Lot 216 Canada #50 1897 ½c black Jubilee, mint never hinged, with huge margins all around and deep, fresh colour, extremely fine. Accompanied by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. A very nice stamp, rare in this condition. Unitrade CV$480, sold for $525 plus buyer’s premium.
Queen Victoria Jubilee
Lot 216 — 1897 half cent black Jubilee, MNH XF
Lot 216 Canada #50 1897 ½c black Jubilee, mint never hinged, with huge margins all around and deep, fresh colour, extremely fine. Accompanied by a 2013 Greene Foundation certificate. A very nice stamp, rare in this condition. Unitrade CV$480.
Lot 117 — Canada 1893 fifty cent deep blue, used, sold for $150
Lot 117 Canada #47 1893 50c deep blue Widow Weeds, used with light c.d.s. cancel and very fine plus. A choice stamp. Unitrade CV$100, sold for $130 plus buyer’s premium.
Lot 112 — Canada 1893 twenty cent vermilion, used, sold for $161
Lot 112 Canada #46 1893 20c vermilion Widow Weeds, used, with neat and face-free Owen Sound broken circle cancel dated NOV.1.1899, very fine. A lovely stamp. Unitrade CV$150, sold for $140 plus buyer’s premium
Lots 136 & 140 — Queen Victoria Jubilees
Our second feature for Victoria Day shows two nice Jubilee stamps, which honoured Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee of sixty years on the throne.
Lot 136 Canada #62 1897 $2 dark purple Jubilee, mint never hinged, very fine. Unitrade CV$6,000.
Lot 140 Canada #65 1897 $5 olive green Jubilee, mint never hinged with lightly disturbed gum (likely from storage), else very fine. Accompanied by a 2015 Greene Foundation certificate. Unitrade CV$6,000.