377th Auction

1 anna bright blue with only "On" overprint, "S S S" missing with "SIRMOOR STATE 1 AU 1900" cds

3p chocolate from the 1st Printing handstamped "ON S S S". An extremely rare stamp, not listed in SG

1 anna deep blue Receipt stamp complete sheet of 9 with small punch hole on each stamp and overprinted "WATERLOW & SONS / SPECIMEN" in black on each stamp

Waterlow Proofs of the 1a receipt stamp, bottom left corner marginal block with multiple 4mm security punch hole from the unique sheet that was retained in the Waterlow archive.  Variously stained and without gum.

Early 19th century pre-stamp cover addressed to Junagadh bearing a seal of "COMPANY BAHADUR POLITICAL AGENT KATHIAWAD". The cover would have been delivered by special messenger as no postal service existed in Soruth other than for the Nawab's Official mail.

1864  1a black on grey laid paper. An unused grubby example (SG value £850)

1864  1 anna black on cream laid paper used with manuscript as always found, certificate ISES 2021 (SG value £3500)

1868-75,  1 anna black on pink wove paper (SG value £140)

1870,  1 anna black on azure vertical laid paper with error complete set-off on reverse

Reprint of the 1 anna black on azure with accent over first letters used on cover tied by rectangle of parallel lines with oval "SRI SORUTH SARKAR / JUNAGADH" oval cancel on reverse.

Cover bearing 1870  1a black on azure laid paper x 2, one with first two characters in the last word on the bottom line omitted. The stamp may not be the original franking.

1870,  1 anna black on azure with error final character in both top and bottom missing affixed to part cover, stamp reduced on right.

1868-75  1 anna black on white vertical laid paper with part of sheet instructions on bottom margin, certificate ISES 2021 (SG value £14000)

1868-75  1a black on white instead of azure laid paper. This error is recorded for the 1 anna stamp with  Devanagri numeral (SG 11e) but not with the Gujarati numeral. Possibly unique.

1875,  1 anna red on white vertical laid paper bottom marginal strip of four with error on left stamp, first two characters in bottom line omitted (SG value £369)

1870 Reprint with inscriptions in Devnagri with accents over first letters 1a red on white wove paper complete sheet of 16. Sheet with partial split in between stamps and three stamps with thin. Complete sheets of the early Reprints are rare.

1868-75  4 annas black on white laid paper, a superb example from the bottom of the sheet with sheet marginal inscriptions (SG value £1000)

1868-75  4a black on white laid paper (SG value £450)

1868-75,  4 annas black on white laid paper, a superb example from the bottom of the sheet with sheet marginal inscriptions (SG value £450)

1868-75,  4 annas black on white laid paper, a superb example from the bottom of the sheet with sheet marginal inscriptions (SG value £450)

1868-75  4a black on white laid paper with error, part double impression

1868-75  4a black on white laid paper (SG value £600)

1886,  1 anna on toned laid paper with error, stamp printed in blue instead of green on piece, perf fault on bottom right (SG value £650)

1886  4 a red on toned laid paper with lines close together perf 12 tow complete sheets of five printed tête-bêche on the opposite side of the paper

1886,  1 anna green on wove paper bottom marginal vertical pair with error, stamps imperf (SG value £160)

1886  4a red on wove paper perf 12 double sheet two upright impressions of the complete sheet of five. Double sheets of this issue are extremely rare.

1886,  4 annas red on wove paper with error stamp imperf

1913 3p on 1a emerald-green complete sheet of 20 with error stamps imperforate, certificate ISES 2021 (SG value £4750)

1913  1a emerald-green complete sheet of 20 surcharged "Three pies" with error surcharge shifted.

Cover franked with 1913  1 anna green on white wove paper perf. 12 surcharged "Three pies" with error , surcharge inverted (SG value £100)

5790 Soruth 36c NGAI 1913  4a carmine surcharged "One Anna" complete sheet of five with error, capital "A" in "Anna". £110 £75 80 (SG value £110)

1914  3p green complete sheet of 20 on vertical laid paper with error, stamps imperf (SG value £420)

1914  3p green on vertical laid paper with sheet watermark reading "JD & Co" imperforate sheet of 20, minor overall toning (SG value £420)

1914  1a red complete sheet of 20on wove paper with error stamps imperforate (SG value £400)

1923,  1 anna SG Type 12 Proof in black on surfaced wove paper with bottom margin taken before the addition of the marginal inscription, vertical crease

1924  3p mauve on wove paper complete sheet of 16 with error stamps imperforate, certificate ISES 2021 (SG value £2400)