Lot 2473 V

British Colonies (Commonwealth). ★/⊙. A most attractive collection G to P of thousands of stamps mint and used, all one of a kind, housed on a stack of album leaves from an old time collection, inc Gambia QV to KGVI with KGV to 3/- and lots of other mint to KGVI 10/- elephant, Gibraltar again QV onwards, high value KGV /- strong Gold Coast, very good Hong Kong especially QV inc rich colours 1900 mint complete set of 4, followed by EDVII and KGV to dollar values ending in 1935 silver jubilees, as well as postage dues complete for the period, other good areas inc India with a magnificent ½ anna 1854 imperf huge margins all round, comprehensive EDVII to KGV to 15rps, then KGVI again to high values, several dozen convention states, again all one of a kind through to interesting Native States inc Jaipur, Kishengahr, Travancore and above all Cochin and Hyderabad. Then Jamaica, Kuwait, Leewards, very good Labuan, especially late 19th early 20th century mint, Lagos, Malta, Mauritius with generous margins imperf tridents, New Brunswick with 1860/63 complete with superb mint rich colours, Newfoundland from imperfs with 3d triangular, through airmails to $1 and much more, impressive New Guinea, similarly with New Hebrides, Australian States NSW onwards inc useful postage dues and O.S. o/ps, New Zealand with imperf chalon heads in particularly nice condition and much more, through to better sets in the 1930s inc airmails, followed by North Borneo with a few hundred stamps, postage dues complete M&U, red cross o.ps, losts of red cross types and high value o/ps pictorials, Northern Nigeria and Orange Free State and good early lakatois of Papua, seldom seen perf-ins through to airmails, etc. Completely uncatalogued and most worthwhile, a highly recommended viewing.


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