THE KEN BARELLI CLASSIC VICTORIA, 1852-56 2D QUEEN-ON-THRONE, 1854 LITHOGRAPHED BY J.S. CAMPBELL & CO.

Lot 1299		Estimate: $750 Stone 2: 2d purple-black [16], SG 19b, very large-margined example from earliest printings, with Half-length third state 3d pale greenish blue (SG 11b) from right margin of sheet, touched top and base, a rare delicate shade (which is not faded), tied by Barred Oval \\\'5\\\' to 1854 (25 Jan) cover Sandhurst to U.K., paying 5d combined Inland/Ship Letter rate
Lot 1300		Estimate: $2,000 Stone 4: 2d brownish purple [49], SG 19, and \\\'Emblems\\\' 4d (SG 42a), large-margined except for 4d touched at right, tied to 1857 (22 Jun) cover Melbourne to Sydney at 6d Ship Letter rate. Rare mixed issue combination franking
Lot 1301		Estimate: $7,500 Stone 5: 2d black-violet \\\'Substituted transfer\\\' horizontal pair [32-43], SG 20ca, [32] substituted for [42], large-margined except where barely touched at lower right. Kellow records only seven substitutions in multiples (also a single), two of which are in The Royal Collection. The premier item in the substitutions in private hands. Illustrated Kellow colour plate 5. Ex Heslop, Perry
Lot 1302		Estimate: $1,000 Stone 9: 2d black, SG 22a, rejoined pair [11/21], large-margined except where barely touched at left base. This rare shade is thought to be a proof pressed in to postal use. Kellow states \\\'about a dozen copies have so far been recorded\\\', rendering this at £120 a most under-catalogued item
Lot 1303		Estimate: $1,500 Stone 9: 2d black pair [40-50], large-margined, tied by Barred Numeral \\\'1\\\' (Melbourne) to piece. Superb intense colour example. Ex Harvey, Perry
Lot 1304		Estimate: $1,000 Stone 9: 2d lilac-drab pair [36-37] in an uncharacteristic shade (cf typical \\\'grey-drab\\\' for Stone \\\'9\\\' printings) on distinctive thin hard paper not found elsewhere in Campbell printings, large-margined, cancelled Barred Numeral \\\'2\\\' (Geelong). Apparently a proof pressed in to use. Ex Purves, Perry