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Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
All auctions / Postcards & Stamps / 19th C. World Postage Stamps - Group of 72, British Empire & Colonial
International, various nations and colonial administrations. A wide-ranging assembly of roughly seventy-two postage stamps, predominantly used and cancelled, gathered across nearly a century of philatelic history. The lot draws its breadth from the far corners of the British Empire and beyond: Newfoundland, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Antarctic Territory sit alongside British Guiana, Jamaica, Gambia, and British South Africa, joined by the princely and coastal issues of India, Cochin (Kerala), and Bhopal. Continental Europe answers with France, Germany, Estonia, Switzerland, and Tunisia, while the New World contributes the United States and Canada. Mounted and loose on annotated collector's leaves, many bear crisp cancellations, engraved vignettes, and monarchical portraits. A single leaf preserves a "S/S Normandie" inaugural-voyage cachet dated 7 June, marking transatlantic maritime history. The geographic spread reflects the reach of imperial postal networks at their zenith. Cochin Anchal and Bhopal were feudatory princely states of British India that operated their own semi-independent postal systems, prized today for their distinctive local typography. Newfoundland issued stamps as a self-governing dominion separate from Canada until 1949, and Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia printed independently before Australian federation unified their posts in 1901. The "Caledonia Railway" and cancellation markings point to specialized parcel or railway franking usage. The S/S Normandie cachet commemorates the French liner's celebrated 1935 maiden crossing from Le Havre to New York, a touchstone of Art Deco-era ocean travel. Item # 199715
Estimate:£227.02
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