British Commonwealth Area Collections British Pacific
Sale No: 739
Lot No: 114
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British Pacific, Collection, 1855 to early 2000's, in three Scott Specialty albums, one of which containing New Zealand duplicates, with New Zealand going to early 2000's and most other countries dropping off around 1960's, plus two stock books of Samoa, albums containing many better high value early classic issues, strong representation from early Victoria to the 1960's definitive sets, highlights include Aitutaki: 6, Australian States, New South Wales: B1, Queensland: good variety of early Victoria Chalon heads including mostly complete Chalon shilling to pound values, several useful South Australia and Tasmania Chalon heads, Victoria: several early imperf seated Victoria's and a few early Western Australia swans, Australia: 54, 56 specimen, 127, 128 specimen, OB55, Brunei 38, Cook Islands, a couple early earlier Federation issues, Fiji 45 mint, Edward II and George V key plates up to 5/- or 2/6, with 68, 77, Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1-7, Nauru 1-11, New Guinea C46-55, New Zealand with 16 imperf and 30 perforated Chalon heads, including a couple Auckland blue papers, 4-5, 10 blue green shilling value, various shades of 6p brown, strong mostly complete perforated issues of various perforations and watermarks, 51-56, 59-60, 61-67, 1898-1902 issues are mostly complete, 122-25 mint, complete George V, 182-83, 1935-36 sets, 1960 and 1967 definitive sets, good section of postal fiscals, with several better higher values, nearly complete semi-postals including laughing boy set, C1-8 mint, J1-9, J11, good life insurance, British New Hebrides 6, J1-4, J1-5, Norfolk Island 1-24, Papua New Guinea, Penrhyn Island 10-12, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, some early Express issues of various types, Samoa stock books contain several German Samoa lost colonies labels, many early Express stamps (many of which are reprints and marked as such), good Palms issues, some German colonies issues, Solomon Islands George V sets to 5/- and 67-79, expect usual mixed condition, with occasional faults as you usually see among classic issues, many great key values that are always in demand, along with more modern sets that are always in demand, generally Fine to Very Fine. Suggested Bid $5,000-7,500 (Image)
Suggested Bid $5,000-7,500
Opening US$ 5,250.00
Sold...US$ 5,250.00
Closed..Apr-25-2020, 14:41:22 EST
Sold For 5250
Sale No: 739
Lot No: 115
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Cat No: Collection
British Pacific, Dealer Stock, mostly from 1850's-1950's, each stamp on dealer 102 card, with most stamps correctly identified, occasional faults and a few with incorrect Scott value, so you will need to view to properly calculate current Scott value, we spot checked for some better items and removed or lowered the price on a few stamps that were clearly mis-identified and we found a few better that include, used: Australia a few better Kangaroos and George V, including 127, J36 (3), Cook Islands 103, Fiji 68, 106, New Zealand group of seven better Chalon heads, 77, 82, 183, Smiling Boy high value, New Guinea C25, a few better New South Wales, Niue 30-32, 51, a few better early South Australia with eight better early imperf and perf Victoria issues, Queensland five early Chalon shilling values, and mint: Australia 149 and L8-18, West Australia 84 with O.S. perfin official, some spot checking would be prudent to properly evaluate as we could not possibly check everything; usual mixed condition, generally Fine to Very Fine appearance. Scott $15,000+ (Owner's) Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000 (Image)
