Saint Lucia: Stamps

1938-48 St. Lucia 2/- Blue and Purple, The Pitons




Roos

1938-48 St. Lucia 5/- Black and Mauve, Lady Hawkins Loading Bananas




Roos

Wow nice stamps of St. Lucia!!

Or is it March 26, 1913?, renden?

Looking at StampWorld.com, there are a number of colour varieties of the 1p stamp. All look red to me! And with their crazy pricing, all but the last issue from 1921-1926 being penny stamps.

Here is my grandiose collection of St. Lucia. King George VI, making his first appearance in 1938.



And look at that... StampWorld pricing just now lists it at $65! The watermark number is their own, not Scott's.

That page is awesome brightonpete  -  always fascinating to see custom made pages with 'personal touch' - well done 

Very nice indeed, René 😀
You were right, I had overlooked it, saw only the latest post. Glad to see you focusing on nice postmarks, René - that's a keeper

Cheers from the North Sea, blowing like hell out here 😎

Very nice indeed, Michael, thanks for the post!

Someone very wise but unknown to me once said, "Timing is everything."  Boy, is that right!

Almost unbelievably, I was looking at the St. Lucia threads this past weekend, and then at some of the stamps from the old 19th Century album pages that I acquired from the Aix market stamp dealer, and I thought I would clean up some of the old St. Lucia and be the one to reactivate one of the threads.  When I went to do it, lo and behold, you had already done it!!  Well done to you, Michael.  You have really been making some excellent posts of images of the stamps from that collection you are liquidating.  It's impressive, in my opinion.

Looking at your images, the stamps look good, but you will certainly want to check them for watermarks.  In the first place, be sure that there are watermarks on all of the stamps.  When I checked mine, I realized that five of them do not have watermarks at all, when they should.  I did some further poking around, and it looks like I have found five forgeries among my holdings now.  I will be starting a new thread, hopefully later today, to document my discovery with images.

Anyway, I will toast you with my apéritif tonight, for your impeccable style and timing....  Cheers, Michael!

Even my Sc #s were wrong (I must have been half asleep, Pete).Edited those anad I Agree on the Postmark date which I had not mentioned - Thanks

René

Saint Lucia
Later Queen Victoria Issues, 1883-1898

These stamps were also acquired from the 19th Century album pages that I bought in Aix-en-Provence in 2018.  Interestingly, I was able to accurately identify these stamps mainly thanks to their legible postmarks, which made it clear whether they were either Die A or Die B.


Sc 27a, 1/2-penny green, Die A


Sc 28, 1-penny rose, Die A


Sc 29a, 1-penny lilac, Die A


Sc 31, 2-1/2 pence ultramarine, Die B


Sc 32a, 3-pence lilac & green, Die A


Sc 33a, 4-pence brown, Die A


Sc 37a, 1-shilling lilac & red, Die A (script cancel is probably revenue use)

Excerpted from a Scott Catalogue for reference:

From that scan I would guess the one on the right is genuine.

It sure makes the page look better when you have all the stamps.

A few stamps arrived today to fill some holes including the Saint Lucia 5 shilling George V with the script and multiple crowns watermark. I have been chasing this stamp for a while at a price I was willing to pay. It was nice to fill an album page. Notice I did not say finish because most of these are harder to find used than mint so used copies for some would be an upgrade.