1890-1909 mint and used accumulation on hagners, with 1890-94 Blue and Brown issues with ½d M (13 incl block of 4) and U (3), 1d M (9) and U (13), 2d M (4) and U (17), 4d M and U (10), 5d M and U (2), 6d M and U (2), 10d, 1/- U and 5/- M (fine with large part OG). 1895-1909 Red and Green issues, mixed watermarks with most printings well represented, with ½d M (13) and U (25), 1d M (9) and U (87), 2d M (5) and U (112), 4d M (6) and U (43), 5d M (2), U (3) and opt Specimen, 6d M (5) and U (3), 10d M, 1/- M (2) and U (2), 2/- M (3) and 5/- M and U (high values fine). Some faults but generally good to fine, high catalogue value (402)
Lot 130
Estimate: $400
Realised Price : $300
1890-1909 mint and used collection on leaves of the various printings, with 1890-94 Blue and Brown to 4d incl pairs, 1895-96 Rosine and Bluish-green M to 2/-, later issues mixed M and U with values to 5/-, including 1903 2/- and 5/- M and 5/- U, with most mint fine with OG. A very useful lot with high catalogue value. (35 M, 62 U)
Lot 131
Estimate: $350
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d to 5/- Dull Blue and Brown-lake set, ½d, 1d, 6d, 10d, 1/- and 5/- with watermark inverted. heavily hinged, couple with tone spots on gum, and 4d with small thin. SG D1-10 cat £425, BW VD1-10 cat AU$1005 (10)
Lot 132
Estimate: $450
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d to 4d Dull Blue and Claret (½d) or Dull Blue and Brownish-red, 5d to 5/- Dull Blue and Brown-lake, ½d, 5d, 6d and 5/- watermark inverted, all part OG and generally fine. SG D1-4a, D5-10, cat £425+, BW VD1-4B, VD5-10, cat AU$1050 (10)
Lot 133
Estimate: $300
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d to 5/- Dull Blue and Brown-lake set (½d in pair) fine used. SG D1-10 cat £200, BW VD1-10 Cat AU$610 (1)
Lot 134
Estimate: $120
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d Dull Blue and Deep Claret vertical marginal block of 10 MUH, few units with marks of apparent offset of frame plate. SG D1a, cat £47.50+, BW VD1B, Cat AU$250
Lot 135
Estimate: $350
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d to 5/- Dull Blue and Brown-lake set handstamped italic Specimen (Type 24b, 'S' complete), 1d, 4d, 5d, 6d and 1/- watermark inverted, all largely no gum otherwise of fine appearance. SG D1-10s cat £325, BW VD1-10x, cat AU$845 (10)
Lot 136
Estimate: $425
Realised Price : $320
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d Dull Blue and Deep Claret, 1d to 5/- Dull Blue and Brown-lake set handstamped italic Specimen (mixed types - ½d, 6d, 1/-, 2/- Type 24a ('S' incomplete, others Type 24b ('S' complete)), ½d, 5d and 2/- watermark inverted. 5d no gum, others part OG and generally fine. SG D1-10s, cat £325, BW VD1-10x, cat AU$845 (10)
Lot 137
Estimate: $100
Postage Dues: 2d Dull Blue and Brownish-red cancelled boxed 'L.C. 2', NO 1 90. The first few weeks of use and believed to be the earliest recorded date of use of this marking as a canceller
Lot 138
Estimate: $200
Realised Price : $380
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) 5d Dull Blue and Brown-lake handstamped italic Specimen (Type 24a - 'S' incomplete) inverted, fine with part OG and rare. BW VD5xa, cat AU$200
Lot 139
Estimate: $200
1890-94 Watermark V over Crown (V2) (inverted) 6d Dull Blue and Brown-lake variety 'Double Perforation' down left side, fine without gum, and the basis for the catalogue listing. BW VD6b, cat AU$250
Lot 140
Estimate: $300
Realised Price : $230
Cancelled-to-order: duplicated range on hagner, with 1895-96 V2 Wmk 10d (3), 1/- (3) Rosine and Bluish-green, 2/- (5, one faded), 5/- (3, one faded) Pale Red and Yellow-green, 1897-99 V3 Wmk 2d, 5d (4), 6d (3) Scarlet and Yellow-green, and 1900-04 V4 Wmk ½d (2), 2d, 4d Scarlet and Deep Green. Range of dates, few with faults, many have gum (26)
Lot 141
Estimate: $350
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d-1/- Rosine and Bluish-green, and 2/-, 5/- Pale Red and Yellowish-green mint set, part OG, the ½d, 4d, 5d and 1/- with inverted watermark, couple somewhat heavily hinged otherwise fine. SG D11-20, cat £300, BW VD11-20, cat AU$765 (10)
Lot 142
Estimate: $275
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown V2 ½d to 1/- Rosine and Bluish-green and 2/-, 5/- Pale Red and Yellowish-green set, 2d, 4d and 2/- with watermark inverted. ½d, 1d and 5/- no gum, others part OG and generally fine. SG D11-20 cat £300, BW VD11-20 cat AU$665 (10)
Lot 143
Estimate: $350
Realised Price : $320
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) ½d to 1/- Rosine and Bluish-green and 2/-, 5/- Pale Red and Yellowish-green set handstamped italic Specimen (Type 24b - 'S' complete), ½d, 1d, 2d, 4d and 6d with watermark inverted. Part OG (gum missing at top of each stamp due to previous affixing) and of fine appearance. BW D11-20x, cat AU$605 (10)
Lot 144
Estimate: $350
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) Rosine and Bluish-green printing with 'Double Perforation' varieties, comprising 1d horizontal pair (at top, wmk inverted), 10d (at top, wmk upright), and 1/- (at top, wmk upright, with straight edge at base). The first two part OG, the 1/- no gum. The 1d uncatalogued, and 10d and 1/- unpriced mint (4)
Lot 145
Estimate: $500
Realised Price : $380
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) (inverted) 2d Rosine and Bluish-green vertical strip of 4 from top right corner of sheet with two strikes of the 12 x 12½ comb resulting in double perforation on three sides. Light horizontal crease through third unit otherwise very fine MUH. Unlisted by BW in this printing
Lot 146
Estimate: $300
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) Rosine and Bluish-green printing with 'Double Perforation' varieties, comprising 2d (at top, wmk inverted), 4d horizontal pair (at bottom, wmk inverted), and 1/- (at top, wmk upright) fine used, 4d pair with reinforced perfs. BW VD13b,18b plus 4d (unlisted), cat AU$200++ (4)
Lot 147
Estimate: $200
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) 10d Rosine and Bluish-green variety 'Double Perforation' at top, two examples with strip pasted over off-centre perforation. One has large part OG and watermark inverted and straight edge at base, the other without gum and watermark upright - thus from different sheets despite their almost identical appearance. Both are CTO with differing dates. BW VD17b, cat AU$200 (2)
Lot 148
Estimate: $550
1895-96 Watermark V over Crown (V2) 5/- Pale Red and Yellowish-green vertical block of 8 cancelled in manuscript pencil 'H J J/2 5 04', used on a bulk postage docket, fine and a rare multiple. SG D20 cat £320, BW VD20, cat AU$1000
Lot 149
Estimate: $80
1897-99 Watermark V over Crown (V3) 2d Pale Scarlet and Yellow-green variety 'Double Perforation' down left side, cancelled Barred Numeral '179?'. Unlisted by BW
Lot 150
Estimate: $500
Realised Price : $380
1897-99 Watermark V over Crown (V3) 4d and 6d Pale Scarlet and Yellow-green, also 1900-04 Watermark V over Crown (V4) ½d Pale Red and Deep Green, handstamped italic Specimen Type 24b ('S' complete). No gum and 6d with rounded corner, but very rare with very few examples of the Specimen handstamp recorded on the V3 and V4 issues. BW VD23x,24x, 26x, cat AU$600 (3)
Lot 151
Estimate: $2,000
Realised Price : $1,500
1905-09 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A ½d Dull Scarlet and Pea-green horizontal pair, right unit Compound Perf 12 x 12 and 11 (down right side). Part OG and somewhat heavily hinged, and the rarest Victorian postage due with four mint and four used examples recorded by BW. Undercatalogued by SG at £550, BW VD39, cat AU$2500
Lot 152
Estimate: $1,500
Realised Price : $1,150
1905-09 Watermark Crown over Double-lined A Unissued 5d Dull Scarlet and Pea-green, fine with large part OG. This example has watermark inverted, which does not seem to have been noted on any examples offered in recent times (and is not recorded in BW catalogue). Rare with only a small number recorded in private hands. SG cat £2000, BW VD38, cat AU$2000
