SPECIMEN STAMPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, POSTAGE & REVENUE HIGH VALUES

Lot 165		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $1,100 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 2/6d to £20 optd Type 4 (12½ x 2mm), with additional £3 showing broken ‘D’ of ‘POUNDS’, part o.g. and some with adhesions on reverse, above average quality for this set (14) This overprint was used for the U.P.U. distribution of August 1889
Lot 166		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $2,600 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 2/6d to £20 optd Type 5 (17½ x 2mm), all wmk upright except 2/6d wmk sideways, generally fine part o.g. except £5 with tone spots and a rare complete set with this overprint (13) The 2/6d watermark sideways may have been specially printed for this set, as it is unknown without the Type 6 SPECIMEN overprint
Lot 167		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $2,200 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 2/6d to £20 optd Type 2 (18½ x 2½mm), all Wmk Upright Perf 10 except £3 (wmk sideways) and £5 Perf 11½-12½, most part o.g. and a few small faults including some stamps a little faded. A scarce complete set with this type (13) The Type 2 overprint was probably only used to deface sets that were affixed to the 1889 display sheets (see following two lots)
Lot 168		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $2,700 1889 Printed Sheet headed ‘SPECIMEN/SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE AND REVENUE STAMPS,/WITH DATE OF ISSUE’ and bearing Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 2/6d to £20 (except £5, perf 11½-12½) optd Type 2, plus 1883-95 3d and 6d Perf 10 optd Type 4. The sheet bears the imprint ‘100 - 24-4-89’. Roughly cut along left edge, otherwise very fine This sheet was bound into the Proceedings of the Postal and Telegraph Conference held in Adelaide in May 1890. The £3 perf. 10 in this sheet is very rare, as that value is usually represented by the perf. 11½-12½ stamp
Lot 169		Estimate: $1,200 Realised Price : $5,000 1889 Printed Sheet (210 x 268mm) headed ‘SPECIMEN/SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE AND REVENUE STAMPS,/WITH DATE OF ISSUE’ and bearing Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 2/6d to £3 optd Type 2 (except £3, Perf 11½x 12½), and the £4 to £20 (except £5, Perf 11½-12½) with manuscript ‘Specimen’, plus 1883-95 3d and 6d Perf 10 optd Type 4. Fine except for a few small peripheral tears. A rare sheet with the five highest values substituted by the manuscript overprint. Ex E.A. Williams collection
Lot 170		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $4,400 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 £4 to £20 with manuscript ‘Specimen’, as used on the 1889 Display Sheet, generally fine and small part o.g. Rare (5)
Lot 171		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $1,450 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 15/-, £1, £2, 50/-, £15, £20 and Perf 11½-12½ £4, £5 Grey, £10 optd Type 6 (15 x 2mm). 50/- with defect, still generally above average condition for these and mostly part o.g. ((9) The Type 6 overprint seems to have been used just prior to the replacement of the £5 grey with the £5 brown in 1895. The complete set has yet to be recorded with this overprint
Lot 172		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $625 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £5 Brown pair and single with Type 7 overprint (15¼ x 2mm). Pair superb full gum unmounted, single no gum The Type 7 overprint (very similar to Type 6 but slightly longer) is found only on this stamp
Lot 173		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $575 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprints 2/6d to £20 (£15 on close wmk), the £1 being in a horizontal pair, optd Type 4 (12½ x 2mm). Usual perf defects found on this printing, and mostly part o.g. (14) The Postage & Revenue reprints on wide Crown over SA paper were made in 1892 to provide stocks for a further distribution to the U.P.U. The rough perforation is characteristic, and there are shade differences with the originals
Lot 174		Estimate: $2,500 Realised Price : $3,000 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprints 2/6d to £20 (£15 on close wmk), in horizontal strips of 5 optd Type 4 (12½ x 2mm). Usual perf defects and a few other small faults. A rare set of multiples. Ex Chapman (13 strips of 5) Between 1892 and 1908 each U.P.U. member received quintuple sets of ‘SPECIMEN’ stamps, usually supplied in strips of 5
Lot 175		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $525 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprints 15/- horizontal strip of 4 and 50/- with Type 4 overprint, each showing duty plate misplaced upwards, unusual and presumably only one sheet of 60 each originally existed (5)
Lot 176		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $1,050 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ - Printed Sheet headed ‘SPECIMEN/ SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REVENUE STAMPS,/WITH THE DATE OF ISSUE’ with 2/6d to £20 Reprints on wmk Crown over SA (wide) (except £15 on close paper) optd Type 4, and additionally with £5 Brown optd Type 7
Lot 177		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $210 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprint £20 Claret with wide wmk with Type 4 overprint and inverted watermark, very scarce part o.g.
Lot 178		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $625 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprint £10 and £20 with wide wmk and £15 with close wmk with Type 4 overprint, each additionally with ‘REGISTERED ADELAIDE/SA squared circle datestamp for MA 11 95, £20 with scarce inverted watermark. Each with separate 2007 Ceremuga Certificate (3) Ed Williams, in ‘The Postage & Revenue Stamps of South Australia’ mentions a complete set of reprints with similar Registered datestamp of the same date; it seems possible that this was an additional defacement for some specific presentation, rather than curiosities contrived by a collector
Lot 179		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $550 1892 Wmk Crown SA (wide) Perf 11½-12½ Reprint £20 Claret optd Type 2 (18½ x 2½mm), part o.g. (streaky), very scarce Very few examples of this stamp are known, and its purpose is unclear. No other reprint values are known with this overprint
Lot 180		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $675 1886-96 balance of the collection of ‘SPECIMEN’ overprints on this issue, comprising Perf 10 £2, £4, £5 Grey and £15 with Type 5 (17½ x 2mm), £20 with Type 6 (15 x 2mm, badly faded), 5/-, 15/-. £5 Grey and £10 with Type 4 (12½ x 2mm); Perf 11½-12½ reprints 5/-, £2 (2) and 50/- with Type 4 overprint. Some defects, still a useful group (13)
Lot 181		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $240 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 10 15/- Pale Orange This and the following nine lots are cancelled-to-order stamps derived from stocks sent to Melbourne following Federation and their demonetisation for postal use. All show portion of the Melbourne c.d.s. with blank base positioned so that only the lower portion of the cancel shows (although occasionally a letter is visible. These stamps were used for presentation purposes in the ensuing years. A small quantity were sold in the 1986-87 Australia Post Archival sales
Lot 182		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $420 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £2 Venetian Red
Lot 183		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $550 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £2 Venetian Red bottom marginal and superb. Ex Australia Post Archives and Williams
Lot 184		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $625 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ 50/- Dull Pink, superb
Lot 185		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $480 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £3 Sage-Green, ragged perfs. Otherwise fine
Lot 186		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $550 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £4 Lemon, fine
Lot 187		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $650 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £5 Brown, diagonal gum crease otherwise fine. Ex Australia Post Archives and Williams
Lot 188		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $600 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £10 Bronze, Perf defect at top right
Lot 189		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $700 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £15 Silver, horizontal crease barely showing through face of stamp
Lot 190		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $725 1886-96 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 11½-12½ £20 Claret, missing Perf at top