SPECIMEN STAMPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, TASMANIA, PICTORIAL ISSUE

Lot 252		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $1,800 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 ½d Deep Green overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ (Samuel Type D4a) by De La Rue for their own archive. Affixed to piece. Believed to be unique This and following four lots comprise portion of a set of the London-printed Engraved Pictorials overprinted by the printers for their own archive. These were sold with the rest of the De La Rue archives in 1976
Lot 253		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $2,000 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 1d Bright Lake overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ (Samuel Type D4a) by De La Rue for their own archive. Affixed to piece. Believed to be unique
Lot 254		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $1,300 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 2d Deep Violet overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ (Samuel Type D4a) by De La Rue for their own archive. Affixed to piece. Believed to be unique
Lot 255		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $2,600 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 4d Deep Orange-Buff overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ (Samuel Type D4a) by De La Rue for their own archive. Affixed to piece. Believed to be unique
Lot 256		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $2,400 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 5d Bright blue overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ (Samuel Type D4a) by De La Rue for their own archive. Affixed to piece. Believed to be unique
Lot 257		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $300 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 ½d to 6d optd Type 3 (18mm), plus an additional 5d, most with tone spots on reverse, part o.g. (9) This set was used for U.P.U. distribution; the 1d and 2d were distributed in January 1900, the ½d, 5d and 6d in May 1900, and the 2½d, 3d and 4d in July 1900
Lot 258		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $420 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 1d Bright Lake optd Type 3 with additional ‘ULTRAMAR’ handstamp in blue applied in Lisbon to U.P.U. Specimens prior to despatch to the Colonies
Lot 259		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $260 1899-1900 Wmk Multiple TAS Perf 14 ½d Deep Green block of 4 cancelled-to-order with ‘HOBART/TASMANIA’ c.d.s. for JA 12 1901, o.g. with lower pair unmounted, a very scarce multiple