Auction #141 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #141 - Public Auction
Enclosed is our current auction catalog, it is our first auction catalog that utilizes a live online bidding feature. You can still bid all the ways you have previously such as via phone, email, mail bids, fax, agent, whatever is easiest for you, however you now have the additional option of bidding online in real time if you wish to. The sale is smaller than usual, as it will be our first that utilizes this feature. We very much want to have your feedback after the sale as we are always keen to improve our customer experience.
The Auction:
Great Britain with strength in rarer 19th Century and key items, values to the £5.
British Oceania is strong in high value Australian Kangaroos to the £2 (several!). Fiji has £1 high values.
British West Indies is where Antigua features the rare 2½ red brown #9 (SG 19). Bahamas shows a wide range of classic issues while British Honduras has all the £1 high values. Cayman Islands includes K Edward VII 2½ on 4d and Falkland Islands has the “Centenary” set complete.
British Africa is strongly represented, as usual, with Bechuanaland and an unusual range of the difficult used K George V high value “Sea Horses”. Cape of Good Hope features a very rare SG #1 mint, the 1/- yellow-green, 4d “Wood Blocks” and the rare ½d mint Crown CC provisional #39 (SG 46) – the key to the provisional issues. East Africa & Uganda has a 50R mint K Edward VII, Egypt has the “Port Fouad” set while Gambia has a range of 9 imperf cameos. Madagascar weights in with 13 different large stamps and Rhodesia shows values to the £10.
British Europe features Cypress virtually complete to the £5, Gibraltar has the £5 mint and a rarer still used example. Malta includes the rare 10/- K George V.
Happy hunting!
George Holschauer
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Lot #139 - Bermuda
123a-26b vars (116b, 117a, 118b, 119b) 1941 2'6d-10' K George VI Keyplates, wmkd Script CA, May-November 1941 printings, line perf 14¼, the complete "set" of four values including two 5' shades, fresh, usual streaky gum, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #140 - Bermuda
127c (120a) 1938 12'6d grey and brownish orange K George VI, wmkd MCA, perf 14, perfectly centered, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #141 - Bermuda
127b (120d) 1946 (June) 12'6d grey and yellow K George VI Keyplate, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, the rare "lemon" shade, intact right sheet-margin example proving pos 24, plus a clear 24c flaw further proving the printing, OG, LH, XF
Lot #142 - british central africa
18 (18) 1893 3' on 4' grey-black and vermilion Rhodesia Coat of Arms surcharged SG Type 2 (only 1380 surcharged), tied to piece by "Blantyre" cds, SUPERB
Lot #143 - british central africa
21-29 (21-29) 1895 1d-£1 Arms of the Protectorate, unwmkd, perf 14, cplt (9), F-VF
Lot #144 - british central africa
43-55 (43-51, 57d, 57e, 58) 1897-1901 1d-£1 Arms of the Protectorate, wmkd CA or CC, cplt (13) including the scarce 3', most of which were later overprinted for the 1d provisional, light cancels, F-VF
Lot #145 - british east africa
45 (40) 1895 5a black on grey-blue Sun and Crown handstamped "British East Africa" SG Type 6, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #146 - british guiana
8 (11) 1853-59 1¢ vermilion Seal of the Colony, original ptg (without line above value), imperf, four large margins, light "Demerara" cds, VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #147 - british guiana
10b (20) 1855 4¢ pale blue Seal of the Colony, white line above value, unwmkd, imperf, four margins (close at left), light "Berbice" cds, F-VF
Lot #148 - british guiana
12 (21) 1860 4¢ blue Seal of the Colony, figures in corners framed, imperf, full margins, light "Berbera" cds (rare on this issue!), XF
Lot #149 - british guiana
18 (29) 1860-63 1¢ pale rose Seal of the Colony, thick paper, perf 12, an exceptional, perfectly centerd example of this very rare stamp, signed Bloch, OG, VLH, SUPERB, with Friedl certificate
Lot #150 - british guiana
61 (112) 1876 8¢ deep rose Seal of the Colony, narrow space between value and "cents", unwmkd, perf 15, exceptionally rare in the perfect centering, rich color, surely one of the choicest examples extent!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
















