Sale #43

1959 30c Red QEII BW #CI1, 1962 commercial use to Singapore, tape marks and tear on back. Rare.

1916-23 Seahorses DLR Printing SG #23, 10/- pale blue corner single, hinged in margin only, Cat £250.

1937-48 Freighters ½d to 10/- set on shiny suraced white paper including ½d P14 SG #26B-39B, fine MLH, Cat £200. (15)More Scans

1923 2d orange Die II SG #5 tied by faint 'PO NAURU/PLEASANT ISLAND' datestamp on Wilson cover to England, Cat £1,000 on cover.

Early 1970s cover to King George V EBS School in Bikenibeu, Kiribati with Overprinted 5c Anibare Bay tied by 'REPUBLIC OF NAURU/CENTRAL PACIFIC' cds (dateline not clear). Very scarce origin/destination mail.

1914-15 6mm Spacing 2½d on 10pf carmine SG #5, fine mint, Cat £95.

1915-16 Range [1] Single Wmk KGV with ½d x6 (mint x3 incl (bc) pair), 1d x2 mint, 4d x4 mint (incl White scratch behind emu (ACSC #110(2)v)), 5d x3 mint; [2] 1st Wmk Roo 2d x2 mint, 2½d x2 (one mint); [3] 2nd Wmk Roo 2d x3 (one mint), 6d x3 mint, 9d x2 (one mint), 1/- x3 two mint incl Break in bottom frame under O of ONE (ACSC #31(2)j);...

Mostly Mint Array with Roos 1915-16 Second Wmk 6d, 9d & 1/- x2, and Third Wmk 2d & 3d plus used 2/- (fault) Watermark inverted, 1918-22 2d, 2½d indigo variety White scratch extending from Cape Leeuwin, 2½d blue, 3d Die I x3, 6d blue x3 (one toned), KGV Heads to 5d including 5d orange x3 & 4d violet x2 (one has thin) plus used with 1d x3, condition a little mixed, mostly fine. (46)...

1915-16 ½d Green Electro 2 bottom right part pane of 30 [2R31-60], showing all catalogued varieties, MNG and significant perf re-inforcement. Mounted on annotated page. This is the Purves 3rd NWPI setting with the (acccbc) transcription error on the 5th row.

1915-16 ½d Green Electro 5 bottom left part pane of 30 [5L31-60], unit 32 with White flaw in King's hair, the crack on unit 46 is not apparent, 18 units MUH. This is the 4th NWPI setting with the large dots and No dot after S on unit 12. A rare intermediate setting.

1915-16 KGV Single Wmk ½d green abc block of 6 and ½d bright green aabcc vertical strip of 5 each with the Major Overprint Variety - No Stop after 'S' of 'ISLANDS' (just a minute trace of stop evident on both multiples) [Pos 12], some minor toning.

1915-16 KGV Single Wmk 1d carmine-red SG 67b Fourth Setting with Major Overprint Variety - No Stop after 'S' of 'ISLANDS' (just a tiny fragment of the stop is evident), fine used.