'OS' Punctures: Mint and (mostly) used collection of leaves and hagners displaying the range of issues found and puncture positions and varieties, with Sideface 8d (2), 9d (7, two M), Tablet 10d (2), 1/- (7, one M), 2/6d (2) and 5/- (M), Pictorials (London Prints and Melbourne Printings) ½d (9), 1d (24), 2d (28, one stamp double perf), 3d (8), 4d (15), 5d (6), 6d (9). Also three covers, with ½d Pictorial pair on 1913 OHMS cover from the 91st Infantry, 1d and 2d Pictorials on separate 1908 OHMS cover from Tasmanian Rangers. Some stamps with small faults, but generally good to fine and an excellent study of these issues (123 plus 3 covers)
Lot 553
Estimate: $600T
Realised Price : $460
'OS' Punctures: Small group of puncture errors on Pictorials, with ½d Wmk V over Crown with 'Double Puncture' mint (3, one no gum) and mint horizontal and vertical pairs, each showing different type of error, 1d Wmk Crown over A mint pair with 'Sideways Double Puncture', and 4d London Print with 'Sideways Double Puncture', small thin on one ½d but generally fine and a rare group. Also used 1d, 2d and 3d Pictorials with faked punctures (13)
Lot 554
Estimate: $300T
Realised Price : $460
'OS' Punctures: 10d and 1/- Tablets, 9d Sideface, and 3d, 4d, 5d and 6d Pictorials cancelled-to-order, each showing small portion of a 'G.P.O.' datestamp. Presumably from a presentation set, absent from the Bill McCredie collection and not seen by us before (7)
Lot 555
Estimate: $60T
Realised Price : $65
'OS' Punctures: 1d Pictorial punctured 'OS' (sideways) on 1907 (2 Oct) OHMS unsealed cover to Forth, endorsed 'Packet Rate', very fine
Lot 556
Estimate: $500T
Realised Price : $420
'OS' Punctures: 6d Pictorial with upright puncture used on 1911 (24 Feb) long OHMS cover (225mm x 102mm) to Ulverstone cancelled Hobart machine, paying the treble inland letter rate. Fine and very rare, one of two known usages of the 6d Pictorial on cover
Lot 557
Estimate: $120T
'OS' Punctures: 1912 picture postcard sent from Launceston to Sterkstroom, Cape Colony, franked with ½d Pictorial punctured 'OS', illegally used for private correspondence and treated as unstamped. Marked with '10/CTMS/T' and with oval 'T/1d' on arrival, fine
