COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Postal Stationery - Postal Cards
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1233
Symbol: PS
Cat No: Collection
Attractive group including Coronation x4 different, Victrorian Scenes x5 different, 'ONE/PENNY' on 1½d brown & on 1½d green ACSC P58 (badly stained on the reverse) & 59 both with the Surcharge at an Angle, 2d scarlet (stained on the reverse), QEII 4d on 3d with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, etc, also 'OS' KGV 1d green Die I both types of 'O S' & 1½d on 1d Die I with "solid" 'O S', and STO Star with 'POSTAGE' 1d green for Cayce-Paul Motors (Sydney), generally fine to very fine unused, Cat $4200+.
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Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 460.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 460
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1234
Symbol: PS
1923 'ONE/PENNY' Surcharges 1d on 1½d brown with Footnote ACSC #P57 (a bit aged), 1d on 1½d red-brown with Footnote Removed #P58 (bumped corners but fine), 1d on 1½d emerald with No Footnote #P59 (superb!) & 1d on 1½d emerald with Redrawn Header & Footnote Added #P60 (very fine), all unused, Cat $2800. Rarely available as a "set".
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Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1235
Symbol: PS
Cat No: Collection
KGV 1d green all-different group mostly Die III with variety of all-different printed messages including for Grand Lodge of Western Australia Freemasons, Australian Gas Light Co, Waltons Cocoa, Chocolate & Confectionery, McEwan's Hardware Annual Sale, Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Commonwealth Club of Adelaide, WC Douglass Ltd 'ABC Tea', etc, all used after 1.8.1930 paying printed matter rate, a couple endorsed "Second Class Mail Matter" or similar, condition generally fine to very fine. [On 1.8.1930 the postcard rate was increased to 1½d each and the 1d cards could be used only for the printed matter rate; the ACSC states these "... are scarcer than cards used for the postal card rate (price $75 used)"]
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1976 Scenic Issue 18c complete set in red packet including the 16 views that were substituted, nine for relatively minor technical reasons, the other seven - with the "new" versions for comparison - because it was claimed the actual photographs had to be replaced, unused. Superb! Modern rarities: with a normal pack for comparison. [Andy Jansen's set sold at the Prestige auction of 7.12.2012 for $2070. Another set sold at our auction of 22.6.2019 for $1617]
The reintroduction of Postal Cards, after a hiatus of 19 years, was accompanied by both great fanfare and one of the greatest production snafus ever created by the Post Office. It is debatable if most of the selection/technical "problems" identified required rectification. Several of the substituted views are artistically inferior to those they replaced. However, Port Macquarie (NSW) had not moved to Coolangatta (Qld)! Virtually all of the original sets were destroyed & very few were actually distributed.
The importance of all this is that the stamp impressions were the same as the views, meaning that Australia Post issued seven error stamps in miniscule proportions. If these were adhesive stamps, the seven withdrawn designs would each be worth thousands of dollars.
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