Great Britain and British Commonwealth British West Indies
Sale No: 243
Lot No: 961
Symbol: V
Cat No: 1-16 complete
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis ½c to $5 SG 1-16 complete, CTO, Cat £4250. The key QEII set of the entire British Commonwealth. BPA Certificate for the set.
This was a very limited provisional issue. Of the denominations between ½c & 25c, no more than 4250 (the 2c) were produced. Of the higher values the numbers were 50c x175, 60c x100, $1 x175, $2.50 x225 & $5 x225. [A very fine unmounted set - Cat £25,000 - sold at our auction of 30.11.2019 for $28,752]
(Qty 16)
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis 50c St George's Church Tower SG 12, unmounted, Cat £6000. [Only 175 were produced, of which many were CTO]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis 60c Alexander Hamilton SG 13, exceptional centring, unmounted, Cat £9000. The key value in the key QEII set of the entire British Commonwealth! [Only 100 were produced, of which many were CTO]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis $1 Map of St Christopher & Nevis, unmounted, Cat £4250. [Only 175 were produced, of which most were CTO]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis $2.50c Map of Anguilla, unmounted, Cat £3250. [Only 225 were produced, of which most were CTO]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis $5 Arms of St Christopher, Nevis & Anguilla, exceptional centring, unmounted, Cat £3250. [Only 225 were produced, of which most were CTO]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'INDEPENDENT/ANGUILLA' Overprint on St Christopher Nevis Anguilla QEII 5c blue/blue aerogramme HG FG1, commercially used to "St John's/Antigua" uprated with Anguilla Pictorials 1c Mahogony Tree tied by 'ANGUILLA/25JAN68/VALLEY' cds, full typed message headed "Post Office Department/..." & signed by the Postmaster indicates the 'Independent/Anguilla' stamps sold out by 27.11.1967 and that regarding the aerogrammes "...there is a limited quantity of 5c & 15c...required for local postal use and sales to collectors have been restricted...". Rare postally used. [We have noted a CTO example - also uprated - without message offered online for £450]
ANGUILLA: 1967 'INDEPENDENT/ANGUILLA' Overprint on St Christopher Nevis Anguilla QEII 15c green/blue aerogramme HG FG2, unused. Extremely rare: only 100 were issued, of which BWI specialist David Druett states only five unused examples are recorded (he offers one for £850). On that basis, this must be the rarest regular-issue aerogramme of the British Commonwealth, if not the world]
BAHAMAS: 1938-52 KGVI Definitives Thin Striated Paper 1/- brownish grey & crimson (not 'scarlet' as in Gibbons) and 5/- reddish lilac & blue SG 155a & 156a, minor imperfections, very lightly mounted, Cat £6450. A rare duo. [Unlike 'laid' paper which has defined lines within the paper itself, 'striated' paper is characterised by faint lines or ridges on the surface of the paper. This can be seen by inclining the stamps to a good light source] (2)
BERMUDA: 1924-32 KGV Keyplates Script Wmk 2/6d range of shades stated to be arranged chronologically, one stated to be "May 1931: rare shade"), also 2/6d black & bright orange-vermilion/deep blue SG 89k with a light fiscal cancel, well centred, a couple of tiny problems otherwise very fine used, Cat £960+ (plus SG 89k Cat £3000 postally used).
(Qty 9)
BERMUDA: 1924-32 KGV Keyplates Script Wmk 2/6d black & bright orange-vermilion/deep blue SG 89k, very well centred, light 'ST GEORGES/BERMUDA' postal cds, Cat £3000. A rare shade, classified by Wilson Wong.
GRENADA: 1938-50 KGVI Pictorials 2½d bright blue Perf 12½x13½ SG 157a, well centred, the gum a little yellowed as usual, lightly mounted, Cat £11,000. One of the key mint stamps of the Reign of King George VI & the first mint example we have offered. [Better centred & more attractive than Graham Cooper's unmounted example that sold in 2016 for £7200]