Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
January 9-10, 2024
Welcome to our January 9-10 Sale of U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History. The sale contains 1,508 lots and will be offered in four sessions, beginning with United States and U.S. Possessions. Worldwide sections include France, Germany, Italian Area, with many individual rarities. British Commonwealth, with a further selection of G.R.I. errors and varieties. There are solid selections from rest of the world, with additional items from the Carl A. Kilgas and Martin Stempien estates, plus nearly 200 Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized holdings and featuring a comprehensive collection of British Commonwealth (estimated to realize $100,000), multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #597 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1913-39 three large "On His Majesty's Service" covers registered to London or Australia, one franked with 2x2p and 4p George V, the other two unfranked, fine-v.f.  | Unsold |
 | Lot #598 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1917-45 selection of seven covers, including one registered to New York with 12x1p War Tax franking, another registered from Tarawa to Birmingham, U.K. franked with 6p and 1sh, a 1927 cover from the same correspondence franked with 2sh5p, 1937 "Solar Eclipse" Expedition cover, 1944 cover from Tarawa and a 1945 cover from Ocean commemorating the reopening of the Pacific, fine-v.f. group | Unsold |
 | Lot #599 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1939-45 selection of thirteen covers, one sent from G.P.O. Ocean Island to USA, showing the scarce type I censor hs (in use only August 28-October 2), three covers with the Type II censor handstamps (recorded to be in use between March 1940 and October 1941), eight covers with the "Passed by Censor No.1" postmarks (in use from March to November 1944), all sent from Fanning Island to various destinations, plus August 1945 cover from Tarawa to Australia with "Passed by Censor No. 8" handstamp (allocated to Tarawa), fine-v.f. and scarce group | Unsold |
