Classics comprising Couriers 4d three very fine singles & a repaired pair, Star Wmk 4d (almost full margins) on outer to Victoria, Numeral Wmks 2d 4d x3 & 1/-, Cat £1450+ plus the repaired pair & the cover.
(10 + cover)
1853 Couriers 4d orange (shades) singles x6 & a horizontal pair, all cut-square with full margins, a few minor thins & imperfections & the one with BN '64' has had a corner added, sound to fine, Cat £3000. Ex Koichi Sato. (8)
1855 London Printings Large Star 1d imperforate plate proof single in carmine on ungummed unwatermarked paper, margins close to large. Ex Michael Blake.
1855 London Printings Large Star 2d deep green SG 15, a huge example with margins close to large & fragments of the adjoining units at left & right, inconsequential closed scissor-cut in the margin at lower-left, manuscript "Torqu[ay]" cancellation, Cat £550.
1857-67 Double-Lined Numeral Watermarks 1d pale red-brown SG 26 horizontal strip of 6 with margins at places & a fragment of the adjoining unit at right, neat Second Allocation BN '91' of Torquay, Cat £250+. A rare & attractive multiple.
1857-67 Double-Lined Numeral Watermarks 1d dull vermilion SG 28 block of 6 (3x2), margins just touched - at lower-left - to good, the fourth unit with a closed 10mm tear at L/L, ironed-out horizontal crease at the top of the lower units, unused, Cat £2400++ for unused singles. A rare multiple.
1858 'TASMANIA' London Printings 6d imperforate plate proof pair in dull violet on Large Star Wmk paper, full margins, ironed-out creases as is always the case; and Local Printings 6d dull slate-grey SG 44 with margins just touching to good tied to piece to Melbourne.
(2 items)
1863-71 Experimental SeparationsPerf 12 by Walch & Sons1d carmine with '2' Error of Watermark SG 70a also with striking Double Print, a few imperfections but possibly unused, Cat £2750 postally used, £300 used fiscally, and unpriced unused.
1863-71 Experimental SeparationsPin-Perf 5½-9½ at Longford 4d bright blue SG 106 three examples, each with Second Allocation BN '54' of Longford, Cat £1950. Ex Michael Blake. (3)
1863-71 Experimental SeparationsPin-Perf 5½-9½ at Longford 6d grey-violet SG 107, an unusually large stamp with a chunk of the adjoining unit at the base, rounded L/R corner, indistinct BN clear of the Queen's face, undercatalogued at £600. Ex Sebastian Earl (from Lot 2252) and Michael Blake. RPSofL Certificate (1955) as the then SG 57 states "it is genuine so far as one can say".
1892-99 Tablets photographic reproductions of the £1 Sperati "die proof" and of two examples of the forgery cancelled at Hobart or Launceston.
(3 items)
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Lot No: 1397
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Cat No: 229-236
1899-1900 De La Rue Pictorials ½d to 6d SG 229-236 complete blocks of 4, large-part o.g. with the lower units - 2½d & 4d all units - being unmounted, Cat £600++ for four mounted sets.
(8 blocks)
1906-09 Crown/A 9d blue Irregular Compound Perf gutter block of 4 from the base of the sheet, Perf 11 except for the right-hand units being Perf 12 at Left ACSC #T72 (SG 256d), a few small tonespots affect the upper units which are lightly mounted, the lower units are unmounted, Cat $1200++ (£1100++) for two mounted singles.
