AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, LETTERSHEETS

Lot 1035	[ PS ]	Estimate: $1,200 Starting Price: $900 Stamped-to-Order Lettersheets: 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Original Die for Roberts & Co. Ltd. (Tas.) mint, tone spots affecting interior but not noticeable on face. Very rare, and according to the BW catalogue the only recorded mint example. BW LSS2, cat AU$3500
Lot 1036	[ PS ]	Estimate: $600 Starting Price: $460 Stamped-to-Order Lettersheets: 1913 1d Red Kangaroo Original Die for Roberts & Co. Ltd. (Tas.) very fine used and cancelled at Hobart 26JE13. The finer of the two recorded used examples. BW LSS2, cat AU$1000
Lot 1037	[ PS ]	Estimate: $600 Starting Price: $460 Stamped-to-order Lettersheets: 1918 1d Carmine KGV Sideface Die I with Department of Defence printed recruitment letter, used from Melbourne 10 October 1918 (one day earlier than the earliest date recorded by BW) addressed to Toowoomba (Qld) and twice redirected. Fine and rare, BW LSS5, cat AU$2000
Lot 1038	[ PS ]	Estimate: $350 Starting Price: $270 Stamped-to-order Lettersheets: 1928(?) 1d Green George V Oval Embossed on unused unfolded lettersheet (pale green stock) for Victorian Education Department to be used for truancy reports, very fine and rare, no used examples have been recorded. BW LSS11, cat AU$500
Lot 1039	[ PS ]	Estimate: $7,000 Starting Price: $5,250 Official Lettersheets: 1920(?) 'TWO/PENCE' on 1d Red Kangaroo with drilled 'OS' used on Victorian Education Department truancy notice sent from Melbourne to Bairnsdale, 17 Nov 1930. Fine and one of two recorded examples (this being the one illustrated in the BW catalogue), an important Australian Commonwealth postal stationery rarity. BW LSO4, cat AU$10,000