AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, DECIMAL ISSUES

Lot 282		Estimate: $1,200 1966 4c Red QEII from left of sheet with error 'Imperforate at Left', two small tone spots on reverse otherwise very fine MUH. Only ten examples recorded from the only sheet found. BW 439bn, cat AU$3500
Lot 283		Estimate: $90 1970 6c Orange QEII small mint and used study on pages including positional pieces and with a number of the listed plate varieties (80 M, 98 U)
Lot 284		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1966 Navigators 75c and $1 solo frankings, with 1973 (18 Dec) 75c large triple rate to U.S.A. (small tear in stamp at right), 1975 (10 Feb) 75c Messenger delivery cover (opened out), and 1974 (14 Aug) $1 registered to Canada. We note that 75c solo on Special Delivery covers realised AU$750 and AU$1125 at a Melbourne auction house (3)
Lot 285		Estimate: $40 1970 Captain Cook Bicentenary Miniature Sheet ANPEX 70 Overprint used on souvenir cover (scarce, few small tone spots), plus three mint sheets
Lot 286		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 1970-75 Floral Coils 2c Sturt's Desert Rose strip of 7 of which five units are trimmed diagonally and showing error Imperforate', the lower three units showing portions of three normally perforated stamps to the left. Between the fifth and sixth units appear short overlapping colour bars which do not exist on the issued stamps. These imperforate stamps are believed to represent an extra column of stamps that was on the printing plate but was normally trimmed off and discarded. Probably of 'printer's waste' status but nevertheless of considerable technical interest; the BW catalogue illustrates a similar strip of 3. BW 530ce, cat AU$1000
Lot 287		Estimate: $750 1970-75 Floral Coils 7c Sturt's Desert Pea block of 4 cancelled by wavy line machine cancellation 19 NOV 74 and with full OG. Only several such blocks are recorded, and an explanation for their existence has not been forthcoming and the status is uncertain. BW 535b, cat AU$1200
Lot 288		Estimate: $70 1971-74 7c Sturt's Desert Pea coil pair and single with 'Buff Omitted' (BW 535ce), and pair and single with 'Buff and Green Misplaced' (BW unlisted), fine MUH. Cat AU$900+ in 2002 (6)
Lot 289		Estimate: $250 1970-71 7c Sturt's Desert Pea Coil error 'Buff Omitted and Green Misplaced' strips of 5 and 3, and single, all fine MUH. BW 535ce, cat AU$2700 (2002), SG 468bb, cat £2025
Lot 290		Estimate: $2,500 1970-75 Floral Coils 7c Sturt's Desert Pea strip of 6 all with error 'Buff Omitted and Green Misplaced', stamps 3, 4, and 5 additionally with error 'Black Omitted' (partial on stamp 5), superb MUH. The rarest of all the 7c missing colour errors, with 12 strips recorded. BW 535cd, cat AU$3500
Lot 291		Estimate: $200 1970-75 Floral Coils 7c Sturt's Desert Pea strip of 4 with upper pair error 'Buff and Green Misplaced', and lower pair error 'Buff and Green Omitted', superb MUH. BW 535cg, cat AU$250+
Lot 292		Estimate: $800 1970-75 Floral Coils 7c Sturt's Desert Pea strip of 6 with error 'Buff Omitted and Green Misplaced', and a second strip of 6 with top two 'Buff and Green Misplaced', third stamp 'Buff and Green Misplaced with Buff Partly Omitted', and lower three 'Buff Omitted and Green Misplaced', both strips superb MUH, the second with 1998 RPSV Certificate. BW 535ce, cat AU$2700 (12)
Lot 293		Estimate: $30 1972 Munich Olympic Games set in matching Perth FDI cancelled blocks of 4 on Post Office 'Wattle' long generic FDCs (4), unaddressed, very scarce
Lot 294		Estimate: $300 1972 Olympic Games 7c Rowing upper left corner block of 8 (4 x 2) with varieties 1/2 ('Retouch to Munich 1972'), 1/3 (Circular White Ring on Dark Blue Band') and 2/1 ('Retouch to tral of Australia'). fine MUH, BW 602d,e,f, and amongst the scarcest of decimal plate varieties and a rare positional block, undercatalogued at AU$720+
Lot 295		Estimate: $200 1975 10c Star Sapphire Definitive variety 'Printed on Gummed side' block of 4 from right of sheet, also single MUH. BW 648ci, cat AU$500
Lot 296		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1975 Prime Ministers 10c J.A. Lyons variety 'Printed on Gummed Side' fresh MUH. BW 694c cat AU$200, SG 591a cat £130
Lot 297		Estimate: $200 1980 National Stamp Week 22c left-hand pane of 50 with all selvedge removed, the fourth horizontal showing a paper join variety affecting all units. From the same sheet as the previous lot. Light tone spots on some units including the variety stamps, BW 878ba, cat AU$400+
Lot 298		Estimate: $70 1990-1991 Collectors' Yearbook (Frama, Booklet and self-adhesive Stamps), in slip case with technical details of the production of these issues (two copies), plus the stamps included with the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993 Collector's Yearbooks (Total face value AU$106)
Lot 299		Estimate: $1,400 1992 45c Thinking of You Booklet error 'All Printing on Stamp Pane Omitted', very fine and one of two recorded examples, with 2000 RPSV Certificate. BW B190Ac, cat AU$4000
Lot 300		Estimate: $1,100 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive Booklet Original Printing error 'All Printing (except helecon) Omitted', very fine, with normal booklet for comparison. BW 1564ca, which states about five booklets have been recorded, cat AU$3000
Lot 301		Estimate: $350 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive Booklet first reprint (1 Koala) variety 'Misplaced Die-cuts 6mm Downwards and 5mm to Left', very fine and probably the most spectacular of all the various misplacements found on these booklets. BW 1565ba, cat AU$750
Lot 302		Estimate: $200 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive Booklet (second reprint with 2 Koalas) error 'Die-cuts Omitted', very fine, approximately 20 recorded. BW 1566(1)b, cat AU$450
Lot 303		Estimate: $350 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive booklet sixth reprint (1 Kangaroo 1 Koala) error 'Helecon Omitted', very fine and rare, BW 1566(5)c which states four booklets exist, cat AU$1000
Lot 304		Estimate: $200 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive Sheetlet of 5 with overprint for World Columbian Stamp Expo error 'Imperforate', superb. It is believed that 48 sheetlets (an uncut printer's sheet) were issued thus. BW 1328cb, cat AU$500
Lot 305		Estimate: $90 1992 Threated Species Self-adhesive Sheetlet of 5 error 'Punch Hole at Bottom of Sheetlet', superb. BW 1567b, cat AU$200
Lot 306		Estimate: $70 1992 Threatened Species Self-adhesive sheetlet of 5 trial printing with 'All-over Helecon'. BW 1328c, cat AU$150
Lot 307		Estimate: $220 Realised Price : $170 1994 45c Kangaroos and Koalas Definitives se-tenant block of 6 error 'Misplaced Perforations 6mm upwards' superb MUH, with normal block for comparison. BW 1722ba, cat AU$500 (12)
Lot 308		Estimate: $60 1994 Kangaroos and Koalas Definitives sheetlet of 5 with error 'Punch Hole at bottom of Sheetlet' superb mint. BW 1752b, cat AU$150 (2002)
Lot 309		Estimate: $90 1995 'The World Down Under' 45c Giant Trevally design error 'Misplaced Die-cuts 6mm to the right' used on small piece with machine cancel. Believed to be from a booklet rather than a roll, and showing a small portion of a marginal inscription to the right that is normally trimmed off the booklet panes. Rare, it is not certain that any other examples survive. BW 1894b, cat AU$100
Lot 310		Estimate: $1,200 1995 Christmas 45c Self-adhesive Booklet error 'Imperforate', very fine. BW 1901Ab, which states three complete booklets exist, cat AU$3500
Lot 311		Estimate: $800 1995 45c Christmas from $8 booklet error 'Die-cuts Omitted' block of 4 on small piece cancelled at Toowoomba (Qld), May 1996. Minor wrinkles on lower units, otherwise very fine and the only recorded used examples. BW 1901Ab, cat AU$3200
Lot 312		Estimate: $2,000 2000 Australian Olympic Games Gold Medallists: 45c Grant Hackett digitally-printed sheetlet of 10 error 'Printing Inverted' resulting in gross misplacement of perforations (the printing was made on pre-perforated sheets), fresh MUH and very rare. BW 2356c cat AU$3000