IMPRESSIVE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COLLECTION. to 1980s issues (and later for some countries) in ten Scott and two Lindner albums and nicely augmented with booklets and booklet panes plus some later gutter pairs, an incredibly long list of highlights would bore the reader but a few to whert the appetite would include Gibraltar 1921 £1 KG V NH, Gilbert & Ellice complete mint 1911-75, GB 1924 1½d KG V booklet panes of four + two labels mint (2 diff), Hong Kong strong 1930s/70s issues with NH sets and S/S, Solomon Isl 1907 War Canoe mint, 1908-11 War Canoe mint, 1913-14 ½d-£1 KG V mint, etc. plus strong Ireland, Br Pacific, etc., generally F-VF, a pleasure to view. 

CV. 10,000-12,000

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH STOCK. mostyly mint KG V and earlier sorted into glassines with better selections of Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Isl, Montserrat, North Borneo, Orange River, Sarawak, Sierra Leone, Trinidad, Zanzibar, etc., plenty of NH, generally F-VF; inventory available; owner's Scott $32,250+

CV. 5,000-7,500

DESIRABLE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COLLECTION. on Lighthouse blank/ quadrille pages in six albums plus extras in a stock book (with "non-British" as well), strong sections of Victorian through 1990s issues with a wealth of better sets and singles incl high values, strongest areas include Bermuda, Brit Africa incl the "Rhodesias", Hong Kong, the "Saints", Virgin Isl, etc. plus good number of 1935 Silver Jubilee and 1948/49 Silver Wedding mint or used sets, mostly F-VF, fine foundation collection. 

CV. 5,000-7,500

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COLLECTION. to 1960s on Scott Int'l pages in four binders, useful Ceylon, India and states, Malayan area, Middle East and African regions, strong West Indies, etc. with numerous 1935 Silver Jubilee and 1948/49 Silver Wedding mint sets, some definitive sets to high value (mostly KG VI period), etc., mostly F-VF

CV. 4,000-5,000

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ACCUMULATION. many 1000s of stamps - singles, short sets, sets and miscellany mostly in glassines or stock books, Victorian through QE II from wide range of countries with some non-British mixed in (esp Portuguese colonies), among the mass of stamps find the occasional nugget as Bahrain 1942/45 KG VI NH, assorted Malayan States with some 1957/61 sets NH, SW Africa 1954 1d-10sh NH, etc., usual very mixed condition, most F-VF, inspection a must, owner's Scott in neighborhood of $28,000

CV. 3,000-4,000

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH POSTAL HISTORY ACCUMULATION. an old time accumulation of 151 items selected by a discerning postal historian for unusual usages of all types with many better items like 1892 Tonga with superb strike of government frank, eight KEVII-QEII mixed country frankings with better from Hong Kong, 2 U.S. reply cards used in the 1920’s up franked and cancelled in St Vincent and Jamaica, Egypt and Gibraltar used in 1904 to Ascension Island, better QV destinations like Natal to Uruguay and Suriname, Sierra Leone KEVII on 2 different postal stationery envelopes endorsed per “S/S Mendi” and “S/S Burutu”, multiple African areas collected for smaller village cancels, many on reg. covers, KGVI St Helena/ Cayman due combo, S. Africa stamped Parcel Form, Cyprus KGV to Liechtenstein and Yugoslavia, Cook islands used as a due stamp, Boer War (Zululand, two mixed country frankings, scarcer origins like Egypt and Mozambique Co., miniature cover, etc.), WWI (Pow, Uganda stampless, Japan to Ceylon, better Samoa, OAS Egypt to Argentina, etc.), WWII (POW mails, paquebot usage, and other unusual items) other cancel items like TPOs, RPOs, maritime items with ship ppc’s, mainly from the African area with several scarce items with the earliest from 1904, etc. All handpicked and a great group of quality not often found these days. 

CV. 2,800-3,250

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ACCUMULATION. various collection balances plus assortment of sets and singles in five stock books, includes starter collections of Ascension, Australia and States (New South Wales, Queensland, So Australia, Victoria), Bahamas, British Antarctic (NH 1966/93), Canadian Provinces and a general collection in SG "Imperial" album, in the lightly filled stock books note some useful Niger Coast Prot (incl 1-6 used), recent St. Vincent, Brit Caribbean assorted mint and used mostly KG VI issues, New Zealand, etc., usual mixed condition, mostly F-VF, viewing a must. 

CV. 1,800-2,200

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ACCUMULATION. unusual holding with albums, stock sheets, cards, glassines all filled with popular material like a homemade Bermuda album from QV period to 1980’s with better values and sets mint and used throughout and duplication with shades/ ptgs., a good Canada collection, including some very nice Newfoundland values, and with some premium well centered/jumbo copies, old time stock sheets filled with better values from all periods with good early to middle period from Papua, BEA, Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Gibraltar, Somaliland, Seychelles, etc. along with some pages with better Indian Sates and Kuwait, Muscat, and more glassines and pages filled with better values. A real mix with better values throughout and finds to be made.

CV. 900-1,200

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ASSORTMENT. Malta and Gibraltar starter collections in Davo hingeless albums with some better sets and singles plus assortment good number of different colonies in three stock books with most value in 20th century through the 1960s, mostly F-VF

CV. 750-1,000

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COLLECTION. through KG VI period on Scott Jr Int'l pages, numerous sets and definitive short sets, many 1935 Jubilee mint sets, better as (mint unless otherwise noted) Ceylon 264-74, Falklands 65-70, Hong Kong 147-50, 168-73, New Zealand 229-41 NH, So Africa B5-8, C5-6 NH, etc., mostly F-VF

CV. 600-900

MODERN BRITISH COMMONWEALTH STOCK. generally 1980s/90s with plenty of omnibus issues in stock sheets in six binders plus an additional binder with assortment of booklets (mostly GB and Canada), generally S/S, mini-sheets, gutter pairs and blocks, etc. with some duplication, most from Pacific and Caribbean islands especially Brit Antarctic, Cocos Isl, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta, Montserrat, New Zealand incl Ross Dep, St Kitts, Tristan Da Cunha, etc., vast majority NH, generally fresh and F-VF. 

CV. 500-750

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MINT NH ASSORTMENT. mostly QE II NH sets in stock cards, includes Bahamas 116-29, Brit Antarctic 1-15, Caymans 153-67, Malta 208-22, Pitcairn 1-8, etc., F-VF

CV. 300-400