AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KANGAROO ISSUES, 1913 FIRST WATERMARK
Lot 1
Estimate: $4,000T
Realised Price : $4,600
½d Green + 2d Grey + 3d Olive on 1913 (9th July) registered cover to U.S.A., adhesives tied by individual strikes of 'JULIA CREEK/ QUEENSLAND' datestamps, large black registration label at left, reverse with transit and arrival bacstamps. Absolutely superb item for the cover connoiseur
Lot 2
Estimate: $750T
Realised Price : $850
½d Green Perf large OS, corner 'No' Monogram block of 12 from right pane, minor separation on one otherwise very fresh, BW 1bcze
Lot 3
Estimate: $600T
Realised Price : $600
½d Green Perforated Small OS, corner 'No' Monogram block of 12 from right pane, minor diagonal crease, otherwise very fresh, BW 1bdze
Lot 4
Estimate: $500T
Realised Price : $400
2d Grey Perforated Small OS, block of four, lower units unmounted
Lot 5
Estimate: $7,000T
Realised Price : $6,000
2½d Indigo, complete right pane of sixty (6x10) with "No Monogram" from Plate I, odd insignificant bend, otherwise fresh and superb unmounted mint
Lot 6
Estimate: $500T
Realised Price : $1,000
2½d Indigo (2, one with variety 'Islands south of W.A. - BW 9e) + 3d Olive on registered cover to U.S.A. 'Per S.S. "Sonoma"', black and red Sydney registration label, adhesives tied by Sydney cds's and U.S. cachet 'Suspected Liable to/Customs Duties' and 'PASSED BY U.S. CUSTOMS/BUREAU, CHICAGO P.O.' in violet, transit and arrival backstamps. Attractive double rate + 3d registration
Lot 7
Estimate: $750T
Realised Price : $650
3d Olive Die 1, very fresh unmounted block of four, upper right unit blunt perf
Lot 8
Estimate: $3,000
6d Ultramarine pair Perforated 'OS/NSW', right unit with variety 'Retouched to second "E" of PENCE', BW 17e, very lightly mounted. Rare and fine
Lot 9
Estimate: $1,000T
Realised Price : $950
9d Violet Perforated Small OS, fresh marginal block of four
Lot 10
Estimate: $800
Realised Price : $600
5/- Grey and Yellow, very fine, fresh pair
Lot 11
Estimate: $25,000T
Realised Price : $21,000
5/- Grey and Yellow, single with 'JBC' Monogram, BW 42zc. Only five JBC singles are recorded, with this being possibly the finest example.
Lot 12
Estimate: $750
10/- Grey and Pink, fine
Lot 13
Estimate: $800T
Realised Price : $700
10/- Grey and Pink, well centred example, cancelled with oval registered postmark. Fine commercially used stamp
Lot 14
Estimate: $2,000T
Realised Price : $2,500
£1 Red-Brown and Blue, variety 'Broken tail on kangaroo', BW 51d
Lot 15
Estimate: $4,000T
Realised Price : $4,000
£2 Black and Rose, beautifully centred example. Would suit the most fastidious collector