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 #489 - sierra leone
16 (21) 1876 4d blue Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, very rare mint as the majority of the printing was used postally, as such habitually undercatalogued!, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #490 - sierra leone
55 (62) 1897 2½d on 6d dull purple and green Stamp Duty, Scott Type d (SG Type 12) surcharge, only 196 printed, fresh color, OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #491 - sierra leone
76 (85) 1903 £1 purple on red K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, an exceedingly difficult, and seldom seen, used stamp -- easily 20 times more rare than the mint, perfectly centered, attractive oval "Sierra Leone" registry cancel, SUPERB
Lot #492 - sierra leone
140-52 (155-67) 1932 ½d-£1 K George V "Palms", wmkd Script CA, perf 12½, 12, cplt (13), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #493 - solomon islands
28-41 (22//38) 1914-23 ½d-£1 K George V, inscribed "POSTAGE REVENUE", wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (14), OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #494 - somaliland protectorate
27-39 (32-44) 1904 ½a-5R K Edward VII, wmkd CA or CC, cplt (13), OG, LH, SUPERB
Lot #495 - somaliland protectorate
O13 (O12) 1904 2a dull and bright purple K Edward VII Official overprinted "O.H.M.S." SG Type O3, wmkd CA, only 960 ptd, the "key" stamp to the Colony, a seriously undercatalogued mint stamp as the vast majority were used!, a very challenging stamp, OG, VLH, VF, with Philatelic Foundation certificate
Lot #496 - somaliland protectorate
O15 (O15) 1904 1R green K Edward VII overprinted "O.H.M.S." Official SG Type O3, wmkd CC, scarce, only 960 printed, and only 554 were sold, tied to piece by "Berbera" cds, VF
Lot #497 - south africa
26-32 (34-39) 1927-28 2d-10' K George V and Views, engraved, cplt (7) in horizontal pairs, perf 14, OG, HR, F-VF
Lot #498 - southern nigeria
32-43 (33-44) 1907-09 ½d-£1 K Edward VII, new colors, wmkd MCA, perf 14, cplt (12), OG, LH, VF
Lot #499 - southern rhodesia
1-14 (1-14) 1924-29 ½d-5' K George V Admiral set, cplt (14), used, F-VF
Lot #500 - straits settlements
165d (247) 1922 $1 black and red on blue Malaya-Borneo Exhibition overprint, wmkd MCA, perf 14, the very scarce and significantly undercatalogued "key" value to the whole issue, seldom seen at all!, light cancel, VF
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