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  • Lot# : 48 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    British Commonwealth 1888: De La Rue "IMPERIUM" perforated Colour Trials (2) for 'Unified Stamps', proposed 6 d. value printed in red and grey-black on rose unwatermarked wove paper, in a vertical Imperforate pair. Fine and scarce.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF

    Lot# : 49 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    British Commonwealth 1888: De La Rue "IMPERIUM" perforated Colour Trial for 'Unified Stamps', on unwatermarked wove paper with typographed keyplate design in dull green with legend and value in brown, large part og. Scarce and most attractive.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 50 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    British Commonwealth 1888: De La Rue "IMPERIUM" perforated Colour Trials (2) for 'Unified Stamps', 2 c. values in dull green with one showing lined '2 c.' value tablet in rose-carmine and the other with value in rose-carmine on white background, slight aging from the De La Rue Appendix sheet and signed off in red manuscript ink. For similar Trials, see 'The De La Rue Collection' edited by Frank Walton RDP page 2015. Rare.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 950 CHF

    Lot# : 459 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1859: ½ d. orange (5) and 1 d. blue (2) and 2 d. carmine (9), all unused and in deep fresh colour, incl. two horiz. pairs and a horiz. strip of five SG = £ 1'022.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 766 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1856/1918c.: Australia & States, a mixed group with Queensland Chalon perf. 2 d. blue block of four optd. diagonal SPECIMEN, South Australia Long Stamps unused with values from 3 d. to 1 s., Tasmania Sideface 9 d. blue interpanneau block of four unused, 1880 3 d. red-brown unused with "Line Through THREE PE" from lower left of sheet, Western Australia 1860 Swan 2 d. orange imperf. and Coolgardie 2 s. 6 d. blue unused, Australia with 1913 perforated Essay on thick card paper etc. (40 items).
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 767 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1870/1930: Lot several hundred stamps used/unused covering a wide range of British possessions overseas as Australia, Barbados, Ceylon, Cook Islands, Egypt, Hong Kong, Labuan, Noth Borneo, Rarotonga and some others, incl. some better values, surcharged stamps etc., mainly in good condition and properly arranged in a stockbook.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,300 CHF

    Lot# : 768 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1890/1953ca: Lot 75 covers/stationeries in mixed condition primarily to Switzerland or the Netherlands, incl. 1890s Great Britain, 1939 postcard with early censor from Sept 9 to Switzerland, India incl. 1898 stationery refused wrapper to Nepal, Australia 1921 to Rotterdam, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Gold Coast, Egypt incl. 1906 registered 1 pia stationery envelope from Ghuria to Zürich, Aden, Canada, South Africa 1901 Johannesburg to Durban with censorship strip and handstamp, Singapore 1893/1904 three covers to Johore, 1893 cover within Johore Bahru, Zanzibar 1896 stationery potcard to Bombay, and British PO in Tanger seven colour franking via Gibraltar to Zürich.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 769 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1899/1954c: Mint Collection with George V, George VI and early QE2 primarily pictorial sets complete either large part og. or unmounted incl. Aden 1939 and 1953 sets, 1932 Antigua Tercentenary, Ascension 1934, 1938  and 1956 sets, Basutoland 1933 set, Bechuanaland 1932 pictorial set, British Antarctic 1953 set, British Guiana 1898 set, 1934 and 1938 sets, British Honduras 1938 set, Brunei 1947 set, Cyprus 1928 Anniversary set, 1934, 1938 and 1955 sets, Falkland Islands 1938, 1952 and 1960 sets, Falkland Dependencies 1954 set, South Georgia 1963 set, Fiji 1938 set, Gambia 1938 set, Gibraltar 1938 and 1953 sets, KUT 1935 and 1938 sets, Malta 1926 'Postage' set, 1956 set, Montserrat 1932 and 1938 sets, Nigeria 1936 pictorial set, North Borneo 1899 '4 Cents' set, 1945 BMA set, Northern Rhodesia 1938 set, St. Helena with 1934 Centenary set, 1938 Pictorial set; St. Lucia with 1936 set, Sarawak 1950 and 1955 pictorials sets, Sierra Leone with 1933 Abolition of Slavery set, 1938 set, Swaziland, Tasmania 1899 pictorial set etc. Condition generally very fine throughout, a lovely lot.
    Starting bid : 4,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 5,000 CHF

    Lot# : 770 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1906/98: Collection hundreds stamps  primarily unused incl. Maldive Islands 1906/78 with Ceylon KEVII definitives ovpt MALDIVES, compl. set of six, 1933 Minaret issue; Seychelles 1961/79, also British Indian Ocean Territory 1968/98.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 771 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1843/1971: Mixed cover group (33 items) with 1843 Ship Letter from Sydney to London per 'Alert' with Sydney despatch in red, South Australia 1865 cover with rouletted 2 d. used from Adelaide to Woodville, 1868 Great Britain 4 d. vermilion and 6 d. lilac on cover to Tasmania, 1912 reg'd New Hebrides covers (2) to Dresden, 1932 Papua airmail covers (3) to UK, 1938 Nauru 1 d. green on cover to UK, 1852 and 1955 franked airletters from Solomon Islands to UK and a local usage, 1947 Norfolk Islands set of twelve on cover to Canada etc.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 772 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

    1920/65ca: Lot 70 covers from diff. British Colonies incl. 1941 Malaya Fieldpost to Queensland, Palestine, Malta, South Africa, Sierra Leone, 1948 Gold Coast to Czechoslovakia, charged there, Egypt, Trinidad & Tobago, several items from Transjordan and Jordan with some better destinations such as Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 350 CHF
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