Stamps & Postal History (#89MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 601-700 of 928. Previous|12345678910|Next Lot #1103 STAMP DUTY: Collection with some postal usage including 6d fraudulent usage of cleaned fiscal on 1899 registered cover to Prince Edward Island (!), a few 2/6d (one with Barred Numeral 'MCCCC/81'), others to 10/- & a £1/5/- with 'R' h/s that is probably bogus, a few CTO to 4/-, fiscal usages including 15/- lilac, £1/10/- x2, 45/- x2, £5 x5, £10 x14, Ultra-High Values Recess £25 x4 and Litho £25 x9 & £50 in a brilliant magenta shade, etc, condition variable. A very useful lot. (250 approx) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolo Lot #1104 STAMP DUTY: 1884 High Values £5 pink to £9 yellow-green/green, only the £8 has the characteristic pinholes, 1880s manuscript cancellations, Gibbons Cat £950. [NB: despite Gibbons pricing the £5 as "used", not a single genuine postally used example of any of these values has been recorded] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSold SymboloGradea/a- Lot #1105 STAMP DUTY: 1886-96 Mitchell & Fergusson £5 to £9 Bicolours, charactersitic pinholes & manuscript cancellations. [NB: not a single postally used example of any of these stamps has been recorded] (5) View details Estimate$350Price Realized$320StatusSold SymboloGradea- Lot #1106 UNDENOMINATED TYPES: Large VR "PENALTY/PAID' x3 in distinctly different shades, VR & ER 'THIS INSTRUMENT IS NOT/CHARGEABLE...' and ER '...DULY STAMPED', generally very fine & attractive. (6) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymboloGradea/b Lot #1107 1853 (Sep 21) mercantile entire to New York "p Victoria" with Half-Lengths 3d (3 large margins) tied by Barred Oval '1' of Melbourne (d/s alongside), London transit b/s of 12DE12/1853 in red, rated mss "16" & superb American '37' h/s, 'NEW YORK/DEC/26/AM PKT' arrival cds, horizontal filing crease. Not recorded in Ben Palmer's Census. View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1108 1855 stampless OHMS part-entire to the Postmaster General with postmaster's endorsement "Lockwood PO/May 22 55" at lower-left, Melbourne arrival b/s & Butterfly '14' in red as a receiving mark, minor blemishes. Lockwood (2) PO opened c.-/2/1855 but some 3 months later, apparently had still not received a datestamp or numeral. The letter states "I...request that two small mail bags be forwarded to this office for the use of Sandhurst & Lockwood Mails...A Inglis/PS The horse which carried the miss View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1109 1857 cover to Scotland with exceedingly rare View details Estimate$16,000StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea Lot #1110 1858 cover to London "p Australasian...via Marseilles" with Woodblocks 6d yellow-orange SG 32b pair [41-42, very fine with large even margins] tied by BN '1' of Melbourne, light oval 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/JU*15/1858/ MELBOURNE' b/s in red, London arrival cds of AU9/58 in red on the face. A very fine classic cover. Carried per European & Australian Royal Mail Co "Australasian", departed 16/6/1858; "Cambria", Alexandria-Malta; & "Wye", departed Malta 5/8/1858, arrived Marseilles 7/8/1858. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$850StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #1111 1874 unusual style of mourning cover to Carmathenshire (Wales) with Laureates 6d only tied by 'EMERALD HILL/VICTORIA - 148' duplex, Melbourne b/s where a very fine strike of the small boxed 'INSUFFICIENTLY PAID/VIA BRINDISI' h/s applied, minor blemishes & unfortunate docketing on the face. View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #1112 FRANK STAMPS: 1884-1902 covers all with 'CHIEF SECRETARY' Frank stamp in black or blue, with imprints of Police Department x6 (various sizes & formats, one with printed Frank on Postal Card), Public Library Museums & National Gallery, Lunatic Asylum (from Beechworth), Government Statist x2 (one registered to NSW) & Commonwealth Department of External Affairs, condition rather mixed. (11 items) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolPS Lot #1113 WRAPPERS: 1909 No Borders 1d vermilion Stieg #E28, unused, Cat $US250 (2001). Very scarce. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #1114 Two albums of mostly pre-WWI covers, PPCs & postal stationery with CDS from 'ALBERTON WEST' to 'YOUANMITE', many scarce/rare types with early Commonwealth types including superb 'BERRY BANK', 'GARDENVALE WEST' on Vic/Roo combination franking and 'MOUNT DANDENONG NORTH', also 'BARWITE', 1878 'BLACKBURN CRK', 'DIAMOND CK UPPER', 1862 'GAFFNEYS CK', 'HOWES CREEK', 'JEETHO VALLEY', 'KIALLA WEST', 'KIRWANS', 'MOUNT HOOGHLY', 'MOUNT MERCER', 'PARADISE', 'PIREE', 'POWLETT COAL MINE', 'TARILTA', 'WELSHM View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #1115 BARRED OVALS: '12' of Maiden's Punt on an apparently superb but rebacked 2d Half-Length, and '23' of Swan Hill or Violet Town on 1d Half-Length, both very fine strikes. Both rated RRR. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolsGradea1/a1- Lot #1116 BARRED NUMERALS: Album of mostly Postal Cards & PPCs with an apparently all-different collection, some CDS & PPC interest, many attractive &/or scarce "ties" including '418' & manuscript "Jordan/25.2.09", '680' & 'GHERINGHAP' cds, 'MCC/65' & 'BULN BULN EAST' cds, well above-average 'MCCC/16' & superb 'KORNHEIM' cds, 'MCCC/87' & 'HOWES CREEK' cds, '1704' & 'ARDNO' cds, '1784' & 'TANKERTON' cds (French Island), '1857' & 'PARADISE' cds, '1892' & 'WARNCOORT' cds, etc, condition & quality of the stri View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #1117 BARRED NUMERALS: Orginal Type '343' of Tallarook, fine strike on Laureates 4d. PO 1.4.1861. Rated RRRR. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolsGradea b1 Lot #1118 BARRED NUMERALS: '772' of Yackandandah Junction good obvious strike on Laureate 6d. Rated RRRRR. PO 10.2.1872; closed 5.8.1885. [It is a measure of the rarity of legible strikes that this marking is not llustrated by Freeman & White. NB: no datestamp has been recorded] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSold SymbolsGradeb b2 Lot #1119 BARRED NUMERALS: 'MCCC/45' of Vectis East (1) good obvious strike on Naish ½d pink. Rated RRRRR. PO 7.7.1883; closed 1.10.1889. [Wimmera: 12km W of Horsham. Freeman & White state "Known on postal card, and one stamp"] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolsGradea b1 Lot #1120 Gracedale House: 'GRACEDALE HOUSE/13NO16/VIC' (ERD) very fine strike tying KGV 1d red to envelope - roughly opened - with printed 'GRACEDALE HOUSE' at upper-left, with four-page note on matching letterhead & 1907 PPC of the property. Rated RR. [7km ENE of Healesville. RO c.1902; PO 1.12.1914; closed c.1929] (3 items) View details Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSold SymbolcGradeb a1 Lot #1121 Melbourne: Album of covers, PPCs & postal stationery with a good selection of duplexes including 1860s types x4, 1890s single-circles, 1900-08 double-circles including scarce Small Type '-2-' & '-4-', early Commonwealth types, etc, also 1902 very late usage of '1' "killer", 1925 from GB with boxed 'RETURNED TO THE POST/OFFICE MELBOURNE FROM/___' h/s & 1909 PPC from Austria with boxed 'RECEIVED TORN/AT GPO' h/s, other inwards items including from Spain & Canary Islands, a few DLO items, condition View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #1122 Timmering: 'TIMMERING/8NO16/VIC' largely superb strike on KGV 1d red. A new discovery - in a Penny Reds collection - and the only recorded example. PO 28.5.1875; RO 1.8.1917; closed 29.11.1924. [13km ESE of Rochester] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold SymbolsGradea a2 Lot #1123 Yando: 'YANDO/10NO17/[VIC]' largely very fine strike on KGV 1d red. RO c.1902; PO 1.7.1910; closed 31.12.1920. [11km NE of Boort] View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold SymbolsGradea a3- Lot #1124 Quality collection with a good selection of Classics including 1d black x2 (one a large & attractive rouletted example but thinned), 4d x4 including an unused slate-blue (Brandon Certificate notes a surface fault) & 1/- x3 including deep grey-brown unused, Hillman Lithographs 2d x2 (one Printed on Both Sides), 6d black-bronze (Brandon Certificate notes small faults) & 6d grey-black x2 (one rouletted), 1860 6d sage-green (repaired corner), 1861 4d 6d x2 & 1/- x2, 'ONE PENNY' on 2d two settings, ' View details Estimate$5,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSold SymbolΩ*o Lot #1125 Attractive collection on leaves with Imperf 1d black horizontal & vertical pairs, 4d blue x7 including 'T' Shaved to a Point SG 3d & two with apparently genuine rouletting, and 1/- x2, Hillman Lithos 6d grey-black (very fine), handy group of later Swans, V/Crown mint to 2/- & used 2/- x3, 2/6d, 5/- & 10/- plus CTO £1, a few Postal Fiscals including Telegraph 1d single & pair with postal cancels, and a page of Spiro forgeries, the Imperfs in rather mixed condition otherwise generally fine to very View details Estimate$1,750Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1126 Stockbook of duplicates with a range of mostly sound Imperfs, loads of Middle Period with some better values, later issues to £1 plus some Postal Fiscals, Officials including a few "Commissariat Punctures", etc, condition variable. (few 100) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1127 1864-79 CC Perf 12½ 1d bistre as SG 52 horizontal pair apparently Imperforate Between as the result of faint blind perfs, two strikes of 15-bar '21' of Vasse leave the "gutter" unobstructed. A most unusual variety. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #1128 1864-79 CC Perf 12½ 1/- bright green with the Watermark Inverted & Reversed SG 61y block of 9, remarkably well centred throughout (almost a miracle!), large-part to full o.g. with the second row being unmounted, Cat £2700++ (for mounted singles). An extraordinary multiple of exceptional quality & freshness. Ex Lord Vestey. RPSofL Certificate (2015). View details Estimate$15,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*/**Gradea+ Lot #1129 1874 Surcharge 'ONE PENNY' in Green on 2d yellow with the Watermark Reversed SG 67x, very fine 15-bars '5' cancel of Guildford, undercatalogued at £60. RPSofL Certificate (2005). View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolfGradea Lot #1130 1895 Surcharge 'Half-penny' on 3d Double Surcharge, in Green & in Red SG 111b, the two overprints widely spaced, Cat £180. Very scarce used & underappreciated thus. [The nature of this issue was such that most examples were retained by philatelists, or as souvenirs] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolfGradea b1 Lot #1131 1902-11 V/Crown Single-Line Perf 12½ 2/- brownish red/yellow with the Watermark Sideways BW #W58Aaa, 'PARCEL POST/AP23/06/PERTH WA', Cat $500. [The ACSC states "...is rare in this perforation" with only one dated example recorded, of AU22/05. The same variety Perf 12x12½ BW #59Baa (SG 124a) is noted as "...not issued until 1909-1910"] View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea c1 Lot #1132 1902-11 V/Crown £1 orange-brown with Colour Flaw below 'ND' of 'POUND' BW #W66Ad (SG 128var), CTO with concentric-circles cancel, Cat $500 for the variety. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold SymbolvGradea b1 Lot #1133 1905-12 Crown/A Perf 11 1d rose-pink with the Watermark Upright BW #W13B (SG 151b) marginal block of 4 from the left of the sheet, three units unmounted, Cat $400+ (£360++). Superb! View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol**/*Gradea+ b1 Lot #1135 POSTAL FISCALS: Collection on leaves of postally used examples with 'I. R.' Overprints 2d x4 including a pair & on 1895 cover to Melbourne (b/s) & 3d on piece, 1893 CA/Crown 1d x11 including pair on local piece, 2d x3 (one is superb), 3d x8 including one with BN '17' cancel in blue & another + 1d on WA Bank front, 6d x5, 1/- x2 & rare 2/6d with oval Parcels d/s in blue, and 1899 W[crown]A 1d x4, 3d x6, 6d x4, 1/- x2 & 2/6d, generally fine to very fine. (52) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$600StatusSold SymboloΔc Lot #1136 RAILWAY STAMPS: 1907 Wmk 'WA/[crown]/GR' master plate of four watermark "bits" from which the dandy roll was developed, instrument number '2188' impressed vertically at lower-right. The watermark bits were constructed from fine wire that was affixed to the surface of the 2mm-thick metal backing plate (86x74mm). A remarkable survivor and a highly desirable & unique artefact: also the piece of oilskin - endorsed "2188" - in which the plate was stored. [Manufactured by the English firm Edwin Amies View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol?Gradea Lot #1137 REVENUES: 1906-40 Horizontal Swans Lithographed Issues on display pages, identified by issue with heaps of shades & values to £10, Watermark Varieties & multiples, a few transfer varieties noted including 5/- with Deteriorating Swan, also 1d vertical strip of 4 with varying impact of a Major Kiss Print, 3d with Mixed Perfs 11 & 14½ at the Base, also four usages on documents, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (520+) View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1138 REVENUES: Packet of documents with Revenues including Lilacs to 3/- & 5/-, Lithos to 10/- & a couple of others, very mixed condition; also betting ticket (?) with printed '[crown]/WA/PAID/STAMP DUTY'. (21 items) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$260StatusSold SymbolL Lot #1139 1897 overweight cover to "Black Flag South Gold Mine/Black Flag" with very scarce franking of 3d & 1/- tied by oval 'REGISTERED LETTER BRANCH/25JUN1897/POST OFFICE, ALBANY, WA' d/s (PMI #ORS2b) in violet, Kalgoorlie b/s but sadly with no Black Flag arrival, slightly truncated at left & a bit crumpled possibly from storage in a miner's vest pocket. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolclGradec Lot #1140 1900 Norddeutscher Lloyd PPC of "Königen Luise" with German 10pf tied by poor Seepost cds, to York with superb 'TRAVELLING POST OFFICE/ 1 /JA28/--/GSR WA' cds (no year slug) & light 'YORK' arrival duplex in purple. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea- Lot #1141 1901 envelope with Coat of Arms embossed in blue on the flap & a largely superb strike of the 'GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA/[crown]/FRANK STAMP' in blue, to England with 'SMR/PERTH WA' cds and 'PAID/OFFICIALLY/WEST AUSTRALIA' h/s as required on franked mail being sent abroad. Superb! View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,200StatusSold SymbolpsGradea+ Lot #1142 1905 (c. April) usage of 1d Postal Card with message headed "Bullingarra/Wannamal Siding/Mid Rail", to New York with 11-bars cancel probably of Wannamal & 'T/5' h/s, lightly stained on the reverse. Unusual remote rural origin. [Wannamal (1) RO opened 16.3.1905; to PO 15.4.1905. The first cds is recorded from 17.9.1906 only] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$600StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #1143 Picture Postcards comprising 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition "Joyce, Dogs & Penguins" & "Ponies on arrival in Antarctic" (Wharton GA-3 & GA-5); British Cerebos Table Salt advertising card with views including the "Discovery" in the Antarctic (minor blemishes); and French North Pole Expedition of Séquier et Darcis & Polar Map; unused. (4) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolPCGradea/b Lot #1144 AUSTRALIAN: 1911 Mawson Expedition cover with 'LOOSE SHIP'S LETTER/POSTED IN/ANTARCTICA/ [penguin]/SY AURORA/AAE' cachet overstruck with 'AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC/EXPEDITION 1911/("JK Davis")/COMMANDER OF SHIP', to JJ Kinsey in New Zealand with Tasmanian 1d & Hobart cds of 11MAR13. "Aurora" returned to Antarctica in December 1912 to collect Douglas Mawson & his party. However, Mawson with Xavier Mertz & Belgrave Ninnes had set off in the same month on the Far Eastern Expedition. 300 miles out, Ni View details Estimate$2,500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea Lot #1145 AUSTRALIAN: 1957-88 dealer's stock in two stockbooks, pre-decimal issues (at least 40 sets), 1966 Pictorials to $1 (20 sets), 1971 Treaty (40 sets), 1972 Cook (65 sets), 1973 Definitives (100+ sets), good range of later issues, mostly unmounted, plus some used/CTO. (Qty) View details Estimate$1,200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol**ovGradea Lot #1146 AUSTRALIAN: 1959 Pictorials 5d to 2/3d SG 2-5 x100 sets mostly in blocks, unmounted. Retail $1500. (500) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol**Gradea Lot #1147 AUSTRALIAN: 1966-68 Pictorials 1c to $1 complete in sheets of 48, unmounted. (11 sheets) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,200StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol**Gradea Lot #1148 AUSTRALIAN: 1971 Treaty and 1972 Captain Cook x50 sets each mostly in blocks, unmounted, Cat £375. Retail $600. (200) View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol**Gradea Lot #1149 BRITISH: "The Heart of the Antarctic, being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909" by Ernest Shackleton (1909) published by William Heinemann, London, Volume One 371pp and Volume Two 418pp both bound with six-panel spines & raised bands, with gilt rules and titles, marbled endpapers, and a pocket at the back of Volume Two for maps etc. Outstanding pictorial content with photogravure frontispieces, four double-page photographic plates, 271 single-page photographic plates, 12 col View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolLGradea- Lot #1150 GERMAN: 1906 German cover with brief letter headed "Charlottenburg 16.III.06 & signed "v Drygalski". [Erich von Drygalski was leader of the 1901-03 German South Polar Expedition in his ship "Gauss"] (2 items) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc/lGradea Lot #1151 NEW ZEALAND: 1911 return usage of German (10pf+)10pf Reply-Half unnecessarily with New Zealand ½d & 1d pair added, the message states "...the supply of Victoria Land stamps...is so limited that I am unable to comply with your request" & signed "JP Kinsey" over 'Official Representative/British Antarctic Expedition 1910'. Very unusual. View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea Lot #1152 UNITED STATES: 1909 Commodore Robert Peary group with Clinedinst framed portrait, "The North Pole...on the day of discovery", chromolitho card "Stars & Stripes Nailed to the North Pole" (superb postally used), FA Moss patriotics x2 & Dog Team (defective), also two Tuck "Oilette" cards with minor blemishes, unused. (8) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Symbolc Lot #1153 UNITED STATES: 1931 (May) Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine Expedition covers each with cachet in purple & straight-line "NEW YORK TO NORTH POLE" or "NEW YORK TO SPITSBERGEN" cachets & with additional frankings of GB 1½d or Norway 10o & 20o. (2) View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea Lot #1154 1922 Overprints on St Helena ½d to 3/- SG 1-9 with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, a few tiny defects, Cat £800. (9) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$320StatusSold Symbol*Gradea/a- Lot #1155 1924 Badge of St Helena ½d to 3/- with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, Cat £1000 (including the 5d, issued 1927). (11) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbol*Gradea b1 Lot #1156 1910-69 modest collection in two expensive Lighthouse hingeless albums (pages to 1979), with strength in 1920s issues mint &/or used. (few 100) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*/**o Lot #1157 1945-78 Issues in two heavy Lighthouse hingeless albums, many complete sets with strength in later years & a few M/Sheets, mostly unmounted. The albums alone cost more than the estimate. (100s) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol**/*Gradea Lot #1158 Commercial mail comprising 1885 with CofGH 2d strip of 3 with untidy cancels & 'MORIJA' cds, 1901 'MAFETENG' to "Tent No 35/POW/Broadbottom Camp/St Helena", 1903 CofGH 1d on 1½d Postal Card 'LERIBE' to France, 1908 CofGH ½d Postal Card 'MASERU' to 'MORIJA' (b/s), 1919 to the USA with superb 'ESHOWE' cds, 1926 & 1927 usages of South African ½d Postal Cards from 'MAFETENG' & 'MOHALES HOEK' and 1959 printed matter rate to USA but with 'Contains writing' h/s & taxed. Nice lot. (8) View details Estimate$650StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b Lot #1159 1901 stampless Boer War cover endorsed "From Cpl C Walker 2nd Mtd Infy SA Field Force", to Yorkshire with superb 'MARIBOGO/MY16/01/CGH' cds, crude flap repairs with "sticky" tape & stained at upper-left. [Maribogo PO was in British Bechuanaland 1892-1902] View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradec Lot #1160 1946-48 Overprints 2/- maroon with Badly Defective Overprint including 'P.C.O.F.', unmounted. Unlisted variety. View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold Symbol**Gradea c1 Lot #1161 1946-48 Overprints 2/- maroon with Double Overprint, unmounted. Sadly it's a forgery, albeit an extremely good one. View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold Symbol**Gradea c1 Lot #1162 Valuable batch of commercial covers from Bahamas View details Estimate$1,750StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcps Lot #1163 BAHAMAS: Scott album with 1901-86 issues complete including M/Ss, plus many later issues to 2005, Cat £2000+. A very fine collection. (few 100) View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Symbol* Lot #1164 BARBADOS: Collection in Scott album with attractive Britannias including Imperf 6d & 1/-, (½d) SG 13 (BPA Certificate) & (½d) SG 16 (Brandon Certificate‹), 1873 5/- rose (unusually well centred but faded) & '1D' Bisects SG 86 & 88 (Sismondo Certificate), QV to 5/-, then mint from 1892-1982 apparently complete including M/Ss & 1983-2006 largely complete, a few problems in the earlies but generally very fine. (100s) View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #1165 BARBUDA: ½d to 5/- SG 1-11 complete with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, mostly minor hinge remainders, Cat £225. (11) View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Symbol*Gradea-/b Lot #1166 BRITISH GUIANA: Scott album with a handy range of early issues to 48c, 1876-79 set, 1878 Provisionals including '2' on 24c SG 158 VFU (Philatelic Foundation Certificate), 1882 'SPECIMEN' Perfins 1c unused & 2c used, 1886-89 'INLAND/REVENUE' Postal Fiscals to $5 SG 183-189 mint, 1889 set used, 1905 $2.40 mint, 1913-66 issues complete mint, etc, plus Guyana complete to 1978 including Overprints, Cat £5000 approximately. Another very fine collection. (100s) View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #1167 CAYMAN ISLANDS: Scott album with 1900-82 Issues complete except for the 1908 '2½D' on 4d SG 35, plus many later issues to 2005, a very fine lot, Cat £3000+. (few 100) View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Symbol* Lot #1168 ST KITTS: 1923 Tercentenary ½d to £1 SG 48-60 complete with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, Cat £800. (13) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol*Gradea b1 Lot #1169 Commercial mail including 1870 tiny cover with 3c tied by '13' cancel & 'BELLEVILLE' cds, 1899 cover from Jamaica with 'NO SUCH OFFICE/IN CANADA' & 'ADDRESS CORRECTED.../...' h/s, 1908 PPC & cover and 1909 PPC all to Japan, 1924 & 1926 different AR cards with 10c blue or 10c bistre, 1942 Newfoundland to USA with DC22 Censor label, etc, generally fine to very fine. (11) View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #1170 1912-25 MCA 500r dull green SG 322, rich colour with no surface-rubbing, exceptional centring (which is almost a miracle with high value Keyplates), very lightly mounted, Cat £8000. A gem! View details Estimate$10,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea+ a1 Lot #1171 1832 large-part OHMS entire endorsed "Ratnapoora Catchery June Sixteen 1832" & signed at lower-left, to Kandy with largely very fine strikes of the previously unrecorded 'RATNAPOORA' & 'FREE' handstamps, overall damp-spotting that is not unattractive. An exciting new discovery of a significant rarity. Ted Proud states Ratnapura opened only in 1861, while Geoff Oxley's ERD for any Ratnapura marking is 1858. Here is proof that there was a post office at Ratnapura as early as 1832. [The strikes are View details Estimate$1,400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradec Lot #1172 Hagner album with an array of stamps from Imperial to PRC including Provinces. Bound to be pickings. (many 100s) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$700StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1173 1962 Mei Lan-Fang 4f to 50f as SG 2037-2044 but Imperforate set of marginal imprint singles, the 22f with a few very minor adhesions on the reverse otherwise unmounted, Cat £11,000. [A mounted set with hinge remainders sold at the Prestige auction of 14.8.2010 for $11,212] (8) View details Estimate$7,500StatusUnsold Symbol**Gradea-/a+ Lot #1174 PROVINCES - COMMUNIST: Huge duplicated array in four Hagner albums, one of Taiwan as a Province of China, mostly common stamps but with many of significant catalogue value, lots of unused & used multiples; also a similar array from Manchukuo including 1946 Bo Tsing Locals; generally fine to very fine. Inspection a must: if even some of the highly catalogued stamps are genuine, our estimate will prove to be extremely conservative. (1000s) View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold SymbolΩ*o Lot #1175 PROVINCES - COMMUNIST: North China: 1948 Mao Tse-tung Lithographed at Pingshan Perf 10-11 $500 vermilion vertical pair & $1000 horizontal pair as SG NC62A & 63A but both Imperforate Between, no gum as issued. Unlisted by Gibbons. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolΩGradea Lot #1176 PROVINCES - COMMUNIST: North-West China: 1949 Yili Republic Woodblocks $50 to $500 SG NW11-14, no gum as issued, Cat £575 (2012). Chris Ceremuga Certifcate (2007). [The Yili Republic was absorbed into the PRC at the end of 1949] (4) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$360StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #1177 1958-90 dealer's stock in two stockbooks, 1958 QEII, 1963 Pictorials, Ships, Visitors, 1982-83 Birds all well represented with many blocks, later issues including M/Ss, mostly MUH, used generally CTO. Huge retail value and enormous Face Value. (many 100s) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$420StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol**vGradea Lot #1178 1907 postcard from Glasgow, Scotland bearing 1d Edward; addressed to "Master R. Darling, Christmas Islands, Straits Settlements via Singapore" with double circle 'PENANG TO SINGAPORE/JA12/1907' marine-sorter cds and 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND/JA21/1907/+' (Proud Type B) arrival cds. View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #1179 1959 usage of 1954 Australian formular Territories 'AEROGRAMME' BW #FA3 to the USA with QEII 5c & 20c x2 tied by #2 cds. A rare & significant discovery with an entirely social letter. [The ACSC states "Unstamped aerogrammes were introduced on Christmas Island on 22.12.1958. No example has been seen"] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #1180 1961 usage of 30c Registration Envelope with QEII 50c tied by #1 cds, addressed to "Greenacres/SA" (= South Australia), Singapore transit b/s where it seems the address was amended to "USA", American 'FORM 3983 ISSUED/("Greenacres Wash")', 'Retour (Return to Writer)' & 'Returned from Los Angeles Calif/No....State Named' handstamps all in purple. Because the sender's address is on the flap as Melbourne, it was sent there. However, the last backstamp is of Launceston which, in the absence of any r View details Estimate$500Price Realized$440StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #1181 1961 commercial usage of formular registration envelope - not previously seen by us for Christmas Island - to Singapore (b/s) with QEII 10c strip of 3 tied by #2 cds. Another modern rarity. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #1182 1963-91 dealer's stock arranged in two binders with 1963 Pictorials mint x4 sets, CTO on Cocos x6 sets & used in Australia x11 sets, later issues in varying quantities. High thematic content. (100s) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$280StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol**ovGradea Lot #1183 1915 Japanese PPC (soldiers in kendo masks at bayonet practice!!) to GB with Straits 3c & Singapore cds, the message states "Another card salved from SMS Emden by me...", corner bend. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$340StatusSold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1184 1939 "Guba" Indian Ocean Survey Flight intermediate between Seychelles & KUT, to India with 'AHMEDABAD CANTONMENT' arrival b/s, a bit spotty on the reverse, Cat $650+. Scarce. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1185 1945 usage of British 'FORCES/LETTER' formular aerogramme from GB with KGVI 1½d only, to "Section 301/RAF/Ceylon Air Force" based on Cocos. Rare inwards mail. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$600StatusSold SymbolpsGradea- Lot #1186 1949 inwards cover with superb undated 'Cocos-Keeling/Is.' barrel mail b/s & BMA 3c green unusually cancelled with the 'C & W LTD/19NOV49/COCOS' cds. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #1187 1951 inwards GB 6d Aerogramme to ".../Cable & Wireless/.../Singapore" but sent via Darwin with typewritten 'QANTAS/SURVEY FLIGHT/CATALINA/VH-EBA/DARWIN-COCOS/VIA DJAKARTA' slightly overstruck with superb 'C & W LTD/30MAY51/COCOS' cds, light central vertical fold. The first such item we have seen other than from Australia, and the message is completely social. A marvellous item for the collector of British Aerogrammes, or Destination Mail. View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #1188 PENRHYN: 1902 Overprints on New Zealand ½d green block of 4, the left-hand units both with Mixed Perfs 11 & 14 at Left SG 12, full o.g., the upper units very lightly mounted & the lower units unmounted, Cat £4500++ as mounted singles. RPSofL Certificate (2005). View details Estimate$5,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*/**Gradea Lot #1189 1923 MCA 10/- & £1 SG 100-1 with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, Cat £600. View details Estimate$450Price Realized$420StatusSold Symbol*Gradea b1 Lot #1190 1924 KGV Shields ¼pi to £1 SG 102-117 with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, minor hinge remainders but very fresh, Cat £1100 (including the 1925 Script Wmk issue). (16) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$750StatusSold Symbol*Gradea- b1 Lot #1191 1894 Menelik II ¼g green Scott #1 accumulation including numerous blocks plus a quantity of complete panes of 25 (5x5) and sheets of 50 (10x5, with Millesimes '4'), unmounted (brown) o.g., Cat $US1000's. [The condition is very mixed with lots of curling and some sheets adhering to one another. However, this may represent a wonderful research opportunity, or a remarkable marketing or promotional opportunity] (Qty) View details StatusUnsold Symbol** Lot #1192 1921-27 Surcharges on Pictorials accumulation of large blocks, part-sheets & some complete sheets between Scott #136 & 153 with innumerable "errors" noted on the interleaving, includes impressive quantities of many values including 1g on 3t #146 sheet of 100, ½g on 8g #148 sheet of 100 & 1g on 12g #153 block of 40 & half-sheet of 50, etc, the vast majority are very fine unmounted mint. An exceptional research or wholesale opportunity. (many 100s) View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Symbol** Lot #1193 1951 Abbaye Bridge die proof of the frame only in indigo & 1955 Ethiopian Airlines die proofs of the frame only in green (weak impression at right), maroon or red, all on thin wove paper with large margins. Very attractive. Ex De La Rue Archives. (4) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #1194 POSTAL HISTORY: 1931 four apparently commercial covers to Balian at Dire-Daoua all with current adhesives (three roughly opened), also flight covers from Djibouti 1930 with '2.SERVICE AVION/Djibouti-Addis' h/s x2 (both roughly opened, one possibly commercial) & 1931 with similar h/s for the Fifth Flight & registered, 1942 Au Service du Maréchal registered cover with Somali '10F' on 5fr, & a few others. Scarce material. (13 items) View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Symbolc/co Lot #1195 PICTURE POSTCARDS: Box of PPCs from many countries but mostly used from Ethiopia to Turkey, a good range of frankings and postmarks plus a few from the Italian Occupation period, also some unused PPCs including an extraordinary 8-panel "Panorama de Constantinople", many other excellent subjects. A most unusual & at times weird lot. (approx 140) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$360StatusSold Symbolc Lot #1196 PICTURE POSTCARDS: Bundle of EH Schrenzel (Addis Ababa) topographicals including buildings - some of impressive proportions - & ancient ruins, bridges including donkeys crossing a death-defying wooden structure, native groups including warriors & market-goers, etc, also some primitive-artist cards, some minor blemishes/aging, unused. Very scarce material. (48) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSold SymbolcGradea-/b Lot #1197 1878-79 No Watermark 6d blue-green SG 3 corner block of 10 (4x3, missing units 9 & 10) from the upper-right of the left-hand pane, a couple of minor varieties noted, some perf separation/rejoining, large-part o.g. with two units being unmounted, Cat £1100++. A rare & desirable multiple. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Symbol*/**Gradea Lot #1198 1878-79 No Watermark 1/- bistre SG 4 annotated group comprising singles x7 (one used), corner pair, block of 4 from the base of the sheet & imperf at base, upper-right corner block of 6 imperf at right, and upper-left corner block of 8 (some perf separation/rejoining), many with Guide Dots in the Margins & some other varieties noted, generally very fine with large-part o.g. & a few units unmounted, Cat £2280+++. An exceptional lot. (11 items) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$700StatusSold Symbol*/**Gradea/b Lot #1199 1896 apparently commercial usage of QV (1d+)1d reply-half with message headed "Montevideo 23.2.96", to "SS Tanis/Punta Arena/Chile", 'SUCCURL MARITIMA/A 23FEBR96 1/MONTEVIDEO' cds & cancelled on arrival 'PUNTA ARENAS/27/FEB/96/CHILE', a bit stained but quite presentable. A remarkable UPU-permitted usage. [It appears that the intact card was sent to Uruguay by the engineer on SS "Tanis", who advised he was en route to Punta Arenas] View details Estimate$150Price Realized$260StatusSold SymbolpsGradec Lot #1200 1896 large parcel piece (150x112mm) to Germany with No Wmk 6d blue-green SG 3 tied by 'FALKLAND/ 1NO16/1896/ISLAND'S' cds (note "apostophe" between 'DS'), very fine '[crown]/REGISTERED' h/s, London transit d/s. The foreign letter rate was 4d. However, this was apparently a larger article. According to Stefan Heijtz parcel rates were 9d & upwards but the printed matter rate at this time was 1d per 4oz, indicating this was an article weighing between 12 & 16oz + 2d registration. Carried per "Rams View details Estimate$300Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1201 1933 usage of blue/white formular Registration Envelope size H, to Switzerland with rare franking of Centenary 1/- Government House (Cat £100 x5+), the registration label damaged on opening, minor blemishes. [A philatelic registered cover with the 6d Whale sold at auction in -/11/2014 for £456] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #1202 1908 Arthur Mills PPC "Native Canoe" (an outrigger with sail) to Melbourne with KEVII 1d red tied by straight-line 'RAKI RAKI' handstamp & Suva cds, minor blemishes on the view side. The message states "Trying to find where is a Macaroni Plantation" ! View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1203 1848-1957 collection in two Schaubek hingeless albums with useful issues to 1900, good range of 20th Century, mostly used, some mint or MUH, variable condition. (100s) View details Estimate$350Price Realized$550StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol** * 0 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
