1855-63 1d rose on cream paper, three clear margins, close at lower left unused with original gum (browned), fine; cert. Sergio Sismondo (2004) (S.G. £900).

1864 (Jul 20) printed blue 'From Swellendam' envelope registered to Leyde, Holland, endorsed "British & Foreign/ rate paid", franked Perkins Bacon 1855-58...

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1862 small 'ladies' envelope to the Widow of J. P. v Heerden Doornbosch, District Murraysburg, with a 4d, close to extremely large margins, tied by a triangular...

1860 cover from Cape town to Paarl bearing 4d deep blue, mixed margins bearing partial impression of another stamp in bottom, reverse with double oval...

1855-63 1s bright yellow green, three good even margins fresh unused without gum, a rare stamp unused, David Brandon Cert (2024)

1855-63 1s bright yellow green, three good even margins fresh unused without gum, a rare stamp unused, David Brandon Cert (2024)

1855-63 1s bright yellow green unused, three good even margins with small corner crease at top, plus two deep dark green shades, good to close margins...

1855-63 1s on white paper. Bright yellow green used single and a pair (SG8) and deep dark green (SG8b). A fine set with both the shades. Mostly clear...

1863 (Aug 15) envelope from Graaff-Reinett to England with Perkins Bacon 1s emerald green, just touched to large margins, tied by Small Triangular Obliterator...

1861 "Woodblock" 1d. vermilion on laid paper, a severed rejoined pair with margins virtually all round (just touched on one side), fresh colour and with...

1861 "Woodblock" 1d. vermilion, a lovely mint example with margins virtually all round (just touched at lower left corner), fresh colour and with small...

1861 "Woodblock" 1d. vermilion on laid paper, pair with good to large margins fresh used with almost complete triangular cancel, visible horizontal crease...

1861 1d Vermillion (SG13) Woodblock, used, small to large margins. Canceled by heavy CGH cancel but lady hope clear. Fine copy and clean back, no thins....

1861 1d Vermillion (SG13) Woodblock, used, close margins. Canceled by CGH cancel but lady hope clear. Fine copy and clean back, no thins. (SG £3250).

1940 Jurgens 1d and 4d Woodblock reprints, sample card bearing two pairs of reprints, signed A Jurgens, some toning spots, fine.

1861 Woodblock 1d carmine, laid paper, pair with touched margin down one side, positions 5 and 6 showing the "missing corner" constant plate flaw at bottom...

1861 1d Brick Red (SG13b) Woodblock, margins mostly full on two sides, just in on third, bold CGH cancel, small faults. The rarest of the 1p shades with...

1861 Woodblock 1d brich-red, three margins used with some thinning, repaired bottom left corner and faults/repairs in 'Cape' at base, a scarce stamp in...

1861 Woodblock 1d brick-red, laid paper, two good to clear margins with repaired bottom left corner, fresh used, RPS Cert (2025)

1861 4d Pale Milky Blue (SG14) Woodblock, margins all around just touched on one side. No faults. Light CGH cancel, clean back. Very fine. (SG £2750) Cert....

1861 Woodblock 4d pale milky blue, two margins with traces of a cancellation, heavy crease running diagonally at right and tiny pin hole, fresh appearance...

1861 Woodblock 4d pale milky blue, close cut and cut into all around, small thin, pinhole, light cancel, a presentable spacefiller (S.G. £2'750).

1861 Woodblock 4d pale bright blue showing "retouched" plate on right hand corner, mixed margins, lightly cancelled by CGH cancel leaving the retouch completely...

1861 Woodblock 4d deep bright blue used, huge margin at right to close but clear at bottom, deep colour and a particularly strong impression, neatly repaired...

1863-64 Small lot of eight triangular issues with five showing various examples of the barred oval numeral cancellations (BONC), with complete to close...

1863-64 1d group of three different shades incl. deep carmine-red, deep brown-red and brownish red, margins close to touching, mixed condition (S.G. £1'050).

1863-64 D.L.R. 4d deep blue, three good to large margins all round unused with part o.g., horizontal crease otherwise a fine fresh example, P Holcombe...

1863-64 D.L.R. group incl. 4d. deep blue single with one touched margin, another with three good margins, a pair with good to clear margins with vertical...

1863-64 D.L.R. 4d blue, horizontal strip of three pairs, two blocks with good to close margins and right hand pair just touched at top, all three pairs...

1855-63 1s deep dark green, three good to close margins fresh used with 'Hope' largely visible, David Brandon Cert (2024)

1864 cover from Port Elizabeth to Grahamstown franked with single of De La Rue 4d deep blue paying the internal rate for a single letter, tied by Barred...

1863-64 1s pale emerald-green, De La Rue printing from Perkins Bacon plates, good margins fresh small part original gum. RPSL Cert (2024)

1863-64 D.L.R. 1s. pale emerald green, three good margins unused with small part o.g., a good clean example of this shade, BPA Cert (1999)

1863-64 D.L.R. 1s. bright emerald green, three good to large margins unused with part o.g., a fine fresh example, BPA Cert (1999)

1872 Seated Hope 5s orange proof on thin glazed card with Type D7 "CANCELLED" ovpt, very fine, possibly only one sheet of 240 for each value were printed...

1881-89 Trio of envelopes franked with Lady Hope seated rectangular stamps 1d, 2d or 3d single frankings cancelled with the Triangular “CGH”, cancellation,...

Group of 27 items all addressed to Austria with a range of frankings with some registered including 1885 three colour franking, 1899 mixed Seated and...

1853-63 A handwritten collection pages formed by John Tolbutt for his Cape of Good Hope Collection. Containing original pictures taken from items in South...

1864-1905 A collection of later rectangular stamps from Cape of Good Hope. Fine to very fine used and mint stamps. Includes few stock pages with various...

1855-1902 mint collection neatly arranged on stock sheets, a group of 'triangulars' incl. 1855 1d and 1/- (2), also 1d and 4d unused, 1863 1d deep carmine-red...

1877-79 small mint group on card with 1/2d SG 4a and 4c (unused, creased), 1d SG 11f and 1879 4d in pair. (S.G. £400).

1900 3d on 1d carmine (disturbed gum and small thin) and 1d on 1/2d vermilion mint (small tone spot fine) (S.G. £750).

1900 Baden Powell 3d pale blue on blue, 21mm wide, with crisp MY 12 1900 cds, very fine (S.G. £1'300), plus Major Goodyear 1d, 18mm wide, on small piece...

1857-61 3d rose Embossed tied to small piece by blue 16 FE Natal cancel, small margins otherwise fine and fresh with Georg Bühler Cert (1980)

1863 6d rose proof watermarked, unused pair with full margin at bottom, mint with hinge remnants on both stamps, a little oxidising, fine; cert. Behr (2016).

1902 CC £1.10s green and violet mint with large part o.g., a fine example. (S.G. £750).

1908 MCA £1 purple and black on red mint, a fine, lightly mounted example. (S.G. £450).

1861-1909 mint range on stock pages with a few earlier QV incl. 1861 1d (3), 1863 1d (6) and 6d (3) unused, 1867 1/- (2), 1869 optd 3d (2), 1874 5/- (2),...

1886-87 mint range on stock sheet with 1d x 8 (incl. '4 Jan 87' with portion of printing omitted and the remainder doubled), 2d x 11, 4d x 2, 1887 1d,...