1857 1d brown violet Heraldic Block of Fifteen, mint never hinged, except for stamps 2 and 5 of top row. Full original gum, fresh, with bright colour and rarely offered in such a large multiple. Very fine. Accompanied by 2014 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 6,150

Group of Fifteen Early Mint Heraldics, on two stock cards, with #1 (x3), 11A, 17 (x2), 18 (favour cancel), 19a and 20-23. Also includes three forgeries (not counted). Catalogue value is for cheapest shade or paper. A few faults, else fine to very fine. (Image)

Scott $ 1,182

Group of Early Mint Stamps, with #1 (adherences, else very fine), 11A (fine-very fine), 27 (couple of clipped perfs, else fine-very fine), 31 (fresh, one short perf, very fine), 81 (VFNH) and 82 (VFNH). A nice group. (Image)

Scott $ 600

1857 2d scarlet vermilion Heraldic, unused (no gum), with deep rich colour, a fine impression and four large to huge margins (showing next stamp at left). Extremely fine, a world rarity and worthy of the finest collection. Accompanied by a 1970 A. Diena certificate. Ex-Maurice Burrus (1963) and Dr. Chan Chin Cheung (1995). (Image)

Unitrade $ 25,000

1857 2d scarlet vermilion Heraldic, used, with grid cancel, bright colour and with small parts of framelines at top and left. Accompanied by a 2014 Greene Foundation certificate stating "top right corner cut into design". (Image)

Unitrade $ 5,000

1857 8d scarlet vermilion Heraldic, mint with original gum that has been lightly disturbed by hinges, very fine. Accompanied by 2014 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 500

1857 1sh scarlet Heraldic, unused (no gum) with unusually bright, rich colour. Margins are medium to well clear and there are two tiny thins, one at top centre and one at left centre. Few nicer examples exist, fine-very fine and rare. Accompanied by a 1997 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 25,000

1865-1894 5c brown Harp Seal, unused (regummed), a small closed tear at lower right, else a fine-very fine centered stamp with nice colour. Accompanied by 2014 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 525

1894 6c carmine lake Queen Victoria Block of Four, mint never hinged, fresh and very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 840

1897-1901 2c orange King Edward VII Part Pane of 50, mint never hinged showing selvedge on three sides, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,000

1911 9c olive green Logging Vertical Imperforate Pair, without gum as issued, fine-very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 375

1919 Caribou Set, low values are used, 3c-36c are mint hinged (15c with marks on front which could be light cancel), generally fine-very fine. (Image)

Scott $ 270

1920 3c on 15c scarlet Type I Surcharge, used, with very light cancel. Well centered, very fine. A nice stamp. (Image)

Unitrade $ 350

1929-31 1c to 20c Second Pictorial Issue, mint hinged, generally fine or better. (Image)

Scott $ 153

1931 $1 blue Historic Transatlantic Flights Unwatermarked Horizontal Pair, Imperforate Vertically in right sheet margin. Mint never hinged, fresh and fine. Catalogue value is for "imperforate between". (Image)

Unitrade $ 1,125

1931 15c brown Dog Sled and Airplane Sunken Die Proof, with sunk-in measuring 52 x 82 mm. With light horizontal and vertical guidelines, reduced at right just along the right side of the sunk-in part, very fine and rare. (Image)

Est. $ 500

1931 $1 blue Historic Transatlantic Flights, mint never hinged, fresh and very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 260

1932 $1.50 on $1 blue Dornier DO-X Flight Overprint, mint never hinged, very fine. (Image)

Unitrade $ 800

1932 $1.50 on $1.00 blue Dornier Do-X Flight Overprint, mint lightly hinged original gum, very fine. Accompanied by 2014 Greene Foundation certificate. (Image)

Unitrade $ 400

1933 Balbo Flight Surcharge Forgeries Collection, with a mint single, a rare used single (part slogan machine cancel) and a mint block of four. Perforated 14, and quite close to the original issue, if not for the word "FORGERY" printed on the front of each stamp. A rarely offered group, from the Harmer forgeries reference collection. These forgeries are documented in the Newfoundland Air Mails (updated 1984) by C. H. C. Harmer, with a description of the original sale of some of these forgeries to H. R. Harmer in London (amongst others), which eventually led to a court case in St John's where the forger was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. The chapter ends with "Owing to the prompt police action very few of these overprinted forgeries came on to the market. The most dangerous were the Balbos. Most of the others were rather poor efforts". (Image)

Est. $ 1,000

1933 bistre Balbo Flight with Inverted Surcharge, mint hinged (regummed), from a block of four which was officially destroyed, then later expertly repaired. Accompanied by a 2013 Sismondo certificate explaining in detail this repair and stating in part "...from Position 3 in the block, was formed by rejoining two parts (a right and a left part); but the lower-left corner was added from another stamp since the lower left corner of the original error stamp is still attached to the (officially destroyed) stamp from Position 1 in the block, which still survives...". A true world rarity despite its condition, and SG notes that four copies were repaired and four remain intact. Their valuation of a repaired copy is £20,000. (Image)

Unitrade $ 50,000

1939 Postage Dues, mint never hinged matched sets of plate blocks, a few small faults to be mentioned: J1a UR block with lightly disturbed gum, J3 LL block with corner crease in selvedge, J4 light creases, J6 UL block with crease in corner selvedge, else an overall very fine group of matched sets. (Image)

Unitrade $ 2,825

1937 ½a to 10r Dhow Set, mint, with fresh colour, very lightly hinged. Fine or better. (Image)

Scott $ 800

1937-1955 Collection of Mint and Used, complete issues issued under British administration. Mix of mint and used: 16-27a and most of 48-61A are used, 30-31 and 45-46 are MNH and rest are MH. Overall very fine. Also Aden Kathiri State of Seiyun complete mint collection (#1-38). #14-15, 28 and 38 are NH, rest are hinged. Overall very fine. Also Aden Quaiti State of Shihr and Mukalla complete mint collection (#1-40). #14, 15 and 28 are NH, rest are hinged. Overall very fine. (Image)

Scott $ 517

1933 ½d to 10sh George V and Crocodile Set, mint hinged, bright colours and overall very fine. (Image)

Scott $ 317