Great Britain & British Empire 2025

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

Lot n°

Symbol(s)

Estimate (£)

292 | Great Britain & British Empire

51292

H / 291

S.G.14

1861 Woodblock 4d pale milky blue, two margins with traces of a cancellation, heavy crease running

diagonally at right and tiny pin hole, fresh appearance and a useful spacefiller of scarce stamp (S.G. £2’750).

240 - 300

51293

H 

S.G.14c

1861 Woodblock 4d deep bright blue used, huge margin at right to close but clear at bottom, deep

colour and a particularly strong impression, neatly repaired at right, a very fine looking example of this

scarce Woodblock shade; cert. RPS (1979) as a generic blue shade (S.G. £5’500).

900 - 1’200

51294

H 

S.G.18-20

1863-64 Small lot of eight triangular issues with five showing various examples of the barred oval

numeral cancellations (BONC), with complete to close cut margins, and three 1863-64 1d in deep

carmine-red, deep brown-red and brownish red, margins close to touching, mixed condition.

100 - 200

51295

F 

1824 letter to the Courts of Justice, Cape Town with another, from 1831, to Cape Town with ‘Prepaid’

boxed in black, an attractive pair of covers.

40 - 60

51296

51297

51296

H 

S.G. 3a, 8b

1855-63 Perkins Bacon 1s deep dark green on white paper, used, with three good to large margins, fine,

cert. Brandon (1973) (S.G. £550), 1853 Perkins Bacon 1d brown-red used, three good even margins,

small ink mark showing through (S.G. £375), plus Triangulars group of six different forgeries.

100 - 200

51297

DCE 

S.G. 5

1855-63 1d rose unused pair with watermark sideways, mostly good even margins all around, fresh

without gum; cert. Brandon (2024) (S.G. unpriced mint).

300 - 400

51298

DCE 

S.G. 5-5b

1855-63 1d on cream paper, three different shades, brick-red with close margins, the other two with

good clear margins, unused without gum, deep rose with light crease otherwise very fine.

400 - 500