FORGERIES: “The Work of Jean de Sperati”, Part IV (1954) containing ca.70 photographic reproductions of forgeries of stamps, overprints and cancellations incl. Lagos, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Southern Nigeria, Cape, BEA, Ceylon, Hong Kong and India, fine

1840-1920, Useful mint & used assembly incl. Samoa, Tonga, Victoria, Cyprus 1934 18pi, New Zealand 1d brown, St Vincent 1861-85, New South Wales 1860 5s lilac in pair, etc., careful viewing recommended (Image)

SOLD 1840-1950, Attractive cover lot from the 1840s to later 20th century with hundreds of covers loose in box, many interesting usages incl. airs, official, registered censored items, Pacific area noted, BNA incl. Newfoundland 1921 Halifax ovpt airmail cover, India used in Aden, combinations with states, interesting PPCs, penny blacks, official cover with Trinidad postage dues set to 1s, 1923 Falkland combo with Malta, 1937 Falkland 1s KGVI to £1 on four covers, 1961 with thin paper varieties on high value 5s SG 161d (£450 off cover), 10s SG 162 (£475 off cover), £1 (see Falklands spec. cat. £250), packed with value and a great source for the postal historian (Image)

1840-1960, Impressive mostly used with some mint collection in one album, strong GB with classics to £1000+ range incl. embossed set, many shilling and £1 values including QV £1 green, uiseful Aden, good Australia with 5s Sydney bridge, B.O.B. Canada with 3d beaver (4), later sets to $1, with Quebec 1918, and much more, a great lot (Image)

SOLD 1840-1960, Attractive and valuable used premium selection of mostly better items, neatly arranged on cards, most identified and laid out in two stockbooks, good value in early 1900s to 1930s and with many neatly used defin sets, strong areas incl. Australian Roos to £2 incl. SG14, 30, 43 a and b, 75, 114, 136-8, then 5s Bridge, SG O1-10 New Guinea (NWPI) SG99, 117, Australian states with early NSW imperfs, Tasmania SG5, Queensland SG1, Falklands with QV incl. shade study, SG45b, 46b, 46aw, Centenary set to 2s6d, early BNA with Canada, New Brunswick imperfs incl. nice quality to £1000s each, Newfoundland scarce used sets SG95-105, 111-27, 130-41, some nice Egypt, Zanzibar, Zululand, HK, Malta to 10s, CGH with triangulars, Mafeking, NZ unpriced postal fiscals used postally £3 and £5, Nyasaland SG35 on piece, GB with several penny blacks, clean used surface printed incl. QV £1 green (2), quality far above the norm, only a few small faults, a great lot (Image)

1840-1980 Extensive dealer’s stock mint & used, with set and singles, all presented in red file boxes and housed in glassines, showing strength in most all the British Empire areas including Canada & Provinces, some USA, British Europe, British Africa, British America, British Pacific and final British Asia, mixed to fine (1000s) (STC $310’000+)

SOLD 1840-1990, Extensive and substantial mint & used collection in mostly 10 Scott albums with great value in complete sets and high values to £1, strength in later 19th century to 1950 with some good later sections and fair representation of earlies in all, excellent GB and fair overall coverage of the continents with notable Ascension, Australia, BNA with Newfoundland, Cyprus, Falklands, Fiji, India, Malaya & States, Malta, Mauritius, NZ and dependencies, Seychelles, South Africa and earlier states, very strong KGVI and early QEII, a valuable assembly and a fantastic basis fro expansion (Image)

1841-1904, Group of 42 COVERS incl. GB USED ABROAD (Gibraltar, Malta & Egypt) and AUSTRALIAN STATES (Queensland, NSW, etc.), New Zealand, notable items incl. Ceylon 10d Chalon perf. pair, Seychelles 1896 cover with six 48c, etc., attractive group (Image)

1841-1975, Mint & used accumulation of GB and Commonwealth in five stockbooks, noted early Trinidad, good St. Helena, Ceylon earlies, Canada with Small Queens, generally fine (Image)

1840-1960, The stamp addict’s dream. This lot and the 14 lots that follow have been assembled from the mountainous hoard of a true stamp addict who just couldn’t stop buying stamps until he ran out of money a while ago and decided to “kick the habit and let somebody else go crazy over his stamps”. These dream lots represent better stamps selected from this seemingly endless holding of lots and collections. They are put into broad categories with rather sparse descriptions as they were consigned at the 11th hour. What they have in common is that they are pretty much “all wheat and no chaff”, most in £50-1’000 range and are ideal for internet or mail sale, often with a good lot of identification work already done. We expect these lots would attract the attention off some of our man’s fellow stamp addicts, so thorough viewing is recommended. This first lot is primarily mint with focus on later 19th century through the 1950’s. Among the many many highlights, we note an impressive section of British Honduras with good sets to $5 values good overprints, etc. Good specimens including 6d Jamaica unissued slave market. Hong Kong QV Jubilee short U variety and much much more (Image)

Stamp Addicts dream II: this one has focus of value in KGVI with loads of complete definitive sets. Worthy of note is Falklands with KGVI 5s indigo mint, 5 and 10s scarce used later printings and St. Kitts 5s with break in value tablet variety mint (Image)

Stamp Addict’s dream III: Primarily used here with good classics and better sets. Good middle period and early QE. (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream IV: Focus here is QE U/M sets with moderate duplication. Loads on fresh clean £50-£200 definitives with good topical appeal are noted. (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream V: Also KGVI with focus on U/M sets noted with pane of 30 UPU sets including SG 176a “crack in rock” variety on 80 cents (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream VI: Here is another lot very strong in mint, with good earlies and middle period noted including Bermuda KGV 10s nick in scroll variety, Cayman’s group with all 10s mid century and 6d KEVII dented frame variety, Rhodesia including good double heads with 5s, 7s6d, 1s perfs 15 (SG £1’350) with corner crease. (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream VII: Mint and used represented in this one with good early and middle period to the 1950s (Image)

SOLD 1868-1939, Chiefly unmounted mint selection incl. a block of six Canada 15c Large Queen SG61a nh (£3’900), NZ with smiling boys nh, 1st airmail set in blocks nh, just to name a few highlights, mostly very fine (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream IX: Another KGVI focused here, ever popular area, and this one will, as usual, be a winner. We note among the series of highlights, Bermuda key plates with scarce 2nd printing of 2s, 2s6d line perf., Leeward Islands with all printings of £1 (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream X: Another lot with primary focus on used showing a wide range of countries and territories. It will be worth the time to view (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream XI: Yet another KGVI with strong U/M mint, incl. a large pane of HK UPU 80c with bottom R corner stamp SG 176a “crack in rock” variety, etc. (Image)

Stamp Addict’s dream XII: Another group with strong focus on mint. We note among the scores of highlights Barbados blue paper set complete to 2s6d, Northern Rhodesia 1st set to 20s mint, Kelantan Malaya Expo set complete (rarely offered) (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream XIII: Another group with good mint and highlights galore covering a wide range of countries and territories await the intrepid viewer. (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream XIV: Although every item can be a lot with good value, the quality is very mixed with mostly second or third choice items, either small fault, or looks not so nice (heavy cancel, off centre toned, and more). Still an attractive lot with great potential (Image)

Stamp Addict’s Dream XV: Selection of mostly faulty examples but with a huge total catalogue value, still worth spending time upon as there is an obvious strong potential with this lot (Image)

1845-1960 Modest Aspiration, Part I: The following seven lots are not so dreamy as the foregoing lots, but they are still useful accumulations. Representing digestible portions of the rather large hoard assembled by addict. They contain some general commonwealth plus country area groups, occasionally small duplicated sections, but mostly collections with lots of middle values or sets in £5 to £20+ range, occasional higher value classics. Some modern mint runs of some colonies and various loose material, these should be great for sellers of country and area lots in the £50-500 range, and can be broken down for that purpose with good profit potential. This first one is 1 carton full.