FINE STAMPS AND COVERS OF THE WORLD, AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, NEW SOUTH WALES
Lot 586
Estimate: $1,000
1852 Laureate Plate I Proof for 6d in Deep Chocolate-Brown on thick yellowish wove paper, margins except where tapered slightly into at upper right corner, slight thinning, lovely impression. Extremely rare
Lot 587
Estimate: $5,000
Realised Price : $6,500
1854-59 Diadem Imperforate 5d Dull Green, SG 88, superb used pair. Five pairs are recorded, one of which is on cover. Ex Wilson, \'Espana\' 1984 (wherein it realised £2,700), Frankenstein
Lot 588
Estimate: $15,000T
1856 Hard medium bluish wove paper, Imperforate (6d.) \'REGISTERED\' pair, SG 106, with 2003 BPA Certificate stating in \'...vermilion and Prussian blue...\', part original gum. A great rarity with only two unused pairs recorded, the other being somewhat damaged. Ex Boker, Forster
Lot 589
Estimate: $1,000
1856-60 Diadem (small type) Plate Proofs on wove paper with blank panels and waxed corners in yellow-ochre, green, blue, deep blue, purple-brown and deep brown, trimmed in places, also proof in black with void panels, some creasing as usually found (7)
Lot 590
Estimate: $750
1867-93 De La Rue 4d Die Proof in Red-Brown on white glazed card (92x60mm), minor soiling around edges as often found
Lot 591
Estimate: $750T
1871-1902 1/- Die Proof on white glazed card (92x60mm) in black, stamped \'Aug 16. 1875 BEFORE HARDENING\'. Fine
Lot 592
Estimate: $500T
Realised Price : $380
1882-97 Wmk Crown over NSW 10d Violet Perf 11x12, SG 236e, lower right corner block of 36 (6 x 6) with Current No. \'5\' at base, odd gum blemish and reinforcement. Rare in such a large multiple
Lot 593
Estimate: $600
1897 Composite Die Proof of the 1d, 2d and 2½d in Dark Blue on glazed card (144x94mm)
Lot 594
Estimate: $600
1897 Composite Die Proof of the 1d, 2d and 2½d in Deep Red-Brown on glazed card (144x94mm), minor corner bend
Lot 595
Estimate: $10,000
1897 Reissue 5/- Reddish Purple unused pair from lower right corner of sheet, variety ‘IMPERFORATE BETWEEN’, SG 297ca, slight natural wrinkling and toned paper typical of this variety. Ten pairs originally discovered
Lot 596
Estimate: $5,000T
Realised Price : $3,800
1906 9d Brown and Ultramarine, marginal block of four with large guide dot, disturbed brownish gum, compound perf 12 x 12½ and 11 at right, BW N51A. The misplaced vertical perforations at right with Post Office repair, the outer line then being applied with a line perf 11 machine. The only other recorded examples (a block of 4 and single) are in the H.L. White collection held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney and probably come from the same sheet, being in the same shade and with similar gum characteristics. An outstanding Federal Period showpiece. [Previously sold by us in February 2005 when it realised AU$6000+]
Lot 597
Estimate: $1,250
Realised Price : $1,450
Postage Dues: 1890 ½d to 20/- Green, SG D1-10, fresh mint set. Well above average condition and difficult to obtain a complete set so fine (10)
Lot 598
Estimate: $500T
Realised Price : $380
1863 (22 Jun) cover Sydney to U.K. originally bearing a Diadem 6d (wmk. \'6\' impression clear in gum-residue on cover) which has dislodged during its journey, the cover arriving stampless at London W.C. 20 Aug 1863, and subsequently readdressed with associated \'REDIRECTED/POSTAGE-UNPAID\' applied. The residual gum from adhesive indicates that it was originally adequately affixed, suggesting the probability that this article has been involved in an incident in transit beyond Sydney
Lot 599
Estimate: $750
1894 (20 Oct) envelope (with monogram of Grand Central Coffee Palace on flap) Sydney to Hawkes Bay (N.Z.) showing very fine strike of \'Saved from wreck of the/\'WAIRARAPA.\'\' in blue, backstamped Danevirke. Accompanied by earlier write-up stating \'The wreck of the steamer was sold at auction on the 6th of November for 70 pounds, slightly less than a single cover now brings at auction\'(!)
Lot 600
Estimate: $500T
1902 (5 Mar) registered use to U.S.A. of Post & Electric Telegraph Dept inscribed cover bearing 8d Lyrebird tied by Registered Sydney cds, bold oval \'R\' alongside, San Francisco & Boston backstamps. Very scarce solo franking (Foreign Letter rate 2½d x 2 + 3d registration)
Lot 601
Estimate: $500T
c.1910 postcard to U.K. bearing 1d (indistinctly cancelled), reverse with gum leaf affixed with oil painted bush hut and dweller in foreground, kookaburras and scarlet robin, etc, in background, initialled \'F.W/Healesville\' (Victoria). Delightful and rare example of early Federation miniature art
