379th Auction

1904/07, 50 r. grey & red-brown with left sheet margin, unused, with large part original gum, very fine and fresh, certificate BPA (2022)

1906/12, 25$ purple & blue, top marginal copy, unused, with large part original gum, light diagonal gum crease and small surface blemish at lower right, otherwise very fine and fresh, certificate BPA (2022)

1900/01, wm Crown CC, 25$ green & orange, nice colour, unused with large part dried original gum, light pressed wrinkling, otherwise fine, a nice copy of this rare stamp, certificate BPA (2022)

1921/41, 50 $ green & yellow, unused with large part original gum, very fine and fresh, certificate BPA (2022)

1848, Post Paid 2d. blue, early impression, Pos.11 , beautiful deep colour and nice impression, good even margins, used with light central blue Mahébourg double-ring numeral '1'. A tiny trace of crayon reduced at foot, otherwise very fine . A most attractive copy of this rare stamp. Certificate BPA (2022)

Provenance: Baronet Philip de Ferari (Gilbert 1921)

1859/62, Britannia 6 d. with good margins, in combination with 1860/63, DLR 2 d. blue, tied by mute oval to letter sheet from "G.P.O. MAURITIUS MY 15 1860" to Calcutta, India with clear "CALCUTTA SHIPLETTER 1860 JU 22 Bg." with manuscript "5a". Very fine and rare 8d. rate, paying the letter rate via Aden. A similar cover from the same correspondence, sent one week earlier, was in the Kanai collection. 

1879/80,  8 c. blue, used with central clear "B65" of Rodrigez, vf

1884, Victoria 4d. blue, Sperati forgery, unused, fine, signed Sperati Reproduction

1884, Victoria 4d. blue, Sperati forgery with retouched cliché, the retouched state was inadequately described in Sperati I and corrected in Sperati II, fine, certificate RPSL (1998) 

1862/64, wm large star, 1 sh. yellow-green and deep green, ample to mostly large margins, lightly used, vf, signed Georg Bühler, resp. W.Engel

1908, 1 d. rose-carmine with overprint "King Edward VII Land", Waterloo printing, unused, fine, certificate RPS (1982)

1908, 1 d. rose-carmine with overprint "King Edward VII Land", Royle printing, mint never hinged and one stamp used, fine

1884, Victoria 2s6d. black, Sperati forgery, composite proof, signed in pencil, fine

1884, 2s6d. black, Sperati forgery, duty cliché, signed in pencil and handstamp "Reproduction Interdite", fine

1884, Victoria 5s. black, Sperati forgery type A, composite proof, signed in pencil and handstamp "Reproduction Interdite", reverse with full cachet  "Les Jean de Sperati Philatelie d'Art", fine

1884, Victoria 5s. black, Sperati forgery type C, composite proof, signed in pencil, fine

1884, 5s. black, Sperati forgery, duty cliché, signed in pencil and handstamp "Reproduction Interdite", fine

1884, 10s. black, Sperati forgery, duty cliché, signed in pencil and handstamp "Reproduction Interdite", fine

1884, Victoria 10s. black, Sperati forgery, composite proof, signed in pencil, fine

1904, Edward VII. 1£ green/violet, Sperati forgery, used, few shortend perfs, otherwise fine

1880/82, 8c. carmine with 1885/86, 8c deep violet,1885, 2c. on 16c blue, 2c. on 8c carmine, 6c. on 8c mauve and 1892/93, 40c ochre, tied by Labuan cds. to registered cover to Germany with violet registration cachet and arrival mark. 

1880, surcharge in black, 8c with original value obliterated in manuscript, cancelled by red circle of small dots (Proud Type K2), a small filled thin on reverse, still fine, certificate BPA (2022)

1908/11, 10£ purple & ultramarine, used on piece, cancelled "BLANTYRE NYASALAND OC 26 12", a little rubbed at top, otherwise very fine and fresh, a very rare stamp, certificate BPA (2022)

1913/19, 10£ purple & dull ultramarine, unused, with large part original gum, pressed creases at right, otherwise very fine and fresh, certificate BPA (2022)

1886, Victoria 1s. orange-brown, Sperati forgery, used, a fine copy of this scarce forgery

1859, Victoria 6p. dull purple, imperforated plate proof, Sperati forgery, unused, signed in pencil

1900, surcharge 1s on Bechuanaland 6d purple on rose-red, Pos.2 in the setting, used on piece with Mafeking cds., very fine, certificate BPA (2022)

1903, Edward 5£ with left sheet margin, unused o.g., very fine

1923, Zuid-West/South West, 1£ in horizontal pair from the lower sheet margin with gutter at left, unused o.g., vf (SG 850£)

1915, Accra overprint 1 sh. with German cds. "NOEPE 12/10 15" on registered envelope to England

1916/20, London overprint 10 sh. with German cds. "ASSAHUN 27/3 19" on registered envelope to Switzerland

1848, folded letter from "GIBRALTAR SP 16 1848" endorsed "via Boston or New York first steamer Packet" with "2" shilling prepaid rating alonside, conveyed by the "Britannia" from Liverpool to New York with blue manuscript "68" rating marked in error as double-weight due, a very attractive and rare retaliatory use from Gibraltar

1848, folded letter dated "Wellington 20 June 1848" with red crown circle "PAID AT WELLINGTON" and manuscript "4" rating alongside endorsed "pr Philip Lang" to London, there remailed with London "PAID" maltese cross and red manuscript "1/-" rating, carried by Cunard Line "Acadia" from Liverpool to Boston with red arrival "BOSTON SHOP NOV 4*" and matching "29" cent retaliatory due rating handstamp, an very attractive and rare usage from New Zealnd

1853, triple-weight folded letter dated "Quebec 30 July 1853" weighinhg, from "MONTREAL JY 31 1853" to Cognac, France. Red boxed "CANADA &c. ART 12." on front, carried by the "Europa" from Halifax to Liverpool, total charge of "51" decimes applied at arrival, fine

1859, Victoria 12½c. blueish-green with pen-stroke on mourning cover with adjacent cds. "WILLIAM-HENRY 7 DE 1859" to London, carried on the "Europa" from Boston to Queenstown, so straight-line "MORE TO PAY." struck with handstamp "2" due alongside, stamp with corner fault,  otherwise fine and attractive

1864 (25 Aug.), Victoria 6d. gray-black and 2d. violet tied by illegible grid cancel, reverse shows cds. "SANDHURST 26 AU", to envelope to Maine,  via Southampton and London with transit mark "LONDON OC 20" and red "16 cents" credit handstamp, from Londonderry with the "Hibernian" to Quebec, when the cover was bagged to Portland, with corresponding "PORTLAND M AM PKt 5 NOV 18 1864" alongside, by rail. Adhesives some imperfections, lihgt toned spots, otherwise fine and attractive