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Click here to subscribeSouth Australia1855 London print 1d. dark green, unused with traces of gum, good to large margins on three sides, cut-into at left though a presentable example of this rare stamp. Rendon Certificate (1995). S.G. 1, £8,500. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) South West AfricaOccupational Period Covers and CancellationsNakob: 1918 (2 Feb.) envelope to Windhoek, bearing 1d. red cancelled by a good strike of the rare "nakob/rail" rubber datestamp (B1a) in violet, red on white censor label and censor cachet alongside Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) South West AfricaOccupational Period Covers and CancellationsWaldau: 1917 (20 Nov.) envelope to Windhoek, marked "Bookpost" and bearing ½d. green with a good strike of the very rare "waldau" rubber datestamp (B1) showing year above day with no month shown, censor cachet at foot, Okahandja transit c.d.s. (20.11) on reverse; also pieces bearing strikes of Types B3 and B4 Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) South West AfricaOfficial Stamps1931 ½d. to 6d. set of four in blocks of eighteen (6x3) with margins at both sides, imperforate, unmounted mint; the lower row of each block with a horizontal crease barely affecting fine appearance. A rare and spectacular set. SACC O13-16, R54,000+. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) South West AfricaOfficial Stamps1945-50 ½d. to 6d. set of five, including the rare 2d. value, in horizontal pairs, fresh mint. S.G. O18-22, £780. Photo for 2d. Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
VictoriaHalf Lengths1850-53 Fifth printing "white veils" ,1d. bright pinky red interpanneau horizontal pair with Barred Oval "37" of Forrest Creek; touched in places, vertical crease in the left margin of the right-hand stamp terminating in a split. Very rare. B.P.A. Certificate (2009). S.G. 12a. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1840 1d. Plate VQK-RL block of four, margins all round except QL just clipped at top-right, cancelled by light strikes of the red Maltese Cross; creased and razor cut between QK and QL (QL with tear) though still attractive. A rare multiple. Photo provenance: The "Victoriana" Collection, 2007Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Antigua— 1/- mauve marginal block of four, unused with large part original gum; the left vertical pair with light crease and some toning on reverse which shows through to face on the upper pair. A rare multiple. S.G. 30, £640. Photo provenance:Frederick Mayer, October 2004Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Bahamas1862 no watermark, perf 13 6d. lavender-grey block of four, unused without gum; perfs. clipped or cut-off on all sides otherwise fine. A rare and remarkable multiple. S.G. 19, £13,000. Photo provenance:"Staircase", April 1999Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Barbados1938 Small Format Seal of the Colony issue covers, the award-winning eight-frame exhibit collection formed by the late Jerone R. Hart, all neatly mounted, well researched, written-up and presented in three Safe albums with slip cases, together with three further empty albums, contained in two cartons; the collection comprises an exceptional range of over 220 items arranged in ascending order of value from ½d. to 5/- and comprising a remarkable array of both single-value and multi-value frankings including Printed Matter, Surface, Post card, Airmail, Official, Registered and Censored and Foreign Destination Mail; items of note include registered to Kenya, printed matter to New Zealand, Pinto Labour Camp, Czech Army F.P.O., 2/6d. single franking on Official use, 5/- single frankings registered to England and Jamaica, shades, listed printing varieties on 2d., 2½d. and 4d. values are present with many very rare on cover. Viewing essential to fully appreciate the scope and depth of this wonderful lot. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Bermuda1851 (5 Mar.) envelope to Scotland, rated "1/-" and showing an over-inked strike of the Crowned Circle "paid/at/ireland isle/bermuda" (P2) in red at lower left corner, "ireland isle/bermuda"despatch c.d.s. (PM5) at upper right corner alongside faint red London Paid c.d.s. (25.3), arrival c.d.s. (26.3) on reverse; small portion of the envelope torn away at top, well away from the postal markings. An attractive example of this rare handstamp, being the fifth earliest strike recorded by Forand and Freeland. S.G. CC2, £7,700. Photo Note: This cover was carried perf. "Osprey" (5.3) to Halifax (10.3) and packet "Europa" (14.3) to Liverpool (23.3)provenance:Sir Henry Tucker, Sale 1, October 1978Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) British East Africa1895 (11 Nov.) Chambers envelope from Mombasa addressed locally, bearing ½a., 1a., 2a. and 2½a. neatly cancelled by squared-circle datestamps, arrival c.d.s. (11.11) on reverse; the envelope a little damaged at left, nevertheless rare with just six such covers recorded of which only two are addressed to Chambers. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
British Solomon Islands1907 (29 May) envelope to Somerset and redirected locally, bearing 1907 Large Canoe 2d. tied by light Tulagi c.d.s. with another strike alongside, in combination with N.S.W. 2d. tied by Sydney c.d.s. (8.6) and additionally tying the Canoe 2d., two arrival datestamps (15.7) at left. A very rare and previously unrecorded cover of which very few are known. Photo Note: This letter was written by Rev. Dr. Henry Welchman, an Anglican missionary,Born in Lichfield in 1850, and educated at Queen's College in Birmingham, Henry Welchman qualified as a surgeon and worked in his father's practice. He held a license as a lay preacher, and had contacts with former Melanesian Mission staff, including Bishop J.R. Selwyn. Welchman joined the Melanesian Mission in 1888 as a layman. After a short posting on Santa Cruz, he arrived on Isabel Island in 1890. He returned to England in 1891 to nurse the ailing Bishop Selwyn.. He was ordained a deacon in Auckland in March 1892 and a priest in June 1893, and then divided his next years between Isabel and Norfolk Island. In July 1896 he married a member of the Norfolk Islands staff, Helen Rossiter. They moved to Siota, and she became one of the first European women to live in the Solomon Islands, until her death there from dysentery three months later, on 12 January 1897.Welchman chose to devote himself to the people of Isabel and never returned to Norfolk. He became a common sight travelling around Isabel on his small schooner "Ruth". He spent time at Siota in the late 1890s, and opened a new station on Lilihigua adjacent to Isabel. His health began to fail and he returned to England in 1901 and to New Zealand in 1906 where he died on 12 November 1908.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Cape of Good Hope1853 slightly blued paper, 1d. brick-red with well balanced margins, unused without gum; loss of blueing though an attractive example of this rare stamp. S.G. 3, £3,250. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Cape of Good Hope1855-63 White Paper1/- bright yellow-green with good regular margins, unused without gum; a presentable example of this rare stamp. R.P.S. Certificate (1989). S.G. 8, £3,500. Photo provenance:William Frazer, March 2004Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Cape of Good Hope1861 Woodblock Issue1d. vermilion, unused, margins in places; a sound example of this rare stamp. S.G. 13, £17,000. Photo provenance:William Frazer, March 2004Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Cape of Good Hope1861 Woodblock Issue1d. carmine, unused, just clear to good margins; small repair at top, otherwise sound. An attractive example of this very rare stamp. Friedl Certificate (1968). S.G. 13a., £30,000. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Cape of Good Hope1861 Woodblock Issue4d. pale milky blue, unused, close to good margins; some wrinkling and light staining, otherwise a good example of this rare stamp. Holcombe Certificate (1998). S.G. 14, £25,000. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Ceylon1863-66 Watermark Crown CC (oval)Perf. 12½2d. bottle-green showing "w" of watermark margin, lightly cancelled by oval of bars, fine. Very rare with few examples recorded. S.G. 50c, £4,000. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Ceylon1883-98 prepared for use but not issued 24c. brown-purple, part original gum; small faults, fine appearance. Rare. S.G. 152, £1,600. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Falkland Islands1871 (14 Nov.) three page letter headed Falkland Islands from Captain W.R. Kennedy of H.M.S. Reindeer on its seven day visit to the Islands, giving details of being entertained by the Governor, Col. D'Arcy, shooting wild pig, mail routes via the Magellan Straits, etc.; small splits along the folds, otherwise fine and the only recorded letter linked to this visit. Rare Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gambia4d. brown with just clear to large margins all round (small fault at lower right corner) neatly cancelled with "gambia/b/paid" c.d.s. on 1882 (22 Mar.) envelope from Bathurst "Per Stretha" to Auburndale, Mass., U.S.A., "3" accountancy mark in red crayon, showing a further superb strike of the despatch c.d.s. at left and, on reverse, London (11.4), New York Paid All (22.4) and arrival (24.4) c.d.s. A very rare stamp on cover. S.G. 5. Photo provenance:Dale Lichtenstein, 1990Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gambia1906 ½d. on 2/6d. purple and brown on yellow and 1d. on 3/- carmine and green on yellow used blocks of four, one ½d. on 2/6d. with the broken "E" variety; one 1d. on 3/- with surface abrasions. Rare. S.G. 69, 70, £380+ Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gambia— 1d. on 3/- carmine and green on yellow, variety surcharge double, part original gum; small wrinkle at right, otherwise fine and rare. S.G. 70a, £1,800. Photo provenance:Sir Gawaine Baillie, November 2005Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gold Coast1883 (20 Dec.) envelope to Elmina, "1" accountancy mark in red crayon and bearing 1876-84 2d. green bisected diagonally cancelled "556", superb "paid at cape coast/inland" c.d.s. (Type I) at left; the envelope with heavy crease through the address line and other small faults though a rare franking. S.G. 6a. Photo Note: In the Cape Coast datestamp the numeral "20" has moved between the strike on this cover and that offered in the following lotprovenance:Dr. Max BarerCol. J.R. Danson, 1971Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gold Coast1888 (13 Feb.) right half of a blue envelope to London?, bearing 1884-91 4d. rosy mauve (2) sharing a superb strike of the rare "post office/gold coast/elmina" oval intaglio seal h.s. (Type 4) and with "elmina" Code A c.d.s. (Type 2) and two "cape coast" Code C c.d.s. (Type 2, 14.2) alongside, London c.d.s. (17.3) on reverse; an early date of use of this rare mark which is only recorded in 1888 and has been missing, on anything other than loose stamps, from many of the great Gold Coast collections. S.G. 16. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gold Coast1895 (9 Dec.) officer's unstamped envelope ex the Sitwell correspondence to England, marked "Ashanti Expedition No Stamps.", signed by Capt. Sitwell and showing large "2½d/f.b." tax h.s. applied in London., the reverse showing a superb Arms handstamp of the British Vice-Consulate in Las Palmas, Grand Canary, and Beal arrival c.d.s. (26.12). Clean and most attractive. A rare item from the Ashanti Expedition. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Gold Coast1897 (22 Oct.) envelope ex the Capt. de Salis correspondence from Portsmouth to "7th. Batt. The Rifle Brigade Lagos Hausa Expeditionary Force Kumasi Ashanti via Cape Coast Castle", bearing 1887 2½d. purple on blue cancelled with "625" duplex, Cape Coast transit c.d.s. (16.11) on reverse; tears at top through opening though rare item of incoming mail. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
India1854 IssueFeaturing a range of lots from the E.A. Smythies collectionIssued StampsHalf AnnaA miscellaneous selection (98), largely Die I with a few touches-ups and retouches and fourteen from Rare Stones, Die II (14) and Die III (12); generally good to fine. Cat. £4,965 Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
India1854 IssueFeaturing a range of lots from the E.A. Smythies collectionIssued StampsHalf AnnaDie IA used range (85) noted as from Rare Stones, including A2 (7), A3 (7), A4 (5) and B2 (13); fair to fine. A scarce group. Cat. £2,720 Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
India1854 IssueFeaturing a range of lots from the E.A. Smythies collectionIssued StampsFour AnnasA collection mounted and written-up on twenty-three pages with illustrations of the various dies and photographs of rare pieces, etc., the stamps comprise 1st. Printing (22 with a partial reconstruction, two on the one piece and a few retouches), 2nd Printing (20 with a complete reconstruction and a few retouches), 3rd. Printing (9, five with retouches, not all guaranteed), 4th. Printing (13, being a partial reconstruction) and 5th. Printing (16, all with retouches, not all guaranteed), all but three cut-to-shape; condition mixed as to be expected with a group of this nature though an interesting lot Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesBundi Official Stamps, 1915-41 IssueSmall Native OverprintType C, 2r. chocolate and black on medium wove paper, fresh unused; inclusion at upper right and pinhole at foot caused by value impression. Rare. S.G. O24cA, £1,000. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesBundi Official Stamps, 1915-41 IssueSmall Native OverprintType E, medium wove paper, 3a. chocolate with red overprint, unused; merest trace of soiling, otherwise sound. Rare. S.G. O35aA, £850. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesBundi Official Stamps, 1915-41 IssueSmall English OverprintType I, ½a. black with red overprint, an upper left corner example with full original gum; a fraction toned, otherwise fine. Rare. S.G. O51aB, £850. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesCharkhari1897-1940 unused/mint (70) and used (50), the unused with 1897-1904 selections, 1909-19 group, 1921 laid paper 1a. (2, one imperforate), 1939045 basic set less rare 2a., 1931 set and 1940 ½a. on 8a. (2, one no space) and 1a. on 1r., the used with representations throughout; generally good to fine Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesCochin1943 watermark Umbrella, 4p. green, marginal from the right of the sheet, fresh mint; vertical creases and corner crease at upper left though a presentable example of this rare stamp. S.G. 85b, £1,800. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesJammu and KashmirRectangular Stamps for Use in Jammu— 1a. indigo unused, good margins at left and at foot; a couple of tiny marks on face, otherwise fine. An attractive example of this rarestamp. S.G. 55, £1,400. Photo provenance:R.B. YardleySubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesJammu and KashmirRectangular Stamps for Use in Jammu— 1a. deep ultramarine, unused; natural wrinkle, thin at one corner and some light stains though a presentable example of this rare stamp. S.G. 57, £1,200. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesJammu and KashmirRectangular Stamps for Use in Kashmir1867-77 4a. myrtle-green, fresh unused with large margins all round, "4ans." ink notation on reverse. A very fine example of this rare stamp. B.P.A. Certificate (1999). S.G. 100a, £1,200. Photo provenance:T.D. Eames, 1996Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Indian Feudatory StatesJammu and KashmirRectangular Stamps for Use in Kashmir— 4a. myrtle-green, used on fragment with red seal cancellation, frame-lines touched or shaved in places and with traces of creasing though a presentable example of this rare stamp. S.G. 100a, £1,200. Photo provenance:T.D. Eames, 1996Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
JamaicaEarly Letters and Handstamps1836 entire letter to Scotland marked "Inland Post Pd 1½", rated "2/5" and showing, on reverse across join, "mile gulley" (T4a though 53mm. long) partially overstruck by Kingston c.d.s.; fine and rare. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
JamaicaEarly Letters and Handstamps1840 (8 Apr.) entire letter written from "King's House" on behalf of the Governor of Jamaica, to the Spanish Consul at Kingston showing, on reverse, a fine "spanish town/jamaica" c.d.s. (P1) in blue; very rare with only one example recorded by Foster and with only two others from the Fitzherbert correspondence known. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
JamaicaEarly Letters and Handstamps1852 (12 Aug.) entire letter from Montego Bay to the Spanish Consul in Kingston, showing a fine strike of the circular-framed "paid/8d." handstamp (PD14) in red, despatch and arrival (14.8) c.d.s. on reverse; small faults though of fine appearance though a rare handstamp. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
JamaicaStamp Issues1923 Child Welfare issue, two pieces of thick paper (191x285mm.) with "crown agents for the colonies. jamaica "child welfare" stamps." printed heading, the first bearing ½d. and 2½d. imperforate colour trials with a further trial (presumably a d.) cut away, marked "Approved Herbert Smith 20.7.23", the second sheet bearing three 1d. imperforate colour trials, two crossed through with the third endorsed "approved also for colour Herbert Smith 31.8.23" and showing "o.d. -3 sep. 1923" boxed datestamp above; the second sheet with two 1d. trials creased, and with some surface rubbing though a very rare and possibly unique group. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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