Lot 1956 Great Britain Group of 39 Stock Pages and 33 Album Pages of Mint and Used Victoria and Kings Stamps, and a few stock cards with interest for shades, cancels and plates. Scan a shows a group with cancel interest with many foreign offices cancels such as C30 (Valparaiso), B01 (Alexandria, Egypt), C51 (St Thomas, Virgin Is.), A25 (Malta), A26 (Gibraltar). More interesting cancels scattered throughout. Large format stamps to the 10sh., Victoria Scott #109, a nice selection of Seahorses, some early mint postage dues confirm the interest of this lot. See scans for a sampling of this lot. Fine to very fine. Estimate $800, sold for C$1,350.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
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Lot 1861, British Commonwealth Old Time Mint and Used Collection in a 1912 Standard Postage Stamp Album, sold for C$2,808
Lot 1861 British Commonwealth Old Time Mint and Used Collection in a 1912 Standard Postage Stamp Album, featuring mostly all mint stamps. Includes very extensive Great Britain, Gibraltar, Hong Kong (Noted some British Offices in China cancels), India, Malta, St Helena and Seychelles; other countries sparsely populated and mainly used, no Canada. Added pages cover early Ireland, China (includes Scott #158, CV$450, upside down in album) and Japan. Many scans online. Estimate $800, sold for C$2,400.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 1373, Extensive mostly used Commonwealth Collection 1840-1937 in six Lighthouse binders, sold for C$13,455
Lot 1373 British Commonwealth extensive mostly Used Collection of Queen Victoria to King George V Era in Six Lighthouse Binders with Matching Slipcases, 1840 to 1937, all on Stanley Gibbons pages for all countries (Aitutaki to Zululand), with most countries well represented. A lovely and very valuable collection left intact, and loaded with better singles and sets, way too many to list here. We estimate 90-95% of the collection to be used, rest is mostly mint hinged but we noted some never hinged in black mounts. Starts with Great Britain, with Penny Blacks (x4) and a Penny Blue, a mint #4 with original gum, four embossed QVs (3 are cut to shape), perforated Penny Red plated up to #224 (223 is mint), plus a number of other plated issues such as the ½d rose (all plates but #14), and much more (owner catalogued the GB long ago at $36,900). The owner catalogued many of the pages or countries long ago, many pages having a high catalogue value, several in the $500 to $1,000 range and more. For example we catalogued Malta alone at $3,775 (owner had $3,067). There are also a large quantity of expensive single stamps and sets in this collection, many cataloguing in the $50 to $200 range (and often much more), with many Shilling and Pound values throughout. The postmarks are for the most part clean, with most of the high values being postally used (a few are not). A much better collection than is normally seen. We have scanned over 150 pages online, just as a small sample. We highly recommend viewing this one in person to further appreciate the better than average quality, variety and very high catalogue value of this lovely collection. Overall fine to very fine. Estimate $15,000, sold for C$11,500.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 1056, selected group of worldwide covers, sold for C$1,053
Lot 1056 Worldwide Group of 73 Selected Better Worldwide Covers, from many different countries such as China (PRC), Switzerland, Germany, France, Zanzibar, Austria, United States, New Brunswick, India, Malta, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Cyprus, Gibraltar, French Polynesia, and much more. Noted commercial covers, first day covers, Zeppelin covers, destinations, frankings, a 1935 Portuguese Red Cross inverted overprint error cover, etc. A very useful and valuable lot, with a few small faults but overall fine or better, and quite worth a close look. Estimate $500, sold for C$900.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 958 — Malta #20a, 20b on piece
Lot 958 Malta #20a, 20b 1902 1d on 2½d dull blue pair with double surcharge and PNNEY variety with 1988 Philatelic Foundation Certificate: “Vertical combination pair, on piece, Valletta cancel, PNNEY surcharge on top stamp, double surcharge on lower stamp…It is genuinely used on piece.” There are traces of the doubling on the top stamp. If a modern certificate (which we recommend) confirms this, then this pair assumes much greater importance and value. Fine-very fine. (SG 36a, 36b £3,805) Scott CV$ 4,565.