AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, QUEEN ELIZABETH II ISSUES, PRE-DECIMAL COLLECTOR AND PRESENTATION SETS

Lot 481		Estimate: $40 Realised Price : $75 Duplicated range of empty folders used for Collector's Sets, earliest being c1930 green folder bound with green cord, and later horizontal folders in a variety of card stocks, also Miller Bros. printed folder (few stains) (11)
Lot 482		Estimate: $900 Realised Price : $850 c1944 Collector's Set of Specimen Stamps in Miller Bros. folder, comprising 1d Green Queen Dies 1 and 2, 1½d Red-brown, 2d Scarlet Dies 1 and 2, 3d and 1/4d KGVI, ½d, 4d, 5d, 6d, 9d and 1/- Zoological, 1/6d Hermes, 2/- Kangaroo and 5/- Robes CTO, and 10/-, £1 Robes optd 'SPECIMEN', all stamps full OG and unmounted, would seem to be missing the 1942 definitives. Folder with some stains (18)
Lot 483		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $100 c1952 Collector's Specimen Set in grey folder (C.7191/50 imprint), comprising ½d, 4d, 5½d, 6d, 9d and 1/- Zoological, 1d Princess, 1½d, 2d Queen Mother, 2½d Chocolate, 3d Green, 3½d, 4½d, 6½d Green, 7½d, 1/0½d KGVI, 8½d, 2/6d Aboriginal, 1/3d Hereford Bull, 1/6d Hermes, 2/- Aboriginal Art and 5/- Arms all CTO, plus, 10/-, £1 and £2 Arms optd 'SPECIMEN'. Fine (25 stamps)
Lot 484		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 c1953 Collector's Specimen Set removed from folder, possibly not an original composition (why two different 3½d?), and comprising ½d, 4d, 5½d, 6d, 9d, 1/- Zoological, 1d Princess, 1½d, 2d Queen Mother, 2½d Chocolate, 3½d, 4½d, 6½d, 7½d, 1/0 ½d KGVI, 3d, 3½d QEII, 8½d. 2/6d Aboriginal, 1/3d Hereford Bull, 2/- Aboriginal Art, 5/- Arms CTO, and 10/-, £1 and £2 Arms optd 'SPECIMEN' (the 10/- is hinged), all fine (26 stamps)
Lot 485		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $125 1953 Collector's Specimen Set in grey folder (no coded imprint), comprising ½d, 4d, 5½d, 6d, 9d and 1/- Zoological, 1d, 3d QEII, 1½d, 2d Queen Mother, 2½d Chocolate, 3½d, 4½d, 6½d Green, 7½d, 1/0½d KGVI, 8½d, 2/6d Aboriginal, 1/3d Hereford Bull, 1/6d Hermes, 2/- Aboriginal Art and 5/- Arms all CTO, plus 10/-, £1 and £2 Arms optd 'SPECIMEN'. The contents of this folder appear original, however one would expect the 3½d QEII to have replaced the 3½d KGVI). Fine (25 stamps)
Lot 486		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $105 1953 Collector's Specimen Set in grey folder (no coded imprint), comprising ½d, 4d, 6d, 9d and 1/- Zoological, 1d, 3d, 3½d QEII, 2d Queen Mother, 2½d Chocolate, 6½d Green, 7½d, 1/0½d KGVI, 1/6d Hermes, 2/- Aboriginal Art, 2/6d Aboriginal and 5/- Arms all CTO, plus 10/-, £1 and £2 Arms optd 'SPECIMEN'. (The 4½d, 8½d and 1/3d were withdrawn from the folders in late 1953; this folder dates from prior to the inclusion of the 2½d and 6½d QEII in 1954). Fine (20 stamps)
Lot 487		Estimate: $70 Realised Price : $55 c1963 Collector's Specimen Set removed from folder, comprising ½d Kangaroo, 1957 10d QEII, 1959-62 1d, 2d, 3d, 5d QEII, 6d, 8d, 11d Fauna, 1/6d, 2/-, 2/3d, 2/5d, 3/- Flora, 5/- Cattle, 1961 1/- Colombo Plan, and Arms 10/-, £1 and £2 optd 'SPECIMEN'. Dated to 1962/63 prior to inclusion of 5d Green QEII. Arms set mounted (19 stamps)
Lot 488		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $260 c1964 Collector's Specimen Set in deep blue-green folder (C.11841/63 imprint at lower left corner of back), stamps contained in glassine envelopes and comprising ½d Kangaroo, 2/6d Aboriginal, 10d QEII, 1959-63 1d, 2d, 3d QEII, 8d, 11d, 1/2d Fauna, 2/-, 2/3d, 3/- Flora, 5/- Cattle, 1961 1/- Colombo Plan, 1963 5d Green QEII, 1963 4/- Navigator, 1963-64 6d, 9d, 1/6d, 2/5d Birds all CTO, and 10/-, £1 and £2 Arms optd 'SPECIMEN'. Also 5d, 8d, 1/-, 2/- and 2/3d Australian Antarctic Territory, and 5d - 2/3d Cocos (Keeling) Islands, all CTO. This folder dates from prior to the replacement of the Arms with Navigators. Fine (34 stamps)
Lot 489		Estimate: $450 Realised Price : $525 1965 Collector's Specimen Set in glassine envelopes affixed in deep blue-green folder (C.11841/63 imprint at lower right on back), comprising ½d Kangaroo, 1957 10d QEII, 1959-63 1d, 2d, 3d QEII, 8d, 11d, 1/2d Fauna, 2/3d Yellow-green Wattle, 1961 1/- Colombo Plan, 1963 5d Green QEII, 1963-65 6d, 9d, 1/6d, 2/-, 2/5d, 2/6d, 3/- Birds, and 4/-, 5/- Navigators all CTO, and 7/6d, 10/-, £1 (both cream paper) and £2 (opt at base) Navigators optd 'SPECIMEN'. Also 5d, 8d, 1/-, 2/- and 2/3d Australian Antarctic Territory and 3d - 2/3d Cocos (Keeling) Islands CTO. Fine (35 stamps)
Lot 490		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $150 c1957 Presentation Booklet bound with blue cord, with buff cover with printed coat-of-arms, the frontispiece inscribed 'With the Compliments/of the/Director-General/Posts and Telegraphs', and comprising eleven leaves with hinged examples of all Australian stamps issued from 1952 up to 1957 (the last being the 4d SA Responsible Govt), also with Nauru, Norfolk Island and Papua and New Guinea issues of the same period. Fine, the circumstances of the presentation are not known
Lot 491		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $160 1959 Presentation Booklet with blue cover showing Coat-of-Arms, bound with blue cord and frontispiece inscribed 'With the Compliments/of the/Director-General/Posts and Telegraphs', containing all issues between 1954 and 1959 (ending with Queensland Self-Government), also Christmas Island 1958 2c - $1, Norfolk Island (incomplete, only Ball Bay ½d, 1d, 2d, 4d and 3d, 2/- new colours, and 1953 10d), Nauru 1954 ½d - 5/-, PNG 1952 ½d - £1 and 1957 4d, 7d, 1/7d and 5/-), all affixed with hinges. Small stain at edge of a few pages, otherwise fine (94)