AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, VICTORIA, GENERAL

Lot 214		Estimate: $900 Realised Price : $1,400 1850-1912 mostly used collection on Seven Seas leaves, imperf including Half-Lengths (6), 6d Too Late and 1/- Registered, Woodblocks with 6d serrated perf and 2/- Green mint (faults), later issues with some better including Beaded Oval 6d Orange, Laureate 5/- Blue on Yellow, £5 to £9 bicoloured Stamp Duties fiscally used, Charities 1897 (mint) and 1900 (used), KEVII £1 and £2 used, plus Postage Due ½d to 5/- Brown and Blue and Red and Green sets. Mixed condition (168)
Lot 215		Estimate: $800T Realised Price : $600 2d Lilac-mauve Half-length, First State of Die (just touched at lower right), used on 1850 (4 Apr) outer addressed to Melbourne and tied by manuscript pen line, believed to have been applied at Fyansford. Five covers bearing this stamp are recorded. With 2006 RPSV Certificate
Lot 216		Estimate: $140 Realised Price : $105 1850-53 Half-lengths 2d Dull Brownish-lilac Fourth State of Die very fine from left side of sheet with margins all round and showing portion of adjoining unit at top, short scissor cut at top right between units, an attractive example rarely found in this quality
Lot 217		Estimate: $60T Realised Price : $46 1854 Woodblock 2/- Dull Bluish-green on Pale Yellow Imperf horizontal pair with clear margins but with vertical and horizontal creases, scarce in multiples. SG 35, cat £380+
Lot 218		Estimate: $120 1855-56 2d Queen-on-Throne Campbell & Fergusson Printings 2d Lilac (Stone A) lettered 'TX' (No. 19), unused with smallish margins touched at top right and along base, and with mark at centre left, however scarce. SG 36, cat £600
Lot 219		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1857 6d Orange Woodblock, one showing roulettes on three sides produced by the single-line cutter employed at the G.P.O. (cancelled BN 54 of Kilmore), one rouletted 7-9 on three sides by Calvert (cancelled BN 1 of Melbourne), and another serrated perf 18-19 by Calvert (cancelled BN 5 of Ballarat). A useful trio
Lot 220		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $190 1884 Stamp Statute Watermark V over Crown (V1) (sideways) 1/- Deep Blue on Blue Perf 12½, light horizontal bend, otherwise fine with part OG. SG 224c, cat £250
Lot 221		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $380 1884 Lithographed Stamp Duties £5 Rose-red, £6 Blue on Pink, £7 Violet on Blue, £8 Brownish-red on Yellow and £9 Yellow-green on Green fiscally used, all fine and free of the pinholes frequently seen on these stamps. SG 248-252, cat £950 (5)
Lot 222		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $1,000 1884 Lithographed Stamp Duties, a fiscally used range comprising £5 Rose-red (4), £7 Violet on Blue (9), and £8 Brownish-red on Yellow (9) fiscally used. A few with small faults including the usual pinholes, but many are fine examples of these scarce stamps. SG cat £4200 (22)
Lot 223		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $500 1884-96 Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V1) £1 Reddish-orange on Yellow Perf 12½, part OG, fine other than for a few tiny marks on back. SG 262b, cat £900
Lot 224		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $125 1884-96 Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V2) (sideways) 1/6d Bright Rose-carmine part OG, somewhat heavily hinged and with adhesions on reverse from previous mounting in illustrated album. SG 267a, cat £325
Lot 225		Estimate: $100 1884-96 Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V2) 3/- Drab, large part OG and fresh appearance, minor gum creasing. SG 268, cat £130
Lot 226		Estimate: $120 1884-96 Stamp Duty Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) Perf 12½ 4/- Red-orange very fine with large part OG, small gum thin. SG 269, cat £130
Lot 227		Estimate: $100 1884-96 Stamp Duty Typographs Watermark V over Crown (V2)(sideways) 4/- Red-orange part OG, some small black marks on reverse. SG 269. cat £150
Lot 228		Estimate: $100 1884-96 Stamp Duty Typographed Watermark V over Crown (V2) (upright) 6/- Apple-green, small repaired tear at lower left, large part OG. SG 271a, cat £450
Lot 229		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $900 1884-1900 Stamp Duty Wmk V over Crown (V2) Engraved £100 Aniline Crimson handstamped italic 'Specimen' (Type 24b) twice diagonally, very fine with large part OG and very lightly hinged, an exceptional example
Lot 230		Estimate: $120 1884-92 Naish Stamp Duty Watermark V over Crown (V2) 2/6d Yellow, part OG slightly toned gum and heavily hinged. SG 292a, cat £140
Lot 231		1885 'STAMP DUTY' Overprint in Blue on 3d Yellow-orange Laureate marginal block of 9 from right of sheet, well-centred for this issue and with large part OG, four stamps MUH. The record multiple. This block was the subject of a recent article in Philately from Australia. SG 308, cat £630++
Lot 232		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $250 1886-96 Stamp Duty range of fiscally used bicoloured high values, with £5 Pale Blue and Maroon (9), £6 Yellow and Pale Blue (6) and £9 Apple-green and Rosine (5). Mostly fine (20)
Lot 233		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1912 Watermark V over Crown (V5), Comb Perf 12 x 12½ 1d Rose-carmine strips of 12 from base of sheet (2) with 'CA' and 'JBC' monograms, from two different plates showing variations in the gaps in the marginal rule. One strip with three units thinned, both strips with slight toning in selvedge at right edge, otherwise fine with most units MUH. BW V52z/za (2004), cat AU$780+
Lot 234		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $250 Small group of italic 'Specimen' overprints (Types 24a or Type 24b) on Stamp Duty issues, comprising 1884-96 high value 3/- Drab, 4/-, 5/- Maroon on Yellow, 6/-, 10/-, 1884-85 Charles Naish Design 8d, 2/- and 2/6d, and 1886-96 1d, 2d, 4d, 6d and 1/-. All part to large part OG, couple with small perf faults, 10/- with paper adhesions on gum, however generally fine (13)