Jan
31
Over the last week we have mostly finished the work of adding the recently acquired tremendous collection of Latin America and Portuguese Colonies to our inventory. For the last number of days the area seeing the most growth has been Brazil where we have had to add another box to our red boxes. More Canada …
Jan
24
We are back into our accustomed mode of new inventory additions in that we are once again adding to our three most popular areas. Once again we are adding interesting used Canada along with some fresh mint. For the British Commonwealth we have added items from Labuan, Samoa, Australia, Indian States and Great Britain itself. …
Jan
24
George VI 2d. Imperium Type in a Plate number pair. Mint never hinged Very Fine. Stanley Gibbons cat. £2,80 for normal stamps. The Imperium series was generally printed in two entries; the first was for the Duty Plate: the country and the value, the second was the Head Plate: the frame, portrait and ornamentation. This …
Jan
21
The last number of days have in large part been spent cataloguing and describing a rather extensive and choice collection assembled by a discerning collector. The focus of that particular collector was Portugal and her Colonies as well as Latin America. In addition to the seldom seen better items from those areas we have also …
Jan
18
Edward VII Key Type 1/2d. bicolour pair. Used with a virtually complete ‘St. John NB Ship Letter’ postmark Very Fine. This Philatelic Nugget harkens back to a time when St. John was a very important centre of commerce and ship building. A time when trade between the Caribbean and the Maritime Provinces was much more …
