AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, QUEENSLAND - THE FRANCIS KIDDLE COLLECTION, REVENUES, IMPRESSED DUTY

Lot 223		Estimate: $750T Realised Price : $1,050 1895 Composite Die Proof of incomplete design £500 and 17/6d values in Carmine, heads unshaded and shaded at left, between designs \'£500\' inserted, on wove paper (137x95mm), central crease clear of designs. Striking
Lot 224		Estimate: $500T Realised Price : $800 1895 Composite Die Proof of incomplete design £500 and 17/6d values, in Claret, '£500' inserted between designs, on wove paper (101x93mm), minor tone spots
Lot 225		Estimate: $500T Realised Price : $1,050 1895 Composite Die Proof of incomplete design £500 and 17/6d values, in Black, '£500' inserted between designs, on wove paper (100x93mm), minor tone spots
Lot 226		Estimate: $3,000T Realised Price : $3,800 1895 Queen Victoria, selection of thirty-eight (38) values between 3d to £500 in mint blocks of four, including £60, £70, £90, £100, £300, few minor blemishes. Extremely rare multiples (152)
Lot 227		Estimate: $300T Realised Price : $600 1895 Queen Victoria 3d to £500, Barefoot 1-63, complete set with colourless embossing (63). Issued for presentation to Members of Parliament
Lot 228		Estimate: $400T Realised Price : $400 1895 Queen Victoria 3d to £500, Barefoot 1-63, complete set with corner black-ring cancel, odd blemish, the 16/- in pair (63)
Lot 229		Estimate: $100T Realised Price : $110 1895 £100 Lilac affixed to 1895 (18 Nov) document 'An Act to incorporate the Singer Manufacturing Company.', cancelled red embossed seal
Lot 230		Estimate: $500T Realised Price : $750 1895-1901 balance of QV Long types with Die Proof of £500 in carmine (severely holed in surrounding margins), range of values to £500 (7), including single-ring cancels, colourless embossed seals, few handstamped \'CANCELLED\', inverted watermarks, including \'dot\' and \'no dot\' types, few on piece, some in combination with values to £50, mixed condition (127)
Lot 231		Estimate: $400T Realised Price : $525 1901-07 KEVII range with First issue values to 10/-, black/green types values to 20/- incl scarce 4/-, 13/-, 15/-, also £20 and 6d on piece with 4/- blue, Third issue with values to 45/- incl scarce/rare 7/6d, 21/-, other coloured types includes £30 on piece with KGV £3, £100 on piece with KGV £90 + QV £8, etc., few documents (44)
Lot 232		Estimate: $1,000T Realised Price : $1,300 1903-07 KEVII Imperf Plate Proofs in Black on highly surfaced white paper with part single-ring cancel, thirty values between 3d to £5, including 9/-, 11/-, 12/-, 16/-, 18/-, 19-/-, 25/-, £4 and £5. Unlisted in Barefoot and not listed in Elsmore on-line
Lot 233		Estimate: $600T Realised Price : $800 1901-06 KEVII perforated Plate Proofs with corner ring cancels 3d, 1/3d, 1/6d, 2/6d, 3/-, 6/- with selvedge top and bottom, 6d 1/- 4/- with selvedge at either or bottom, 10/- and 15/- without selvedge, odd tone (11). Very scarce group
Lot 234		Estimate: $750T Realised Price : $725 1903-07 KEVII printed Black/green paper, mint examples of 4/- (unlisted in Barefoot), 7/-, 7/6d, 10/-, 12/6d, 15/-, 17/6d, 30/- and £3, mostly fine. Elsmore on-line AU$535 x 5 (for mint). A very rare group
Lot 235		Estimate: $1,000T Realised Price : $1,100 c.1920 five pages inscribed 'IMPRESSED DENOTING STAMPS' affixed with Queen Victoria type 17/-, 18/-, 19/-, £10, £17, £18, £19, £40, £50, £70 and £80, KEVII 21/-, £12 to £15, £30, KGV 17/6d, 20/-, 25/- to £9, the £6 torn, £11, £13, £20, £60, £100, £200, £300, £500 and £1000, each handstamped 'SPECIMEN' diagonally in carmine and with over-embossing seal, minor blemishes (5 sheets with 40 stamps)
Lot 236		Estimate: $300T Realised Price : $240 1920-26 KGV Imperforate Plate Proofs on unwatermarked wove paper 8d Black, and in Blue 1/- (2, one dark), 3/-, 6/-, 7/6d, 10/- and 20/-, few marginal (8)
Lot 237		Estimate: $150T Realised Price : $380 1920-26 KGV selection of mixed watermarks (58) with values to £100, pieces (8) with single values or combinations, including £300+£90+£6+15/-, £100+£20+£8+5/-, and documents (7) with values up to 17/-, mostly red seal cancels, mixed condition
Lot 238		Estimate: $1,000T Realised Price : $750 1930-60 Imperforate Plate Proofs of Numeral design 1d to £1000 (except 1/-), Barefoot 210-278, (except 217), few with defacing lines, majority fine (68). Elsmore on-line AU$2000
Lot 239		Estimate: $3,000T 1930-60 Ultra-high value £5000 Purple, Barefoot 279, unused example, with central tone spot, not unduly detracting from one of the highest value revenue stamps of the British Empire. Elsmore on-line AU$5000
Lot 240		Estimate: $4,000T Realised Price : $3,000 1930-60 Ultra-high value £5000 Purple, Barefoot 279, tied to piece by \'QUEENSLAND/ STAMP DUTY\' cancel in red. Elsmore on-line AU$5000