AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Lot 74		Estimate: $750 1854-55 Imperforate 4d Blue, SG 3a, close to huge margins (just touching at top right), showing spectacular pre-printing paper fold vertically through stamp, neatly cancelled with barred numeral '8'
Lot 75		Estimate: $2,000 1854-55 Imperforate 4d Blue, SG 3a, horizontal pair with void grid cancel in red, close to large margins except at top left where just touching, right unit slight thinning. The only 4d pair we have seen cancelled in red
Lot 76		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $800 1857-64 Wmk Sideways 6d Grey-Black rouletted 7½ to 14 and compound, SG 23, roulettes clearly evident, neatly cancelled. 2005 RPSL Certificate
Lot 77		Estimate: $2,000 1861 Perkins Bacon Imperforate Proofs of 2d in Blue, 2d in Black, 6d in Dark Lilac, 6d in Black and 1/- in Dark Green on unwatermarked paper. An attractive group
Lot 78		Estimate: $50,000 Realised Price : $40,000 1864-79 Wmk Crown CC 4d Carmine perf 12½, the outstanding 'DOUBLE PRINT' variety, SG 56a, usual rough perfs A fine unused example of this great Western Australia rarity, with only a few recorded. 1974 RPSL Certificate. [An example offered in April 2005 realised AU$57,500]. Ex Robinson
Lot 79		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $575 1882-85 Wmk Crown CA 1d Yellow-Ochre perf 12x14, SG 81, a very rare horizontal pair with numeral '8' cancel
Lot 80		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $625 1898-1907 Master Die Proof (stamp-size) in black on glazed card with blank value tablet, in the design used for 2½d to 1/- values
Lot 81		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $1,100 1898-1907 2d Die Proof (stamp-size) in black on glazed card affixed to piece (slight creasing) from De La Rue's day book, endorsed 'Aug 25/240 leave' in black, and in red 'Oct 4th 1897/Repeat plate/No.2'. Attractive
Lot 82		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $525 1898-1907 Wmk W Crown A 2d Bright Yellow, SG 113, handstamped 'ULTRAMAR' in blue, very fresh unmounted
Lot 83		Estimate: $5,000 Realised Price : $4,800 1902-11 Forgery of £1 Orange-Brown Die Proof on wove paper (62x49mm), signed 'Jean de Sperati'. [Rarer than the £2 Kangaroo Sperati Die Proof, one of which recently sold for AU$12000+]. The first example we have offered
Lot 84		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $600 1905-12 Wmk Crown over A (inverted) 9d Yellow-Orange perf 11, BW W52aa, SG 157b variety. An attractive used example with oval registered cancels
Lot 85		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $800 Postal Fiscal: 1882 Surcharge 'I.R./ONE PENNY' on 3d Lilac, postally used. Very rare
Lot 86		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 Postal Fiscal: 1882 Surcharge 'I.R./TWO PENCE' on 3d Lilac, scarce used block of four, unusually cancelled by Perth 'GPC/R' cancel in blue
Lot 87		Estimate: $1,250 Realised Price : $1,350 Postal Fiscal: 1882 Surcharge 'I.R./THREE SHILLINGS' on 3d Lilac
Lot 88		Estimate: $1,250 Realised Price : $1,350 Postal Fiscal: 1882 Surcharge 'I.R./SEVEN SHILLINGS/SIX PENCE' on 3d Lilac
Lot 89		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $2,100 Postal Fiscal: 1882 Surcharge 'I.R./TEN SHILLINGS' on 3d Lilac. Rare
Lot 90		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $750 Postal Fiscal: 1893 Watermark CA over Crown 7/6d Dull Purple, large part original gum
Lot 91		Estimate: $750 Telegraph Stamps: 1886 1d Bistre perf 12½ and 6d Lilac perf 14, large part original gum. Very scarce and seldom offered mint
Lot 92		Estimate: $1,250T Postal Card: 1909 (18 Jan) local Perth usage of 1908 1d Fleet Card (H&G 12), very slight ageing. Rare postally used
Lot 93		Estimate: $750 1896 (9 Dec) registered cover to New Caledonia bearing Swan 1d, 2d and 2½d tied by individual 'R' within ovals, transit Albany (11 Dec), Sydney (19 Dec) and Noumea (27 Dec) arrival datestamps, some soiling, still attractive tri-colour franking. Exotic destination