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 | 161

50648

50645

50645

C 

S.G. 138

1933 Centenary £1 black and carmine mint with large part o.g., wonderfully fresh, a superb example

(S.G. £2500).

750 - 900

50646

F 

1938-1941, group of four covers (three sent locally and one registered first day cover to Buenos Aires),

all franked by 1938-1950 series with stamps tied by circular Port Stanley postmarks, fine.

70 - 100

50647

CC 

S.G. 146-163

1938-50 GVI 1/2d to £1 complete mint nh set of eighteen, fresh and very fine (SG £475).

100 - 150

50648

CC 

161b

1938-50 GVI 5s indigo and pale yellow-brown, mint nh, fresh, very fine and a scarce shade (SG £1’100).

200 - 300

50649

CC C DCE H Collection 

Collection: 1878-1972, Falkland Islands, Dependencies, and South Georgia, fine collection on 31

pages with mint and used stamps (SG 3-288), with many better complete sets in mint and used. SG

catalogue value according to seller £5928.

600 - 800

Dependencies - South Georgia

50650

CC 

1972 Shackleton 1 1/2p Endurance mint n.h. imperforate right marginal, very fine and scarce variety,

noted in Heijtz as only one sheet of 50 known and that “imperforate stamps could be working proofs

rather than issued stamps”; cert. Heitz (2003) with image of the discovered sheet and this stamp’s

position on the sheet (Heijtz 109v1, £500)

80 - 100

Dependencies - General Issues

50651

F / 158

Falkland Islands Dependencies; 1949 cover with four of the “Thick Map” issue - ½d normal, 1d with

“gap” variety, 2d with “missing I” variety, and 3d with “extra dot” variety - all fine, cancelled South

Shetlands. Quite a special cover. The stamps are SG G1, G2a, G3b, and G4d.

100 - 200

Fiji

50652

G F 

Study of postmarks on covers, mounted on leaves, mainly on early QEII issues, including mail from

small villages.

80 - 100