AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, VICTORIA, 1884-1913 ISSUES

Lot 297		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $525 1884-96 Lithographed Stamp Duties £5 Rose-red, £6 Blue on Pink, £7 Violet on Blue, £8 Brownish-red on Yellow and £9 Yellow-green on Green fiscally used and without pinholes, £5 with vertical bend, £9 ragged perfs (typically), very fine for these stamps. SG 248-52, cat £950 (5)
Lot 298		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $380 1884 Lithographed Stamp Duties Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 £7 Violet on Blue and £8 Brownish-red on Yellow used with Typo 2/- Deep Blue on Green and £2 Deep Blue used on large portion of document dated 10 December 1884. These early high value Stamp Duties are rarely seen on document, the £8 has the additional attraction of being double perf down the right side (a small piece missing from the bottom right corner does not detract). SG cat for the and £8 fiscally used is £400
Lot 299		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1884-86 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) 2/- Deep Blue on Green Perf 12½, two horizontal bends, and a couple of short perfs at lower right, part OG. SG 0258b, cat £450
Lot 300		Estimate: $140 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 12½ 5/- Claret on Yellow, very fine with virtually full OG, trace of hinge. SG 260b, unpriced
Lot 301		Estimate: $120 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 12½ 5/- Pale Claret on Yellow, part OG and fine. SG 260c, cat £130
Lot 302		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) 5/- Pale Claret on Yellow Perf 12½ part OG, several shortish perfs at top. SG 260c, cat £130
Lot 303		Estimate: $140 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) 5/- Pale Claret on Yellow Perf 12½, very fine with large part OG. SG 260c, cat £130
Lot 304		Estimate: $80 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 12½ 5/- Pale Claret on Yellow, part somewhat toned OG. SG 260c, cat £130
Lot 305		Estimate: $200 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V1) 5/- Reddish-Purple on Lemon Perf 12½ very fine with part OG. SG 260d, £120
Lot 306		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $210 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 1/6d Pink fine with part OG. SG 267, cat £300
Lot 307		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½d 3/- Drab, part toned OG. SG 268, cat £150
Lot 308		Estimate: $120 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 3/- Olive-drab part OG and fine. SG 268a, cat £140
Lot 309		Estimate: $100 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 3/- Drab, fine with large part toned OG. SG 268, cat £150
Lot 310		Estimate: $140 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 3/- Olive-drab very fine with large part OG. SG 268a, cat £140
Lot 311		Estimate: $140 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 3/- Olive-drab fine with part OG. SG 268a, cat £140
Lot 312		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 4/- Red-orange, some gum thinning and slightly toned OG. SG 269, cat £150
Lot 313		Estimate: $120 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Upright Perf 12½ 4/- Yellow-orange, small thin at base, large part OG. SG 269ab, cat £225
Lot 314		Estimate: $200 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 5/- Rosine very fine with large part OG. SG 270, cat £180
Lot 315		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $280 1884-96 Stamp Duties Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Upright Perf. 12½ 6/- Apple-green fine with part OG. SG 271a, cat £450
Lot 316		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1884-92 Naish Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V2) 2/6d Yellow, part OG slightly toned gum and heavily hinged. SG 292a, cat £140
Lot 317		Estimate: $120 1896-99 Watermark V over Crown (V3) Perf 12½ 4/- Orange part OG, some adhesions on reverse. SG 0346, cat £170
Lot 318		Estimate: $90 1897 Charity 1d (1/-) and 2½d (2/6d) large part OG but each with mild vertical crease, also both values CTO with Melbourne cds, NO 23 97, part OG but both with small thins. SG 353-4, cat £253 (4)
Lot 319		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1897 Charity 1d (1/-) Blue and 2½d (2/6d) Red-brown very fine mint and lightly hinged with almost full OG, also 1d CTO with gum cancelled non-contemporary Wangaratta CDS 6 JA 12. SG 353-4, cat £173) (3)
Lot 320		Estimate: $200 1897 Charity 1d pair and 2½d used on separate covers from Melbourne to Launceston, the first dated FE 2 99, and the second dated FE 4 99. Both covers with some tone spots, the 1d cover being more affected (2)
Lot 321		Estimate: $400 1899-1901 Watermark V over Crown (V4) Perf 12½ 2/6d Yellow, small gum thins, otherwise very fine with part OG, a scarce stamp. SG 370, cat £600
Lot 322		Estimate: $200 1899-1901 Watermark V over Crown (V4) Perf 12½ 5/- Rosine, two small gum thins otherwise very fine with large part OG. SG 372, cat £200
Lot 323		Estimate: $250 1900 Boer War Fund 1d (1/-) Olive-brown and 2d (2/-) Emerald-green fine mint with large part OG. SG 374-5, cat £460 (2)
Lot 324		Estimate: $150 1900 Boer War Fund 1d (1/-) and 2d (2/-) part OG (somewhat toned), 1d with small thin. SG 374-5, cat £460 (2)
Lot 325		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $280 1901 No 'POSTAGE' 2d Imperforate Plate Proof in Black on thin (almost pelure) white wove paper. Fine and very scarce, with only 3 or 4 examples recorded
Lot 326		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1901 No 'POSTAGE' 1/- Yellow marginal block of 4, fine mint and scarce. SG 381, cat £320
Lot 327		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $210 1901-12 'POSTAGE' 2d Perf 12½ Plate Proof marginal block of 4 in Mauve on thin brownish paper, the marginal line indicates the block is from Plates 5/6, introduced in 1908. Fine, about a dozen examples are recorded, this being the only block of 4, illustrated in 'The Stamps of Victoria' by Kellow at page 298
Lot 328		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1905-13 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A 1d Rose-red block of 4 Comb Perf 12 x 12½, the right-hand pair being 'Double Perf' between and with additional vertical line Perf 11 at right. Very fine with lower pair MUH. SG 447, cat £190+
Lot 329		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-carmine strip of 12 from base of sheet with 'CA' and 'JBC' monograms, showing break in marginal rule under units [6-7], perfs split at centre otherwise fine, with only one unit hinged. BW V52z/za (2004), cat AU$660