Arthur Gray Part II (#104MG) 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 301-361 of 361. Previous|1234|Next Lot #301 Selection on exhibit pages etc with publicity photograph, a range of Plate Number blocks of 4 x21 (some of which are probably Type B), Type A and Type B Imprint blocks of 4, Type A and Type B booklet panes, five usages on philatelic covers - one registered - & another on a souvenir packet tag, condition variable. Symbol*/**c View details Estimate$600Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #302 BOOKLETS: 1928 3/- with violet-blue cover BW #B40, Cat $1500 (2003). Advertised retail $1750. SymbolBGradea View details Estimate$750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #303 BOOKLETS: 1935 3/- with dull green cover BW #B50, one stamp removed otherwise superb, Cat $2250 (2003). Advertised retail $2250. SymbolbGradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #304 PUNCTURED 'OS': Mint singles x2, CTO single & block of 4, vertical pair 'OS'/'OS' Omitted (probably a fake), imprint block of 4 (faint toning) & Plate 2 blocks of 4 & 6 (both unmounted), Cat $1500+ (unchecked for Type B stamps). (23) Symbol*/**v View details Estimate$500Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #305 Exhibit pages etc with official publicity photo, two First Day Covers, two sets of Plate Number blocks of 4, Re-Entries in imprint blocks & a used single, etc, condition variable. Symbol*/**oc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #306 PUNCTURED 'OS': Exhibit pages with Plate Number '2' single & block of 20 (very occluded perfins; may be forgeries?), Plate Number '4' block of 4, imprint block of 8 (4x2), many units are unmounted; also piece of "blanket" with 15 'OS' punctures (5x3), and 4.11.1929 letter to a MHR forwarding an 'OS' sheet (not included). Symbol*/**P View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot #307 PUNCTURED 'OS': 1930 airmail cover with Swan 1½d, Air 3d, Sturt 1½d (rounded corner) & KGV 2d red all punctured 'OS' tied by 31mm 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE CANBERRA/FCT' cds, blue & black/white registration label. [The rate was 2d + 3d airmail + 3d registration = 8d. Both the Swan & the 3d Airmail are Cat $750 on cover] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #308 Exhibit pages etc with Plate Number blocks of 4 of the 1½d '1' to '8' x2 sets plus 3d '1' & '2', imprint blocks of 4 & registered First Day Cover, also a Lord Howe Island provisional forgery. Symbol*/** View details Estimate$250Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #309 PUNCTURED 'OS': 1½d Plate Number '8' block of 4 (unmounted) & 3d blue Plate Number '2' block of 4 (lower units unmounted), both with clipped corner at upper-left, Cat $900+ (mounted). (2 blocks) Symbol**/*Gradea b1 View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #310 PUNCTURED 'OS': 3d blue Plate Numbers '1' (large-part o.g.) and '2' (no gum) blocks of 4, both with clipped corner at upper-left, CTO with different Melbourne GPO cds, Cat $1150+ (mint). [Much scarcer CTO than mint because most CTO stock was divided into singles for collectors' sets] (2 blocks) SymbolvGradea b1 View details Estimate$500Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #311 LORD HOWE ISLAND PROVISIONAL: 1½d with manuscript "2d/Paid/PM/LHI" manuscript endorsment on Burns Philp envelope to the company's Sydney offices, with 'LORD HOWE_ ISLAND/OC4/1930/NSW' cds BW #139c, Cat $1250. Unusually clean. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #312 LORD HOWE ISLAND PROVISIONAL: Amalgamated Wireless letterhead to prominent collector Alec Rosenblum with typed 'LORD HOWE ISLAND/6th Sept 1930/Herewith please find 5/- worth Sturt stamps, as requested per Radio of 3rd inst", signed "SFenton" & with a light but legible strike of the oval 'RADIO STATION/6SEP1930/LORD HOWE ISLAND' datestamp. [While it is not specifically stated that the stamps bore the manuscript endorsement, the request was made after people in Australia first became aware of the SymbolLGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #313 Exhibit pages etc with 3d publicity photo, Plate Number blocks of 4 2d '1' to '8' & 3d '1' to '3' plus Plate '3' block of 6 with Plane Dropping Mailbag, 6d corner block of 46 (2x3) with Extra Islands & two imprint blocks of 8 (2x4) with Re-Entry, two registered FDCs with set or 2d & 3d only, and overprinted 'OS' 2d & 3d blocks of 4 with forged overprints, generally fine to very fine. Symbol**/*c View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #314 ORIGINAL ARTWORK: Official photographic reduction to 200% stamp-size of Frank Manley's original (amended) artwork showing the "Southern Cross" flying to the West, oval 'Commonwealth Bank of Australia/STAMP/ PRINTING BRANCH/Fitzroy N6 Vict' [sic] cachet in violet on the reverse. Superb! Unlisted in the ACSC. [Arthur's other example sold for $654] SymbolEGradea+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #315 FIRST DAY COVER: 2d 3d & 6d tied to registered Ken Baker cover by untidy Melbourne cds of 18MR31, being the day before issue. [The clerk may have deliberately applied the cds poorly because he would have been dressed-down by his superiors if they became aware of the improper servicing of the cover. However, the date on the 2d is very clear] SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #316 OVERPRINTED 'OS': 2d & 3d x2 all unmounted, and CTO duo the 3d with Plane Dropping Mail Bag. No certificates so offered "as is" and unreserved. (5) Symbol**vGradea/a- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #317 Two marginal blocks of 4 plus imprint strips of 3 x2 & block of 6 (3x2); then with 'OS' Overprint corner blocks of 6 (2x3) & 10 (2x5) plus imprint strip of 3 (CTO) & block of 6 (3x2), many units are unmounted. Symbol*/**Gradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #318 Complete sheet of 40 (5x8), unmounted, Cat $1750++. Symbol**Gradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #319 OVERPRINTED 'OS': Complete sheet of 40 (5x8), some crimped perforations, unmounted, Cat $2100++. Symbol**Gradea/a- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #320 OVERPRINTED 'OS': Covers 1) 1931 airmail registered to London with 6d x3 (one without overprint) & numerous instructional handstamps; 2) 1932 airmail to King Island with 6d & KGV 2d; and 3) 1930s parcel label with 6d & Roos 2/- maroon (Third Wmk ?). Scarce trio. (3) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #321 Unmounted block of 4, unmounted punctured 'G/NSW' single & overprinted 'OS' CTO block of 4 with large-part o.g., Cat $700+. (3 items) Symbol**/vGradea b1 View details Estimate$250Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #322 Selection on exhibit pages & Hagners including 2d two blocks of 4 with incomplete plate dots, 3d Plate Number '1' to '4' blocks of 4, 5/- CTO x2 (one with fake "postal" cancel added), 'OS' Overprints imprint blocks of 4 & CTO blocks of 4, etc, condition variable; also a colour photograph of the unique composite die proofs. Symbol*/**o View details Estimate$500Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #323 ORIGINAL ARTWORK: Official photographic reduction to 200% stamp-size of Frank Manley's original artwork for the issued 2d design, oval 'Commonwealth Bank of Australia/STAMP/PRINTING BRANCH/Fitzroy Vict' [sic] cachet in violet on the reverse. Superb! Unlisted in the ACSC. SymboleGradea+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #324 PLATE DOTS: Recess 2d red two marginal blocks of 4 from the left of the sheets, the first with One Plate Dot BW #146z (Cat $400), the other with the horizontal line but the Plate Dot Omitted (unlisted), both very lightly mounted. (2 blocks) Symbol*Gradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #325 POSTAL FORGERY: 2d red BW #149c horizontal pair from the lower-left corner of the sheet, both units defaced with manuscript "X", a few split/rejoined perfs between the units, large-part o.g., Cat $4000+. [Arthur's marginal strip of 3 sold for $4998] Symbol*Gradea/a- View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot #326 FIVE SHILLINGS: Lower-left corner example, very lightly mounted, Cat $550. Symbol*Gradea c1 View details Estimate$300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #327 FIVE SHILLINGS: Upper-left corner example with Plate Dot, a little aged but unmounted, Cat $3000 (mounted). [Arthur's very fine unmounted example sold for $1785] Symbol**Gradea b1 View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #328 FIVE SHILLINGS: John Ash Imprint strip of 3, well centred, the first & third units with hinge remainders, the central unit is unmounted, Cat $3000+ (mounted). Symbol*Gradea/a- View details Estimate$1,750Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #329 COVERS: Opening Day cover with the commemorative slogan cancel & 'SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE/ 1 ' cds; parcel label with 3d Plate Number '4' pair + Large Kookaburra 6d x3; Local OHMS cover with 2d overprinted 'OS'; and window-envelope for the illustrated telegram. (4 items) SymbolcΔGradea/a- View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #330 COVERS: 2d 3d & 5/- (with full imprint) tied to separate covers by the commemorative slogan cancel, a couple of minor blemishes. (3 covers) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #331 COVERS: 2d & 3d tied to plain cover by Adelaide cds of 14MR32 being the First Day of issue, 5/- later added across the cds which was nefariously "reinstated", minor blemishes. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$400Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #332 COVERS: 2d & 3d both overprinted 'OS' tied to CSIRO cover by air to "Cloncurry NT" - Cloncurry is actually in Queensland - by 'CANBERRA/28OCT/1932/FCT AUST' machine cancellation, Brisbane & Cloncurry transit datestamps, forwarded to "Burnside Station/Brocks Ck/NT", Cat $800 for just the 3d on cover. The rate was 2d letter rate per ounce + 3d airmail supplement per half-ounce. [Arthur's similar cover - both stamps damaged before being affixed - sold for $1130] SymbolclGradea View details Estimate$750Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #333 COVERS: Samuel Wood (Sydney) illustrated 'BRIDGE/SYDNEY HARBOUR/LETTERETTE' with five fold-out postcard-size photos of the bridge, Typo 2d tied by Opening Celebrations slogan cancel of 28MAR/1932. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #334 ILLUSTRATED TELEGRAMS: Telegram with South-East Pylon cds of 21MR32, the matching envelope with Opening Celebrations slogan cancellation. (2 items) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #335 ILLUSTRATED TELEGRAMS: Telegram with South-East Pylon cds of 19MR32 (the Opening Day), the matching envelope - minor repaired tear at the top - with 'SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE/ 1 ' cds. (2 items) SymbolcGradea/(a-) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #336 Pair, two marginal blocks of 4, unmounted corner block of 6 with Break in Top Frame above 'AL', imprint blocks of 4 from Plate 1 x2 & Plate 2, registered First Day Cover & small parcel tag to Hobart with 6d + KGV 1d green, condition variable. (9 items) Symbol*/** View details Estimate$350Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #337 Exhibit pages etc with Perf 10½ including 2d pale terra-cotta BW #151B, 2d corner block of 4 with Scratch in Margin, 3d corner block of 4 with Roller Flaws, set of imprint blocks of 4 plus 2d on Wiggins Teape Paper, Perf 11½ including 2d on Wiggins Teape Paper & set of imprint blocks of 4 (the 2d on Cowan Paper with Diagonal Lines in the Margin), condition a bit variable. [The last-mentioned item is Illustrated in the ACCCofNSW "Bulletin" (Dec 2015): Geoff Kellow comments "No other example of th Symbol*/** View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot #338 CITY OF MELBOURNE DESIGN COMPETITION: Series of photographic reductions of seven designs - including two setenant pairs - submitted by James Berry from New Zealand, five of them affixed to three small pieces of card (each with the nom de plume 'ENDEAVOUR' on the reverse). [The competition was held too late to influence the stamp design. Berry was awarded a Bronze Medal] (7) SymboleGradea View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #339 ORIGIN OF THE DESIGN: Original print (207x155mm) of the photograph from which the design was developed by Frank Manley, label on the reverse endorsed "Copy of Original Photograph...John Ash 1934", some very minor creasing. SymbolCGradea- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #340 POSTAL HISTORY: Perf 10½ 1/- black on commercial airmail covers to London at 1/2d (1934) & 1/6d rates, also Perf 11½ 1/- black + Roos 2/- pair - on large-piece of a parcel label. (3 items) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #341 POSTAL HISTORY: 1935 (Sep 2) usage of Perf 11½ set plus Macarthur 2d Dark Hills & KGV 1d green on 5d Registration Envelope to "Abadan/Persia", large post office label 'TO BE/REFORWARDED BY/AIR MAIL' folded to the front & mss "AV2", 'QUETTA' (India) & 'BASRAH' (Iraq) transit backstamps. SymbolpsGradea View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #342 Exhibit pages etc with blocks of 4 including 2d Dark Hills x2, 9d gutter block of 4 (**), imprint blocks of 4 - including 2d Dark Hills - from the upper & lower sheets, etc, most units are unmounted, also 3d block of 6 on airmail cover to England & 9d strips of 3 on both sides of an unaddressed parcel tag. Symbol**/*c View details Estimate$750Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot #343 No Watermark two gutter pairs & imprint block - lower units unmounted - with Retouched Shading Above-Left of Globe, and with Macarthur 3d on 1934 (Dec 8) airmail cover to Denmark; also unmounted Watermark Thick Paper Ash 42½mm Imprint block of 4 and two Thin Paper McCracken Imprint blocks of 4. (7 items) Symbol**/*cGradea View details Estimate$300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #344 NO WATERMARK: John Ash imprint block of 4 with Retouched Shading Above-Left of Globe BW #161za, the upper units very lightly mounted, the lower units unmounted, Cat $400 (mounted). Superb! Symbol*/**Gradea+ b1 View details Estimate$200Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #345 NO WATERMARK: Single tied to airmail cover to London by superb 'AIR MAIL/ 1 1DE34 1/SYDNEY NSW' cds being the First Day of Issue BW #161y, tiny tear at upper-left, Cat $500. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #346 WATERMARK THIN PAPER: WCG McCracken Imprint block of 4 as BW #163z but with Severely Damaged Imprint (the Second Line Omitted), unmounted. A dramatic variety. [The ACSC states in a footnote "...thought to be caused by paper folds". That is clearly not the case here] Symbol**Gradea c1 View details Estimate$300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #347 Exhibit pages etc with unmounted blocks of 4, 2d complete set of 12 Plate Number blocks of 4 plus extras, & a few others, many blocks/units are unmounted; also commercial airmail cover with 2d strip of 3 & 1/-, and parcel label with rare franking of 1/- block of 5 (a few blemishes). Symbol**/*c View details Estimate$750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #348 ORIGINAL ARTWORK: Contemporary photographic reduction of Frank Manley's original art for the 2d (53x71mm). SymboleGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #349 FIRST DAY COVER: 2d & 1/- on illustrated cover BW #165y with 'NEWCASTLE/18MR35/NSW' cds & registration label, faint toning around the adhesives, Cat $300+ (for a plain cover). SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #350 Exhibit pages etc with 3d publicity photograph, unmounted blocks of 4, 2d & 3d complete set of 28 Plate Number blocks of 4 & a few extras, imprint blocks of 4, 2/- corner strip of 3 (**) & Plate Number '1' upper-right corner block of 4, etc, many blocks/units are unmounted; also registered airmail cover to Tanganyika with 2/- solo franking (overpaid 2d). Symbol*/**c View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #351 Selection on leaves including 3d block of 16 (4x4) with three varieties noted **, 3d imprint/Plate '1' block of 40 (10x4), 2/- singles ** & postally used and a lower-right corner block of 4 with Plate Number '1' (Inverted & Reversed) at lower-right (somewhat aged/toned, the lower units are unmounted), etc. (100 approx) Symbol*/** View details Estimate$300Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #352 TWO SHILLINGS: Lower-right corner block of 8 (4x2), well centred, unmounted, Cat $800+ (for singles). Symbol**Gradea b1 View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #353 VARIETIES: Partly-annotated mint & used selection of 2d singles & blocks with a range of Re-Entries, Retouches etc, also four used singles with Additional Albino Impressions, Plate 2 (upper-right) block of 8 (2x4) with Aberrant Perfs in the Margin at Right, etc, plus 3d varieties in four mint positional blocks. Close inspection recommended. (120 approx) Symbol*/**o View details Estimate$500Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot #354 VARIETIES: Two-volume highly specialised annotated collection of mostly 2d material including a complete set of Plate Number blocks of 4 from all positions plus a bewildering array of "Malburins", Extended Frames, Progressive & Roller Flaws, Plate Scratches etc. Fly-speckers' delight! (100s) Symbol*/** View details Estimate$500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #355 COMPLETE SHEETS: 2d red six complete sheets comprising Plate 1 lower-left & lower-right, Plate 3 upper-right, Plate 4 lower-right, Plate 5 upper-right & Plate 6 upper-right, plus a few other large multiples, all in sealed envelopes but the appearance is very fresh so we expect the quality is fine to very fine. Unchecked by us for varieties. (6 sheets) Symbol*/** View details Estimate$600Price Realized$4,400StatusSold Lot #356 Exhibit pages etc with publicity photo of the 3d, complete set of the 20 Plate Number blocks of 4 plus some extras, listed varieties in positional blocks etc, many blocks/units are unmounted; also First Day Covers comprising 2d & 3d on plain registered cover from 'TINTENBAR/NSW', and on separate illustrated covers. Symbol**/*c View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #357 PRESENTATION CARD: 2d scarlet & 3d blue affixed to Postmaster-General's presentation card BW #170ya, light blemishes but very attractive, Cat $300. [Arthur's other example sold for $833] SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #358 Exhibit pages etc with imprint blocks of 4, 2d Largely Missing (Under-Inked) Right-Hand Frame in a block of 4, 2d imprint block of 4 with Retouched Shading BW #171e, 1/- used block of 4 (a rare multiple), the set on two illustrated First Day Covers, commercial covers with 3d to Chile, with 1/- + 9d Roo airmail to Germany, and with 3d & 1/- + KGV 1d green on internal airmail cover. [Also includes a cover from the Agent-General for South Australia in London with letter of 1.5.1936 advising of no p Symbol*/**c View details Estimate$500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #359 VARIETIES: 2d imprint block of 4 with Smoking Chimney Retouch BW #171d, a few slightly short perfs, lightly mounted, Cat $2250. Rare [Arthur's slightly superior imprint block with a more advanced state of the variety sold for $2142] Symbol*/**Gradea/a- View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #360 VARIETIES: 2d with Smoking Chimney Retouch BW #171d, a few slightly short perfs, 'NANGARI/7DE36/[SA]' cds (rated R) clear of the variety, Cat $1250. Rare. SymbolgGradea- b2 View details Estimate$400Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #361 VARIETIES: 2d block of 8 (4x2) from the top of the left-hand pane with Four Vertical Lines Printed in the Upper Margin, unmounted. [The ACSC states that 7 plates were used but that "There are no...plate identification marks on the sheets". The marginal markings here at least suggest that this item is from Plate 4. Illustrated on the front cover of the ACCCofNSW "Bulletin" (Dec 2015): Geoff Kellow comments "This marking does not seem to have recorded previously."] Symbol**Gradea b1 View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
