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SOLOMON ISLANDS continued...
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2141 |
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 1908-42 Definitive 'SPECIMEN' sets comprising Small Canoes, the three KGV sets, Silver Jubilee, Coronation and KGVI Pictorials, a
few minor blemishes & some hinge remainders/adhesions but generally very fine; Cat £2000+. A very scarce and desirable group.
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2142 |
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 1908-11 Small Canoes ½d imperf printer's sample in carmine on thin card overprinted 'SPECIMEN', good even margins. The only such
proof prepared by De La Rue for the Solomons. Absent from John Darnell's and the 'Besancon' collections. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2143 |
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 1908 Small Canoes ½d pale green & 1d carmine from the 1913 printings on Thinner Paper with Brown Gum corner blocks from the
upper-left of the sheets, mounted in the margins, all units are unmounted. Underrated: mentioned in a footnote below SG 17 but not priced.
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Get Market Data for [Solomon Islands 17] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2144 |
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 1922-31 KGV Script Watermark ½d to 5/- SG 39-51 blocks of 4, 1/- with rounded corner at lower-right otherwise very fine unmounted,
Cat £560+, for mounted singles.
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Estimate AU$350
Currently Opening at...AU$270.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2145 |
P |
 1922-31 KGV Script Watermark 4½d die proof for the duty plate in black on glazed card (92x60mm). The 4½d was issued only in 1931.
Ex De La Rue Archives. The similar 'Besancon' die proof for the 2d sold for SFr317. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2146 |
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 1939-51 KGVI Pictorials ½d to 10/- SG 60-72 De La Rue or Waterlow Imprint blocks of 4 complete plus imprint blocks of 8 of most
values to 1/-, some characteristic tropicalisation & the 5/- with even toning, the upper units lightly mounted & the lower units mostly unmounted, Cat £500+, for unmounted singles.
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2147 |
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 POSTAGE DUES: Photographic stamp-size essay for an unaccepted 6d design (Ex Robson Lowe), 1d to 1/6d SG D1-8 mint blocks of 4 (the
lower units are unmounted), used 1d 2d & 5d to 1/6d with some toning/aging, and fine punctured 'SPECIMEN' set, Cat £750+, plus the essay.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
Postal History
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2148 |
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 Batch of mostly pre-decimal commercial & philatelic airmail covers including 1941 & 1942 to Australia at 5d (from 'GIZO' by ship to
Rabaul, then by air), two from Yandina with dater cancels, 1959 registered to Saudi Arabia, and several formular aerogrammes including 1950 from a missionary to New Zealand & another (front only) with manuscript "Barakoma/22 9 53" cancels, a few
other Barakoma usages including Australian Territories (faults) & BSIP formular Aerogrammes and 1958 Last Day, mostly internal or to Australia but also noted usages to Fiji x2 and New Hebrides, a few registered, a good range of adhesives including
Commemoratives to 9d & a few KGVI/QEII mixed frankings, plenty of datestamp interest including a few 1980s postal agencies, generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
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 Box of commercial & philatelic covers including 1915 with Small Canoes set to 5/- & 'SHORTLAND' cds, 1937 mission cover from Buka
Passage (New Guinea) with Undated Bird 3d tied by 'SHORTLAND ISLD' cds, 1939 to NSW cancelled with Brisbane 'PAQUEBOT' slogan, a group of WWII items with censor handstamps including from 'GIZO' & 'SHORTLAND ISLD', lots of postmark interest including
on registered covers some of them with rubber Postal Agency datestamps, two unclaimed covers from Australia with large 'RETOUR/...' cachet, domestic & international airmail covers including two from Barakoma Airfield, several FDCs including 1939 KGVI
Pictorials set, etc, condition generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2150 |
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 Batch of commercial airmail covers with domestic usages x28 including many huge Postal Agency datestamps; and international to
Australia x9 including 1957 paid 1/2d but well overweight & taxed 2/4d with Postage Dues 2d pair & 1/- x2 affixed and 1975 usage of 8c Fisherman Aerogramme uprated to 9c, PNG x3, NZ x4, GB x4 at 1/7½d (1938 from 'SHORTLAND ISLD/...' , paying 1½d
surface to Sydney + 1/6d air to GB; superb), 3/- 3/6d or 3/9d, France x3 at 3/5d 3/6d or 4/6d, Canada at 1/8d, India at 1/7d, SWA at 3/6d, and United States x13 including at 3/2d x3 (one registered) 3/6d or 3/9d plus 1954 PPC at 1/8d and 1968 Printed
Matter with 10c on 1/- x3, mostly fine to very fine. An excellent basis for a serious study of rates & destinations.
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Estimate AU$850
Currently Opening at...AU$650.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
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 Box of mostly commercial pre-WWII covers including 1907 large piece with Large Canoes 2½d & 5d (a further 4½d in stamps missing) +
NSW 1/- for forwarding to England (faults), Small Canoe 2d on covers to NSW (embossed 'GOVERNMENT RESIDENCE/TULAGI/...' on the flap) or GB x2, then mostly with KGV Keyplates including from 'AOLA' (1919), 'GIZO' (1916 underpaid to Japan but not taxed,
and 1928 to Samoa), 'SHORTLAND' (1921) & 'SHORTLAND ISLD' (1926) both to France, 'TULAGI' (1913 to Manitoba, Canada) and 'VANIKORO' (1927 to Washington DC), also 1920s underpaid to USA & taxed, 1937 (Apr 1) to NSW endorsed "First air mail from
Solomon Islands" (not recorded in the AAMC) and ship mail x11 with various 'PAQUEBOT' or 'Loose Ship Letter' markings of Tulagi or Australian ports, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$1,200
Currently Opening at...AU$900.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2152 |
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 1898 stampless OHBMS cover with the heading scored-through & 'WESTERN PACIFIC HIGH COMMISSION' imprint at lower-left signed "CM
Woodford Solomon Ids 5 Apl 1898", to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Sydney arrival duplex & 'POSTAGE PAID SYDNEY/...' cds both of JU20/98, Edinburgh arrival backstamp of JY25/98, repairs to opening tears across the flap & at centre-top.
*FKS 19* Ex Don Franks: the frontispiece to his book, and sold in 2016 for £2070. RPSL Certificate (2008). Charles Morris Woodford was the first Resident Commissioner, serving in the role between 1896 & 1915. This is the second-earliest outgoing
cover from the Solomons, and the only one with the 'POSTAGE PAID SYDNEY' cds. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Bailey served in India where he established India's first Forestry School, at Dehra Dun. Returning home to Scotland, he lectured in Forestry at
the University of Edinburgh. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$3,000
Currently Opening at...AU$2,300.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2153 |
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 1906 official cover with 'GOVERNMENT RESIDENCE/TULAGI' embossed diagonally in blue on the flap, from Charles Woodford to his wife
in Kent with light but obvious strike of the boxed 'BRITISH/SOLOMON/ ISLANDS/PAID' handstamp & largely fine 'TULAGI/24/SP06/BRITISH SOLOMON IDS' cds (scrambled date slugs) alongside, the reverse with 'SYDNEY/OC8/06' transit & 'TONBRIDGE/NO12/06' cds,
minor blemishes & light aging. *FKS38* Don Franks recorded five other similar covers. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2154 |
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 1907 commercial cover front to a Sydney suburb with fine strikes of the boxed 'BRITISH/SOLOMON/ ISLANDS/PAID' handstamp &
'TULAGI/FE11/1907/BRITISH SOLOMON IDS' cds, at Sydney assessed as a double-rate letter with QV 2d pair affixed & tied by cds of FE25/07, minor blemishes & overall aging. *FKS55* Ex Stan Jersey. This is the only double-rate item and - with two pieces
of the same date - the latest recorded pre-stamp item: the Large Canoes were issued three days later, on 14.2.1907. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
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 1907 (Mar to Aug) commercial pieces each with Large Canoe 2d tied by Tulagi cds and NSW QV 2d tied by Sydney cds. *FKS65* (minor
blemishes) *85* (very fine) and *92* (tonespots). Combination frankings were no longer required after 3.9.1907, on which date the Solomons was admitted to membership of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2156 |
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 1907 official cover with 'GOVERNMENT RESIDENCE/TULAGI/BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS' embossed in blue diagonally on the flap, in Charles
Woodford's hand to Rev CC Tancock (headmaster at Tonbridge School) with Large Canoe 2d indigo tied by one of two light strikes of the 'TULAGI' cds of AU8/1907, at Sydney QV 2d affixed & tied by cds of 19AU07, 'TONBRIDGE/SP21/07' arrival backstamp,
redirected with a different Tonbridge cds of SP23/07 & 'STAMFORD' arrival backstamp of the same date, repaired opening tear across the flap. *FKS90*
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Estimate AU$2,000
Currently Opening at...AU$1,500.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2157 |
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 1907 (July 1) philatelic cover to Saxony with Large Canoes ½d to 1/- SG 1-7 complete (the ½d & 1d on the reverse, Cat £375 for
used) tied by poor to good strikes of the Tulagi cds, 'REGISTERED/JY16/07/SYDNEY NSW' cds also ties the 2½d & 1/-, NSW 2½d & 3d added partly across the private 'REGISTERED' handstamp tied by 'R'-in-vertical-oval, fine 'KOTZSCHENBRODA/19.8.07'
backstamp, minor blemishes. *FKS82*. (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Solomon Islands 1-7] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2158 |
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 1907 cover with 'GOVERNMENT RESIDENCE/GIZO/SOLOMON ISLANDS' embossed in blue diagonally on the flap, to Sydney (no arrival marking)
with Large Canoe 2d tied by 'TULAGI/17OC/1907/'BRITISH SOLOMON IDS' cds. *FKS104* One of the very finest of all Large Canoe covers. The Gizo post office opened only on 6.1.1908. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2159 |
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 1908 official cover with 'GOVERNMENT RESIDENCE/TULAGI/BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS' embossed diagonally in blue on the flap, from
Charles Woodford to "Carlton Club/London" with Large Canoe 2d tied by Tulagi cds with Inverted Date 'FE20/1908', the reverse with machine transits of Sydney & London (APL1308), very minor blemishes still one of the finest Large Canoe covers.
*FKS142*. Ex John Darnell: sold at our auction of 5.12.2003 for $2350. A high proportion of Large Canoe covers are philatelically inspired and/or addressed to stamp dealers. They are also greatly outnumbered by usage on postcards. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
| 2160 |
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 1908 (May) plain postcard to Denmark posted aboard S.S. 'Moresby' with Large Canoe 1d cancelled with very fine 'SYDNEY/MY25/08/ 1
' transit cds, very fine 'KOLDING/28/6' arrival cds & redirected to "Aarhus", light horizontal creasing & a minor repaired tear at left, the message signed "GAVUTU/Gerald C Wheeler/10 May 08" states "...I am going to the Solomon Islands on a
scientific expedition & am just reaching them...till November...to study the natives..." and "...we have a mail only once a month...". *FKS 153* Ex John Darnell: sold at our auction of 5.12.2003 for $896.
The sender was the British anthropologist Gerald Camden Wheeler. A gifted linguist, he spoke 13 ancient & modern European languages!, and was fluent in five. In 1912, he published a paper on the animist beliefs of the Solomon islanders. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-26, 05:30 PM |
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