AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, TASMANIA, GENERAL

Lot 104		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $90 Literature: ‘Tasmania Stamps and Postal History' (1986) by Tinsley, hardbound with dust-jacket, 191 pages
Lot 105		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1855 Wmk Large Star Imperforate 2d Deep Green, SG 15, horizontal pair, margins three sides, portions of adjoining units at top, cancelled by BN '75' of Hobart. Cat £1000
Lot 106		Estimate: $400 1855 Wmk Large Star Imperforate 4d Deep Blue, SG 17, close margins, unused
Lot 107		Estimate: $2,000 1855 Wmk Large Star Imperforate [prepared for use though never issued] 6d Dull Lilac proof block of four, some minor creasing as always found, in this case being far less than normally associated with this issue. Cat £3000. 1965 RPSL Certificate. Ex Butler
Lot 108		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 1856-57 No Wmk Imperforate 2d Dull Emerald-Green, SG 20, margins four sides, close at right. Cat £900
Lot 109		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $90 1856-57 No Wmk Imperforate 4d Blue, SG 22, good to large margins four sides
Lot 110		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $210 1857-69 Wmk Double-lined numeral Imperforate 1d Deep Red-Brown strip of five, SG 29, varying margins from large to touching in places. Rich colour and a scarce multiple
Lot 111		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1857-69 Wmk Double-lined numeral Imperforate 2d shades (5), 4d shades (17), SG 30-39 group, varying margins, mixed condition (22)
Lot 112		Estimate: $250 1857-69 Wmk Double-lined numeral (inverted) Imperforate 2d Yellow-Green pair, SG 32, good to huge margins with portions of adjoining units at base and right, cancelled by indistinct strike of second allocation numeral '18' [Carrick]
Lot 113		Estimate: $150 1857-69 Wmk Double-lined numeral Imperforate 2d Slate-Green pair, SG 34, close to huge margins with portion of adjoining unit at right, cancelled by two strikes of second allocation numeral '42' [Hamilton]
Lot 114		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 1863-71 Wmk Double-lined numeral Perf 12 1d Dull Vermilion, pair and strip of three showing 'Double print', SG 69a, affixed to small piece cancelled by multiple strikes of second allocation numeral '92' [Tunbridge], perfs trimmed on left. Rare and unpriced in SG
Lot 115		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $80 1863-71 Wmk Double-lined numeral Perf 12 2d Yellow-Green, SG 71, cancelled by two strikes of second allocation numeral '15' [Cambridge]. Strong colour
Lot 116		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $105 Chalon Reprints: 1889 Perf 11½ 2d Yellow-Green, 4d Pale Blue, 6d Reddish Mauve and 1/- Vermilion in strips of three on thin gummed card (12)
Lot 117		Estimate: $1,000T 1870 De La Rue Imperforate Plate Proof 9d Pale Violet, upper right corner Plate No. 7 block of eight on Wmk Crown CC gummed paper, minor selvedge blemishes. Ex Butler
Lot 118		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $850 1880-91 Sideface Perf 12 ½d Orange complete sheet of 120, with plate scratch on units [59-60] of right pane, odd pencil annotation in selvedge, otherwise fresh unmounted
Lot 119		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $440 1891 Sideface Perf 11½ ½d Orange, SG 170, optd 'SPECIMEN' pane of sixty, almost separated through centre resulting in faults between rows, nevertheless a scarce pane (60)
Lot 120		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 1891 Sideface ½d Orange 'IMPERFORATE PAIR', SG 172a, fine
Lot 121		Estimate: $300 1899-1900 Pictorials 2½d Tasman's Arch positional block of twelve from left of pane showing Plate No. '1', odd blemish otherwise fresh unmounted
Lot 122		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $480 1899-1900 Pictorials 2½d Tasman's Arch positional block of 24 (4x6) from left of pane showing Plate No. '2', fresh unmounted
Lot 123		Estimate: $250 1899-1900 Pictorials 2½d Tasman's Arch Plate No. '2' block of four from left of sheet
Lot 124		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $850 1912 Pictorials 3d Brown on Thin ready gummed paper, BW T52, SG 262, upper left corner block of twelve (4x3), pencil notes in selvedge, two stamps unmounted. Cat AU$1800 or £780. A rare multiple
Lot 125		Estimate: $200 Revenues: 1885 (12 Jan) cover to England bearing 6d Mauve Platypus pair tied by Hobart duplex, arrival backstamp
Lot 126		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $90 Postal Fiscals: 1888 Wmk 'TAS' Perf 12 2/6d Lake, SG F30, fresh marginal example
Lot 127		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 Postal Fiscals: 1900 3d Chestnut 'REVENUE', SG F34, used block of four
Lot 128		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $525 Registered Envelope: 1883 (16 Nov) 4d blue, H&G #C1, (tear in flap) used Hamilton to Hobart, franked with Sideface 2d (2) tied by numeral '42', Hamilton datestamp (year inverted) below, Hobart backstamp. Early use