1-3 (1-3) 1875 1d-6d Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, cplt (3), rare and seldom offered, OG, LH, F-VF
Auction #141 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
Aste Terminate
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 #345 - gold coast
3 (3) 1875 6d orange Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 12½, with a perfectly applied "Accra" cds dated "AU 3 75" (August 3, 1875) which is the earliest recorded date! very rare thus!, VF-S
Lot #346 - gold coast
4-8 (4-8) 1876-79 ½d-6d Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, cplt (5), scarce, OG, LH, F-VF
Lot #347 - gold coast
5 (5) 1876 1d blue Q Victoria, wmkd CC, perf 14, with scarce "ADDAH" oval seal cancel, small faults, F-VF appearance
Lot #348 - gold coast
10 (9) 1883 ½d olive-yellow Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, scarce mint, signed, OG, LH, VF
Lot #349 - gold coast
10 (9) 1883 ½d olive-yellow Q Victoria, wmkd CA, perf 14, magnificent red "Anamaboe C" May 1 83 cds, very early usage, rare, SUPERB
Lot #350 - gold coast
28 (27b) 1902 2d dull mauve and orange-red Q Victoria, extremely rare used (in use for only 3 months), light Accra cds, VF
Lot #351 - gold coast
38-48 (38-48) 1902 ½d-20' K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, cplt (11), OG, HR, VF
Lot #352 - gold coast
47 (47) 1902 10' green and brown K Edward VII, wmkd CA, perf 14, scarcer used, by far, than the 20' and as such undercatalogued and not often seen, light cds, VF
Lot #353 - gold coast
55 (57) 1906 2'6d green and yellow K Edward VII on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, scarce used high value from the later printing, VF
Lot #354 - gold coast
64 (67) 1911 2'6d black and red on blue K Edward VII, wmkd MCA, perf 14, very rare and considerably undercatalogued used stamp given what actually appears on the market, seldom seen used, easily 20-30 times more difficult than its mint counterpart, light "Accra" cds, F-VF
Lot #355 - gold coast
65 (68) 1913 5' green and red on yellow K Edward VII on chalk-surfaced paper, wmkd MCA, perf 14, extremely rare and undercatalogued used, issued in 1913 by October of which it had already been replaced by the K George V 5' as such it saw very little postal usage and is hardly ever seen which accounts for its appearance on most advanced serious wantlists, lightly canceled, F-VF
Lot #356 - gold coast
76a (80b) 1921 2' purple and blue on blue K George V Die II, wmkd MCA, a scarce and undervalued stamp (most were used), fresh with good color, OG, F-VF
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