British Empire and Commonwealth postage stamps

Sierra Leone 1897 2½d on 1s dull lilac, type 9 surcharge from R2/9 of the setting, used with two part strikes of 'PAQUEBOT/L(IVERPO)OL' circular da...

Seychelles 1952 3c orange, "Giant Tortoise", upper marginal block of 9, the centre stamp showing watermark error 'Crown missing' (W9a), SG159a. A s...

Seychelles 1946 Victory 9c light blue and 30c deep blue perforated 'SPECIMEN' (type D21), SG150s/1s. Fine and fresh mint examples with original gum...

Seychelles 1938-49 75c slate-blue, "Giant Tortoise", SG145. A fresh and very fine unmounted mint example with full original gum. A scarce stamp in ...

Seychelles 1938-49 30c carmine, "Giant Tortoise", right marginal block of 4, SG142. A fresh and fine unmounted mint positional block with full orig...

Seychelles 1938-49 20c blue, "Fishing Pirogue", lower right corner block of 4, SG140. A lovely fresh positional block, unmounted mint with full ori...

Seychelles 1938-49 20c blue, "Fishing Pirogue", SG140. A fresh and fine unmounted mint example with full original gum. This was the first King Geor...

Seychelles 1935 Silver Jubilee 12c green and indigo, variety 'Short extra flagstaff' from vignette plate '2', R2/1, SG129b. A lovely fresh mint exa...

Seychelles 1935 Silver Jubilee 6c ultramarine and grey-black, showing variety 'Double flagstaff' from vignette plate '6', R5/2, SG128e. A fine and ...

Seychelles 1906 2c chestnut and green, watermark MCA, variety 'Dented frame' from left pane, R1/6, SG60a. A very fine mint example of stunning app...

Seychelles 1896 (1 Aug) 36c on 45c brown and carmine, type 3 surcharge, ERROR SURCHARGE DOUBLE, SG27a. A fine and fresh mint example with original ...

Seychelles 1890-92 10c ultramarine and chestnut, DIE I, overprinted 'SPECIMEN' (type D12), SG4var. A fine mint example with original gum. There are...

Sarawak 1918 1c slate-blue and slate, "Sir Charles Vyner Brooke", lower right corner block of 4 with plate number '1', SG62. This stamp issue was p...

Samoa 1847 (31 Dec) entire letter from Rev. George Turner at Malua to 'Revd Henry Nisbet of Samoa, care of the Revd J. P. Sunderland, Agent of the ...

Samoa 1886-1900 2d6d deep purple/toned, "Palms", perforations 11, watermark 4b (reversed), vertical pair, error imperforate between, SG64ba. Very f...

St Vincent 1907-08 set of 5 to 3d, type 17, overprinted 'SPECIMEN', SG94s/8s. An attractive mint set with large part original gum, (the ½d to 2d st...

St Vincent 1899 5s green and blue forgery, SG75. A clever typographed forgery from the 'Ceylon' school (which anticipated the method of Sperati), o...

St Vincent 1881 (28 Nov) 4d on 1s bright vermilion, type 6 surcharge, attractively cancelled by large part 'K' (= Kingstown) circular date stamp, d...

St Vincent 1863-68 1s slate-grey, no watermark, perforations 14 to 16, SG9. A brilliant mint example with large part original gum. Nicely centred a...

St Lucia 1935 Silver Jubilee set of 4 to 1s, perforated 'SPECIMEN' (type D19), SG109s/12s. A brilliant quality mint set with original gum, very fin...

St Lucia 1921-30 set of 15 to 5s, overprinted 'SPECIMEN', script watermark, SG91s/105s. A fine quality King George V mint set with original gum. A ...

St Lucia 1904-10 2½d dull purple and ultramarine, ordinary paper, watermark MCA upper left corner block of 4 with plate number '1', SG68. A brillia...

St Lucia 1891-92 ½d on half 6d dull mauve and blue, bisect provisional, vertical pair, the lower stamp variety 'No fraction bar', SG54a. A fine qua...

St Lucia 1883-86 6d lilac, die I, watermark CA, neatly cancelled by part 1890 circular date stamp, SG35. An attractive used example of this very sc...