AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, TASMANIA

Lot 82		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $1,800 1855 Wmk Large Star Imperforate 6d Dull Lilac, prepared for use though never issued, block of four, some minor creasing as always, in this case being far less than normally found. Cat £3000, [see footnote after SG 18]. 1965 RPSL Certificate. Ex Butler
Lot 83		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $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' of Hamilton
Lot 84		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $80 Chalons Reprints: 1889 Perf 11½ 2d Yellow-Green, 4d Pale Blue, 6d Reddish Mauve and 1/- Vermilion pairs on thin gummed card. Fresh (8)
Lot 85		Estimate: $800T Realised Price : $600 1870 De La Rue 9d Pale Violet Imperforate Plate Proof, corner Plate No. '7' block of eight on Wmk Crown CC gummed paper, minor selvedge blemishes. Ex Butler
Lot 86		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $170 1870-71 Sideface Perf 12, 10d Black, SG 131, optd 'SPECIMEN' twice. Fresh mint
Lot 87		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $160 1871-78 Sideface Perf 11, 5/- Purple and 5/- Mauve, SG 149,b optd 'SPECIMEN' unused (2)
Lot 88		Estimate: $3,500T Realised Price : $3,700 1891 Essay on Imperium 6d Colour Trial on unwatermarked gummed paper, in Dull Purple with value tablet Brown on white and 'TASMANIA' handpainted in Chinese White on upper tablet. Ex Scherani, Manning and Cohen
Lot 89		Estimate: $300 1899-1900 Pictorials, 2½d Tasman's Arch positional block of twelve from left showing Plate No. '1', odd blemish otherwise fresh unmounted. Stamps retail AU$300 for mounted
Lot 90		Estimate: $250 1899-1900 Pictorials, 2½d 'Tasman's Arch' Plate No. '2' block of four from left of sheet, mint
Lot 91		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 1905-11 Wmk Crown over A sideways 2d Dull Grey-Purple, mixed single-line Perf 12.4 (four sides) and 11 at left, large part o.g., BW T38, unlisted in SG. Only three mint examples are recorded
Lot 92		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 1905-11 Wmk Crown over A sideways 2d Dull Grey-Purple marginal pair, mixed single-line Perf 12.4 (four sides) and 11 at right, BW T38 variant, unlisted in SG. Unrecorded with Perf 11 at right
Lot 93		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 1905-11 Wmk Crown over A sideways 2d Dull Grey-Purple pair, mixed single-line Perf 11 (four sides) and 12.4 in between, BW T38 variant, unlisted in SG. Unrecorded with Perf 12.4 at centre
Lot 94		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 Postal Fiscals: 1900 3d Chestnut 'REVENUE', SG F34, used block of four
Lot 95		Estimate: $250 Revenues: 1950s-1960s selection of cheque forms (CBA Hobart) bearing Stamp Duty Numeral and Platypus series, values to 2/6d, good variety of frankings including scarcer issues, Numeral ½d on 1d and 9d, Platypus ½d and 2½d, etc, odd fault, mostly sound (51)
Lot 96		Estimate: $500 Postal History: 1908 (3 Feb) PPC used Melbourne to Launceston showing superb strike of rare 'Transmission of Tinselled/Post Cards Prohibited.', D.L.O. datestamps of Tasmania and Victoria. Earliest recorded date. Ex Groom, Askeland
Lot 97		Estimate: $400 Postal History: 1910 (10 Feb) tinselled postcard used Carrick to Deloraine showing very fine strike of rare 'Transmission of Tinselled/Post Cards Prohibited.'. Latest recorded date. Ex Askeland
Lot 98		Estimate: $50 Cancellations: Second Allocation '326' of Mills Point tying 2d Sideface (2) to piece. RRR
Lot 99		Estimate: $250 Cancellations: 1970s-1990s covers with good range of datestamps including rubber types, mainly better strikes on commercial covers, apparently all different (550 approx)