Auction No. 37 Saturday, 24 October 2026 / 11:00 am start

Abu Dhabi (6, Cat. £40), Trucial States (3), Qatar ...

Category: Collections, Accumulations and Selections  >  World

Lot Details

Abu Dhabi (6, Cat. £40), Trucial States (3), Qatar (40, Cat. £280), Bahrain (73, Cat. £350), Kuwait (108, Cat. £950) & Palestine (81, Cat. £470) 1918-1964 MUH/MLH with Abu Dhabi 1964 to 30n.p. plus 1r & 2r, Trucial States 1961 75n.p., 2r & 10r, Qatar 1957/59 to 1961 complete incl 1957 Type I & II ovpts on Castle high vals. Bahrain 1934/37 2a small die (Cat. £110), 3a & 4a, 1938/41 ½a, 3a6p, 1r & 5r, 1942/45 to 1a plus 3½a, surcharges on GB 1948/49 2½a, 1r, 1948 Olympics, 1949 UPU, 1950/55 to 4a & 1953 Coronation plus 1955/60 type II 2r & 5r, 1960 to 10r plus 1953/56, 1957 & 1961 Local Stamps complete. Kuwait 1923/24 with vals to 6a (5) incl 3a ovpt inverted, 1929/37 vals to 4a (8), 1933 3a & 6a Airs, 1939 to 10r (excl 3a & 2r), 1948/49 set (Cat. £100), RSW, UPU & 1950/55 with all sets to 1958 complete plus Officials with 1923/24 3a, 1929/33 1a & 8a. Palestine 1918 1p, 5m on 1p, 1918 to 9p, 1920 (Arabic 8mm long), vals (8) to 5p incl 2m & 5m perf. 14, 1920/21 Arabic 10mm perf. 15x14 to 5m, perf. 14 2m & 5m, 1921/22 to 5p, 1922 to 5p, 1922/27 to 200m (excl 7m, 13m & 90m) & 1932/44 set of 8 in new colours. Incls 1923 set of 5, 1924 to 13m & 1928/44 to 6m (excl 4m) PD's. (JC) Those collections with "(JC)" at the end of the description are from the late John Collette and as such, are stored in "as new" Lighthouse stockbooks with black interleaved pages for MUH/MLH & white pages for the used. For those that knew him, he was committed to obtaining the highest standard when collecting, securing the very best examples where possible thus you can assume that MLH is very likely to be MVLH while the MUH will be fine and fresh. His ambition when it came to used, was to only collect fine used with genuine postmarks attached to that country and period thus once again you can make the assumption that these will meet this criteria. The "JC" code simply means we do not have to elaborate on the condition or housing of the stamps each time. Meanwhile the numbers in brackets indicate the number of stamps and the current SG Catalogue value, again of which he kept an accurate note for each volume.