Great Britain and British Commonwealth South Australia
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 589
Symbol: *#
Cat No: 2 (3½ margins
Useful range on Hagners with Classics including London Printings 2d SG 2 (3½ margins) & 1/- plate proof single in black, First Roulettes 1/- orange-yellow (spacefiller; Cat £15,000), Second Roulettes to 1/-, De La Rue 2d printings including Star Wmk Rouletted SG 164 with Misplaced Roulettes, 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 10 15/- (a bit aged) and Perf 11½-12½ £1 (superb), Thin 'POSTAGE' & Thick 'POSTAGE' sets to £1, Crown/A set to 5/-, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine with large-part original gum.
(100+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$1,500
Opening AU$ 1,150.00
Sold...AU$ 2,100.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 2100
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 590
Symbol: O
Selection of Perkins Bacon issues including London Printings Imperf 1d (very fine & attractive with margins just touching to good) & 6d (three margins), Adelaide Printings 2d blood-red (3 margins) & Rouletted 1/- yellow-orange, Second Roulettes to 2/- including a huge 4d & 'TEN PENCE' on 9d x3, colourful selection of later printings including '3-PENCE' in Red on 4d and 'TEN PENCE' on 9d x2, also 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' 15/- & £1 CTO, £2 postally used at 'WALLAROO' and another apparently unused but cleaned, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(82) (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 1,300.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1300
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 591
Symbol: O#*
Cat No: Collection
Stockbook collection with sound pairs of the 1855 1d 2d & 6d, some other "imperfs" have probably had roulettes removed and the scarce compound separations are probably fakes, V/Crown 4d with 'KADINA' cds, 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' reprints to £1 with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, other Tall Stamps to 5/- x2, etc, 'O.S.' Overprints including some spurious examples, a few useful postmarks, condition variable. Close inspection is recommended.
(few 100) (Image1)
Estimate AU$1,000
Opening AU$ 750.00
Sold...AU$ 1,700.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1700
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 592
Symbol: *O
Cat No: Collection
Neat little collection with Imperf 2d single (with certificate) & pair, 6d slate-blue and 1/- orange, Rouletted 2d bright vermilion superb mint, 'TEN PENCE' on 9d orange-red & 1/- yellow x2, perforated issues to 2/- x5 (one with a commercial perfin), attractive range of Tall Stamps with a few mint including 2/6d x2 & 5/-, also Official overprints & perfins, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(300+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 1,050.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1050
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 593
Symbol: O
Cat No: Collection
Three stockbooks of De La Rue 1d greens, 2d oranges & 1d pinks with potential for finding varieties, and a stockbook of Adelaide 19th century datestamps (heavily duplicated in parts; noted 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' 5/- on piece), condition variable.
(many 100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 290.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 290
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 594
Symbol: F
Cat No: 2
1855 London Printings 2d rose-carmine SG 2 horizontal strip of 3, margins close to huge with a chunk of the adjoining unit at right, light numeral cancels largely clear of the Queen's face on all units, Cat £285+. Superb.
1856-58 Adelaide Printings 2d blood-red SG 8, margins close to large, unused, Cat £3750. A rare stamp unused, especially this fine. Superb. Ex Maurice Burrus and Michael Blake: sold at our auction of 7.2.2014 for $5060. BPA Certificate (1963). [In the Blake catalogue, it was stated to be "a little soiled". Subsequently, it has been professionally revitalised]
1856-58 Adelaide Printings Imperf 2d red SG 9 horizontal pair from the left of the sheet, margins good to huge, large-part original gum, Cat £2000+. An unusually large & attractive pair.
1858-59 First Roulettes 6d slate-blue SG 17 with rouletting on all sides with a chunk of the adjoining unit at right, large-part original gum, Cat £1600. RPSofV Certificate (2014). Harry Lower's and Dr Don Pearce's very fine examples sold for $1570 & $1530 respectively.
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 598
Symbol: #
Cat No: Collection
1860-69 Second Roulettes 1d yellow-green, 2d bright vermilion, 4d slate-purple (a huge stamp), 6d two shades, 9d grey-lilac, 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d orange-red, 1/- yellow (repaired tear at the base; Cat £2000) and 1/- red-brown, mostly fine to very fine unused, Cat £4300. A colouful group.
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Sale No: 255
Lot No: 601
Symbol: #
Cat No: 50 & 61
1867-70 Perf 11½-12½xRouletted 1d two shades, 6d Prussian blue, 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d yellow and 1/- two shades between SG 50 & 61, unused, Cat £6300. Very difficult to assemble. (6)
1868-79 Perf 11½-12½ 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d yellow SG 78a with the Watermark Reversed, GPO cds of NO11/68, Cat £2000. Absent from 'Besancon'. Harry Lower's, Michael Blake's and Don Pearce's examples sold for $2990 $2445 & $2242 respectively.A rare stamp that is seriously underrated, in part because it is listed by Gibbons under the Large Star Watermark issue., where it is "lost". No unused examples have been recorded. Often characterised as an 'error', in the catalogue for the John Griffiths' sale, it was noted that this was a trial printing on the paper to be used for the new De La Rue 2d SG 152, issued in August 1868. We consider that it was either that or an emergency printing perhaps inadvertently on the new paper, and expect that all examples have the watermark reversed. Gary Diffen has recorded about 40 examples, some of which are defective or 'dwarf' stamps.
1870-71 Perf 10 '3-PENCE' in Red on 4d dull ultramarine SG 91, large-part aged brown original gum; and '3-PENCE' in Black on 4d bright ultramarine SG 93, unused, Cat £2350. (2)
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 607
Symbol: *
Cat No: 112 & 132
1876-1900 Broad Star '3-PENCE' on 4d, '8 PENCE' on 9d brown, 9d rose-lilac, 1/- two shades & 2/- carmine between SG 112 & 132, large-part original gum, Cat £800. (6)
1901-02 Wide Crown/SA Watermark 1/- dark reddish brown SG 148 marginal example from the base of the sheet Imperf Horizontally, large-part original gum. Ex Gary Diffen: sold for £312. [The Diffen catalogue stated that the stamp has "a light horizontal crease". It does not - but does have a horizontal watermark line from the base of the sheet - see the online scans]
1868-76 De La Rue 2d imperforate plate proof blocks of 24 (12x2) in bright orange from the top of the ungummed sheet, and in orange-red from the base of the gummed sheet with Plate Number '2' at both corners.
(2 blocks)
Grade A
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 610
Symbol: *
Cat No: 157
1868-76 De La Rue Perf 10xRouletted 2d dull orange SG 157 horizontal pair, small central thin, large-part original gum, Cat £1500. A very scarce multiple. Ex Barton Sparrow. RPSofL Certificate (1994).
1883-99 Bantam Perf 10x11½-12½ ½d red-brown horizontal pair Imperf Between SG 186a, a few short perfs at left otherwise very fine, large-part original gum, Cat £2000. Rare: only two other examples recorded. Ex Rev James Mursell (1964) and Gary Diffen: sold for £960.
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 613
Symbol: P
Cat No: Collection
1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Tall Stamps 5/- imperforate undenominated plate proof in lilac marginal horizontal pair from the right-hand side of the sheet, plus an imperforate plate proof in lilac with the denomination in red marginal single from the left-hand side of the sheet and a Perf 14 plate proof in lilac with the denomination in red marginal single from the base of the sheet, all on gummed paper & unmounted, very fine. A lovely group.
(3 items)
1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 11½-12½ £10 bronze as SG 206a but from the special printing all of which were suposed to be overprinted 'SPECIMEN', characteristic rough perfs, the surface rubbed causing much of the metallic lustre to be lost, large-part gum, Cat £9500 for the original printing. Chris Ceremuga Certificate states "... without the specimen overprint ... very rare".
1894 Tannenberg Designs 2½d Kangaroo die proof in black on glazed card (92x60mm), '16OCT94' handstamp in blue at upper-left. Superb. Ex De La Rue Archives. Don Pearce's superb 2½d & 5d die proofs with 'AFTER/STRIKING' handstamp sold for $560 & $1035 respectively.
DEPARTMENTALS: 'C.O.' of Commissariat Office in Black on 1/- brown SG DO129 horizontal pair, Grossly Misplaced Perfs with 'POSTAGE' at the Base, unused, Cat £150+, for normal singles.
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 623
Symbol: O
Cat No: Collection
OFFICIAL PERFINS: Annotated selection of 'SA' errors on denominations to 2/6d x2 including Inverted or Reversed, Double & Triple Punctures and a 4d witrh Quadruple Punctures, also Thick 'POSTAGE' 6d with Extra Line of Horizontal Perfs above the Value Tablet x2, all postally used which is scarcer than mint for such material, condition variable. Ex Ken Killeen. Challenging group to assemble.
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Sale No: 255
Lot No: 624
Symbol: *
Cat No: Collection
REPRINTS: Duplicated collection on five stocksheets with lots of shade variation, the odd separation fault but generally fine to very fine and mostly with part- to large-part original gum. Very colourful array.
(180) (Image1)
Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 1,050.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1050
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 625
Symbol: *
Cat No: Collection
REPRINTS: Neat selection x35 on two album pages and a further 47 on an official presentation sheet (very scarce but with the outer margins removed), the latter group includes 12 overprinted 'SPECIMEN', the odd separation fault but generally fine to very fine and mostly with part- to large-part original gum. Another very colourful display.
(82)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 1,050.00
Closed..Feb-20-2024, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1050
Sale No: 255
Lot No: 626
Symbol: *O
RAILWAY STAMPS: 1885 small selection including 1d green mint with large-part gum, 9d violet with light but largely very fine 'SALISBURY/FE 23/87/S_A' squared-circle postal cancel and 2/- rose with 'ADELAIDE/SAR' cds and another 2/- rosine (two very distinctly different shades), etc, Elsmore Online Cat $400+.
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