Andrew Ellwood

Announcing Sale 50

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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 and postcards, and 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. Also of note in this sale is 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

Lot 251, Extensive and Specialized Canada Precancel Collection in two deluxe albums, sold for C$31,590

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Lot 251, Extensive and Specialized Canada Precancel Collection in two deluxe albums, sold for C$31,590Lot 251 Extensive and Specialized Precancel Collection, neatly displayed in black mounts in two deluxe Deveney Stamps precancel albums, which closely follow the Marasco and Taylor Precancel Catalogue. Volume 1 is for forerunners, bars and perfins, and volume 2 is for towns and cities. This is the most extensive collection we have offered to date, by far. It is loaded with stamps cataloguing $100 to $500, in fact far too many to list. One way to gauge the extensiveness of the collection is to say that we counted 2,395 different stamps in the towns and cities section alone, plus another 220 different forerunners and bar types for a total of 2,615 stamps. These numbers do not include the numerous added extras, usually in the form of pairs and blocks of four, but sometimes extra copies, or slight variations on the precancel. We noted that many stamps have never hinged gum, including the sought after Admirals, which adds to the desirability of this awesome collection. This collection was formed over a lifetime, and contains quantities of items that are difficult to locate. We have scanned only a small portion of the pages in our Stamp Auction Network listing and in our Image Gallery, and can easily offer video viewing on request. Ex Andrew Ellwood collection. Estimate C$15,000, sold for C$27,000.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.

Lot 247, Canada Toronto Style 1 precancel on one cent Queen Victoria Numeral, Fine ng

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Lot 247, Canada Toronto Style 1 precancel on one cent Queen Victoria Numeral, Fine ngLot 247 Canada #1-75 Toronto Style 1 Precancel on 1c Queen Victoria Numeral, without gum, a fine centered stamp with a thin at top, never the less a very rare stamp of which only 3 copies are known to exist, being a separated strip of three originally found by the Postmaster of Upper Stewiacke, NS. Ex Andrew Ellwood collection. Precancel Catalogue C$3,000.

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