NEW ZEALAND STAMPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20587, 10 December 1928, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND STAMPS.

SALES IN LONDON. {From Our -Own. Correspondent.) LONDON, November 2. • , A collection of New • Zealand, b tamps came up for auction last Saturday at Messrs Earner, Eooko and Co. .There were jnone so rare as to sensational prices, but among many sold singly or in pairs prices ranged up to £2 12s 6d,.a lot of four made £4 4b, while £0 was the highest price paid for any one,, lot—the lot containing 197 stamps. As an indication of the prices paid for fairly rare stamps the following prices may be quoted:— •July 1855, 2d blue, Is yellow green, lightly cancelled copies £1 7s; Is yellow green, scarcely touched by post mark, £2 6s; November, 185& Id red, £1 186: February 1862, imperforated Id Vermillion, 2d pale blue, £2 7s fid; 186?, per- ■ forated 13, Dunedin, Is green, £1 2s; 1862 pelure, imperforated, 6d, black brown, £1 7s; 1802; pelure 6d and Is, £1 10s; 1871; 2d vermillion, two mint - copies, £2 7s 0d; 1872, 2d vermillion, mint retouched copy, £2; 1872, 2d yeVmillion unused with retouch, fl 18s; 1872, 2d vermillion re-touched copy, also double-printed, £2 12e 6d; 1001, waterlow - compound perforated, 11 and 14, Id carmine, S.G. 321, used, 195.; 1902, Cowan Id carmine, mint corner, block of four. LATE.MR 'E. H. COLLINS’S COLLEGTION. A still more important sale of New Zealand stamps was that which took place lest week at the auction rooms of ' Messrs Plumridge and Go. ‘ These were part of the collection of the late Mr Ernest H. Collins (treasurer of the Royal Philatelic Society). Some 387 lots were sold, the majority being single stamps. The’highest price obtained was £llO for a vertical pair of the 1855 penny, watermarked large star, imperforated, dull carmine (one defective), on original envelope Rearing the Nelson postmark, November 10, 1855, -Others of the same issue, though of deeper shade, made respectively £26, £75, £3O, £37, £2l. An 1855 issue, blued paper, Is pale yellow-green, made £2O; another of the same denomination, £ll. For a horiontal strip of three stamps, 1855. November, blue paper, Id red, £9O was P&id. A pair of the same denomination showing a London postmark May 12, 1858, made £2l; a strip of three of the same denomination showing a large portion of papermakers’ watermark on eacli stamp, £l3; Is green 1855, £22; half the shilling green used as sixpence, £2l; 1862, pair of horizontal pennies, postmark Otahuhu, £ls 10s; and a vertical strip of three, 1802, second deep blue, Auckland postmark, October 31, 1863, £46; 1862, strip of three second ultramarine, on entire original, postmark Port Chalmers, February 16, 1863, £2l; 1862, Is, green, horizontal pair, £34; 1802, roulettcd, Id orange vermillion, £22; 1862, serrated, Id, orange ver- ■ million, £10; 1802, perforated 13, id orange vermillion, vertical pair. iniociforated at bottom, £23; 1802, a block of six Is, £32: and ls»2 watermark X.Z. Id brown (slightly off centre), £3O.