Lot No. 663
| Auction No. | 36 |
| Category |
World Collections, Accumulations and Selections |
| Est. | $2000 |
| Status | SOLD $3300 |
British Commonwealth QV MLH issues in ten quality Stanley Gibbons albums with matching slipcases. 1st vol: Great Britain with nothing before 1880 then 22 vals to 1/- bicolour & 2½d Army Official, Antigua with vals to 6d (5), Australia incls NSW (13) before Qld to 1/- (29) in 2nd vol with South Aust (12), Tasmania to 2/6d (21) while the 3rd vol contains Victoria with vals to 2/- (14) & WA to 1/- noting 1893 & 1895 surcharges(10) before Bahamas (11), Barbados Britannicas to 1/- & 23 later to 2/6d, Bechuanaland to 2/- plus washed (MNG) 2/6d & 5/- vals (34). Continues in 4th vol with Bermuda to 2 diff 1/- (16), British Guiana to 24¢ noting 1875 1¢ ovptd Official, Cat. £75 (28), British Honduras to 24¢ (28), Br Levant to 12pi (4) plus British P.O's in Crete (4) & Br. Virgin Is (7). Also Canada with New Brunswick 7 to 17¢, Newfoundland 3d green imperf with 28 later to 60¢, Nova Scotia (6) & PEI (9) before national issues from 1882 to 1897 20¢ with faults & ditto for 1893 50¢ (20) before Ceylon to 1r50 (45) & Cook Is with 1d blue x 2. Vol 5 incls Cyprus 1d QV Pl. 215 & 216, 2½d & 4d green, ½d Pl. 201 plus small surcharge on Pl. 215 & 1882 "½" CrCC emerald-green. Noted 1892/94 30pa mauve & 1894 to 9p plus 12pi Specimen (6). Continues with Dominica 1882/83 bisects (2), 1886 surcharges & 9 others to 1/-, Egypt with 1867/71 5pa yellow, 1872/75 5pa brown before 15 later incl PD's then Falklands 1878/79 6d & 1/- no wmk & ½d (3), 1d (2), 2d, 2½d, 4d, 9d & 1/- CA wmk & Fiji incl 5/- (9)/ Also Gambia with 15 cameos & 1892 type to 3d, Gibraltar ½d & 1d ovpts on Bermuda & 1886/98 complete to 5pi or 1/-, excl monocolour 1/- x 2 but incls "centimes" ovpts with only 4d missing from 1886 set (these Cat. £1000) before Gold Coast 1876/84 ½d, 1d & 2d CC wmk, 1884/91 complete to 2/- (9) & 1898/1902 to 3d (excl 2d) plus Grenada to 6d (15), Heligoland (5 reprints), Hong Kong incl 1891 Jubilee & 1900 30¢ brown (15) & India from 1860 incl 1895 5r & 6 CEF ovpts to 12a (30). Vol 6 begins with Jamaica to 5/- (19), Br. E. Africa with "light bulbs" to 5r, 9 ovpts to 12a & 1896 to 4a excl 3a & Leeward Is comprising 1890 to 7d (11) & Sexagenary to 6d. Malaya Straits incls 1880 5¢ on 8¢ & 1886 3¢ on 5¢ purple brown (Cat. £350), FMS ovpts incl 20¢ (6), tigers to 20¢ (7) before Johore to 10¢ (24), Negri Sembilan incl 4 Sungei Ujong (15), Pahang (8), Perak incl $1 SG 76 ovptd Specimen (23) & Selangor to 25¢ (13). Vol 7 incls Malta from 1886 incl 1886 5/-, 1899 2/6d & 10/- with these 3 Cat. £470 (17) & then Mauritius incl 2r 50 QV & 5r Arms (Cat. £130) (49), Montserrat to 4d (4 to), Morocco Agencies 1898 to 2pi (excl 20¢ bicolour), 1899 to 1p, NZ 1882 5d with 12 later to 9d pictorial. Vol 8 commences with Lagosto 2/6d (10), Oil Rivers to 5d, Niger Coast to 2/6d (13), N. Nigeria (3), S. Nigeria to 2/6d (7), N. Borneo to 18¢ (26), Labuan to 24¢ (30), Nyasaland to 1/- (15 to) & Rhodesia to 4/- (20) plus St Helena incl a 1885 bisect (21) & St Kitts & Nevis (7). Vol 9 with St Lucia to 1/- (16), St Vincent also to 1/- (15), Samoa to 2/6d (31), Sarawak from 1875 to 12¢ (18), Seychelles to 18¢ (15), Sierra Leone to 1/- (11) & South Africa with CGH (12), Natal incl 5/- rose (Cat. £170) (17) & OFS 1882 ½d surcharge & 15 later. Finally, Vol 10 with Transvaal 1877 1d red on blue (Cat. £90) & 56 later to £5 reprint, Zululand to 1/- (14), Sudan 1898 Quatrefoil wmk set (Cat. £150) & 5 ovpts on Egypt, Swaziland with 3 ovpts on Transvaal incl 1d, 6d & 1/- & Tonga to 5/- (17), Trinidad to 5/- with CC wmk (19), Tobago (13), Turks (16) & Caicos (7), Uganda (3) & Zanzibar ovpts to 2r on India (14) & to 5a on Uganda plus 1896 with 14 vals to 5r (excl 1r & 4r) & 1899 to 2r (excl 2a). As to be expected, gum cond varies for this period but there are very few faulty items & the 10 volumes (in 5 slipcases) are kept together as one lot. This being a rare opportunity to buy such a good "starter" QV collection in matching albums with hingeless pages showing catalogue numbers. Cat. value exceeds £10,000 & the albums alone, if you can find a set, are "ring 22" type with gold cover lettering of volume numbers.