1907-10 Small 'PAPUA' Lithographs mostly mint range on Hagners to 1/- x6 including 2½d SG 56a & 1/- SG 58, a couple with bogus cancels, also used 'OS' punctures to 6d x2 & 1/-, STC £1000+.
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Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1285
Symbol: *O
Cat No: 49 intensive
1d black & rose SG 49 intensive plating study in three boxed albums with emphasis on the printing flaws colloquially known as 'Bullet Holes' both mint & used plus research notes and a swag of colour photographs of sheets & single stamps enlarged to A4-size, Cat £1000+. A genuine labour of love. Ex Ted McPheat.
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Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..Jun-28-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1286
Symbol: **
Cat No: 51
Watermark Upright Perf 11 2½d black & bright ultramarine SG 51 complete sheet (5x6) with Thin 'd' at Left Pos [4/2] SG 51a and unlisted varieties Broken 'd' at Right Pos [3/2] and 'd' of '2½d' Joined to Frame Pos [4/3], a couple of trivial gum marks, minor hinge remainders and perf re-inforcing in the margins only, the stamps all unmounted, Cat £1060+ for mounted singles plus a premium for the unlisted varieties.
Watermark Upright Perf 12½ & Watermark Upright Inverted Perf 12½ 'sets' SG 55 56 56a 57 & 58, most are well-centred & lightly mounted, one of the 2½d SG 56 and one of the 1/- are unmounted, Cat £760 for mounted. Illustrations are on our website.
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Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 260.00
Sold...AU$ 260.00
Closed..Jun-28-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1288
Symbol: *
Cat No: 63a
Watermark Sideways Perf 11 4d with Deformed 'd' at Left SG 63a, a few stained perfs, & Large 'PAPUA' 4d with the same variety SG 79a, short perfs at top, both lightly mounted, Cat £375. See website.
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6d black & myrtle-green Watermark Sideways Perf 12½ SG 70 horizontal pair, the right-hand unit with Rift in Clouds, quite well centred, the tiniest toned perf tip on the (normal) left-hand unit, small hinge remainders, Cat £22,000+ (see footnote under SG 83 which states that the 'Rift in Clouds' variety is "worth about three times the normal price"). Ex Arthur Hind (1934; Lot 381). RPSofL Certificate (1992).
Blair & Troy's 'Papua: The Lakatoi Rarities' (unpublished) states that "Only two sheets were issued without being punctured OS". The Rift in Cloud variety occurs only once per sheet at Pos [R5/3]. Therefore, only two examples of this variety without 'OS' puncture can exist. Our vendor states that the other example is badly off-centre.
2d black & purple Watermark Sideways (Crown to Left of 'A' as seen from the reverse) Irregular Compound Perf 11 and 12½ SG 73 (Perf 11x11x11x12½), small hinge remainder, Cat £1700. BPA Certificate (1999). [The illustration is above Lot 1286]
1917 'ONE PENNY' Surcharges with Watermark Sideways Reversed (Crown Pointing Right) ½d mint & used x2, 2d mint & 4d used pair SG 106w 107w & 109w, Cat £670+. See illustrations on our website.
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1917 'ONE PENNY' Surcharges on 4d olive-green with Watermark Sideways Reversed (Crown Pointing Right) SG 109w marginal block of 4 from the U/R of the sheet, minor hinge remainders in the upper margins only, tiny tonespot on gum of the lower-left unit, unmounted, Cat £900+ for mounted singles.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1260
Symbol: P
Cat No: Collection
Seal embossed proof impression in grey-black on thin card (131x182mm, minor peripheral blemishes) of the official seal of British New Guinea from the reign of King Edward VII featuring the British coat-of-arms & a Bird of Paradise within Latin inscriptions, the seal having a massive diameter of 64mm. A superb impression of this impressive design, that would make an excellent introductory page for any Papuan collection.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1261
Symbol: D/C
Cat No: Collection
Photograph 'glossy' print (112x83mm) from Captain FR Barton's glass negative of his image of a Lakatoi and Hanuabada Village that was the basis for the British New Guinea stamps, the apparent damage at left having been on the original negative; with its plain envelope (tonespots) endorsed "Photograph/from/Papua Original/ supplied to De La Rue". Ex Rev Roger Lee. Outstanding frontispiece for a collection of BNG/Papua.
On 7.1.1901, Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, requested De La Rue to provide cost estimates for an issue of stamps derived from this photograph. A completed essay - see "Lakatoi I" front cover - was forwarded only three days later & approved on 11th January! [The EC Harris Archive contained two prints, a 'glossy' from the undamaged original (minor toning on the reverse) & a 'matte', very similar to this item. They sold at our auction of 12.10.2012 for $844 & $1395 respectively]
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Imperforate plate proofs ½d to 1/- vertical pairs [Pos 3/9] in issued colours on ungummed watermarked wove paper, a matching set from the top of the sheets with colour registration markings in the upper margins, each with light vertical crease not apparent from the face, some mostly minor blemishes/soiling largely confined to the reverse excepting the ½d which is noticeably soiled in the margin and the 4d & 6d which have small holes (from the registration pin?) in the margins. [From De La Rue's imprimatur sheets of 30 (5x6), that were apparently folded in half. The 2/6d, issued four years later, does not exist in this form. Tim Rybak's & Peter Troy's sets of horizontal pairs sold for $4830 each (2008 & 2009 respectively)]
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Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1264
Symbol: **/*
Cat No: 1var
Watermark Horizontal ½d & 2d with White Leaves at Right [Pos 4/5] SG 1var & 3var marginal blocks of 4, plus blocks of 4 of the 1d, 2½d (two diagonal creases), 6d (one unit with light bend) & 1/- all marginal except the 1d, the centring mostly very good, all unmounted, plus Watermark Vertical 2/6d SG 16a with very lightly mounted but tropicalised gum, Cat £1660+ (for mounted) plus a premium for the varieties. RPSofV Certificate (2023) for the 2/6d.
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Watermark Horizontal 4d black & sepia with Deformed 'd' in '4d' at Lower-Left SG 5a being the lower-left unit in a block of 4, exceptional centring & very fresh, minor perf reinforcing, Cat £995+. Ex Rev Roger Lee.
Watermark Horizontal 2/6d black & brown SG 8 rejoined vertical pair, both with very fine centrally-struck 'PORT MORESBY/12OC06/BRITISH NEW GUINEA' cds cancels, Cat £1100.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1269
Symbol: F
Cat No: 9a mint
Watermark Vertical on Thin Paper (.0035mm to .004mm) ½d SG 9a mint, 1d (unlisted by Gibbons) with light bars cancel, 2d SG 11a mint & 2½d (unlisted by Gibbons) neatly cancelled.
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Watermark Vertical on Thin Paper 2/6d black & brown as SG 16a but a fake created by removing the Small 'Papua' Overprint (SG 45a) & the 1907 cds is a strong hint that it's not right, Cat £1400 for the genuine stamp. Handy reference item.
Watermark Vertical Thin Paper 2/6d black & brown as SG 16a but a fake created by removing the Small 'Papua' Overprint (SG 45a), crude Port Moresby cancel (that is not even circular!), Cat £1400 for the genuine stamp. Handy reference item.
½d to 2/6d SG 75-82 plus 2d with 'PCSTAGE' at Upper-Right SG 77a & 4d with Deformed 'd' at Lower-Left SG 79a, cancelled at Port Moresby or Samarai, Cat £500.
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2d black & purple with 'PCSTAGE' at Upper-Right SG 77a, excellent centring, characteristic irregular perfs, Samarai cds well clear of the variety, Cat £140. Illustrated on our website.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1293
Symbol: **
Cat No: 78 complete
2½d black & blue-violet SG 78 complete sheet (5x6) with Thin 'd' at Left Pos [4/2] SG 78a, light gum aging in the margins only, unmounted, Cat £710+ for mounted singles.
2/6d black & brown Type C (Thin Stroke in '2/6') SG 83 complete sheet with colour registration crosses in the margins, well centred, two small tonespots in U/R margin and a couple of minor perf separations in the margins only, the stamps all very fine unmounted, Cat £3000++, for mounted singles. A rare sheet.
½d black & buff McCracken printing SG 130 complete sheet with all margins including imprint at base, the stamps all very fine unmounted and well-centred, a couple of minor gum bends & perf separations in the margins only, Cat £1000+ for mounted.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1318
Symbol: **/*
Cat No: 130a
½d 1d 2d & 4d SG 130a 131 133 & 135 'WCG McCRACKEN' Imprint blocks of 4, the 2d block with some perf-reinforcing, the others are unmounted. Ex Roger Lee. Very scarce, especially as a 'set'.
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1/3d Lakatoi marginal block of 4 from the right of the sheet with complete '1/3' in the margin, well centred, very fresh & lightly mounted. Superb. Ex Roger Lee. [These plate indicators were usually guilloltined-off]
1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints Ash Printing 3d black & blue-green as SG 114 with unlisted Overprint Double. RPSofV Certificate (2010) states "the lower overprint is a forgery". Sold at our auction of 25.3.2011 for $303, to a bidder who believed, and still does, that the stamp is genuine.
In his book on the Airmail Overprint Varieties, Ray Kelly illustrated this stamp - and two others showing the same characteristics - and stated at page 44 "...[they] are far more likely to be genuine than fakes". The book was published in May 2011, and remains the key reference. It is telling that Ray also plated the three stamps as [Pos 1 2 & 3], with this stamp being [Pos 2] on the sheet, and showed them as a rejoined strip.
1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints black & blue-green (shades) as SG 114 with the Overprint Double with a variety of doubling, eight singles & a pair with the lower overprint normal, Cat £40,000+ if genuine but they are all forgeries including one with a BPA Certificate as a dud. Excellent reference material. See illustrations on our website.
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1929-30 'AIR MAIL' Overprints Ash Printing 3d black & blue-green with the Overprint Omitted from the Upper Unit in a Vertical Pair SG 114b, good colour & excellent centring, sensibly reinforced, Cat £7500. Rare. RPSofL Certificate (1971).
1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printing 3d sepia-black & bright blue-green SG 115 marginal example from the right of the sheet, very well centred, minor toning on the reverse, very lightly mounted, Cat £4000. Ex Rev Roger Lee. RPSofL Certificate (1972). A very rare stamp: most examples seen are mis-identified Ash stamps, of which an example is included for comparison. [Tim Rybak's very fine example sold for $4140. Another example sold at our auction of 12.10.2012 for $3260. This is the best centred we have offered]
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1309
Symbol: */**
Cat No: 117
1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printing 1/- sepia & deep olive as SG 117 but with the Overprint in Deep Carmine and the telltale 'AI,R MAIL' Variety being the first unit in a block of 4, minor characteristic gum tropicalisation, very lightly mounted & the lower units are unmounted. Ex Rev Roger Lee. Both the overprint colour and variety are unlisted in Gibbons. Alec Rosenblum states at page 43 "At first, a deep carmine was selected, but after only about 10 sheets of the 1/- had been printed therewith, the colour was found to be too dark, and for all subsequent printings the colour was a lighter carmine-red". They were issued: both used examples and covers are known.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1310
Symbol: **/*
Cat No: 117
1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printing 1/- sepia & deep olive as SG 117 but with the Overprint in Deep Carmine 'TS HARRISON' Imprint Block of 6 (3x2), remarkably fresh & free of the usual tropicalisation, all but one of the upper units are unmounted. Superb. Ex Rev Roger Lee.
Sale No: 252
Lot No: 1311
Symbol: */**
Cat No: 117
1930 Aeroplane Overprints Harrison Printing 1/- sepia & deep olive as SG 117 with the Overprint in Deep Carmine marginal pair from the left of the sheet, the left-hand unit with 'AI,R MAIL' Variety and Imprint Block of 6 (3x2) unmounted except the central top unit which is lightly mounted, both items with some gum tropicalisation/toning. Both the overprint colour and variety are unlisted in Gibbons. If indeed only 10 sheets were printed before the overprint colour was lightened and the variety corrected, only ten imprints & varieties can exist. Our vendor has requested the very modest estimate.
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