1855 London printing 1d dark green, fine mint, part og, clear to good margins, a scarce stamp (SG £8’500) Expertise: Signed Diena, Bloch, cert. Diena (1961) and Friedl (1982) (Image)

1855 London printing 1d dark green, fine unused (traces of og only), good margins and deep original colour, scarce (SG £8’500) Expertise: Cert. RPS (1949), Brandon (2004) (Image)

1855 London printing 2d rose-carmine horiz. pair with sheet margin at right, fine mint with good margins and colour, folded in margin only at right, nice multiple (SG £1’500+) Expertise: Cert. BPA (1985) (Image)

1855 London printing 2d rose-carmine fresh mint pair with good margins all round, scarce (SG £1’500) Expertise: Cert. RPS (1958) (Image)

1855 London printing 2d rose-carmine fresh unused without gum, good to large margins all around (SG £750) (Image)

1855 London printing 6d deep blue, very fresh unused with part gum, good margins all round, excellent deep original colour, trace of slight thin at top right, a rare stamp, ex William Frazer stock (SG £3’750) (Image)

1855 London printing 6d deep blue, fresh mint with large part og, touched at lower right, good to large margins elsewhere, a rare stamp (SG £4’750) Expertise: Cert. RPSV (2002) (Image)

1855 London printing 1s imperforate plate proof in black in block of ten, severed between and rejoined, sixth stamp showing “line through SHILLING”, one stamp with fault, scarce multiple Provenance: Jaffé (Image)

1856-56 Colonial printing 2d carmine-red, a very fresh used strip of five with neat “25” numerals of Gawler, small scissor cut at top of fourth stamp, most attractive and scarce (Image)

1860-69 Second roulette issue 1d bright yellow green in mint block of 12 with dried flat gum, some creasing and one stained, a scarce multiple despite faults (SG £1’440 as singles) Provenance: Jaffé (Image)

1860-69 Second roulette issue 4d dull violet in block of four, fine and fresh mint with nearly full original gum (SG £560+) Expertise: Cert. Sismondo (2009) (Image)

1868-79 9d Grey-Lilac with variety perf. x roulette (at foot) unused with part gum, small mark on cheek, a very rare variety unused (SG unpriced mint) Expertise: Cert. RPS (1970) (Image)

1868-79 3 PENCE on 4d, error SURCHARGE OMITTED, used with light Adelaide GPO cds, shallow thinning at foot, the major rarity of South Australia with just ten used examples known (four of which are in institutional collections), and the key piece to any advanced display of this colony (SG £15’000) Provenance: Jaffé Expertise: Cert. BPA (1967) and Brandon (2006) (Image)

1868-79 Wmk Star 1s dark red brown, a fresh mint block of four, scarce (SG £600+) (Image)

1876-1900 Wmk broad star 9d rose-lilac with variety double print (shows clearly in SOUTH AUSTRALIA and NINE PENCE), unused with small part og, scarce (a used example is in the Royal collection) Expertise: Cert. BPA (Image)

1876-1900 Wmk broad star 1s chocolate imperforate vertically between in horizontal strip of four with interpane margin at right, fresh and fine mint, scarce (SG £800+) (Image)

1868-76 De la Rue issue, range of proofs with pairs of 2d colour trials in vermilion, orange, carmine, green, 1d plate proof pair in black on card, colour trial pair in green on gummed paper, 2d plate proof in black on card pair and block of four, 2d deep orange pair, fair to fine (20), also 2d cover Bramfield to Adelaide and 2d (3) on cover Glenelg to Sweden (Image)

1895 De La Rue perf.13 1d green vertical pair with variety imperforate between, fresh mint, vert. crease not apparent from face, a rare item, unpriced by SG and rated “R” by Lowe Provenance: Mursell 1964 (Image)

1886 High values, plate proofs of 2s6d and 5s, bicoloured on perforated gummed paper, plate blocks of six, very fresh mint nh, minor blemish on reverse of each (Image)

1886-96 High values, 2s6d to £20 (the £5 is grey, no 1896 £5 brown), 13 values in mint strips of four, all with small SPECIMEN ovpt, fresh colours, few with trimmed perfs (52) Provenance: Jaffé (Image)

1886-96 High values, 2s6d to £20 complete with both colours of £5, extra shades of 2s6d, 5s, 10s, 15s, £1, £5 grey, £10, mint or unused ovpt SPECIMEN, condition varies as usual (Image)

1886-96 High values 5s rose-pink with value printed quadruple, with extra row of perforations at base, on pinkish laid paper, of proof status, very unusual Expertise: Cert. RPSV (2001) (Image)

1886-96 High values, £2, 50s, £4 and £5, each in a block of four fresh used CTO with Adelaide cds, full original gum, fine and a rare group of blocks, 3 are marginal Provenance: Australia Post archival sale (Image)

1886-96 High values 50s Pink with variety VALUE DOUBLE, small hs SPECIMEN, fine mint, usual slight gum wrinkles Expertise: Cert. RPSV (2001) (Image)

1886-96 High values £4 lemon mint hr, very fresh colour, slight corner crease not apparent from face, fine and rare stamp (SG £7’500) (Image)