FOUR PENCE: 4d SG 3/3a three singles in different shades, the first two with good even margins, the last with margins close to large, unused, Cat £1275. (3)
FOUR PENCE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c, full rich colour, margins good to large, unused, Cat £4000. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £1080. BPA Certificate (2007). [Lord Vestey's four other non-marginal singles sold for an average of £1700 each. The similar 'Besancon' (II) example sold for SFr3145]
FOUR PENCE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c, an unusually large example with margins good to large, 15-bars '8' of Fremantle, Cat £1300. Sold at our auction of 11.5.2012 for $1515.
FOUR PENCE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c with unlisted variety 'TE' of 'WESTERN' Joined at the Base, full rich colour, an unusually large example with margins close to huge, unused, Cat £4000+. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £3360. BPA Certificate (2007).
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with Foot of 'T' of 'POSTAGE' Shaved to a Point SG 3d, margins close to good except at the base where a little cut-into, unused, Cat £2250. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2007).
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with Base of the 'T' of 'POSTAGE' Shaved to a Point SG 3d, margins good to large, 15-bars '8' cancel of Fremantle well clear of the variety, Cat £1000. David Brandon Certificate (2011). Sold at our auction of 11.5.2012 for $845.
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d pale blue with Tilted Border SG 3i, margins just just clear - at lower-right - to large, unused, Cat £3250. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £1020. BPA Certificate (2007), with notation "gum removed July 2015". [NB: most stamps offered as the Tilted Border varieties are mis-identified. The key identifier is the small white arcs below 'OS' of 'POSTAGE']
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with Tilted Border SG 3i, margins clear to good, void grid cancel largely clear of the tell-tale White Arcs below 'OS' of 'POSTAGE', Cat £1600. RPSofV Certificate (2006).
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2391
Symbol: #
Cat No: 3m [Pos R6/4]
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with 'EN' of 'PENCE' Shorter SG 3m [Pos R6/4], margins close to good, unused, Cat £3250. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2015), states "...rare variety". [Absent from Lord Vestey's array of transfer varieties]
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2392
Symbol: F
Cat No: 3q [Pos R8/17]
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d pale blue with Squashed 'WESTERN' SG 3q [Pos R8/17], margins close to good, large-part strike of 15-bar '21' cancel of Vasse in blue & rare thus largely clear of the variety, Cat £1800+. Superb. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £1080. BPA Certificate (2007). [Vasse used a void grid canceller until at least early-1856. PMI states numeral '21' was allocated in 1859 but is recorded only from 1863. However, Pope & Reynolds record covers from AU29/1859. This strike must be one of the earliest usages]
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2393
Symbol: #
Cat No: 3r [Pos R9/15]
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with Small Head on 'P' of 'PENCE' SG 3r [Pos R9/15], margins close to good, unused, Cat £3750. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £3000. BPA Certificate (2007).
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2394
Symbol: #
Cat No: 3t [Pos
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with 'PE' of 'PENCE' Closer Together SG 3t [Pos R10/15], margins close to good, unused, Cat £3750. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2015). [Lord Vestey's example sold for £2880]
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with Narrow 'N' of 'PENCE' SG 3u [Pos R10/16], margins good to large, 15-bars '16' cancel of York largely clear of the variety, Cat £1500. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2009).
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2396
Symbol: F
Cat No: 3y [Pos R8/11]
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with No Colour over 'GE' of 'POSTAGE' & Colour Line below 'FOU' of 'FOUR' SG 3y [Pos R8/11], margins close to large, 15-bars '8' cancel of Fremantle in blue largely clear to fully clear of the varieties, Cat £1800. Superb. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £1560. BPA Certificate (2007).
FOUR PENCE - LISTED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d pale blue SG 3 marginal block of 18 (3x6) from the top of the sheet [3-5/103/105] including Boil on Head of 'S' of 'AUSTRALIA' [25] and 'EN' of 'PENCE' Shorter [104] SG 3m, margins good to humungous, horizontal creases through the margins between the second & third rows & the fifth & sixth rows, a few other units creased, professionally cleaned to remove residue from the original gum, Cat £9625++, for unused singles. Ex Frank Chadwick. Sold at our auction of 31.8.2020 for $11,680.
ONE SHILLING: 1/- salmon SG 4, margins good to large except at the top where the design is a little cut-into, tiny nick at the top & minor crease at upper-left, unusually fine strike of the Grid '14' of Albany in brownish red, Cat £4750. A rare & underrated stamp: most examples offered for sale are misidentified. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2015) states "Great rarity as less than ten definite examples of this shade are known to me". Superior to Trevor Hiscock's two examples that sold in 2013 for $3030 & $2680 respectively. Dr Cecil Walkley's very fine example sold for $11,650.
ONE SHILLING: 1/- deep red-brown SG 4a with Line through 'A' of 'POSTAGE', margins just touching - at left - to good, unused, Cat £2000. Ex Lord Vestey: sold for £960. BPA Certificate (2007).
ONE SHILLING: 1/- deep red-brown SG 4a, margins just touching to large with a fragment of the adjoining unit at left, unusually fine strike of the Grid '14' of Albany in brownish red, Cat £1100.
FOUR PENCE: Rouletted 4d blue SG 5a, rouletting clear of the design on three sides & imperf at left also well clear of the design, unused, unpriced by Gibbons who price the pale blue shade SG 5 at £4000.
