Sale 2996 March 2010 Live Auction

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Lot #2478. EXCEPTIONAL SAUDI ARABIA, HEJAZ & NEJD SPECIALIZED COLLECTION.

Description:

A highly specialised range of stamps and covers, extensively writen up on quadrille pages and housed in a well filled album. It includes several better stamps as well as scarce and unusual postal history with Hejaz with a cover of 1916 from Djedda to Port Said bearing the first series 1/4pi green amd 1pi blue, followed by an excellent survey of the 1916 and 1917 issues, with plate blocks of 1917 2pi magenta (Scott #L13) and #L5 1/4pi green complete pane of 50. The overprints and surcharges of 1921 and 1922 are also well represented, Arms of Sherif of Mecca issues with 1924 5pi olive green with inverted ovpt mint (#L48a) and 1/4pi yellow green tete-beche pair (#L48Ab), also the complicated Jedda ovpts, all categorised and written-up, including Red ovpt on 1924 Caliphate 1 1/2pi violet mint (#L130) also an intriguing pair of the Caliphate ovpt 1/2pi red with the right hand stamp having additional inverted blue Jedda ovpt, unlisted in Scott, having a light dusting of gold visible throughout the script, a wonderful and rare item. Further highlights in include the scarce provisional #L67 in unlisted used condition (cat. $2500 for unused only), also the series of unmounted mint blocks of the 1925 'Hejaz Govt' surcharges complete (#L135/L141, cat. $800 as singles) and the blue and red surcharges complete (#L149/L159, cat. $950 as singles), an excellent section of Postage Dues including imperf proof pairs, #J14 complete pane of 36 (cat. $720 as singles). Then Nejd with various covers, 1925 'Pilgrimage' issues mint (#30/33), 'Capture of Jedda' complete signed (#64/68) continuing with Saudi Arabia right through to a comprehensive showing of the cartouches 'Dam' and 'Oil Plant' issues and their airposts collected in-depth, with page after page virtually all never hinged, with many better denominations present. This is such a good collector's collection, the result of a lifetime's work. A thorough viewing is essential as we have only given a bare outline of this great collection, one of the best we have had to offer of this country. (photo)