AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, 1927-65 OTHER £SD ISSUES

Lot 316		Estimate: $350T 1927-65 collection in 'Davo' album including 1931 6d Sepia imprint strip, 1934 Vic Centy, 1935 Jubilee, 1936 S.A. Centenary, 1937 NSW Sesqui including 'Man with tail' used (3, one retouched), 1937-49 KGVI to 5/- all dies of 3d blue, 1949-50 Arms set used, various later KGVI and QE2 etc, some listed varieties, etc, mixed condition, (100s)
Lot 317		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $460 1927-46 selection of FDC's including 1½d Canberra cancelled F.C.T., Kookaburra minisheet (may not belong), W.A. Cent (2, one Plate 6), Sturt pair, Kingsford Smith set (3d Plate 1), Bridge low values (3), Vic Cent (stains), Cable (2, one both Plate 1), S.A. Cent, N.S.W. Sesqui and A.I.F. sets, 1944 KGVI 2d, etc, generally fair/fine (23)
Lot 318		Estimate: $150 Group comprising 1927 1½d Canberra strip of 3 on Buscall cover cancelled at Darwin, 1929 1½d W.A. Centenary used with 3d Airmail cancelled at North Fremantle, 1932 2d recess and typo and 3d Sydney Harbour Bridge cover cancelled at Brisbane, and 1940 AIF set on P.O. cover
Lot 319		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 Variety selection comprising 1½d Canberra ‘flag half mast’ (5/10) corner single, 1½d W.A. Centenary re-entries 2/64 MUH in block of 4, and 6/74 in used block of 4 cancelled M.O.O. Melbourne cds. Also 1913 1d Engraved pair, one major retouch down right side (4/22) MLH (11)
Lot 320		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $260 1927 Canberra Design Competition contemporary photographic essays handstamped 'A. J. SHEARSBY.' on reverse. Shearsby was a N.S.W. commercial artist who is known to have designed a series of FDC's in the 1930s and early 1940s
Lot 321		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $700 1927 1½d Canberra comprising singles on piece cancelled FDI (34, stated by vendor to have been cut from FDC's!), mint block of eight with partial 'Offset', perf 'OS' mint (20, including five pairs) and used (16, including pairs x 3 and block of four, eight cancelled FDI), odd small fault, generally fine (78)
Lot 322		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $210 1928 3d Kookaburra singles (3, two with minisheet selvedge attached) tied by the special red cancel (unusually from two distinct ink pads) to registered plain FDC bearing the provisional label (Nº 64) in red tied by mss. 'Philatelic/Exb Melb'
Lot 323		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $400 1929 3d Airmail plain FDC (faint tones) additionally bearing 1½d Canberra (to make up air mail rate) and 'Angel' etiquette, the whole tied by Adelaide machine cancel
Lot 324		Estimate: $150 1929 3d Airmail various types perf 'OS' mint (8, including imprint pair) and used (12), also 1934 1/6d Hermes 1/6d mint (4) in mixed condition, (24)
Lot 325		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $340 1929 1½d W.A. Centenary Plate No. 3 corner pair with 'Offset', BW 138c,unmounted
Lot 326		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1929 1½d W.A. Centenary perf 'OS' comprising mint (16) including Plates Nº 2 pair and 10 block of four, and used (20), also mint Plates 1 to 12 singles which are not convincing, (48)
Lot 327		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $160 -: 1929 1½d Swan perforated OS, 'JOHN ASH' imprint block of four. Fresh
Lot 328		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1930 Sturt perf 'OS' selection with mint 1½d (24) and 3d (9), and used (mostly CTO) 1½d (27) and 3d (9), includes imprint and Plate Nº pairs or blocks amongst the mint, (69)
Lot 329		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $170 1931 Kingsford Smith 2d, 3d and 6d on registered FDC from Toorak (Vic.) to Sydney. BW 143y, cat. $125
Lot 330		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $115 -: 1931 Kingsford Smith 6d major re-entry but with additional four specks under aircraft reminiscent of the ‘plane dropping mailbag’variety on the 3d! Not constant, and not seen by us before but an attractive addition to this series
Lot 331		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $675 1931 6d Airmail neat plain FDC cancelled at Cessnock (N.S.W.)
Lot 332		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $420 -: 1931 6d brown Airmail overprinted OS imprint block of 10 MUH from Plate 2, No. 38 showing the re-entry. Excellent centring and perfs. An exhibition piece.
Lot 333		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $2,600 -: 1931 6d Airmail optd 'OS' (2) together with Kangaroo 1/- and KGV 2d (to make up 2/2d air mail rate) tied by Ship Mail Room/Melbourne cds of 17 Nov 1931 to First flight cover to U.K. Small faults as have the other three FDC's recorded for this issue
Lot 334		Estimate: $200T Realised Price : $150 1932 1/- Lyrebird marginal strip of three, endorsed in selvedge 'First Issued 15th Feb 1932', unmounted
Lot 335		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $280 -: 1932 1/- large lyrebird ovpt OS Ash imprint block of 4, centred to base and slight rubbing at upper right, not plentiful in MUH condition. BW cat $500
Lot 336		Estimate: $200 -: 1/- Large Lyrebird plain FDC (faint tones) registered at Fortitude Valley (Qld)
Lot 337		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $575 1932 Bridge set on plain FDC cancelled at Adelaide, the 5/- added and 'tied' subsequently
Lot 338		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $1,700 -: 1932 Bridge 2d and 3d pairs and 5/- tied by N.E. Pylon commemorative cancel of 31 Mar 1932 to registered illustrated cover (with appropriate registration label). Very attractive and much scarcer date than first day opening of 19 Mar
Lot 339		Estimate: $500 -: 1932 Bridge set of 4, 5/- nicely centred and of fresh appearance
Lot 340		Estimate: $150 -: 1932 Bridge 5/- Green, unused example with faint diagonal crease and minor blemishes, also 5th Philatelic Exhibition regn label
Lot 341		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1932 Bridge 5/- cto no gum, light tone spot on reverse.
Lot 342		Estimate: $100T -: 1932 Bridge 2d and 3d optd OS, five each (10)
Lot 343		Estimate: $80T Realised Price : $60 -: 1932 Bridge 2d and 3d optd OS blocks of four (8)
Lot 344		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 1932 6d Kookaburra corner and gutter pair - latter one short perf, also marginal single perf 'VG', (5)
Lot 345		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $170 -: 1932 6d Large Kookaburra plain FDC registered at Mt.Lawley (W.A.)
Lot 346		Estimate: $300 1934-36 Commemoratives used stock comprising Victoria Cent perf 10½ 3d (15) and 1/- (15), perf 11½ 3d (15) and 1/- (15), Macarthur 3d (15) and 9d (15), and S.A. Cent 1/- (50), most if not all light/medium circular cancels, odd small fault here and there (140). High retail value
Lot 347		Estimate: $65 Realised Price : $48 1934 Victoria Centenary Perf 11½ set of 3
Lot 348		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $270 1934 Macarthur set (3) on plain FDC cancelled (lightly) at Wooloongabba (Qld) with heavy strike of cds applied below stamps
Lot 349		Estimate: $250T -: 1934 Macarthur 9d pair together with 1/6d Hermes and 3d Vic Centenary (fault) tied by Market Street Melbourne cds to 1935 (21 Jan) registered airmailed cover (crease clear of adhesives) to U.K. Attractive and scarce franking
Lot 350		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $190 1934 No wmk 1/6d Hermes plain FDC cancelled at Hornsby (N.S.W.), small faults (largely on reverse) although not unattractive and scarce
Lot 351		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $400 1935 ANZAC pair on neat plain FDC registered at Sydney
Lot 352		Estimate: $375T -: 1935 ANZAC 2d and 1/-, upper left corner blocks of four showing Plate Nos 1 and 2, the 1/- Plate 2 with very faint impression of number, diagonal bend on one, few blunt perfs, tone spot in selvedge (16). Cat $766
Lot 353		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $260 1935 Silver Jubilee set on neat plain FDC cancelled at Cairns (Qld)
Lot 354		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $90 -: 1935 Silver Jubilee 2d, lower left corner block of four with variety 'Retouch to crosshatching adjoining lower frame', BW 166(2)ia
Lot 355		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $95 1936 Tasmanian Cable 2d and 3d on illustrated registered FDC from Birdwood (SA). Fine appearance. BW 170y.
Lot 356		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1936 S.A. Centenary set on FDC cancelled at Cairns
Lot 357		Estimate: $125T Realised Price : $125 -: 1936 S.A. Centenary 2d marginal example with part imprint showing variety 'Retouched sky below "AU"', BW 171e. Fresh and well centred
Lot 358		Estimate: $350 1937-38 Definitives selection of FDC's comprising perf 13½ x 14 1½d maroon (registered - block of four), KGVI 3d Die I + 6d + 1/-, 3d Die I 'White wattles' (faults), 3d Die I, 5d Ram, 9d Platypus, KGVI 1/4d, and perf 15 x 14 QM 1d and KGVI 2d, four are illustrated covers (the last a scarce 'S. Mitchell' type), (8)
Lot 359		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $525 -: 1937-38 Definitives perf 13½ x 14 imprint blocks on FDC comprising ½d (also with single KGVI 1/4d), 1½d maroon, 4d Koala and 5d Ram, also registered cover with 3d blue Die II (Thin paper) imprint block to 'H.S. Hill/Commonwealth Audit Office/Melbourne' who is known to have produced a small number of covers for first and curiously second (as is this - although with typewritten 'First day of issue’) days of issue for this stamp, odd tone spot (5)
Lot 360		Estimate: $150 -: 1937-38 Definitives perf 13½ x 14 selection to £1 including 3d blues (5, two Die Ia), 4d (11), 6d (11), 9d (11), 1/- (14), Robes set, etc, condition a bit mixed, also used 3d Die Ia (20)
Lot 361		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1937-49 perf 13½ x 14 KGVI 3d blue Die I 'White wattles' mint (8, six unmounted) and sound used (3), (11)
Lot 362		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $750 -: 1937-49 perf 13½ x 14 KGVI 3d blue Die II Thin paper 'White face and leaves' imprint block of four, BW 194c
Lot 363		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $525 -: 1937-49 perf 13½ x 14 KGVI 3d blue Die II Thin paper 'White face and leaves' block of five, BW 194c, three units unmounted
Lot 364		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $230 1938 1d green Die 2 Queen coil strip of 14 with normal perf. holes, without coil join, proving it to be from the special coil plate (as BW 182bf)
Lot 365		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $2,400 1938 Robes Thick paper FDC's (2) unusually to the same addressee (The Honourable John Lane Mullins of Sydney) comprising 5/- and 10/- on one cover (Sydney cds) and £1 on another (Sydney machine-cancel). Much under-rated FDC's
Lot 366		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $38 -: 1938 Robes Thick paper set to £1, also 1949-50 Arms set to £2, fine (7)
Lot 367		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 -: 1938 Robes Thick paper £1 'JOHN ASH' imprint block of four, one unit slight bend, hinge in selvedge, slight separation
Lot 368		Estimate: $50T -: 1938 Robes Thick paper £1 well centred pair cancelled at Cobar
Lot 369		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1938 Robes Thick paper 10/- (10) and £1 (10, one is Thin paper), mixed used condition, and 10/- 'SPECIMEN' (10, mostly unmounted - one CTO), (30)
Lot 370		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1937-49 perf 15 x 14 coil perf selection comprising ½d Kangaroo (12 pairs), QM 1d maroon (18 pairs), KGVI 2d scarlet pair (coil join - part gum only), 2d bright purple (11 pairs), also No wmk ½d Kangaroo (7 pairs)
Lot 371		Estimate: $1,000 -: 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 QM 1d maroon, KGVI 1½d green, 2d bright purple, 3d purple-brown, and Surcharges set (3) tied by Sydney machine-cancel (10 Dec 1941) to plain FDC addressed to 'Stamp Counter/ G.P.O./Sydney', the 3d placed too far to left to receive machine and cancelled following day by hand-applied datestamp. Rare to find the seven new issues on one cover
Lot 372		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $1,250 -: 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 QM 1d maroon, KGVI 1½d green, 2d bright purple and 3d purple-brown neat FDC cancelled Swan Hill (Vic)
Lot 373		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1937-49 perf 15 x 14 KGVI 2d scarlet irregular block of 12 with imprint showing misplaced perfs affecting margin adjoining ten units, Wmk inverted (47, including complete and partial Booklet panes), and 3d purple-brown (18) with light degree of ink-stripping, (77)
Lot 374		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 -: 1937-49 6d Kookaburra lower right corner block of 12 punctured ‘WA’, rarely seen on these issues. One for the perfin specialist
Lot 375		Estimate: $150 -: 1937-49 6d Kookaburra horiz block of 6 and 1942-44 2½d Scarlet KGVI vertical block of 6 both ‘no perfs at right’ due to jumped perfs and subsequent trimming. Interestingly, both items were sold during the 70s by certain leading dealers as ‘imperf at right’ (12)
Lot 376		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $140 -: 1937-49 1/- Lyrebird variety ‘retouch shading left of bird’ BW 209l, a very scarce and underrated variety
Lot 377		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1940 A.I.F. set in imprint blocks of four unusually on fine matching Post Office FDC's (4) registered at Nedlands (W.A.). Novel
Lot 378		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $140 1941 2½d on 2d surcharge top marginal block of 4, one the ‘medallion’ flaw, BW 222d
Lot 379		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 1942-44 QM 1d brown-purple neat plain FDC cancelled 'MIL.P.O. SWANBOURNE/W.A.'
Lot 380		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $125 -: 1942-44 1d purple-brown Queen coil strip of 15 without join, proving it to be from the special coil plate, BW 225bd
Lot 381		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $420 1942-44 QM 1½d green censored FDC (a little stained) to New Zealand
Lot 382		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $1,000 1948-50 Arms set (4) on separate illustrated FDC's, the 5/- and 10/- by Millers Bros, £1 and £2 'Wide World', registered at Lonsdale St (Melbourne) to same addressee, portion of flap on reverse inexplicably removed for each cover
Lot 383		Estimate: $250T Realised Price : $190 1949-50 Arms 5/- Thin paper, lower right corner block of four
Lot 384		Estimate: $200T Realised Price : $260 -: 1949-50 Arms 5/-, 10/- and £1, corner Authority imprint blocks of four (12)
Lot 385		Estimate: $400T Realised Price : $850 1948-56 No wmk ½d Kangaroo coil perforation so-called 'Mellow-yellow' shade block of four from the only known sheet (160) discovered in 1996, with Brusden-White certificate (1999) and block of normal orange shade
Lot 386		Estimate: $1,000T 1953-56 QE2 3d Green, lower left corner block of four with pre-printing paper crease resulting in corner unit being partly imperforate at base and at left. Attractive addition to any Elizabethan collection or exhibit
Lot 387		Estimate: $500 1954 3½d Red Cross upper marginal block of 6 showing spectacular variety ‘red (cross) misplaced to right’, cutting into globe. A block of 4 in our Sale No. 4 realised $375. Scarce
Lot 388		Estimate: $1,500T 1955 5d South Australia Stamp Centenary, Die Proof in Bright Green on white wove in sunken card. Eight proofs distributed, this numbered '49' with RBA cachet to J.R.W. Purves
Lot 389		Estimate: $200 1959 5d P.O. Anniversary on Post Office souvenir presentation card with first day cancel. Very scarce.
Lot 390		Estimate: $125T Realised Price : $95 1960 5d Girl Guides, marginal example with "Offset".
Lot 391		Estimate: $160 Realised Price : $120 1963-65 Navigators 4/- to £2, both papers of 10/- (one toned) and £1, (8)
Lot 392		Estimate: $60T Realised Price : $46 -: £2 King, fine
Lot 393		Estimate: $60T Realised Price : $46 -: £2 King, fine
Lot 394		Estimate: $175T Realised Price : $145 -: £2 King, fine examples (3)
Lot 395		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 -: set of 4 7/6d to £2 overprinted SPECIMEN (10/- and £1 cream papers)
Lot 396		Estimate: $250T -: set of 4 7/6d to £2 opt SPECIMEN, mounted, (4). Retail $425
Lot 397		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $675 1965 5d Christmas, irregular marginal block of 18 from top of sheet, four vertical units with error 'Blue partly omitted'. 1971 ASM page from 'Commonwealth Corner' reporting this variety