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Great Britain and British Commonwealth BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOUTH AFRICA - Orange River C
Sale No: 0720
Lot No: 8600
Symbol: *Oe
Cat No: Collection
1868-1909 specialized collection of hundreds of used and unused, neatly and attractively mounted on handmade, well annotated pages, covering all of the issues of the colony, containing singles, positional pairs, blocks of four and larger (including part sheet of 60), varieties, particularly on the many 1896-1907 surcharged issues (double, no stop, "Peuny"), as well as a wealth of specialized varieties, unissued 1900, "V.R.I." issues ("6" omitted, stop omitted, double and inverted surcharges, also shades), normal major Scott and Gibbons numbers, cancellations, Military Frank Stamps (including identified forgeries), extensive Telegraph Stamps, Fiscals, Police Frank Stamps (SG PF2,3), Postcard Stamps on cards, Postal Stationery, Specimen overprints, few covers, some registered, several certificates included. An opportunity for the specialist in this field (Image)
Est.$5,000
Opening US$ 5,250.00
Sold...US$ 5,250.00
Closed..Jul-08-2020, 11:29:53 EST
Sold For 5250
Postal Stationery
Sale No: 0720
Lot No: 8601
Symbol: e
Cat No: P1-18
1891-1902 annotated exhibit presented on 72 pages, with 150+ used and unused regular and Provisional definitive postal cards (including message and reply cards) displaying most of the typographic settings used to produce them. Local, domestic and foreign uses include several items of Boer War philately: Army field post offices, censorship markings and handstamps, also earliest-known dates of use of 1884 1d Definitive (June 25, 1885, Victoria West via Colesburg and 1891 1/2d on 1d Provisional (Aug 29, 1891, from Thaba Nchu to Edinburgh) and the discovery 1893 1 1/2d on 3d Provisional postal card showing earliest known use (April 29, to Germany via London), extremely late use of 1893 11/2d on 3d Provisional (Aug 1, 1896), only recorded inverted 1 1/2d surcharge on adhesive tied to unused Sixth Setting postal card (late impression) and early use of 1901 1d on 1 1/2d Provisional (March 12) displaying scarce period after 'Penny' variety, occasional minor toning, generally fine-v.f. (Cat No. SG P1-18) (Image)
