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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 934

xNewfoundland 1857-1941 accumulation in two stockbooks, most represented and including 1857-64 values with 3d. (4 with a pair) and 8d.; 1865-72 2c. (11 with two blocks of four), 5c. brown (2), 5c. black (3),10c. (14 with two blocks of four),12c. (34 with a marginal block of twenty-three), 13c. and 24c. 15 with three blocks of four); 1868-73 1c. (23 with two blocks of four and a block of eight), 3c. vermilion (3) and 3c. blue (3), 1868 1c. Type 1 (5 with a block of four), 1876-79 1c. (11 with two blocks of four), 2c. (3), 3c. (3) and 5c. (3), 1880-98 selection to 10c., 1897 Discovery set, 1897-1918 set with 1c. vertical pair imperforate horizontally, 2c. scarlet and 3c. imperforate pairs, 1910 set with perf. 12x11 1c. block containing both varieties and 10c. imperforate pair, and a good range of issues thereafter, 1929-31 1c. pair imperforate between, 1c., 2c., 3c. and 4c. imperforate pairs, 1932-38 issue imperf. pairs (13), 1933 Gilbert imperf. pairs (8)and a few booklet panes; some of the earlier issues unused though mostly with part to large part original gum; also a few used to 1879. Generally of good to fine appearance and a useful basis upon which to build a collection. Stated to catalogue US $25,000+ Estimate £ 1,500-2,000

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