Sale No: 245
Lot No: 907
Symbol: #*O
Cat No: 16e (rebacked
Neat little collection with a few earlies including Gothic 2c on 1d with Inverted 'A' for 'V' SG 16e (rebacked) & Roman 2c on 1d SG 19, various 'VR' for 'CR' issues including better perfs, QV 5/- very scarce postally used with GPO cds in red (Gibbons' price is for common CTO examples), various Pirogues including Perf 10 2d mint, later to early-Decimals with pickings, condition variable but generally fine to very fine, STC £2800+.
(Qty few 100) (Image1)
Estimate AU$800
Opening AU$ 600.00
Sold...AU$ 600.00
Closed..Aug-05-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 600
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 908
Symbol: *
Cat No: 31
1876-77 'VR' Underprints on Laid Paper 1d blue as SG 31 but with the 'VR' Underprint Inverted & Misplaced (also with part of a second impression at far-right), large-part o.g. Unlisted by Gibbons. Ex Gerald Patterson: sold for $975. BPA Certificate (1966) as the then SG 81 states "...is genuine". [As noted by a previous owner, "...the inverted overprint may have escaped notice by reason of it being so much off-centre, the inverted 'V' being at first sight easily mistaken for an 'R'...". Of course, because the underprint was printed before the design, technically it is the design that is inverted!]
1915-19 'WAR STAMP' Overprints ½d blue-green with the Overprint Inverted SG 138c marginal pair from the left of the sheet, well centred, the faintest evidence of having been mounted, Cat £1100+. A rare & superb multiple! RPSofV Certificate (2012). [Sir Gawaine Baillie's very fine single sold for £748]
1953-2017 Issues complete on Seven Seas hingeless pages up to 2005, the earlier lightly mounted mint then from 1962 Pictorials apparently all unmounted including M/Ss, se-tenants, etc, some CTO also from 2003 onwards, then from 2006 mostly still in packets as received from the new issue service with sets **, CTO and in gutter strips of 10 or M/Ss **, a range of 2006-16 surcharges, a few booklets, lots of thematic interest especially Animals, Birds & Marine Life, condition generally very fine. Weighs 8kg.
(Qty 100s)
POSTAGE DUES: 1917 3d black SG D4 vertical strip of 3 from the top of the sheet unperforated at the top, neat Sunburst cancels, Cat £360+ (as singles), as has been the case since at least 2012. Multiples larger than pairs of any value are rare. Ex Gerald Patterson: sold at the Prestige auction of 12.10.2012 for $345.
1877 cover to Victoria with 'VR' Underprints Laid Paper 6d carmine-rose SG33a (small fault at top) tied by Sunburst cancel of 'LEVUKA' (cds at left), Melbourne arrival b/s, docketing at left, minor stain at the base.
1882 commercial cover to Saxony with Altered Dies Perf 12½ 2d & 6d SG 37a & 38 tied by 'LEVUKA' cds, very fine strikes on face & reverse of the impressive 'DETAINED FOR ("2D")/ADDITIONAL POSTAGE' h/s, Perf 10x12½ 2d SG 47 (a deeper shade) added & tied by Sunburst cancel, London transit & superb 'KIRCHBERG i SACHSEN' arrival b/s, curious 3-line h/s of a Saxony educator in violet on the face, some soiling. A remarkable cover, illustrated by David Alford at page 70. Ex Gerald Patterson. [The only example of this cachet noted by us. Ted Proud at page 301 records only a 'DEFICIENT POSTAGE/FINE' h/s for Levuka, used 1887-93. Proud's 1888 cover to Samoa with Deficient Postage h/s of Suva sold at the Macray Watson auction of 26.10.1999 for $3190]
1892 Cake Fair 6d grey-blue on an envelope with Surcharges '½d.' on 1d blue pair affixed & three strikes of the 'SUVA/28JU/1892/ FIJI' cds, to "Hugh Worthington Esq/HMS Curacoa/Suva Harbour", light horizontal bend well below the impression & minor blemishes. Ex Gerald Patterson. [David Alford at pages 100-101 records 10 used envelopes, several of which have significant faults. This is the earliest of them, the only one from the first year of use, & perhaps the only "commercial" example. Colonel Harrie Evans' 1893 example & Don Welsh's 1894 example sold at the Prestige auctions of 29.9.2001 & 14.4.2005 for $3960 & $4370 respectively]
1893 Captain Herrold cover to Auckland (b/s) with scarce albeit philatelic 'FIVE/PENCE' on 6d 2mm Spacing SG 74 vertical pair (unperforated at left, the lower unit with Retaining Pin-Hole used to secure the sheet for overprinting, Cat £150 x5+ on cover) tied by 'LEVUKA/FIJI' cds, oval 'REGISTERED/LEVUKA FIJI' cachet (Proud #R1, recorded 1874-78 only) at lower-left, some spotting mainly on the reverse. Ex Gordon Rodger (2007) & Gerald Patterson. [Not listed by David Alford]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 917
Symbol: CL
Cat No: 69 (very fine
1897 commercial linen-lined cover (reduced to 228x124mm) with Hedemann Evers & Co Levuka cachet on the flap, to the parent company in Germany "Via Vancouver" with remarkable solo franking of QV 5/- SG 69 (very fine) tied by Levuka cds, Suva (b/s), Liverpool & London transits & very fine Hamburg arrival b/s, two vertical folds well clear of the stamps, a bit soiled & with minor peripheral faults caused by the bulky contents. Ex Gerald Patterson. A highly significant cover, being the only commercial 5/- franking known to us. [NB: the catalogue value for the 5/- of £32 is for the common CTO remainders. Commercially used examples are very elusive & worth a large premium]
1914 stampless OHMS cover with superb strike of the brass straight-line 'WAIVOU' h/s, 'GPO SUVA/28/OCT/ 1914/FIJI' arrival cds on the face, boxed 'T ("2d")' & a largely fine strike of the rare boxed 'PLEASE RETURN ENVELOPE/TO GPO WITH/NAME OF SENDER' (Proud #I27, recorded 5.12.1912 only) both suggesting that this was an unauthorised use of an OHMS envelope, duly endorsed "From S Lalanaisu/Fijian - Waivou", overall soiling & with pinholes at upper-left from being affixed in a Post Office file. Ex Gordon Rodger (2007) & Gerald Patterson. [One of the most unusual straight-line town h/s covers of Fiji. Also, the later of only two recorded examples of the boxed handstamp]
1923 cover from '...well & Ellis Solicitors' to NSW with 2d grey tied by a superb strike of the very scarce boxed 'VISIT THE FIJI COURT/British/Empire Exhibition/1924' cachet (ERD) in violet, GPO cds of 8NO/1923 below, central fold & folded at left for display. Ex Gerald Patterson. [Recorded by Ted Proud 9.11.1923 to 2.1.1924 only. A similarly cancelled philatelic cover - see David Alford at page 180 - sold for $1792 at the Prestige auction of 24.1.2004]
