Sale No: 2105
Lot No:594
Symbol:Cat No:O1a

Official Stamps. 1890-91 Issue. Overprint 17-17½mm. Long. ½d. green, variety "o" omitted, fine mint. Scarce. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. O1a, £800. Photo.
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Est. £250-300

Official Stamps. 1890-91 Issue. Overprint 17-17½mm. Long. ½d. green, variety both "i" 's omitted, cancelled with large part 4 November 1890 Kingston squared-circle datestamp; fine and scarce. S.G. O1c, £900. Photo
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Est. £200-250

Official Stamps. 1890-91 Issue. Overprint 17-17½mm. Long. ½d. green with varieties overprint inverted mint (2) and used (a little soiled), overprint double mint (some foxing on gum) and overprint double, one diagonal used (repaired at foot). S.G. O1e, f, £540
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Est. £100-120

Sale No: 2105
Lot No:597
Symbol:Cat No:O1h

Official Stamps. 1890-91 Issue. Overprint 17-17½mm. Long. ½d. green, variety overprint double, one vertical; trace of soiling at upper right corner, otherwise fine mint. Scarce. Signed Bloch. S.G. O1h, £900. Photo
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Est. £300-350

Official Stamps. 1890-91 De La Rue Issue. Essay Colour Trial. 2d. in green, a marginal example initialled in red ink and affixed to small piece ex the printers archive. B.P.A. Certificate (1985). Photo
Note: On 5 February 1890 De La Rue received a requisition for 1d. and 2d. Official stamps, utilising the old postage stamp plates overprinted. On 7 February De La Rue pointed out that such plates had been destroyed on the instructions of the Crown Agents, at the same time forwarding the suggestion offered in the above lot to meet the Colonial Government's requirements, printing the 1d. in red and the 2d. in grey in singly-fugitive ink. The suggestion was approved on 10 February 1890 (Image1)

Est. £300-400

Official Stamps. 1890-91 De La Rue Issue. Specimen and Issued Stamps. A set of three overprinted "specimen", mint, two issued mint sets, ½d., 1d. strip of three (cancelled at Morant Bay) and 2d. used; generally fine. S.G. O3-5, £245
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Est. £100-120

Official Stamps. 1890-91 De La Rue Issue. Specimen and Issued Stamps. ½d., 1d. and 2d. each overprinted "specimen" (D12) and affixed to small pieces ex the De La Rue day book collection, dated "Mar 91", "Mar 1890" and "Mar 1890." respectively. A unique trio
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Est. £100-120