A Traditional Philatelic Auction House — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
December 1-3, 2009
This attractive plate proof appealed to many—including seven who placed advance bids plus a telephone bidder—before selling on the floor for $230.
Canada #15TC 1859 5c orange vermilion Beaver plate proof on India paper, from top sheet showing full imprint, very fine, choice piece. Unitrade CV $225 Realized $265 including premium.
Canada #28b 1868 12½¢ deep blue Large Queen on thin paper, pair from an early printing with deep rich colour, and full early AP 20, 1868 Saint John datestamp, fresh and extremely fine. A lovely item for the connoisseur. Unitrade CV $360 Realized $575 including premium.
This pair with deep colour and the dated cancel truly earned the extremely fine designation. There were eight advance bids with the lot opening at $400 and selling for $500 to a bidder who is very happy to have purchased it. Incidentally, the owner originally consigned an even dozen Scott #28 as one lot. The other ten became Lot 47 and were sold for a respectable but very reasonable price of $325. I doubt very much that as a lot of twelve stamps it would have received $825 in total.
We begin our first full week of post-auction commentary with the Canada #1 on cover. This realized about twice what similar covers were selling for only a few years ago.
Canada #1 1851 3d red Beaver on laid paper on cover, an extremely fine stamp tied by 7-ring cancel and postmarked Toronto NO 26 1851 to Quebec with receiver on back dated DEC 3 1851. A rare small cover, tear on back flap, very fine. Accompanied by 1981 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV $2000. Realized $1840
An excellent realization to start, the set of 1897 Jubilee plate proofs.
Canada #50-65, 1897 Jubilee set of large die proofs, with 16 different values in issued colours, die sunk on card. Cards measure 280 x 160mm and sunken area measures 65 x 62mm. Extremely fine and rare set worthy of the finest collection, and the cornerstone to any exhibit of this issue. Estimate $35,000, Realized $29,900 with buyer’s premium.
Wurttemburg 1851-1894 Comprehensive used collection, on Lighthouse hingeless pages. Nearly complete with the exception of 1851/1865 colour shades and paper varieties. Includes many key values including Scott #6 (closed tear), 18 (small thins), 29, 46 (small thin) and 53 (thinned with Ceremuga certificate stating “genuine in all respects”). Also note several clear town postmarks, #2 on folded letters. Generally fine-very fine with several very fine, four margin stamps throughout. Overall much better quality than normally seen. An excellent opportunity from which to build a specialized collection. Scott CV $11,319