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1883 Provisional Overprints continued...

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

261

S.G. #27b

S.G. #27b, 1883 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, double overprint, a very pretty used example with portion of blue cancel dated January 27, 1883, bright and well centered, this stamp shows a very wide displacement of over 10mm of the two overprints, a lighter strike near the bottom of the stamp, small edge tear at right, extremely fine appearance; clear 1960 RPS certificate (Scott #16b, $1,000.00). (Image)

£1,100

SOLD for $700.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

262

S.G. #27b

S.G. #27b, 1883 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, double overprint, used single with central blue "Grenada/JA 07 83" c.d.s making this a very early usage as the stamp was not issued until January of 1883, two distinct overprints of about equal intensity, close together being displaced by about 1mm, very fine (Scott #16b; $1,000.00). (Image)

£1,100

SOLD for $700.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

263

S.G. #27c

S.G. #27c, 1883 1p Orange revenue with Provisional "Postage." overprint, with inverted "S", unused single with bright color, very clear overprint that shows this variety well, nicely centered and very fine; 1986 RPS certificate (Scott #16c; $750.00). (Image)

£800

SOLD for $1,000.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

264

S.G. #27c

S.G. #27c, 1883 1p Orange revenue with Provisional "Postage." overprint, with inverted "S", lightly cancelled used example of this variety, clear overprint showing the inverted "S", stamp has brilliant color, fresh and fine centering (Scott #16c; $525.00). (Image)

£600

SOLD for $325.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

265

S.G. #27d

S.G. #27d, 1883 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, diagonal bisect, used on piece as 1/2p and beautifully tied by exceptional strike of "D/Jan. 5 83" double circle c.d.s. of the parish post office of Grenville, extremely fine usage; this is an extremely early usage in a parish post office as this stamp was not issued until January of 1883; Stanley Gibbons for a bisect on cover is priced at £3,000 (Scott #16d; $3,250.00 on cover). (Image)

Est. 400-500

SOLD for $450.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

266

S.G. #28a

S.G. #28a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, unsevered pair, an extremely rare mint example, being a full stamp with two strikes of the overprint, designed to be bisected for 1/2p stamps, bright orange color, typical centering for these very tightly spaced stamps, centered just into the design at bottom and left, o.g., fine; these provisional overprints were placed on the 1p Orange revenue stamp to fill a shortage of 1/2p and 1p postage stamps, being placed once on a whole stamp for 1p and twice on a stamp to be bisected producing two 1/2p stamps, of course an unsevered stamp could be used to pay 1p and was not infrequently done, however unsevered stamps that have survived unused are extremely rare, it is believed that less than five examples are known (Scott #14a; $4,000.00). (Image)

£4,250

SOLD for $5,750.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

267

S.G. #28a

S.G. #28a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, unsevered pair, an original gum example of this rarity, centered slightly into the design at bottom and left as often seen on these issues, minor perf. toning and a faint horizontal crease with a tiny thin speck along it, fine appearance; one of only five known unused pairs, the Walker collection containing two of them; clear 1992 Brandon and clear 2001 BPA certificates (Scott #14a; $4,000.00). (Image)

£4,250

SOLD for $1,350.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

268

S.G. #28a

S.G. #28a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, unsevered pair, attractive pair with portion of 1883 c.d.s. cancel. centered into the design at right as usually found, still nearly very fine for this; scarce in unsevered pairs used as 1p values; signed H. Bloch (Scott #14a; $1,500.00). (Image)

£1,200

SOLD for $850.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

269

S.G. #28a

S.G. #28a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, unsevered pair, used with central blue c.d.s., bright orange color, centered into the design at left but scissors separated on that side so that margins are clear all around, a fine and attracive example of this scarce pair (Scott #14a; $1,500.00). (Image)

£1,200

SOLD for $1,000.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

270

S.G. #28a

S.G. #28a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint, unsevered pair, scarce used example with portion of blue c.d.s., quite well centered for this, couple of uneven perforations at top, otherwise fine; even used pairs as 1p values are scarce with less then a couple dozen known (Scott #14a, $1,500.00). (Image)

£1,200

SOLD for $850.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

271

S.G. #28b

S.G. #28b, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage." overprint inverted, the top diagonal bisect with exceptionally clear inverted overprint, tied to small piece by early blue "Grenada/JA 07 83" c.d.s., well margined and attractive, extremely fine example of this scarce variety; despite the relatively modest catalog value of this variety it is rarely found in the major collections, particularly in this premium condition; 1977 RPS certificate; ex-Pilkington (Scott #14 var.). (Image)

£1,100

SOLD for $1,000.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

272

S.G. #29a

S.G. #29a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, unsevered pair, the new style of overprint with both "Postage" applied tete-beche in one operation, an exceptionally fresh mint example, bright orange color, o.g., centered slightly into design at left, nearly very fine for this; mint and unused pairs are quite rare, much more so than the used pairs which were more often used as a 1p stamp; 1939 RPS certificate (Scott #15a). (Image)

£1,300

SOLD for $1,450.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

273

S.G. #29a

S.G. #29a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, unsevered pair, well centered example with light central "D" cancel of Grenville used on January 24th, very fine and attractive; 1989 BPA certificate (Scott #15a; $475.00). (Image)

£450

SOLD for $625.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

274

S.G. #29a

S.G. #29a, 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, unsevered pair, well centered example with clear central "C" cancel of Sauteurs used in April, very fine for this; 1964 RPS certificate (Scott #15a; $475.00). (Image)

£450

SOLD for $325.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

275

S.G. #29 var.

S.G. #29 var., 1883 Half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, overprint reading northwest to southeast, top right diagonal bisect very neatly tied to small piece of newspaper paying the internal 1/2p rate, tied by blue "Grenada/JA 20 83" c.d.s., overprint is clear and distinct, very fine; a most unusual variety as this handstamp applied both "Postage" overprints tete-beche to each stamp in one operation, but normally oriented so the top left half of the stamp was used rather than the top right, this variety occurs by rotating the handstamp 45 degrees, in essence equivalent to an inverted overprint, unlisted in the catalogs; this is the discovery copy of this variety and the only one that we are aware of, nicely used in a commercial manner; 1977 RPS certificate (Scott #15 var.). (Image)

Est. 500-750

SOLD for $2,500.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

276

S.G. #29

S.G. #29, 1883 half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, neatly tied to unsealed envelope to Thomas Finlagson & Co. in Trinidad by small blue "Grenada/JA 20 83" c.d.s. with index letter "A", trivial pinhole at bottom right and slight overall aging to the paper of the envelope, otherwise very fine; this contained prices current and the 1/2p franking paid the interisland printed matter rate, which all went to Britain for sea passage, in February Grenada began to charge postage due to such usages, which were often philatelic, to recover the fee for its postal services even though this was against UPU regulations; scarce early usage (Scott #16). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $450.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

277

S.G. #29

S.G. #29, 1883 half of 1p Orange revenue with provisional "Postage" overprint, attractive bisect tied to small cover to Trinidad by small February Grenada c.d.s. in blue, matching blue "T" postage due handstamp with "5 cts" marked in blue crayon, very fine cover paying the printed matter rate; Grenada marked it due in an attempt to recover their postal fee despite the fact this was against UPU regulations (Scott #16). (Image)

Est. 200-300

SOLD for $2,000.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

1883 Manuscript Overprints

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

278

1883 1p Orange revenue with black Gouyave manuscript provisional "postage" overprint, type with lower case "p" in "postage" and in the rare horizontal format, used with February 17 cancel, minor faults including pulled perf. at top and a couple of tiny pinholes, fine and extremely rare; the vast majority of the Gouyave manuscript overprints, as well as the few known examples from other towns, were written diagonally on the stamp from bottom left to top right, the horizontal marking was done only at the very beginning of the two or three week period between mid-February and early March when these provisionals were used, all are rare with even the most specialized collections of Grenada having none or only a single example, the Walker collection is astounding in having seven used examples from this town plus one on the unique cover, this is the only example in horizontal format and the only example we have seen (Scott #19 var.). (Image)

£2,250+

SOLD for $4,500.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

279

1883 1p Orange revenue with Gouyave diagonal manuscript provisional "postage" overprint, the type with lower case "p" in "postage", an exceptionally attractive used example with light "A" cancel of Gouyave dated March 2nd, centering is just barely into design at top, better than most, which almost always cut the design on two sides, and the best centered of the examples in the Walker collection, very fine for this; 1996 BPA certificate (Scott #19; $2,250.00). (Image)

£2,250

SOLD for $7,250.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM

280

1883 1p Orange revenue with Gouyave diagonal manuscript provisional "postage" overprint, type with lower case "p" in "postage", attractive used example with clear overprint and identifiable "A" cancel of Gouyave dated March 1st, fresh with normal fine centering (Scott #19; $2,250.00). (Image)

£2,250

SOLD for $5,750.00
Closing..Jun-27, 01:00 PM