ROULETTED STAMPS LATER PERFORATED 11½-12½: 9d grey-lilac SG 49 with rouletting at top & right, Pre-Printing Paper Fold, good colour, large-part o.g., Cat £2750. Rare. Ex Colonel Harry Napier. Michael Blake's mint example sold for $4425.
ROULETTED STAMPS LATER PERFORATED 11½-12½: 9d grey-lilac SG 49 with rouletting at base & right, good colour, tied to small piece by 'GPO/JU18/72/ADELAIDE' cds, Cat £250. Ex Julian Beresford, where it was offered "on 1872 cover to London", before sadly being reduced to a piece only.
ROULETTED STAMPS LATER PERFORATED 11½-12½: 9d grey-lilac SG 49 with rouletting at base & right, good colour, small separation fault at lower-right, tied to cover to England by 'GPO ADELAIDE/JY16/72/SA' cds, superb 'LONDON-WC/ 7B /SP2/72/PAID' cds in red on the face, minor blemishes. Only one other SG 49 cover has been recorded. Ex Colonel Harry Napier. RPSofL Certificate (1949). NB: stamps from this issue are not priced on cover by Gibbons.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 1d grey-green SG 52 horizontal strip of 3, cut from the sheet at right to preserve the design, large-part (brown) o.g., Cat £1500+, for unused singles. A rare multiple. [There have been no recent offerings of Penny unused multiples larger than pairs. The 'Besancon' (I) mint pair of SG 51 - Cat £900+ - sold for SFr1560]
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 1d grey-green SG 52 very fine horizontal pair tied by poor numeral '30' of 'TANUNDA' (cds alongside) to Wagener cover to Stepney, largely fine 'P - O/ 1 / AP23/70/RAILWAY' transit b/s, a little truncated at left on opening. A rare franking. Ex Henry Frenkel. RPSofL Certificate (1973).
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 4d dull purple SG 54, ironed-out creasing, unused, Cat £3250. A rare stamp. The very fine 'Chartwell' and 'Besancon' (II) mint examples sold for £1560 & SFr2175 respectively.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 6d bright pale blue SG 56, minor blemishes, large-part o.g., Cat £1200. Michael Blake's mint example - "tiny closed scissor-cut at lower-left" - sold for $870.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 6d bright pale blue SG 56 tied by very fine GPO cds of NO11/68 to flimsy cover with 'ES WIGG/ADELAIDE' embossing on the flap (affected by opening tears) to Warwickshire, largely very fine 'ATHERSTONE/JA2/69' arrival b/s, light toning/aging. A rare franking.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 6d Prussian blue SG 57 on mourning cover to Scotland, GPO cds of JA5/70 & Aberdeen arrival b/s of FE26/70, flap fault just impinges on the face. A surprisingly scarce franking.
PERF 11½-12½xROULETTED: 6d Prussian blue SG 57 plus De La Rue Rouletted 2d dull orange-red pair on cover to England "Via Marseilles", 'GPO ADELAIDE/ G /OC13/69/S-A' cancels & faint London arrival b/s in red, redirected to Yorkshire with GB Penny Red separated pair [KA-KB; Plate undiscernible] affixed & tied by bold 'E/16' "killers", 'HUDDERSFIELD/ A /DE1/69' arrival backstamp, a little soiled. An attractive mixed/combination franking.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d orange-yellow SG 59 with Overprint Sub-Type II (Second 'E' of 'PENCE' Raised), strong colour, large-part o.g., Cat £1800. An unusually fine example of this rare stamp. Superior to the 'Besancon' (II) mint example that sold for SFr2055.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d orange-yellow SG 59 the six sub-types of the overprint, GPO cds, Cat £215. Difficult to assemble. Harry Lower's similar 'set' sold for $632. (6)
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d yellow Printed on Both Sides SG 59a with the original impression on the 'reverse' orientated upright relative to the 'face', very fine 'KAPUNDAAU14/69/[SA]' cds, Cat £1300. Rare & underrated. Probably Ex Colonel Harry Napier. BPA Certificate (1983). Superior to Harry Lower's and Michael Blake's examples - both with separation issues - that sold for $1320 & $1515 respectively. Peter Jaffé's example - creased - sold for $1435.The truly remarkable aspect of this stamp is that, the surcharge being on the front only, the reverse is a 9d yellow which, of course, was never issued.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d orange-yellow SG 59 with Overprint Sub-Type I ('N' of 'PENCE' Dropped) on cover with 'FRANCIS CLARK & SONS/BLYTH ST/ADELAIDE' embossing on the flap & 'VIA MARSEILLES' "ribbon" in blue at upper-left, to Sussex with untidy 'GPO/DE8/69/=ADELAIDE=' cds, 'BATTLE/JA24/70' transit & 'HAWKHURST' arrival backstamp of the same date.Francis Clark arrived at Adelaide in 1850. He established a business as hardware importers & shipping agents, that later became a prominent engineering firm, specialising in well-drilling equipment.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 1/- brown SG 60-61 group in a bright red-brown shade, large-part o.g., Cat £550. [For comments about the 'brown' shades see Lot 1108] The illustration is above Lot 1127.
1867-70 PERF 11½-12½xROULETTE: 1/- brown SG 60-61 group in a bright red-brown shade + 6d Prussian blue SG 57 on double-9d rate mourning cover to Somerset, light Port Adelaide cds of DE22/69, three different 'BRISTOL' backstamps of JA29/70, repaired opening-tear across the flap & minor blemishes. Ex Wise (1943) and Bernhard Forster.
