Great Britain & British Empire 2025

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

Lot n°

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Estimate (£)

December 8 & 9, 2025 | 249

51100

CC C DCE H Collection 

Collection: 1862-2004 collection on 139 printed album pages with a total of 2663 used and mint

stamps. Good range of Chalon heads and classic perforation varieties, and hundreds of sets in mint and

used. Catalogue value according to owner (with damaged stamps not counted) £9330. An exceptional

collection with material in generally very fine condition.

800 - 1’000

Nigerias

Niger Company Territories

51101

F / 246

1887-91, group of four covers incl. 1887 envelope sent unfranked from the West Coast of Africa with

very fine “6d” hs, reverse with Liverpool and London transits, Chatham arrival, 1891 (May 25) envelope

franked with 1887 6d Jubilee with a very good strike of “THE NIGER TERRITORIES / POST / OFFICE”

triple oval Akassa ds adjacent, the stamp cancelled in Liverpool in transit with cds adjacent, Ripon

arrival bs, very fine, and two 1890 incoming envelopes to the Church Missionary Society in Onitsha with

fine strikes of “THE NIGER TERRITORIES / POST / OFFICE” triple oval Akassa ds on arrival, one franked

with GB 1887 6d Jubilee tied by West Hartlepool duplex, and other with 4d Wroxall squared circle ds

(portion of backflap missing and peripheral cover faults, ex Glassco and still on original stockcard).

200 - 300

51102

F / 252

Lokoja: 1900 (Apr 31) 2d Registered envelope (size G) with Northern Nigeria 1900 1/2d (2) and 1d

tied by light Lokoja double oval ds, reverse with Forcados registered oval ds. a little ageing, extremely

scarce usage on a registered envelope from Lokoja and paying double the Imperial penny postage rate.

120 - 200

Niger Coast Protectorate

51103

51104

51105

51103

C 

S.G. 35

1893 Old Calabar provisional 1/2d on 2 1/2d type 10 surch. in green, mint, very fine (S.G. £550).

200 - 240

51104

CC P 

S.G. 45 var

1894 (Jan) 1/2d black perforated printer’s sample, perf.15, mint n.h. left marginal, faintly discoloured

gum, very fine and scarce.

200 - 300

51105

H 

S.G. Z19

1881 1d lilac die II with large part “FORCADOS RIVER” cds, very fine and rare GB used abroad (S.G. £750).

150 - 200

51106

G H 

1890 10d Jubilee tied by “OLD CALABAR RIVER” code C cds on large piece with further strike adjacent,

very rare if not unique, not listed in S.G.

150 - 200