COMMONWEALTH – AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF MINT STAMPS. A s...

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£35,000 - £45,000

COMMONWEALTH – AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF MINT STAMPS. A spectacular collection of mint British Empire stamps beautifully and expertly arranged and annotated in 16 matching SG ‘Plymouth’ albums in slip cases. Issues from the 19th Century to the early 1960’s however strength is in the KEVII and KGV periods which are often complete, or nearly so. The KGVI & QEII reigns are often totally complete. Not just the basic issues as we see many of the additional perforation and other SG ‘a’ and ‘b’ numbers. Highlights are way too numerous to mention but briefly we note Aden 1937 Dhows set, Bahamas 1884-90 set with all extra shades, 1902-07 set with all extra shades, Bahrain 1933-37 set, 1938-41 set, Barbados 1897-98 Diamond Jubilee set, Basutoland 1933 set, Bechuanaland 1932 set, Bermuda 1918-22 Large Key Types set, 1924-32 Large Key Types set, Br Honduras 1891-01 set, 1899 50c on 1c grey, 1904-07 set, 1913-21 set, 1922-33 set,  Br Solomon Is 1907 set, 1914-23 set, Brunei 1906 set, 1908-22 set, Canada 1897-98 set, 1915 ‘War Tax’ set, 1928-29 set, Cape of Good Hope 1893-98 set, 1902-04 set, Cayman Is complete to the 1907-09 set, Ceylon 1927-29 Rupee set, Ceylon 1892-94 Die II set, 1902-04 set, 1904-10 set, 1921-23 Wmk Script set, 1924-28 set (21 values), Dominica 1923-33 set, Falkland Is 1891-02 set with comprehensive additional stamps, 1898 high values set, 1904-12 set (both 3s shades), 1912-20 set with comprehensive additional stamps, 1929-37 Whale & Penguin set, 1938-50 set with additional stamps, Fiji 1903 set, 1906-12 set, 1912-23 set with comprehensive additional stamps to both £1, Gambia KEVII and KGV all sets, Gibraltar totally complete from 1886 to 1960 (includes the 1925 £5 violet and black), Gilbert & Ellice 1912-24 set, Gold Coast 1884-91 set with all extra shades, 1902 set, Grenada 1904-06 set, 1906-11 set, Hong Kong 1912-21 $10, 1938-52 set with much else, PO’s in China 1917 set to $2 with all extra shades plus $5, 1922-27 set, India 1911-23 set, 1926-33 set, 1937-40 set, Ireland 1922 set, 1922-23 set, Jamaica 1883-87 set with all the extra shades, 1905-11 set (20 stamps), K.U.T. 1922-27 set, 1935-37 set, Kuwait 1923-24 set, 1929-37 set to 10r, 1939 set, Leeward Is entirely complete with most of the additional shades, Malay Straits Settlements 1892-99 set, 1902-03 set, 1906-07 set, 1906-12 set, 1921-33 set plus $25 value, 1937-41 set, Kedah 1912 set, 1937 set, Kelantan 1922 Exhibition set, Trengganu 1921-41 set, Maldive Is 1906 set, Malta 1904-10 set, 1922 ‘Self-Government’ both sets, Mauritius 1879-80 set, 1900-05 set, 1910 set, Monstserrat 1904 to 1953 all sets, Nauru 1916-23 2s6d, 5s and 10s De La Rue Seahorses, Newfoundland 1897 set, 1910 perf 12 set, 1911 recess printed set, 1911-16 Coronation set, New Hebrides 1908 to 1957 all sets, Northern Nigeria 1900 to 1912 all sets, Southern Nigeria 1907-11 set, Nigeria 1912-29 set with 10s (5) and £1 (3), North Borneo 1931 Anniversary set, 1939 set, Northern Rhodesia 1925-29 set, Nyasaland 1913-21 set, New Guinea 1931 Air opt’d set, 1932-34 redrawn set, 1939 ‘Air Mail Postage’ set, Papua 1932-40 set, Rhodesia 1905 Falls set, St Helena 1922-37 set both wmks (20 stamps), 1934 Centenary set, St Lucia 1904-10 set, St Vincent 1899 to 1955 all sets, Sarawak 1888 set, Sarawak 1899-08 set (both $1 shades), 1934-41 set, 1945 ‘BMA’ set, Seychelles 1809 to 1954 all sets, Sierra Leone 1903 set, 1912-21 set, 1932 set, 1933 Wilberforce set, Singapore perf 14 and perf 17½x18 sets, Somaliland Protectorate 1903 to 1960 all sets, Tanganyika 1927-31 set, Togo 1916-20 set, Transjordan 1927 to 1930 all sets, Transvaal 1904-09 set, Trinidad and Tobago 1913-23 set, Zanzibar 1899-01 set, 1904 set, 1908-09 set, also 10r value, 1913 set, 1914-22 set, 1921-29 set plus so much more. We shall provide a full video at "www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_3GsN3HhU" so you may inspect and fully appreciate this outstanding collection (approximately 15,000 stamps) Lot 80 (B) [a]