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 German resealing wafers, etc.  (12 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1856-58 Perkins Bacon Adelaide Printing 6d slate-blue SG 10, margins good to very large at top (marginal?), light bars cancel, Cat £200. Superb: almost the equal of Don Pearce's example that sold for $679 in our sale of 9.11.2022 and superior to Harry Lower's large example - graded 'A' - that sold for $1630. This is a perennially underrated stamp, yet it is priced by Gibbons at only £20 more than the much more often-seen London Printing 6d deep blue SG 3. Our experience suggests that the ratio between surviving examples of SG 3 & SG 10 is at least 10:1.

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1868-79 Perf 11½-12½ '3-PENCE' on 4d deep ultramarine (unused), 4d slate-violet, 6d prussian blue, 9d bright mauve, 9d red-purple, 9d rose-lilac, 1/- red-brown & 2/- crimson between SG 68 & 86, large-part o.g., Cat £1390.  (7)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1876-1900 Broad Star Perf 11½-12½ '8 PENCE' on 9d dull pale brown vertical pair Imperforate Between SG 120a from the right of the sheet with marginal vertical watermark lines, characteristic rough perfs, a couple of minor bends, large-part o.g., Cat £9500. Unique! Ex Gary Diffen: sold for £5400. RPSofV Certificate (2001). [It was stated in the Diffen catalogue "...this is the only major error not to feature in any of the great collections of South Australia". This pair was discovered in 1916 & listed by Gibbons from 1917]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$10,000

1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 14 plate proofs in lilac with 'TWO SHILLINGS/AND SIXPENCE' in bright blue or 'FIVE/SHILLINGS' in red lower-right corner blocks of 6 (3x2) each with Plate Number '1' on gummed unwatermarked paper, the 5/- with a patch of light toning at lower-right corner just intrudes on the corner stamp, full unmounted o.g. Superb. Ed Williams at page 7 states only one sheet of 60 units was printed for each denomination. Don Pearce's upper-right corner blocks of 4 - upper units lightly mounted - sold for $1795. (2 blocks) 

Grade A-/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,250

1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE'  Perf 10 2/6d (short perfs at base) to £20 SG 195-208 with 12½mm 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, a few short perfs otherwise very fine & fresh, large-part o.g. & most are very lightly mounted. [This set is from the original printings. Much scarcer than the later printings that were reprinted specifically for overprinting 'SPECIMEN']  (13)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

1904-11 Thick 'POSTAGE' 1/- brown vertical pair Imperforate Between ACSC S58ba (SG 288a),very lightly mounted, Cat $3500 (£3000+). Superb. Gary Diffen recorded eight pairs in private hands & stated "one is damaged and most exhibit slight imperfections". His pair sold for £1440. Ric Slade-Slade had a block of 4 but it has probably been split into pairs, and included in Gary Diffen's census. 

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1906-12 Thick 'POSTAGE' CROWN/A: 9d brown-lake vertical pair Imperforate Between ACSC S52ba (SG 302a), lightly mounted, Cat $3000 (£2500). Ex William Frazer and Gary Diffen: sold for £1440. [The ACSC states ten such pairs have been identified, including in two blocks of 4 & a block of 8, which leaves only two others]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

BOOKLETS: 1907 2/- (Post Office ½d two blocks of 6 & QV 1d rosine block of 18) ACSC B6(S)C (SG SB4), the first ½d block with the upper-right unit Officially Substituted (a variety rarely seen in booklets), minor blemishes on the covers, Cat $6000 (£7000). Absent from Dr Don Pearce's exceptional South Australia collection.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$3,000