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Bidboard # 1917
Lot # 8
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $500.00
Price Realized: $290
British Commonwealth

Old time collection of 927 stamps mounted on pages in a spring-back album suitably named “The Favorite Philatelic Album”. Nothing in here newer than 1940! The album opens with Great Britain with catalogue numbers ranging from #3/248 + BOB material. The GB of note is a seemingly unchecked group of 144 perforated Penny Reds, a decent example of #57, a 5sh Edward (with paper adhered to the back), #173-175 (unchecked for types), mint blocks of George VI & Edward VIII. Colonies include (number of stamps in brackets) Transvaal(17), Ceylon(57), Mauritius(13, inc #10 mint pair), Australia(36), Nyasaland(8), Jamaica(28), Rhodesia(16), Egypt(81), Palestine(17), India & States(72), Ascension(1), Antigua(1), Gibraltar(12),Gold Coast(10), Cyprus(11), Queensland(21), Tasmania(8), S.Australia(12), New South Wales(34), W.Australia(16), Borneo(21), Omnibus Issues(64), New Zealand(58), Malaya(15), Malta(15), Hong Kong(8), Strait Settlements(15), Bermuda(6), Nigeria(5), Cape of Good Hope(9), Zanzibar(3), Trinidad & Tobago(7) & KUT(11). Expect some faults throughout (including cut close earlies), but this should prove to be a rewarding lot for someone that will take the time to disassemble it. Estimate =