Lot 20001 – VERY RARE BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO SPECIMEN PRESEN
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Lot 20001 – VERY RARE BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO SPECIMEN PRESEN
Large Lots and Collections
Price realised
11’000 EUR
Estimate
10’000 – 15’000 EUR
Auction date
Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 15:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
VERY RARE BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO SPECIMEN PRESENTATION BOOK
Presentation book by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. containing imperf. colour trials and essays of various countries, each perforated “SPECIMEN,” including:
– Belgian Congo 1920 airmail set of 4 in issued colours
– British Central Africa “Freedom, Justice, Commerce” revenue stamps
– British East Africa 1890-94 8a in brown
– Chile 1894 1c in brown
– Crete 1905 & 1907 values in unissued colours
– Egypt 1906 5m Sphinx and 10m Bedouins & Camels essays
– Falkland Islands 1898 2s6d in green and 5s in red
– Greece 1913 25l in unissued colours
– Mexico 1899 and 1910 values in unissued colours (16)
– Romania 1906 values in unissued colours (2 with different central design to that issued) and 1906 semi-postal with value
– Salvador 1903 Marozán monument 12c in unissued colour and two fiscals
– Serbia 1915 King Peter & Staff 25p in unissued colour
– Spain 1916 Cervantes issue set of 4 in unissued colours
– Turkey 1914 values (14) plus 2 postage dues in unissued colours
– Specimen dummy stamps depicting Mercury and KGV, and vignettes with Portsmouth Memorial & Portsmouth’s Heroes vignette and Milan 1906 Exhibition vignette
A wonderful item for the connoisseur
Estimate: € 10’000 – € 15’000 Auction
Catalogue
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