Sale 115: The Westpex Sale

Lot 2197    

Great Britain, Postal History Group, includes 16 early 1759-99 folded letters with various ratings, 1840 1d black usage London to Exeter and some later QV usages, 1916 WWI British Forces in Greece cover sent to California, and a Received From H.M. Ships postmarked cover to England which appear to have been submersed in water (crash cover?); interesting group (See website for images).
Estimate    $400 - 600.



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Realized: $260

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Lot 2198 /o   

Great Britain, Collection, 1840-19, exceptional mint (and some VF used) collection neatly mounted on Scott pages (after 1889) with better earlies already broken out to numbered and priced stock cards. Assembled with quality-conscious collector, so the condition here is well above the norm, though a few early n.g., these counted at ½ mint values. We note mint 3f, 10 n.g., 2b n.g., 26a, 28, 30, 37 n.g., 40, 40a, 42, 43, pl19 and 13, 51 n.g., 52, 58 pl11 n.h. (+plate 4-6, 8, 12, 14, 15, 20, 61, plate 18 and 20, 6 4n.g., 66 pl1, 67 pl17, 70 pl15, 73, 82, plate 22 (2) and 23, 84-5, 94, 98-103, 96 n.h., SG, 175 Specimen, 105-108 VF 111-22, SG 206, SG 199 green + scarlet VF n.h., SG 204 purple on orange n.h., SG 206 deep bright carmine n.h. corner margin 118a, 124VF, 127-36 n.h., 139-42 XF, 159-72 n.h., 173 n.h., VF, 173 a, b VF, 174c XF, 175-6 VF XF, 177,179-81, SG 415 VF n.h., 205b-7b, 207c, 209-24, watermark sideways KGV (3sets), KGV1 (1H set n.h.) 249-51 n.h., QE sets complete including phos, graphite n.h., P. dues complete (n.h. 1936 on). QE phosphor commemoratives n.h. blocks (red cross in pairs), 411a, n.h., 697 gold missing. Used including SG1 intense black on piece, SG 14w mute watermark £875, 55d milky blue cancel C38 $1850 + 46 cancel F85 Mayaguez P.R. (575) 65, 67, 69 all VF several VF used S.O.N. cds (including 103 (2), 107, 108) 124 clean oval date stamp on piece 178, 224 XF block. Also 6 WWII Nazi Forgeries (£650), Mulready including 2¢ rare used! A really lovely collection, Cat (some by SG converted to $) over 100,000 (See website for images).
Estimate    $15,000 - 20,000.



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Realized: $8,000

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Lot 2199 o   

Great Britain, Collection, 1840-1950, outstanding and valuable mainly used collection, with specialization for plates and shades, neatly arrayed in a Davo hingeless album. This rather attractive collection was assembled by a quality conscious German collector, and boasts many VF cleanly canceled examples, including S.O.N. cds's. There are platings of many QV issues starting with mainly VF penny blacks showing plates 1a and b, 2, 3, 5,6,9 (several with certs) and the rare and highly prized plate II with Royal cert as plate II (this one just a VG-F example, however), 2 penny blue with plate I deep full blue and plate 2, penny reds from black plates with plate 2, 9, 10, 11, 50 different imperf red plates, perf penny red plate 71-225, complete but for the rare 77 ½d engraved including plate 9 complete, followed by a nice showing of embossed and surface printed plates and shades with embossed 6d (4), 10d, and 1sh (4), extensive showing of plates for values to 1sh for surface printed with 1st 5sh plate 1 and 2 in nl and pale shade, 5sh blued paper p1 1 (perfin counted at ¼ nl), 5sh anchor watermark, XF clean oval DS, 1st 10sh and £1 present (latter nicely centered but with reddish crayon mark) 1883 blued paper 2sh6, 5sh, QV long pounds including watermarked orbs! Green with S.O.N. cds Belfast, also mint with specimen overprint (£1100), later QV and KEVII with extensive near complete array of shades to £1 showing 2 long pounds with clean small cds. KGV with impressive Seahorses including 10 different 10sh, shades 2 pound greens, many with certs and some nice cds's, also watermark sideways and lower values shades figured as cheapest. PUC pound VF also. There are a few officials and postage dues, the latter with some better mint including complete sets with n.h. high values. Quite a lovely group with SG cat over £133,0000 (about $170,000) (See website for images).
Estimate    $15,000 - 20,000.



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Realized: $8,500

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Lot 2200 /o   

Great Britain, Collection, 1840-1969, impressive collection in mounts in a Gibbons Windsor album, 19th Century mostly used, 20th Century mostly mint, some NH here and there, majority of value in used Victoria including three Penny Blacks (one red and one black Maltese Cross cancel, one other black cancel), Scott #2 black Maltese Cross cancel, #5, 6, 7, 26, 27, 28, 33 (with/more than 120 different plate numbers), 34, 37, 39, 42, 45, 50 plate 6, 51 plate 8, 52 plate 4, 53 plate. 1, 55 plate. 1, 57 plate 1, 1/2 d 58 with plates 1, 3-6, 8, 10-15, 60 plate 12, 64 plate 13, 64a plate. 9, 70 plate 16, 73 plate. 1, 81, 85, 87 plate 14, 94, 95, 96, 108, 109, and 124, also mint Scott #108, used Victoria officials O5, O6, O7, O12, O27, O31-37, O38, O44, O46, mint officials O30 plate. 13 and O45, better 20th Century mint including nice KEVII and KGV values to 1/- with shades, perf and watermark varieties of Scott #127-38, 143-50, 151-58B, 159-72, 177-78, 183, 187-200, 190a, 210-20, 210a, 212b, 213b plus 142 no gum (£1 KEVII) and Seahorses 173 and 222-24, also used 139-41, 173-74, 174b, 175b and 209 (PUC £1); KEVII mint officials O39-41, O59-61, O63-4 and used O21, O23, O42-43, O49-52, O65, O69)74-77, and postage due J1-75 (mostly mint) and Offices in Turkish Empire mint 9-24, 26-64, KGVI & QEII quite complete mint for the period, KGVI including Scott #249-51A plus some NH blocks and booklet panes, QEII has #292-607 with watermark and phosfor varieties plus pre-decimal Machins and Regionals, 19th Century generally fine or better, 20th Century generally fine to very fine or better, owner's Scott $52,000, clean, attractive and well collected.
Estimate    $4,000 - 6,000.

Realized: $4,000

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Lot 2201 o   

Great Britain, Collection, 1841-84, prodigious Queen Victoria used plating study mounted on lined or quadrille pages, starting with penny reds, ending with 1884 10 shilling. There are many sound, and many clearly canceled, mixed in with the faded and or heavily canceled with good prospects for postmarks (we noticed several used abroad items) and nothing has been checked for varieties like watermark errors and the like. Some numbers are represented by over a hundred examples, others with as few as 3. We note a penny red plating complete to #225 except for the rare 77; some higher out like 37 (7), 39 (24), 40 (9), 42 (9), 43 hundreds, 45 (20), 46 (5), 48 (14), 49 over a hundred, 52 (23), 55 (22 including 9 pale and at least 1 Prussian blue), 53 (14), 64 (47), 65(3), 69 (4), 70 (39), 71 (10), 73 (14), 87 (32), 94 (26), 95 (27), 96 (57 with shades), 99-105 dozens each 106 (7), 107 (32), 108 (31 with shades), 109 (9 with shades), 109a blued paper (a bit soiled); total cat by Scott over $371,000.
Estimate    $10,000 - 15,000.



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Realized: $4,500

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Lot 2202 /o/   

Great Britain, Collection, mostly used identified on stockpages with modest to moderate duplication at times; starting with 1840 1d black x4 (two are sound 4 margin), with later QV issues including 62 different 1d red plates some shilling high values and a 1891 £1, KEVII to the shilling values, KGV blocks and some covers, similar KGVI & QEII issues including Castle definitive blocks, later covers and some Guernsey; condition mixed, inspect (See website for images).
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.



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Realized: $625

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Lot 2203 /o   

Great Britain, Machin Head Definitive Collection, 1967-2021, comprehensive mint and used in mounts on Scott Specialty pages in a binder, including regionals 1971-2000, fine to very fine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $200

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Lot 2204 /o   

Great Britain, Officials Collection, virtually all used identified on stockpages, with modest duplication at times; nice showing of Inland issues including 1889 1sh used, 1891 2½d mint (glazed gum) and 1901 6d, Parcels including scarce 1886 6d used and a nice showing of later, Army with Scott O55a variety unused, etc., also includes a parcel piece with #O31+O35+O36 block of 6 combination; condition mixed with better items throughout, inspect (See website for images).
Estimate    $500 - 750.



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Realized: $350

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Lot 2205 /o   

Greece, Collection, 1861-1950, terrific mint (and some used) collection, some neatly mounted on quad pages, but with most value separated onto individual stock cards, numbered and priced by Scott (or Michel on some), with nearly all in exceptional quality, including the classics. Noted mint are 16 XF pair, 36 XF, 92b, block of 6 with 5 n.h., 9 block of 8 XF with 6 n.h., 97 XF, 104 block with 3 n.h., 104 vert pair imp horiz, 112 block n.h., 126-8, 123d pair, 160a, 378-80, 427-36 (2A), plus near all good sets after 1940's n.h., C38-47 n.h., + Mich 27 small thin, 28, 29 VF, 47b XF pair, 58 VF, 75A,C used including 94a VF block of 10, 126-7, C5-7 with cert., Mich 6 with cert, 37b signed Calves, Also good Crete mint 62-3 n.h., used 14, 19. 20, 23, 29-31, 56-8, 118-20 VF, 298 XF. Lemnos mint M; 18b-29b (including 26a, 7a, 29b) 34-7 Epirus mint 34-5, 37-40. Ionian Islands mint NC7-10, Thrace mint N46-54. Much highly saleable for the dealer or for the collector seeking nice, better items to upgrade a holding. Cat 20,000 (See website for images).
Estimate    $3,500 - 5,000.



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Realized: $3,000

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Lot 2206 /o   

Greenland, Collection, 1905-1945, fresh and clean, near complete mint and some good used. All better items here on one album page and 23 stock cards, numbered and priced. Noted are Faroes 1 used with S.O.N. cds piece, 2-6 used and mint n.h. plus Denmark 88a (Faroes bisect), + Denmark used in Faroes including 3 blocks, Greenland has 1 - 18 mint n.h., 19-27 mint, 288-38 n.h., 39-40 n.h. blocks, Polar Bear mint Q1, 2, 4-8, 10 (+shade), 11 used Q 1-9 (including 6a, 7a, 8a), rare perf 12 ½ Q1a, 4a, plus some nice Facit varieties. Choice group (Cat 8617) worth careful inspection and a strong bid. (See website for images).
Estimate    $2,500 - 3,500.



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