Lot 5440

Description

China, an extensive collection of Nationalist China issues
in the war period 1939-1942 all described and placed
on black Hawid mounts, and written up on each page in a
red spring back album with 182 album pages, contains a study collection of 100s of the issue of the 4c on 5c Sun Yat Sen 1940-1 issues printed in Hong Kong with surcharge in red, (SG 582) includes imprint blocks, large blocks 7xhalf sheets etc, mostly MUH, mint with a few used; includes in a block of 9, 12, 25 and 2x50 the variety 'Tso-Tso' error on O/P (SG 582a [£150]) also a used example, another missing 'fun' in a block of 9, unlisted, double surcharges; imperf at bottom vertical pair 3c on 5c Chekiang surcharge (SG 581ax), others with black surcharges from Shanghai, Eastern Szechuan, Kiangsi, Kansu, Hunan and some with bogus surcharges including a used pair with O/P inverted; Shanghai surcharges blocks, include imprints, part sheets, used in blocks, offsets, shades (SG 576, 578, 580, 581); Eastern Szechuan similar (SG 579b, 581b) with 1st and 2nd settings, includes pairs and singles of double surcharge (SG 579ba £180), several block of 9 with partial missing surcharges, another with inverted O/P pair with the 'fun-fun' error (SG 581ba repeat of character £275. but not inverted unlisted) (illustrated); character varieties in block, block with MUH 'fun-fun' variety (SG 581ba), others with smaller 3, another in block with top character missing (SG 579bc £350), some with missing surcharges or added to margin; a large block of 28 with missing 'tso' but added later by hand, similar for block of 42, 18th stamp with character 3 missing added by hand later, others in large blocks with broken characters; various printings noted; Kansu similar blocks and varieties including printings, small 3; double surcharges, surcharge variations in large imprint blocks used, inverted surcharges four blocks of 4 (2 normal, 2 inverted) (one block illustrated with imprint) also used and blocks of mint and used with inverted surcharges, pair with and without O/P; replacement letters in blocks; Kansu unlisted types 3c on 2c green and 3c on 15c red; Chekiang, similar to other provinces above, surcharged 3c on 5c in red, various imprint blocks (a few described as forged surcharges); Kiangsi, a similar selection, singles, blocks, imprints, part sheets, half sheets, varieties of O/P (partial missing characters), these noted on sheets, includes four double 'fun' errors centre stamp in blocks of 9 (SG 579aa £275), used with characters missing etc; Hunan surcharges, similar to above, blocks, singles, MUH, used, etc. An extraordinary accumulation written up 60 years ago by a specialist, some original items previously removed, but appears to be a unique collection on about 182 pages. MUH, mint and used. (1,000s)

Note X after SG number indicates variety not listed in latest SG catalogue.