Australian Colonies: The Trevor Hiscock Collection (#115MG) 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 1-26 of 26. Previous|1|Next Lot #99 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d pale blue SG 3 vertical pair, margins good to large except to the right of the lower unit where just shaved, 15-bars '1' cancels of Perth, Cat £400+. Used multiples of any 4d printing are scarce to rare; vertical pairs are scarcer than horizontal pairs. View details Estimate$450Price Realized$360StatusSold SymbolfGradea/b Lot #100 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d pale blue SG 3 vertical strip of 3, margins just clear to good except to the right of the central unit where just shaved, manuscript "IIII" cancels overstruck with void grid in black, Cat £600+. A rare multiple; postal manuscript cancellations on Western Australian Imperfs are very elusive. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolgGradea/b Lot #101 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue SG 3a block of 4, good even margins, small scissor-cut between the upper units, the left-hand pair with a very minor ironed-out bend mentioned only for total accuracy, Cat £1800++. Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £900. There is such a gradation of "blue" shades from very pale to quite deep that we see no validity in separating "pale blue" SG 3 & "blue" SG 3a: we consider that the listings should be consolidated. We also note that the "deep dull blue" is from the View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,150StatusSold SymbolΩGradea/a(a) Lot #102 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d deep dull blue SG 3b, good even margins, unused, Cat £2750. Much scarcer than SG 3c, the "slate-blue", which is priced 45% higher. BPA Certificate (2008) refers to a totally undetectable "vertical crease in the right margin". [This stamp has slightly larger and more regular margins than Sir Gawaine Baillie's example that sold for $4600] This is a rare shade from the first printing and, as noted above, should therefore be renumbered SG 3. According to Brian Pope i View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #103 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d deep dull blue SG 3b from the top of the sheet, margins good to very large, tiny insignificant stain at upper-right, unused, Cat £2750. Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £1140. BPA Certificate (2007). [This is an intermediate shade, significantly darker than the previous lot but not as deep as the "slate blues" that follow] View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #104 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c, margins good to large, unused, Cat £2750. RPSofV Certificate (2013). [This is another intermediate shade, noticeably "greyer" than the previous lots but not as deep as the other "slate blues" that follow] View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold SymbolΩGradea Lot #105 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c [R2/16, 'AU' of 'AUSTRALIA' Distorted], good even margins, manuscript initials in ink on the reverse, unused, Cat £4000. Ex "Austin" (John du Pont) and Lord Vestey: acquired for £1440. [This is a Creased Transfer variety that is not listed by Gibbons. As Pos 36, it was immediately to the left of SG 3j. See "The 4d Lithograph 1857-1864" (1984) by Brian Pope at p25] View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$1,900StatusSold SymbolΩGradea- Lot #106 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c with Dark Moon By Swan's Head, margins good to large, unused, Cat £4000. Superb! Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £1920. BPA Certificate (2007). View details Estimate$4,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold SymbolΩGradea+ Lot #107 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c, an unusually large example, unused, Cat £4000. Superb! Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £2880. BPA Certificate (2007). View details Estimate$5,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold SymbolΩGradea+ Lot #108 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: CATALOGUED TRANSFER VARIETIES: 4d blue with 'T' of 'POSTAGE' Shaved to a Point at Foot SG 3d, margins just clear to good, 15-bars '8' of Fremantle, Cat £1000. RPSofV Certificate (2016). [This variety occurs once in each pane of 60] Gibbons lists twenty-two Transfer Varieties SG 3d to 3y. #3e to 3h - the famous Inverted Frame - are exceptionally rare & occur only in the first printing. All the others are very elusive. Fine examples appear at auction infrequently. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold SymbolgGradea Lot #109 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue with Tilted Border SG 3i, margins close to good, unused, Cat £3000. RPSofV Certificate (2016) mentions "black marks on reverse" that are an utter triviality. [This variety occurs four times in the sheet of 240] The Tilted Frame is easiest understood by reference to the depth of the water below the Swan being greater at right than at left. It was apparently a Re-Entered Transfer: below the 'OS' of 'POSTAGE' there are vestiges of the same two letters. View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #110 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: another example of the Tilted Border, margins good to large, unused, Cat £3000. RPSofV Certificate (2012). View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,150StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #111 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue with Tilted Border SG 3ai, margins good to large, very fine void grid cancellation in red, Cat £1500 plus a significant premium for the red postmark. Ex John Gartner and Lord Vestey. RPSofV Certificate (2016). [The variety was not identified in the Vestey catalogue] View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #112 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue with 'WEST' in Squeezed-Down Letters & Small Foot on 'F' of 'FOUR' SG 3j [R2/17], margins close to good, ironed-out horizontal crease at the top & a little stained, unused, Cat £3250. RPSofV Certificate (2016). View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$850StatusSold SymbolΩGradeb Lot #113 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c with Small 'S' in 'POSTAGE' SG 3L, margins close to good unused, Cat £3250 plus a large premium for the shade of the stamp (or, if you prefer, Cat £4000 plus a significant premium for the variety). Ex D Bernhard, Arthur Hind and Lord Vestey: acquired for £2880. RPSofL Certificate (1934) as the then SG 4e. View details Estimate$6,000Price Realized$4,600StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #114 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue with Squat 'EN' of 'PENCE' SG 3m [R6/4], margins close to good, unused, Cat £2500. RPSofV Certificate (2016). View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #115 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d pale blue with 'N' of 'PENCE' Tilted to Right & Thin First Downstroke SG 3n [R6/16], margins just touching - at upper-right - to large, neat void grid cancel well clear of the variety, Cat £1300. Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £312. BPA Certificate (2007). View details Estimate$750Price Realized$450StatusSold SymbolfGradea Lot #116 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue with "Splashing Swan" (Water above 'ENC' of 'PENCE' Damaged) SG 3o [R6/20], good even margins, unused, Cat £3500. Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £1020. BPA Certificate (2007) notes (professionally) repaired with "filled thins". The first example of this unusual variety that we have offered. View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,440StatusSold SymbolΩGrade(a) Lot #117 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d slate-blue SG 3c with Small Head of 'P' of 'PENCE' SG 3r [R9/15], good even margins, unused, Cat £3000 plus a large premium for the shade of the stamp (or, if you prefer, Cat £4000 plus a significant premium for the variety). Ex Lord Vestey: acquired for £4200. BPA Certificate (1964). View details Estimate$6,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #118 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: 4d blue block of 4 [194-195/214-215] with 'PE' of 'PENCE' Closer Together SG 3t [R10/15] & '7' for 'T' in 'POSTAGE' SG 3v [R11/15], good even margins, horizontal fold just clear of the upper units & small scissor-cut between the lower units, a little aged, unused, Cat £5500++. A rare block with se-tenant listed varieties. [Both varieties occur once in the sheet of 240. Lord Vestey's SG 3t single sold for £2880] View details Estimate$6,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold SymbolΩGradeb Lot #119 FOUR PENCE - IMPERFORATE: The piece de résistance of the Major Transfer Varieties being a magnificent part-sheet of 100 (10x10) comprising Positions [51-60/231-240] being Row 3 [11-20] to Row 12 [11-20], including the following catalogued varieties: 'T' of 'POSTAGE' Shaved to a Point at the Foot SG 3d [Row7/15] and [R7/20]; Tilted Border & Evil Eye on 'F' of 'FOUR' SG 3i [Row 7/14] and [R7/19]; 'ESTERN' Squeezed-Down & 'U' of 'FOUR' Squeezed-Up SG 3k [R3/17]; Small 'S' in 'POSTAGE' SG 3L View details Estimate$150,000Price Realized$105,000StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #120 ONE SHILLING - IMPERFORATE: 1/- pale red-brown SG 4a variant, margins just touched at right & just shaved at the top to large, Cat £1100. RPSofV Certificate (2016) states "pale red-brown shade...SG 4a (variant)". [This is an intermediate shade, closest to but not quite the "salmon" shade SG 4, Cat £4500] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold SymbolgGradeb Lot #121 ONE SHILLING - IMPERFORATE: 1/- deep red-brown SG 4a marginal example from the base of the sheet, margins just clear to huge, ironed-out vertical crease at right, unused, Cat £2000. View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold SymbolΩGrade(a) Lot #122 ONE SHILLING - IMPERFORATE: 1/- deep grey-brown SG 4b (variant) [40, 'AUSTRALI,A'], margins close to large, 'STOLOW' guarantee handstamp, unused, Cat £650+. RPSofV Certificate (2013) as "grey brown (dark shade)". View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Lot #123 ONE SHILLING - IMPERFORATE: 1/- deep grey-brown SG 4b (variant) huge single from the upper-right corner of the sheet with Marginal Watermark Lines at top & right, unused, Cat £650+. Superb! View details Estimate$1,250StatusUnsold SymbolΩGradea+ Lot #124 ONE SHILLING - IMPERFORATE: 1/- deep grey-brown SG 4b (variant) horizontal pair, the second unit with Large White Flaw on 'N' of 'SHILLING', the first unit with a tiny natural aeration hole, unused, Cat £1300+. [At least the equal of Lord Vestey's two pairs that sold for £1020 & £1320 respectively] View details Estimate$1,750Price Realized$1,400StatusSold SymbolΩGradea Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
