Four fine used stamps from Brunei's first issue, high catalogue value

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Here we have four fine used stamps from Brunei's elusive first issue of 1895, the Star and Crescent set, with a colour anomaly on the 1-cent stamp. They are the 1-cent red, (not brown as in the catalogue, which I cannot explain) 3-cent blue and 5- and 25-cent green stamps. They have neat handstamp Brunei postmarks of 1895 or '96, three of which are bull's eye or socked-on-the-nose cancels. Fine used, with some blunt perforations and a few minor spots. These are probably cancelled-to-order stamps, which is how Brunei's earlier stamps tend to be found. Three have paper hinge remnants which should be removeable with care, but I cannot guarantee this. The centring varies but is very good on the 3-cent stamp.
The four stamps have a catalogue value in my old Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World catalogue of 136 GB pounds (about 0), but I understand the current catalogue value is quite a bit more.
A not-often-seen used group of stamps the Asian country of Brunei's first issue with a high catalogue value.
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