| MC848 |
1853 Perkins Bacon printing 1d brown-red, paper slightly blued. Large to huge margins all round, crisp part triangular cancel. Superb. SG 3a |
£295 |
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| MC847 |
1853 Perkins Bacon printing 4d deep blue on paper slightly blued. Large to very large margins all round, crisp triangular cancel. Very fine. SG 4 |
£120 |
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| MC849 |
1855 - 63 Perkins Bacon printing 1d rose. Very large even margins all round, crisp part triangular cancel. Wonderful quality. SG 5a |
£245 |
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| MC845 |
1855 - 63 Perkins Bacon printing 1d rose. Block of four with large to enormous margins all round, triangular cancels. Very fine. SG 5a |
SOLD |
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| MC846 |
1855-63 Perkins Bacon printing 4d blue. Block of four, good to very large margins just touched at lower right corner. triangular cancels. Very fine. SG 6a |
SOLD |
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| MC841 |
1863 - 64 De La Rue printing 4d steel-blue. Close to large margins all round, bright colour unused without gum. Repaired corner at left, still an attractive and scarce stamp. SG 19c |
£100 |
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| MC843 |
1863 - 64 De La Rue printing 4d steel-blue. Pair, close to large large margins all round, crisp triangular cancels. Most attractive. BPA certificate (2015). SG 19c |
£375 |
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| MC844 |
1871 watermark Crown CC, 5/- yellow-orange. Block of four, very fine used each cancelled 'MOSSEL BAY AU 15 87' sc datestamps. Lovely and scarce. SG 31 |
SOLD |
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| MC850 |
1868 Provisional 'Four Pence' surcharged in red on 6d mauve. Wider (1868) printing, showing downwards shift of surcharge. Exceptionally fine mint. Remarkably scarce as such. SG 27 var. |
£450 |
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| MC838 |
1882 watermark Crown CA, 2d pale bistre. Very fine mint, appears as unmounted. SG 42 |
£120 |
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| AM1226 |
Postal History / Anglo-Boer War period 1901 (3rd January and 16th April), pair of long, blue stampless official envelopes (225x96mm) both addressed to the ‘Station Paymaster / Bury / Lancashire / England’. Each with printed ‘ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE’ printed at top (as the later envelope was posted after the death of Queen Victoria, the word ‘Her’ has been changed to ‘His’ in manuscript). Each envelope also has ‘On The Public Service / S.Q.M.S. / For Station Payment / G. Branon ? / Cape Town’ handstamped in different styles in purple or blue and with authorizing signature ‘F.A. Hawes’. Bury (20 Jan and 2 May) arrival backstamps. A few edge faults, otherwise a fine and unusual pair. |
£85 |
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| AC1180 |
Revenue 1873 (19th November), Deed of Transfer document (202x320mm) for an amount of £60 in respect of a farm in the Cradock area. Bearing a single QV small format 8/- dull blue-green (perf 12½) revenue stamp (Barefoot 52) cancelled with manuscript initials and date. A scarce duty, especially used on document. |
£65 |
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| AC1179 |
Revenue 1900 (11th January), four page Deed of Transfer document (210x328mm) for an amount of £2000 in respect of land in the division of Britstown. Bearing QV large £1 brown on orange and a pair of £10 deep purple violet revenue stamps (Barefoot 75, 104) all tied by neat ‘DEEDS REGISTRY / 11 JA 00 / CAPE TOWN’ crowned oval datestamps. The £1 crossed by a vertical fold, the two £10 are superb, without the usual rubbing associated with this issue. Scarce. |
£65 |
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| MC839 |
MAFEKING 1900 Cape QV ½d green overprinted and surcharged MAFEKING, / 1d. / BESIEGED. Very fine mint, hinge trace. SG 1 |
£275 |
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| AC1181 |
GRIQUALAND WEST / Postal History 1874 (16th April) piece ex an envelope addressed to Prague, Bohemia, bearing Cape of Good Hope 1d carmine-red (with interpanneau margin at left), 4d blue and 1/- green (SG 24a, 26a, 29), each tied by the distinct and short-lived ‘Lined Circular Bar Dumb Defacer’ (Goldblatt type G1) with a fine DU TOITS PAN (16 Apr) Dated Town Oval (without serifs) struck at left. London (22 May) transit struck in red. The 1d with some scuffing at top, otherwise a scarce example of use of Cape stamps used from the diamond fields some three years before the introduction of the ‘G’ overprints. |
£125 |
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