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Auction: 173 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 469

British Commonwealth balance of select stamps, from Victoria to George V, a choice group of several dozen stamps chosen for their superior quality and visual appeal, most cataloguing in the hundreds of dollars, and often representing key mid-or-high values of sets, highlights include Western Australia #1 used, several Australia Kangaroos including #12 used, #40 mint, and #54 mint, Bechuanaland #19 mint, Bermuda #53 never hinged and #97 mint & used, Canada #4d used, beautiful three-margin Cape Triangles including mint #12a, 12b, 13, and 14, Cyprus #4 mint, Falkland Islands #21 used with centrally-struck c.d.s. and #28 mint, Gambia #120 used with socked-on-the-nose postmark, Gilbert & Ellice #1-7 mint, Gibraltar #75, #90 and #92 mint, Gold Coast #21 mint signed Brun, Great Britain #96 used, Kelantan #42 mint, Madagascar consular stamps #34, 46 and 51, Marshall Islands G.R.I. overprint #36 mint, New Republic #17 mint, Nova Scotia #2 used, Nyasaland #64-7 mint top margin examples, Orange Free State #44b ("missing period" variety) mint, Rhodesia #109 mint, St Kitts-Nevis #1-10 set used, Togo Anglo-French Occupation overprint #31 mint, and many more, a wonderful quality group, many of the mint stamps being lightly hinged and used examples with desirable postmarks, a chiefly very fine lot worthy of close review.

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