380th Auction

3 pies orange SG Type "B" mixed Machine printed and handstamped; "On" SG Type 19 machine printed and "S S S" without stops handstamped SG Type 13. Unrecorded. Block of four, right stamps hinged, left stamps never hinged

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

1892/97, "On S.S.S." in type 13 on Elephant 6 d. green in vertical pair, imperforated between, unused with part original gum. A unique item. This stamp has not been listed so far in Stanley Gibbons, it's status is unknown. The pair without overprint already is a great rarity (SG23a). Certificate BPA (2013)

1864, 1 a. black in horizontal pair, used with manuscript cancellation on small fragment. A fine and very rare multiple. Certificate ISES (2022)

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

1868, 1 a. black on azure, reconstruction of the sheet, with16 used copies, including variety on pos. 13

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

1886, 1 a. green, complete sheet of 20 with large oval sheet watermark, unused, partly split

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, 4 a. red, complete double sheet with 10 stamps in 5 gutter pairs, also single sheet of 5

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.

1902, unissued Nawab Sir Rasulkhanji  4 a. black, plate proof pair on chalk surfaced carton, with wrong nagri inscription "ANNO" instead of "ANNA", printed by E. Crowl & Co., Baltimore. 

1913, Three pies on 3 p. green on toned wove paper, cpl. sheet of 20, used, partly split

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

1914, 3 p. green on wove paper three sheets (2 imperf.) with different sheet border ornaments, unused

1914, 3 p. green, imperf., complete sheet of 20 stamps, folded twice, otherwise fine

3 p. green, imperforated horizontally, cpl. sheet of 20, unused, very fine and rare

1914, 3 p. green on laid paper, imperf., cpl. sheet of 20, unused

1923, 1 a. red on laid paper, complete  sheet of 16

The unique copy of the sunken Die Proof of the 1a unadopted design. ISES certificate

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

1949, POSTAGE & REVENUE ONE ANNA in red on ½ a., variety 'Surcharge double', unused without gum, very rare in this condition. Certificate ISES (2022)

1949  1a purple part sheet of 20 with error "T" in "POSTAGE" omitted on stamp pos. R2/1, small "N" in "REVENUE" pos. R2/3, small "V" in "REVENUE" pos. R3/4 and small "O" in "POSTAGE" pos. R4/3

1949, SAURASHTRA 1 a. with POSTAGE omitted, used, fine, Certificate ISES (2022)

1950  1a on 3p black & blackish-green with error, surcharge double. Not listed in SG. ISES certificate

1950, 1 a. on 3 p. with heavily shifted surcharge , marginal block of four, unused, two copies unmounted mint

1901 two covers addressed to the Nawab, one large-size mourning cover from the Viceroy and the cover from the Secretary of State for India at London, some age marks

1948, 1 a. on 3 a. with variety "thick E", used, very fine and rare, Certificate ISES (2022)

1 a. on 8 a. with variety"ONE ANNE" , lightly used on piece, some minor creasing, still very fine, very scarce, Certificate ISES (2022)

1 a. on 8 a. with variety"ONE ANNN" , lightly used, very fine and very scarce, Certificate ISES (2022)

1879 Essay for the original Conch shell design in greenish-blue, one of three known, certificate ISES 2021.

1941  7ch blue compound perf (12½x13) complete sheet of 112 overprinted "SERVICE".A spectacular complete sheet of this very scarce stamp (SG value £7280)

A group of four complete sheets (SG 65d, 73e, O96e & O97) (SG value £3119)

1943  3/4ch surcharged "8 CASH" complete sheet of 112 perf 12½ all around except the bottom four rows perf 12 resulting in 32 stamps with compound perf (SG value £992)

1902,  5 cash reply postcard with perforations on top surcharged "FOUR CASH" in violet. According to Deschl three unused examples  and no used examples of this card have been recorded