PLATE PROOFS: 1d bistre to 1/- green imperforate singles in the issued colours on gummed Crown/CC paper, the 2d a little cut-into at the base otherwise with margins clear to good, part- to large-part o.g. Very colourful set. (5)
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2439
Symbol: #*
Cat No: 52-62
ISSUED STAMPS: 1d bistre to 1/- sage-green SG 52-62 (ex 1d yellow-ochre & 2d yellow), fresh colours & mostly well centred, unused & a few with part-o.g., Cat £2340.
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ISSUED STAMPS: 2d mauve Error of Colour SG 55b, excellent colour & unusually well centred, unused, Cat £22,000. Far more attractive than the John Gartner/Trevor Hiscock regummed example that sold at our auction of 22.2.2013 for $15,725. Dr Cecil Walkley's regummed example sold for $18,400. The Sir Gawaine Baillie & 'Besancon' (I) mint examples sold for $41,400 & SFr19,200 respectively.
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2441
Symbol: #
Cat No: 56 block of 4
ISSUED STAMPS: 4d carmine SG 56 block of 4, misplaced perfs so cut from the sheet at left & base to preserve the designs, unused, Cat £600+, for singles.
Sale No: 249
Lot No: 2443
Symbol: F
Cat No: Collection
ISSUED STAMPS: 1/- bright green SG 61 block of 8 (4x2), well centred, multiple strikes of a 13-bar 'killer' cancel. An exceptional & rare multiple, believed exceeded only by Lord Vestey's heavily cancelled block of 9 that sold for £1560. Ex John Dibiase: sold for $2875. [A client in Perth has advised that there was also a block of 9 in the 'Besancon' sale: not sure how we missed it. 'Chartwell' had a block of 9 in the sage-green shade. There is also a block of 12 of SG 61 in the institutionalised Bromfield Collection]
ISSUED STAMPS: 1874 Surcharge 'ONE PENNY' in Green on perf 12½ 2d yellow First Setting (at the base) with Triple Surcharge SG 67b, a few trimmed perfs, light 15-bar '20' cancel of Geraldton, Cat £7500. Ex Dr Cecil Walkley: sold for $2910 & Ex Gary Diffen. RPSofV Certificate (2005). Lord Vestey's very fine example sold for £2640.
Mogens Juhl stated that the Triple Surcharges occurred on the first sheet printed. The sheet was probably in the nature of an essay or trial printing that was still pressed into service. Juhl states that the sheet was divided in half, one part being sent to Geraldton, from which only four examples are recorded. Gary Diffen states that 14 examples are recorded in private hands, of which three have the imperial puncture.
