PAIR OF OLDER SG "NEW IMPERIAL" ALBUMS VOLUMES I & II: Housi...

Hammer

£6,500

PAIR OF OLDER SG "NEW IMPERIAL" ALBUMS VOLUMES I & II: Housing a collection of British Empire mint & used issues 1840-1936 with the emphasis on mint issues. Somewhat mixed condition throughout, especially the QV issues. Most countries represented to a greater or lesser degree. Commencing with GB, mainly used, which includes 2 x 1840 1d blacks, 3 x 1840 2d blues (some faults), 1d red plates to 225 (this with trimmed perfs.), solid range of surface printed with many individual plat numbers, a few QV high values to £1 lilac-brown (orbs wmk.); Jubilee set mint to 1/- (2), KEVII to 10/- used, mint Sea Horses inc. 5/- & 10/- (3 mint), PUC £1 black mint, re-engraved Sea Horses mint and various Officials, Dues, etc. Antigua vals. to KGV £1 mint, Ascension complete per printed pages, Basutoland KGV to 10/-, Bechuanaland inc. 2/6d & 5/- Sea Horses, Br. Honduras KGV $2, Br. Solomons KGV to 10/- & £1 mint, Burma KGV to 10r used, COGH triangulars with variable margins (16), Caymans KGV to 10/- (3) mint, Cyprus KGV vals. to 90pi, Falklands to 5/-, Gibraltar with much KGV to 10/- & £1 black/red, Gilberts to 10/- mint, Grenada KGV to 10/- mint, Hong Kong KGV to $5 (2), India with early imperfs. (poor condition), QV to 5r and KGV to 25r used plus extensive range of Officials, also the elusive KGV 1912 "CEF" overprint set and a range of Feudatory and Convention States with several 5r mint values; Jamaica to QV 5/- & KGV 10/-, KUT vals to 7/6d orange mint , Kuwait to 5r, Leewards to KGV 10/-, Malta inc. KGV £1 & 10/- (3) values mint, Mauritius KEVII to 2r.50 & KGV to 5r, Morocco Agencies with several optd. Sea Horses, Nauru to 10/- Sea Horse (poor gum), Newfoundland inc. useful early 20th C. mint ranges Caribou to 36c, 1920s Publicity sets, Gilbert set, etc., New Guinea Huts & Birds with values to 10/- (4), NZ 1898-1902 pictorials to 5/- vermilion, 1906 Christchurch 6d mint, KGV 'Admirals' mint, various Health issues (2d Smiling Boy damaged) and Officials to 5/- plus the various Dependencies inc. Niue vals. to 10/-; Nigeria KGV to 5/- (2) & 10/- (2), N. Rhodesia KGV mint to 7/6d & 10/-, Rhodesia 1910 double heads range to 7/6d & 10/- unused (several without gum), Admirals to 10/-, etc., St. Kitts KEVII set to 5/-, KGV to £1, Southern Rhodesia KGV Admiral & Field Marshal sets complete mint, S. Africa & S.W.A. with many horiz. mint pairs to 10/- values, useful range of Malay States, mostly lower denominations with a few $2 and $5 values, Zanzibar with vals,. to 5r, etc. Useful pickings throughout with strength in KGV period. Huge cat. value. (Very many 100s)