AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, VICTORIA, GENERAL

Lot 107		Estimate: $120T 1854 Woodblocks 2/- Dull Bluish-green on Pale Yellow horizontal pair with clear margins but with vertical and horizontal creases, scarce in multiples. SG No. 35, cat £380+
Lot 108		Estimate: $100T 1856 1d Yellow-green Queen-on-Throne, no gum and just touched at top. SG No. 40, cat £250
Lot 109		Estimate: $100T 1857 Emblems Watermark Large Star 1d Yellow-green just touched at left, otherwise fine unused. SG No. 41, cat £200
Lot 110		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $130 1859 Emblems Wove Paper Perf 12 4d Rose-carmine, a 'small' example with part OG (possibly not original), clean and of fine colour. SG No. 85, cat £300
Lot 111		Estimate: $180T Realised Price : $170 1863-74 3d Lilac Laureate Watermark Single-lined '8', large part OG and very fine. SG No. 118, cat £225
Lot 112		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $675 1863-74 Laureates 10d Grey Watermark Single-lined '8', part OG and very fine apart from a couple of tiny tone spots. A scarce stamp in this quality, signed 'AD(iena)'. SG No. 119, cat £900
Lot 113		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $400 1870 2d Dull Lilac-mauve De La Rue design handstamped 'SPECIMEN' Type 6a (15 x 2mm with stop), no gum and with some peripheral toning. According to Kellow, Turner & McCredie, only three examples are recorded, two of which are in private hands. This is the example illustrated by the authors
Lot 114		Estimate: $120T Realised Price : $90 1878 Bell Design Emergency Printings on Coloured Paper 2d Dull Lilac-mauve on Green, part OG with missing perf at lower right. SG No. 199, cat £300
Lot 115		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1870-85 Stamp Statute £5 Black and Yellow-green 1891 Reprint optd 'Reprint', large part OG (an ungummed strip at the top of the stamp is the result of the production process), very fine
Lot 116		Estimate: $60 1884-96 Stamp Duty Lithographs: Watermark V over Crown (V1) Perf 13 £1/10/- Deep Grey-olive fiscally cancelled variety 'Watermark Upright and Reversed', closed pinhole at lower right, otherwise fine and a very scarce variety, SG 244a var
Lot 117		Estimate: $140 1897 Hospital Charity Fund 1d very fine MUH, and 2½d large part OG and lightly mounted. SG Nos.353-354, cat £150 (2)
Lot 118		Estimate: $40 Realised Price : $30 1897 Hospital Charity Fund 1d cancelled Melbourne cds (small tear at base), 2½d cancelled triple circle 'VIC' (? bogus) in bottom right corner, and with small faults in both top corners. SG Nos. 353-354, cat £103 (2)
Lot 119		Estimate: $40T 1899-1901 Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V4) 1d Olive used on presumably philatelic cover from Melbourne to Fitzroy, 29 June 1901, very fine. This stamp was valid for postage only from 6 to 30 June 1901 and is scarce on cover
Lot 120		Estimate: $220 1900 Boer War Charity 1d Olive-brown and 2d Emerald-green, large part OG (2d with gum wrinkle), and heavy paper hinge remains. SG Nos. 374-375, cat £425 (2)
Lot 121		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1901-10 'POSTAGE' Watermark V over Crown (V4) Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Pale Rose-red Die III vertical strip of 7 from bottom right corner of sheet overprinted with horizontal bars in black, from sheets prepared for vending machine experiments. MUH with some adhesions and minor perf separation in selvedge, somewhat gum toned
Lot 122		Estimate: $150 1901-10 Watermark V over Crown (V4), Single-line Perf 11, 1d Die II Dull Red pair, 1d Die II Pale Rose (Aniline) corner pair (stamps MUH, one with damaged lower right corner) and single, and 1d Die III Pale Rose-red corner block of 4 (2 MUH, some gum toning), scarce multiples. SG 402ab, 402b, cat £478 (9)
Lot 123		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $80 1905-12 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-red marginal block of 4 from base of sheet punctured 'OS', left-hand pair showing variety 'Double Perforation', very fine MUH
Lot 124		Estimate: $180 Realised Price : $135 1905-12 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A Perf 12½ £1 Dull Rose MUH but with gum unevenly toned. SG No. 431a, cat £300
Lot 125		Estimate: $150 1912 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A (sideways) Thin Pre-gummed Paper, Single-line Perf 12½ ½d Bluish-green block of 48 (minor perf separation) and marginal block of 26, only four units mounted, and generally very fine. SG 416b, cat £370
Lot 126		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Single-line Perf 12½ ½d Bluish-green block of 40 comprising the upper two rows of a sheet with selvedge three sides, perfs separated at centre otherwise very fine with stamps MUH. SG 457, cat £120
Lot 127		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $270 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-carmine variety 'Watermark Sideways' vertical strip of 10 (split in two) from left of sheet with selvedge three sides, very fine with stamps MUH. SG 458a, cat £500
Lot 128		Estimate: $150 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5) Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-carmine 'CA' and 'JBC' monogram blocks of 4, first with faint diagonal bend through corner stamp and some perf separation, very fine with large part OG and lightly mounted (8)
Lot 129		Estimate: $350 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-carmine strips of 12 from base of sheet (2) with 'CA' and 'JBC' monograms, from two different plates showing variations in the gaps in the marginal rule. One strip with three units thinned, both strips with slight toning in selvedge at right edge, otherwise fine with most units MUH. BW V52z/za (2004), cat AU$780+
Lot 130		Estimate: $300 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Comb Perf 12 x 12½d 1d Rose-carmine strip of 12 from base of sheet with 'CA' and 'JBC' monograms, showing break in marginal rule under units [6-7], perfs split at centre otherwise fine, with only one unit hinged. BW V52z/za (2004), cat AU$660
Lot 131		Estimate: $250 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5) (inverted), Single-line Perf 11 ½d Bluish-green strip of 20 from top of sheet with selvedge three sides, a superb multiple with the stamps MUH, ex Purves and Perry. SG 461, cat £400
Lot 132		Estimate: $90 1895-96 receipts for shares (4) from The North Prentice Gold Mining Company, each with 1890 1d Reading affixed. Fine, and with considerable thematic interest
Lot 133		Estimate: $30 Small range, with 1876 1d Violet postcard, 1882 1d + 1d Violet reply card used 1896, 1891 1½d on 2d Violet postcard used in 1900, 1½d Brownish-red on Green postcard CTO, 1901 1d 'POSTAGE' lettercard CTO (sealed), 1890 1d Red-brown embossed envelope, 1890 1d Red-brown wrapper, generally fine (7)