U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 7-8, 2021
Welcome to our December 7-8 sale of U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History. This 1,554 lot sale begins with United States, with 19th and 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of the book material. European countries are well represented, with a good showing of Great Britain & British Commonwealth. South America is highlighted by classic Colombia. Other noteworthy areas include the late Roy Koczarski's award-wining collection of Poland, plus Russia, with an unused Number One. The sale concludes with Large Lots and Collections, with single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and cover lots. Scans of most of the lots are available on our website and additional scans are being added daily
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #825 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH SOUTH AFRICA - Orange River Colony 1868 1sh orange, horizontal bisect used as 6p, tied to 1868 cover by barred oval cancel, Cape of Good Hope 4p blue also tied at right, Colesberg backstamp, Somerset arrival on front, addressee's name excised. As per regulations, covers to the Cape had to have 6p in Free State and 4p in Cape postage. To accomplish this, the sender pinned a 1sh stamp at the top left corner of the envelope and had the cover carried to the postmaster at Phillipolis, who bisected the stamp and replaced the top half in the corner with the pin and canceled it after noting "1/2 Shilling/APJvdP" below, the Cape stamp was then affixed and canceled by a different barred oval, the cover arriving at Somerset East on June 3, 1868; a truly remarkable and unique cover, probably the greatest rarity of the Orange River Colony (originally described in 1956 by Douglas Roth in "The South African Philatelist" (article enclosed), accompanied by 1956 Philatelic Federation of Southern Africa and 1985 Royal Philatelic Society certificates, ex-Gilbert (SG 9var)  Catalog #10var | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
