Neat collection with BNG to 6d used & a very fine mint 2/6d SG 8, Large 'Papua' set including used 4d & 2/6d, Large 'PAPUA' 2/6d mint x2, Monocolours & Bicolours - ex 2/6d - used, Pictorials used, 1938 Airs, 1939-41 Airs (**), etc, then a good range of 'OS' punctures to 2/6d x4 (one unused) & 'OS' Overprints (**), generally very fine, Cat £3000+. (160 approx)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1901-41 Issues complete on a simplified basis as per Scott leaves including 'OS' Overprints, generally very fine, the 1938-41 Airs & the 'OS' set are unmounted, Cat £2700+. (136)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,400

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Vertical 2/6d black & brown on Thin Paper SG 16a, hinge remainder, Cat £600.

Grade A- C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1907-10 Small 'PAPUA' Watermark Upright Perf 11 2½d with the Watermark Upright Reversed SG 51(var) [Pos 3], unused (no gum). [Reversed watermark varieties in this issue have been noted on the 2d 2½d 4d & 6d values. Of SG 51a(var), one used & 21 mint examples have been recorded. Despite reversed watermarks being catalogued in both the Monocolour & Bicolour series, Gibbons have not yet listed these varieties in the Lithographs]

Grade A C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints Harrison Printing 3d SG 112 complete sheet of 40 with full imprint, minor overall aging & small stains from reinforcing in the margins, some toning that slightly impacts the imprint strip of 3, about 20 units are fine unmounted, Cat £2000++.

Grade B/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints Cooke Printings 3d as SG 112 but in unrecorded shades of brown-black & deep dull blue-green block of 10 (5x2) from the base of the sheet with 'JCA' & 'JBC' Monograms, exceptional centring, eleven units are unmounted. Superb! Jerry Blair Certificate (2019) states "The colour is similar to that of the 3d colour error SG 98a" - which we note was from a Cooke printing - & the colour "has not been altered in any way". The colours are the same as the 'JBC' Monogram corner block of 12 that sold at the Prestige auction of 13.6.2009 for $9200.

Michael Parr, in 'Australian Stamps Professional' Vol 12 Issue 5 - copy included - stated that 5 sheets were printed "using the wrong colour", said to be SG 98a, & were retained at the printing office. Parr speculated that these sheets were used for the 'AIR MAIL' overprints, possibly as trials. In any event only a very small number appear to have survived.

Grade A+ A1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$6,000

1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints Ash Printings 3d from a sheet folded before overprinting with '[A]IR MAIL' Vertically on the Reverse SG 114c marginal example from the left of the sheet, Cat £6500. [These errors are discussed by Ray Kelly at page 49 of his monograph. By Kelly's count, 36 stamps across four sheets were similarly affected. While some are not creased, the presence of the fold helps authenticate affected stamps by showing how the error occurred]

Grade B C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,500

1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printings 1/- sepia & olive as SG 117 but with the Overprint in Deep Carmine, light tropicalisation as usual for this stamp. Unlisted in Gibbons. With an example of SG 120 for comparison of the overprint. [This is generally considered to have been a trial printing of 10 sheets of 40 but used examples are known]

Grade A- C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

POSTAL HISTORY: 1913 social usage of 1d Postal Card to Victoria with largely very fine strike of the Dutch ' * VAN LINSCHOTEN * ' ship's cachet in violet, Brisbane machine b/s of 5FEB13, unusually fine for these cards. Rare shipboard usage.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600