Most Expensive North Borneo Stamps in ebay March 2010
"Most Interesting, Most Expensive March 2010"
This month, the top 4 listings are dominated by collection lots from nystamps. All of the listings from this seller is without any description, just pictures. Unfortunately because of the sheer numbers of listings every week, the accompanying pictures are deleted as soon as the transaction is done. This means we don't have any information as to what the lots consist of. Nevertheless, I included the top 10 most expensive items this month, just to make it more representative. So here goes:
Rank | Picture | Description | Remarks |
1 |  | $572.00 (€415) | Ended 03.03.2010 SG Cat price ? Seller: nystamps USA 18 bids |
2 |  | $556.00 (€404) | Ended 13.03.2010 SG Cat price ? Seller: nystamps USA 32 bids |
3 |  | $510.00 (€377) | Ended 19.03.10 SG Cat Price (?) Seller: nystamps USA 4 bids |
4 |  | $485 (€358) | Ended 18.03.2010 SG Cat Price £ Seller: nystamps USA 17 bids |
5 |  | $395 (€292) Eye-catching six colour franking. Sent by registered mail and nicely cancelled by Jesselton, British North Borneo cds strikes. Sender was obviously involved or owned the Dayak village exhibit at the Coney Island fair in New York with its notorious pygmy tatooed warriors and so on. He used an American company envelope , to write to the Secretary of the Canadian National Exhibition, or CNE, in Toronto - an ongoing annual country fair -probably to attempt to interest the Canadian enterprise in buying another artificial Dayak village! Dated January 25, 1910 both with cancels and this interesting Jesselton registration handstamp. Routed via Singapore (two cancels one crossed-out in pencil perhaps because of a dating error?), and London. | Ended 10.03.2010 SG Cat Price ? Seller: gorfa Canada 4 bids |
6 |  | $391 (€289) | Ended 11.03.2010 SG Cat Price £ Seller: nystamps USA 33 bids |
7 |  | £220.00 (€243) A very interesting Japanese Occupation stamps of North Borneo. The big cover is franked with 15 North Borneo and Brunei stamps (with the overprinted Japanese inscriptions) and tied with neat cancellations. The cover is addressed to Kuching, Sarawak and on top of the address, inscribed "First Day Cover". The arrangement of the stamps around the address in a diamond-like shape is somewhat unorthodox and possibly a deliberate attempt to make the cover look better, although, I would probably prefer the traditional way of affixing stamps on a cover. Nevertheless, the cover is very rare indeed, and I'm sure £220 is definetely a good bargain! | Ended 11.03.10 SG Cat Price £ seller: bronx0707 Netherlands 4 bids |
8 |   | £220.00 (€243) This is a very interesting censored North Borneo cover. On the front cover, there's an airmail postmark ("via imperial"). On top of the cover is inscribed with the sender's name: "From Dr. and Mrs. Tuxford, Lahad Datu". On the lower left, there is a pencil writing: "Stamps on back". Sent from Lahad Datu, dated 17 April 1940. On the reverse shows a boxed censor postmark in black ink inscribed "Passed by 29 Censor North Borneo". Overall, 16 North Borneo stamps are used, from 1939 issues (1c, 3c, 4c and 6c) ammounting to 60c. | Ended 12.03.10 SG Cat Price ? Seller: northumbrian Scotland 13 bids |
9 |  | £210.00 (€237) Another interesting cover sent by the same sender: "Dr. and Mrs. Tuxford, Lahad Datu". The 1 cent stamps are overprinted with War Tax (1941). On the lower left corner of the cover is postmarked with a triangle mark "Passed for Transmission North Borneo, 29". | Ended 07.03.10 SG Cat Price ? Seller: northumbrian Scotland 15 bids |
10 |  | £201.00 (€227) Another airmail cover with the purple "via imperial" postmark. The cover is sent from Beaufort dated 21 May 1940. Franked with 4 stamps of 15 cents from the 1939 issue, showing a dayak with a shield. The cover is also tied with the North Borneo censor postmark: "Passed by 8 Censor North Borneo" in black ink. | Ended 07.03.10 SG Cat Price ? Seller: northumbrian Scotland 10 bids |
The selection criteria for this list include (a) stamps/philatelic items of North Borneo appearing in ebay, (b) must be available internationally and (c) must be on auction format only.
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