AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, VICTORIA, 1854-84 ISSUES

Lot 284		Estimate: $180 Realised Price : $135 1854 Woodblocks 6d Too Late with large margins, cancelled Barred Numeral '1', fine. SG 33, cat £250
Lot 285		Estimate: $140 Realised Price : $105 1854 Woodblocks 6d Too Late with large margins all round, scissor cut just into design at lower right, cancelled Barred Oval '1'. SG 33, cat £250
Lot 286		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1854 Woodblocks 2/- Dull Bluish-green Imperf, small even margins and cancelled Barred Numeral '1'. SG 35, cat £200
Lot 287		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 1856-58 Queen-on-Throne 1d Yellow-green Imperf mint with part OG (cat £300) and used (4), mostly fine, one just touched at left, and 6d Bright Blue fine used (3), also an Imperf Plate Proof in Black. SG 40, 73 (9)
Lot 288		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $950 1860-66 Beaded Ovals: 3d Plate Proof in Black on white wove paper pulled from the 1891 reprint plate, very fine and the only recorded example, ex Purves
Lot 289		Estimate: $350 1867-81 Laureates Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 3d Lilac, few shortish perfs otherwise fine with part OG. SG 133, cat £475
Lot 290		Estimate: $280 1867-81 Laureates Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 3d Lilac, fresh but largely no gum. SG 133, cat £475
Lot 291		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1867-81 Laureates Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 1/- Light Blue on Blue variety ‘Watermark Inverted’, very fine with part OG. SG 138, cat £275+
Lot 292		Estimate: $550 Realised Price : $420 1867-81 Laureates Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 5/- Blue and Carmine Type 1 fine with part OG. SG 140a, cat £750
Lot 293		Estimate: $300 1867-81 Laureates Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 5/- Grey-blue and Carmine Type I, small thin at upper left but of fine appearance and part OG. SG140c, cat £750
Lot 294		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $230 1870-84 Stamp Statutes: 2/6d Orange and Yellow shades, duplicated range on hagners demonstrating the differences between the eight printings made (seven on V1 paper and the last on V2 paper), mixed perforations, all fiscally used and including seven pairs, a rarely offered study, SG 226,232 (38)
Lot 295		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $250 1870 84 Stamp Statutes: Watermark V over Crown (V1) £5 Black and Yellow-green Perf 12 very fine and fiscally used in 1874, the scarcest perf variety on this stamp, SG 230a
Lot 296		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $230 1870-1884 Stamp Statutes: Watermark V over Crown (V1) £5 Black and Yellow-green Perf 12½ very fine fiscally used cancelled by violet Registrar-General's handstamp. SG 230b, cat £450