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Postal History continued...
| Lot |
Symbol |
CatNo. |
Lot Description |
CV or Estimate |
| 1581 |
 |
S.G. #59, 66, 85 |
 S.G. #66, 1897 1/- Pale brown, perforated 11, an
attractive left gutter-margin single along with 6p Rose, perforated 11x12
and 5p Ultramarine, perforated 11x10 (S.G. #59, 85) tied to clean
registered cover to Moudon, Switzerland by less commonly seen "Suva/JU 1
1903" ornamented c.d.s. (Campbell type IV), backstamped, very fine (Scott
#43-44, 58). (Image) |
Est. 300-400
SOLD for $230.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1582 |
|
S.G. #69 |
 S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, tied to
attractive registered cover to New York by clear strike of "G.P.O.
Suva/Fiji/25 Jul 95" c.d.s., additional strike at left, carried via R.M.S.
"Miowera", and more unusual routing through Vancouver with rather crude "R"
registry handstamp, Victoria, Winnipeg and St. Paul, Minn. transits on the
reverse, backstamped, stamp is fresh and has fine centering, a very fine
and scarcer cover with this stamp (Scott #45).
(Image) |
Est. 400-500
SOLD for $650.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1583 |
|
S.G. #69 |
 S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, lovely
fresh single with fine centering, tied to pristine register cover to
Germany by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/12 Jul 97" c.d.s., black London registry
transit on the front, backstamped Baden-Baden, a choice and very fine cover
with this high value (Scott #45). (Image) |
Est. 400-500
SOLD for $325.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1584 |
|
S.G. #69 |
 S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, tied to
petite registered cover to Dresden, Germany by "Suva/17 Dec 03" type III
c.d.s., stamp is also tied by red London registry c.d.s., Liverpool transit
on the reverse, minor soiling, otherwise very fine (Scott #45). (Image) |
Est. 300-400
SOLD for $150.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1585 |
|
S.G. #70, 72 |
 S.G. #70, 72, 1891-92 "1/2d" on Dull blue and "2
1/2d" on 2p Green, each bottom margin singles with natural s.e., tied
to locally run cover to the ship H.M.S. "Royalist" that was in port there,
2 1/2p tied by "sunburst" cancel of Suva, which is seen much less
frequently on covers as its main use was on packets of newspapers, other
stamp tied by clear strike of "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/24 Jun 97" c.d.s., minor
perf. toning to the stamps, otherwise very fine and pretty cover (Scott
#49-50). (Image) |
Est. 300-400
SOLD for $160.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1586 |
|
S.G. #72a |
 S.G. #72a, 1892 "1/2d" surcharge on 1p
Ultramarine, four horizontal pairs and two singles attractively
positioned on locally run cover by "Suva/Fiji/NO 1 1892" c.d.s. with
clearer strike at bottom center, addressed to Basil Thomson and from the
handwriting apparently sent by his wife, stamps with fine centering, very
fine cover; catalog value for used singles is £700 (Scott #49). (Image) |
Est. 750-1,000
SOLD for $750.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1587 |
|
S.G. #70, 72a, 75 |
 S.G. #75, 1893 "Five Pence" wide setting surcharge on
6p Rose, tied to neat registered cover along with "1/2d" surcharge on
1p Ultramarine and "2 1/2d" surcharge on 2p Green (S.G. #70, 72a) by
"G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/31 May 94" c.d.s., posted to London where backstamped,
fresh and very fine cover; all three of these provisional surcharges are
better stamps; 1986 RPS certificate (Scott #49-50, 52a). (Image) |
Est. 300-400
SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1588 |
|
S.G. #70, 72a, 75 |
 S.G. #75, 1893 "Five Pence" wide setting surcharge on
6p Rose, tied to registered cover along with "1/2d" surcharge on 1p
Ultramarine and "2 1/2d" surcharge on 2p Green (S.G. #70, 72a) by "G.P.O.
Suva/Fiji/31 May 94" c.d.s., backstamped London, light perf. toning,
otherwise very fine cover (Scott #49-50, 52a).
(Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $110.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1589 |
|
S.G. #84a |
 S.G. #84a, 1892 2 1/2p Brown, perforated 11x10,
tied to exceptionally attractive cover by red "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/24
Dec 94" c.d.s. (Campbell type II) with another strike at left, this is a
short-lived cancel to begin with, but in red it was used exclusively
between September 15 and December 31 of 1894, commercial usage with
Hedemann & Co. of Levuka corner card on the reverse, posted to Germany and
backstamped Hildesheim, opened a little roughly at left causing tears to
the backflap, still a fresh and very fine cover (Scott #57). (Image) |
Est. 400-500
SOLD for $550.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1590 |
|
86, 101-03a |
 S.G. #86, 1896 1/2p Slate grey, perforated 11,
horizontal pair along with three 1p Rosy mauve, 2p Dull green and two 2
1/2p Yellow brown, all perforated 11 x nearly 12 (S.G. #101-03a) on
O.H.M.S. envelope but covering the inscription to be used as ordinary mail
rather than official mail, registered to the United States, all tied by
"G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/11 Nov 98" c.d.s., backstamped Philadelphia plus Victoria
and Winnipeg transits through Canada, small portion of backflap missing and
slightly reduced at left, stamps have usual fine centering, a scarce and
attractive four-color franking (Scott #53/57).
(Image) |
Est. 400-500
SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1591 |
|
S.G. #89, 97 |
 S.G. #89, 1894 2p Dull green, perforated 11, four
singles on front of registered cover to Germany along with single on front
and three singles on the reverse of 1p Rosy mauve, perforated nearly 12
(S.G. #97), all tied by clean strikes of "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/16 Jan 99"
c.d.s., London registry oval on front and backstamped Baden-Baden, minor
edge wrinkles at bottom, still very fine and attractive cover (Scott
#55-56). (Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $100.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1592 |
|
S.G. #90 |
 S.G. #90, 1895 2 1/2p Brown, perforated 11, tied
to commercial cover to France by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/3 May 98" c.d.s. with
additional strike at left, underpaid and charged postage due with blue
crayon "T25c" ms. rate marking and paid by 50c Brown violet postage due
stamp of France (#J38) by St. Genis Laval c.d.s. on arrival, slight edge
wear to the cover, otherwise a very fine usage (Scott #57). (Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $350.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1593 |
|
S.G. #89, 101 |
 S.G. #101, 1896 1p Rosy mauve, perforated 11 x nearly
12, block of five on commercial cover to attorney in New York along
with 2p Dull green pair, perforated 11 (S.G. #89), all tied by "Suva/2 Sep
1902" ornamented c.d.s. (Campbell type V), cover routed through Vancouver,
Canada with Victoria and Seattle transits, backstamped, edge faults to
cover including small tear at bottom, not affecting stamps which are
fine-very fine (Scott #55-56). (Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $110.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1594 |
|
S.G. #131c var. |
 S.G. #131c var., 1921 4p Black and red on pale
yellow, diagonal bisect, tied to cover to Australia by country post
office "P.O. Labasa/Fiji/5 Jul 23" type IIIa c.d.s., not tied across the
bisect but contemporaneous ms. note "no stamps available at P.O." below
explaining this unusual franking, evidently sufficient to be tolerated as
Suva transit is on the reverse, very fine cover from a smaller post office
showing some of the adversities that had to be dealt with (Scott #85). (Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1595 |
|
|
 1899 O.H.M.S. cover to London, properly endorsed
and with "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/10 Jan 99", addressed to a Stamp Exchange Club
in southwest London and perhaps responding to inquiry about stamps, scarce
official cover used within the British Empire, very fine. (Image) |
Est. 200-300
SOLD for $130.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1596 |
|
|
1880-1948 Substantial postal history collection, consisting of 25
covers starting as early as an 1880 cover to the United States, also a
nineteenth century map of the islands, majority of the covers are
nineteenth century or just into the turn of the century, most of which are
commercial usages, we note a 2p Green (S.G. #40) on cover to Sydney per the
ship "S.S. Fiona" and another pre-U.P.U cover to the Bank of New Zealand in
Melborne with 4p on 1p Mauve (S.G. #41) tied by "Suva/Fiji/ 18 JA 1891"
c.d.s., per the ship "S.S. Taviuni", twelve of the covers are later mostly
nineteenth century covers with the 1891-1902 new values and Pirogue
designs, these are interesting in that most are foreign mail covers to
various destinations, we note three each to Great Britain and France, two
to Germany, a registered cover to Italy and one cover to the United States,
also an 1886 registered cover to the unusual destination of Hamilton,
Bermuda, all of these have various frankings up to three colors and various
perforations of the period, twentieth century covers include two registered
with "Fiji/Official C.P. Paid" plus adhesives for registry fee, also a 1930
newspaper wrapper to the United States with red "Postage Paid in
Cash/Suva-Fiji/18 Aug. 30" c,d,s, and first day covers of the 1935 Jubilee
complete and 1948 Silver Wedding complete, finally there are three inbound
covers, one an 1896 Great Britain cover forwarded to Fiji from Australia
and two 1909-10 European postal cards to Levuka, condition varies as is
very typical of covers from these islands so faults are to be expected to
both covers and stamps, but a number are fine-very fine as well and this is
a nice collection of material documenting the usages of the various issues
of this country. |
Est. 3,000-4,000
SOLD for $4,250.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1597 |
OO |
|
Country Post Office postal
history collection, a wonderful selection of covers, postcards and
stamps with the cancellations of the rural post offices that were located
throughout the widely spread islands of Fiji, this category includes all
but the two major ports of Lavuka and Suva, some of these are as small as
just a plantation or mission, others are quite large settlements, but mail
from any of them is decidedly scarce as nearly all the postal material
available comes out of the capital of Levuka or later Suva when the capital
was moved there, one interesting and popular feature of these post offices
is that steel straightline cancellors were issued about the turn of the
century during the Edward VII reign and were used through the George V
period, this collection consists of 21 covers or cards, two fronts and 44
stamps with these cancellations, nineteen different post offices are
represented here and usually each office has at least one cover, they can
be divided up by the island on which they are located, the largest and main
Island of Viti Levu has mostly commercial usages from Nadroga, Naitoniton,
Navola (rare small post office that was only open nine years; commercial
cover to "Fiji Times" in Suva), Raki Raki, scarce Sabeto straightline on
card to New Zealand, and Tunulou, the other large island of Vanua Levu has
Davutu, Naduri, Rabi, Savu Savu East and Waimotu, this last a registered
"Iremonger" cover to England from this small community, other islands
include Naidiri from island of Kadavu, Taviuni Island has an embossed stamp
card (illegal usuage in the British Empire) and commercial cover to Norway,
both from Somo Somo, plus Taviuni North and Vuna, and finally the Lau group
of small Islands include Lakeba, Loma Loma, Moala and Totoya, most covers
have Edward VII frankings and some with George V, the single stamps that
accompany many of these covers are of the same period, condition varies,
commercial inter-island covers tend to have faults as usual, cards and the
few philatelic covers are usually fine-very fine; an exceptional collection
of these small post offices that are hard to find individually let alone a
whole collection. (Image) |
Est. 5,000-7,500
SOLD for $6,500.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
WORLDWIDE
Azores
| Lot |
Symbol |
CatNo. |
Lot Description |
CV or Estimate |
| 1598 |
 |
1 |
 #1, 1868 5r Black imperforate, unused, ample to
mostly large margins all around, fresh color, traces of o.g., very fine; a
rare stamp that is seldom offered at auction; signed Champion and others,
and accompanied by a 1999 APS certificate.
(Image) |
3,250.00
SOLD for $600.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
British Guiana
| Lot |
Symbol |
CatNo. |
Lot Description |
CV or Estimate |
| 1599 |
O |
6 |
 #6, 1852 1c Black on magenta surface-colored
paper, Ty. B without period after Guiana, a rarely found sound used
example of this very rare stamp, exceptionally attractive with unblemished
deep red surface color, very neatly cancelled with "Demerara/JY31 1855"
double arc c.d.s., very few of this issue have survived fault-free due to
the fragile nature of the surface-colored paper, making them prone to
surface abrasions, thins and creasing which affect a large portion of the
known copies and is considered the norm, this stamp is lacking any of
these, though when offered in the Caspary sale a normal light hinge mark
caused them to describe it with "unnoticeable faint horiz. crease,"
subsequently submitted to the Philatelic Foundation in 1958 as creased
causing the error to be perpetuated in the certificate, however when last
offered in an October 18,1996 Robert A. Siegel auction, it was specifically
described as "sound in every respect" and realized $5,500.00, plus the 10%
buyer's premium, we are in agreement with its perfectly sound status,
extremely fine; 1958 PF certificate; ex-Caspary (S.G. #9;
£4,250). (Image) |
5,250.00
SOLD for $4,250.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
| 1600 |
O |
6 |
 #6, 1852 1c Black on magenta surface-colored
paper, four large margins, strong color with only a faint trace of
surface rubbing at top left, Demera c.d.s., inevitable small faults but
without the heavy repairs that are often found, very fine appearance;
actually in far better condition than the majority examples offered (S.G.
#9; £4,250). (Image) |
5,250.00
SOLD for $375.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM |
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