Stamps and Postal History (#111MG) 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 901-1000 of 1007. Previous|1...4567891011|Next Lot #906 EL SALVADOR: 1959 Visit of President Lemus to the United States complete set of imperforate colour separations for the six denominations with Large Figures of Value, affixed to two pages from the printer's records. Ex Courvoisier Archives. (30 proofs) View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #907 EL SALVADOR: 1960 Christmas (Flowers) complete set of imperforate colour separations for the eight standard denominations plus the 40c & 60c that were issued only in miniature sheet format, affixed to eight pages from the printer's records. Ex Courvoisier Archives. (119 proofs) View details Estimate$1,250StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #908 EL SALVADOR: 1961 150th Anniversary of Independence (SG 1154-63) complete set of imperforate colour separations for the ten denominations, affixed to five pages from the printer's records. Ex Courvoisier Archives. (60 proofs) View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #909 MEXICO: Well-developed collection in Scott album with a good range of early issues & an extensive array of pre-WWII material including 1938 Town Planning mint, WWII issues largely complete including 1942 Observatory, 1944-46 Definitives, 1945 Conference & Theatre all mint, post-WWII largely complete mint to 1972 including 1945 Education, 1946 United Nations & Zacatecas, 1947-48 Definitives & Airs, 1950-53 Airs, 1954-58 Definitives, 1953-56 Airs, 1956 Stamp Centenary M/Ss, etc, also useful Back o View details Estimate$750Price Realized$850StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #910 VENEZUELA: 1950 450th Anniversary of the Discovery of Lake Maracaibo complete set of imperforate colour trials for the Postage & Air Mail sets, affixed to three pages from the printer's records. A beautiful series. Ex Courvoisier Archives. (34 proofs) View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #916 Kedah Malaya-Borneo Exhibition simplified set of 8 mint with characteristic tropicalised gum, Perlis 1951 Definitives, Labuan 1894-96 six values to 24c with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint (no gum) & 1896 Jubilee mint set (aged), and North Borneo 1897-1902 seven values to 24c with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, condition rather mixed. (43) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*Ω Lot #919 NORTH BORNEO - JAPANESE OCCUPATION: 1944-45 Single-Line Overprint on Stamps of Japan 3s green, 5s maroon (x80 only, interleaving adhering), 6s orange & 8s purple SG J37 & 39-41 complete sheets of 100, unmounted & very fresh, Cat £5000++. (4 sheets) View details Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold Symbol*/**Gradea Lot #927 Very fine 'NEBONG/[crown]/T[IB]AL' on CA 2c rose, superb 'S'-in-bars of Sarawak on CC 6c lilac, very fine 'MEDAN' (Dutch indies) on CA 8c orange, very fine 'PENANG' cds on French 80c, fine 'NI POSTAGENT PENANG' squared-circle on CA 6c lilac, etc, also a few security "chops" including 'JOHN LITTLE & Co' on CA 96c & oval '[FOR]WARDED/[...]ANDS BETTI[...]/[P]ENANG' in blue on 12c on East India 4a, stamps Cat £400++. (12) View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Symbols Lot #928 1855 (c.) piece with part-flap, Indian 1854 Imperf 1a (3½ margins, just touched at upper-left, creased at the top) just tied by very fine diamond-of-dots cancel (Proud #K1; rated 7500 Pts) with largely fine 24mm double-circle 'PENANG/P.O.' cds (Proud #D2; illegible date) in red. [The cds was introduced mid-1855. The diamond-of-dots was replaced by the octagonal 'B/147' cancel about 6 months later] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolΔGradeb Lot #929 1873 cover to Pennsylvania "via Hong Kong/& San Francisco" with 8c orange & 12c blue tied by small bars "killer" (Proud #K17), very fine 24mm 'SINGAPORE/MR28/73/PAID' cds in red & superb strike of the boxed 'PAID ALL' Postal Convention h/s (#PD2; rated 5000 pts on cover), no American markings, dessicated & with extensive archival tape repairs still attractive. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradec Lot #930 1875 (Jan) flapless cover to Hampshire with GB 1/- green tied by '42'-in-diamond-&-bars cancel of the London Foreign Branch, docketed on the face "Lieut JEC Goodrich", minor blemishes. Lieut Goodrich was serving on the battleship HMS "Audacious" at Penang. Carried per P&O "Golconda" to Galle; then "Mirzapore" to Southampton, arrived 8/3/1875. Ex Geoffrey Osborn. View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #931 1887 commercial usage of 3c blue Postal Card to Saxony with 22mm 'SINGAPORE/OC5/87' cds & a very fine strike of the rare French mailboat 'POSS.ANGL/6/OCT/87/PAQ FR No7' d/s in red ('N' Omitted; Salles #1934var with sans serif year), creased at left with crude "sticky" tape repair on the reverse, full message in German. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradec Lot #932 1888 (Dec) cover with printed 'United States Consulate/at ("Singapore")' at upper-left to the USA "Per German Mail/SS Preussen/via Brindisi", 8c orange & 10c slate tied by light but largely discernible 'CONSUL OF THE UNITED STATES/SINGAPORE' intaglio seal in red & Singapore cds, light boxed registration datestamp at the base, New York arrival b/s in purple. A lovely cover. Ex Derek Clayton: sold in Singapore 4/7/2009 for $S2160. View details Estimate$750Price Realized$850StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #933 1900 PPC of the Singapore (?) "Cricket Club" endorsed "Feld Post" to Germany with Straits 3c brown tied by 'KAIS DEUTSCHE/MARINE-/SCHIFFSPOST/ No 70 /7 10/00' cds, 'WINDERSHEIM' arrival cds, minor soiling. The ship was en route to China in response to the Boxer Rebellion. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #934 SHIP-BOARD POSTMARKS: Very fine 'STEAME[R]/RAINB[OW]/MALA[CCA]' in red on 'TWO CENTS' on 8c SG 57 [Stg 2 Posn ii], Cat £90++. Rare. One of the finest of approximately 20 examples recorded, all on 2c values & none on cover. [Considered by some to be a "security chop", none of the recorded examples is overstruck with a post office marking, indicating that the postal authorities considered this was adequate as a cancellation] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolsGradea a2 Lot #935 TURKEY: Collection in Schaubek album with a good range of early issues & a bewildering array of Overprints, Republic with some better issues & 1962-75 virtually complete mint, also Back of Book ranges, generally fine to very fine. Close inspection recommended. (many 100s) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$500StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #936 1916-2002 Issues virtually complete - missing 10/- Seahorse & a few rather modern issues - including Ships both sets & M/Ss in expensive KaBe hingeless album, post-WWII issues mostly unmounted. (100s) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSold Symbol*/**Gradea Lot #937 POSTAL HISTORY: 1921-53 scarce group of stampless official covers to Australia (2), Great Britain (4, two registered), New Zealand or the United States (2), four with 'OFFICIAL PAID/NAURU' cds, three different variants of the '[crown]/ADMINISTRATION/OF/NAURU' handstamps; also Central Overprints 2d on commercial cover to Victoria & 1934 Nauru Co-Operative Society cover to Melbourne with Ship 1½d tied by 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER' h/s; condition variable. Ex John Darnell. (9 items) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc/cl Lot #938 JAPANESE OCCUPATION: 1943 (Aug 19) stampless cover to Japan with two boxed chops in magenta & circular Censor's chop of Hashiba in red, peripheral blemishes. With the lengthy enclosed letter from Tadao Hashiba to a family member: Very few entire letters from the Japanese on Nauru have survived. Ex John Darnell: acquired at the Prestige auctiuon of 17/2/2012 for $2645. The writer states (translated) "...My aim is to do all I can not to die in this insignificant place. Contagious disease, amoeb View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$650StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolclGradeb Lot #939 Collection in three Davo hingeless albums, the first volume mostly used with sound Imperfs, fine 1864 set, 1872-88 set to 1g, 1891-96 set to 2g50c, Centenary to 1g, '2.50' on 1905 10g, 1926-39 mint set to 60c, all pre-War Charity sets, useful range of Interrupted Perfs including 1925 Children mint, 1940-47 mint to 60c, High Values, 1942 Legion Fund M/Ss **, 1946-89 issues largely complete mint or used including 25g Seagull **, 1990-97 rather lean, then 1998-2002 largely complete **, Back of Book View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbol*/**o Lot #940 Collection in eight expensive Davo hingeless albums, very little pre-1936, then late-1930s Charity sets, 1940-47 Definitives to 10g (superb), 1940 Surcharges, 1942 Legion Fund M/Ss, 1943-49 issues complete, 1951-69 issues complete (no Seagulls), 1970-87 & 1991-99 issues virtually complete, 2000-05 patchy & 2009-11 complete, virtually everything we checked is unmounted, also "Nederland Mooi" (Dual Currency) volume & an album of booklets & M/Ss. A very fine collection with high thematic content. ( View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Symbol**Gradea/a+ Lot #941 Box with extra Davo pages & mounts, scrappy used collection, modern issues still in packets as received, brand new Davo 64pp stockbook, etc. NO RESERVE. View details Estimate$100Price Realized$140StatusSold Symbol**oa Lot #942 CURACAO/ANTILLES: Collection in three hingeless albums with Curacao 1936-39 Wilhelmina mint & used, 1946-47 Wilhelmina set **, Airs with 1929 Overprints, 1941 Fund mint & 1942 Pictorials mint; and Antilles mostly mint with 1952 Seamen, 1958-73 Definitives **, 1998-2003 issues virtually complete **; generally fine to very fine. (100s) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbol*/**O Lot #943 NETHERLANDS INDIES: Collection in expensive Lighthouse hingeless album with mint including 1864 Imperf 10c with large-part o.g. & guarantee handstamp, 1870-88 set to 2g50c, 1892-97 Wilhelmina set to 2g50c, 1900 Surcharges, 1902-09 to 1g, 'JAVA' Overprints to 50c plus 9 values to 50c with the Overprint Inverted mint or used, 1908 'BUITEN - BEZIT' Overprints to 1g x2, 1922 Industrial Exhibition Overprints, 1923 Jubilee, page of boxed 'SPECIMEN' Handstamps in Red (status?), 1928-38 issues complete, View details Estimate$4,000StatusUnsold Symbol*oc Lot #944 NETHERLANDS INDIES: 1881 & 1891 different style 7½c Postal Cards to Holland or France each with 'N-I AGENT SINGAPORE' cds (apparently the ERD & LRD for this marking), the first also with very fine '89'-in-diamond-of-dots cancel used by the Dutch Postal Agent, the other with octagonal 'LIGNE N/PAQ FR No 7' transit d/s, blemishes. A desirable duo. ( ) View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #945 NETHERLANDS INDIES: 1882 7½c Postal Card to Fr View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradea- Lot #946 SURINAME: Collection in two hingeless albums with useful earlies, later mostly mint including 1902-09 to 25c, 1926 Surcharges, 1950 Cancer, 1951 Juliana, 1953 Pictorials M/S, 1960-74 & 1998-2003 issues virtually complete **, also 1994 UPU Congress album with 1979-83 issues **, generally fine to very fine. (few 100) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbol**/*o Lot #947 Brass (?) seal inscribed 'KAISERLICH REGIERUNGSSTATION/[eagle]/SIMPSONHAFEN' (= Government Station) with the manufacturer's name 'THEODOR KAISER/BERLIN SW12' inscribed on brass pin at top of the wooden handle, a couple of minor edge "dings" otherwise very fine. The eagle is a lovely example of the die-sinker's art. A rare artefact, probably souvenired by an Australian serviceman. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbol?Gradea- Lot #948 1904 usage of PPC ("Landschaft bei Nusa") with the message headed "SS Gotha" (?), to NSW with 5pf only tied by 'MATUPI' cds, rare 'T.'-in-octagon h/s over mss "6¼cts", CofA Filled Tablet 1d Postage Due with blue cross cancel, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #949 PARCEL CARD: Neu-Guinea Compagnie 2mk Lion 'Packetadresse.' Card, unused. View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #950 INWARDS MAIL: 1890 (Apr 10) commercial usage of Bavarian 10pf Postal Card to Dr Carl Weinland at Stephansort, no arrival cds (as was the normal practice before 1895), minor blemishes. Rare usage to Stephansort before the Neu-Guinea Compagnie headquarters were relocated there early in 1892. [Dr Weinland arrived in May 1889. he died of malaria at Finschhafen in March 1891] View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #951 INWARDS MAIL: 1897 triple-rate commercial cover endorsed "p Lark" from NSW to the Landes Hauptmann (= army captain) at Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen with 2½d & 5d tied by Sydney duplex, central fold & a little truncated at left, some soiling. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolclGradeb Lot #952 INWARDS MAIL: 1900 commercial usage of Hong Kong '4 CENTS' on 3c Postal Card (reply half) to the ship's doctor aboard SMS "Möwe" c/- the German Consulate at Matupi with superb 'AMOY/ A /FE20/00' cds & Hong Kong transit cds, apparently missent to Sydney where endorsed in red "Matupi/New Britain", full message headed "Amoy ab SMS Irene 12 II 00", some soiling & repaired tear at right. An excellent origin/destination item. Ex Murray Collins: sold for $935 at the Macray Watson auction of 31/3/1998. View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold SymbolpsGrade(b) Lot #953 INWARDS MAIL: 1890 commercial cover to Dr Carl Weinland at Stephansort with 10pf pair tied by very fine 'MORSUM' cds, fine 'FINSCHHAFEN' backstamp. View details Estimate$350Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #954 INWARDS MAIL: 1900 usage of British 2d Size K Registration Envelope with superb 'J & W GOFFEY' (shipping company) cachet at lower-left and rare franking of Jubilees 1½d & 1/- green vertical strip of 3 (one badly damaged) tied by oval 'REGISTERED/EXCHANGE-LPOOL' d/s, to "Ralum/New Britain/Bismarck Archipelago", flap fault & central fold. [The rate was 2½d per ½oz x15 = 3/1½d + 2d registration. The addressee was Emma Forsayth, known colloquially as Queen Emma. Born in Samoa & a descendant of King View details Estimate$380Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolpsGradec Lot #955 INWARDS MAIL: 1902 usage of New Zealand ½d Wrapper to a missionary at "Ulu/New Launberg/New Britain/South Sea Islands", minor blemishes. [Acquired for $381 at the Prestige auction of 23/6/2001] View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #956 INWARDS MAIL: 1905 commercial usage of uprated Imperial Russian 3k Postal Card to a missionary's wife at "Sattelberg/by Finschhafen", Cyrillic St Petersburg cds, Cyrillic endorsements but the lengthy letter (tiny script) in German, repaired 12mm tear at right. A remarkable origin/destination item. [Sattelberg (= Saddle Mountain) is a village at an elevation of 900 metres on the Huon Peninsula. A Lutheran Mission was founded there in 1892] View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolpsGrade(b) Lot #957 INWARDS MAIL: 1906 commercial usage of very scarce NSW 1d Postal Card with Four-Line Heading HG 28a ("MOSSMAN'S BAY...") from Sydney with message in German & '[HE]RBERTSHOHE' arrival cds. View details Estimate$180Price Realized$120StatusSold SymbolpsGradea- Lot #958 1914 cover to Sydney with 1d Roo (faults) tied by straight-line 'Herbertshöhe' h/s (Powell #11) in violet, endorsed "Herbertshoe [sic]/Garrison" at upper-left & self-censored with "Censored/BT Goadby/Lieut RAS/oc Lands & Survey" at lower-left no other markings, minor blemishes. Ex "Ello". [The sender, later Lt-Col Bede Theodoric Goadby, was a noted Australian botanist after whom a genus of orchid was named in the 1920s] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolcGrade(b) Lot #959 1915 'G.R.I./3d.' on German Registration Labels 'Manus/(Deutsch Neuguinea)' SG 39 three singles that were originally a vertical strip [Stg C Pos 3], the upper unit with corner fault at upper-left, large-part o.g., Cat £975. View details Estimate$450Price Realized$500StatusSold Symbol*Gradea/b Lot #960 1914 Overprints on Marshall Islands '2d.' on 20pf SG 53 lower-left corner block of 15 (3x5) with part 'Marshall-Inse...' imprint at the base, unmounted, Cat £400++ (mounted). View details Estimate$300Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #961 1915 3½-4mm Spacing on Marshall Islands High Values '1s.' on 1mk red SG 59, very lightly mounted & very fresh, Cat £4000. An exceptional "space-filler". Despite the Hoffmann Giesecke guarantee handstamp on the reverse, the accompanying Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2015) states "...the overprint does not match any accepted settings & in my opinion the overprint is forged". View details Estimate$250Price Realized$420StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea c1 Lot #962 1915-16 Kangaroos Second Watermark 5/- grey & chrome-yellow SG 92 abc strip of 3 with the Overprint in Purple, very well centred, characteristic rough perfs, the upper & lower units are unmounted, Cat £300++ (mounted). View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSold Symbol*/**Gradea a2 Lot #963 1923 two real photo PPCs of Native Village and Native Girls both with 1d violet tied to the views by typically light but discernible strikes of the rare 'WITU/NEW GUINEA' cds. (2) View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea-/b Lot #964 1941 Crome airmail cover endorsed "Carried First non-stop/Night flight Rabaul-Sydney/per Cataline Flying Boat..." with 5d Bird manuscript cancelled "5pm/4.12.41/Rabaul", signed by the pilot "T Davies": see AAMC #P154, only 5 carried per favor, undercatalogued at $275. View details Estimate$300Price Realized$650StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #965 'STAMP/DUTY' OVERPRINTS: 1925 Huts 1d with the Overprint Double Barefoot #1b imprint strip of 5 from the top of the sheet, a little aged/toned & with minor perf reinforcing, Cat £625++ used; unpriced mint. [RAD Heward's toned single sold for $445 at our auction of 6/3/2015] View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Symbol*Gradeb Lot #966 Collection in expensive Lighthouse hingeless album with English issues virtually complete (except for the 1976 Surcharges Local Overprints) & French issues largely complete (except for the 1920-24 Surcharges & 1976 Surcharges both sets) including M/Ss, Postage Dues & 'France Libre' Overprints, a few minor problems but generally fine to very fine, issues from 1953 are probably all unmounted, Cat £3000+. (300 approx) View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Symbol*/** Lot #967 Folio with 1935 Silver Jubilee 1d complete sheet of 120 & 6d block of 12 (2x6), 1936 Chambers of Commerce ½d x2 & 1d x2 complete sheets of 48 plus 6d block of 12 (6x2), 1940 Centennial 1d block of 24 (3x8), etc, generally very fine unmounted. (100s) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Symbol**Gradea Lot #968 Decimal collection with 1967-78 apparently complete, then 1979-92 blocks of 4 apparently complete, no M/Ss, unmounted. High thematic content. (many 100s) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSold Symbol**Gradea Lot #969 Carton containing Stanley Gibbons 'One Country' album and Springback album with QV to QEII mint and used including Officials, 1953-91 in two Seven Seas hingless albums virtually complete mint including Health M/Ss, decimal booklets, Life Insurance and Ross Dependency, also new issues to 1997 in envelopes as received (some unopened) with single sets, definitives, self-adhesives, Chidrens Health, booklets, sheetlets and M/Ss. (100s) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$600StatusSold Symbol**/*Ob Lot #970 1855-58 Blue Paper Imperf 2d blue SG 5 two examples in slightly different shades, margins just clear to large & one with a fragment of the adjoining unit at left, light BN '1' cancels of Auckland, Cat £600. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #972 1882-1900 Second Sidefaces Perf 10 ½d black SG 217 marginal block of 36 (6x6) from the left of the sheet, a few faults but most units are unmounted, Cat £300++. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSold Symbol*/** Lot #973 1900 New Designs & Values 1½d chestnut SG 275b part-sheet of 60 (6x10) with margins at top & base, three units at lower-left are defective, minor tonespots but most units are fine to superb unmounted, Cat £600++ (mounted). View details Estimate$400Price Realized$400StatusSold Symbol** Lot #974 1906 Christchurch Exhibition ½d emerald-green SG 370 block of 24 (3x8) with margins on three sides & 1d vermilion SG 371 block of 12 (3x4) with margins at both sides, some creasing & minor bends but remarkably with no tonespots!, unmounted, Cat £1150++ (mounted). (2 blocks) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$480StatusSold Symbol**Gradea/b Lot #975 1940 Centennial ½d to 1/- SG 613-25 blocks of four, unmounted, Cat £280+. (52) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #976 POSTAL FISCALS: 1940-58 Arms '3/6' on 3/6d to '22/-' on 22/-, the watermarks not checked, well centred, the '5/6' on 5/6d & '11/-' on 11/- are very lightly mounted, the others are unmounted, Cat £640+ minimum (CP $NZ1280 minimum). (4) View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #977 POSTAL FISCALS: 1931-58 Arms 1/3d x3 different to £1 complete plus £2 £2/10/- £3 & £5, the watermarks not checked, generally well centred, a few with some characteristic irregular/fluffy perfs, the 1/3d lemon 4/- 6/- 7/6d 10/- & 15/- are very lightly mounted, all the others are unmounted, Cat £1800+ minimum (CP $NZ4850 minimum). (19) View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Symbol*/**Gradea b1 Lot #978 OFFICIALS: 1891-1906 'O.P.S.O.' Handstamp on 1898 Pictorials No Watermark Perf 11 5d Otira Gorge with the Handstamp in Magenta SG O20a, characteristic rough perfs, large-part o.g., Cat £1100 for violet handstamp used; unpriced unused. David Brandon Certificate (1990) as the then SG O17 with violet handstamp. View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Symbol*Gradea Lot #979 OFFICIALS: 1907-27 'OFFICIAL' Overprints comprising KEVII ½d to 1/-, KGV Typo set of 6, Recess 3d to 1/- & Admirals 2/- between SG O73 & O112, generally well centred, unmounted, Cat £340+ minimum (CP $NZ2700 minimum). (18) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$400StatusSold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #980 1901 & 1902 commercial covers 1) to New York with NSW 1d & 2d x2, some toning; & 2) US 2c Envelope from California to Adelaide with 3c violet, trimmed at left on opening; both with boxed 'LOOSE LETTER.' cancel & 'NZ MARINE PO/RMS SONOMA' cds in greenish blue. Also an American advert for the Oceanic Steamship Co with "Sonoma", "Sierra" & "Ventura" (and on the other side a lovely Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway advert for "Golf in California"). Ex Roger Hosking. (3 items) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Symbolc/clGradec/b Lot #981 1938 stampless commercial cover endorsed "SUNDAY ISLAND MAIL/NO STAMPS AVAILABLE", to Scotland with Christchurch cds, boxed 'PACKET BOAT.' h/s & 'T/10/CENTIMES' tax marking, British 1d Postage Due tied by 'DUNDEE' cds, minor toning mostly on the reverse. Ex Roger Hosking. View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #982 1947-2002 Issues virtually complete - missing a few rather modern issues - including M/Ss in expensive KaBe hingeless album, mostly unmounted including Ball Bay White Papers & 10/- 'SPECIMEN' all 3 types, etc. (100s) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Symbol*/**Gradea Lot #983 1966 Decimal Surcharges '25c' on 2/5d Passionflower with the Surcharge Misplaced to Left marginal block of 4 from the base of the sheet, unmounted. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #984 1901-05 British New Guinea Wmk Horizontal Thick Paper 1d black & red SG 2 block of 18 (3x6) with margins on three sides, a bit fragile, most units are unmounted, Cat £360++ (mounted). View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Symbol**/*Gradea b1 Lot #985 1917 'ONE PENNY' Surcharges 1d on 2/6d with the Watermark Upright (Inverted) instead of Sideways SG 111a, exceptional centring, unmounted, Cat £2000 (mounted). Rare & superb! Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2002) states "Position 27. Only one sheet of 40 discovered". View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Symbol**Gradea+ a1 Lot #986 1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printings 1/- sepia & olive as SG 117 but with the Overprint in Dark Carmine and additionally with 'AI,R MAIL' Variety, the gum a little tropicalised as usual & a minor gum blemish but unmounted. Unlisted by Gibbons. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2002) states "only the small first part of the printing received overprints in the dark carmine colour...The variety occurred only on Position 11...and was later corrected". [Better centred than Peter Troy's very similar View details Estimate$750Price Realized$750StatusSold Symbol**Gradea- b1 Lot #987 1922 Department of Treasury OHMS cover (280x127mm) to "Goebilt/Sarawak" with Bicolours ½d to 3d and red & black/white Port Moresby registration label, Sydney & Singapore transits and 'KUCHING' arrival b/s, vertical fold at left. Rare destination. [Addressed to a stamp dealer, the envelope probably contained sheets of stamps. The rate was 2d per ½oz x3 + 3d registration] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolclGradeb Lot #988 1930 (Mar 11) Port Moresby-Sydney-United States - see AAMC #P1a - with combination franking of Papua 'AIR MAIL' 6d + United States 5c Beacon pre-paying the trans-USA portion of the journey, Cat $800. Ex Ray Kelly. [The AAMC states "15 covers reported to exist from Papua"] View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold SymbolC Lot #989 1935 (Sep 1) Daru-Port Moresby-Darwin AAMC #P90a with typed endorsement & signed by the pilot "AE Hempel", Port Moresby arrival b/s of 5SE35, forwarded 26SE35 with Darwin arrival b/s of 27NO35, a little aged, Cat $600. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #990 1938 commercial cover to China with scarce franking of Coronation 1d + 2d Bird of Paradise tied by 'CAIRNS' slogan cancel with superb boxed 'PAQUEBOT' h/s below, 'SHANGHAI' arrival b/s & Chinese "chop" on the face. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea Lot #991 1938 (Jun 29-30) Port Moresby-Samarai-Losuia-Port Moresby "boomerang cover" per Stinson Reliant (seaplane) AAMC #P136a, signed by the pilot "K Garden", Cat $280. The emergency flight to pick up a sick man who needed urgent transport to Port Moresby hospital, was the first flight to the remote, sparsely populated Trobriand Islands] View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold SymbolC Lot #992 1938 cover endorsed "Steamships/Trading Co Ltd/Port Moresby and/Samarai", to GB with Pictorials 2d Bird of Paradise tied by 'SAMARAI ED' cds and very scarce albeit philatelic usage of rubber 30mm 'SHIP/("PAPUAN CHIEF/GO Andersen")/LETTER' h/s (Lee #S10; LRD) in violet. View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea Lot #993 1939 (Oct 2) OHMS cover from RAAF No 11 Squadron at Port Moresby to Qantas in Sydney with 1939 Airs 8d brown, signed by members of the Squadron "CR Gurney Flt/Lt", "GE Hemsworth F/O". "W Purton F/O", "EC Sims F/Lt" and "J Alexander S/Ldr" (after whom the crew were known as Alexander's Ragtime Band), two vertical folds clear of the stamp & the signatures. Not listed in the AAMC. [Apart from Alexander, the others were former Qantas pilots. All of them were killed during the War] View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold SymbolclGradeb Lot #994 1952-2002 issues missing only a couple of minor items & including M/Ss & the Emergency Surcharges, pre-decimals hinged, decimals unmounted. (100s) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbol*/**Gradea Lot #995 1966 South Pacific Games complete set of imperforate colour separations affixed to a single page from the printer's records. Ex Courvoisier Archives. (15 proofs) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$850StatusSold SymbolPGradea Lot #996 1966 South Pacific Games complete set of imperforate colour separations affixed to a single page from the printer's records. Ex Courvoisier Archives. [Slightly different shades from the previous lot] View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold SymbolPGradea Lot #997 1994 Emergency Surcharges 5t on 35t Musical Bow complete sheet of 50 (5x10), several units with Defective Overprints including [R5/5] with 't' Largely Omitted & [R4/5] with '5t' Almost Totally Omitted SG 731a, unmounted. The major variety is listed by Gibbons but unprinced. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2002) states "The Missing 5t occurred only in part of the printing". [Absent from John McNabb's exceptional collection] View details Estimate$750Price Realized$850StatusSold Symbol**Gradea a1 Lot #998 1995 Tourism 21t SG 747a plus 45t 60t & 90t setenant pairs, unmounted. Unlisted by Gibbons. With a normal set of pairs for comparison. Very scarce: apart from the 21t, these stamps were issued only with higher surcharged values. [Also with 1995 Beatification 21t+90t setenant pair with 'K1.00' Omitted from the 90t Pope SG 746a, unmounted, Cat £120] (9 pairs) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbol**Gradea a1 Lot #1000 ANGOLA: Single-volume collection with a good range of early issues including unlisted 1890 primitive Newspaper Stamps x3, scads of Overprints & Surcharges, 1938 da Gama set mint, post-WWII issues to 1974 largely complete mint &/or used (Birds sets are incomplete), Cat £1800+; plus an album of Mozambique & Mozambique Company; generally fine to very fine. (100s) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$480StatusSold Symbol*O Lot #1001 MACAU: Expensive Lighthouse hingeless album with 1976-89 issues complete with all the Miniature Sheets, 1990 incomplete, 1991-99 issues apparently complete including M/Ss & numerous sheetlets, unmounted, plus Zodiac booklets, Cat £4000+. (many 100s) View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Symbol**Gradea Lot #1002 Lindner hingeless pages with Victoria Falls set, 'RHODESIA' Overprints to £1, and handy post-UDI range; Northern Rhodesia SG 1-88 complete; Rhodesia & Nyasaland SG 1-37 complete; and Southern Rhodesia SG 15-105 complete; generally very fine, Cat £2800 approximately. (400 approx) View details Estimate$1,250Price Realized$950StatusSold Symbol* Lot #1003 1899 commercial usage of Davis 1d Postal Card on greenish stock to Germany uprated with Mis-Perforated ½d (cut from the sheet to preserve the design) tied by 'APIA/JAN/24/99/SAMOA' cds with superb 'NZ MARINE PO/25JAN99/RMS MOAMA' cds in rosine, 'BREMEN' arrival cds, central vertical fold. Very pretty. View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #1004 Expensive Lighthouse hingeless album with Faroe Islands 1940-41 Surcharges used, then 1975-2003 issues complete including M/Ss; also Aland 1985-2003 issues including M/Ss & Framas plus sheets of Christmas seals; unmounted; Cat £1600+. (100s) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol**vGradea Lot #1005 SCANDINAVIA: Carton with collector's duplicates etc from Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden, some modern mint issues. Many hours of fun for those cold Winter nights. (Qty) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$500StatusSold Symbol*/**o Lot #1006 NORWAY: Collection in expensive Lighthouse album with a good range of earlies in very mixed condition but with some postmark interest, better later mint sets including 1909-29 Posthorns, 1922-24 Lions, 1926-34 Lions, 1930 North Cape, 1941 'V' Overprints both sets, then 1946-2004 issues largely complete, generally fine to very fine. (100s) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Symbol*/**o Lot #1007 NORWAY: Postal Stationery collection of mostly 20th Century issues, mostly unused but some handy usages/postmarks, condition of the earlier material is very mixed. (160 approx) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Symbolps Lot #1008 Collection in two expensive Lighthouse albums with a good range of earlies including 1858 3o black, 1858-72 New Currency set, 1862-72 17o purple, 1910-19 Postage Dues both sets mint blocks of 4, 1916 Clothing Fund Postage set used, Postage Due set mint & 1918 Surcharges mint, 1921 Liberation set mint, 1924 UPU Congress to 80o mint + 1kr used and UPU values to 1kr used, 1931 5kr mint, etc, 1940s-1990s patchy, 1995-2002 virtually complete mint including M/Ss, a few faults in the early issu View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold SymbolΩ*/**o Lot #1009 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: 1900 (June) internal English cover to Market Harboro but missent to South Africa where 1d lilac tied by GPO Cape Town & part-British FPO cds, endorsed on the flap "Found in a bag of newspapers addressed/to Imperial Yeomanry South Africa/[signature]/for Controller CB" with largely very fine strike of the rare double-oval 'CONTROLLER'S OFFICE, CIRCULATION BRANCH/13JUN1900/GPO CAPE TOWN' datestamp in violet alongside, returned to England with very fine 'MARKET-HARBOROUGH' arrival View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #1010 Lindner hingeless pages with KGV pairs to 2/6d x2 & 5/-, 'SWA' £1, 1931 Pictorial pairs, Huguenot Voortrekker & War Effort pairs/triplets, etc, some Officials & Postage Dues, Cat £1400 approximately. (300 approx) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol* Lot #1011 1923 South African 6d Registration Envelope size G (front only) with 'SOUTH WEST/AFRICA' Double Overprint, to Windhoek with 'REHOBOTH' cds & manuscript registration number. A spectacular error. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$420StatusSold SymbolpsGradea- Lot #1012 Attractive used collection with some Strubels & Seated Helvetias, 1914-18 10fr mauve (**), 1945 PAX set (fake cancel on the 2fr), numerous tete-beche pairs (some are mint), Airs 1935-37 Surcharges & 1941-48 set, Pro Patria issues, Pro Juventute sets including 1915-17, 1921, 1922 40c only & 1923, some League of Nations/United Nations issues. A very clean lot. (100s) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$650StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #1013 1843-81 Issues selection with Zurich 6c & Geneva 5c (thinned), 1850 set, Strubels including unused 40r, Seated Helvetias including 1862 60c & 1fr x2 and 1881 used 50c etc, also a very fine group of Standing Helvetias imperforate colour trials x13, condition variable but generally presentable to very fine, a few fake postmarks noted, Cat £15,000+. None of the better stamps have certificates so we have applied a very conservative estimate and your personal assessment is recommended. (80) View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold SymbolΩo Lot #1014 1882-1944 Issues in Davo hingeless album with a handy selection of the 19th Century issues, 1914-18 Grasset High Values, Pro Juventute sets complete (1922 is used), 1929-31 High Values (the 10fr with Sergio Sismondo Certificate), Airs with 1919-20 duo (separate BPA Certificates), 1923-40 set & 1941 set, also Miniature Sheets including 1934 NABA, 1936 Pro Patria (CTO, unmounted), 1937 (used) & 1941 Pro Juventute, 1940 National Fete, 1943 GEPH (used) & 1945 War Relief Fund, a few problems in the e View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbol*o Lot #1015 1945-92 Issues in two Davo hingeless albums virtually complete from 1945 Dove M/S x2 (one CTO, both **) to 1969 then 1970-92 largely complete, a few of the M/Ss are CTO including Imaba & 1955 Fete (on PTT folder), some better issues are unmounted including 1951 Fete M/S. (100s) View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol*/**vGradea Lot #1016 Straits Settlements Crown/CC 2c brown SG Z1 with fine large-part oval '[BORNE]O COMPAN[Y]/[FOR]WARDED/ SIAM' "chop", very fine; & 'B' Overprint on Crown/CA 8c orange SG 20 x2, one with blue "chop" & '[BAN]GKOK/AP9/84' cds, the other with superb oval '[...]OR REDLICH/BANGKOK/SIAM' "chop" lightly overstruck with undated Singapore cancel, tiny defects; Cat £600. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymboloGradea/b Lot #1017 1894 Surcharges SG 45-49 array of singles strips & blocks, significantly aged. Good study lot. (250 approx) View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradec Lot #1018 1904 apparently commercial usage of Egyptian 5m Envelope uprated with 5m tied by 'ALEXANDRIA' cds, to "Kelantan/Via Singapore", 'SUEZ' & 'SINGAPORE' transit & light but obvious Siamese-pattern 'KELANTAN/21.8.04' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. Terrific origin/destination item. [Kelantan was ceded to Great Britain only on 15.7.1909] View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #1019 REVENUES: 1890-1960s array of 940 revenue stamps on 53 documents, including 1899 Court Fee bicolours & surcharges, Elephant types, many WWII issues, later charity, military & provisional issues. Many documents with multiple or mixed-issue frankings, others with annotated varieties & a few rare types, condition variable. View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolL Lot #1020 INTERNATIONAL REPLY COUPONS: 1914 usages of 1909-pattern IRC both with Bangkok & Singapore cds. (2) View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Symbol?Gradea- Lot #1021 Niaufo'ou collection on leaves, STC £300+ plus 'SPECIMEN' Overprints, unmounted; also a batch of mostly ordinary Tin Can Mail covers & a handy selection of Postal Stationery including scenic Postal Cards unused x3 & used x3 etc, condition variable. 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