British Empire Collection From Ebay

Outside of Canada, I am not a specialist in the British empire. I still look for bargains nonetheless. I purchased this collection last week while browsing for Canada stamps and squealed like a kid at Christmas when I actually received it. I'm at work and don't have any pictures outside of the listing, but what is pictured was only the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/28074850962....m1497.l2649

I hereby certify this purchase as bargain!

nice one, Rileysan!

The album alone goes for 10 to 15 bucks (used) at shows..SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you paid almost nothing for the stamps

I can't wait to get home and post pictures of stamps that were NOT shown in the listing. Like a 1p Red Cape of Good Hope Triangle (not the S Afrika reprints), India states ... most of which I cannot identify, Aussie states, a full page of Mint/used Canada from the 1930s, Lots and lots of KGV and KGVI from around the world, more than twice the amount of stamps mentioned in the listing ...

OK - I was pleased for you - now you're just making me jealous

wow, that's a nice deal... pay attention to those penny reds.
If you are going to collect B.E. stamps then you must have a Stanley Gibbons catalog.. they make specifically for B.E. and Colonies to 1975.

Its refreshing to hear when someone gets a good deal !!

The 2/-6 seahorse is worth it alone.

Someone saw it!

It has the cat # penciled in on the back (221?), which was the least expensive of that type but still cats at $45 iirc.




I'm not even certain where to start with those. I will get an SG catalogue eventually, but may not have time to sit down with these until I retire ... in 25 years :)

Lots of pictures here. This post will contain the first half of the photos. Many are common definitives, but there's some great commems as well. Once again, I do not know much about British Empire. In particular, there are many from India and states that I know zero about.

If you see something that needs my attention (meaning holy crap, it might be valuable so look it up!) please comment to that effect and I will try to get a better picture.

The few items I did bother to look up ranged from .20 to $240.

Enjoy!

This is the second half of all the pictures. I believe I posted pix of every stamp in that album.

The Fiji 1£ Bugler almost makes the purchase worthwhile on it's own. At very least it catalogs @ $19.00 for used (Yours might be a per favor cancel) but check to see if it's a Perf 12½ then it jumps to $65.00 for used. The 10/- next to it catalogs at $20.00.

And you have a very nice starter collection of the Indian States in there, too. Three stand out immediately: You have a pair of Travancore 10 Cash stamps with the On S S overprint, with one stamp missing the left 'S' in the overprint. This is SG O31i, cat. at £48. You also have Jaipur SG O16 - the 4 Anna elephant carriage overprinted SERVICE - this is cat. at £65 mint. I also see a Jasdan SG 4; this is cat. at £22. There may be other goodies hidden among the Cochin, Hyderabad and Travancore, but they'd need to be checked for watermarks and perforations.

Looks like a very good buy!

Nice One Rileysan, looks like one heck of a score! If you are looking to make your money back, I'll buy all the British KGV Downey Heads!

Congratulations!

Skilo54

I'm jealous.