Oddments with 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' £15 & £20 (with the Watermark Inverted) each with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, Thick 'POSTAGE' Crown/SA 9d with the Watermark Inverted mint single & used strip of 3, 1d Envelope fine unused, covers including 1879 'ROBE' to Yorkshire with Perf 10 Perkins Bacon 4d & De La Rue 2d, 1894 to New Caledonia, 1895 uprated Postal Card to Austria forwarded to Wurttemberg, 1903 from Germany with boxed 'REBUTS' h/s in red & returned with two different German resealing wafers, etc.
(12 items) (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Nov-09-2022, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2331
Symbol: */O
Cat No: Collection
Stockcard accumulation mostly used with Adelaide Printings 1d x4, 2d x2 & 6d x16 imperf/rouletted up to 1900s, includes 'OS' overprints noted Perkins Bacon 4d x12, potential varieties & postmark interest including a few numeral cancels & squared circles, also 'REPRINT' overprints * x30+, condition quite variable but well worth a look.
(400+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Nov-09-2022, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2332
Symbol: *
Cat No: 163a
1868-76 Crown over Wide SA Watermark De La Rue 2d orange-red Imperforate SG 163a, margins close at top to large at right, small hinge remainder, Cat £1200.
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2333
Symbol: P/L
Cat No: 182 as 1
1883-99 Bantam ½d imperf plate proof in green affixed to a GPO memorandum (133x207mm) with printed date 'June 12th 1882' & stating '...five specimens of the new...Halfpenny Postage Stamps, which have been issued during the present month' & inscribed to "The Postmaster-General/Cuba", faint blemishes; plus an imperf plate proof gutter block of 16 (4x4), superb unmounted. [Gibbons give the release date of SG 182 as 1.3.1883. This advice indicates the issue was 9 months earlier]
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2334
Symbol: */**
Cat No: 188
1883-99 Bantam Perf 15 ½d pale brown SG 188 complete counter-sheet of 240 (20x12) with central horizontal gutter, remarkably well centred, Sheet Number '½d 015468' in Blue at L/R, some perf splitting & reinforcing but of very fresh & fine appearance, Cat £2880++. [The full sheet was of four panes of 120 with a central vertical gutter]
REVENUES: 1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 11½-12½ £5 grey with manuscript cancel "Elder Smith/.../25.10.90" just tying the stamp to a slightly larger piece from a document. Rare. [Because these high value stamps were technically valid for postage, virtually all examples that came onto the market were cleaned and had fake cancels applied. That has resulted in the high values fiscally used being unintended rarities]
