AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KING GEORGE V SIDEFACE ISSUES, 1914-21 SINGLE WATERMARK

Lot 450		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $400 ½d Green Single Line Perf, SG 20a, fine used with light machine cancellation. 1962 BSAP Certificate. Cat £475
Lot 451		Estimate: $100 ½d 'Cyprus' Green block of four, BW 63H, few split perfs, two units unmounted, with normal single for comparison (5)
Lot 452		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $950 Smooth paper: 1d Bright Red Die II, BW 71B(1)f, superb unmounted. Cat AU$1000. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 453		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $420 Smooth paper: 1d Deep Scarlet (Aniline) top marginal vertical pair, wmk misplaced with the upper unit showing only 'line' watermark, stamps unmounted. Scarce
Lot 454		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 Smooth paper: 1d Scarlet Aniline, variety 'Rusted Cliche' (Pane IV/34), BW 71I(2)i, lightly cancelled. Cat AU$750. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 455		Estimate: $500 Smooth paper: 1d Scarlet Aniline, variety 'Rusted Cliche' (Pane IV/35), BW 71I(2)j, fine used. Cat AU$750. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 456		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $1,900 Smooth paper: 1d Aniline Scarlet showing varieties 'Colour flaw outside right frame opposite emu's neck' and 'rust flaw opposite top of right value tablet' (IV/46), BW 71I(2)ma. Very fine, with Wirrega (SA) cds 16 MR 17, centred lower right. One of the rarest 1d Red plate varieties. Cat AU$2500
Lot 457		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $400 Smooth paper: 1d Brown-red, BW 71W, slight gum bend otherwise fine unmounted. Cat AU$750. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 458		Estimate: $100 Smooth paper: 1d Carmine-red 'Substituted Cliche' Die II (advanced state), centred right and toned perfs at top, BW 71Y(2)ia. 2001 Drury Certificate
Lot 459		Estimate: $50 Smooth paper: 1d Carmine-red, variety 'Distorted ONE PENNY' (Pane VIII/13), BW 71Y(4)k, centred to right, few marks on face. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 460		Estimate: $3,000 Realised Price : $3,000 Smooth paper: 1d Aniline Carmine with variety 'top frame thinned and irregular left of crown' (VIII/15), cancelled Geelong cds dated 2 DE 21. Small tear at top and short perf at right, however this is generally considered to be the rarest of all 1d plate varieties in Red. 1992 RPSV Certificate. The first example recorded by us to be offered at auction
Lot 461		Estimate: $300 Smooth paper: 1d Red Substituted Cliches, comprising Smooth Paper Dies I and II, and Rough Paper Die I (2) and II (2), various shades
Lot 462		Estimate: $80 Rough paper: 1d Deep Scarlet (Aniline), BW 72A, wmk misplaced so that only the watermark line and top half of crown is showing, slight crease
Lot 463		Estimate: $1,500 Rough paper: 1d Rose-pink, BW 72H, centred left, fine unmounted. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 464		Estimate: $1,500 Rough paper: 1d Rose-pink punctured 'OS', BW 72Hbb, centred low and with light diagonal gum crease, unmounted. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 465		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 Rough paper: 1d Rosine punctured 'OS' Die I/II pair, BW 72I(1)fc, slight perf separation. Cat AU$600. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 466		Estimate: $750 Rough paper: 1d Damson, BW 72K, centred left, fine unmounted. Cat AU$1250. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 467		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $120 Rough paper: 1d Carmine-red, variety 'white line under right value tablet (Pane III/42), BW 72P(2)g, centred left. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 468		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $675 Range on leaves with values to 1/4d (3), incl a few blocks, 1d Red shades (Smooth and Rough papers), 1d Die III (2), 4d Orange shades, etc, generally fine. Mostly mint, plus a few used, incl a 1d Red supposedly 'Printed on gum' (71)
Lot 469		1½d Bright Red-brown, BW 87, vertical block of 14 with part 'Harrison' imprint, unmounted. Fine and fresh. Cat (2007) AU$560
Lot 470		Estimate: $400 1½d Scarlet, variety 'Substituted cliche - deformed right frame', BW 89(15)ib, clear Sydney datestamp NO 10/1924. Cat AU$750
Lot 471		Estimate: $600 1½d Scarlet Punctured 'OS', Wmk Inverted, 'PRINTED ON GUM'. Well-centred and very fine for this scarce error
Lot 472		Estimate: $400 1½d Scarlet Punctured 'OS', Wmk Inverted, 'PRINTED ON GUM'. Centred left with a few short perfs, very scarce
Lot 473		Estimate: $75 3d Violet-blue, variety 'Broken leg of emu', BW 104i, centred left (perfs into design), lightly hinged
Lot 474		Estimate: $800 4d Orange 'Wmk Inverted' with variety 'Line Through Value', gum thin, otherwise fine and very scarce
Lot 475		Estimate: $1,000 4d Lime-yellow, fine used, centred top left with variety 'Weeping 4', BW 110D(2)f. Very rare (possibly unique) with catalogued variety on this shade. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 476		Estimate: $5,000 Realised Price : $3,800 4d Lime-yellow punctured 'OS', BW 110Db, unpriced and previously unrecorded, fine with large part o.g. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 477		Estimate: $450 4d Violet vertical pair (slight perf separation), lower unit unmounted and with variety 'Thin FOUR PENCE', BW 112(2)ha. Cat AU$600
Lot 478		Estimate: $350 4d Violet punctured 'OS', well-centred for this
Lot 479		Estimate: $125 4d Violet punctured 'OS', fine
Lot 480		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $210 4d Dull Ultramarine (Cooke Plates), variety 'Thin FOU of FOUR ', lightly mounted, BW 112C(2)e. 2011 Drury Certificate
Lot 481		Estimate: $225 Realised Price : $170 4d Blue (Cooke Plates) punctured 'OS', BW 112b, centred left, lightly hinged
Lot 482		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $380 5d Orange-brown Comb Perf block of four, BW123C, lower (unmounted) units showing uncatalogued varieties, lower left unit with ' d of 5d missing' and 'white flaw behind emu's neck', lower right unit with 'white flaw inside right frame opposite emu's head'. Fine and fresh
Lot 483		Estimate: $100 5d Bright Chestnut Rough paper Single-line Perf 14 punctured 'OS', with Melbourne cds 8 NO 20, fine used
Lot 484		1/4d Greenish-blue, BW 128A, centred to base, fresh unmounted. Cat AU$400
Lot 485		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $180 1/4d Turquoise-blue pair punctured 'OS', BW 128Aba, well-centred and fine unmounted. Cat AU$300