zealand
O15 (O20b) 1898 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, unwmkd, perf 11, greenish blue "O.P.S.O." handstamp, extremely rare as it is one of only two stamps in the whole issue so overprinted, unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, slight natural offset on reverse, signed Bloch, OG, HR, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 5,600.00
Lot #697 - New Zealand
O15 (O20b) 1898 5d purple-brown Otira Gorge, unwmkd, perf 11, greenish blue "O.P.S.O." handstamp, extremely rare as it is one of only two stamps in the whole issue so overprinted, listed but unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, well centered, light "Wellington" cds, ex-Pattiz, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Price: $ 1,800.00
Lot #698 - New Zealand
O30 var (O67a) 1907 5' deep red Mt. Cook, overprinted "OFFICIAL." (SG Type O3), VARIETY - wmk NZ and Star Single upright, perf 14, scarce, fresh, OG, HR, F-VF
Price: $ 620.00
Lot #699 - niger coast protectorate
56 var (67c) 1897-98 1d orange-vermilion Q Victoria, wmkd CA, VARIETY - perf 15½-16, with extremely rare "Sapele" code "C" cds, VF
Price: $ 180.00
Lot #700 - niger coast protectorate
59 (70) 1898 5d red-violet Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 13½-14, an extremely rare and vastly undercatalogued used stamp, very seldom seen, with German Seapost "Hamburg West Africa Line" cancel, well centered, VF
Price: $ 210.00
Lot #701 - nigeria
11b (11b) 1917 10' green and red on blue green K George V, chalk-surfaced paper, pale olive back, wmkd MCA, perf 14, lightly canceled, scarce used, VF
Price: $ 760.00
Lot #702 - nigeria
12 var (12a) 1914 £1 purple and black on red K George V, chalk-surfaced paper, Die I, wmkd MCA, perf 14, undercatalogued used, lightly canceled, XF
Price: $ 270.00
Lot #703 - nigeria
17 (11) 1914-27 10' green and red on blue-green K George V, surface colored paper (whiteback), Die 1, wmkd MCA, perf 14, a very scarce used stamp, light "Lagos" 1914 double-ring cds, perfectly centered, undercatalogued, SUPERB
Price: $ 270.00
Lot #704 - nigeria
28 (25a) 1923 6d dull purple and bright purple K George V on chalk-surfaced paper, Die II, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, used with very rare "UZUAKOLI" purple parcel cancel (unlisted T.P2 in both N.M. Jones and Proud), F-VF
Price: $ 190.00
Lot #705 - nigeria
38-49 (34-45) 1936 ½d-£1 K George V pictorials, wmkd CA, perf 11½x13 and perf 14, cplt (12), OG, NH, F-VF
Price: $ 250.00
Lot #706 - niue
1 var, 1 (1 var footnoted, 1) 1902 1d carmine Commerce of New Zealand horizontal pair with the left stamp handstamped "NIUE" in violet and the right stamp handstamped "NIUE" in bluish green, Pirie paper, wmkd Double-lined NZ and Star, perf 11, scarce (only 1200 handstamped of which only about 20 were handstamped in violet in the first two vertical rows of the first sheet), only 10 horizontal pairs in two colors were originally printed with...
Price: $ 3,800.00
Lot #707 - niue
1 (1) 1902 1d carmine Commerce of New Zealand handstamped "NIUE" in bluish green, Pirie paper, wmkd Double-lined NZ and Star, perf 11, scarce (only 1200 printed), probably part of the shipment affected by dropping into the sea during unloading, thus the lack of gum, unused, F-VF
Price: $ 190.00
Lot #708 - niue
1 (1) 1902 1d carmine Commerce of New Zealand handstamped "NIUE" in bluish green, Pirie paper, wmkd Double-lined NZ and Star, perf 11, scarce (only 1200 handstamped), used, tied with a nice complete cds to a symmetrical piece, attractive, F-VF
Price: $ 160.00
Lot #709 - niue
3a (3b) 1902 ½d green Mount Cook of New Zealand overprinted SG Type 2 in red, ERROR - surcharge inverted, a scarce stamp, a reasonably well centered example of this error as most are badly off-center, nice fresh stamp, OG, HR, VF
Price: $ 170.00
Lot #710 - niue
unlisted (11) 1902 ½d green Mount Cook of New Zealand horizontal pair, typeset surcharge in red "NIUE. \ ½ PENI" SG Type 2 on Cowan paper, wmkd single-lined NZ and Star (SG Type 43), VARIETY - mixed perfs, with a vertical official patch on reverse over the vertical mis-aligned perf 14 through design on left stamp then re-perforated 11 vertically through margins on obverse and official patch on reverse. If the horizontal pair was separated it...
Price: $ 1,800.00
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