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 #114 - bechuanaland
19 (18) 1888 5' green and black Q Victoria, wmkd Script VR (sideways, reading up), perf 13½, light "Mafeking" cds, scarce used, F-VF
Lot #115 - bechuanaland
19 var (18 var footnoted) 1887 5' green and black Q Victoria, VARIETY - on bluish paper, perfectly centered, OG, HR, SUPERB, with RPSL certificate
Lot #116 - bechuanaland
41 (58) 1897 ½d yellow-green Cape of Good Hope overprinted "British Bechuanaland" SG Type 18 (narrower - 10½mm apart and 15mm long), excessively rare and undercatalogued used, perfectly centered, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #117 - bechuanaland
51 (55) 1890 ½d vermilion Q Victoria of Great Britain, overprinted "Protectorate" (SG Type 17) 19mm long, rare and undercatalogued as only 840 were printed, this stamp is difficult to locate, as it was an essay overprint that was pressed into service during a shortage, well centered, large part OG, F-VF
Lot #118 - bechuanaland
51 (55) 1890 ½d vermilion Q Victoria of Great Britain, overprinted "Protectorate" (SG Type 17) 19mm long, rare and undercatalogued as only 840 were printed, this stamp is difficult to locate, as it was an essay overprint that was pressed into service during a shortage, less than 1% were used, undercatalogued, perfectly centered, light "Vryburg" cds, SUPERB, with Brandon certificate
Lot #119 - bechuanaland
53 (54) 1890 ½d vermilion Q Victoria of Great Britain, overprinted "Protectorate" (SG Type 16) 15mm long, rare and undercatalogued as only a few sheets were printed, this stamp is difficult to locate as this was an essay overprint that was pressed into service during a stamp shortage, fresh, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #120 - bechuanaland
56 (48) 1888 2'6d green and black Q Victoria overprinted "Protectorate" SG Type 12, wmkd Script VR (sideways), perf 13½, signed, OG, VLH, XF
Lot #121 - bechuanaland
64 (44) 1888 4d on 4d lilac and black Q Victoria, overprinted "Protectorate" SG Type 12, black surcharge SG Type 13, a very scarce key and significantly undercatalogued stamp, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #122 - bechuanaland
92 (83) 1915 2'6d deep sepia-brown K George V Sea Horses of Great Britain overprinted "BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE" SG Type 21 by Waterlow, nice "Francestown" cds, VF
Lot #123 - bechuanaland
92a (85) 1916 2'6d pale brown K George V Sea Horses of Great Britain overprinted SG Type 21, De La Rue printing, scarce and undercatalogued used (the normal ratio is 10 or 20 to 1 against used!), light "Lobatsi" cds, perfectly centered, SUPERB
Lot #124 - bechuanaland
93 (84) 1914 5' rose-carmine K George V Sea Horses of Great Britain, Waterlow printing, overprinted "BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE" SG Type 21 by Waterlow, severely undercatalogued used, light double-ring "Lobatsi" cds, SUPERB
Lot #125 - bechuanaland
93a (87) 1919 5' bright carmine K George V Sea Horses of Great Britain overprinted "BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE" SG Type 21 on De La Rue printing, severely undercatalogued used, with "Lobatsi" double-ring cds, VF
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