Lot 8 Canada #2b 1851 6d greyish purple Consort Imperforate, on Laid Paper, With No Visible Laid Lines, used with a target cancel, margins are all clear, from close at bottom to large at left and top, fine-very fine. This unlisted paper variety is well known by specialists, with some arguing that it should deserve its own catalogue number. Accompanied by a 1979 Philatelic Foundation certificate erroneously identifying the stamp as a #5a. Ex. Henry S. Schneider Unitrade CV$1,800.
Prince Albert Consort
Welcome to Sparks Sale #25
We are thrilled to announce our Public Auction #25, to take place on September 26th-27th, 2017 at our premises in Ottawa.
The highly anticipated offering of gems from the Outaouais Collection of Canada is of course the showpiece section of the sale, featuring a very fine mint #1 (three penny beaver), #2 (six pence Consort), and an exceptional mint #3 (twelve penny black Queen Victoria, the classic rarity). Sparks Auctions is honoured to have the privilege of offering these three stamps.
There is much else to highlight, including a rare block of eight of the 12d with vertical specimen overprint, a pair of 12d with diagonal specimen overprint as well as mint #4, #5 and many others. The strong Canada section continues through to a choice of modern errors and varieties. Canadian Revenue collectors will enjoy our several lots of rare Canadian Pacific Railways Telegraph and Bell Telephone Company booklets.
Our worldwide section is highlighted by a lovely mint collection of Great Britain, with many outstanding items, many British Commonwealth never hinged SPECIMEN perforated sets, and more. The popular worldwide lots and collections section is, as usual, chock full of single country collections, a lovely collection of used British Commonwealth, part one of an extensive worldwide collection formed by Dr. Dubé, plus several more worldwide collections, including the O’Meara old time collection in Scott Specialty albums.
There are just under 400 lots of Postal History, with several lots of quality dealer stock, some early US covers plus many Canadian postmark lots including:
- a collection of New Brunswick town cancels
- the Jim Miller collection of Orb cancellations
- the Murray Marchant collection of 2-ring numeral cancellations
- many lots of fancy cancellations.
Sale 25 is now live on Stamp Auction Network. Printed catalogues are in production and will be going out in the first week of September. PDF versions of the catalogue can be downloaded here on our site.
We will publish corrections, highlights of featured items, and more here on our site in the coming weeks.
We look forward to your participation in yet another great sale!
Lot 11, Canada 1855 six pence brownish grey Consort imperf, VF used with Québec 4-ring, sold for $1150
Lot 11 Canada #5a 1855 6d brownish grey Consort Imperforate, used with centrally struck 4-ring #37 (Québec City). Four margins and very fine. Ex. Vincent G. Greene Sissons sale (Feb 1975). Accompanied by a 2016 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV$2,400, sold for C$1,000 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 7, Canada 1851 six pence Consort laid paper pair on cover Kingston to Toronto, sold for $1093
Lot 7 Canada #2b 1851 6d Laid Paper Consort pair on cover, mailed to Toronto (weak receiver on back) with a Kingston Steam Boat Letter datestamp on front dated JUN.1.1854 (year slugs are reversed). This large cover is franked with a vertical right sheet margin pair of the 6d brown purple Consort Imperforate on laid paper (rich colour but faults), paying 4 times the domestic rate, or 12d. Several creases and a few repaired tears, still a scarce franking and catalogue value for two fine stamps alone is $20,000. Accompanied by a 2015 Greene Foundation certificate. Estimate $2,000, sold for C$950 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 2, Canada 1851 six pence slate violet Consort, XF on laid paper with 7-ring cancel
Lot 2 Canada #2 1851 6d slate violet Consort Imperforate on Laid Paper, used, with ideal 7-ring cancel in brown red. This lovely stamp has four large and even margins, and is extremely fine. Ex. Daniel Cantor collection and accompanied by a 1978 BPA (London) certificate. Unitrade CV$2,000.