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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1598

(x) Collections and Ranges
1938-51 very fresh mint King George VI collection neatly laid out on Frank Godden album pages including Great Britain with 1938 set to £1 with both 10/-, 1948 Silver Wedding, Postage Dues etc., Aden with 1939-48 set in vertical pairs, later States sets, 1948 Silver Wedding etc., Ascension with 1938-52 set along with a few varieties and commemorative sets, Australia with 1937-49 set 1949-50 set and 10/-, £1 and £2 overprinted "specimen", later sets and Postage Dues, 1946 B.C.O.F. Japan overprint set to 5/- and 1d. with blue-black overprint, Barbados including 1950 set in blocks of four, Basutoland including 1938 set both perforated "specimen" and the issued set, Bermuda with Key Types to £1 etc., Canada, Cyrenaica 1950 set in imprint pairs, Falkland Islands with 1938 set to £1, 1950 set to £1, Dependencies sets, Fiji, Hong Kong with 1941 Centenary set to $1, 1946 Victory $1 pair with variety extra stroke, 1948 Silver Wedding set and 10c. block of four showing Spur on 'N', Postage Dues, India with 1937-40 set to 25r., 1948 Gandhi set to 10r., Service overprints, K.U.T. with 1938 set to £1, 1c. block of twelve with imprint showing damaged value tablet, 1941-42 1/- block of four variety crescent moon flaw and 1952 1/- booklet, Kuwait with 1938 set to 15r., Leeward Islands with 1938 set to £1, Malaya with Straits Settlements set to $5, BMA overprint set to $5, Kedah with 1938 set to $5, later sets including 1948 Silver Wedding and 1951 sets for all Malayan States, Newfoundland inc. 1938 3c. pair with and without watermark and 1937 perf. 13 (comb) used block of ten, North Borneo with 1945 BMA set to $5 and $5 corner vertical pair with sheet number and later complete sets, Northern Rhodesia including 1938 set to 20/- and 1½d. yellow-brown block of six with tick bird flaw, Nyasaland with 1945 set to 20/- in marginal blocks of six, St. Vincent with 1938-47 set to £1 in blocks of four, Sarawak with 1945 BMA set to $10, Seychelles with 1938-49 set to 5r., 1952 set to 10r. in blocks of four, South Africa including 1937 6d. (3 pairs/blocks) with varieties 'falling ladder', 'molehill flaw' and 'split tree flaw', 1937 Coronation 1/- pair with hyphen on Afrikaans stamp omitted, 1941-43 1/- pair with overprint inverted used ( RPS. Cert.) etc. including Officials, Southern Rhodesia including mint sets and 1938 booklet and 1951 Postage Dues including the rare 4d. grey-green, British Occupation of Italian Colonies overprint sets, New Zealand, Pakistan with all mint sets, Sudan, etc., fine and fresh either lightly mounted mint or unmounted

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£9,000

Starting price
£4000