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 #464 - niger coast protectorate
14 (29) 1893 ½d on 2d grey-green and carmine Q Victoria of Great Britain overprint, violet surcharge (SG Type 9) at Old Calabar, only 120 printed, signed Bloch, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #465 - nigeria
32a (29a) 1932 10' green and red on green K George V on chalk-surfaced paper, Die I, wmkd Script CA, perf 14, exceptionally difficult and undercatalogued used, a considerable rarity, F-VF
Lot #466 - north west pacific islands
26 (99) 1916 £1 chocolate and dull blue Kangaroo of Australia, overprinted "N. W. PACIFIC ISLANDS." SG Type 6a, wmkd Narrow Crown and Narrow A (SG Type W6), perf 12, OG, VLH, VF
Lot #467 - northern rhodesia
1-17 (1-17) 1925-29 ½d-20' K George V, wmkd Script CA, perf 12½, cplt (17), F-VF
Lot #468 - nyasaland protectorate
1-10 (72-81) 1908 ½d-£1 K Edward VII, wmkd CA and MCA, perf 14, cplt (10), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #469 - oman (british postal agencies in eastern arabia)
56A (58a) 1956 1½a on 1½d green Q Elizabeth II of Great Britain, wmkd St. Edwards Crown, perf 14, overprinted "1½ ANNAS" in error on this watermark, most of the known copies emanated through Southern Stamp Services packet making division who first discovered it while sorting out a shipment of mission mixture received from the Middle East, a very rare and difficult stamp, seldom seen and significantly undercatalogued, VF-S, with RPSL...
Lot #470 - rhodesia
19 (13) 1892 £10 brown Coat of Arms, unwmkd, perf 14, 14½, rare high value, top sheet-margin example, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #471 - rhodesia
20 (14) 1891 ½d on 6d ultramarine Coat of Arms surcharged SG Type 3, unwmkd, perf 14, 14½, extremely rare and undercatalogued used -- and seldom seen!, ex-Drysdall, F-VF, with RPSL certificate
Lot #472 - rhodesia
40 (51) 1896 1d on 3d grey-black and green Matabele Rebellion provisional surcharge (11mm setting, SG Type 6), only 420 printed, scarce "key value" to the Bulawayo Provisional set, very difficult and undercatalogued, especially used, F-VF
Lot #473 - rhodesia
43-49 (58-64) 1896 ½d-1' stamps of Cape of Good Hope overprinted "BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY", wmkd Anchor, perf 14, cplt (7), OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #474 - rhodesia
58 (74) 1897 £2 rosy red Coat of Arms, the rare perf 15 on thick paper, unwmkd, scarce, undercatalogued, well centered, part OG, VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #475 - rhodesia
76-81 (94-99) 1905 1d-5' Victoria Falls set, cplt (6), bright colors, well centered, used, VF
















