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