Sale No: 245
Lot No: 891
Symbol: *O
Cat No: Collection
Extensive collection in Scott album with Federation set mint + 1½d used, Makea/Torea sets mostly mint, Crown Opt mint, 'RAROTONGA' Opts on QV to 10/- & Arms to £1, later Arms to £1 x2, QEII issues virtually complete to 1982 mint including the Decimal Surcharged Arms SG 219-221 (with Stolow guarantee h/s), se-tenants & M/Ss plus OHMS Overprints CTO; then similar coverage from Aitutaki & Penrhyn; plus a second album with Niue; generally fine to very fine, high catalogue value & in the later issues high thematic content.
(Qty many 100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 650.00
Sold...AU$ 650.00
Closed..Aug-05-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 650
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 892
Symbol: */**O
Cat No: Collection
Collection on Hagners including Federation set used, Torea/Makea mint to 1/- x4, 'ONE/HALF/PENNY' on 1d mint, KGV Recess mint set, KGV & KGVI Pictorials mint, Thematics including Wildlife to $15, etc, plus Aitutaki & Penrhyn selections including Overprints on New Zealand, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty few 100) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 420.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Aug-05-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 893
Symbol: G
Cat No: Collection
1893-1900 Makea & Torea Mixed Perfs 1d blue Perf 12x11½ horizontal pair with Misplaced Perfs at top & right and Reperforated Perf 12½ at the top SG 6a, small scissor-cuts between the stamps and at right to assist separation, light Rarotonga cds, Cat £4500+. Unique multiple! Ex Grant & Floyd Fitzpatrick. [Only four other singles are recorded, one of which is in the Canterbury Museum. The New Zealand Handbook at page 101 states "Copies with this variety are of considerable rarity...There is a pair of the 1d - this item, which is illustrated there - in the Grant Collection". Absent from the collections of Francois Boulangier, Paul Jensen & Sir Gawaine Baillie. Sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $4660]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 894
Symbol: #
Cat No: Collection
1893-1900 Makea & Torea Perf 11 1d brown with the Watermark Sideways SG 13a with horizontal marginal watermark-line at the top, a few pulled perfs, unused, Cat £1600. A rare stamp: fewer than 10 examples recorded. [Absent from the Bury, Fitzpatrick, Jensen, Frazer, Boulangier & Baillie collections. This stamp was sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $2210]
1899 Surcharge 'ONE/HALF/PENNY' on 1d blue with the Surcharge Inverted & Misplaced 'PENNY/ONE/HALF' SG 21a, large-part o.g., Cat £850 (as it has been since at least 2009). BPA Certificate (1953) as the then SG 25var. [Only one half-pane of 30 was affected. All examples show similar misplacement: see the New Zealand Handbook at page 113. Sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $930. Francois Boulangier's example sold in 2003 for $952]
1901 Cession (Crown Overprint) 1d brown SG 22 block of 4 [R2/1-2 / R3/1-2], one pulled perf between the upper units, unused, Cat £720+, as it has been since at least 2009. A very scarce multiple. [Sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $700]
1901 Cession (Crown Overprint) 1d brown with the Overprint Inverted SG 22a, the surface abraded at upper-left as a result of adhering to the interleaving (a common event in these issues), tied to small piece by Rarotonga cds of 9NO01, Cat £1700. [Sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $1740]
1902 No Watermark Medium White "Cowan" Paper ½d blue-green vertical pair from the base of the sheet Imperforate Horizontally SG 23a, very minor thin between the units, large-part o.g., Cat £1300, as it has been since at least 2009. Ex Rob Colacino. [Sold at the Prestige auction of 5.12.2009 for $870. At least the equal of Sir Gawaine Baillie's similar but part-o.g. example with a hinge remainder that sold for £1092]
1902 NZ/Star 2d brown Torea with No Figures of Value SG 31a, characteristic rough perfs, large-part o.g., Cat £2250, as it has been since at least 2009. Ex Rob Colacino: sold at the Prestige auction of 24.4.2009 for $2680. BPA Certificate (1969). One of the most unusual of all Pacific Islands rarities. [Sir Gawaine Baillie's similar example sold in 2007 for £2185]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 900
Symbol: **
Cat No: 163-173
1963 Pictorials 1d to 5/- as SG 163-173 but Imperforate blocks of 4, unmounted. Believed only one set of imperforate sheets was released.
(Qty 11 blocks)
AITUTAKI: Remainders on exhibit pages with 1903 Pictorials Perf 11 two used sets, KEVII 6d block of 4 with bogus cancel, Native Currency on KGV 6d both perfs used pairs, 6d & 1/- (fragile) Two Perf blocks of 4 unmounted, 1920-27 Pictorials used etc, generally fine to very fine with some unmounted units, STC £1400+.
(Qty 81) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Aug-05-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 902
Symbol: */**
Cat No: 27
AITUTAKI: 1920 Pictorials 3d black & blue Palmtree SG 27 lower-left corner block of 6 (3x2) Imperforate at Base, the central units with minor gum blemishes otherwise unmounted. A rare positional piece. Ex J Edgar Williams. [Sir Gawaine Baillie's lower-left corner block of 10 sold in 2007 for £552. However, with an estimate of only £150, Sotheby's implied it was an unissued variety from the same source as the imperf proof sheets. The New Zealand Handbook Volume V at page 375 makes clear this error occurred in the issued stamps: "At least one sheet of the 3d value missed the last strike of the comb machine, resulting in the stamps in the bottom row being imperf at the bottom [sic]". The Baillie result clearly impacted the sale of this block at the Prestige auction of 10.4.2010 for $1048]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 903
Symbol: O*
Cat No: Collection
PENRHYN: Neat mounted & annotated mostly used collection including 2½d SG 1/1a pair (mint), 1d Perf 11 SG 3 with dubious cds (Cat £800 mint; £1200 used), 1903 Birds all shades, KEVII 6d & 1/- x2, KGV Recess both perfs complete + 2½d Two Perfs pair and extra 6d & 1/- with Overprint Verieties, KGV Typo set, 1920 Pictorials plus 1d with Double Derrick x7 (four mint), etc, generally very fine, Cat £1800+. A difficult group to assemble, used being much scarcer than mint.
(Qty 63)
PENRHYN: 1920 Pictorials ½d Landing of Captain James Cook marginal block of 6 (2x3) from the left of the sheet with the upper units Imperf at Base & the central units Imperforate Three Sides SG 32a, unmounted, undercatalogued at £1500, as it has been since at least 2009. A spectacular and famous error: see the New Zealand Handbook Vol V at pages 410-411. [Sold at the Prestige auction of 10.4.2010 for $2440. Sir Gawaine Baillie's similar block sold in 2007 for £2185]
