Lot 1525

Description

Keir, Dundas & Co, Small Pass Mills, Colombo, monogram/ship (East Indiaman three masted ship of 1500 tons), in brass, issued 1866 (Pr.52). Another, reverse elephant (St. Sebastian mills) (Pr.53) another reverse tortoise (Upland Mills, Mutwal, Colombo) (Pr.54); the last two pierced as always; another countermarked S on reverse (Pr.55); another set of (Pr.52-4). Lee Hedges & Co. 1867, Colpetty Mills (4«d) (Pr.61) (3), 1876 Demattagodde Mills (in Dean's Road, Maradona) (Pr.62) (2). Very fine-nearly uncirculated. (12)

The last of each variety ex J.G. Gartner Collection, the duplicates ex Carnegie Museum of Natural History (lot 880 part), the third Colpetty acquired in 1969.