Stamps & Postal History (#89MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 401-500 of 928. Previous|12345678910|Next Lot #903 REPRINTS: 1887-90 Long Type Stamp Duty overprinted 'POSTAGE' & 'O S' Perf 10 as SG O137b but with oval 'O' in 'O S', characteristic irregular perfs, CTO with 'GPO'-in-concentric-ovals, no gum. Much scarcer than the similar Perf 12 reprint. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolvGradea c2 Lot #904 REVENUES: 1881-1920s insurance policies for various firms mostly with beautifully engraved headers, all but two with various Stamp Duty values mostly KEVII issues to 7/- & some of them with perfins, one with duty paid on three separate occasions, generally fine to very fine. A most attractive lot. (12 items) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolL Lot #905 Small box of mostly PPCs with a few better views & an attractive 1920s "Sydney of Today" fold-out pack, also 1d Die I, 1d Die II & 1½d scenic Postal Cards used, postmark interest, condition variable. (35) View details Estimate$150Price Realized$180StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #906 1819 entire headed "Parramatta NSWales/12th June 1819" and signed "Geo Tho Palmer" to "Dingle/Ireland" variously rated "2/2", then "3/8" & finally "5/6", light but fine 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/26OC26/1819/LONDON' transit cds, professionally cleaned & with some archival tape backing. A very early "country" letter, believed to be the earliest recorded letter to the British Isles from outside Sydney. The remarkably quick passage of only 18 weeks is explained by the writer: "This letter goes by a wha View details Estimate$2,400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGrade(b) Lot #907 1821 front from an official outer to Lord Bathurst at "Downing St/London" in Governor Lachlan Macquarie's hand & endorsed by him "Govr Macquarie" at lower-left. View details Estimate$300Price Realized$380StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolclGradea- Lot #908 1826 mercantile entire headed "Sydney 18 Decr 1826" to the Netherlands endorsed "pSteamer/of 13 June" with oval 'POST PAID SHIP LR/12AU12/1827/LONDON' d/s in red & Dutch 'England/...Amsterdam' b/s in red, rated "8" & "50", remarkably fine. Oh that this was what it purports to be; an 1826 entire from NSW to Holland. In fact, it is a duplicate of the original, in Dutch, sent to Schiedam by the London forwarding agent to whom it was originally sent. Even so, it is a remarkable document that proves View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #909 1847 small outer endorsed "Windsor June Eighteen 1837" at the top & signed "JW Panton" (?) at lower-left, largely superb strike of the small boxed generic 'FREE' h/s in red & oval 'WINDSOR/[crown]/JU*18/1847/NEW.S.WALES' b/s, very fine GPO arrival b/s. [The origin of the generic handstamps can usually be identified only if on cover] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #910 1852 British mercantile entire to Sydney "p Chusan Steamer" with London Maltese Cross & 'SHIP-LETTER/ =LONDON=' d/s both of MY14/1852 & both in red, rated "8" in red as a shipletter, 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/AU*4/1852/SYDNEY' arrival b/s & very fine strike of the '3' h/s applied to incoming shipletters, minor soiling. An historically important sailing. ["Chusan" departed Southampton 15/5/1852, via Cape Town, arrived at Sydney 3/8/1852. This was the first of only two P&O experimental voyages via the View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea- Lot #911 1859 large-part outer to the Philippines with Imperf Diadems 1/- pale red x2 (one almost very fine, the other a little cut-into) tied by 'NSW'-in-concentric-ovals cancels of Sydney (b/s), largely very fine 'MANILA/31/DIC/1859/ISS FILIPS' arrival b/s, a bit aged, the two panels separated & rejoined with archival tape. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolcGradec Lot #912 1868 (Sep 1) cover to a British officer in India "Via Galle" with Diadems Perf 13 6d purple SG 165 x2 cancelled with light but clear Rays '92' Type 1 (rated RRR) of 'CASINO' (light cds at the base), 'STEAMER LETTER/ CALCUTTA/OC16/68' arrival b/s in red, redirected to "Saugor/Central India" with East India 4a green tied by oval 'ANSTRUTHER & Co/FORWARDED BY/CALCUTTA' forwarding agent's handstamp & double-circle 'CALCUTTA/--19/89 - 1 ' duplex - month omitted & year slugs inverted - in blue, hexago View details Estimate$3,000Price Realized$2,300StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #913 1879 mourning cover to Denmark with De La Rue 2d (folded over the top of the envelope) & 6d tied by '26AU/79 - 914' duplex, Sydney transit b/s & '1½D' h/s in purple, London transit & 'ODENSE' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$180StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #914 1897 cover - reduced at left - with 1d pair only tied by Sydney duplex, superb boxed 'DEFT 2D/FINE 2D - 4D' h/s, NSW Postage Dues 2d x2 tied by two light strikes of the rare oval 'MOO & GSB/15MAR97/NARRANDERA' d/s in red, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #915 1901 cover to the NSW Mounted Infantry Quartermaster in South Africa with ½d & 2d tied by 'WEST MAITLAND/NSW - 64' duplex, Sydney transit b/s, minor blemishes. Inwards mail to the Australian troops during the Boer War is rare. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #916 1901 Robert Jolley PPC ("BOTANICAL GARDENS, SYDNEY") to New Caledonia with message in French, NSW 1d Arms tied by one of two very fine strikes of the French mailboat 'LIGNE T/4/FEVR/01/PAQ FR No1' d/s. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea Lot #917 1903 New Zealand 1d Postal Card for Union Bank to London with 1d Universal added for late fee, Sydney duplex & boxed 'PAQUEBOT' h/s; and 1912 cover front to London with NZ 1d Dominion x2 tied by Sydney cds, boxed 'PAQUEBOT' h/s & superb strike of the rare 'DETAINED ON BOARD SHIP' h/s also of Sydney. (2) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSold SymbolpscGradea- Lot #918 1903 usage of 3d Registration Envelope to New Zealand with scarce albeit philatelic franking of 10d violet tied by Sydney cds, Dunedin arrival b/s & readdressed to Wellington with 3d Birds for redirection fee added & tied by 'DUNEDIN/ R ' cds & boxed registration cachet in red alongside, 'WELLINGTON' arrival b/s. Most unusual. [The rate was 2d per ½oz & it seems unlikely - though not impossible - that the contents weighed between 2 & 2½oz] View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #919 1904 & 1907 PPCs from Tonga or Fiji each with 1d cancelled at Sydney & with oval 'SHIP LETTER/ 1D /LATE FEE' handstamp, the first with CofA Postage Due 1d added, the second with message headed "SS Suva", a bit aged. ( ) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #920 1909 NSW Government Railways PPC ("View on Hawkesbury River...") rare franking 1d Arms with 'GR' perfin. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #921 INTERNATIONAL REPLY COUPONS: 1906 Globes & Allegorical Figure 3d with Two Lines of Text Above & Below the Illustration, 'Nouvelle-Galle du Sud - New South Wales' at the base & tiny 'V Benziger & Co...Schweiz' imprint in the lower margin, an uncut block of 4. Superb! View details Estimate$1,400Price Realized$1,050StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol?Gradea+ Lot #922 INTERNATIONAL REPLY COUPONS: 1920 Globes & Allegorical Figure 6d with Four Lines of Text Above & Below the Illustration, 73mm 'Nouvelle-Galles du Sud - New South Wales.' at the base & tiny 'V Benziger & Co...Schweiz' imprint in the lower margin, revised instructions overprinted in red on the reverse, an uncut block of 4. Superb! [It seems very peculiar that, even as late as 1920, the UPU was still apparently issuing IRCs to the six States of the Federation of Australia] View details Estimate$1,400Price Realized$1,050StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol?Gradea+ Lot #923 Modest collection of Commonwealth period datestamps stated to be all from closed offices 'ADAMINABY' to 'YOUNG WALLSEND', mostly pre-decimal with many fine to superb strikes noted. Inspection is sure to be rewarded. (few 100) View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolΔs Lot #924 BARRED NUMERALS: '78' of Cassilis very fine strike on Sydney Views 3d yellow-green on Laid Paper SG 43e (margins close to large, minor blemishes on the reverse, Cat £500). Rated RR. ‹Ex Michael Haden. View details Estimate$140Price Realized$105StatusSold SymbolsGradeb a1 Lot #925 BARRED NUMERALS: '95' of Brisbane (Moreton Bay District) superb bold strike on Laureates 8d orange-yellow SG 80 (almost full margins, Cat £600). Ex Guy Hutson. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolsGradea- a2+ Lot #926 Nashua (2): 'NASHAU/3DE1907/NSW' (spelling error; ERD) arrival on JJ Nichols (Mittagong) PPC of Bowral Station & Court House, soiled. RO 17.2.1902; PO 1.1.1905; Closed 31.12.1976. View details Estimate$75StatusUnsold SymbolcGradec b1 Lot #927 POSTAL CARDS: 1897 Scenic Issue printer's proof on very thin card with printed banner in red but no stamp & "KATOOMBA FALLS, NS WALES" in black on the reverse, a couple of very minor blemishes. Rare. A group of 29 of these delightful essays came to light only in 1984, comprising six different designs in a range of colours, some with 'Stamp'-within-a-box printed on the address side. They were almost certainly prepared by William Gullick, the NSW Government Printer. All have minor abrasions on t View details Estimate$750Price Realized$550StatusSold SymboleGradea- Lot #928 POSTAL CARDS: 1897 1d Die I group with "Greetings from", "With Christmas Greetings" x6 (one with Large 'SPECIMEN' Overprint on reverse) & "With New Year Greetings" x5 (one with Large 'SPECIMEN' Overprint on reverse), some minor blemishes - mostly on the address sides - but generally fine to very fine unused. (12) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolpsGradea/b Lot #929 POSTAL CARDS - STAMPED TO ORDER: 1907 NSW Government Railways 1d with Stamp below Box ("Coast Scene at Clifton...") with superb Sydney cds & light 'OLD GUILDFORD' arrival cds (name changed from Guidford (1) 13.8.1906), minor blemishes. Rare. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$1,100StatusSold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #930 ENVELOPES: Embossed 'POSTAGE ONE PENNY/[QV]/NEW SOUTH WALES' in dull rose on an envelope with unusual italicised 'Specimen.' handstamp below the impression. Rare & most desirable essay. [Superior to John Bell's example that sold at our auction of 8/5/2013 for $1495. The 1d was never used for Envelopes. In 1865 it was adopted for the first issue of Wrappers] View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold SymbolEGradea Lot #931 ENVELOPES - STO: Arms 1d red Die I for Waverley Brewery with 'WATSON'S DUNDEE WHISKIES' advertising collar, local usage in 1899. Rare & desirable: very few Australian postal stationery items bear advertising collars. View details Estimate$350Price Realized$380StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea Lot #932 PICTURE POSTCARDS: Darwin mostly real photo cards - the majority from pre-World War II - with streetscapes, public buildings, hotels, roadworks, ships stranded at low tide, a shanty town, the enormous "Men's Quarters" at the Meatworks, aerial shots of "Railway Station", "Government House...", "Jail Darwin NA", "Meat Works Darwin NA" & "Leper Station, Channel Island", etc, some are PPC-size photographs including 1938 Flying Boat "Coorong" Washed Up on Rocks [see AAMC #835; no mail recorded] (48); View details Estimate$650Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbolc Lot #933 Selection of Small Chalons from various issues with values to 1/- grey x5 & 1/- violet x2 plus 2/- x2, 2/6d, 5/- x4 & 10/- including 2d scarce block of 4, all with various types of 'SPECIMEN' handstamp, minor duplication, many with part- to large-part o.g. & generally fine to very fine. (28) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolΩ*Gradea/b Lot #934 Neat collection on leaves with Large Star Imperf 1d (an unusually large stamp with a fragment of the unit above & lightly cancelled, Bloch Certificate), 2d (sound, tiny defects at the top) and 6d (unusually large with fragments of adjoining units at top & right, Ex Maurice Burrus & Ric Slade-Slade, BPA Certificate), fine range of other Small Chalons including Small Star Clean-Cut Perfs 6d & 1/-, 1d SG 44 pair & a few unused/mint, Charity 1d mint, etc, condition variable but generally fine to ver View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Symbol*ΩO Lot #935 Stockbook of duplicates with lots of Small Chalons (mostly face-down), Large Chalons Crown/Q 10/- Thick Paper mint & Thin Paper used, £1 Thin Paper CTO x3 & what appears to be a perforated plate proof in blue (stained) etc, some postmark interest, condition rather mixed but plenty of better stamps. (few 100) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$650StatusSold Symbol*Ωo Lot #936 1860 Large Star Imperf 2d blue SG 2, margins good to large with complete outer framelines, light concentric-ovals cancel, Cat £1800. One of the finest & most attractive examples we have offered. RPSofV Certificate (2006). View details Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold SymbolfGradea Lot #937 1866-67 Lithographs 5/- pale rose SG 58, characteristic rough perfs & cut from the sheet at left to preserve the design, unusually with large-part o.g., Cat £1100. A rare stamp, especially this fine. View details Estimate$1,250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea Lot #938 1868-74 Truncated Star Perf 13x12 1d orange-vermilion SG 80, light Rays cancel, undercatalogued at £200. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #939 1868-78 Crown/Q 1d orange-vermilion Imperforate Pair SG 88a, margins good to large with complete outer framelines, light ironed-out horizontal crease, unusually with large-part o.g., Cat £800. Fresh as a daisy! View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*Grade(a-) Lot #940 1868-78 Crown/Q Perf 12x13 4d yellow SG 112, a little aged, Cat £375. Very scarce. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolfGradeb Lot #941 1880 Lithographed High Values 2/6d dull scarlet & 20/- rose SG 121 & 127, minor imperfections, large-part o.g., Cat £1650. View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea- Lot #942 1882-95 Large Chalons 2/6d imperforate plate proof complete sheet of 30 (5x6, the last unit excised with attendant minor scissor-cuts between the units above & to left) in brown on thin card, complete but close outer margins, each unit with 'SPECIMEN' handstamp in rosine, partly-affixed to a slightly larger piece of card. A wonderful showpiece of great rarity. View details Estimate$10,000Price Realized$7,500StatusSold SymbolPGradea Lot #943 1882-95 Large Chalons £1 imperforate plate proof complete sheet of 30 (5x6, the last unit excised with attendant minor scissor-cuts between the units above & to left) in bright orange-vermilion on thin card, complete but close outer margins, 'SPECIMEN' handstamp in rosine with Double Handstamp on the third unit and 'SPECIMEN' Omitted from the Last Line, the first units in the first & last lines each with a pinhole, affixed to a larger piece of card. Another wonderful showpiece of great rarity. View details Estimate$10,000Price Realized$7,500StatusSold SymbolPGradea/a- Lot #944 1907-11 Lithographed High Values £1 deep bluish green BW #Q65B (SG 312c), characteristic irregular perfs, hinge remainders, Cat $1000 (£550). [There is a Frame Break at Base to Left of the Right-Hand Value Tablet that may be an advanced state of the Recut Lower Right Frame BW #Q65Be] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Symbol*Gradea- b2 Lot #945 REPRINTS: Small Chalons 1d vermilion strip of 6, 2d blue 3d brown 6d green & 'REGISTERED' yellow strips of 4 & 1/- dull purple two strips of 3, mostly with part-'QUEENSLAND' Watermark in addition to the Star Watermark, most with large-part o.g. Colourful. (7 strips) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolΩ*Gradea Lot #946 RAILWAY STAMPS: 1903 Wmk Antique Locomotive master plate of six watermark "bits" from which the dandy roll was developed, instrument number '1144' impressed at upper-right. The watermark bits were constructed from fine wire that was affixed to the surface of the 2mm-thick metal backing plate (86x74mm). A remarkable survivor and a highly desirable & unique artefact: also an impression from the plate on a piece of oilskin in which the plate was stored. [Manufactured by the English firm Edwin Amies View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Symbol?Gradea Lot #947 REVENUES: Stamp Duty KEVII 1d violet with monogram label, a few split/rejoined perfs. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Symbol*Gradea- Lot #948 REVENUES: 1906 KEVII Impressed Duty £500 red, exceptional centring, a little soiled, apparently unused, Elsmore Online Cat $5000. The first example we have offered. View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,400StatusSold SymbolΩGradeb a1 Lot #949 PRIVATE RAILWAY STAMPS: Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway Large Format 1d 3d & 1/- and Small Format 2d 3d 6d & 1/- blocks of 4 all overprinted with Serial Numbers in black, unused with no gum as issued. (7 blocks) View details Estimate$1,200StatusUnsold SymbolΩGradea Lot #950 Batch of covers including 1878 official entire with 1d tied by superb rounded-boxed ' 5 /BRISBANE/AU 17 78/QL' d/s, 1873 with 6d apple-green marginal example Imperf at Left, 1873 very fine Dodgson Correspondence cover with 1d & 2d x4, 1865 to Sydney with rare franking of Rough Perf 2d strip of 3 & 'REGISTERED' and Rays '133' cancels of Dalby (poor b/s), 1867 10d rate with lousy cancels & 2-line 'REGISTERED/BUNDABERG' h/s, 1881 defective cover to Schleswig with fumigation slits, 1870s two interna View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Symbolc Lot #951 1895 cover to the USA with ½d 2½d & 3d, chamfered-boxed 'POST AND - TELEGRAPH - DEPARTMENT/ QUEENSLAND/4APR95' cachet in blue at left, minor pinholes. Not previously seen by us. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #952 1900 from the Boer War endorsed "From Trooper N Carhale [?]/No 250 3rd QMI" (= Queensland Mounted Infantry) with space at lower-left for an officer to countersigned but left blank, Transvaal VRI 1d tied by British 'ARMY PO 55/OC11/00/S.AFRICA' cds, Brisbane transit & 'CHARLEVILLE' arrival b/s, overall soiling. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$160StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradec Lot #953 POSTMARKS: Four volume collection of Commonwealth period datestamps all apparently from closed post offices, numerous very fine to superb examples, strikes rated RRR including 'ARRAN', 'AYTON' SDL, 'BORUMBA DAM', 'COOLANA RO', superb 'HIGHGROVE' on cover, 'KANNUNGUR', 'KOAH', 'MAKOWATA' (!), 'MALBON', 'MARATHON' SDL, 'MUDJIMBA BEACH', 1951 'NETHERBY', superb 'OLIO', 'OOLBUN' SDL & 'SURFERS PARADISE SOUTH', strikes rated RRRR including 'BILWON', 'BRAMPTON ISLAND', 1910 'GERALDTON', 1958 'HELENVAL View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolsΔc Lot #954 A neat little collection with London Printings plate proofs 6d in blue strip of 3 & 1/- single in black, then issued stamps 1d x4 including a pair (the singles both with full margins), 2d strip of 4 (with RPSofL Certificate) & 6d x3 (all with full margins) & a defective strip of 6 on piece, Adelaide Printings 2d blood-red strip of 3 (full margins) & strip of 6 (almost full margins), First Roulettes 1d x2 & 1/- x2, Second Roulettes including 1d unused, 2d two strips of 3 & 4d with sensational 'TO View details Estimate$1,600Price Realized$2,400StatusSold GSTex GSTSymboloP Lot #955 Neat collection on annotated pages with London Printings 1d pair (margins in places), 2d strip of 4 (almost full margins, bleached) & a very fine 6d, First Roulettes to 1/- orange, Second Roulettes to 2/-, good range of small perforated issues including '3-PENCE' in Black on 4d x6, 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' 10/- CTO, 15/- with fake cancel & £2 with 'WALLAROO' squared-circle (creased), Thin 'POSTAGE' £1 CTO, Thick 'POSTAGE' to 5/- x2, etc, also a few Officials, condition variable but many are fine to v View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Symbolo Lot #956 Stockbook of duplicates with lots of Classics in very indifferent condition but with some better stamps noted, scads of middle period, Postage & Revenue 10/- fiscally used, Thick 'POSTAGE' 2/6d with huge 'A' perfin, Official overprints & perfins, condition variable. (few 100) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$850StatusSold Symbolo Lot #957 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 1d plate proof vertical pair in green - brighter than the issued colour - on ungummed unwatermarked paper with a plate scratch between the units from the 'P' of 'PENNY' to the 'E' of 'POSTAGE', margins just shaved to large, ironed-out vertical crease affects the lower unit. Ex John Griffiths. View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea/b Lot #958 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 1d plate proof block of 4 in green - brighter than the issued colour - on ungummed unwatermarked paper, margins close to good except at lower-left where slightly cut-into, ironed-out wrinkles. [Michael Blake's similar but very fine block of 4 sold for $2415] View details Estimate$1,250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea-/b Lot #959 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 1d dark green SG 1 marginal example from the right of the sheet, margins just clear to huge, light Diamond-Numeral '1' cancel, £500. Superb! View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea+ Lot #960 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 2d die proof in black on India paper, reduced to stamp-size, affixed (many years ago) to a small piece of card (29x35mm, clipped corners), faint blemish below the impression. Rare. Ex John Griffiths. BPA Certificate (1992). View details Estimate$4,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea Lot #961 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 2d plate proof single in dull carmine-lake on ungummed unwatermarked paper, good even margins. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea Lot #962 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 2d rose-carmine SG 2, margins close to good, large-part o.g., Cat £800. Superb! View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea+ Lot #963 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 2d rose-carmine SG 2, margins good to large with chunks of the adjoining units at left & right, Cat £85. Superb! View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold SymbolgGradea+ Lot #964 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 6d die proof in black on India paper, reduced to stamp-size, affixed (many years ago) to a non-contemporary piece of glazed card (35x50mm) apparently to disguise damage affecting 'POSTAGE' & a small repair at lower-right. Rare and desirable, despite the imperfections. Ex Victor Frankenstein and John Griffiths. [Superior to the similar Harry Lower/Michael Blake example - more significant faults - that sold for $2760] View details Estimate$2,500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolPGrade(a-) Lot #965 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 6d plate proof block of 10 (5x2) in blue on ungummed unwatermarked paper, margins close to large except at the top of the third unit where there is a small inclusion, ironed-out vertical crease across the second column doesn't affect the very fine facial appearance. [Michael Blake's marginal block of 12 (6x2) - four units affected by vertical creases - sold for $1035] View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea/b Lot #966 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon 6d deep blue SG 3 marginal block of 6 (3x2) from the right of the sheet, margins good to very large with a fragment of the adjoining unit below the last unit, two impressions - one untidy - of the roller-cancellation of the GPO, Cat £1020++. A rare & remarkably fine multiple. Ex Maurice Burrus. [At least as fine as Michael Blake's non-marginal block of 6 that sold for $3105] View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymboloGradea Lot #967 1855 London Printings by Perkins Bacon selection of reprinted die proofs with the value tablet excised, blank or filled with ornaments in various colours on thin card, also with value tablet excised in grey-green from the defaced die on thin wove paper. We have not previously seen the last item. (6) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea Lot #968 1856-58 Adelaide Printings 1d yellow-green with a fragment of the adjoining unit at right, 2d orange-red with a fragment of the adjoining unit at right, 2d red, 6d slate-blue with a chunk of the adjoining unit at right, and 1/- orange-red SG 6 7 9 10 & 11, all with full margins, Cat £1700. A difficult group to assemble this fine. View details Estimate$800Price Realized$600StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolg/fGradea Lot #969 1856-58 Adelaide Printings 1d yellow-green SG 6, margins close - at lower-left - to large with a chunk of the adjoining unit at left, light '1' diamond numeral cancel, Cat £650. View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea Lot #970 1856-58 Adelaide Printings 2d blood red SG 8, three close margins, slightly trimmed at the base & with a small nick into the second 'E' of 'PENCE', unused, Cat £3000. View details Estimate$750Price Realized$600StatusSold SymbolΩGradeb Lot #971 1858-59 First Roulettes 2d red SG 15 horizontal strip of 3, the first unit with a Large Void caused by a Pre-Printing Paper Fold, neat 'PAID/JY21/1859/=ADELAIDE SA=' cds in blue, Cat £66++. A very striking variety: most unusually, the cds at left proves that the paper-fold was opened-out prior to usage. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #972 1858-59 First Roulettes 1/- orange SG 18, transient "Blind Queen" caused by a natural paper inclusion, unused, Cat £1800. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$550StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradea Lot #973 1858-59 First Roulettes 1/- orange SG 18 block of 6 (3x2) apparently from the top of the sheet, light ironed-out crease across the last unit doesn't detract from the very fine facial appearance, some minor reinforcing, light/faint '26' diamond numeral cancels of Shea-Oak Log, Cat £300++. A very rare & desirable multiple. Ex John Griffiths. [Harry Lower's and Michael Blake's blocks of 4 sold for $2300 & $2530 respectively] View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$1,900StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea/(a) Lot #974 1860-69 Second Roulettes 1d pale sage-green SG 22 block of 4, minor gum-side blemishes, large-part o.g., Cat £420++. [Michael Blake's very fine block of 4 of the 1d bright yellow-green SG 19 - also Cat £420++ - sold for $1610] View details Estimate$800Price Realized$600StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea/b Lot #975 1860-69 Second Roulettes 2d pale vermilion SG 25 block of 12 (4x3), remarkably well centred with most units having the rouletting clear of the design on all sides (which is almost miraculous considering Perkins Bacon's chaotic plate-making!), a few very minor imperfections but still very fine & fresh with large-part o.g., Cat £1800++. [Michael Blake's superb block of 4 of the bright shade sold for $5060] View details Estimate$5,000Price Realized$3,800StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea/b Lot #976 1860-69 Second Roulettes 6d dull blue SG 32 marginal example from the base of the sheet cut from the sheet to preserve the design, unused, Cat £325. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradea Lot #977 1860-69 Second Roulettes 1/- lake-brown SG 42 block of 8 (4x2), stains on the reverse don't detract from the very fine facial appearance, Cat £96++. A very scarce used multiple. [Harry Lower's block of 6 - one unit with a separation fault - sold for $719] View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolgGradeb/c Lot #978 1867-70 Perf 11½-12½xRoulette 1d pale bright green SG 50 horizontal pair (very fine '4' diamond-numeral cancels of Alberton) & 1/- lake-brown SG 61 horizontal strip of 4, Cat £138++. Scarce multiples. (2 items) View details Estimate$150Price Realized$240StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolf/gGradea Lot #979 1876-1900 "Broad" Star 6d Prussian blue SG 117 x2 (shades) & 1/- lake-brown SG 127 blocks of 4. Scarce multiples. [All three blocks clearly have "Large" Star Wmk and NOT the "Broad" Star. We have drawn attention in the past to this anomaly in this issue] (3 blocks) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolg/fGradea Lot #980 1868-76 De La Rue Wide Crown/SA 2d orange-red apparently Imperforate with good to large margins & a fragment of the adjoining unit at right, minor pre-printing (?) paper crease, 'ANGASTON/AU21/76/SA' cds. Offered "as is". View details Estimate$100Price Realized$200StatusSold SymbolfGradea- Lot #981 1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 10 £3 sage-green SG 202, unusually bright shade, 'REGISTERED/ ADELAIDE' squared-circle cancellation, Cat £650++. Chris Ceremuga Certificate (2015) states "genuine in all respects...Examination using...Video Spectral Comparator under various wavelengths...shows no trace of any other cancellations or alterations". [NB: the Gibbons valuation is for stamps cancelled-to-order. Postally used examples are rare] View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,150StatusSold SymbolfGradea b1 Lot #982 1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 10 £2 View details Estimate$10,000StatusUnsold SymbolfGradea a1 Lot #983 1902-04 Thin 'POSTAGE' 1/- brown with 'POSTAGE' & 'ONE SHILLING' in Brown-Red BW #S30A (SG 275c), a very obvious example of the bicolour printing, repaired at right, lightly cancelled well clear of the Value Tablet, Cat $2000 (£1100). [The ACSC states "Postally used is scarcer than mint"] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSold SymbolvGrade(a-) Lot #984 REPRINTS: Range on Hagners including Imperf set + 1/- violet, Rouletted to 1/- x4 including 9d violet & 'TEN PENCE' on 9d various colours x6, Perf to 2/- including '3-PENCE' in Red on 4d x2 & in Black, '8 PENCE' on 9d x5, 'TEN PENCE' on 9d x2 etc, all with 'REPRINT' Overprint; also 6d violet-blue with 'SPECIMEN' Overpint; a few faults but generally very fine, most with large-part o.g. Ex the "Severin" UPU Collection. (58) View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Symbol* Lot #985 REVENUES: 1886-96 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' Perf 10 £4 lemon-yellow (Walker rated RRRR; with the Watermark Sideways) and Perf 11½-12½ £3 olive (RRRR) & £5 brown (RRR), sound examples with concealed faults, fiscal usages. Rare. [Most fiscally used stamps were cleaned & had fake cancels applied] View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymboloGradeb/(b) Lot #986 1856 (May 16) large-part outer to Adelaide (b/s) with superb example of London Printings 2d carmine-rose SG 2 tied by fair diamond-numeral '25' & 'GAWLER' cds. Exceptional quality. View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea+ Lot #987 1860 (Feb 3) entire with rare franking of Adelaide Printing 1d yellow-green SG 6 horizontal pair (margins in places, a little cut-into at the base, Cat £1300+ x2+ on cover) & largely very fine diamond-numeral '100' cancel (rated R) of 'MILANG' (cds alongside - affected by ironed-out vertical filing fold - rated RRRR), 'STRATHALBYN' arrival b/s in blue. A rare cover. View details Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGrade(a-) Lot #988 PICTURE POSTCARDS: Collection of advertising cards for South Australian businesses or agents of out-of-State firms including hotels, retailers, manufacturers, importers, general stores, theatre productions, Viceroy Tea set of 6 aerial views of "Adelaide from a Balloon" etc, mostly Adelaide firms but some suburban and country users including from Gawler, Quorn & Port Lincoln, condition rather mixed but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (115) View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Symbolc Lot #989 1935-36 Howard Johnson covers including from 'BUCKLEBOO', 'CUDLEE CREEK', 'DARKES PEAK', 'FOREST RANGE', 'GERANIUM', 'GULNARE', 'KILKERRAN' (rated R), 'KULPARA', 'MOORLANDS', 'PINERY' (R), 'SANDY CREEK' (R), 'SWAN REACH', 'TEATREE GULLY' (R), 'THEVENARD' (R), 'WYNARKA', 'YANINEE', 'YEELANNA' etc, all with blue & black/white registration labels; also with 'SALTERS SPRINGS' red/white label but 'ALMA' cds (the Salters Springs cds recorded in 1914 only!). [Many Howard Johnson covers are water-staine View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #990 ditto, including from 'ASHTON', 'CHERRYVILLE' (rated R), 'CULBURRA', 'DAWESLEY' (R), 'GLENBURNIE' (R), 'PENFIELD' (R), 'PETINA' (R), 'ROCKLEIGH' squared-circle (R), 'ROWLANDS FLAT' (R), 'SUTTON TOWN' (R), 'ULOOLOO', 'WAURALTEE' squared-circle, 'WEETULTA', 'WILSON' (RR), 'WOODS FLAT' (RR), 'WORLDS END CREEK' (R), 'YANDIAH', etc, all with provisional blue & black/white registration labels including a few with handstamps on the labels; also 'CHARLESTON' (R) with provisional red/white label. (36) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$1,700StatusSold SymbolCGradea Lot #991 ditto, including from 'EDEN VALLEY' with squared-circle, 'GLENCOE WEST' (rated R), 'LIPSON', 'PYAP, 'PYGERY', 'RENMARK N'TH', 'RENMARK WEST' (R), 'SANDERSTON' (R), 'STOCKWELL' with squared-circle, 'TAPLAN', 'THE POINT', 'UPPER STURT' (R), 'WOKURNA' (RR), 'WUDINNA', 'WINKAR' (R), 'YANTANABIE', 'YATINA' etc, all with blue/white registration labels. (30) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$950StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #992 ditto, from 'CEDUNA' with handstamp on the label, 'CORRABIE', (rated R), 'ECHUNGA', 'OSBORNEVILLE' with 'TOO LATE' handstamp, 'REDBANKS' (R) & 'WANDEARAH WEST' (RR), all with provisional blue/white registration labels. (6) View details Estimate$160Price Realized$380StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #993 This and the next two lots are mostly Shierlaw fronts plus some PPCs & a small number of other items. Condition of the "covers" is very mixed but most are presentable. Quality of the strikes is also very variable but those mentioned are mostly fine to very fine+. A high proportion of the strikes are rated R+ in "The Hand-Held Datestamps of South Australia". Colonial-pattern circular datestamps including 'APOINGA' (rated RRR), 'BAROOTA' (RR), 'BLETCHLEY' (RRR), 'COWARIE', 'CYGNET RIVER' (RR), 'G View details Estimate$750Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Symbolc Lot #994 Squared-circle datestamps 'ABERDEEN' to 'YARRAH' with numerous highly rated strikes including rated RRR 'ARDEN VALE' (b/s), 'BALD HILLS', 'BARATTA' (registered), 'BINNUM', 'CAMPBELL TOWN', 'CARRA', 'CHANDADA', 'CHERRY GARDENS', 'COLLINSVILLE', 'CURRAMULKA', 'CUSTON', 'ERITH', 'GEPPS CROSS', 'GLANVILLE BLOCKS', 'GLYNN', 'GOODE', 'HORNSDALE', 'INGLEWOOD', 'KILKERRAN', 'KLEMZIG', 'KYBYBOLITE', 'LILYDALE', 'LINWOOD', 'LOXTONS HUT', 'LYNDHURST', 'MERCHINY', 'MOUNT MARY', 'PENONG', 'PETERSBURG' & 'ROC View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Symbolc Lot #995 Datestamps on KGV frankings (& a few Roos) mostly pre-1925 with cds including 'BRIMPTON LAKE' (rated RRRR), 'BROOKER' (RRR), 'CARROW' (RRR), 'EDILLILIE' on 1d Engraved, 'ENCOUNTER BAY' (RRR), 'HART', 'KOONIBBA' (RR), 'LONE GUM' (RR), 'MERCUNDA' (RR), 'MOUNT HOPE', 'PARACOMBE', 'PARATOO' (RR), 'SANDY CREEK' (RRR), 'TALIA', 'TAYLORVILLE', 'TERRE' (RRR), 'WOOGANA' (RRR), 'WYKARNA'; and a few late usages of squared-circles including 'BUTLER' (RR), 'CALCA', 'CHERRY GARDENS' (RRR), 'ERUDINA' (RRR), 'H View details Estimate$600Price Realized$950StatusSold Symbolc Lot #996 Quality collection of mostly KGV to early-KGVI pieces, mostly unrated or lowly rated but including 'CAPE SPENCER' (rated RRR), 'CORDILLO DOWNS' (RRRR; LRD), 'GILES CORNER' (RRR), 1930 'HINDMARSH ISLAND' (RRRRR; LRD), 'MOOCKRA' (RRR), 'PP RAILWAY UP' (RRR), 'PT PIRIE UP' (RRR) & 'PT PIRIE DOWN' (RRR), the strikes are generally very fine to superb, some mostly minor duplication; also a few KGVI covers. (850+) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolΔGradea a1 Lot #997 Various 'SPECIMEN' or 'Specimen' Overprints comprising Sidefaces ½d 3d & V/Crown 9d, Tablets 5d & 5/- and 1903 V/Crown 1/-, Pictorials 1899-1900 set of 8 and 1902 V/Crown set of 3, a few minor blemsihes but generally very fine with large-part o.g. Ex VJ Colbeck. (17) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbol*Gradea/b Lot #998 The balance of the VJ Colbeck Collection in a large stockbook with better items throughout including Couriers 1d unused (rebacked) and 4d unused (minor faults) & used x7 cut-square, good range of Chalons including Numeral Wmk 2d strip of 4 & some apparently unused stamps, Sidefaces including 10d block of 4 *, 3d & 4d bistre blocks of 6 (no gum) & V/Crown 9d indigo *, Tablets mint to 5/- x3 & a fine used set, Pictorials 1899-1900 mint set x3, later Pictorials mint to 6d x3 including 1d pair with View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSold SymbolΩ*o Lot #999 Box of mostly 1d & 2d Pictorials, and some Victoria 1d pinks, mostly on piece. We expect, but can't guarantee, that this hoard is entirely unchecked for varieties or postmarks, making it a potential goldmine for specialists. [See also Lots 590 & 647] (few 1000) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$420StatusSold SymboloΔ Lot #1000 Neat collection including Courier 1d (small defects) & 4d (very fine), Chalons Large Star 2d (very fine), No Wmk 1d & 2d pair (rare multiple but cut-into at top), Numeral Wmk 1d pair (very fine) & 2d enormous single & strip of 3 (margins in places), Perf 10 2d & 6d pair, Sidefaces 4d blue, Tablets to £1 (faded), etc, condition variable. (135) View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,150StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1001 Stockbook of duplicates with scads of Chalons most of which are fiscally cancelled or cleaned, lots of Sidefaces, Tablets to 10/- & Pictorials, a few Official Perfins, some postmark interest, condition variable. (100s) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$480StatusSold Symbolo Lot #1002 1853 Couriers - ONE PENNY: Medium Soft Yellowish Paper with Engraved Lines Well Defined 1d pale blue SG 1, good even margins with complete outer framelines, untidy First Allocation Barred Numeral '59' of Launceston, Cat £1500. Ex VJ Colbeck. View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold SymbolgGradea Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
