Lot 5509 (#5347)
Est. £3,000 - £3,500
CANADA - NEWFOUNDLAND - 1857 TO 1935 STRONG COLLECTION - CHIEFLY MINT on 15 album pages includes 1857-64 1d red-brown & 8d scarlet-vermilion imperfs unused, 1860 2d orange-vermilion, 3d greens (2) imperfs all unused, 1862-64 New colour imperfs complete set mint / unused plus additional examples including a few used (this rather fresh and attractive opening page of 4-margined examples, cat £4000+), the early perforated issues well represented & mostly mint including 1865-70 Pictorials complete sets (2), 1868 1c dull-purple mint, 1868-73 1c brown- purple mint, 3c vermilions (2, m & u), 3c blue mint, 5c blacks (2), 1880-82 perf 12 set plus extras and much else, all mint from the 1897 Discovery complete set onwards including the 1910 (15 Aug) pictorials complete set SG 96/105, 1911 recess printed complete set SG 111/116, 1911-16 Coronation complete set SG 117/127, 1919 Contingent complete set, 1921 35c red Air Mail SG 148, 1923-24 small pictorials complete set SG 149/162, 1928-29 Publicity complete set SG 164/178, 1929-31 re-engraved complete set SG 179/187, 1931 Airs with / without watermark complete sets SG 192/194, 195/197, 1932 $1.50 on $1 Air, 1933 Air complete set, 1933 $4.50 on 75c Air Balbo Flight, 1933 Gilbert complete set, etc. A lovely collection, highly recommended (250+ stamps)
