4-8 (4-8) 1876-79 ½d-6d Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, cplt (5), scarce, OG, LH, F-VF
British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 1
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 1
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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Lot #395 - 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 - a "key" mint rarity!, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #396 - gold coast
18 (17) 1889 6d orange Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with a choice strike of the rare "CENTRAL OFFICE" cancel without date, SUPERB
Lot #397 - 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 #398 - gold coast
26-35 (26-34) 1898-1902 ½d-10' Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (10), used, F-VF
Lot #399 - gold coast
27 (27) 1898 1d dull mauve and rose Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, with manuscript "Yabum N.T. 11/11/99" cancel, same date and denomination as the example in the Ashanti collection and is the only other example of this rarity we have seen!, some faults, VG
Lot #400 - gold coast
55 (57) 1906 2'6d green and yellow K Edward VII on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, scarce used high value from the later printing, canceled with "Salt Pond" cds, VF
Lot #401 - gold coast
56-65 (59-68) 1907-13 ½d-5' K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (10), quite scarce and undercatalogued used, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #402 - gold coast
63 (66) 1910 2' purple and blue on blue K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, with very rare "PRESTEA" double-ring cds, of which very few examples are known!, VF
Lot #403 - 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 "Tapoua" village cancel, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #404 - 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, tied to piece by "Secoondi" cds, rare, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #405 - 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 #406 - 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), perfectly centered, scarce, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #407 - gold coast
80 (84) 1916 20' purple and black on red K George V on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, OG, NH, VF
Lot #408 - 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 #409 - gold coast
94a (100a) 1921 15' dull purple and green K George V, Die II, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, fresh, scarce, OG,NH, F-VF
Lot #410 - gold coast
94a (100a) 1924 15' dull purple and green K George V, Die II, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, very rare and undercatalogued used!, light "Accra" cds, SUPERB
Lot #411 - 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 #412 - gold coast
J1 (D1) 1923 ½d black Postage Due, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, extremely scarce and significantly undercatalogued used, lightly canceled, VF






















