Trial 'OS' Puncture for Lakatois four punctures on onion-skin paper.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Horizontal 2/6d black & brown SG O1, very well-centred, small hinge remainder, large-part original gum, Cat £1200. [After October 1910, the Postal Regulations permitting the sale of Official stamps to the public required them to be datestamped].

Grade A- A1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Watermark Horizontal 2/6d black & brown SG O1 block of 6 from the lower-right corner of the sheet with printer's guide-marks in the lower margin, CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, no gum, Cat £240+ for singles.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Watermark Vertical on Thin Paper 2/6d black & brown SG O2a, quite well-centred, lightly mounted, large-part original gum, Cat £1700. [After October 1910, the Postal Regulations permitting the sale of Official stamps to the public required them to be datestamped].

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

Watermark Upright Perf 11 1d black & rose with Puncture Double as SG O4 (unlisted variety), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds. One puncture is misplaced to the right with the 'S' almost completely 'blind', which suggests that the second puncture was a deliberate correction.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Upright (Inverted) Perf 11 2½d black & pale ultramarine horizontal pair the right-hand unit with Puncture Omitted creating an unlisted se-tenant pair of SG O6a & SG 51a (the unpunctured stamp), the left-hand unit CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, the right-hand unit with a small part of the cds from the unit above and a couple of short perfs at base, no gum.

Grade A- B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Upright (Inverted) Perf 11 4d black & sepia SG O7 with Puncture Inverted (unlisted variety), tiny black mark at the base on the face, hinge remainders, large-part original gum, Cat £70 for normal.

Grade A- B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Upright Perf 11 1/- black & orange SG O9 with Puncture Inverted (unlisted variety), 'PORT MORESBY' cds, a couple of uneven perfs.

Grade A- B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Upright Perf 11 1/- black & orange SG O9 vertical pair the upper unit with Puncture Double (unlisted variety), both CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, a couple of minor aging marks, no gum.

Grade A- B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Right) Perf 11 ½d black & yellow-green SG O14 with Puncture Inverted (unlisted variety), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, large-part original gum.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Right) Perf 11 2d black & purple SG O16 with Puncture Triple Two Sideways Reading Upwards (unlisted variety), CTO with two partial 'PORT MORESBY' cds, no gum. RPSV Certificate (2001) "... is genuine".

Grade A B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Right) Perf 12½ 2d black & purple SG O23 marginal single from the left of the sheet with Puncture Double One Sideways Misplaced (unlisted variety), CTO with partial '[PORT MORESBY]/PAPUA' cds, large-part original gum.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Watermark Sideways Perf 11 2½d black & dull blue SG O17 Imperforate at Right (unlisted variety), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY/24AUG10/PAPUA' cds, no gum. A superb example of one of the most desirable Papua errors. Croaker states that the right-hand column of two sheets were affected, resulting in twelve error stamps. However, three examples of stamps with the printer's guide-marks are now known to exist, proving that three different sheets - eighteen stamps - were affected. Peter Troy's such example sold in our auction of 28.7.2009 for $14,950. Examples similar to this one from the central rows have sold for $10,925 (Fred Pearson 2006) and for $9775 (Tim Rybak 2008).

Grade A+ B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$8,000

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Left) Perf 11 4d black & sepia SG O18 with Puncture Sideways Reading Downwards (unlisted variety), light 'PORT MORESBY' cds. RPSV Certificate (1994) "... is genuine".

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Right) Perf 12½ ½d black & yellow-green SG O21 marginal block of 4 from the base of the sheet all units with Puncture Diagonal Reading Downwards (unlisted variety), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds.

Grade A C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Watermark Sideways (Crown Pointing Right) Perf 12½ 6d black & myrtle-green SG O25 CTO with 'PORT MORESBY/26NOV09/PAPUA' cds, large-part original gum, Cat £1500. Croaker states "very few sheets were perforated 12½, and all, it is thought, but two of these were punctured OS". Peter Troy's CTO example of the same date sold at our auction of 28.7.2009 for $2185.

Grade A C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

2/6d black & brown Type A SG O28 with Puncture Inverted (unlisted variety), neat light 'PORT MORESBY' cds, Cat £160 for normal.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

2/6d black & brown Type A SG O28 with Puncture Sideways Reading Upwards (unlisted variety), neat light 'PORT MORESBY' cds, Cat £160 for normal.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

2½d black & dull blue with Thin 'd' at Left SG O32a, very fine central 'PORT MORESBY/21OCT10/PAPUA' cds on OHMS piece, a couple of uneven perfs, Cat £180.

Grade A- A2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

6d black & green SG O34 marginal single from the lower-left corner of the sheet with Double Horizontal Perforations At Base, one row on a slight diagonal and the other applied to correct this, light Port Moresby '29AUG11' cds, small 'WT WILSON' ownership h/s on reverse.

Grade A C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1/- black & orange horizontal pair the right-hand unit with Puncture Omitted creating an unlisted se-tenant pair SG O35 & 81 (the unpunctured stamp), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, slightly uneven perfs.

Grade A B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

2/6d black & brown Type B SG O36 with 'OS' Puncture Inverted Reading 'SO'  (unlisted variety), light Port Moresby cds.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

2/6d black & brown Type B SG O36 horizontal pair with Punctures Misplaced (unlisted variety), CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, no gum, Cat £70+ for normal.

Grade A- C2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

2/6d black & brown Type B SG O36 block of 4, CTO unusually with four very fine to superb strikes of 'DARU/18JA10/PAPUA' cds (Lee Type 45; ERD), Cat £140+.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

2/6d black & brown Type B SG O36 complete sheet of 30 (5x6) with printer's guide-marks in the margins, CTO with 'PORT MORESBY' cds, small re-inforced perf separation in the upper margin only, tiny mark in the lower margin, no gum, Cat £1050+ for singles. Ex Colonel Harrie Evans; sold at our auction of 6.10.2001 - now more than twenty years ago - for $880.

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000