Public Auction Sheffield August 2023 - 312

Bids to be received by Wednesday 30th of August 2023 6:00 PM

Lots (525)

Lot 313
MALAYAN STATES

Selangor: 1885-1971 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive mint & used assembly noted 1885 2c pale rose (11 different ovpts mainly used), 1891 2c on 24c green mint, 1896 25c mint (Cat £90), 50c (both) cds used (Cat £205), 1900 surch set 3 mint, 1935-41 1941 $1 & $2 used, 1949 set used, 1957 set used. Clean and valuable lot. (c140)

Estimate £ 350.00
Lot 314
MALAYAN STATES

Straits Settlements: 1922 Malaya Borneo Exhibition overprints mint collection on two pages identified including Wmk MCCA $2 no stop (SG 248f cat £90), 5c orange vert pair showing small second A, 4c no stop and small A, $2 both types (SG 248, 248a cat £90), WMK MSCA $1 raised stop (Cat £65), 10c no hyphen, 4c no hyphen, etc. Clean and useful cat value. (51).

Estimate £ 235.00
Lot 315
MALAYAN STATES

Sungei Ujong: 1885-90 Assembly of fifteen stamps mint and used including 1883-4 2c brown 2 diff mint (Cat £130), 1885-90 2c pale rose (5 diff), 1891 Tiger set 3, 1895 3c m & u, (15).

Estimate £ 75.00
Lot 316
MALAYAN STATES

Trengganu: 1910-1965 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive mint & used assembly noted 1885 1910-19 to $1 mainly mint, 1921-41 set to $1 & $3 mint (Cat £120), 1922 Malaya Borneo Exhibition varieties mint incl $1 raised stop after Exhibition, 1949 to $5 mainly mint, 1948 RSW set mint, 1957 set to $5. Clean and attractive lot. (approx 120)

Estimate £ 200.00
Lot 317
Malaysia

1957-1983 Mainly used collection on leaves manly complete incl 1965 Birds set, 1970 Butterflies set, most commem sets for the period.

Estimate £ 25.00
Lot 318
MALDIVE IS.

1906-1952 attractive mint & used assembly noted 1906 set to 5c mint (Cat £127), 1909 set used, 1933 set to 1r wmk swys used, plus upright to 1r m & u, 1950 set mint (Cat £60). Clean and attractive lot. (37)

Estimate £ 130.00
Lot 319
Malta

1855-1884 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive used assembly noted M wavy line postmark on 1857 4d rose, A25 cancels 1859-84 ½d rose, 1d star, 1d plates, 2d plate (3), 2½d rosy mauve plates (8), 2½d blue (4), 1865 3d carmine-rose, 1867 3d rose (3), 1857 4d rose, 1862 4d red, 1867 plates 4d red (4), 4d grey-brown pl.18, 4d grey-brown pl.17, 1856 6d lilac, 1862 6d lilac, 1867 6d lilac pl. 5 & 6, 6d mauve pl. 8 & 9, 6d grey pl.12, 13 & 17, 1856 1s green, 1862 1s pl.1, 1867 pl.4 (2), pl.12, etc. Clean and attractive lot. (56).

Estimate £ 450.00
Lot 320
Malta

1863-1963 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive mint & used assembly noted 1863 wmk CC ½d used, 1882 Wmk CA mint (3), 1885 set used plus shades, 1886 5s rose f.u. (Cat £95), 1899 2/6 & 10s used (Cat £98), 1902 One Penny variety in mint pair, 1904-14 used to 1s (both) 5s mint (Cat £70), 1914-21 to 2s used, 2/6 & 5s mint (cat £175), 1921-22 2s mint, 1922 Self Govt to 5s mainly mint, 1922 2½d to 10s mint (tone, Cat £150), 1925 £1 black and bright carmine mint (Cat £110), 1926 Postage 2s-10s mint (Cat £90), 1926-7 set 2½d to 10s mint (Cat £185), 1928 set m & u, 1930 set 2s to 10s mint (Cat £265), etc. Clean and valuable lot. (Approx 280).

Estimate £ 675.00
Lot 321
Mauritius

1858-1968 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive mint & used assembly noted 1858 (4d) green (4 margins, cat £225 SG 27), (6d) vermilion mint pairs (Cat £140 SG 28), 1859 6d blue f.u., 1s vermilion f.u. (Cat £85), 1s yellow-green f.u. (Cat £180), 1863 to 5s used, 1878 surch set used (Cat £225), 1900 set incl 25c to 5r mint (Cat £1904 set used, 1910 set to 5r mainly mint, 1921-22 10r (2 diff) mint (Cat £150), 1921-34 to 10r mainly mint, 1938 to 10r m & u plus extras, shades, etc. Clean and valuable lot.

Estimate £ 1000.00
Lot 322
Mauritius

1953 4c bright purple in a left sheet pane of 50 unmounted mint (some curling) with R6/2 showing dot between U & S of MAURITIUS variety, unlisted in SG Elizabethan catalogue. SG 295 var.

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 323
Montserrat

1876-1953 Ex-estate lot from a lifetimes British Empire collection totally unpicked and intact, attractive mint & used assembly noted 1876 1d red f.u., 6d green mint (Cat £75), 1880 4d blue f.u., 1883 1d red used (Cat £70), 1884-5 2½d red-brown used (Cat £75), 1903 Device of the colony to 2/6 mainly mint (Cat £135), 1908-14 mainly mint (Cat £200), 1916 to 5s mainly mint, 1922-29 set to 5s mainly mint (5s CDS used), 1938 set to £1 mint plus extra perfs, 1951 set mint etc. Clean and valuable lot. (c150).

Estimate £ 500.00
Lot 324
Montserrat

1983 Inaugural flight overprint set on 1981 Airmail Service stamps being three values of a set of four unmounted mint (75c, $1.50 & $2 values) in unique and scarce Cylinder marginal bottom gutter blocks of four, each bearing the rare 'INAGURAL' for INAUGURAL spelling error of printing on the bottom right of each unique block. SG footnote under SG MS390 unlisted and unpriced as the overprint mint. Forty Sheets of 50 of each of the four values were produced. 1800 of the 2000 sets were used on flight FDCs; each of the remaining four sheets contained the error, so only 16 errors can exist unmounted mint, this is in a unique left margin Plate 1A cylinder marginal block of 4 for three of the values. Tiny trace of tone in left margin otherwise extremely rare & unique! SG 587/9 var.

Estimate £ 1500.00

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