David Feldman Great Britain & British Empire December 13 2019

242 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° (SG) Estimate ( £ ) Great Britain & British Empire 50988 50989 50990 50988 C 5aa 1890-95 1a Blue-Green, first printing, showing major constant variety “ANL” for “AND” from R6/5 on sheet with imperforate sheet margin at foot, mint hr, very fine and scarce, as it seems likely that this variety was not present throughout the print run (SG £1’000) 200 - 300 50989 DCE 10 1890-95 4a Grey imperf. unused, good to large margins, showing part of paper maker’s wmk, very fine (SG £1’200) 200 - 300 50990 L 10 1890-954aGreySPERATIFORGERY,photo-lithoforgery intheformofadieproofonwovepaper(ca.42x60mm), signed in pencil by Sperati below, reverse with BPA “SPERATI REPRODUCTION” hs numbered “58, very rare in this form, with only a cut-down stamp-size example present in the Sir Gwaine Baillie collection 200 - 300 50991 C DCE 4/48 1890-95, British East Africa Company issues mint collection incl. 1890-95 mint to 5R incl. listed shades, with scarce 8a grey and 1R grey,1895“British EastAfrica”overprint mint set to 5R,etc.,mixed condition (SG£4’200+) 500 - 700 50992 CC C H DCE 49/64 1895-96 Ovpt on India issue on 2 album pages, with two basic mint sets of 15, plus 3R used on piece showing broken “B”, and two 1895 2 1/2d on 1a6p mint & one used, slightly mixed condition (SG £1’870) 200 - 300 50993 DCE P 65/79 1895 (Oct) Imperforate colour trials group of four from the undenominated master die for the 1896- 1901 issue, with faint guidelines visible at corners, in bronze-green, blue-green, purple and rose, on unwatermarked wove paper, the first colour with minor corner wrinkle, a most attractive and rare group, ex Minns and Sir Gawaine Baillie 600 - 800