BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COLLECTIONS 126 British Commonwealth and Great Britain Interesting vintage collection of thousands of different pre-1930 stamps in two loose-leaf Simplex albums, including Great Britain with four-margin penny black, penny red ‘stars’ mint, 8d orange well-centred and relatively light cancel, 1881 1d lilac 14-dot mint, KEVII to 1/- mint plus 2/6d toned, 10/- sound used, etc, Canada 1897 jubilee 20cts and 50cts used, Cyprus incl. 1904 and 1915 45pi top values used, Hong Kong surcharges incl. 20cts on 30cts grey-green (without Chinese characters) superb used, 1891 jubilee ovpt used, lots of India and Convention States ovpts with high values and mint multiples, Iraq 1925 2r olive-bistre mint, Ireland with Dollard ‘Provisional Govt.’ ovpt set mint to 10/- (slight toning), ‘Irish Free State’ set mint to 10/- (not toned), etc. The old paper of the pages has reduced the freshness of many of the stamps, however there are plenty of good items here in nice quality and there will be more to discover. £500-750
127 British Commonwealth A green ‘King George VI’ album (damaged spine) with very few empty spaces, the majority used with some sets and high values mint, a little untidy and occasional condition issues including some sticking due to sloppy hingeing, nevertheless overall a very decent effort at completion of KGVI, including Aden mint 5r and 10r, latter with lightly toned tips of some upper perfs, Bahrain 25rs mint, Bermuda with clean 10/- and 12/6d mint, the Burma 25rs with cds postmark though couple of tiny pinholes, Hong Kong with $10 green and purple defin and $10 silver wedding used, India with good range of Feudatory and Convention States postage and officials, most Malaysian States sets complete, useful postal fiscal types of New Zealand and Islands, etc, etc. £750-1,000
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128 British Commonwealth Collection in four Lighthouse hingeless albums with material mostly from 19th century to early QEII, generally by country and in sets or better singles, sometimes haphazardly organised. One volume is for a relatively basic range of New Zealand only. In the three main books mint never hinged KGVI is a strength, including the 1938 first sets of Bahamas with 5/- shades, 1938 Bermuda, British Honduras and Leeward Islands etc. Further MNH are Basutoland top values, Brunei 1947-51 set to $10 incl. perf and shade vars, most - if not all - of a 1949 UPU set, Occupations of Italian Colonies and other sets of Provisional ovpts on GB etc. Also noted British Guiana 1899 2cts on 10cts wmk inverted and reversed mint (SG.223y, cat. £350), British Honduras QV incl. 1872 1d blue wmk inverted mint (SG.5w, cat. £350) and 1878 6d rose used (SG.15, cat. £200), Leeward Islands 1902 set mint with 5/- MNH, Bahamas 1902 £1 ‘Specimen’ ovpt, Montserrat 3d ‘tower on hill’ mint (SG.106ac, cat. £375), 1935 Silver Jubilee mint set (lacking Egypt), as well as Rhodesia hole-punched proofs, high value revenue usages incl. British Guiana 1888 $5 pair, St. Lucia QV 10/-, Rhodesia 1901 £20 and 1909 £5, etc. An eclectic style of collection, making an entertaining viewing. £1,500-2,000
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