Array of imprints & monograms in strips & blocks on Hagners including 1911-15 ½d 'CA' & 'JBC' monogram blocks of 4, 6d monogram blocks of 6, 'ONE PENNY' overprints ½d (6), 1916-31 Bicolours 2d (10) x2 different shades, 4d Ash (6), Surcharges 9d Harrison (10) & Ash (10) and 1/3d Cooke (6), 'AIRMAIL' overprints 3d Cooke (10) x2 & 3d Harrison strip of 3, Plane overprints 3d Ash (10) & 6d Ash (10) x2, also 'OS' overprints complete set in strips (3) plus 2/6d bright pink, etc, condition variable but the majority are fine to very fine, mostly */** a few wholly unmounted, Cat £2500+ for singles. (76 multiples) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper 1d black & carmine SG 2 complete sheet of 30 (5x6), characteristic variable centring, minor blemishes & perf reinforcing but most units are unmounted, Cat £660+ for mounted singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper 4d black & sepia with Thin 'd' at Left SG 5a, excellent centring, hinge remainder, Cat £800. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper Line Perf 14 2/6d black & brown SG 8, well-centred, light 'BNG' 9-bar canceller of Samarai, Cat £550. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper Line Perf 14 2/6d black & brown SG 8, well-centred, light central 'BNG' 9-bar canceller of Samarai, Cat £550. Pencilled "ex Muir" on reverse. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Vertical Thick Paper ½d black & yellow-green SG 9 complete sheet of 30 (5x6) with partial Plate Number '1' at lower-left, characteristic variable centring, minor blemishes & perf reinforcing but most units are unmounted, Cat £750+ for mounted singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1901-05 British New Guinea Watermark Vertical Thin Paper Comb Perf 14 2/6d black & brown SG 16a, light Port Moresby '15DE05' unframed cds cancel, Cat £1400. The Thin Paper 4d 6d 1/- & 2/6d were made available only to the Queensland Agent-General in London. Only a few used examples are recorded, presumably having been sent to Port Moresby with requests for per favour cancellations. The date on this stamp is the same as that on Peter Troy's similarly-centred example that sold in 2009 for $1437. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,200

1906 Large 'Papua.' Overprints Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper Line Perf 14 4d, 6d, 1/- & 2/6d 'set' SG 17-20, all well-centred, the 4d (small area of missing gum) & 6d lightly mounted, the 1/- & 2/6d unmounted, Cat £515+ for mounted. (4) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1906 Large 'Papua.' Overprints Watermark Horizontal Thick Paper Line Perf 14 2/6d black & brown SG 20, central Port Moresby 1907 cds cancel, Cat £225. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1906 Large 'Papua' Overprints Watermark Vertical Thick Paper Comb Perf 12½ ½d black & yellow-green SG 21 horizontal pair, the left-hand unit with Thick Second 'p' of 'Papua' [Pos 4], tied to small piece by two light but legible strikes of 'DARU W.D./PAPUA' cds cancels one just clear of the variety, Cat £40+ for normal singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1906 Large 'Papua' Overprints Watermark Vertical Thick Paper Comb Perf 12½ 2½d black & ultramarine with Thin 'd' at Left [Pos 17] SG 24a being the right-hand unit in a horizontal pair tied to small piece by two light but legible strikes of 'DARU W.D./PAPUA' cds cancels one of which slightly impinges on the variety, Cat £205+ for singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1907-10 Small PAPUA' 1d black & rose SG 49 intensive plating study in three albums with emphasis on the printing flaws colloquially known as 'Bullet Holes' both mint & used including a complete sheet, 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. (150+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1907-10 Small PAPUA' Watermark Upright Perf 11 2½d black & pale ultramarine SG 51a complete sheet of 30 (5x6), characteristic variable centring, minor perf reinforcing but most units are unmounted, Cat £510+ for mounted singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1907-10 Small 'PAPUA' Lithographs Crown/Double-Lined 'A' Watermark Upright (Inverted) Perf 12½ 2½d black & pale ultramarine with Thin 'd' at Left SG 56b, well-centred, unused without gum, Cat £650 for mint. The scarcest version of the variety in this issue. (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1907-10 Small PAPUA' Watermark Upright Perf 12½ 4d black & sepia SG 57 complete sheet of 30 (5x6), unit [18] with Deformed 'd' at Left SG 57a, characteristic variable centring, perf reinforcing but some units are unmounted, Cat £606+ for mounted singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1907-10 Small 'PAPUA' Lithographs Crown/Double-Lined 'A' Watermark Upright (Inverted) Perf 12½ 4d black & sepia with Deformed 'd' at Left [Pos 18] SG 57a, well-centred, one slightly shortish perf at base, tiny hinge remainder, Cat £200. (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

1907-10 Small PAPUA' Watermark Sideways Perf 11 4d black & sepia SG 63 complete sheet of 30 (5x6), unit [18] with Deformed 'd' at Left SG 63a, characteristic variable centring, minor perf reinforcing in the margin at left, all units are unmounted, Cat £338+ for mounted singles. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1907-10 Small 'PAPUA' Irregular Compund Perfs 2d black & violet Perf 11x12½x11x11 SG 73, well-centred, minor gum disturbance, Cat £1700. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2021) states "very rare". (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

1910 Large 'PAPUA' ½d black & yellow-green and 1d black & carmine SG 75-76 complete sheets of 30 (5x6), characteristic variable centring, the ½d with minor perf reinforcing & a little aged, the 1d very fine & all units are unmounted, Cat £660+ for mounted singles. (2 sheets) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1910-11 Large 'PAPUA' 1d & 2d SG 76 & 77 both CTO with 'MELBOURNE/OC31/10' cds. Rare. A small number of sets were created for presentation purposes. Peter Troy's set of 8 sold at our auction of 28.7.2009 (Sale 149 Lot 2156) for $3030. (2) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1916-31 Bi-Colours 1d black & carmine-red SG 94c complete sheet of 40 (5x8) with TS Harrison Imprint at base and also with the so-called Substituted Cliché with Retouched (Doubled) Lower Frame above Maltese Cross & Damaged Maltese Cross [Pos 28] and Vertical Line to Right of Left Value Tablet [both Pos 32 & 37] (which Croaker speculates may be the result of a Cracked Electro across both units), a couple of tiny aging marks on the back of a few units, some perf reinforcing affecting 10 units otherwise unmounted, Cat £140+ for mounted singles plus a substantial premium for the unlisted varieties. Rosenblum states (page 37) that the frame of [28] was damaged & inexpertly replaced: "It is doubtful whether there exists elsewhere in the whole realm of philately a stamp of greater technical interest". Croaker responds (page 46) "This clear case of bumping-up and retouching was theatrically described by Rosenblum as a substituted cliche, a double strike, and a retouch all in one. It was clearly only the latter ...". Peter Troy's black & red 'Substituted Cliché' single on cover (!) sold in 2009 for $460. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1916-31 Bi-Colours 10/- green & pale ultramarine SG 105, well-centred, lightly mounted, Cat £180. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1916-31 Bi-Colours 10/- green & pale ultramarine SG 105, well-centred, light central Port Moresby 1926 cds cancel, Cat £225. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1917 'ONE PENNY' Surcharges 2/6d rose-carmine with the Watermark Upright Inverted SG 111a, quite well-centred, unmounted but with a few small patches of irregular gum, Cat £2500. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2003). This is the only Watermark Upright Error recorded in the Monocolours/Surcharges series; a single sheet of 40 was discovered in 2003. (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1930 Airmails 'Aeroplane' Overprints Harrison Printing 1/- sepia & deep olive as SG 117 but with the Overprint in Deep Carmine TS Harrison Imprint strip of 3 from the base of the sheet, characteristic minor gum tropicalisation, two units with small hinge remainders, the central unit unmounted. Unlisted in Gibbons. Rosenblum states (page 43) that "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" [Note that the number of stamps we have now seen with Deep Carmine Overprint suggests that the quantity overprinted in this colour was greater than the 10 sheets (400 stamps) indicated by Rosenblum and repeated by Croaker. This actually makes it more deserving of being listed by Gibbons]. Rev Roger Lee's imprint block of 6 - one upper unit mounted - sold at our auction of 29.6.2023 for $900. (Image1)

Estimate AU$300