U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 8-9, 2019
We are pleased to kick off the New Year with our January 8-9 sale, with 1,678 lots, including additional offerings of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I. Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous other vendors and estates sold by their order. Heinz was well known to Aero philatelists, having been active in this field since the 1960s and amassing a wonderful holding of this ever-popular and exciting area. There are selections of attractive United States, rarities from Albania, Austria, France, Germany and Colonies, Italy and Colonies, Russia, Saar, Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, featuring a strong selection of Batum, booklet from India with set of Gandhi stamps overprinted specimen and lots more. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, with Colombia Air Post, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 100+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, mostly offered intact. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
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 | Lot #807 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 Dollard Ltd overprints, 1/2p-10p, also four red or carmine overprints (missing 11A), plus 2sh-10sh Seahorses, mostly l.h., fine-v.f., * Catalog #1-11,12-14 Catalog Value $577 | Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #808 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 1/2p-10p, also 2sh6p and 5sh Seahorses, all ten handstamped "Colonias" in purple by the Portuguese Post Office in Goa (Portuguese India), unused without gum, fine-v.f. One of only three "sets" issued to the participating UPU countries (where they were pasted in ledgers kept by postmasters) S Catalog #SG 1-9,17,19S | Price Realized $500.00
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 | Lot #809 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 1/2p green, variety "missing overprint", bottom sheet margin block of four, overprint shifted to bottom and complete in the bottom selvage, unused without gum as always, some toning, rare (one sheet is to have been overprinted with a dramatic downward shift, leaving the top row unoverprinted and the bottom printed in margin. All copies were stained, possibly because of oil spilled on the stamps while in transit)
(*) Catalog #SG 1var | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #810 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 2p orange, Die II, overprint inverted, three singles, l.h., fine-v.f., * Catalog #SG 13a Catalog Value £1,200 | Price Realized $280.00
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 | Lot #811 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 10sh dull gray blue, variety Major Retouch of Plate 5A (R.2/1), bright color and fresh, h.r., v.f., with 1987 MacDonnell Whyte certificate (MW T41b, £9,000) * Catalog #SG 46var | Price Realized $1,900.00
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 | Lot #812 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 1/2p green, block of six, middle right stamp without accent in "Saorstat" variety, hinged at top and bottom, variety n.h., v.f. and rare (catalogue value for hinged)
*/** Catalog #SG 52a Catalog Value £1,400 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #813 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 1p scarlet, sheet margin block of eight, upper left stamp with reversed "Q" for "O" variety, h.r., other stamps hinged or n.h., fine-v.f.,
*/** Catalog #SG 53e Catalog Value £375 | Price Realized $120.00
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 | Lot #814 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922-23 Seahorses, 2sh6p-10sh, set of three, each used on piece, 2sh6p with sheet margin at right, fine-v.f. (SG 64-66) O Catalog #56-58 Catalog Value £650 | Price Realized $170.00
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 | Lot #815 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 4p gray green, breaks under "four" variety, two singles, h.r., also used block of four, upper right stamp with same breaks under "four" variety, fine-v.f. (MW T53b, £630)
*O Catalog #SG 58var | Price Realized $120.00
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 | Lot #816 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 1sh bistre brown, vertical pair, bottom stamp variety "accent inserted by hand", h.r. at top, error n.h., v.f. (catalogued as hinged) */** Catalog #SG 63b Catalog Value £700 | Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #817 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 2sh6p chocolate brown, Plate 3a, upper left corner sheet margin horizontal pair, right stamp with Major re-entry, n.h. (hinged in selvage), v.f. and rare (MW T59a, £1,300 for hinged) ** Catalog #SG 64,64var Catalog Value £1,248 | Price Realized $475.00
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 | Lot #818 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 2sh6p chocolate brown, Plate 3a, block of four, upper right stamp with Major re-entry, used, fine-v.f. and rare (MW T59a, £1,500)
Catalog #SG 64a Catalog Value £1,610 | Price Realized $300.00
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 | Lot #819 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 5sh rose carmine, right margin horizontal pair, right stamp with accent reversed, h.r., v.f., * Catalog #SG 65,65b Catalog Value £985 | Price Realized $300.00
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 | Lot #820 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922 10sh blue, without accent variety, unused (regummed), v.f., (*) Catalog #SG 66a Catalog Value £3,000 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #821 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1922-23 1/2p-1sh regular issue, n.h., post office fresh, fine-v.f., ** Catalog #65-76 Catalog Value $416 | Price Realized $140.00
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 | Lot #822 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1925 Seahorses, four sets of three, two 2sh6p l.h., balance n.h., one set creased, still fine-v.f., */** Catalog #77-79 Catalog Value $2,730 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #823 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1925 Somerset House, Seahorses 2sh6p-10sh, two sets, h.r., fresh, mostly v.f., * Catalog #77-79 Catalog Value $780 | Price Realized $150.00
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 | Lot #824 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1925 Somerset House, Seahorses 2sh6p-10sh, also wide "1922" 2sh6p and 5sh, h.r., fresh and v.f., * Catalog #77-79,77b,78b Catalog Value $540 | Price Realized $150.00
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 | Lot #825 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1925 5sh rose carmine, two singles, each Plate 3A (Dublin Castle), one showing "inner frame notch" (R.3/3), the other "inverted T" in bottom frame (R.2/1), h.r., v.f., rare (MW T67a,T67b, £1,525) * Catalog #SG 84var | Price Realized $475.00
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 | Lot #826 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1925 10sh gray blue, Plate 2a, Runnals Re-entry (R.6/1), h.r., fine (MW T68, £3,250) * Catalog #SG 85var | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #827 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1927 2sh6p chocolate brown, horizontal pair, used, right stamp Flat accent on "a" (R.9/2), cancelled 6 July 1929, pinhole, otherwise fine, O Catalog #SG 86,86c Catalog Value £710 | Price Realized $120.00
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 | Lot #828 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1927 10sh greenish blue, canceled on piece by Dublin November 5, 1929, also 10sh gray blue, canceled January 18, 1929, both v.f., O Catalog #SG 88,var Catalog Value £450 | Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #829 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1927 10sh dull gray blue, accent virtually omitted, late stage of the circumflex accent (R.9/2), l.h., v.f., signed Brottier, * Catalog #SG 88a,var Catalog Value £1,000 | Price Realized $300.00
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 | Lot #830 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1927 10sh dull gray blue, Flat accent on "a", h.r., v.f., * Catalog #SG 88c Catalog Value £1,700 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #831 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1935 2sh6p chocolate, 5sh bright rose red, each Flat accent on "a", two of each used, various pmks, perf. flaws or thin spots, otherwise fine-v.f., O Catalog #SG 99a,100a Catalog Value £1,450 | Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #832 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1935 2sh6p chocolate, 5sh bright rose red, each Flat accent on "a", used, fine-v.f., the latter signed Proschold, O Catalog #SG 99a,100a Catalog Value £725 | Price Realized $180.00
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 | Lot #833 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1935 Seahorses, 10sh dark blue, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #95 Catalog Value $1,100 | Price Realized $400.00
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 | Lot #834 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRELAND 1935 10sh indigo, lower left sheet corner margin block of four, upper right stamp Flat accent on "a" (R.9/2), h.r. at top, bottom stamps n.h., v.f. (SG 101,101a, £2,000 as hinged singles)
*/** Catalog #95 Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $900.00
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