Selection with mint including Kangaroos Second Wmk 5/- and Third Wmk 10/- (Fifth Setting) & £1 and KGV New Colours, etc, condition variable, Cat £700.
(Qty 32)
Selection on Hagners with mint values to 2/- & 5/- x2 and used values to 2/- x2 (one with the Watermark Inverted), mostly fine to very fine; also two registered philatelic covers each with a stamp missing.
(Qty 50+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 250.00
Sold...AU$ 650.00
Closed..Aug-03-2022, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 650
Sale No: 248
Lot No: 1403
Symbol: *
Cat No: Collection
Group on KGV Heads on two Hagners, with ½d x21, 1d x18, 2d orange x3, 4d orange x11, 4d violet x4 & 5d x3, also Papua Bicolours four imprint strips of 3; generally fine to very fine.
(Qty 77)
1915-16 Overprints on Kangaroos Second Wmk 5/- SG 92 type b (Cat £150 x5+ on cover) tied to Blatter cover to Switzerland by Rabaul cds of 15AP18, German-pattern RL, Sydney transit & Bern arrival b/s, a couple of very minor blemishes.
1918-22 Fifth Setting on Kangaroos & KGV ½d to 10/- between SG 102 & 117 plus 1915-16 £1 brown & blue SG 99 type b tied to local philatelic cover by multiple strikes of the Rabaul cds of 25MR20, vertical fold through the 2d Kangaroo, Cat £900 as used stamps.
(Qty 14)
POSTAL HISTORY: 1915 (March) commercial cover front to New Britain Corporation in Sydney with NWPI Kangaroos 2½d x3 (all damaged before being affixed) tied by two strikes of the straight-line 'Station Kieta' h/s in blue & overstruck with three of four strikes of the 'TULAGI/28MR15/BRITISH SOLOMON IDS' cds, part of the reverse still present with Sydney arrival b/s of 8AP15, vertical folds at left. A very rare cover: fine strikes of the postmark on loose stamp are worth $500+. [We have never seen usage of any other stamp with this marking, suggesting that at the time only the 2½d had been allocated to Kieta]
POSTAL HISTORY: 1925 social cover to Argentina with scarce franking of New Colours 1d violet pair & 2d scarlet tied by three characteristically light but discernible strikes of the rare 'WITU/NEW GUINEA' cds overstruck with Buenos Aires arrival of MAY10/1925, minor peripheral damage. [Most usage of the Witu cds is on PPCs that were not actually posted]
