Name: Auction: Gilbert and Ellice Islands cover with 1918 War Tax block of 6 with Plate number '5'
Brand: Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's
Price: 168 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Sale number: S24020 The Hay Morgan collection of KG V has been built up by a British collector over the past 40 years. Like many philatelists, he caught the collecting bug from his father who was a life long stamp collector focused primarily on King George VI Commonwealth stamps. The collection was started in the early 1980s with a focus on Nevis, following his honeymoon there with his wife. It was then gradually expanded to cover the whole of King George V Commonwealth. The Hay Morgan collection is now one of the most complete King George V Commonwealth collections ever assembled and contains almost every mint Commonwealth stamp issued during King George V’s reign including most of the major errors, many plate examples, important proofs, numerous sets and stamps in blocks, as well as some rare covers. The quality is very high throughout with many of the items having been acquired from Stanley Gibbons. “The collection displays the specialist depth of a patient philatelist with an unwavering eye for quality and is replete with major rarities of the highest importance.” - Dr Philip Kinns, Emeritus Director of Philately, Stanley Gibbons The owner, who has been a member of the Royal Philatelic Society for many years, remains an active collector today focussed on the King George V WW1 G.R.I. overprints, the Indian Feudatory States and Nevis. Join the Hay Morgan collection waitlist to ensure you're the first to receive updates related to this stunning collection offered by the team at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's.

SGB Stamp Auction | The Hay Morgan Collection of KGV : Part 1  | S24020

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Two covers, with 1919 registered O.H.M.B.S. cover to Melbourne bearing 1918 War Tax lower marginal block of six with Plate number ‘5’ and cancelled by two ‘Gilbert & Ellice Island/Colony’ double ring cds for FE 17 and with Ocean Island registration label alongside, also a cover from Arorae franked by 1922-27 1d violet and 1½d carmine (2) and tied by three indistinct strikes of scarce Type 11 handstamp in Black. Attractive covers. (2)

Gilbert and Ellice Islands cover with 1918 War Tax block of 6 with Plate number '5'

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