AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, DECIMAL ISSUES

Lot 613	[ CTO ]	Estimate: $100 Purchase Price : $88 1970s to 2000s Cancelled-to-order with Philatelic Sales Centre Sydney and G.P.O. Melbourne datestamps. Some minor duplication, and including blocks of 4 and many 'better' stamps (700+)
Lot 614	[ CTO ]	Estimate: $240 Purchase Price : $210 1988-2003 accumulation of CTO sheets and large blocks, including 1988 Living Together 1c, 53c, 63c and 68c in blocks of 40, 1992 Space, Vineyards, Australia Day, 1993 Christmas Island, World Heritage, Parliament, 1994 Bunyip, IYOF, 1995 Australia Day, 1996 Christmas Island, Planes, World Heritage, 1999 AAT, Polly Woodside, Small Pond, 2002 Thai Joint Issue, Christmas Island, 2003 Rugby, etc. Of great use for research into the Australia Post CTO products (41 sheets/panes/large blocks)
Lot 615	[ ** ]	Estimate: $440 Purchase Price : $397 Decimal issues in mint sheet folder, on hagners and in envelopes, some are in complete or part sheets including gutters, includes AU$47 worth without gum. Total face value as per listing provided AU$755.76
Lot 616 SOLD	[ */O/C ]	Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $160 Coils: Used accumulation of both QEII and Floral Coils, 2c and 10c Floral Coil packing slips, Black test coil strip of 4, wide range of covers with QEII or Floral coils, including FDCs and a wide range of special event postmarks, large duplicated lot of decimal coil wrapper bands. Also a few earlier pre-decimal coils, including quantities of 1d Green Queen Elizabeth and 2d Scarlet KGVI used on and off piece purported coil perf (not guaranteed). Many useful items included (many 100s)
Lot 617 SOLD	[ **/*/O ]	Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1966 3c QEII Definitive specialised mint (mostly) and used collection mounted on leaves, a detailed study of the electros and plate varieties, with virtually all BW listed varieties represented, mostly in positional blocks, and with high quality enlarged photographs included. Some foxing on a few blocks. An exceptional lot, highly recommended (438 M, 65 U)
Lot 618 SOLD	[ **/O ]	Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1970 6c Orange QEII small mint and used study on pages including positional pieces and with a number of the listed plate varieties (80 M, 98 U)
Lot 619	[ O ]	Estimate: $600 Purchase Price : $536 1971 7c Purple QEII variety 'Recut Shading Across Top of Stamp' Type 6, fine used with machine cancel. The most extensive of this series of rare recuts, with only several used examples recorded. BW 447(I)me, cat AU$1500
Lot 620	[ O ]	Estimate: $1,500 Purchase Price : $1,340 1971 7c Purple QEII variety 'Violent Corner Retouch' States I and II (extensive recutting to the lower left quarter of the stamp), both fine used with machine cancels. These two stamps are amongst the most heavily recut stamps of Australia, with very few examples recorded, and rarely offered for sale. BW 447(I)o,oa, cat AU$3000 (2)
Lot 621	[ P ]	Estimate: $700 Purchase Price : $612 1968 5c Macquarie Lighthouse Die Proof in Black on Buff tinted paper affixed to thin card (37 x 39mm) in Unadopted Design showing vertical lines at each side, very fine. Six examples are recorded of this essay die proof on various tinted papers. BW 499DP(1)C, cat AU$1500
Lot 622	[ P ]	Estimate: $1,000 Purchase Price : $874 1968 5c Lighthouse Anniversary Die Proof in Black on white wove paper affixed to thin card (47mm x 38mm), from an unadopted die showing vertical lines at left and right, very fine and one of three recorded examples on untinted paper. BW 499DP(1)A, cat AU$2000
Lot 623 SOLD	[ C ]	Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $60 1969 50th Anniversary of First England-Australia Flight se-tenant block of 6 used on 1969 (28 Nov) cover from Port Wakefield (SA) to England, paying the 30c airmail rate. BW cat AU$75 for se-tenant strip of 3 on cover
Lot 624	[ C ]	Estimate: $100 Purchase Price : $88 1970 Cook Bicentenary 5c marginal se-tenant strip of 5 used on 1970 (9 Nov) airmail cover to Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Lot 625 SOLD	[ ** ]	Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $100 1971 7c Sturt's Desert Pea Coil strip of 9 with variety 'Buff Printing Misplaced (6mm downwards), believed to be from the same rolls from which the various missing colours occurred. Fine MUH, unlisted in BW
Lot 626	[ ** ]	Estimate: $350 Purchase Price : $315 1971 7c Sturt's Desert Pea Coil three strips of 3, one normal, one 'Buff Printing Misplaced' (6mm downwards), and one 'Buff Printing Omitted' (and Green Printing misplaced), all very fine MUH, the last strip BW 535ce, cat AU$900 (9)
Lot 627 SOLD	[ ** ]	Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $460 1975 18c Helichrysum vertical strip of 4 from top of sheet, upper unit error 'Green Omitted' second unit with partial omission, very fine MUH. BW 725cg, this variation unlisted, cat AU$500+
Lot 628 SOLD	[ P ]	Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $125 1976 18c 75th Anniversary of Nationhood stamp-size photographs of designs submitted in the stamp design competition, includes the winning entry which was modified for the issued stamp (35)
Lot 629	[ ** ]	Estimate: $100 Purchase Price : $88 2004 Australia Post folder for distribution to delegates at the U.P.U. Congress in Bucharest, Romania, containing all International Stamps issued up to that time (27, values ranging from 50c to $20), not often seen. Also a second folder containing the original eight International Stamps issued in 2000