CEYLON continued...
CEYLON continued...
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 3232 |
# OPSE |
 Collection on leaves with lots of problems from having been kept in Ceylon for many years but there are some better items - many
with hinge remainders - including a very fine used Imperf 5d, Perf 12½ ½d mint (a bit aged), 3d carmine mint, '28 CENTS' on 32c with 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp in Red, well-centred 2r50c & '2R 25C' on 2r50c mint, KGVI 5r mint x4 & 10r used, etc, postmark
interest, Cat £1300+ just for the pages illustrated here & on our website; plus fine to very fine postal stationery x20.
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$400.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3233 |
P |
 1857 Six Pence imperforate plate proofs on ungummed unwatermarked paper comprising State 1 marginal pair in black, the first unit
with margins just clear to huge, the other a little cut-into; then in brown-purple State 2 single [Pos 83], margins just touching - at lower-right - to good with a fragment of the adjoining unit at base; and State 3 single [Pos 133], margins just
shaved - at base - to huge and a marginal vertical pair [Pos 72/84], margins just clear to humungous. (6 units) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$1,000.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3234 |
P |
 1857 Six Pence piece of Large Star Watermark paper from the left of the sheet with twelve impressions of the Star (3x4) & 'POSTAGE'
in the margin at left, affixed at the corners to a piece of black backing paper otherwise superb. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3235 |
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 1857 Imperforate on Blued Paper 6d purple-brown SG 1, close even margins, small blemish on the neck & bend at upper-left, a couple
of minor aging marks, unused, Cat £12,000. Ex Baron Percy de Worms (1938, Lot 28, sold for the then handsome sum of £14). BPA Certificate (1938). A rare stamp, that was absent from the 'Besancon' collection. The superb example in Joseph Hackmey Part
I (2009) sold for US$19,200. Kimmel & Pearson at pages 18-20 state "the bluing is slight ... only eighteen unused examples have been recorded."
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 1] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$4,000
SOLD for AU$4,600.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3236 |
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 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper remainders on exhibit pages including plate proofs in black of the 10d, 1/- x2 & 2/- and 6d in
the issued colour; then 6d SG 1 x4, 4d rose (spacefiller; cut-into at left), 6d brown SG 6a x4, 9d x2, 10d x4, 1/- x7 including a pair, 1/9d x2, 2/- x3, etc, a few apparently unused including 5d x2 and a defective 6d; and De La Rue ½d unused single &
pair and used x5; mostly of fine appearance but the condition is very mixed with many having faults or trimmed margins, Cat £25,000+; also some identified forgeries & fakes & posthumous reprinted undenominated die proofs in four different colours.
Offered strictly 'as is' and personal inspection is strongly recommended.
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 1 x4] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$2,000
SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3237 |
P |
 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper plate proof singles in black on unwatermarked ungummed paper of the 1d 2d 4d 10d 1/- 1/9d & 2/-,
all with full margins. A very attractive group. (7) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3238 |
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 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 2d green (close even margins), 5d chestnut (three close margins), 6d purple-brown (three close
margins), 10d dull vermilion (three close margins), 1/9d yellow-green x2 (both with close even margins) and 2/- blue x2 (both with margins in places) SG 3-12, all apparently unused, Cat £20,000+. We have examined them under ultra-violet light and
detected no problems. However, none of them have been expertised so they must be offered strictly 'as is'. (8) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$2,500
SOLD for AU$2,000.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3239 |
P |
 1857 Imperforate on White Paper 2d and 4d plate proof singles in black on unwatermarked ungummed paper, margins close to good, very
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$170.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3240 |
O |
 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 2d SG 3/3a selection on exhibit page comprising a plate proof single in black, mint marginal
pair & block of 4 both with margins at places & large-part gum, used singles x7 (one a colour changeling from the wreck of the SS 'Colombo'), pairs x3 (one in yellow-green) and a block of 6 in the deep green shade (a bit cut-into), Cat £2600+ for
singles. Kimmel & Pearson at page 91 state "Three used strips of 4 are the largest used multiples in the deep green shade", which makes the block of 6, despite its imperfections, a very significant item. This item is Ex Joseph Hackmey (Part II); sold
for US$480.
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$1,450.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3241 |
P |
 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 4d imperforate plate proof in black on unwatermarked ungummed paper, margins close to good. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3242 |
G |
 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 4d dull rose SG 4, margins close to good except at right where just shaved & with fragments of
the adjoining units at left & base, very fine security 'chop' of '...SCOTT & Co' in blue & bars cancel of Colombo, Cat £4500. An attractive example of this rare stamp, of which an unused example is catalogued at £70,000. (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Ceylon 4] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$800.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3243 |
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 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 9d deep purple-brown SG 8, margins just touched - at the base - to large with a fragment of the
adjoining unit above, light bars cancel of Colombo & small-part London cds in red, Cat £950. An unusually fine example. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
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 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 9d dull vermilion SG 9, margins just touching - at left - to large with a fragment of the
adjoining unit below, unused, Cat £1000. George Buhler Certificate (1984). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3245 |
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 1857-59 Imperforate on White Paper 1/9d green SG 11, close even margins, unused, Cat £950. (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Ceylon 11] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3246 |
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 1861-64 Perforated Perkins Bacon Printings range on exhibit pages including apparently unused 1d x4, 2d x4, 4d x3, 5d (with BPA and
RPSL Certificates), 6d x5 including Clean-Cut Perf SG 23, 8d, 9d x6 including Rough Perf SG 33a & 33b, 10d Perf 12½, 1/- x3 including a mint pair, Unissued 1/9d and 2/-, better used stamps include 4d x4, 6d SG 23a, 8d x3 including SG 32a, 9d SG 25
x2, 10d Perf 12½ on a defective 1866 cover, and 2/- x3, etc, generally of fine facial appearance but the condition is very mixed, Cat £25,000+. Offered strictly 'as is' and personal inspection is strongly recommended.
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 23] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$2,500
SOLD for AU$3,200.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3247 |
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 1861-64 Perf 14 to 15½ Clean-Cut to Intermediate Perf 2/- blue SG 27, unused, Cat £5000. (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Ceylon 27] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$2,000
SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3248 |
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 1861-64 Perf 14 to 15½ 8d yellow-brown (a really unusual shade) SG 32a, unused, Cat £1600. Gibbons list this shade only for the
stamps with Rough Perfs. However, our familiarity with the similarly perforated Perkins Bacon stamps of Western Australia, leaves us in no doubt that this stamp is more properly characterised as having Intermediate Perfs, which Gibbons used to list
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 32a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$600
SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3249 |
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 1862-70 De La Rue Printings range on exhibit pages including apparently No Wmk unused ½d, 1d x4 & 6d and used Perf 11½-12 SG 44;
Crown CC Wmk unused ½d dull mauve with the Watermark Inverted and an imperf plate proof, 1d x5 plus Imperforate Pair on gummed watermarked paper (see footnote below SG 72; Cat £300), 2d grey-green, 2d ochre x2 yellow & olive-bistre, 4d rose x3 &
rose-carmine block of 6 (beautiful but manuscript "X" removed), 5d yellow-olive x2 olive-green mint pair & bronze-green x6, 6d deep brown mint pair sepia & red-brown, 8d x3, 9d sepia, 10d orange mint marginal example, 1/- x2 and 2/- mint pair and
better used stamps including 1d with Partial Strong Offset and Watermark Inverted SG 63bw, 2d grey-green with the Watermark Inverted & Reversed, 2d ochre with the Watermark Inverted SG 51w & SG 64cw (unpriced used), 5d brown x2, 5d grey-olive SG 54
on defective cover (Cat £450 x8+; BPA Certificate as the then SG 84), 6d with the Watermark Inverted & Reversed, 8d with the Watermark Reversed, 10d orange-red x4 one with the Watermark Reversed, 1/- with the Watermark Reversed; etc, also 2d green &
6d both with Double Perfs and ½d with Marginal Wmk 'W'; generally of fine facial appearance but the condition is very mixed, Cat £17,000+. Offered strictly "as is" and personal inspection is strongly recommended.
There are two fundamental challenges with these issues. The first is identifying the correct watermark, which is often problematic. The other is deciding whether a stamp has clean-cut or rough perforations, which is quite subjective. Our assessment
is that even the 'roughest' of the Ceylon perfs are more correctly termed 'intermediate'. If you want to see 'rough' perfs of the period, look at the last Perkins Bacon issue for Western Australia. There, 'clean-cut', 'intermediate' and 'rough' perfs
are all listed, as used to be the case for Ceylon. For the Swans, the 'rough' perfs are so poorly-incised that stamps often had to be cut from the sheet to prevent major separation faults. It has not been practical for us to check all the watermarks
but we certainly noted stamps that we believe were wrongly identified. As for the perfs, this really is a matter for personal assessment.
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 44;] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$1,500
SOLD for AU$2,100.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
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 1863-66 Wmk Crown/CC 23mm High Perf 12½ ½d mauve SG 48c marginal block of 4 from the upper-left corner of the sheet, the upper
units with sheet watermark 'CRO', minor hinge remainders, Cat £240+ for singles plus a significant premium for the sheet watermark.
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 48c] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3251 |
P#O |
 1866-68 De La Rue New Designs Perf 12½ 3d SG 60 defaced imperforate plate proof single, unused & used; Perf 14 1d die proof reduced
to stamp-size in recessed mount with mica (only 3 recorded), 1d mint blocks of 4 x2, used strip of 3 & block of 4 and 3d unused x8 (including a mint block of 4, creased), etc, a few condition issues but mostly fine to very fine, Cat £1500+ plus the
proofs. The used multiples are very scarce.
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Get Market Data for [Ceylon 60] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$800
SOLD for AU$600.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
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