FINE STAMPS AND COVERS OF THE WORLD, AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, VICTORIA, WOODBLOCKS

Lot 659		Estimate: $3,000 1854-55 6d Dull Orange, SG 32a, used block of six with margins at top and right, cancelled by Barred Numeral \'10\'. The equal record used multiple, the other being on cover and manuscript cancelled
Lot 660		Estimate: $15,000 \'TOO LATE\' Imperforate Plate Proof in Lilac, large margins four sides, with the inscription and value tablets blank, inscribed \'ONE SHILLING\' diagonally above the lower tablet, tiny thinning. Probably the finest of the few recorded examples
Lot 661		Estimate: $15,000 \'REGISTERED\' Essay in Gold and Indigo on paper rouletted by Calvert, with the inscriptions \'REGISTERED\' and \'ONE SHILLING\' overprinted in gold, \'ONE SHILLING\' printed horizontally above the value tablet, faint thin. The only recorded example in this deep shade
Lot 662		Estimate: $10,000 Realised Price : $14,000 1854-55 Imperforate \'REGISTERED\' 1/- Rose-Pink and Blue, SG 34 (Sc F1), superb large-margined unused example, the finest of about 20 unused extant. Illustrated by Kellow page 97. Ex Caspary, Burrus, Purves, Perry