Lot 274 Newfoundland #7 1857 6½d scarlet vermilion Heraldic Imperforate, mint with full original gum, very lightly hinged. Four comfortable margins, bright colour and overall fresh, extremely fine and scarce. There is a light pencil Alfred Diena expert signature on back, plus another next to it, also in light pencil. A lovely stamp, accompanied by a 1986 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV$12,000, sold for C$6,800 plus buyer’s premium.
Auction #24
May 23-24, 2017
Lot 675, Royal Canadian Navy WW1 postal history collection, sold for $1035
Lot 675 World War I Royal Canadian Navy postal history collection with 55 items, much of the material being written up on pages. Includes scarce boxed censor handstamps and double circle markings, cards with ship named, different “No charge to be raised” markings, card addressed to Abu Zabal, Cairo (R.N. Radio Station). Many items with messages/enclosures. Many rare items. A seldom offered group. Estimate $1,000, sold for C$900 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 255, Vancouver Island five cent rose uprating a ten cent green Washington stationery cover (US), sold for $3105
Lot 255 Vancouver Island #5 1868 Wells Fargo & Co. cover, being a 10c green Washington stationery cover, mailed at Victoria on April 3, 1868 (docketing at left), uprated with a 5c rose perforated QV adhesive (sheet margin at right and showing part of stamp at top and bottom), tied by a #35 in grid (in blue), addressed to San Francisco, received there on April 7th, as evidenced by docketing at left, which also mentions this letter contained a draft for $400. A lovely and desirable cover, in very fine condition and accompanied by a 2015 Greene Foundation certificate. Ex. Jack Wallace. Estimate $3000, sold for C$2,700 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 1466, EKKO and AWR QSR Radio cinderellas collection in two volumes, sold for $5290
Lot 1466 Radio EKKO and AWR QSR Radio Cinderellas in two volumes, includes a 1924 EKKO Broadcasting Station stamp album with 314 U.S. radio station stamps, 31 from Canada and two foreign. Also C.S.C. cards and other cinderellas. Adventist World Radio started issuing QSL stamps in the 1970s. This collection contains one of only two known sets of proof sheets, with sheets in orange, green and violet. Also a selection of AWR stamps and part sheets, two full AWR stamp sheets of 64 stamps each. An amazing collection that would be impossible to duplicate. The complete PDF of the collection can be seen at this link. Estimate $5,000, sold for C$4,600 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 65, Canada 1893 eight cent blue grey Small Queen, F-VF NH, sold for $1438
Lot 65 Canada #44a 1893 8c blue grey Small Queen, mint, with pristine original gum, never hinged and fine-very fine. A fresh stamp, rarely found in this condition as evidenced by the 300% Unitrade adds to this denomination in NH state (for VF). Accompanied by a 2016 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade Cv$1,287, sold for C$1,250 plus buyer’s premium.
