Sale 1339 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 12-13 December, 2024
Category — Canal Zone, Cuba, Hawaii
Canal Zone, 1904, 8c on 50c Bister Brown (15). Unused (no gum), rich color, Fine, with 2024 P.S.E. certificate, Scott value as with gum
Canal Zone Extensive Specialized Collection. In a thick album, all issued represented, not only by the basic stamp but overflowing with errors, varieties, multiples, and a few covers, includes Scott-listed errors and those listed in the CZSG handbook, numerous items cataloguing in the hundreds of dollars each, some $1,000 or more, such as Nos. 53b, 56a block of four, and J18a, plus there are booklets and booklet panes, registration envelopes, perfins, Panama revenue stamps used in Canal Zone, and much more, some certificates, condition varies as is usual for Canal Zone, some with tropicalized gum, this would make an outstanding start for someone wanting to collect Canal Zone in a specialized manner
CUBA, 1900, 10c on 10c Blue, Special Delivery, "Specimen" Ovpt., Dots in Curved Frame Above Messenger (E1Sa). Purple "Specimen" ovpt., missing period after "Cuba", tropicalized original gum, "Lily" backstamp
FINE. THIS CUBA SPECIAL DELIVERY SPECIMEN overprint WITH FIVE DOTS ABOVE THE MESSENGER AND WITHOUT PERIOD AFTER "CUBA" IS BELIEVED TO BE UNIQUE.
The Dots in Curved Frame above Messenger variety (E5a in the regular Special Delivery listings) comes only from plate 882.
With 1978 P.F. certificate.
HAWAII, 1863, 1c Black, Grayish (15). Plate 4-A, Type IV (Westerberg Position 4), showing partial serif on "1", unused (no gum), large margins, small nick at top margin, small filled thin spots, still Very Fine, the Westerberg book records only two with unbroken serif, which must have broken off at an early stage in printing, this partial serif is rare, ex D'Assis and ex Pietsch, with 2023 P.F. certificate, Scott value as normal
Hawaii Collection. On album pages, a few Kamehameha III issues, three Numerals (all with a certificate), well-filled ABNC issues, especially the overprints, which contains some varieties such as No. 60e (P.F. certificate for a block), mixed condition, most with Fine-Very Fine appearance