1854-57 Half-LengthsCampbell & Fergusson Printings 1d brown SG 26, margins good to large, light Barred Oval cancel clear of the Queen's face, Cat £140. Superb! Ex Rod Perry. RPSofV Certificate (1997).
1856-58 Perkins Bacon Queen-on-Throne Imperf 1d yellow-green SG 40 vertical strip of 4, margins just shaved to large, the last unit creased, Barred Numeral '5' of Ballarat, Cat £192++. Scarce multiple.
1860-66 Beaded Ovals Wmk Words of Value 3d blue, 3d maroon, 4d rose-red & 6d black between SG 90 & 94, the 4d cut from the sheet at right to preserve the design, all but the last with large-part o.g., Cat £1375. (4)
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1863-81 Laureates simplified set 1d to 10d including colour-changes of the 3d 8d & 10d, the 1d to 4d & 8d brown/pink all with large-part o.g., Cat £3500 minimum. A difficult group to assemble.
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1863-81 LaureatesWmk Numeral of Value 1/- blue/blue SG 113 horizontal pair, light diagonal crease, large-part o.g., Cat £600+. [Our vendor states that the Wmk '1' is missing from one unit but we cannot confirm that]
1884-96 Large Stamp Duty simplified group comprising 1/- ultramarine/white (Perf 12 but not listed by Gibbons), 1/6d rosine, 3/- drab, 4/- red-orange & 5/- rosine, a few gumside blemishes, large-part o.g., Cat £1150 minimum.
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1884-96 Large Stamp Duty Typo 4/- orange x7 (two pairs and a strip of three), 5/- red pair & 10/- green x2 all with 'ENGLISH MAIL TPO/+' duplex cancels, also 5/- claret/yellow (rounded corner) with two part-strikes of 'RMSS HOBSONS BAY' duplex.
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1884-1900 Ultra-High Denominations 1897-1900 Typo £100 pink-red SG 291, very well centred, small stain not evident from the face, CTO with Melbourne cds of NO20/00, Cat £1100.
1886-96 Fergusson & Mitchell High Values £5 blue & maroon (small thin) to £8 mauve & brown-orange (minor surface abrasion) SG 324-7, CTO with Melbourne cds of NO13/99 or NO20/00, all but the £8 with large-part o.g., Cat £1000 for CTO. [NB: no postally used examples of any of these stamps have been recorded]
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