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Warwick & Warwick today offered a copy of SG142 with an estimate of £7,500. Opened at £6,000, but failed to attract bidders.   |
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My next-door neighbour's a bigtime buyer of FDCs and other postal garbage from Warwick and Warwick. He strips out the covers from the albums and then leaves the denuded albums on my doorstep. The last lot absolutely stank of mothballs. Looks like the bin-ends start from around lot 200. |
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87 mint examples, of which 11 were given to officials and 76 were sold for $25 Canadian each (source:Mike Hall on Linkedin) |
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Postmaster J. A. Robinson of St. John's overprinted 200 stamps for the special flight. No more than 87 unused stamps can still exist, though the actual number of surviving copies is probably quite lower. In addition to these, 95 were used and 18 were defective and subsequently destroyed. Based upon these Siegel prices the W&W stamp could have been flip worthy. Was something not right with it? https://siegelauctions.com/power-se...SortOrder=-1 |
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Looks kind of scruffy, to me. Take a look at the December, 2025 sale at that Siegel link. If the pictures are fairly representative of the items, I'd much prefer the linked example.
The five-figure realizations are generally Never Hinged. |
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So it was a politician who "issued" these stamps. That explains why he was able to charge the equivalent of a week's wages for a Newfie fisherman for each stamp, who he initialled the backs of them, and why 11 of them went to officials. |
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It's not easy to sell $10k stamps in a highly specialized collecting area. It's a decent looking example for issue, I have seen worse. Warwick has a good reputation but I agree a fresh cert would have helped - there are forgeries of these, some well-executed. |
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That explains why he was able to charge the equivalent of a week's wages for a Newfie fisherman for each stamp, who he initialled the backs of them, and why 11 of them went to officials. Quote:
The remaining 76 were purchased by the postmaster general, who then sold them for $25 each to raise money for the Newfoundland Marine Disasters Fund, which supported sailors' widows and orphans, |
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