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Auction: 21016 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1877

Collections and Ranges
A very large Commonwealth and Great Britain collection in two cartons, housed in stockcards, stockbooks and shoeboxes. Highlights include Anguilla 1967 $5 used Australian States New South Wales 1850 Pl. 1 used (crease), 1861-88 5/- mint, 1890 20/- (regummed), 1890-91 'OS' 20/- 'specimen', Tasmania 1853-54 1d. pale blue horiztonal strip of four, heavily cleaned of pen cancells (Peter Holcombe 1996 Cert.), Western Australia 1854 1d. black used, 1854-55 4d. deeper blue used, 1/- pale brown used, Bechuanaland 1888 £1 'specimen', Bermuda 1875 1d. on 1/- used, British Guiana 1860 (May) 4c. blue pair used, British Honduras 1888-91 2c. on 1d. bisect on cover, British Solomon Islands 1912-23 £1 mint (2), British Virgin Islands 1904 set, Ceylon imperfs with ½d. and 10d. mint, 2/- used, 1888-90 2c. on 4c. (T34) surcharge inverted, Cape triangulars used (50) inc. 4d. deeply blued paper and 6d. slate shades, Dominica 1877-79 set, 1923-33 £1 used, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Gold Coast 1876-84 bisects on piece (4), some dubious, 1921-24 15/- 'specimen', K.U.T., 1922-27 high values £1 used (3), Kuwait 1939 10r. blocks of four with apparent double overprint, likely forged, Leeward Islands Diamond Jubilee 1/- with B.P.A. 1971 cert., Newfoundland with 1862-64 1/- rose-lake used, Northern Nigeria 1910-11 set, 1912 5/-, 10/- and £5 'specimen', 1936 part set with £1 used, Lagos 1874-75 1/- no gum, Nova Scotia 1851-60 3d. bisect with 6d. on piece making 7½d. rate, St. Kitts Tercentenary £1 mint, Trinidad and Tobago 1896-1906 5/- 'specimen' and £1 mint, Zululand 1888-93 mint to 5/- (some regumming), also further postcards, Great Britain KGVI and QEII with some blocks and lower denomination officials. Very mixed condition, but catalogue value well in excess of £30k

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Sold for
£11,000

Starting price
£1400