AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, 1952-65 QEII PRE-DECIMAL ISSUES

Lot 729		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1953-56 Wmkd 3½d Brown-red QEII block of 21 (3x7), showing flaw caused by the adhesion of a piece of thread during printing, unmounted. Striking
Lot 730		Estimate: $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of six showing complete Plate No. '1' with dashes, BW 312z, hinged in selvedge and on one unit
Lot 731		Estimate: $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower right block of six showing complete Plate No. '1' with dashes, BW 312za, hinged in selvedge and on one unit
Lot 732		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of nine showing complete Plate No. '1' without dashes, BW 312zb, fine unmounted
Lot 733		Estimate: $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of six showing complete Plate No. '2' with dashes, BW 312zd, hinged on two units
Lot 734		Estimate: $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower right block of six showing complete Plate No. '2' with dashes, BW 312ze, hinged on two units
Lot 735		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $180 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of six showing partial Plate No. '2' without dashes, BW 312zf, small tone spot in selvedge
Lot 736		Estimate: $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of six showing complete Plate No. '3' with dashes, BW 312zh, few small tone spots, unmounted
Lot 737		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of four showing complete Plate No. '3' without dashes, BW 312zj, crease and few tiny tone spots, unmounted
Lot 738		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $380 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of six showing complete Plate No. '4' with dashes, BW 312zl, hinged in selvedge only
Lot 739		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $460 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of four showing largely complete Plate No. '4' without dashes, fine unmounted. Unlisted in the ACSC and rare
Lot 740		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $200 1954 3½d Red Cross lower left block of nine showing two Plate dots, BW 312zp, hinged on one unit
Lot 741		Estimate: $300 1956 Olympics range of covers or cards with special pictorial postmarks, mostly franked with 7½d (65), also 2/- Blue (6) or Green Olympic Publicity on FDC, plus a few other Olympics related covers (total 76). Pictor-Marks (1999) Cat AU$750+
Lot 742		Estimate: $400 1959-62 QEII 5d Blue Coil perf top marginal block of 12 showing small portion of Plate No. '2', BW 355z. Cat AU$1000. Only four or five examples are recorded, and all show a similar small portion of the number
Lot 743		Estimate: $125 1961-64 5/- Cattle, Cream and White paper singles, the latter marginal
Lot 744		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1961-64 5/- Cattle White paper marginal block of six, unmounted
Lot 745		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1963 Royal Visit 5d Green marginal block of four, variety 'Misplaced (horizontal) perforations', unmounted
Lot 746		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1963-65 5d Green QEII printed on paper with helecon reaction on back, BW 399, three used examples, one punctured 'G/NSW'. Cat AU$40 each
Lot 747		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1963-65 5d Green QEII booklet plate blocks of 96 and 144 (comprising 35 imperf between booklet panes, 15 imperf at left and 15 imperf at right) (240)
Lot 748		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $200 1963-65 5d Green QEII booklet stamp printed in error on helecon paper, BW 400a, fine used. A rarely offered stamp of which perhaps only two dozen examples have been found
Lot 749		Estimate: $600 1963-65 5d Green QEII booklet stamp, variety 'shading dashes left side retouched, with additional retouching to cross-hatching opposite Queen's eye and hair, and in angle of hair and neck' Panel C, 1/3 electro (b), BW 400db, fine used with machine cancel. One of the rarest electro re-cuts of the QEII period, with no mint and only four used examples known. Cat AU$800
Lot 750		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $290 1963-65 5d Red QEII block of four, variety 'Misplaced perfs', BW 402bb. Cat AU$400
Lot 751		Estimate: $150 1963-65 5d Red QEII pair, variety 'Misplaced (vertical) perfs', BW 402bb. Spectacular
Lot 752		Estimate: $125 1963-65 5d Red QEII Coil perf pairs (25), mostly in strips of four, BW 402bc, SG 354ca, unmounted. Cat AU$625
Lot 753		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $340 1963-65 Navigators 4/- to £2 unmounted blocks of four (10/-, £1 Cream paper), 4/- block creased, tiny tone spot on one £2 unit, otherwise fine and fresh (6 blocks)
Lot 754		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $360 1963-65 Navigators 4/- (21), 5/- (8), 7/6d (12), 10/- (10) and £1 (4) (Cream papers) in various unmounted multiples (55)
Lot 755		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $270 1963-65 Navigators 7/6d, 10/- and £1 (Cream papers) optd 'SPECIMEN', fine unmounted
Lot 756		Estimate: $700 Realised Price : $525 1963-65 Navigators 10/- Flinders White paper block of 32 (8x4) from base of sheet showing perf pips, central fold, fresh unmounted. Retail AU$1200+
Lot 757		Estimate: $175 1963-65 Navigators 10/- Flinders White paper block of eight, fresh unmounted
Lot 758		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1963-65 Navigators £1 Bass Cream paper block of four, unmounted
Lot 759		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 1963-65 Navigators £1 Bass White paper upper left corner block of 16, unmounted
Lot 760		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1963-65 Navigators £2 King strip of three, unmounted