SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1876-1900 Broad Star Watermark - Compound Perforat
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1219
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Cat No: 140 with
SIX PENCE: 6d bright blue SG 140 with regular compound perf 10x11½-12½ horizontal strip of 6, some reinforced perfs, very fresh with large-part o.g., Cat £1200+, for singles.
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1220
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Cat No: 141 with
SIX PENCE: 6d bright ultramarine SG 141 with regular compound perf 10x11½-12½ block of 6 (3x2), minor natural wrinkling, reinforced perfs, very fresh with large-part o.g., Cat £900+, for singles. One of the most attractive of all the Perkins Bacon shades. Ex John Griffiths.
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1221
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Cat No: 141 with
SIX PENCE: 6d bright ultramarine SG 141 with regular compound perf 10x11½-12½ block of 4 with the central horizontal perfs misplaced & rectified with an additional Line of Perf 11½ thereby creating two irregular compound perf 11½-12½x11½-12½x10x11½-12½ units at the base, very fresh with large-part o.g. and the lower units are unmounted, Cat £600+++, for normal singles. An important and unlisted Mixed Perforations variant.
Only one other block of 4 and three pairs have been recorded, apparently all from the same sheet. Gary Diffen's similar block of 4 - all units mounted - sold for £1920.
ONE SHILLING: 1/- red-brown SG 142 with regular compound perf 10x11½-12½ on cover with printed 'Via Brindisi' at upper-left & on the flap 'FRANCIS CLARK & SONS/ADELAIDE' (affected by minor opening fault), to Somerset with 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S3 /JA31/85/ADELAIDE - S AUSTRALIA' duplex & superb 'BATH/MR9/85' arrival b/s. [The dates are definitely correct, making this the Earliest Recorded Usage for the 1/- by nine days]
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1223
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Cat No: Collection
TWO SHILLINGS: 2/- deep carmine horizontal pair Imperforate Between SG 144a, untidy 'SHIP MAIL ROOM' duplex, Cat £6500. Only four pairs have been recorded, one of which is in the Royal Collection. RPSofL Certificate (1958). The 'Besancon' (I)/Gary Diffen example - minor creasing - sold for £3600. [Gibbons state that the error is from the 'rose-carmine' printing, SG 145a. This is not correct: it is clear from the 'Besancon' and Diffen illustrations, and of the William Frazer pair, that all these items are printed in deep carmine]
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1224
Symbol: CL
Cat No: 144 with
TWO SHILLINGS: 2/- dull carmine SG 144 with regular compound perf 10x11½-12½ irregular block of 7 (4x2, without the first unit) plus Perf 10x11½ 6d bright blue SG 140, on large-part linen-lined cover-front to London "p Liguria", 'SHIP MAIL ROOM' duplex of AU11/83 & a small back flap attached with 'PLYMOUTH/SP19/SHIP-LETTER' transit b/s (no year slug), ironed-out vertical fold & minor blemishes. 2/- frankings are very scarce. This remarkable 14/6d franking is one of the highest Perkins Bacon frankings recorded. Several other similar items from this correspondence - with rates as high as 17/6d - have survived, but most have significant defects.
