Lot 152 Canada #F3a 1876 8c Bright Blue Registration, mint hinged, bright colour and superior centering to what is often encountered, a few blind perfs at top, fresh and very fine. Unitrade CV$1,000.
Lot 224, Canada four cent yellow ochre Admiral with precancel and lathework, VF NH
Lot 224 Canada #2-110-I var 4c Yellow Ochre Admiral with Precancel and Lathework, a mint never hinged single, with inverted Halifax Type 2 precancel, showing a “nailhead” impression at right, plus sheet margin at bottom showing a partial inverted Type D lathework. Very fine and quite rare in this fresh condition. Ex Andrew Elwood collection. Unitrade $900.
Lot 164, Canada 1879 yellow brown Officially Sealed in Fine mint block of eight
Lot 164 Canada #OX1 1879 Yellow Brown Officially Sealed Stamp in a Mint Plate Block of 8, with British American Bank Note Co Montréal imprint. We note hinges have been used for support in several places. Fine, and the first we have handled. An exhibit-worthy item. Ex Brigham. Rsv. $1,800. Estimate C$2,000.
Lot 366, Newfoundland 1919 Hawker Trans-Atlantic Flight Overprint on three cent Red Brown Caribou cover
Lot 366 Newfoundland #C1 1919 Hawker Trans-Atlantic Flight Overprint on 3c Red Brown Caribou, mailed from St John’s on APR.12.1919 (machine cancel) to The Daily Mail in London, England, with English seal on back (used to close open flap), cancelled London MAY.30.1919. The cover is franked with a well centered Newfoundland C1, tied by the St John’s machine cancel, with a “BY AEROPLANE” endorsement at top left. There is a vertical folding crease in the middle of the cover, still fine to very fine. Rsv. $14,000.
This flight made a controlled crash landing in the ocean, after about 13 hours of flight, which likely explains why the back flap became unattached. An exceedingly rare cover, as only 200 stamps were overprinted, 18 of those destroyed as they were defective and with only 95 used stamps believed to exist, with far fewer remaining on their original covers.
Accompanied by a 2023 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV$30,000.
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Lot 2 Canada #3TC 12d Queen Victoria “Scar” Die Proof in Orange, on India paper with huge margins (29 x 29 mm), clearly showing a “scar” in CE of PENCE. An extremely rare proof, with only a handful known in any colour, this one is accompanied by a 2023 Greene Foundation certificate describing it as having a “natural diagonal paper crease, tiny pinhole at crown and thin in top margin.” Unitrade CV$12,500.
Welcome to our General Public Sale #50, the second of three scheduled for 2024. This sale offers our usual wide range of material, with quality Canada and provinces, British Commonwealth and worldwide singles, sets and collections. These include part three of the W.J. McGill collection of Scandinavia, a good offering of Canadian Federal and Provincial Revenues, several remarkable Wildlife Habitat Conservation lots and much more. Also of note is the second part of the Andrew Ellwood precancel collection.
Be sure to have a close look at our over 120 lots of postal history and postcards, and part four of the Gordon Richardson early Manitoba postal history collection, as well as a fine selection of useful postal history from Canada and worldwide countries including those in Scandinavia. Also of note in this sale is another great offering of philatelic literature.
We are proud to continue our long-standing tradition of showing online photos or scans of every single lot, so you know what you are buying, especially if you are not able to do pre-sale viewing in person. This sale is accompanied by thousands of high-quality pictures, far more than we can show in the print catalogue, which can all be seen in full colour on StampAuctionNetwork.com.
As usual, this sale will be conducted live on StampAuctionNetwork.com, also with a live floor, via telephone and other traditional bidding methods. A reminder that our buyer’s fee is still at 17%, and that all transactions are in Canadian dollars—a bonus for US customers and those using other currencies.
Enjoy the sale!
The Sparks Auctions Team