This and the next three lots are from the award winning 'Pretty Polly' collection.

1909 Pictorials 12c Palm Cockatoo printer's sample stamps sheetlet of 9 in black & carmine on ungummed unwatermarked paper, each unit with small security punch at lower-left & 'WATERLOW & SONS LTD/SPECIMEN' Overprint. A beautiful item.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

1909-23 Pictorials 12c horizontal pair Imperf Between SG 173b, minor blemishes, CTO as always, Cat £800. [Absent from the Walter Bickley & Apollonia Collections. Bickley had a similar CTO pair of SG 134f, Cat £850, that sold for £540]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1918 'RED CROSS/TWO CENTS' on 12c with the Overprint Inverted SG 224a, lightly mounted, Cat £600. Superb!

Grade A+ A1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1918 'RED CROSS/TWO CENTS' on 12c from the left of the sheet Imperforate at Left, lightly mounted. Rare.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

1947 Cypher Overprints $5 vertical strip of 4, the third unit with Lower Bar Broken at Right SG 349a [R8/3], very minor toning as is often seen on this issue, unmounted, Cat £470+.

Grade A- C1

Estimate AU$100

JAPANESE OCCUPATION: 1944 stampless cover from England to a POW at "Borneo Camps" c/- the Red Cross in Tokyo with large Japanese cachet that translates as 'Borneo POW Camp/Censored' in violet & censor's chop in red, some staining. Rare, and a remarkable survivor. NB: the illustration is above Lot 1331.

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000