Sale 67: The Westpex Sale

Lot 3497    

British Africa, Covers, 1861-1941, approximately 60 covers and cards written-up in slips; includes Ascension, Sudan, B.C.A., C.G.H. with 4d triangle on 1861 cover, and later registered entire, Mauritius with scarce early formula post card usage and later registered, Natal with uprated lettercard usage, Gold Coast, Niger Coast 4-color franking on registration entire, turn-of-the-century Rhodesia including registered, uprated postal cards, etc., St. Helena, Sierra Leone, South Africa and S.W.A. including interesting "Hostile Countries Censor" and nice multi-colored frankings, etc.; choice material throughout.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $2,900

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Lot 3498 /o   

British Africa, Collection, housed in Scott album, with many good to better singles and sets throughout; includes Ascension with a nice selection of mint issues, Bechuanaland with completion in 1886-87 issue to the 10sh, B.C.A. with good mint mid-value 1891-95 issues and 1895-96 issues with mint 5sh, later issue specimens, good showing of B.E.A. issues mint, C.G.H. including Mafeking issues on piece, East Africa & Uganda with good 1903 higher values mint and a nice showing of later, good Gold Coast including Sc #10 (cat $250) and 1898-1902 set complete (cat $432), useful later Mauritius, Natal with good first issues and better later QV 7 KEVII issues, Rhodesia mixed */o, Sierra Leone with 1921-27 issue complete mint to the 10sh, Somaliland Protectorate with many complete mint sets, good later Zanzibar including dues, Zululand, etc.; condition varies with nice fresh mint throughout.
Estimate    $3,000 - 4,000.

Realized: $5,000

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Lot 3499    

British Africa, Airmail Covers, 1929-34, 14 covers written-up in slips; includes South Africa with 1929 Miller's Service flight, 1931 Imperial Airways England - Africa and 1934 S.A.A. Durban - Capetown flight (pilot signed), S.W.A. with 1931-32 flights from Windhoek, Southern Rhodesia with 1932 Bulawayo - Dodma first flight, 1931 Bulawayo - Johannesburg experimental flight, etc.; choice material throughout.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $210

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Lot 3500    

British Asia, Covers, 1891-1932, approximately 24 covers and cards written-up in slips; includes scarce North Borneo registered to England, 1900's Sarawak including registered, Malaya States including registered from Taiping and uprated postal card, Strait Settlements, India with better registered usages including to Russia, few Ceylon usages, etc.; choice condition throughout.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $2,100

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Lot 3501 /o   

British Commonwealth,, mint and used accumulation in two cartons, mainly semi-modern to modern material, however some earlier issue are noted, better Great Britain, Ireland, British Antarctic Territory and Canada present, worth inspection.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $1,800

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Lot 3502 S   

British Commonwealth, Specimen Group, 1867-1941, 30 stamps bearing various overprints or perfin; including Jamaica 1900 1d Falls issue, early N.S.W. issues, Malaysia and Bechuanaland, etc.; some faulty, worth review.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $220

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Lot 3503 /o   

British Commonwealth, Collection, 19th and 20th Century mint and used collection of thousands to 1970 in a Minkus Supreme Global album, good selection of Australian States, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India with worthwhile native States, Malaya & States, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, Transvaal, other countries also represented, many KGV Silver Jubilees etc., generally F-VF.
Estimate    $600 - 800.

Realized: $2,100

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Lot 3504 /o   

British Commonwealth, Stock, nice selection of several hundreds singles and sets on dealer pages, with pricing generally in the $5-$50+ range; with items including Ceylon Sc. 4 used (retail $45, cat $75), Australia #41 used (cat $60), good later mint including airmails, Cyprus mint singles and sets, N.Z. 288-301 mint, many Omnibus sets including Royal Wedding, etc.; nice fresh mint issues and used mostly neatly canceled, occasional flaws to be expected (with retail reflecting), retail totals $3,205, worth proper evaluation.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $950

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Lot 3505 /o   

British Commonwealth, Collections, on album pages; includes used Ireland to 1960's with premium and complete sets (2009 Scott cat $1,374), similar St. Helena with some mint (Scott 2012 cat $1,342) and Seychelles 1945 to 1990's mint (Scott cat $1,047).
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $300

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Lot 3506    

British Commonwealth, Cover Balance, interesting group of 13 items written-up in slips; includes 1897 uprated Gibralter 20c registration entire, 1870-1900's British Office in Turkish Empire usages with G.B. QV issues to Br. Levant frankings, 1850-70's G.B. used in Malta including usages to U.S. and Italy; choice condition throughout.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $625

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