50 th British Empire Aden - Basutoland 60000-60044 Bechuanaland - Burma 60045-60099 Canada - Ceylon 60100-60148 Cyprus 60149-60180 Dominica - Hong Kong 60181-60206 India 60207-60260 Ireland 60261-60290 Jamaica - Mauritius 60291-60366 Montserrat 60367-60527 Morocco Agencies - N. Rhodesia 60528-60555 Nyasaland - Rhodesia 60556-60587 St. Helena - St. Vincent 60588-60595 Sarawak - Swaziland 60596-60629 Tanganyika - Turks & Caicos 60630-60640 Uganda - Zululand 60641-60647 Collections 60648-60678 Great Britain 60679-60789 Please note: The currency for this section is the British Pound (GBP) You can find the conditions of sale for this section on page 471 See conditions of sale for this section on page 675 British Empire & Great Britain Friday, December 8, 2017, at 14:00 CET 1949: the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union The Crown Agents provided an ‘omnibus issue’ of sets of four 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UPU SPECIMEN OVERPRINTS stamps for each of the 65 British Colonies and Protectorates. In each set the lowest and highest denominations were printed by Waterlow, the two others by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Image Style The territories comprise Aden, Aden (Seiyun), Aden (Shihr and Type Mukalla), Antigua, Ascension, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, (original size) Size Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, British Solomon Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Dependencies, Fiji, Gambia, sans serif Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast, Grenada, Hong 1 11.5 x 2.1 mm Kong, Jamaica, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, Leeward Islands, Malayan States (Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Trengganu), Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, New Hebrides (British sans serif and French currency), Nigeria, North Borneo, Northern Rhodesia, 2 15 x 2.5 mm Nyasaland, Pitcairn Islands, St Helena, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland Protectorate, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and sans serif Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands, and Zanzibar. 3 16 x 3 mm To comply with Universal Postal Union regulations, 353 examples of each stamp were sent to the International Bureau of the UPU. Bulletin IV No. 34, dated 30 December 1949, details the distribution to UPU members. In addition to the Crown serif Agents ‘omnibus issue’, examples of stamps from other British 4 16 x 3 mm controlled territories which were sent to the UPU are included in this catalogue. These include Burma, Ceylon, Pakistan (Bahawalpur postage and official) and British postal agencies in sans serif Bahrain, Eastern Arabia, Kuwait and Morocco. 5 16 x 3.2 mm All stamps sent to the UPU were in normal unused condition, as since mid-1948 overprinting, handstamping or perforating stamps of the British Commonwealth with the word ‘SPECIMEN’ had ceased. However, the examples listed under their individual sans serif territories in this auction catalogue were subsequently hand- 6 25 x 3 mm stamped ‘SPECIMEN’, usually in black, in one of seven types shown in the following table. serif Note: All lots from the 1949 75th Anniversary of the Universal 7 31 x 3 mm Postal Union set in this sale are offered on the basis of the description above. Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate (£) Aden 60000 60001 60000 H 120-150 1854 4a Red & Blue cut to shape with good margins with crisp “124” numeral of Aden, fine 60001 H 120-150 1854 4a Red & Blue cut to shape on three sides and touched, with “124” numeral of Aden, thin, fine appearance 60002ex 60006ex 60007ex 60002 C 200-300 1949 UPU complete mint set of four all showing SPECIMEN ovpt (Type 2) in red and black, very fine & scarce 60003 C 200-300 COLLECTIONS: 1898-1969 Perim Island: Mixed lot of covers and picture postcards in large red stockbook, mostly with cancels of Kamaran & Perim, generally very fine 60004 CC C S / www 1’000-1’500 COLLECTIONS: 1937-55, Aden & States mint collection, practically complete twice with mint nh and mint hinged of each, with Aden sets up to 1946 with SPECIMEN perforations incl. 1937 set, Seiyun and Hadhramaut 1942 & 1946 issues with specimen perforations, mostly very fine and fresh (SG £5’300+) 60005 C 300-400 COLLECTIONS: 1939-65, Mixed lot of covers and fragments with town cancels mounted on stockpages, much registered usages and mostly philatelic frankings, generally very fine Kathiri State of Seiyun 60006 C 200-300 1949 UPU complete mint set of four all showing SPECIMEN ovpt (Type 2) in red and black, very fine & scarce Mahra State 60007 C 200-300 1949 UPU complete mint set of four all showing SPECIMEN ovpt (Type 2) in red and black, very fine & scarce British Empire & Great Britain / December 8, 2017 533 533 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate (£) Antigua & Barbuda 60008 C 105ab 400-600 1938-51 Wmk Multiple Script CA 1s black & brown with FRAME PRINTED DOUBLE, ONE ALBINO variety, mint, couple of short perfs otherwise fine and very rare, cert. Brandon (2006) (SG £6’000) 60009ex 60011ex 60009 C 200-300 1949 UPU complete mint set of four all showing SPECIMEN ovpt (Type 4) in black, very fine & scarce 60010 CC C S 600-800 COLLECTIONS: 1884-1966, Mint collection with SPECIMEN perforations/ovpts from 1884-1946 incl. two sets of each from 1932-46, then normal stamps from then on (still two of each set), generally fine, plus Barbuda specimen set (SG £3’200+) Ascension 60011 C 200-300 1949 UPU complete mint set of four all showing SPECIMEN ovpt (Type 4) in red and black, very fine & scarce 60012 CC C S 1’600-2’000 COLLECTIONS: 1922-46, SPECIMENS complete group until 1946 Victory set mint hinged, plus extra mint nh sets for 1934 to 1946, fine to very fine (SG £7’450) 534 534 British Empire & Great Britain / December 8, 2017 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate (£) Australia (see also lots 70007-70009 in the Rarities of the World catalogue) New South Wales 60013 H 56 80-120 1851-55 2d Ultramarine in a superb strip of three, used, very fine South Australia 60014 C 206a 800-1’200 1886-96 £10 Bronze, perf.11 1/2-12 1/2, wmk upright, mint og, surface indentation from what looks like was caused by a paper clip and a small grease spot at foot, slightly toned gum, a rare stamp (SG £8’500) 60015 C S 206a 700-1’000 COLLECTIONS: 1883-1904, Mint collection incl. reprints from 1855-82, 1886-96 High Values UPU specimens with three of each value up to £2, four of each up to £5 grey, a £5 brown, two £10 and four £15 & £20, seemingly from 2 different printings, 1902-04 set to £1 CTO, a valuable group, mixed condition Tasmania 60016 F / 540 33+37 500-700 1857-69 Chalon 2d deep green and 4d blue tied by 62 numeral in bars to small cover, HOBART 3MY3 1859 to New Zealand (Wellington & Auckland cds on face), scarce ADVERTISED/ UNCLAIMED in red, a few uneven margins, very few Chalon covers to New Zealand recorded You can view our catalogues and bid during the auction via our website, www.davidfeldman.com British Empire & Great Britain / December 8, 2017 535 535 60018ex1 60018ex2 60017ex2 60017ex3 60017ex1 60017ex4 60019ex1 60019ex2 536 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate (£) Victoria 60017 536 2’000-3’000 1854 Campbell & Fergusson printing contract for the 1d and 3d, with the handwritten schedule (“We hereby engage to prepare for the Postmaster General four millions penny and two millions threepenny postage stamps...”, with piece of gummed paper as used for the issued stamps affixed and signed by the printers, and two bonds for the prints; one endorsed on the outside but contents missing, other with contents filled in, a unique and important exhibition item 60018 F / 536 2’000-3’000 1859 (Dec 2) Envelope sent registered to Switzerland with 1858 Queen on Throne 6d blue and 1859 1s blue perf.12 strip of three (pos. 35-37, with 35 showing retouch & creased transfer affecting ING of SHILLING), tied by “25” numerals of Hepburn, with London, France and Swiss bs, minor soiling, a scarce high franking and the only known example of this retouch on cover, cert. RPSV (2016) 60019 F / 536 3’000-4’000 1860 (Aug 21) Entire to Melbourne with reverse showing superb strike of the large VICTORIA EXPRESS / S. COULOU & Co. / STATIONERS / News & Letter Agent / INGLEWOOD” cachet, with ms “1” adjacent indicating 1s express fee paid, carried from a gold field to the nearest PO with New Inglewood cds, franked 4d Beaded Oval tied by indistinct cancel, one of only two known examples of this express, cert. RPSV (2008) 60020 60021 60020 DCE S 244 200-260 1884-96 £1.10s Deep Grey-Olive with Specimen ovpt (type 13), regummed, very fine, cert. RPSV (2016) 60021 C S 262as 500-700 1886 £1 Yellow, wmk V over Crown, with SPECIMEN ovpt (sans-serif capitals without stop), part gum, fine, the only known example (see Kellow, Turner “The Specimen Stamps of Victoria p.62-63 with illustration) Western Australia 60022 C DCE S 150-200 COLLECTIONS: 1861-1912, Small collection of mainly Specimens and CTOs on the Swan issues and the 1902-11 issue, mostly fine (39) The currency for this auction is the British pound La monnaie utilisée pour cette vente est la livre sterling Die Währung für diese Versteigerung ist britische Pfund British Empire & Great Britain / December 8, 2017 537 537 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate (£) Australia 60023 C 45b 1’500-2’000 1915-27 £2 Roo purple-black and pale rose, mint with trace of light hinge, excellent centring, usual fluffy perfs, fine and fresh (SG £4’500) 60024 F 2’000-3’000 1920 ROSS SMITH cover to Australia with dark blue air mail souvenir stamp cancelled ‘FIRST AIR MAIL GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA/RECEIVED 26 FEB 1920’ with hs in small print PER / VICKERS ‘VIMY’ AEROPLANE/TO AUSTRALIA bottom left, light central vertical fold barely visible, cert.