A Traditional Philatelic Auction House — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Madhukar Belkhode Collection of Canada Admirals is an award-winning collection which won high distinction at several international competitions.
It is featured in lots 146-238 of the sale.
The Exhibit itself can be seen in our Image Gallery, or downloaded in PDF form (the file is very large).
If you wish, we can send a printout for $65 in full colour, or $15 black and white, shipped to North American addresses. Please contact us if you wish to receive one.
We are pleased to present our Public Auction #11, taking place at our
Ottawa premises on November 13-15, 2012.
Auction #11 starts with a wonderful selection of the scarce Canada
pence issues. Seldom indeed have there been four of the perforated six
penny offered in one auction. Complementing the classic issues of
Canada are some of the great mint stamps of the provinces: the
imperforate ten cent of Vancouver Island and the first issue of
Nova Scotia are two of the highlights. The whole of the Victorian
era is strong and one cannot fail to be impressed with the lovely
mint Large Queens as well as some very rare stamps. The three Kings
period offers gems such as a set of the Quebec Issue large Die Proofs
and then into the Admirals beginning with the Madukhar Belkhode
International Gold Medal Collection. Rarities abound through the
period and then throughout the Elizabethan period with the greatest
rarity being the inverted $2 Normal School which is quite a bit
scarcer than the inverted Seaway. Our back of the book offerings are
strong, highlighted by possibly the finest of the inverted $3 Third
Bill issue and the tremendous offering of Consular Fee stamps with
an uncatalogued variety, rare imprint blocks, and even full sheets.
Day Two of the auction has four sessions. Dominating the Commonwealth
is the Geoff Leech offering of New Zealand. Many of these lots are
opportunities to obtain quite rare but not necessarily expensive
varieties which were acquired over a lifetime by a very keen student
of New Zealand. Worldwide offers a broad selection from such diverse
places as China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greenland, and Thailand.
Postal History has a handful of lovely covers with rare and expensive
stamps. Of greater interest to many will be the groupings, in which
there are treasures to be acquired. Literature — which merits a
separate section — is bulky (seven full bookcases) but also contains
many scarce and sought after reference works.
Our third day offers the strongest group of lots and collections ever.
One lot is Malta essentially complete which might have been offered
as several dozen lots; another lot of France which has a short and
modest description but an astounding catalogue value of E55,000;
Norway has many strong lots; and of course Canada is very well
represented. Viewers should plan on spending more time than usual
to appreciate the depth and quality of the lots.
The sale is now posted on Stamp Auction Network at:
http://stampauctionnetwork.com/ik/ik11.cfm
Print catalogues are now at press and will be mailed out next week.
Also beginning next week, this site will have PDFs of the catalogue
as well as the Auction Gallery with additional images, corrections
or notes on the sale, featured items, and comprehensive instructions
on how to bid.
We are sure you will find something of interest in this sale.
Eleven lots from one consignment feature the 1915 5c blue Admiral War Tax in various ways from singles and covers, to blocks of ten and sixteen.
Lot 328 Canada #MR2Bi 1915 5c blue Admiral War Tax. Mint, fresh, never hinged block of 16 (4 x 4), from bottom of sheet. Catalogued as 6 x very fine, 3 x fine-very fine and 7 x fine. Unitrade CV$11,125.
Lot 335 Canada #MR2Bi 1915 5c blue Admiral War Tax on Registered Cover. Mailed Toronto Sub Office 116 on MAR.06.1916. Also 2c Carmine War Tax paying a 7c rate to Toronto. Very fine. Unitrade CV$500
Lot 286 Canada #111a 1912 5c indigo Admiral mint never hinged, lovely deep colour, very fine. Unitrade CV$ 1,350 .
Lot 291 Canada #116 1912 10c plum Admiral, mint never hinged, with deep colour, balanced margins and very fine. Accompanied by 2010 Richard Gratton AIEP certificate. Unitrade CV$ 1,200.
With each successive auction our consignors offer ever more interesting items to collectors.
In every section of Canada we have stamps which delight. The 77 lots of Large Queens will please collectors of mint, of varieties and especially of two-ring numeral postmarks. Small Queens offers mint multiples, proofs, imperforates, cancels and true old-time accumulations. The overall nice quality of the larger used lots is noteworthy. Later Victoria offers scarce large multiples, delightful proofs and imperforates, as well as top quality singles. Our Admiral section of nearly one hundred lots includes a very strong section of War Tax purchased at the time of issue and now on the market for the first time in nearly 100 years. Numerous better items in the Edward and the two Georges lead us into the wonderful array of a Queen Elizabeth Exhibit Collection of Wildings and Cameos. It will likely be a very long time before many of these come back into circulation. Later Elizabeth issues and back of the book have many interesting and scarce items.
Two of the highlights in the BNA section are the magnificent P.E.I. #2 and the well-centered Columbia airmail. It is fascinating that from different consignors we have a trio of “tens.” Two from B.C. have the numeral 10 of Williams Lake and a few lots later there is a rare numeral 10 rate marking from Nova Scotia.
The British Commonwealth section will help collectors fill holes and includes a group of nice Penny Blacks.
Our highlight in the auction is the Ken Kershaw collection of Nepal and Tibet. We regard both of these areas as being on the cusp of much greater popularity because of the growing strength of the collector markets in both China and India.
Postal History and postmarks continue to offer lots which originate in Exhibit Collections now broken into collector-oriented lots. Conversely, we see other lots which were groups of interesting covers put away over the years with the thought of developing an exhibit. We hope you enjoy this section.
Lots & Collections, thankfully, does not fill as many bookshelves as our previous auction but does include many top quality offerings worthy of inspection.
This auction features the largest number of extra scans we have been able to provide. Fifty lots have ten or more scans; fifteen have twenty or more, and some even have more than fifty scans. They can be seen by section and lot number in our Image Gallery.
PDF Catalogues can be seen on our website now, with print copies expected to be mailed by June 11th to arrive at subscribers early the following week. The auction is now open for bidding on Stamp Auction Network.