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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 6, 2013 1:44:00 GMT
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Post by jkjblue on Aug 6, 2013 13:58:06 GMT
Nice Basutoland stamps Perf14! That Croc looks to mean business.  You must be a British Commonwealth collector? Since I collect the 1840-1940 WW era, all of your posts are interesting to me.  Thanks for populating The Stamp Forum with these topics - I might add some images or discussion to them if it is O.K. with you.  |
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 6, 2013 18:16:54 GMT
Hi jkjblue and thank you very much for your kind comments. Yes, I collect BC.
Please feel free to add to all of my threads irrespective of what they are about... different posts is what fuels this forum.
I also collect Ethiopia, Italy, and Engravers...they all fit within your collecting interests so we should have a lot in common.
cheers
alex
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 8, 2013 4:10:19 GMT
 Basutoland 1946 1d. scarlet-rose "tower" variety SG 19a |
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 8, 2013 4:11:42 GMT
 Basutoland 1938 10s. olive-green SG 28 |
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 8, 2013 4:22:15 GMT
 Basutoland 1954 2d. deep bright blue & orange SG 45 Mosuto horseman |
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Post by cjd on Aug 8, 2013 4:24:29 GMT
Nice tower flaw.
Truth be told, I'm not that wild about the Nile croc issues, so I haven't paid much attention to them over the years. I didn't know to look out for a flaw. I have the basic KGVs (short the 10sh, if I recall correctly), but I haven't delved any deeper.
I took a quick look at SG to see about the tower flaw and KGV, to see what I may have been missing, and they only list it for the KGVI issue.
Dodged a bullet there...
[insert wink here]
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Post by rod222 on Aug 8, 2013 5:02:47 GMT
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 8, 2013 10:32:26 GMT
While we are discussing the 1938 1d value, there are a couple of extra shadse listed by Murray Payne (unlisted in Stanley Gibbons). One is a distinct carmine-lake (a deep and dark red compared to the other shades). Murray Payne price this stamp at £200 mint and £140 used (2008). The "tower" flaw is found on this shade, but is only priced used (£650). |
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Post by comingfrom on Aug 30, 2013 2:36:08 GMT
There were a couple of quite interesting items at auction in Sydney (Australia) this week. (Bit too pricey for me, unfortunately.) Thought they are worth sharing with you. The Official stamp sold for $AU4,000 and the invert went for $AU400 plus 16% buyer premium. Attachments:
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 30, 2013 23:58:11 GMT
That's interesting, the bottom stamp is upside down. The vignette was inverted, not the frame. On the one sheet found, the top row is missing the vignette entirely, and the bottom margin features the vignette inverted.  |
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Post by comingfrom on Aug 31, 2013 9:04:59 GMT
Thank you for that, perfs12. Guess what, that's just what I thought.  But I left the image as the Auction house presented it. It was described as "Inverted centre". That looks like a nice strip to have. |
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 31, 2013 12:14:47 GMT
It would indeed be nice to have that strip. Sadly I don't have it. I do dream about it on occasion though. |
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Post by bobby1948 on Mar 14, 2016 12:08:04 GMT
Basutoland: 1938 KGVI definitives and 1945 Peace issue
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Post by bobby1948 on Mar 14, 2016 12:10:56 GMT
Basutoland: 1947 Royal Visit and 1949 UPU issues
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Post by bobby1948 on Mar 14, 2016 12:13:12 GMT
Basutoland: 1948 - 1954 issues  |
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Post by anglobob on Oct 28, 2021 18:12:09 GMT
Queen Elizabeth definitive set issued in 1954,SG 43-53  |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 5, 2021 17:35:09 GMT
Stamps of Basutoland 1933-1966Stamps of the Cape of Good Hope were used in Basutoland from about 1876. From 1910 until 1933 the stamps of South Africa were in use. Stamps of the Union provinces were also known to have been used during the early years of this period.
Basutoland issued their own stamps for the first time on December 1st, 1933 with the introduction of the King George V definitive set featuring a handsome crocodile sunning itself. Interestingly, in 1959 we see the name Lesotho appearing on Basutoland stamps at the same time. We see this once more on the 1965 "Self-Government Issue".
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This late-19th century British map shows Basutoland, as the present-day Kingdom of Lesotho was then known. A local chief, Moshoeshoe (circa 1786-1870), laid the basis for modern Lesotho in the 1820s and 1830s by uniting the clans of the small, mountainous country to resist external invaders. Sometime in the 1830s, he became 'King Moshoeshoe 1st'. After repeated clashes with the South African Boers over land, King Mosheoshoe appealed to the British Crown for assistance. In 1868, his kingdom was placed under British protection. In 1871, the protectorate was annexed to the Cape Colony, and for a time it was ruled from Cape Town (very unpopular). In 1884, Basutoland became a crown colony of the British Empire. It achieved independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho on October 4, 1966.
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Post by WERT on Nov 5, 2021 17:51:13 GMT
Might be more maps here. Robert
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Post by anglobob on Nov 5, 2021 18:15:45 GMT
REL1948Very nice,another impressive collection..!! Anglobob
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Post by nbstamper on Sept 17, 2022 0:17:56 GMT
Bumping up this thread. That 1954 QEII set is one of the first Commonwealth sets I bought as a very young collector; but could only afford up to the 1/. I still have the stamps and recently completed the set. I thought the designs were so great that I had to own them.
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Post by cjoprey on Sept 18, 2022 9:46:38 GMT
Sharing a nice FDC registered letter with the 1937 coronation stamps: Soctt# 15-17, 1937:  |
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Post by vikingeck on Sept 18, 2022 10:59:33 GMT
Nice tower flaw. Truth be told, I'm not that wild about the Nile croc issues, so I haven't paid much attention to them over the years. I didn't know to look out for a flaw. I have the basic KGVs (short the 10sh, if I recall correctly), but I haven't delved any deeper. I took a quick look at SG to see about the tower flaw and KGV, to see what I may have been missing, and they only list it for the KGVI issue. Dodged a bullet there... [insert wink here] I am surprised that no one has pointed out the interesting fact that THERE ARE NO NILE CROCODILES IN LESOTHO ( BASUTOLAND)
The rivers are too cold in the mountainous land locked country, So Why the crocodile ?
It seems the ancestors of today's Lesotho people originally migrated millennia ago from the Congo where the crocodile was a tribal totem, the legends the people of the crocodile took with them to Basutoland |
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