3d (3e) 1866 20pa pale blue Turkish Suzerainty overprinted in black SG Type T3 (Scott Type A3), wmkd Star over Pyramid, VARIETY - perf 13, scarce, light cds, VF
Auction #138 - Public Auction
By: COLONIAL STAMP CO.
COLONIAL STAMP CO. Auction #138 - Public Auction
Welcome to our first Public Auction of 2023 - #138
We are offering a marvelous range including many scarce and desirable rarities from a number of estates and collections.
Great Britain and British Europe: Great Britain features a mint “Penny Black”(Plate 6); a 1856 4d Medium Garter, perf 14 mint; 1860 1½d rosy mauve unissued shade; 1880 2/- brown wing-margin mint; 1867 5/- rose mint Maltese Cross (Plate 1); 1882 £1 brown-lilac, superb, used; 1882 £5 orange on blued paper; 1913 £1 green never hinged; 20+ lots of Officials including a mint 5/- “I R Official”; Levant errors; Cyprus has a 1923 £1, rare used.
British Africa: Bechuanaland 1888 2d on 2d green overprint (superb with Brandon certificate); British Central Africa has a 1d on 3/- “PNNEY” error in a block of 9 (few blocks known); Cameroons “C.E.F.” complete used – all very rare thus!; Cape of Good Hope shows a mint 1a(1) with Sismondo certificate, a 4d blue on blue used block of 4; a 39 (46) mint with an RPSL certificate; Mafeking with a “large” mint General Baden-Powell; Gambia with U.P.U. specimen in strips of 5 (one malformed “S”!); Gold Coast 95 (102) £2 very rare used; rare Griqualand pane and large blocks; Kenya mint £4; Madagascar features 16 different; some scarce New Republics; Rhodesia shines with mint £10 and scarce £2 rosy red on thick paper; Sierra Leone has scarce surcharges and a 1923 £5 mint; South West Africa shows a rare used £1 pair; Togo 1914 50pf mint, 1M used (tied to piece), 2M Occupation double overprint used (1 of 8 known!).
British Asia: India 25 (65) 8a carmine – the greatest perforated Q Victoria mint regular issue; Patiala 23 (29) 2R overprint – very rare used; we show some better Jordan; Federated Malaya States 13A (14) $25 – the first used example we have offered by us in our 50 years!
British North America: Canada has a range of choice classics, Jubilees complete, several $ values superb; British Columbia & Vancouver Island features 3 (11) the “key” 5¢ rose imperf, mint, expertized.
British Oceania: Cook Islands and Niue have many great rarities!; Fiji with 4 different “Times Express”; New Britain up to the 3/- on 3M, mint; New Zealand shines with classics and Officials; North West Pacific Islands features rare and key values plus overprint errors.
Did I overlook some additional “good” stamps as I usually do? No doubt!
As always best of bidding luck!
P.S. for over 50 years our personalized want list work has dwarfed our Public Auctions. Please feel free to forward copies of your current lists and it will be bounced against our multi-million dollar, 50 volume, stock. We usually can be of great help!
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Lot #598 - Egypt
81b (101a) 1922 4m green Giza Pyramids K Fouad overprint, ERROR - overprint inverted, pos 32, unpriced in Scott or Stanley Gibbons, fresh, with small natural inclusion on reverse, which doesn't affect this great rarity, one of only 12 examples known to Charles Hass (four singles and two blocks of four), OG,VLH, F-VF, with Hass certificate
Lot #599 - Egypt
98 var (117 var footnoted) 1923-24 15m bright blue K Fouad I, imperf essay sheet-margin pair, OG,NH, SUPERB
Lot #600 - Egypt
121-23 (141-43) 1926 5m-15m Inauguration of Port Fouad overprints, cplt (3), each signed "C.F. Hass", 15m also signed "ela" (E.L. Angeloglous), OG, VLH, F-VF
Lot #601 - Egypt
121-24 (141-44) 1926 5m-50pi Inauguration of Port Fouad overprints, cplt (4), key set of the country, as only 1500 of the 50pi were printed and the whole issue sold out on the opening day of sale in a matter of hours, lightly canceled, well centered, 50pi with Brandon certificate and signed Brun, VF-S
Lot #602 - Egypt
155 var-58 var footnoted (178a-81a) 1929 5m-20m Crown Prince Farouk Ninth Birthday trial color proofs with black or brown centers (and clearer portraits), only 2000 sets issued, cplt (4), OG, VLH, SUPERB
Lot #603 - Egypt
177-90 (219-32) 1934 1m-£1 Khedive Ismail Pasha (10th Congress of U.P.U.), cplt (14), OG, LH, F-VF appearance
Lot #604 - Egypt
177-90 (219-32) 1934 1m-£1 Khedive Ismail Pasha (10th Congress of U.P.U.), cplt (14), well centered, lightly canceled, VF-S
Lot #605 - Egypt
O21-30 (O111-20) 1922-23 1m-50m Pictorials with "O.H.E.M.S." Official overprint SG Type 44, wmkd Triple Crescent and Star, perf 14, cplt (10) including both sizes of the 15m indigo Statue of Rameses II, undercatalogued, OG,HR, F-VF
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