Great Britain and British Commonwealth South Australia
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 752
Symbol: *O
Cat No: Collection
Selection of 'Long Toms' including a few mint & some official punctures, plus 'HALF/PENNY' on 1d group including Perf 10 mint gutter block of 32 (8x4).
(Qty 140 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 210.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 753
Symbol: O
Cat No: Collection
Basic collection on Seven Seas hingeless pages with Imperfs to 1/- orange, '3-PENCE' in Red on 4d, 'TEN PENCE' on 9d yellow x3, 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' 10/- CTO, £1 with fake cancel, £3 £4 & £15 all with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, Thick 'POSTAGE' to 10/-, good range of 'O.S.' Overprints, condition variable. Attractive estimate!
(Qty 78) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 340.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 754
Symbol: O=
Cat No: Collection
Neat little collection on Hagners with a page of Classics, later to 5/-, 'O.S.' Overprints etc, plenty of postmark interest.
(Qty 200 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 180.00
Sold...AU$ 250.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 755
Symbol: F
Cat No: 2
1855 London Printings 2d rose-carmine SG 2 horizontal pair, margins close to good, the first unit with ironed-out vertical crease, Cat £170+.
1856-58 Adelaide Printings 2d orange-red SG 7 horizontal strip of 3, full margins except at the base of the last unit where just touched, Numeral '25' of Gawler, Cat £240+.
1856-58 Adelaide Printings 1/- orange SG 12, a huge example just touched at L/R but otherwise with very large margins & fragments of the adjoining units at top & right, GPO cds in blue, Cat £500.
1868-79 Perf 11½-12½ '3-PENCE' in Black on 4d deep ultramarine SG 68, exceptional centring, virtually full o.g., Cat £160. An unusually fine example.
1868-76 De La Rue 2d imperforate plate proof blocks of 4 in rose-lake (scissor cut between the upper units), dull violet (creased across the upper units), pale blue & indigo all on ungummed watermarked paper, plus in the the issued colour on gummed watermarked paper. Attractive.
(Qty 5 blocks)
1868-76 De La Rue Perf 10 2d brick-red SG 159 with 30% Void at L/L caused by a fragment of paper on the plate, light squared-circle partly across the void area. A wonderful little item!
1876-1904 De La Rue Crown SA (Narrow) Watermark 2d orange-red Perf 10 as SG 168 but Mixed Perforations with additional row of Perf 11½ at top, light squared circle cancel, a few uneven perfs. Unlisted in Gibbons and absent from the Gary Diffen sale of 29.4.2020. The stamp was originally Perf 10 all around with the top perforations cutting through the design at the Queen's crown creating a 'dwarf' stamp; the additional row of Perf 11½ was applied to 'rescue' the stamp's original size, but was misplaced upwards to include a part of the stamp above; it is quite remarkable that the stamp was separated in such a way as to retain both lines of perforations, and likely that others from the same row were not so lucky as to survive intact.
1883-99 De La Rue Crown SA (Close) Watermark ½d Bantam brown Perf 13 SG 191 pair with Double Perforations vertically between the units, light 'SOUTHERN RAILWAY/AU25/97/SA' squared circle cancel, plus a single with Double Perforations vertically through the design, light 1897 squared circle cancel.
(Qty 2 items)
1902-04 Thin 'POSTAGE' 1/- brown with 'POSTAGE' & 'ONE SHILLING' in Brown-Red ACSC S30A (SG 275c), a few short perfs, Cat $2000 (£1100). One of the most obvious & striking examples we have seen.
1905-12 Crown/A 1d rosine SG 294 complete interpanneau vertical block of 60 (3x20) with No Monogram position on the upper plate & 'JBC' Monogram ACSC S6zb on the lower plate, well centred with full unmounted o.g. A truly remarkable item that reflects the 480-on printings of the Kangaroo issues & that could be used by a Kangaroos collector to illustrate that highly significant technical issue]
OFFICIALS - DEPARTMENTALS: Black 'L.L.' with Defective Second 'L' of the Legislative Library on De La Rue Crown/SA Perf 10 2d. Rated RRRRR. ["Sir Humphrey's" and Vic Bullock's normal examples sold at our auctions of 8.10.2005 & 1.9.2007 for $529 & $786 respectively]
OFFICIALS - OVERPRINTED 'O.S.': Annotated selection on Hagners, a few with Missing Stops and a couple of multiples, generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 41) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..May-19-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 788
Symbol: G
Cat No: Collection
OFFICIALS - OVERPRINTED 'O.S.': Thick 'O.S.' Perf 11½-12½ '3-PENCE' in Black on 4d ultramarine with No Stop after 'O.S ' SG O7a, concealed tears at U/L & the base and a small thin, three strikes of the GPO cds over the 'O.S.' Overprint, Cat £4500. Very rare: believed that only two examples are recorded. RPSofV Certificate (2021).
SG O7 is a very rare stamp absent from major collections including those of Julian Beresford, John Griffiths, Sir Gawaine Baillie, Ron Butler, William Frazer, Peter Jaffé, Harry Lower and Michael Blake. Rev James Mursell (1964) had two that were offered in a mixed lot, neither of them being illustrated but this is believed to be one of those stamps. Interestingly, Gary Diffen's example with No Stop after 'S ' SG O7a exhibits the same 'fuzzy' characteristics of the 'O.S.' overprint as the current stamp: his sold at auction in May 2020 for £2520. A similar example of SG O7 - believed to be the other Mursell stamp & with RPSofV Certificate - sold at our auction of 31.8.2020 for $4552]
OFFICIALS - OVERPRINTED 'O.S.': Thick 'O.S.' 1876-85 Perf 11½-12½ '8 PENCE' on 9d pale brown as SG O26 but with forged 'O.S.', GPO duplex, Cat £3250 if genuine.
OFFICIALS - PUNCTURED 'SA': 1904-11 Crown/SA 2/6d bright violet SG 289 with 'SA' Doubled and irregular separation at the base because of the 'SA' on the unit below being misplaced, untidy Adelaide cds.
COMMERCIAL PERFINS: Long Toms with 'A' of Advertiser Newspaper on 4d & 1/-; 'DWM/LTD' of David Murray on 8d; 'HS/& Co' of Harris Scarfe on 8d; and 'VOCo' of Vacuum Oil upright on 1/-, sideways reading upwards on 8d & sideways reading downwards on 1/-.
(Qty 7)
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 801
Symbol: *
Cat No: Collection
REPRINTS: Group attractively presented on half-size pages with Imperfs 1d x4 including a pair in dark green, 2d x3, 6d x2, 1/- yellow & the Unissued 1/- violet, various perforated issues to 2/- including '3-PENCE' in Red on 4d x2 & in Black on 4d x3, '8 PENCE' on 9d x4, 'TEN PENCE' on 9d yellow in Blue & in Black and 1/- x3, De La Rue 1d & 2d x2; also 'SPECIMEN' Overprint on 1d x2, 2d x2, 6d, 9d & 2/- x2; generally very fine with large-part o.g.
(Qty 44)
