Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1817
Symbol: *OCPS
Cat No: Collection
Collection remainders in albums, on pages & loose with many pickings including KGV to 25r used x2, mint KGVI set to 10r, Gandhi set & 1949-52 Monuments to 10r, lots of Officials, 1869-78 Telegraphs 2a 2r8a & 10r (fault) each with 'SPECIMEN' twice, a bundle of FDCs, some Convention States & Feudatory States with lots of Travancore & a few mint Bahawalpur, etc, plus an untidy array of postal history & postal stationery with pickings including Forces & TPO usages, condition variable but much is fine to very fine. Inspection may well be rewarded. Ex Alan Downes. (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 500.00
Closed..Mar-01-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1818
Symbol: *O
Collector's remnants of India & States, noted 1948 Ghandi set * (gum faults), condition mixed. Weighs 8kg.
1854 Imperf 2a green with 'MP' from the Sheet Watermark SG 31b, margins just clear - at upper-left - to good, rhombus-of-dots cancel, Cat £800. [The central watermark device is inscribed 'STAMP OFFICE/One Ana' [sic] & additionally in three native scripts]
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1821
Symbol: *O
Cat No: 220-246
1911-36 KGV Issues apparently complete used plus some shades, Inverted & Sideways Watermarks, 1911-23 2r with Extra Pearl, two tete-beche blocks of 4, the 1911 15r has a telegraph cancel, also mint SG 220-246 complete; plus Air Mail Postal Card 4a unused & used x2 and Air Mail Envelope '7½ As' on 8a used; generally fine to very fine, Cat £880++. (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Mar-01-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1822
Symbol: **
Cat No: 159
1911-23 Star Wmk 1a rose-carmine SG 159 marginal block of 4 from the top of the sheet, each unit with 'CANCELLED' Overprint, perf separation/reinforcing in the margin otherwise unmounted.
1924 Universal Postal Congress delegates' folder with QV 1a6p & OHMS 1a + KEVII 3p on the front of the enclosed booklet and KGV to 1r plus Gwalior Overprints to 1r within, all hinged, some very minor aging; also c.1973 small album in red-cloth binding containing '...a token selection...' that are actually stuck-in!
1949-52 Monuments 1r Victory Tower SG 320 with Strong Offset of both Colours, marginal example from the base of the sheet, faint toning in the margin, unmounted, Cat £45+, for a normal stamp.
2006 Ayothidasa Pandithar 5r lower-left corner block of 6 (3x2), the left-hand & central units with the Pale Yellow Printing (Background) Omitted, unmounted.
2010 Pigeons 5r two marginal blocks from the right of the sheets in distinctly different shades & with slightly different horizontal perfs suggesting that one may be a Postal Forgery, also 5r+5r M/S with Dramatic Colour Shift of the Black Printing ('Doubled Pigeons'), unmounted.
REVENUES: Album of issues for India plus Convention & Feudatory States with many unusual items throughout including from tiny Statelings, also some Cinderellas, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (Image1)