AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, LATER £SD ISSUES

Lot 474		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $260 1934 Centenary of Victoria set in MUH blocks of four, the 1/- with Ash imprint at base. BW 151-53 Cat $AU400
Lot 475		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $160 1934 Centenary of Victoria, 2d, 3d & 1/- on separate plain first day covers, tied by LEETON/NSW 2 JY 34 datestamp and addressed locally. BW Cat AU$600 for all three on one cover. Clean and fine (3)
Lot 476		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $340 1934 Macarthur Centenary in Ash imprint blocks of four; comprising 2d (3 - 2 'Dark Hills' variety), 3d (2) and 9d (unmounted). Majority fine (24)
Lot 477		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $95 1934 Macarthur Centenary on two plain registered FDCs (2d + 3d, and 9d) cancelled 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE/N.S.W. datestamps, and with 'PARLIAMENT HOUSE/NEW SOUTH WALES' printed registration labels (2)
Lot 478		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $340 1937-66 mainly MUH selection, the majority in 'BY AUTHORITY' imprint blocks of four. Noted 'Robes' Ash imprint corner pairs for 5/- (mounted in selvedge only), 10/- (MUH) and £1 (mounted in selvedge only, tiny tone spot on rear of LH unit and paper scratch in lower LH selvedge) plus a selection of plate number blocks of the 1930 Sturt issue. Majority very fresh (few hundred)
Lot 479		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $130 1937 150th Anniversary of New South Wales 2d, 3d & 9d Ash imprint blocks of four, the 9d mounted in margin and one unit only. Fine (12)
Lot 480		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $40 1947 2½d Newcastle on 1947 (2 Sep) cover Lismore to Sydney with enclosed note stating "these stamps were issued here ahead of schedule by mistake....". Few minor peripheral faults though previously unrecorded use six days prior to issue
Lot 481		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $180 1948-56 No Watermark ½d Kangaroo with large diagonal 'O.S.' overprint in magenta mint with large part OG and used cancelled by machine slogan. See Note 17 under BW 180, this scarce handstamp was used by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture in 1951 during a shortage of 'G/NSW' punctures (2)
Lot 482		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $340 1948-56 No Watermark ½d Kangaroo with large 'O.S.' handstamp in magenta used on pieces with 1950 2½d NSW Stamp Centenary punctured 'G/NSW' at Deniliquin in May 1951 (2), or with 2d and 3d KGVI punctured 'G/NSW' cancelled at Scone in May 1951. (3 pieces)
Lot 483		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $400 1950 £2 Green Coat-of-Arms MUH block of four. Extremely Fine and fresh. SG 224d Cat £340+
Lot 484		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $95 1959 1/- Platypus on Royal FDC cancelled G.P.O. SYDNEY first day of issue datestamp, addressed by designer Eileen Mayo in her characteristic script, with her return address on the flap
Lot 485		1961-64 5/- 'Cattle' on white paper unmounted left-hand corner block of four. Fine. SG 327 Cat £340+
Lot 486		Estimate: $175 1963-65 Navigators 10/- Flinders White paper marginal block of 12 (2 x 6), spots on three units, otherwise fresh unmounted