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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1118

Collections and Ranges
1937-54 George VI specialised British Commonwealth mint collection on beautifully written up pages and in a stockbook housed in a carton; Aden through to Turks and Caicos with a good range of perforation types and listed shades including Aden 1938-48 and States complete, Ascension 1938-53 set of sixteen along with perfs and shades, Australia 1937-49 set with both £1 values, 1948 set of seven and virtually complete to 1952, Basutoland 1938 set to 10/-, Bechuanaland 1938 set of eighteen to 10/- with shades, Bermuda 1938 Key Types to £1, British Guiana 1938 set to $3 with shades and perf. types, British Honduras 1938 set of twelve, British Solomon Islands sets including Postage Dues, Canada 1937-38 set and 1942-48 War Effort set both with booklet panes of four and six etc., Cayman Islands 1938 set of twenty-three with shades and perforation and 1950 set to 10/-, Ceylon 1938-49 set to 5r. including 3c. perf 13 x 13½ lower marginal pair with imprint, Falkland Islands 1938 set to £1 including 5/- indigo and pale yellow-brown and 10/- black and orange, 1952 set to £1, Dependencies sets and 1948 Thin and Thick Maps sets, Fiji 1938 set to £1 and Postage Dues, Gibraltar 1938-51 set to £1 with shades and perforations including 1½d. carmine perf. 13½, Hong Kong 1938-52 set with $5 (4) and $10 (4) including green and violet shade, K.U.T. 1938-54 set with £1 perf. 11¾ x 13, Leeward Islands 1938 Key Types 10/- (4 shades) and £1 (4 shades) including brown-purple and black on red, Sarawak B.M.A. set to $10 and Seychelles set of twenty-four to 5r. etc; a lovely specialised shade and perforation type collection with room for greater expansion, chiefly in fine lightly mounted condition, some unmounted, S.G. well in excess of £40,000

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Estimate
£9,000 to £11,000

Starting price
£8000