Welcome to our sale devoted to the stamps and postal history of Australasia, featuring The ‘Pericles’ Collection of King George VI Issues (Lots 515-709) and The William McCredie Collection of Specimen and UPU Stamps (Lots 227-339).

We are honoured to offer The ‘Pericles’ Collection of King George VI Issues, formed by one of the finest students of Australian Commonwealth philately during the past 50 years. This is undoubtedly the best holding of its type to appear in the market for a generation, and is noteworthy for the extensive range of rare plate numbers, many of which have not been on the market for over 30 years, and a number of which (by our count, some 20) represent the only recorded examples.

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We are again privileged to offer the collection of Australian Commonwealth Specimen and UPU Stamps formed by the late William (Bill) McCredie. While not as comprehensive as his Australian Colonies Specimens sold by us in June 2011, this collection is still remarkable for its range of unusual material. Bill did not make a detailed study of the cancelled-to-order and specimen sets sold to collectors, and these are fairly straightforward. The highlight is an example of the rare 3mm ‘SPECIMEN’ overprint on the £2 Arms. To compensate, however, is a wonderful range of stamps distributed to the UPU with receiving authority handstamps, many of which are the only examples recorded.

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The sale also features an excellent range of Australian Commonwealth, with mint Kangaroos to £2 in all watermarks and the 10/- CofA Wmk overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ Type C1 variant, fine King George V Sideface selections, 1d Red shades and varieties, and the CofA Wmk 1/4d 'Deep Turquoise', pre-decimal first day covers including the previously unrecorded 2/- Maroon Kangaroo redrawn die, and postage dues, while the diverse Oceania region features good selections of New Guinea and New Zealand.

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