Auction of British Empire and Foreign Countries Postage Stamps and Postal History

War Stamps: A most comprehensive study collection in eleven stockbooks or albums, two file boxes and loose, incl. Antigua 1916-18 set overprinted “SPECIMEN”, Bahamas 1918 (Feb-July) 1s. mint (3), Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Canada 1915 (Feb.) 5c. in mint block of four, 50c. mint and used, 1916 (Aug.) 2c. + 1c. die I mint, imperf. x perf. 8 die I mint pair and two singles, Cayman Islands 1917 (Feb.) 11/2d. on 21/2d. variety straight serif used, Ceylon, Dominica, Gibraltar 1918 1/2d. with watermark inverted and reversed mint, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Grenada 1916-18 1d. with watermark inverted, mint, Jamaica 1916 (Apr.-Sept.) 3d. used strip of three, centre stamp showing no stop, 1916 (Sept.-Dec.) 1/2d. with unlisted watermark sideways mint, 11/2d. with watermark sideways used, 11/2d. mint block of eight, one showing inverted “d” for “p” and missing stop, 11/2d. pair, one showing inserted “s”, 1917 (Mar.) 1/2d. with variety overprint transposed in a used block of twelve, Malta, Montserrat 1917-19 set of three overprinted “SPECIMEN”, North Borneo, St. Helena, St. Kitts Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent with 1916 (June) 1d. with overprint double, used, 1916-18 1d. with watermark inverted mint, Trinidad and Tobago 1916 (Oct.) 1c. scarlet mint pair, left stamp showing most of red shading omitted from cross, Turks and Caicos Islands, a very good range of covers of the aforementioned countries with St. Vincent 1916-18 1d. block of four, pair and single from the ‘scratched plate’ [Pos. 45/46, 47/50, 70], used on 1916 (Nov.) envelope, registered from Kingstown to U.S.A., etc. (1,000s). Photo.
[Proposed price: £15000-18000]