4 (4) 1855 1d red Q Victoria Chalon Head on blue paper, unwmkd, Auckland printing, imperf, full margins three sides, clear to just touching at right, lightly canceled, F-VF
British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 2
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. British Colony Public Auction # 143 - Day 2
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 #662 - New Zealand
6 (6) 1857 1' green Q Victoria on blue paper, unwmkd, Auckland printing, imperf, four full margins (close at top left), light numeral "14" cancel, VF, with Ferchenbauer and RPSL certificate
Lot #663 - New Zealand
7 (8) 1858 1d dull orange Q Victoria Chalon Head on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, full to clear margins, lightly canceled, F-VF, with Odenweller certificate
Lot #664 - New Zealand
8 (10) 1857 2d blue Q Victoria on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, four margins (clear to large), OG, HR, VF
Lot #665 - New Zealand
10 (17) 1857-63 1' blue-green Q Victoria Chalon Head on white paper, unwmkd, imperf, four margins, light numeral "15" barred oval cancel, F-VF
Lot #666 - New Zealand
13 (40) 1863 3d brown-lilac Q Victoria Chalon Head, wmkd Large Star, imperf, full margins, marvelous fresh rich color, a choice example!, OG, NH, VF-S
Lot #667 - New Zealand
16a (68) 1862-64 1d orange-vermilion Q Victoria, wmkd Large Star, perf 13 (at Dunedin), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #668 - New Zealand
60 (186) 1878 5' grey Q Victoria, wmkd NZ and Small Star Wide Apart, perf 12x11½ comb, marvelously fresh, remarkably well centered, undercatalogued in SG, OG, HR, XF
Lot #669 - New Zealand
86C (271) 1900 ½d black Q Victoria on thick, soft "irie paper, wmkd double-lined NZ and Star (sideways), perf 11, very rare and massively undercatalogued used as it was soon replaced (in March), F-VF
Lot #670 - New Zealand
87 (272) 1900 2d bright purple Q Victoria on thick, soft Pirie paper, wmkd double-lined "NZ" and Star (sideways), perf 11, very rare and massively undercatalogued, used, as it was soon replaced (in March), F-VF
Lot #671 - New Zealand
107-120 (302//329) 1902-07 ½d-5' Pictorials on thin hard ("Cowan") paper, wmkd NZ and Star Single, perf 14, cplt (14) per Scott, OG, HR, fine
Lot #672 - New Zealand
121 (269a) 1903 2' blue-green Milford Sound, unwmkd, laid paper, scarce Wellington printing (paper of unknown origin was used in a small emergency printing, accounting for its scarcity), signed, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #673 - New Zealand
121 (269a) 1903 2' blue-green Milford Sound, unwmkd, laid paper, scarce Wellington printing (paper of unknown origin was used in a small emergency printing, accounting for its scarcity), lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #674 - New Zealand
122-25 (370-73) 1906 ½d-6d Christchurch Exhibition set, cplt (4), exceptionally well centered, OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #675 - New Zealand
122-25 (370-73) 1906 ½d-6d Christchurch Exhibition set, cplt (4), used, each with neat "CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION" cancel, 3d has a trivial thin, F-VF
Lot #676 - New Zealand
122 var-25 var (370 var-73 var footnoted after SG 299) 1906 ½d-6d Christchurch Exhibition set, perf 14, VARIETY - wmkd NZ and Star (sideways) reversed, cplt (4), hand-picked copies, exceptionally well centered (unusual for this notoriously off-center issue), OG,LH, SUPERB
Lot #677 - New Zealand
AR21 (unlisted) 1903-15 £3 green Q Victoria Postal Fiscal, wmkd NZ and Star Close (Scott Type 61), perf 12½, unpriced in Scott, light "Napier" squared-circle postal cancel, F-VF
Lot #678 - New Zealand
AR60 (F159) 1931 25' greenish blue Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal, Cowan thick, opaque, chalk-surfaced paper with horizontal mesh, wmkd single-lined NZ and Star Close Together (SG Type 43), perf 14, scarce, fresh, rarely seen as OG,NH, VF
Lot #679 - New Zealand
AR66 (F165) 1935 £3 10' rose Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal on thick, opaque, chalk-surfaced Cowan paper, with horizontal mesh, wmkd Single NZ and star (SG Type 43), perf 14, well centered, rich color, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #680 - New Zealand
AR70 (F186) 1939 35/- on 35' orange-yellow brown Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal overprinted SG Type F7 on thick, opaque, chalk-surfaced "Cowan" paper, with horizontal mesh, wmkd single-lined NZ and Star Close Together SG Type 43, perf 14, scarce, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #681 - New Zealand
AR71-74 (F187-90) 1940 3'6d on 3'6d - 22' on 22' Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal surcharges in black on "Wiggins Teape" chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd NZ and Star "single", perf 14, cplt (4), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #682 - New Zealand
AR90 (F207) 1951 £2 10' red Coat of Arms Postal Fiscal on "Wiggins Teape" chalk-surfaced paper with vertical mesh, wmkd Multiple NZ and Star SG Type 98 inverted, perf 14, scarce, OG, LH, F-VF, with Sismondo certificate
Lot #683 - New Zealand
B3-4 (546-47) 1931 1d+1d - 2d+1d Smiling Boy "Health" semi-postals, wmkd Single NZ & Star (sideways), perf 14½x14, cplt (2), OG, NH, VF
Lot #684 - New Zealand
J15 (D20) 1906 2d red and green Postage Due, wmkd NZ and Star Close Together, perf 11, very rare and hopelessly undercatalogued as this stamp turns up regularly on most serious want lists, a right-hand sheet-margin single, OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #685 - New Zealand
O1 (O7) 1891-1906 1d rose Q Victoria, wmkd NZ and Star, rose "O.P.S.O." handstamp, perf 11, very rare and seldom seen, with Brandon certificate for the block of four this stamp is from, ex-Pattiz, OG,NH, F-VF




























