ANDREW ½D COLLECTION OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA

Lot 56		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $260 1889 'Halfpenny' Surcharge on 1d Scarlet pair used on 1889 (17 Aug) Forth town letter, cancelled '36' numeral. Missing back flap, otherwise an attractive and scarce usage, SG 167 cat £50 x 15 on cover
Lot 57		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $725 1889 'Halfpenny' Surcharge on 1d Scarlet: 1901 Reprint on Thin Card Imperforate gutter block of 20 overprinted 'REPRINT', the right twelve units variety 'Surcharge Double', vertical fold through gutter. Very unusual and scarce
Lot 58		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $550 1892-99 Tablets ½d Orange and Mauve used with Postal Fiscal 3d Chestnut and 1/- Rosine 'Platypus' cancelled Hobart duplex on 1897 (9 Jan) Post & Telegraph Department registered cover with 'SECRETARY GENERAL POST OFFICE FRANK STAMP' in black, with light chamfered 'REGISTERED' handstamp in purple, 'R' oval handstamp in black, and superb 'BERN/BRF DISTR' arrival backstamp. Rare overseas registered mail and unusual franked cover uprated with adhesives
Lot 59		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $900 1899-1900 Pictorials: ½d 'Lake Marion' De La Rue Imperforate Colour Trial in Bright Red-brown on unwatermarked wove paper, affixed to piece from the Appendix Sheet. Unique in this colour
Lot 60		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $625 1899-1900 Pictorials: ½d Deep Green overprinted 'Specimen' vertically marginal block of four showing large part of Plate No. '2'. Rare
Lot 61		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $290 1899-1900 Pictorials: ½d Deep Green complete sheet of 60, generally fresh, MUH. SG 229 cat £510 as singles
Lot 62		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $360 1899-1900 Pictorials: ½d Deep Green block of four, CTO with 'HOBART/TASMANIA/JA 12/1901' on each stamp, full gum, lower pair unmounted. Very rare
Lot 63		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $85 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways): ½d Dull Green Perf 12½ sheet of 60, minor creasing, few toned MUH. SG 249 cat £240, BW T5C AU$240 as hinged
Lot 64		Estimate: $450 Realised Price : $340 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways) ½d Dull Green Perf 12½ on 1911 (20 Oct) Walch's Tasmanian Almanac advertising card (crease at left) to Hobart tied by superb strike of 'ALONNAH/TASMANIA' cds. Hardinge rated RRR+
Lot 65		Estimate: $150 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways) ½d Dull Green Perf 12½ used with 1d Rose-red on picture side of 1911 (1 Nov) multicolour picture postcard of scouts 'Saluting the Flag' tied by two strikes of 'WARATAH" cds and another on reverse, addressed to Denmark. Great Scouting item
Lot 66		Estimate: $250 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways) ½d Dull Green Perf 11 used with Victoria ½d Green, and New South Wales ½d Green and 1d Rose-red tied by Ulverstone cds on 1912 (4 Mar) cover to Corfu, Greece (re-addressed to Malta) Corfu, Valletta and Sliema backstamps. Correct 2½d U.P.U. foreign rate
Lot 67		Estimate: $250 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways) ½d Dull Green Perf 12½ used with ½d Kangaroo on 1913 (3 Dec) cover from Melbourne to Windsor, tied by Melbourne machine cancel, Wm. Ackland handstamp in violet at top left. Very attractive
Lot 68		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways): ½d Dull Green corner block of four, left pair Perf. 11 x 12½ x 11 x 11 and right pair Perf 11 x 12½ fresh MUH. SG 249b cat £520, BW T7 AU$600 for hinged
Lot 69		Estimate: $750 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A: ½d Dull Green Perf 12½ sheet of 60, variety 'Watermark Upright' (Inverted), partial separation, MUH. SG 249d variety cat £1440, BW T5Cab cat AU$1200 as hinged
Lot 70		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1905-11 Pictorials Watermark Crown over Double-lined A: ½d Dull Green Perf 11 marginal, variety 'Watermark Upright' (Inverted), fresh MUH. SG 249da cat £110, BW T6aa cat AU$200 as hinged