Asia 1917-30 Telegraph Period with Blurred Impressions
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1972
Symbol: O
Remaindered selection on Julie Marshall's exhibit/display pages with ½a black x14 including a pair apparently Printed Double plus a sheet of 64 with four Tete-Beche Pairs, Redrawn 1a x63 including blocks of 4 x3 & blocks of 6 x2 plus six Tete-Beche Pairs two of them in blocks of 4 and a complete sheet of 64 with more Tete-Beche Pairs, 2a array of shades x21, purple-brown block of 12 with two Tete-Beche Pairs, 2a yellow-brown block of 6 with Cliché 9 Omitted and Tete-Beche Pair [10/18], 2a brown Setting 27 Cleaned Lettering x7 including a block of 4, and 4a green x16 including two blocks of 4 (one unused), all with telegraph cancels, finally a page of spurious pin-perfs x18 including ½a black & 1a Tete-Beche Pairs and some dubious cancels, generally very fine to superb, Cat £2800+ (US$3350+). (Image1)
Estimate AU$1,250
Opening AU$ 950.00
Sold...AU$ 950.00
Closed..Mar-01-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 950
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1973
Symbol: #O
HALF ANNA: ½a black selection on Julie Marshall's exhibit pages comprising singles x4, Tete-Beche Pairs x2 [1-2] & [25-26], vertical strip of 4, blocks of 4 x3, block of 8, & lower half-sheet of 32 (8x4) including Tete-Beche Pair [57-58], other annotated varieties, a few faults but most are fine to very fine, various crescent-cancels including full strikes of Birganj & Kathmandu and fancy-boxed cancel of Amlekhganj, Cat £650+ (US$725+). (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Mar-01-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1974
Symbol: O
Cat No: 34 (F&V 17
HALF ANNA: ½a black SG 34 (F&V 17) Setting 13 complete sheet of 64 (8x8) with the outer margins removed, six inverted clichés [1 6 7 8 25 & 57] creating six horizontal or vertical Tete-Beche Pairs SG 34a (F&V 17a), remarkably fine, Cat £680+ (US$730+).
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1975
Symbol: O
Cat No: 35 (F&V 16
HALF ANNA: ½a vermilion SG 35 (F&V 16) Setting 6 singles x3 in different shades including [27] & [41], another with spurious pin perfs, also a forged horizontal Tete-Beche Pair, Cat £1050 (US$1050) for the three used imperf examples. (6) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Mar-01-2023, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1976
Symbol: F/V
Cat No: 27 (F&V 18
ONE ANNA: 1a dull ultramarine Setting 27 SG 27 (F&V 18) complete sheet of 64 (8x8) with the outer margins removed, nine inverted clichés [15 18 23 27 37 40 41 51 & 64] creating nine horizontal or vertical Tete-Beche Pairs SG 27a (F&V 18a), remarkably fine, crescent-cancels of Birganj, Cat £2100+ (US$1000+), for nine Tete-Beche Pairs and 46 singles.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1977
Symbol: g/v
Cat No: 26 (F&V 18
ONE ANNA: 1a dull blue Setting 27 SG 26 (F&V 18) Second State variant with the Clichés 'Cleaned' large-part sheet of 48 (8x6) from the top of the sheet with the outer margins removed, seven inverted clichés [15 18 23 27 37 40 41] creating seven horizontal or vertical Tete-Beche Pairs SG 26a (F&V 18a), remarkably fine, crescent-cancels, Cat £775++ (US$690++), for seven Tete-Beche Pairs and 34 singles. [Hellrigl & Vignola state at page 105 "A variety of the Second State of this heavily used plate is..the so-called 'cleaned lettering' showing large white patches around the letters of the inscriptions..."]
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1978
Symbol: F/V
Cat No: unlisted (F&V
ONE ANNA: 1a pale emerald Error of Colour Setting 27 SG unlisted (F&V 18b) marginal block of 6 [6-8/14-16] from the top of the sheet, [15] Inverted creating a Tete-Beche Pair (F&V 18ba), margins good to large, remarkably fine, crescent-cancels of Birganj largely clear of [15], Cat US$2500+. Superb. Wolfgang Hellrigl Certificate (1985).
In a footnote below SG 29a, Gibbons mention the error of colour of the 1a green as a single cliché SG 41b in a sheet of 4a green, but make no mention of sheets of the 1a in the colour of the 4a. Hellrigl & Vignola state at page 106 state "It should be emphasised that the emerald printings of Setting 27 and the substituted cliché are two totally distinct errors of colour".
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1979
Symbol: O
Cat No: 37-40a
TWO ANNAS: Selection on Julie Marshall's exhibit pages with a remarkable variety of colours & shades - although nothing we consider to be "red" - SG 37-40a group (F&V 19/a) including Stg 20 printings of 1905-06 in lilac & purple including horizontal & vertical Tete-Beche Pairs & an irregular block of 25 (8x3 + one unit at upper-right), Stgs 22-31 printings in brown-red to maroon including four Tete-Beche Pairs (one [47-48] in a block of 4) & a further five Tete-Beche Pairs in a block of 16 [1-8/9-16], printings in pale brown to sepia including four Tete-Beche Pairs and upper-left corner block of 9 [1-3/9-11/17-19] with a blank position [9] & two vertical Tete-Beche Pairs [10/18] & [11/19], generally very fine to superb, Cat £2300+ (US$1450+). A remarkable lot. [We agree that the major shade groups should be amalgamated in the catalogues. There are at least three distinct colour groups in the 2a, but they are all lumped together by Frajola & Vignola]
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1980
Symbol: G/F
Cat No: 40 (F&V 19
TWO ANNAS: 2a brown SG 40 (F&V 19) Setting 29 complete sheet of 56 (8x7) with two blank positions [1] & [9] and [8 14 15 18 19 & 48] all Inverted resulting in six horizontal or vertical Tete-Beche Pairs SG 40a (F&V 19a), the sheet margins removed resulting in several units being touched or a little cut-into on one side but most units are very fine, crescent cancels of Birganj, Cat £760++ (US$720++). Another remarkable feature of this item is the shade variation across the sheet, from dark brown at right to pale brown at left.
Sale No: 250
Lot No: 1981
Symbol: #
Cat No: 40 (F&V 19
TWO ANNAS: 2a chestnut SG 40 (F&V 19) Setting 31 complete sheet of 56 (8x7) with three blank positions [1] [9] & [49] and [5 8 14 15 18 19 & 48] all Inverted resulting in seven horizontal or vertical Tete-Beche Pairs SG 40a (F&V 19a), full sheet margins, several prominent paper inclusions including at centre-top otherwise very fine to superb, unused, Cat £1250++ (US$1400++). Again, the intensity of the shades varies across the sheet. [Hellrigl & Vignola state at page 148 "[Setting 31 was] prepared for issue but, we believe, never issued..." Wolfgang Hellrigl's similar sheet, in a deeper shade, sold for SFr720]
FOUR ANNAS: Selection on Julie Marshall's exhibit pages with singles x4 (two from the 1901-07 printings released in 1917), a horizontal Tete-Beche Pair [53-54], blocks of 4 9 & 15, and from the Third State a block of 39 (8x4, missing the lower-right unit) with horizontal Tete-Beche Pair [53-54] & unit [56] being a heavily over-inked blob of colour, generally very fine, Cat £2500+ (US$2400+).
FOUR ANNAS: 4a bright green SG 41 Setting 12 complete sheet of 64 with large sheet margins, Pos [8] is the 1a Error of Colour which is also Inverted! SG 41b creating a horizontal Tete-Beche Pair [7-8 ](F&V 18ca), Unit [56; the 'Blob of Colour] has also been substituted & is also inverted creating a horizontal Tete-Beche Pair [55-56], in addition [54] & [57] are inverted creating a further two Tete-Beche Pairs, Unit [57] stained from a large paper inclusion otherwise very fine to superb unused, Cat £3650++ (US$5800++). Richard Frajola's corner pair [7-8] sold for US$501. [Note: Gibbons list the Error of Colour, but they neither list nor price it in a tete-beche pair]
