AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KANGAROO ISSUES, SMALL MULTIPLE WATERMARK

Lot 628		Estimate: $250 Used accumulation on hagners, with 6d (48), 9d (16), 1/- (53), 2/- (36), range of shades with a few OS punctures, few with faults but mostly good to fine (153)
Lot 629		Estimate: $200 6d Chestnut Plate 3 Ash imprint block of 4 including variety 'White Hairline from Value Circle to Map' (3L54), very fresh with three units MUH. BW 22(3)z, cat AU$450
Lot 630		Estimate: $125 6d Chestnut solo franking cover (central crease) tied by fine strike of scarce Sydney handheld roller cancellation to 1932 cover per R.M.S. 'Narkinda' to Switzerland, paying double foreign letter rate, backstamped on arrival. (The liner Narkinda SS, Capt. L. Parfitt DSC, was serving as an auxiliary transport during the Allied landings in French north Africa in November 1942. She disembarked her troops at Bougie and had turned about for home when, toward evening on the 14th, she was bombed and sunk some distance off Bougie. Thirty-one persons were killed)
Lot 631		Estimate: $300 2/- Maroon well-centred MUH. BW30A, cat AU$750
Lot 632		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $625 5/- Grey and Yellow-orange very fine MUH
Lot 633		Estimate: $650 5/- Grey and Deep Yellow punctured Small 'OS' centred upper right otherwise very fine MUH. BW 44b, cat AU$2500
Lot 634		Estimate: $600 5/- Grey and Yellow-orange Punctured 'OS', centred left otherwise very fine with large aprt OG. BW 45ba, cat AUU$1250
Lot 635		Estimate: $750 10/- Grey and Pale Pink optd SPECIMEN Type C very fine MUH. BW 49x, cat AU$1250
Lot 636		Estimate: $650 10/- Grey and Pale Pink optd SPECIMEN Type C sub-type 2 with Shaved 'P', couple of shortish perfs at base, large part OG and lightly hinged. BW49xd, cat AU$1750