1855 London Printings 1d dark green SG 1, margins just clear - at L/R - to large with a fragment of the adjoining unit at base, numeral '28' cancel of Kooringa, Cat £500. Superb!
1855 London Printings 2d imperforate plate proof pair from the right of the sheet in black on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, margins good to humungous.
1855 London Printings 2d imperforate plate proof pair from the upper-right corner of the sheet in black on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, margins good to elephantine! & showing the estremity of the plate at the top. A magnificent piece, the spacing between the impressions demonstrating why issued stamps with full margins can be very difficult to obtain.
1855 London Printings 2d imperforate plate proof block of 4 in black on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, good even margins, light ironed-out crease at the base of the upper units.
1855 London Printings 2d rose-carmine SG 2, an enormous stamp with margins good to huge & fragments of the adjoining units at top & base, Cat £85. Superb!
1856-58 Adelaide Printings Imperf 1d yellow-green SG 6, margins just clear to good except at L/R where just touched, unused, Cat £9000. Offered "as is": with such narrow margins, this may be an example of SG 13, from which the roulettes have been removed.
1856-58 Adelaide Printings 2d pale red SG 9 horizontal strip of 3, margins just touching - at L/L - to good, the first unit creased & the third unit with a light stain, part-o.g., Cat £2250+. A very scarce unused multiple. RPSofL Certificate (1959) mentions the crease but not the stain which, nonetheless is evident from the accompanying photograph.
1856-58 Adelaide Printings 1/- orange SG 12, margins just touching (at lower-right) to large, unusual All-Over Kiss Print, dumb cancel of Adelaide, Cat £500+. Ex Harry Lower.
1860-69 Second Roulettes 1d bright yellow-green SG 19 block of 4 being two rejoined vertical pairs with hinge-reinforcing, large-part o.g., Cat £600+. [A similar unsevered block of 4 sold at our auction of 5.8.2021 for $1675]
1860-69 Second Roulettes 1d deep yellow-green as SG 24, an unusually large stamp apparently completely Imperforate with good to large margins & a fragment of the adjoining unit at the top and with no trace of rouletting, small insignificant thin otherwise superb, neat GPO cds of JA4/71, Cat £85+. Offered "as is".
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Lot No:582
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Cat No:30 block of 4
1860-69 Second Roulettes 6d dull ultramarine SG 30 block of 4, horizontal crease across the lower units, small black marks on the reverse, large-part o.g., Cat £1200+. [Michael Blake had no unused blocks of any of the 6d shades. His very fine unused strip of 5 in an unlisted shade sold at our auction of 7.2.2014 for $3260]
1860-69 Second Roulettes 9d imperforate plate proof corner block of 4 from the U/R of the sheet in black on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, margins good to enormous. Superb!
1860-69 Second Roulettes 2/- imperforate plate proof corner block of 4 from the U/L of the sheet in black on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, margins good to enormous, vertical crease across the R/H units.
1868-71 Remainders of Rouletted Stock Perf 11½-12½ 9d grey-lilac Rouletted at the Base SG 49a, GPO cds of JU18/72, Cat £275. An attractive example of this underrated item, which is much scarcer than many more highly-catalogued stamps.