FINE STAMPS AND COVERS OF THE WORLD, AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KING GEORGE V ISSUES, PROOFS AND ESSAYS

Lot 757		Estimate: $10,000 Realised Price : $11,500 1d Perkins Bacon & Co. State 1 Die Proof - \'Head on solid background\' (39x45mm) in Black on thin white glazed card, endorsed \'1st Stage\', BW 70DP(11)Bc, reverse with hinge marks and cachet. [Two recorded in this format]
Lot 758		Estimate: $15,000 Realised Price : $16,500 1d Perkins Bacon & Co. State I Die Proof (62x62mm) in Bright Red, BW 70DP(11)Cc. The only known example. [Similar examples in vermilion and green realised AU$18,400 and AU$23,000 respectively in our 2003 Rarities Sale]
Lot 759		Estimate: $8,000 Realised Price : $10,500 1d Perkins Bacon & Co. State 4 Approved Die, cut-down Die Proof (51x60mm) in Carmine-Rose, BW 70DP(14)Bd. [Two recorded]
Lot 760		Estimate: $4,000 Realised Price : $4,200 2d Golden Scarlet Die II Imperforate Plate Proof block of four on unwatermarked white wove paper, faint blue score lines as always found, BW 100PP(1). The only larger multiple is a block of twelve
Lot 761		Estimate: $12,500 Realised Price : $15,000 4d Colour Trial in Chocolate, comb perf 14 on ungummed, unwatermarked paper, endorsed on reverse \'a\' in red ink, BW 111P(1)D. Only 14 examples were prepared and perhaps only two or three examples exist in this colour. One was sold six years ago and prior to that the last examples offered were a ‣set of six” in the 1980 ‘Williamson’ Sale