RED OVERPRINT: 'LL.' (No Stop after the First 'L') on Rouletted 2d bright vermilion, rouletting at top & left and cut from the sheet at top to preserve the design and at right & the base clear of the design, two shallow thins & a little aged, GPO cds of NO16/68. Rated RRRR. Ex Colonel Harry Napier (I). The very fine to superb 'Besancon' & 'Tamiami' mint examples - also rated RRRR - sold for SFr4600 & $4310 respectively. [Date range 18.8.1868 to 8.8.1873]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

RED OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on Rouletted 2d bright vermilion with Dry Ink, rouletting on all sides, GPO cds of JA31/73. Rated RR. The very fine 'Besancon' example sold for SFr410. [Date range 22.5.1872 to 31.1.1873]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

RED OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on Perf 11½-12½ 4d dull purple, an unusually well centred & unusually large stamp, a few nibbled perfs at the top otherwise superb, GPO cds of AU14/71. Rated R. The 'Tamiami' example sold for $203. [Date range 9.11.1870 to 23.2.1874]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

RED OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on Rouletted 6d deep ultramarine, rouletting except at the top where cut from the sheet clear of the design, GPO cds of MR3/69. Rated R. The 'Besancon' & 'Tamiami' pairs sold for SFr580 & $383 respectively. [Date range 3.3.1869 to 7.11.1873]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

RED OVERPRINT: 'LL.' (No Stop after the First 'L') on Rouletted 6d deep ultramarine, rouletting clear of the design on three sides & cut from the sheet clear of the design at left, ironed-out horizontal crease otherwise superb, GPO cds of MR--/70. Rated RRR: unrecorded unused. The 'Tamiami' example sold for $455. [Date range 15.9.1869 to 28.1.1873]

Grade (A) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

BLACK OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 2d red-orange, ironed-out vertical crease, GPO cds of OC10/74. Rated RRRRR: unrecorded unused. [Date range 21.5.1874 to 10.10.1874]

Grade (A) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

BLACK OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 2d red-orange with Defective Second 'L', GPO cds of AU25/77. Unlisted by Ron Butler & the only recorded example so, if genuine, it should be rated RRRRRR. Offered "as is". [This stamp is something of an enigma. Compared to other 'L.L.' stamps, the overprint is ½mm short & ½mm long. And the usage is very late. It has been given a Chris Ceremuga Certificate as a forgery. However, the cds appears to be across the overprint, it was found in a multi-generational collection, and it is the only recorded example, which begs the question "Why go to all the trouble of creating a one-off stamp, with an unrecorded variety?"]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

BLACK OVERPRINT: 'L.L.' on Perf 11½-12½ 6d Prussian blue GPO, central shallow thin, GPO cds of JA31/74. Rated RRRR: unrecorded unused. Superior to the defective 'Tamiami' example, that sold for $599. [Date range 31.1.1874 to -.12.1874]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$600