Great Britain and British Commonwealth NEW SOUTH WALES NEW SOUTH WALES
Sale No: 227
Lot No:390
Symbol:*O
Cat No:Collection
Oldtime mostly used collection on leaves with Sydney View 2d & 3d, Laureates 6d & 8d (both of very fine appearance but the 8d has a thin), Diadems Imperf 6d pair with full margins, good range of middle issues, 5/- Map x3 & 20/- Governors x3, Charity 1/- on local cover, some mint including Diadems 1d & later issues to 1/- including 10d block of 4 & Charity duo, 'SPECIMEN' group x38 to 10/- & 20/-, good range of 'OS' Overprints with better mint values including Diadems 8d pair & 'SPECIMEN' Overprints x10 including QV 10/- & Governors 20/- (**), etc, the earlies with some faults but generally good to very fine.
(few 100)
Carton with some stamps including 'OS/NSW' punctures, a quantity of Numerals in packets, an array of covers & PPCs with cds/numeral "ties", other cds including TPOs on PPCs, etc, condition rather mixed.
(Qty)
1850-51 Sydney Views Plate II (Clouds) on Horizontally Laid Paper 1d carmine SG 13 vertical pair, margins close to good except at upper-left of the lower unit where just touched, bars cancels of Sydney, Cat £1400+.
1850-51 Sydney Views Plate II Worn Impressions 2d Prussian blue [13] with 'CREVIT' Omitted SG 26g, an enormous example from the lower-left of the sheet with margins large to huge with complete outer framelines except at right, very fine BN '88' cancel of Port Macquarie, Cat £650. Superb! [The central design is almost entirely absent. This means the variety is not evident. However, the stamp is definitely from the variety position R2/1]
1856-60 Imperforate Small DiademsLithographic Transfer 2d pale blue SG 118 horizontal pair, margins just shaved - at right - to large, the first unit a superb stamp with full margins, very fine strike of the ' E / AU3/1859/ SYDNEY - NSW' (sideways) duplex, Cat £1600++. A rare pair, remarkably cancelled on the First Day of Issue. Ex Guy Hutson (unrecognised in a mixed lot). RPSofV Certificate (2015).
1851 part-outer to Scotland with remarkable franking of Sydney Views 3d yellow-green x3 (the first two units a partly severed pair, the first of them damaged at L/L, the R/H unit & the single both with full margins) & bars cancels of Sydney, large-part 'PAID SHIP LETTER/[crown]/OC*18/...' cds in red at lower-left, London transit b/s of 14FE14/1852 & rated "2/8" - which just ties the first stamp - payable on arrival, 'SALTCOATS/FE15/1852' arrival cds unusually on the face, a bit knocked-about and with a horizontal piece reinstated at the base. Not recorded in Ben Palmer's Census of Sydney View covers. [Palmer notes that the ½oz rate was 3d, the 1oz rate was 6d, and the 2oz rate was 2/-. He doesn't identify a 1½oz rate of 9d but we suggest that is exactly the case here. The cover doesn't conform to any of his other rates] [The illustration is above Lot 403]
1855 (Oct 2) entire to Bathurst with marvellous endorsement "Per Clipper Ship/Schomberg from/Liverpool Octr 5 1855", the stamp (an Embossed 1/-) washed-off but the Exeter datestamp largely remains as evidence of the date of posting, Liverpool & Sydney transits and unframed 'BATHURST/JA*2/1856/NSW' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. Ex George Molnar & Floyd Risvold. [One of the most highly prized of the early Australian wrecks. Brian Peace at pages 62-64 (2013) illustrates all five of the recorded "Schomberg" covers, of which this is his #4]
1857 to Scotland per "Oneida" with Diadem 6d grey (full margins) tied by bars cancel of Sydney (b/s), London transit b/s & bold 'CR' h/s of the Caledonian Railway, 'CARLUKE/MY11/1857' b/s from where re-addressed to Edinburgh with 1d red/blued paper added for the redirection fee & tied by '67'-in-bars, a couple of minor blemishes.
1898 commercial cover to Wisconsin "via Vancouver" with Jubilee 2½d purple only tied by one of two strikes of the scarce 'NZ MARINE PO/15SEP1898/RMS WARRIMOO' scalloped cds in magenta, double-boxed 'PACKET BOAT' in the same ink alongside & superb NZ-pattern 'T/"25")/CENTIMES' h/s also used aboard the ship, 'TACOMA/WASH' transit & poor Milwaukee arrival b/s, superb 'US CHARGE/TO COLLECT - 10 CENTS' h/s & pre-cancelled Postage Due 2c x5 affixed, ironed-out vertical fold.