1 (3) 1853 1d brick-red Cape Triangle on slightly blued paper, Perkins Bacon printing, wmkd Anchor, imperf, full margins, a difficult and under-rated mint stamp!, a lovely shade, OG, HR, VF
Auction #141 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
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Mar 20, 2025 America/Los_Angeles
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #141 - Public Auction
Thursday Mar 20, 2025 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
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 #235 - cape of good hope
5 (7) 1858 6d pale rose-lilac Cape Triangle, white paper, Perkins, Bacon ptg, imperf, full margins, VF
Lot #236 - cape of good hope
6 (8) 1858 1' bright yellow-green Cape Triangle, white paper, a comparatively rare and definitely undercatalogued mint stamp, as the largest portion of this printing was postally used (only 1 mint multiple - a pair - is known), imperf, three full even margins, scarce mint as the vast majority of the "yellow-greens" were used postally, vivid color, part OG, VF, with BPA certificate
Lot #237 - cape of good hope
6 (8) 1858 1' bright yellow-green Cape Triangle, white paper, wmkd Anchor, Perkins, Bacon ptg, imperf, three full margins, lightly ccanceled, VF
Lot #238 - cape of good hope
7a (13a) 1861 1d carmine Wood-block on laid paper, imperf, full margin (at bottom) to close, lightly canceled, fine
Lot #239 - cape of good hope
9 (14) 1861 4d pale milky blue Wood-block, laid paper, imperf, full margins, an attractive example, tied to piece by light triangular grid cancel, signed Sismondo, VF
Lot #240 - cape of good hope
15 (21) 1863 1' bright emerald-green Cape Triangle, wmkd Anchor, imperf, full margins, lightly canceled, VF
Lot #241 - cape of good hope
21 (32) 1874 1d on 6d deep lilac Hope, surcharged (SG Type 7), VARIETY - bar and value close together at T, scarce, OG, HR, SUPERB
Lot #242 - cape of good hope
22 (33) 1876 1d on 1' green Hope seated surcharged SG Type 7, wmkd CC, perf 14, an astonishingly well centered example, which as a rule, is notoriously off center!, as anyone who ever tried to find one can attest, OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #243 - cape of good hope
25 (36) 1880 3d pale dull rose Hope, wmkd CC, perf 14, scarce and undercatalogued mint (since one month after issue, most were overprinted to produce SG 37-38), OG, NH, F-VF
Lot #245 - cape of good hope
39 (46) 1882 "One Half-penny." on 3d deep claret Hope Seated surcharge (SG Type 12), wmkd CC, the greatest mint perforated Cape rarity, it was missing in many great Cape collections of the past including General Smuts, Caspary, Isleham, Somas, Maximus, etc., rarely seen and seriously undercatalogued, especially considering how very rarely this stamp is available at any price, unused, F-VF, with Brandon certificate
Lot #246 - cape of good hope
39 (46) 1882 ½d on 3d deep claret Hope, wmkd CC, perf 14, surcharged "One Half-penny" SG Type 12 in black, scarce and undercatalogued used, F-VF
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