AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KANGAROO ISSUES, SMALL MULTIPLE WATERMARK
Lot 628
Estimate: $250
Used accumulation on hagners, with 6d (48), 9d (16), 1/- (53), 2/- (36), range of shades with a few OS punctures, few with faults but mostly good to fine (153)
Lot 629
Estimate: $200
6d Chestnut Plate 3 Ash imprint block of 4 including variety 'White Hairline from Value Circle to Map' (3L54), very fresh with three units MUH. BW 22(3)z, cat AU$450
Lot 630
Estimate: $125
6d Chestnut solo franking cover (central crease) tied by fine strike of scarce Sydney handheld roller cancellation to 1932 cover per R.M.S. 'Narkinda' to Switzerland, paying double foreign letter rate, backstamped on arrival. (The liner Narkinda SS, Capt. L. Parfitt DSC, was serving as an auxiliary transport during the Allied landings in French north Africa in November 1942. She disembarked her troops at Bougie and had turned about for home when, toward evening on the 14th, she was bombed and sunk some distance off Bougie. Thirty-one persons were killed)
Lot 631
Estimate: $300
2/- Maroon well-centred MUH. BW30A, cat AU$750
Lot 632
Estimate: $750
Realised Price : $625
5/- Grey and Yellow-orange very fine MUH
Lot 633
Estimate: $650
5/- Grey and Deep Yellow punctured Small 'OS' centred upper right otherwise very fine MUH. BW 44b, cat AU$2500
Lot 634
Estimate: $600
5/- Grey and Yellow-orange Punctured 'OS', centred left otherwise very fine with large aprt OG. BW 45ba, cat AUU$1250
Lot 635
Estimate: $750
10/- Grey and Pale Pink optd SPECIMEN Type C very fine MUH. BW 49x, cat AU$1250
Lot 636
Estimate: $650
10/- Grey and Pale Pink optd SPECIMEN Type C sub-type 2 with Shaved 'P', couple of shortish perfs at base, large part OG and lightly hinged. BW49xd, cat AU$1750