Great Britain & British Empire 2025

Great Britain & British Empire December 8 & 9, 2025 at 10:00 CET

Lot n°

Symbol(s)

Estimate (£)

December 8 & 9, 2025 | 151

British Solomon Islands

50589

50588ex

50588

DCE 

1907 Large Canoes, set of seven imperf. reprints from the original stones, fine.

80 - 100

50589

C 

S.G. 4a

1907 2 1/2d orange-yellow mint with variety imperf. between in vertical pair, trimmed perfs on three

side, two light horizontal creases and slightly heavy hinge remnant, fine and rare (S.G. £7’500).

600 - 800

50590

F / 150

1916 (Apr 4) envelope endorsed at top “Passed censor / AKMCS / D/O Kieta”, sent registered to a bank

in Australia and franked with strip of four 1914-23 1d red tied by Shortland cds with Tulagi registration

label adjacent, “PASSED BY CENSOR” hs below, reverse with Tulagi and Brisbane arrival ds, water

staining at foot, unusual.

Note: Kieta is a port town located on the eastern coast of the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupied

Bougainville in December 1914, as part of the broader Australian occupation of German New Guinea.

The Australians didn’t intern the Germans but allowed them to be “on parole”.

100 - 150

50591

F 

1925-32 group of 30 covers and cards plus a parcel front from a commercial correspondence to Baden

in Austria, including registered mail, noted 1927 (12 Jun) cover with Wmk Script CA 2d grey and 4d

black and red/yellow tied Vanikoro cds, manuscript registration at left with large violet manuscript “R”

added in transit, seven covers sent registered from Tulagi, other registered covers with white labels

from Gizo and Shortland (2), parcel piece for package containing Baby Clothes franked damaged 5d

plus two 2/6d control pairs on registered covers; some mixed condition.

200 - 300

50592

CC P 

1971 Death Centenary of Bishop Patteson set of four imperf. proofs each on House of Questa

presentation cards, plus mint n.h. normal set.

100 - 200

50593

CC 

S.G. 428w

1980 butterflies 45c, watermark crown right of CA, lower marginal block of ten, the lower two rows of

the sheet with imprint and cylinder nos. Fine unmounted mint SG catalogue value £550.

100 - 150

Burma

50594

CC J Collection 

S.G. O11, O12w

1937 KGV Official 1r chocolate and green, plus 2r carmine and orange, mint nh complete sheet of 120

in six panes of twenty, with 2r showing inverted watermark, both displaying gutters and cross gutters,

some usual perf, separation, fresh, very fine and extremely rare in complete sheet format (SG £11’640+)

1’500 - 2’000