Shreves Philatelic Galleries, Inc. Sale

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Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

1581

S.G. #59, 66, 85

S.G. #66, 1897 1/- Pale brown, perforated 11, an attractive left gutter-margin single along with 6p Rose, perforated 11x12 and 5p Ultramarine, perforated 11x10 (S.G. #59, 85) tied to clean registered cover to Moudon, Switzerland by less commonly seen "Suva/JU 1 1903" ornamented c.d.s. (Campbell type IV), backstamped, very fine (Scott #43-44, 58). (Image)

Est. 300-400

SOLD for $230.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1582

S.G. #69

S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, tied to attractive registered cover to New York by clear strike of "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/25 Jul 95" c.d.s., additional strike at left, carried via R.M.S. "Miowera", and more unusual routing through Vancouver with rather crude "R" registry handstamp, Victoria, Winnipeg and St. Paul, Minn. transits on the reverse, backstamped, stamp is fresh and has fine centering, a very fine and scarcer cover with this stamp (Scott #45). (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $650.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1583

S.G. #69

S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, lovely fresh single with fine centering, tied to pristine register cover to Germany by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/12 Jul 97" c.d.s., black London registry transit on the front, backstamped Baden-Baden, a choice and very fine cover with this high value (Scott #45). (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $325.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1584

S.G. #69

S.G. #69, 1882 5/- Dull red and black, tied to petite registered cover to Dresden, Germany by "Suva/17 Dec 03" type III c.d.s., stamp is also tied by red London registry c.d.s., Liverpool transit on the reverse, minor soiling, otherwise very fine (Scott #45). (Image)

Est. 300-400

SOLD for $150.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1585

S.G. #70, 72

S.G. #70, 72, 1891-92 "1/2d" on Dull blue and "2 1/2d" on 2p Green, each bottom margin singles with natural s.e., tied to locally run cover to the ship H.M.S. "Royalist" that was in port there, 2 1/2p tied by "sunburst" cancel of Suva, which is seen much less frequently on covers as its main use was on packets of newspapers, other stamp tied by clear strike of "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/24 Jun 97" c.d.s., minor perf. toning to the stamps, otherwise very fine and pretty cover (Scott #49-50). (Image)

Est. 300-400

SOLD for $160.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1586

S.G. #72a

S.G. #72a, 1892 "1/2d" surcharge on 1p Ultramarine, four horizontal pairs and two singles attractively positioned on locally run cover by "Suva/Fiji/NO 1 1892" c.d.s. with clearer strike at bottom center, addressed to Basil Thomson and from the handwriting apparently sent by his wife, stamps with fine centering, very fine cover; catalog value for used singles is £700 (Scott #49). (Image)

Est. 750-1,000

SOLD for $750.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1587

S.G. #70, 72a, 75

S.G. #75, 1893 "Five Pence" wide setting surcharge on 6p Rose, tied to neat registered cover along with "1/2d" surcharge on 1p Ultramarine and "2 1/2d" surcharge on 2p Green (S.G. #70, 72a) by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/31 May 94" c.d.s., posted to London where backstamped, fresh and very fine cover; all three of these provisional surcharges are better stamps; 1986 RPS certificate (Scott #49-50, 52a). (Image)

Est. 300-400

SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1588

S.G. #70, 72a, 75

S.G. #75, 1893 "Five Pence" wide setting surcharge on 6p Rose, tied to registered cover along with "1/2d" surcharge on 1p Ultramarine and "2 1/2d" surcharge on 2p Green (S.G. #70, 72a) by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/31 May 94" c.d.s., backstamped London, light perf. toning, otherwise very fine cover (Scott #49-50, 52a). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1589

S.G. #84a

S.G. #84a, 1892 2 1/2p Brown, perforated 11x10, tied to exceptionally attractive cover by red "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/24 Dec 94" c.d.s. (Campbell type II) with another strike at left, this is a short-lived cancel to begin with, but in red it was used exclusively between September 15 and December 31 of 1894, commercial usage with Hedemann & Co. of Levuka corner card on the reverse, posted to Germany and backstamped Hildesheim, opened a little roughly at left causing tears to the backflap, still a fresh and very fine cover (Scott #57). (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $550.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1590

86, 101-03a

S.G. #86, 1896 1/2p Slate grey, perforated 11, horizontal pair along with three 1p Rosy mauve, 2p Dull green and two 2 1/2p Yellow brown, all perforated 11 x nearly 12 (S.G. #101-03a) on O.H.M.S. envelope but covering the inscription to be used as ordinary mail rather than official mail, registered to the United States, all tied by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/11 Nov 98" c.d.s., backstamped Philadelphia plus Victoria and Winnipeg transits through Canada, small portion of backflap missing and slightly reduced at left, stamps have usual fine centering, a scarce and attractive four-color franking (Scott #53/57). (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1591

S.G. #89, 97

S.G. #89, 1894 2p Dull green, perforated 11, four singles on front of registered cover to Germany along with single on front and three singles on the reverse of 1p Rosy mauve, perforated nearly 12 (S.G. #97), all tied by clean strikes of "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/16 Jan 99" c.d.s., London registry oval on front and backstamped Baden-Baden, minor edge wrinkles at bottom, still very fine and attractive cover (Scott #55-56). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $100.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1592

S.G. #90

S.G. #90, 1895 2 1/2p Brown, perforated 11, tied to commercial cover to France by "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/3 May 98" c.d.s. with additional strike at left, underpaid and charged postage due with blue crayon "T25c" ms. rate marking and paid by 50c Brown violet postage due stamp of France (#J38) by St. Genis Laval c.d.s. on arrival, slight edge wear to the cover, otherwise a very fine usage (Scott #57). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $350.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1593

S.G. #89, 101

S.G. #101, 1896 1p Rosy mauve, perforated 11 x nearly 12, block of five on commercial cover to attorney in New York along with 2p Dull green pair, perforated 11 (S.G. #89), all tied by "Suva/2 Sep 1902" ornamented c.d.s. (Campbell type V), cover routed through Vancouver, Canada with Victoria and Seattle transits, backstamped, edge faults to cover including small tear at bottom, not affecting stamps which are fine-very fine (Scott #55-56). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1594

S.G. #131c var.

S.G. #131c var., 1921 4p Black and red on pale yellow, diagonal bisect, tied to cover to Australia by country post office "P.O. Labasa/Fiji/5 Jul 23" type IIIa c.d.s., not tied across the bisect but contemporaneous ms. note "no stamps available at P.O." below explaining this unusual franking, evidently sufficient to be tolerated as Suva transit is on the reverse, very fine cover from a smaller post office showing some of the adversities that had to be dealt with (Scott #85). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $200.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1595

1899 O.H.M.S. cover to London, properly endorsed and with "G.P.O. Suva/Fiji/10 Jan 99", addressed to a Stamp Exchange Club in southwest London and perhaps responding to inquiry about stamps, scarce official cover used within the British Empire, very fine. (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $130.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1596

1880-1948 Substantial postal history collection, consisting of 25 covers starting as early as an 1880 cover to the United States, also a nineteenth century map of the islands, majority of the covers are nineteenth century or just into the turn of the century, most of which are commercial usages, we note a 2p Green (S.G. #40) on cover to Sydney per the ship "S.S. Fiona" and another pre-U.P.U cover to the Bank of New Zealand in Melborne with 4p on 1p Mauve (S.G. #41) tied by "Suva/Fiji/ 18 JA 1891" c.d.s., per the ship "S.S. Taviuni", twelve of the covers are later mostly nineteenth century covers with the 1891-1902 new values and Pirogue designs, these are interesting in that most are foreign mail covers to various destinations, we note three each to Great Britain and France, two to Germany, a registered cover to Italy and one cover to the United States, also an 1886 registered cover to the unusual destination of Hamilton, Bermuda, all of these have various frankings up to three colors and various perforations of the period, twentieth century covers include two registered with "Fiji/Official C.P. Paid" plus adhesives for registry fee, also a 1930 newspaper wrapper to the United States with red "Postage Paid in Cash/Suva-Fiji/18 Aug. 30" c,d,s, and first day covers of the 1935 Jubilee complete and 1948 Silver Wedding complete, finally there are three inbound covers, one an 1896 Great Britain cover forwarded to Fiji from Australia and two 1909-10 European postal cards to Levuka, condition varies as is very typical of covers from these islands so faults are to be expected to both covers and stamps, but a number are fine-very fine as well and this is a nice collection of material documenting the usages of the various issues of this country.

Est. 3,000-4,000

SOLD for $4,250.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1597

Country Post Office postal history collection, a wonderful selection of covers, postcards and stamps with the cancellations of the rural post offices that were located throughout the widely spread islands of Fiji, this category includes all but the two major ports of Lavuka and Suva, some of these are as small as just a plantation or mission, others are quite large settlements, but mail from any of them is decidedly scarce as nearly all the postal material available comes out of the capital of Levuka or later Suva when the capital was moved there, one interesting and popular feature of these post offices is that steel straightline cancellors were issued about the turn of the century during the Edward VII reign and were used through the George V period, this collection consists of 21 covers or cards, two fronts and 44 stamps with these cancellations, nineteen different post offices are represented here and usually each office has at least one cover, they can be divided up by the island on which they are located, the largest and main Island of Viti Levu has mostly commercial usages from Nadroga, Naitoniton, Navola (rare small post office that was only open nine years; commercial cover to "Fiji Times" in Suva), Raki Raki, scarce Sabeto straightline on card to New Zealand, and Tunulou, the other large island of Vanua Levu has Davutu, Naduri, Rabi, Savu Savu East and Waimotu, this last a registered "Iremonger" cover to England from this small community, other islands include Naidiri from island of Kadavu, Taviuni Island has an embossed stamp card (illegal usuage in the British Empire) and commercial cover to Norway, both from Somo Somo, plus Taviuni North and Vuna, and finally the Lau group of small Islands include Lakeba, Loma Loma, Moala and Totoya, most covers have Edward VII frankings and some with George V, the single stamps that accompany many of these covers are of the same period, condition varies, commercial inter-island covers tend to have faults as usual, cards and the few philatelic covers are usually fine-very fine; an exceptional collection of these small post offices that are hard to find individually let alone a whole collection. (Image)

Est. 5,000-7,500

SOLD for $6,500.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

Azores

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

1598

#1, 1868 5r Black imperforate, unused, ample to mostly large margins all around, fresh color, traces of o.g., very fine; a rare stamp that is seldom offered at auction; signed Champion and others, and accompanied by a 1999 APS certificate. (Image)

3,250.00

SOLD for $600.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

British Guiana

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

1599

#6, 1852 1c Black on magenta surface-colored paper, Ty. B without period after Guiana, a rarely found sound used example of this very rare stamp, exceptionally attractive with unblemished deep red surface color, very neatly cancelled with "Demerara/JY31 1855" double arc c.d.s., very few of this issue have survived fault-free due to the fragile nature of the surface-colored paper, making them prone to surface abrasions, thins and creasing which affect a large portion of the known copies and is considered the norm, this stamp is lacking any of these, though when offered in the Caspary sale a normal light hinge mark caused them to describe it with "unnoticeable faint horiz. crease," subsequently submitted to the Philatelic Foundation in 1958 as creased causing the error to be perpetuated in the certificate, however when last offered in an October 18,1996 Robert A. Siegel auction, it was specifically described as "sound in every respect" and realized $5,500.00, plus the 10% buyer's premium, we are in agreement with its perfectly sound status, extremely fine; 1958 PF certificate; ex-Caspary (S.G. #9; £4,250). (Image)

5,250.00

SOLD for $4,250.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

1600

#6, 1852 1c Black on magenta surface-colored paper, four large margins, strong color with only a faint trace of surface rubbing at top left, Demera c.d.s., inevitable small faults but without the heavy repairs that are often found, very fine appearance; actually in far better condition than the majority examples offered (S.G. #9; £4,250). (Image)

5,250.00

SOLD for $375.00
Closing..Mar-08, 12:00 PM

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