AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, 1937-52 KGVI ISSUES

Lot 415		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $260 1937-49 KGVI 3d Blue Die II unsurfaced paper 'JOHN ASH' imprint pair, variety 'Ink stripping - white face and leaves', BW 194c, stamps unmounted
Lot 416		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $250 1938-49 Robes Thin tinted paper 5/- pane of 40 from right pane, no selvedge at left, fresh
Lot 417		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $90 1938-49 Robes Thick paper 10/- optd 'SPECIMEN' block of four, minor toning, few short perfs
Lot 418		Estimate: $300 1938-49 QE 1d Green Die II, coil strip of six with join, BW 182bh
Lot 419		Estimate: $400 1937 N.S.W. Sesqui 2d upper left Plate No. 1 corner block of four, minor tone, BW 175z
Lot 420		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $340 1942 QE 1½d Green on plain FDC tied by Rozelle (N.S.W.) 1 DE 42 cds. Cat AU$800
Lot 421		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $200 1946 Victory set on rare Challis reg'd FDC, unopened and fine, a very few only recorded. [This was the second Challis FDC after the 1945 Gloucester issue. The trademark generic printed covers commenced with the 1946 Mitchell issue]
Lot 422		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $625 1949-50 Arms 5/- to £2 blocks of four, 5/- Thin paper, 10/- and £2 'By Authority' imprints, £1 'No Imprint' (one unit toned), mostly with three units unmounted (16)
Lot 423		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $90 1949-50 Arms 5/- corner 'No Imprint' block of four, faint bend, BW 268zb, unmounted
Lot 424		Estimate: $400 1949-50 Arms 5/- Thin paper marginal block of four
Lot 425		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $190 1949-50 Arms 10/- corner 'No Imprint' block of four, BW 269za, unmounted
Lot 426		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $460 1949-50 Arms £1 corner 'No Imprint' block of four, BW 270za, unmounted
Lot 427		Estimate: $1,500 Realised Price : $1,400 1949-50 Arms £2 Green, variety 'Roller flaw', on Thin paper (0.08mm - micrometer checked). The only example we have seen
Lot 428		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $800 1948-56 No Wmk ½d Kangaroo coil perf block of four in the rare and highly distinctive 'Mellow-yellow' shade, from the only known sheet discovered in 1996, with Brusden-White certificate (1998) and normal block for comparison, BW 180C. [A similar item realised AU$977 in our General Sale No. 6]