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Public Auction #429

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 19, 2016 at 7:00pm (New York time)
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Bids updated August 19, 2016 at 6:49pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — British
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
248*oA-Z outstanding selection from 1860 to 1990 in three cartons. Consists of seven red and three other style boxes having roughly 5,000 #102 and 1,000 #104 sales cards. Comprises mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles having pleasurable, tolerable backup already identified and cataloged by a knowledgeable collector. Searching will reveal better than average collector’s duplicates as well as often not seen colonies. Ready for resale at a percentage of the marked prices. Do not let this one slip away.Cat. Value: S.B. 3500
Price Realized: $4,250.00
249*oA dealer’s stock arranged on around 1800 “102” type sales cards in three red boxes. The Great Britain fills most of one box and has, by far, the most catalog value. The rest pretty much covers the Commonwealth, with the exception, there is no Canada. Likable early period throughout. Needs inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 3000
Price Realized: $2,100.00
250*oCollection on Minkus pages and album (mismatched India binder) from 1883 to 1979. Embraces hundreds and hundreds of mostly mint stamps in singles, full, and partial sets. Includes Malaya States, Singapore, Labuan, North Borneo, Sarawak, Aden, and Bahrain. Highlights are Labuan 42/8,66/71 Malaya 26/37, Pahang #18, Perak 1/10,20/41, Selangor 29/41, North Borneo 89, and Sarawak 8/21 Tremendous opportunity to divide into folder collections.Cat. Value: Catalog 10396
Price Realized: $2,400.00
251*Very clean collection in a Scott Specialty album from 1890 to 1975. Hundreds and hundreds of mint stamps in full, partial sets, singles, and souvenir sheets on quadrille pages in clear mounts nicely mounted and annotated by the owner. Contains Canada, Cayman Islands, Ceylon, Cook Islands, Cyprus, and Dominica. All colonies do not all go to 1975. A surefire selection which you will not go wrong biding on.Cat. Value: S.B. 1250
Price Realized: $1,150.00
252*oA neatly arranged collection of a dozen countries on Scott quadrille pages plus a stock book of Australia. A detailed inventory is provided to facilitate figuring. The last mentioned is the most valuable followed by Bermuda then Falklands. Contains several hundred different mixed mint and used with many sets. Well balanced from the Victorian period to the 1980’s. Very clean throughout.Cat. Value: Catalog 5175
Price Realized: $700.00
253**A well-organized stock of complete NH sets in part sheets arranged in file folders. Contains forty-eight different from fourteen different countries in quantities from 1to 100 of each but mainly 50 to 80. Great topical content set up for easy processing. All F-VF or better.Cat. Value: Catalog 21299
Price Realized: $650.00
254**A well-organized stock containing fifty-five different sets from ten different countries. From 2 to 100 of each but mainly 40 to 50 in part sheets. Everything is arranged in file folders for easy processing Great topical content. All F-VF or better.Cat. Value: Catalog 20052
Price Realized: $650.00
255*oAll that we could find from a large estate. Twenty or more small lots in all, many of which could be auction lots in their own regard. Includes folder collections, binder collections, sales pages in counter books and old auction lot sales sheets, and hundreds in 104 size cards in three small boxes, mostly sorted into country style organization. Thousands of stamps with the better ones not yet removed. Stretches from used Australian states up through mint modern errors. High catalog. Mixed condition. Country groups include Australia and states, North Borneo, Gibraltar, Sarawak, Ceylon, Nepal, and a few binders of general British related. Better than usual condition. A treasure trove for the general British area collector in a large carton.Cat. Value: S.B. 800
Price Realized: $1,800.00
256oA counter book of several hundred mostly different. Great Britain contains a tremendous amount of catalog value. This is followed by beneficial group of various colonies. Condition leaves much to be desired and forgeries plus wishful identification must be considered (we did). On the plus side there is a reasonable amount of useful values and sets along with reference items. Profitable at the suggested bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 600
Price Realized: $450.00
257*oMixed group of chiefly mint housed in a small box. The most valuable is the North Borneo mounted collection of several dozen different on Scott specialty pages. Also includes helpful Papua and Fiji plus a bit of Canada and Gibraltar. Worth a peek.Cat. Value: S.B. 475
Price Realized: $700.00
258*oSelection from the 1870s to 1954 in two cartons. Hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles. Consists of 3 Scott Specialty, 2 Minkus albums, binders with stock pages and a neat #1 glassine box both having hidden treasures for the sharp explorer.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $2,800.00
259*An all mint OG group of a dozen units which are either complete sets or key values. Strongest in Newfoundland. Other than Fiji high values with short perfs everything is F-VF.Cat. Value: S.B. 400
Price Realized: $325.00