THE KEN BARELLI CLASSIC VICTORIA, 1852-56 2D QUEEN-ON-THRONE, 1852 RECESS-PRINTED BY THOMAS HAM

Lot 1291		Estimate: $7,500 Realised Price : $5,750 Plate Proof: Red-brown corner pair [9-10] without corner letters on thin card paper, vertical crease in left unit tending towards a tear (largely in top margin). Unique. This pair and two singles are the only examples of this proof outside of The Royal Collection. Illustrated Kellow page 66
Lot 1292		Estimate: $3,000 2d reddish brown, rare chestnut ([9] and [23]) and purple-brown shades, SG 18/b, complete reconstruction of the 50 units in a sheet, large-margined very fine to superb, scarcer cancels including Butterfly \\\'3\\\' and Barred Oval \\\'17\\\'. The finest quality reconstruction ever assembled. Ex Perry
Lot 1293		Estimate: $300 2d chestnut [10], SG 18a, full-margined, lightly cancelled rare Barred Oval \\\'12\\\' (Maiden\\\'s Punt), tiny thin at left mostly in margin. This shade is so rare (Kellow records only 15 examples) as to suggest that it may be of colour trial status, the known examples ranging from pale to deep chestnut. The catalogue value of £120 misleads as to its rarity
Lot 1294		Estimate: $750 2d chestnut [12], SG 18a, deepest shade, large-margined, cancelled Barred Oval \\\'25\\\' (Lake Colac) in blue. Illustrated Kellow Colour plate 5
Lot 1295		Estimate: $750 2d chestnut [24], SG 18a, large-margined, cancelled rare Barred Oval \\\'51\\\' (Sandridge). Ex Perry
Lot 1296		Estimate: $750 2d chestnut [30], SG 18a, pale chestnut which Kellow refers to as particularly rare, large-margined, cancelled Barred Oval \\\'1\\\' (Melbourne). Ex Gartner, Perry
Lot 1297		Estimate: $750 2d chestnut [44], SG 18a, large-margined, lightly cancelled rare Barred Oval \\\'51\\\' (Sandridge)
Lot 1298		Estimate: $750 2d chestnut [46], SG 18a, large-margined, lightly cancelled Barred Oval \\\'2\\\' (Geelong), tiny stain otherwise superb