62 (53a) 1922 20pi pale grey stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black) and 4 (in violet), perf 14, rare and undercatalogued as only 57 were overprinted (all colors, per Najjar), lightly signed, OG, VLH, VF
British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 1
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
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Jul 09, 2026 America/Los_Angeles
COLONIAL STAMP CO. British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 1
Thursday Jul 09, 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 476 - 500 of 508
Price: $ 840.00
Lot #478 - jordan
63 (54) 1923 1m dark brown, gold Arab Government of the East handstamp SG Type 5, perf 15x14, only 50 printed, very few of which were used, lightly canceled, VF, with RPSL certificate
Price: $ 3,000.00
Lot #479 - jordan
63E-64E, 67E, 68, 71-73 (62-68) 1923 1m-20p stamps of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black) and 5 (in gold or black), perf 14, cplt (7), OG, LH, F-VF
Price: $ 210.00
Lot #480 - jordan
73f (68g var footnoted) 1923 20p pale grey, black Arab Government of the East overprint, perf 14, the very rare ERROR with overprint transposed--the second and third lines are at top and the first line at bottom, OG,HR, VF, with Holcombe certificate
Price: $ 920.00
Lot #481 - jordan
74 var footnoted (99Aa) 1923 2m blue-green, black overprint reading down, ERROR - "933" for "932", P.O. fresh, this variety only occurred once in each setting of 24 printed (pos 3), as such vastly undercatalogued, scarce, appears OG, NH, despite what the certificate says, OG,VLH, VF, with Najjar certificate
Price: $ 2,500.00
Lot #482 - jordan
78 var (103A var) 1923 1p deep indigo stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Type 11 reading downwards, VARIETY - overprint in gold, rare, only 24 printed of both colored overprints (per Najjar), OG, VLH, F-VF, with BPA certificate
Price: $ 1,300.00
Lot #483 - jordan
79 var footnoted (104Aa) 1923 2p olive, black overprint reading down, ERROR - "933" for "932", P.O. fresh, very scarce, this variety only occurred once per setting of 24 (pos 3) and only 24 examples exist, as such vastly undercatalogued, OG,VLH, VF, with Najjar certificate
Price: $ 3,200.00
Lot #484 - jordan
81 var footnoted (106Ba) 1923 9pi ochre stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Type 11 in black reading upwards, VARIETY - Arabic "933", this error only occurs once per setting of 24, perf 14, OG, HR, fine
Price: $ 380.00
Lot #485 - jordan
82 (107A var) 1923 10pi ultramarine stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Type 11 in black reading downwards, VARIETY - perf 15x14, probably only 1 sheet of 24 overprinted of this perf, OG, NH, F-VF, with BPA certificate
Price: $ 1,080.00
Lot #486 - jordan
84 var (78bc) 1923 5/10th p on 3m yellow-brown stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black), 4 (in violet) and 6 (in black), perf 15x14, extremely rare used, signed, F-VF
Price: $ 960.00
Lot #487 - jordan
87 var (79c) 1923 5/10 pi on 5 pi SG Type 4 overprint on deep purple of Palestine, violet Arab Government of the East overprint SG Type 6, perf 15x14, unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, OG, VLH, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 340.00
Lot #488 - jordan
87 var (79c) 1923 5/10 pi on 5 pi deep purple, violet Arab Government of the East overprint SG Type 6, perf 15x14, unpriced in Stanley Gibbons, lightly canceled, VF, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 1,200.00
Lot #489 - jordan
89 var (79da) 1923 5/10th p on 9p ochre stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black), 4 (in violet) and 6 (in violet), perf 15x14, extremely rare and undercatalogued, seldom seen at all, unlisted in Scott, signed, fine, with BPA certificate
Price: $ 1,800.00
Lot #490 - jordan
89 (83b) 1923 1pi on 5pi deep purple stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black), 4 (in violet) and 8 (in black), perf 15x14, very rare, few of which were used!, VF, with RPSL certificate
Price: $ 6,000.00
Lot #491 - jordan
98 var (75a var footnoted) 1923 ½p on 9p on 9p ochre of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black), 3 (in red) and 7 (in black), VARIETY - ½p surcharge inverted, perf 15x14, a rare error, OG, VLH, VF, with BPA certificate
Price: $ 1,200.00
Lot #492 - jordan
100 (87) 1923 1pi on 10pi ultramarine stamp of Palestine overprinted SG Types 1 (in black), 5 (in gold) and 9 (in violet), perf 14, a great rarity of which few exist -- very seldom seen!, OG, NH, F-VF
Price: $ 2,200.00
Lot #493 - jordan
122-29 var footnoted (135-42 var footnoted) 1925 1/8p-5p of Saudi Arabia overprinted SG Type 18 at Cairo, cplt (8), VARIETY - imperf, horizontal pairs with large margins, OG,LH, SUPERB
Price: $ 190.00
Lot #494 - jordan
141 var-144 var (154 var-157 var) 1925 5p-20p stamps of Palestine overprinted "East of Jordan" SG Type 19, VARIETY - "long" stamps (25mm, only one row per sheet was produced as it was caused by a faulty registration of the perforating machine), OG,LH, F-VF
Price: $ 1,120.00
Lot #495 - jordan
142a (155a) 1925 9p ochre, black East of the Jordan overprint SG Type 19, VARIETY - perf 15x14, OG,NH, SUPERB, with Najjar certificate
Price: $ 1,200.00
Lot #496 - jordan
198 (221) 1933 £P1 black and yellow-green Emir Abdullah, wmkd Script CA, perf 12, excellent centering, OG, NH, SUPERB
Price: $ 600.00
Lot #497 - jordan
NJ8 (PD22) 1948 1m red-brown Palestine Occupation overprint, unwmkd, perf 13½, one of the great Postage Due rarities of the 20th-Century Empire, vastly undercatalogued, with photocopy of BPA certificate for the block of four that is from - designated "P2" on the photocopy, OG, NH, VF
Price: $ 1,500.00
Lot #498 - jordan
O1 (O117) 1924 ½p scarlet Official, black Arab Government of the East overprint, rare and substantially undercatalogued in Stanley Gibbons, unpriced used in Scott, truly a great rarity of which only a few examples are known, lightly canceled, fine, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 880.00
Lot #499 - jordan
O1a (O117a) 1924 ½p scarlet Official, black Arab Government of the East overprint, ERROR - "1242" instead of "1342", extremely scarce, P.O. fresh, OG,NH, fine
Price: $ 280.00
Lot #500 - Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika
5 (69) 1921-22 12¢ slate-grey K George V, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, this is among the rarest used 20th-Century East Africa stamps, vastly undercatalogued, VF, with Brandon certificate
Price: $ 280.00
Lot #501 - Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika
8 (72) 1921 2R red and black on blue K George V of East Africa and Uganda on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, undercatalogued used, F-VF
Price: $ 300.00
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