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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1711		British Commonwealth, Extensive Mint Asia Collection, in Scott album to 1956's with scattered used, incl. G.B. Offices in China, incl. "a" numbers, strong Malaysian States with some Japanese Occupation incl. some signed Rowell, some reportedly expertised by BPA years ago, nice variety of complete sets, Burma incl. SGO1-14, J53c, J60a, Hong Kong starting 1882 issue, with some used with better cancels, better Straits Settlements, incl. 1942 Occupation proofs, Johore with complete sets, good North Borneo with perf vars., complete sets, overprint and perf vars., Semis, Dues, Sarawak with many complete sets, and Singapore, very nice collection throughout. Estimate $7,500-10,000. View details and photo	Realized $21,850
Lot 1712		British Commonwealth, Africa Extensive Mint Collection, In Scott album to 1950's with few "a" numbers, some classics used, with occasional Specimens, Ascension 2nd issue on complete, nice Bechuanaland, Cape triangles better than normally seen, also Egypt, better Gambia with shades, Lagos, Mauritius mostly 1880s on, reasonable New Republic, Nigeria basically complete, Rhodesia with Double Heads through the £1 plus vars., Admirals to £1 mint, St. Helena 1890 on mostly complete, and Seychelles mostly complete, 19th Century slightly mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine. Same owner as with the Asia British collection. Estimate $7,500-10,000. View details and photo	Realized $23,000
Lot 1713		/ British Commonwealth, George VI and QEII Mint Collection, mounted in order in two stockbooks with early QEII sets only, all in complete sets, n.h. to o.g., fresh throughout, incl. a few "A" numbers incl. Ascension, Bermuda key plates, all identified and noted as to hinging with accompanying inventory sheet, cat. based on reduction by ½ of cat. where no pricing for hinged in n.h. period, clean, Fine to Very Fine. Scott $22,000 (adjusted for hinging). Estimate $4,000-6,000. View details	Realized $5,750
Lot 1714		/o British Commonwealth, High Value Accumulation in Box, thousands of mint and used (lots of mint) with many $100 and up sets and singles in stockbooks., albums glassines and on sales sheets, noticed Cape of Good Hope Triangles, GVI to QEII sets mint and used, many varieties from many different countries, India States collection, many thousands dollars cat. value and much to be found, take time to inspect this one, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $5,000-7,000. View details and photo	Realized $6,325
Lot 1715		o British Commonwealth, G.B. and Commonwealth Stock, Priced retail stock with marked retails $22,700 of mostly specialist items to incl. cancels (wide hand-picked variety with excellent Gold Coast, G.B. Used Abroad, Bermuda, Hong Kong Treaty Ports, etc.), Revenues and fiscal uses, Specimens, etc., well written up with many scarce items, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $3,500-4,000. View details	Realized $3,738
Lot 1716		/o British Commonwealth, British Africa Collection, Two well filled Scott albums with mint and used running from 1800s to about the mid 1960's incl. many better sets and singles, many better mint KGV and KGVI sets and singles, many items cat. in the $200 to $300 range incl. pound values, Cape of Good Hope with many triangles, better QEII sets, most modern is n.h. and notice a Sierra Leone #C7 with cert, great lot for expansion or breakdown for retail sales, huge cat. value, well worth a look, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $3,500-5,000. View details and photo	Realized $8,625
Lot 1717		/o British Commonwealth, Extensive War Tax Collection, in two volumes on homemade pages, mint and used (3 items removed for expertising) otherwise intact, all countries represented incl. better varieties, Specimens, mint and occasional dupl. used, multiples, better Canada, inventory incl., very fresh throughout of this popular area, Fine to Very Fine. Scott approximately $15,000. Estimate $3,000-4,000. View details and photo	Realized $2,990
Lot 1718		/o British Commonwealth, Hoard in Box, thousands of mint and used in over 20 boxes of glassines, running from classics to about 1960s, noticed many better items throughout with varieties and complete sets, worth a look, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $2,000-3,000. View details	Realized $2,415
Lot 1719		/o British Commonwealth, Estate Accumulation in 9 Boxes, Tens of thousands mint and used from all time periods in albums, stockbooks, glassines, #102 cards and on sales sheet, better items throughout with many items seen up $100, great lot for breakdown in red boxes or internet sales, well worth the time to look. Estimate $1,500-2,000. View details	Realized $2,645
Lot 1720		British Commonwealth, Mint and Used Stock, mostly 20th Century on #102 cards in 4 boxes, dupl., many complete sets, mint n.h. to o.g., mostly in alphanumeric order, clean, generally Fine to Very Fine. Scott $9,841. Estimate $1,200-1,400. View details	Realized $1,150
Lot 1721		/o British Commonwealth, Dealers Stock in Sales Books, Hundreds of mint and used in 23 sales books mostly from 1930 to 1960s incl. many better items on book is full of Hong Kong, one with varieties from many different countries and much more, many $100 plus items throughout, please inspect, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details and photo	Realized $1,955
Lot 1722		British Commonwealth, Africa Intact Collection, Sparse mostly mint with scattered earlies mint or used in 3 Scott albums in mounts, up to 1980's where applicable, Tristan compl. to 1987, better Basutoland, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $1,000-1,500. View details	Realized $1,323
Lot 1723		British Commonwealth, A-B Countries Mint, Oldtime collection on blank pages to 1981, later in mounts, mostly 1950's on, with later complete sets, Bahamas with QEII sets, Better Honduras, some earlier Bermuda and also bey pl. shades, etc., Fine to Very Fine overall. Estimate $750-1,000. View details	Realized $920
Lot 1724		/o British Commonwealth, British America, Hong Kong, and Cyprus Collections, mint or used, in 3 Scott Specialties in mounts, incl. better Dominica with 1923 set compl. min to £1, Hong Kong mostly used with classics to 1995, Cyprus with some classics used, mostly mint from 1948 to 1986, 19th Century mixed condition, 20th Century mostly fine to very fine. Estimate $750-1,000. View details	Realized $1,150
Lot 1725		British Commonwealth, Mostly Mint Collector's Accumulation, In numerous binders on stockpages in 3 banker boxes, somewhat sorted by countries, mostly mint with strength in QEII sets but incl. some earlier with occasional classics like Hong Kong, scattered Antigua in Scott album, G.B., etc., minor dupl., occasional better items, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $750-1,000. View details	Realized $2,415
Lot 1726		British Commonwealth, Bahamas, Bermuda, and Turks & Caicos Collections, in separate albums, Bermuda scattered mint to GV but incl. 12/6 1st printing, later compl. issues to 1980, Bahamas with 1912-19 GV set complete along with later issues to 1982, Turks & Caicos scattered earlies, GVI virtually complete to 1984, mostly Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $600-800. View details	Realized $1,035
Lot 1727		/ British Commonwealth, Accumulation in Three Boxes, thousands of mint and used in three banker boxes, mostly collection remnants but better items to be found noted G.B. collection with couple #1s, 108 Specimen, a couple of Canada with better classics some better mint items and booklets, Hong Kong with better issues incl. #60 mint, 66 mint and used, and other overprints, stockbook with Basutoland 1-10 mint and much more to be found, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $600-900. View details	Realized $1,840
Lot 1728		/o British Commonwealth, Australia and Worldwide Collection in Box, thousands of mint and used in various formats incl. collection of Australia from 1913 to 1965 and fairly complete for period incl. Roos to 2£ used, stockbook of #132 to 844 with mint and used with stated Australia cat of $7800, two boxes of off paper in quantity and a well filled Centurion album with Worldwide, huge value and worth a close look. Estimate $600-700. View details	Realized $978
Lot 1729		/o British Commonwealth, Malayan Area Remainder Collections, mint or used in album to 1960 reasonably full, Singapore in album to 1990's, slightly dupl. stockbook with earlier North Borneo, Labuan on pages, two three-ring binders, all value in 1900 to 1950's period, needs some organizing but value throughout, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $500-750. View details	Realized $1,093
Lot 1730		/o British Commonwealth, 5 Volume Scott Specialty, one album virtually empty, others scattered to 1950's mint or used, scattered better Asia mint or used, value in 1900 to 1940's period, mostly Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400-600. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1731		/o British Commonwealth, Commonwealth and Canada Group, Remainder collections in stockbooks, on pages, Canada and Provinces in Scott album, and identified on old sales cards, incl. Bahamas, 1937, 1946 Coronation, used Capes, n.h. Antarctic Territory, etc., mostly 20th Century, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400-600. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1732		/o British Commonwealth, 4 Volume Scott Specialties, 1st Grenada 1970-1982 compl. mint, 2nd used G.B. and New Zealand; 3rd. Channel Islands mint and St. Helena used, 4th Bahamas, Barbados, and Bermuda, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400-600. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1733		British Commonwealth, Mint Country Balances, in 7 small albums or on group of homemade pages, mostly collections QEII period, plus small mint group of New Zealand on stockcards, etc., clean group, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1734		/o British Commonwealth, Accumulation on Stockpages, 19th & 20th Century mint and used accumulation on old stockpages, album pages and a stockbook, a little bit of everything from all regions incl. some G.B., Australia and area, Carribean and Africa, generally Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1735		/o British Commonwealth, Remainder Collections, Incl. interesting New Zealand GVI regular issue incl. coil # gutter pairs, and Revenue (few hundred with Social Security) collection studies, older country mostly used, some mint omnibus, mint Ireland, early Bermuda, etc., Fine lot. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $431
Lot 1736		British Commonwealth, Pacific Islands Collections, mostly mint collections of Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and some Fiji, in 8 albums with some hingeless and lots of n.h., majority of the value is in mostly complete 1970s to early 1990s, many topical issues and some better items throughout. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $374
Lot 1737		British Commonwealth, Mint Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain in Hingeless Albums, n.h., In Hingeless albums, New Zealand 1990 to 2002, Australia 1980 to 2002 and G.B. 1990 to 2002, almost all are complete n.h. in albums, great for expansion, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-500. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1738		British Commonwealth, Four Volume Collection and Accumulation, 19th & 20th Century mint and used neatly arranged in four well-filled stockbooks incl. approx. 20+ "S-T" countries, most of later mint is n.h., good value throughout, worth inspection, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $300-400. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1739		British Commonwealth, 1935 Silver Jubilees Complete, o.g., Fine to Very Fine. SG £1,400. Estimate $300-400. View details and photo	Realized $546
Lot 1740		British Commonwealth, 1948 Silver Wedding Complete, o.g., complete and fresh, Fine to Very Fine. SG £2,250. Estimate $300-400. View details and photo	Realized $1,035
Lot 1741		British Commonwealth, Revenue Group of 1322, In stockbook, incl. India (921), Cape of Good Hope (103), Hong Kong (125), and Southern Africa (173), slight dupl., Fine overall. Estimate $250-350. View details	Realized $403
Lot 1742		/o British Commonwealth, Collection Group, mint and used country collections in six albums, incl. Australia, Canada incl. a pre-cancel collection, Malawi, New Zealand and Pakistan, generally Fine. Estimate $250-350. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1743		/o British Commonwealth, Accumulation in Box, thousand of mint and used in banker box, best being Canada with some better mint Special Delivery, Silver Jubilee issues and some G.B. modern and Australia, close inspection will uncover other items, worth a look. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $489
Lot 1744		o British Commonwealth, 1935 Jubilees Used, only missing two sets to be complete, nice group, couple with some bleeding issues, hard to assemble, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $575
Lot 1745		British Commonwealth, 1948 Silver Wedding, 1949 UPU Complete, o.g complete set of Silver Wedding with a couple extra, UPU set complete o.g., generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $1,265
Lot 1746		/o British Commonwealth, Group of Varieties, Small group of mostly mint on pages incl. perf varieties etc., noticed items up to 50£ incl. Gibraltar perf varieties, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $253

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