Auction No 140 - Prestige Philately

Oct 17, 2008
Prestige Philately - Auction No 140 Page: 43
Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES/STATES - General & Miscellaneous Lots
246
247
248
249
250
*OC
O
PS
O
C
NEW SOUTH WALES
251 F A-
Collection with handy pickings including NSW Imperf Laureate Wmk 2d Thin Paper & 3d (a huge
stamp) and later to 10/- with lots of perfs that we have not checked; Queensland with £1 pair very fine
used & four covers from Thursday Island; Victoria with Bell 1d on Yellow Paper & 1897 Charity pair (*);
Western Australia with scruffy Imperfs & later to 10/-; etc, condition very mixed.{Page 42.2} (100s)
Numeral postmarks including Victoria in two volumes with mostly commoner types with the odd rated
cancel; New South Wales reasonably extensive duplicated array with some fine strikes on piece;
Queensland sparse selection on values to 1/- (perf 'OS') with a few fine strikes on pairs. (many 100s)
Box of Postal Stationery mostly from NSW including PTPO Envelopes for various firms (11, used),
'OS' Envelopes, some 'SPECIMEN' overprints, 1838 GPO Seal embossed on lettersheet & (unusually)
a partly-addressed envelope; others from Queensland including a KEVII Registration Envelope CTO,
Victoria & South Australia; then some Australia including a long KGV 4½d Registration Envelope
unused & QEII 5d Lettersheet with printed Deficient Postage Notice from Sydney GPO unused, etc;
condition variable. (120 approx)
Modest array on Hagners with strength in South Australia including imperf 6d with 4 margins, range
of rouletted issues to 1/- (3, one in orange) including 'TEN PENCE' on 9d (2), Middle Period including
'3-PENCE' on 4d (5, one in red), 'POSTAGE & REVENUE' 2/6d (4) 5/- & 10/- (2), later "Long Toms" to
2/6d, plus a handy group of Officials; New South Wales with a few imperfs,1885-86 Long Type 10/-
optd 'POSTAGE' in blue, Victoria with Wmk Crown/A 5/- perf 'OS' pair, WA to 2/6d, plus some
Queensland & Tasmania, mixed condition.{Page 42.3} (100s)
Consignment remainders from New South Wales with two pre-stamp outers & 1903 cover to GB with
½d & 2d both perf 'OS/NSW'; Queensland with 1866 cover to Scotland; Tasmania with 1870 cover
from Bothwell to Hobart, 1904 cover to USA with 2½d Tablet & 1903 illustrated Brisbane Hotel
(Launceston) cover to England with 2½d Pictorial; and Victoria with neat 1860s Envelopes franked
Emblems Rouletted 2d (2) or Redrawn 6d (major flaws at top); etc, condition variable. (20)
1850-51 Sydney Views Plate I (No Clouds) Soft Yellowish Paper 1d crimson-lake SG 1, good even
margins, rounded corner at L/R clear of the design, neat bars cancel, Cat £450.{Page 42.4}
252 O B - Plate I (No Clouds) Soft Yellowish Paper 1d carmine SG 2 horizontal pair, margins close to large
except at right where just touched, a couple of tiny defects, indistinct cancels, Cat £800+.{Page 42.5}
253 O A - Plate I (No Clouds) Soft Yellowish Paper 1d reddish rose SG 3 horizontal pair [8-9], margins just
clear to large, indistinct numeral cancels, Cat £750+.{Page 42.6}
254 G/F A - Plate I (No Clouds) Soft Yellowish Paper 1d reddish rose SG 3 vertical pair [10/15], margins just
clear to large, good & very fine strikes of BN '71' of Tamworth, Cat £750+. Vertical multiples are much
scarcer than horizontal multiples.{Page 42.10}
255 G A - Plate II (Clouds) Hard Greyish or Bluish Paper 1d brownish red SG 12, margins just clear to large,
indistinct numeral cancel, Cat £275. {Page 42.7}
256 G A - Plate III (Single-Lined Undated Bale & No Dots in Stars) 2d ultramarine SG 29 [23] from the base of
the sheet, margins good to huge with part of the adjoining unit at left, BN '64' (Reversed '4') of West
Maitland, Cat £170. {Page 42.8}
257 O A - Soft Yellowish Wove Paper 3d yellow-green SG 39, margins good to large, good colour &
impression, indistinct numeral cancel, Cat £250.{Page 42.11}
258 * A 1854 Laureates Numeral Watermark 2d chalky blue SG 86, margins good to large, part o.g., Cat
£150.{Page 42.9}
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1,250
175
250
150
200
Lot 259 Lot 260
259 W A - 2d chalky blue with 'WALES' Partly Covered by Wavy Lines SG 86a, good even margins, unused,
under-catalogued at £550. BPA Certificate (2006). [We have no record of an unused example in any
major collection]{Page 43.1}
2,000