Lot 1203 Nepal #10, 10a 1906 Half anna black with very rare postmark This strip of 3 comes from the rare setting 5 and can be positively identified as clichés 5, 6 and 7. Cliché 6 is inverted and cliché 7 has the flattened base. The strip has an almost complete strike of the Sawari Hunting Camp used during King George V’s visit to Nepal in 1911. Illustrated in Singer’s Nepal. Est $500, $475 hammer.
Auction #10
June 26-28, 2012
Lot 242 — Canada #91b Five Cent Edward Blue on White, Realized $1265
This realization is even more remarkable for the fact that a similar stamp described as ‘superb’ sold for $500 in a major public auction in New York two days later. Ours was on white paper and theirs on blue. White is a bit scarcer, and while we didn’t say ‘superb,’ the one in our sale is better-centered.
Lot 242, Canada #91b 1903 5c blue on white paper King Edward, mint never hinged, fresh and very fine. Unitrade CV$1400. $1100 hammer.
Lot 1703 — Canada Three Penny Beaver on mourning cover, deep red with major re-entry
Lot 1703 Canada #4vii 1856 3d deep red Beaver with Major Re-Entry on Cover. Stamp has four margins, with very clear pos. 47 re-entry and is tied to lovely mourning cover sent Québec DEC.27.1856 to Montreal same day arrival on back. Light stain on front caused by wax seal on back, else very fine and scarce. Accompanied by 1984 Greene Foundation certificate on which it is written in pencil that this was lot 587 in Maresch sale 168/69 which then sold for $1,600 plus 15%. Ex-Cantor. Unitrade CV$1,800
Lot 1587 — Long Island Half penny typewritten issue
Lot 1587 Long Island SG #6 1916 ½d Mauve Typewritten Issue, unused no gum, on pale green paper with horizontal grey lines, and with variety “No space between Postage and &”. On old Stanley Gibbons Limited Sales card with full description, stating “only two or three can have existed” with this variety. Very light diagonal crease for the record, else very fine. SG CV £750
QE II Era Errors
The modern Canada section features many lots of Elizabethan errors and oddities: foldovers, over- and under-inkings, etc. in lots 393-461. Nearly all are from one collection.
