Lot 2 Canada #3TC 12d Queen Victoria “Scar” Die Proof in Orange, on India paper with huge margins (29 x 29 mm), clearly showing a “scar” in CE of PENCE. An extremely rare proof, with only a handful known in any colour, this one is accompanied by a 2023 Greene Foundation certificate describing it as having a “natural diagonal paper crease, tiny pinhole at crown and thin in top margin.” Unitrade CV$12,500.
Welcome to our General Public Sale #50, the second of three scheduled for 2024. This sale offers our usual wide range of material, with quality Canada and provinces, British Commonwealth and worldwide singles, sets and collections. These include part three of the W.J. McGill collection of Scandinavia, a good offering of Canadian Federal and Provincial Revenues, several remarkable Wildlife Habitat Conservation lots and much more. Also of note is the second part of the Andrew Ellwood precancel collection.
Be sure to have a close look at our over 120 lots of postal history, with part four of the Gordon Richardson early Manitoba postal history collection, as well as a fine selection of useful postal history from Canada and worldwide countries including those in Scandinavia. We also have another great offering of philatelic literature.
We are proud to continue our long-standing tradition of showing online photos or scans of every single lot, so you know what you are buying, especially if you are not able to do pre-sale viewing in person. This sale is accompanied by thousands of high-quality pictures, far more than we can show in the print catalogue, which can all be seen in full colour on StampAuctionNetwork.com.
As usual, this sale will be conducted live on StampAuctionNetwork.com, also with a live floor, via telephone and other traditional bidding methods. A reminder that our buyer’s fee is still at 17%, and that all transactions are in Canadian dollars—a bonus for US customers and those using other currencies.
Enjoy the sale!
The Sparks Auctions Team