Consignment remainders including 1888 cover endorsed "Tender for carriage & Engine Sheds/Emu Park Railway", 1891 (Oct 30) overweight cover to Yorkshire with 2½d rosine only & superb '5D/FB' handstamp of London (UPU rate introduced 1.10.1891), 1907 cover to USA correctly franked with 2½d purple/blue but curiously with very fine '5/CTMS' handstamp & US Postage Due 2c tied to the reverse, a few Commonwealth period postmarks, 1931 airmail 'THURSDAY ISLAND' to Canada via Japan with huge cachet on the reverse signed by the pilot "Francis Chichester", and Victoria 1856 entire to "Borough Distillery/London" with Woodblock 6d pair (margins just shaved to large), fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1151
Symbol: C
1901 (Dec 9) stampless On Active Service cover endorsed "From Lieut FBT Koch 5th QIB" (= Queensland Infantry Batallion) & self-censored by him, to Brisbane with light but clear octagonal 'ARMY POST OFFICE/WAKKERSTROOM/NATAL FIELD FORCE' datestamp, superb 'T'-in-circle & very fine '1D' handstamps, light wrinkles & minor fault on the reverse. Lt Felix Bernard Theodore Koch was awarded the Queen's Medal with 4 clasps & the King's Medal with 2 clasps. (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1152
Symbol: C
1902 (July 3) cover from the Parry Correspondence of hand-illustrated envelopes with pen & ink illustration of seagulls, to Wales with ½d & 1d pair tied by superb BN '55' & 'GATTON/JL3/02/QUEENSLAND' cds below, Brisbane transit & 'HOLYHEAD/JY14/02' arrival backstamp. Most attractive. Ex Gerald Ellott. The sender was Commander John F Parry of HMS 'Dart', of the Royal Navy's Australia Station. (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1153
Symbol: CPS
POSTAL STATIONERY: Eclectic batch including 1889 1d Postal Card to GB with superb 'GAYNDAH' cds & Rays '98', 1898 STO 1d Envelope with BN '472' & 'WOOLLOONGABBA' cds, 1908 Visit of the US Fleet 1d Postal Card to Germany (½d stamp lost otherwise very fine), 1910 PPC with Esperanto message to Bulgaria, KEVII 3d Registration Envelopes with imprint of McCorquodale or De La Rue both unused, Postal Cards on exhibit cards including 1893 1d Reply-Half used from Switzerland (rare but defective), etc, condition variable.
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Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 460.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 460
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1154
Symbol: PS
POSTAL STATIONERY: Postal Card 1908 Visit of the American Fleet 1d unused, and another local social usage with scarce 'CHARTERS TOWERS' continuous-machine cancel. Superb duo. (2) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 440.00
Sold...AU$ 440.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 440
QUEENSLAND
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1137
Symbol: P
1860 QV Chalons Large Star Watermark Imperforate 2d plate proof block of 4 in black on ungummed unwatermarked paper, good even margins with complete outer framelines. (Image1)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1138
Symbol: #
Cat No: 1-3
1860 QV Chalons Large Star Watermark Imperforate 1d 2d & 6d SG 1-3, all with margins just clear to good, a few small imperfections, apparently unused, Cat £35,500. Not expertised so necessarily offered 'as is'. (3) (Image1)
Estimate AU$2,500
Opening AU$ 1,900.00
Sold...AU$ 2,400.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 2400
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1139
Symbol: V
Cat No: 2
1860 QV Chalons Large Star Watermark Imperforate 2d blue SG 2, margins close to large at left with a fragment of the unit at right, tiny tear in this margin & small surface abrasion on the crown, light small-part numeral cancel, Cat £2000. RPSV Certificate (1982). (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1140
Symbol: G/F
Cat No: 21
1862-67 QV Chalons No Watermark 1d Indian red SG 21 selection including a very scarce pair, various cancels including Numerals, fine to very fine, Cat £1360.
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Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1141
Symbol: #*F
1868-80 Small Chalons neatly annotated on quality album pages with unused/mint including 1868-74 Small Star Perf 13 1d pair * & strip of 3 unused, 3d brown x3 (one unused) & 6d yellow-green, 1879 No Wmk 6d & 1/- both unused, and a lightly cancelled duplicated used array with better values including 1880 High Values (not expertised), a few multiples & some Numeral cancellation interest, generally very fine. Ex Alan Griffiths.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Opening AU$ 750.00
Sold...AU$ 1,100.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 1100
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1142
Symbol: *
Cat No: 164
1882 Large Chalons Thin Paper Tall Crown/Q Wmk (W6) 10/- brown SG 164, large-part gum with a tiny natural paper inclusion, Cat £475. (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1143
Symbol: G/F
Cat No: 234a/235a
1897-98 Figures in All Corners 2d blue with Major Cracked Electro Vertically from the Queen's Brow to the Base of Her Neck ACSC Q16d (SG 234a/235a) page of examples showing the progression of the flaw from the Earliest State x2 (rare) to the Latest State showing the Full Extent of the Crack, various cancels many clear or largely clear of the crack, Cat $2625+ (£1400+).
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Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1144
Symbol: **
Cat No: 235a
1897-98 Figures in All Corners 2d deep blue with Major Cracked Electro Vertically from the Queen's Brow to the Base of Her Neck ACSC Q16d (SG 235a) Latest State showing the Full Extent of the Crack being the central unit in a horizontal strip of 3, characteristic light gum-bends, unmounted, Cat $330+ (£215+) for mounted singles. (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1145
Symbol: C/CL
Cat No: 235a
1897-98 Figures in All Corners 2d deep blue with Major Cracked Electro Vertically from the Queen's Brow to the Base of Her Neck ACSC Q16d (SG 235a) Advanced States on Tattersalls covers to Hobart comprising in pair from 'TEXAS', with 1d (manuscript "X" cancel) & another 2d from 'CHARLEVILLE' also with 2-line 'REGISTERED/...' handstamp, and in a block of 4 + 3d on long (folded) cover from 'NORMANTON' also with 2-line 'REGISTERED/...' handstamp, filled spikeholes as usual. The second item was sold at our auction of 1.12.2019 for $227 (Sale 239 Lot 1671).
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Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1146
Symbol: E/P
1897 Diamond Jubilee ½d Widow's Weeds essay with '1837 - 1897' in the lower corner tablets, in rose-pink on ungummed unwatermarked paper. Scarce. [The issue was not proceeded with but the design - with the dates removed - was issued as a definitive, for which a perforated plate proof in the issued colour on ungummed unwatermarked paper is included] (2) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 300.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1147
Symbol: */#
POSTAL FISCALS: 1866-68 Wmk Large Crown/Q 1d, 6d brown, 1/-, 2/-, 2/6d, 10/- & 20/- (ink mark on the face) all with sans-serif 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp, large-part gum, and 2/- with seriffed 'SPECIMEN' Overprint Diagonally, no gum.
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Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 380
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1148
Symbol: O
REVENUES: 1939 Impressed Duty 1d to £1000 apparently complete, a few with pen cacnels and all with embossed cancels in red, generally very fine, Elsmore Online stated to catalogue "nearly $4000".
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Estimate AU$1,000
Opening AU$ 750.00
Sold...AU$ 750.00
Closed..Jun-24-2025, 19:30:00 EST
Sold For 750
Sale No: 260
Lot No: 1149
Symbol: P/O
REVENUES: Beer Duty selection with BOTTLES 1885 imperf proofs of 6d (CTO) 1/- 2/- & 2/3d and issued stamps six values to 6/6d - including the 1/3d buff-yellow; unrecorded at Elsmore Online, the 3d & 2/- with part-Papermaker's Watermark, all with chamfered-boxed 'CANCELLED' handstamp; 1898 New Design with Crown six values to 9/- all except the 2/- with seriffed 'CANCELLED' handstamp; 1903 Large Format 2/- (soiled; rare); BULK 1897 2/- & 6/6d; and Commonwealth of Australia 1942 boxed '30/-' in violet on 20/- black used in Queensland (fault at upper-left); Elsmore Online Cat $5000 approximately.
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