AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, 1901-12 ESSAYS

Lot 213	[ E ]	Estimate: $2,250 Starting Price: $1,800 1902 Vaughan Essays: 1d King Edward VII 3/4 face portrait with blank tablet at base, in blue on thin card, very fine and rare, ex Hugh Morgan. BW E1A, cat AU$4000
Lot 214	[ E ]	Estimate: $2,250 Starting Price: $1,700 1902 Vaughan Essays: 1d King Edward VII 3/4 face portrait with blank tablet at base, in Brown-olive on thin card, very fine and rare. BW E1B, cat AU$4000
Lot 215	[ E ]	Estimate: $300 Starting Price: $240 1911 Stamp Design Competition: 2d stamp-size photographic essay (48mm x 40mm) featuring Australian Coat-of-arms on map of Australia, signed 'J.E. Wilby' and endorsed on reverse 'Design entered by J.E. Wilby Vic State Printing Office'. Ex Arthur Gray and 'Goldfarm'. As a photographic essay only, unlisted by BW
Lot 216	[ E ]	Estimate: $400 Starting Price: $300 1911 Stamp Design Competition: Large size bromide 165mm x 107mm) featuring a kangaroo on the map of Australia, with stamp-size reproduction at lower left, signed 'G.R. Unthank' and numbered '94' (the competition entry number). Although this design has a considerable resemblance to the issued kangaroo stamps, there is no evidence that it played any part in the design process. The original has apparently not survived, and thus unlisted in BW
Lot 217	[ E ]	Estimate: $2,750 Starting Price: $2,100 1911 Stamp Design Competition: 1d pen-and-ink essay on card (69mm x 55mm) featuring the Australian Coat-of-arms by 'BE UNITED', the pseudonym of Maximilan Tannenberg. He submitted four different pen-and-ink essays, of which this is numbered 'III'. With stamp-size photographic reproduction as stipulated by the competition rules. Small mark at left side of no consequence, and unquestionably one of the most attractive of the 1911 competition entries. BW E67, cat AU$5000
Lot 218	[ E ]	Estimate: $3,500 Starting Price: $3,000 1911 Stamp Design Competition: Perkins, Bacon & Co. artist's stamp-size composite essay, partly handpainted featuring a seated female figure, mounted on card (92mm x 85mm). Perkins, Bacon first made contact with the Australian Post Office in 1902, submitting essays for a uniform issue. These were returned with the explanation that no uniform issue could be made at that time. However, the firm subsequently re-submitted essays for the 1911 Stamp Design Competition under the pseudonym 'Sidero', including the design offered here. A beautiful essay, BW E81, cat AU$6000
Lot 219	[ E ]	Estimate: $2,500 Starting Price: $1,900 1911 Stamp Design Competition: 1d pen and ink essay affixed to artboard (285 x 228mm) featuring Cockatoo by "Haereo", the nom-de-plume of E.T. Luke, with stamp-size bromide of the design attached below. Some minor peripheral soiling. BW E57, cat AU$5000