AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KING GEORGE VI ISSUES

Lot 1123		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $145 1940s-1970s range of coil perf pairs and blocks on hagners, mostly mint with a few used, also with test coil pairs in green (2), 'Poached Egg' test coil pair and single, and photogravure test coil strips of 3 (2), and two examples of 'gripper' perfs caused by machine malfunction, on 1950 2d, and 1959 3d used on piece (177)
Lot 1124		Estimate: $1,000 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 KGVI 3d Blue Die I 'White Wattles' marginal strip of 3 MUH (selvedge largely detached, and two with black adhesions on reverse), 3d Blue Die I marginal block of 15 and single superb MUH, 3d Blue Die 1A mint, and 3d Blue Die II Thin Paper mint (21)
Lot 1125		Estimate: $90 Realised Price : $105 1937 N.S.W. Sesquicentenary 9d pair used on parcel post label tied by Hawksburn cds, 15 DE 37. Label with some creasing, otherwise fine and scarce
Lot 1126		1940 A.I.F. collection on leaves comprising single set plus McCracken imprint blocks of 4, varieties on 1d 'Broken Wings on Airman' x 2 in strip of 3, 'Broken Rifle Butt' in block and two pairs with minor retouches, 2d block of 6 on thinner paper, all very fine. BW cat AU$584 (37)
Lot 1127		1942-50 Queen Elizabeth 1½d Green variety 'Misplaced Perforations' block of 4 fresh MUH. BW 226bb, cat AU$1500
Lot 1128		1942-50 KGVI 3½d Blue variety 'Thin Paper' block of 4 fresh MUH. BW 231a, cat AU$500
Lot 1129		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1948-50 Coat-of-Arms 5/- imprint block of 4, 10/- imprint pair, and no imprint block of 4 (lower selvedge trimmed) and another block of 4, £1 block of 4 and single, £2 opt SPECIMEN, plus a used set, virtually all MUH and fine (24)
Lot 1130		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1948-56 Coat-of-Arms 5/-, 10/- and £1 By Authority imprint blocks of 4, 10/- missing corner perf otherwise fine MUH (12)
Lot 1131		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $575 1950-52 KGVI 2½d Scarlet presentation die proof in issued colour in sunken frame, with Note Printing Branch cachet on reverse endorsed '19/22.3.50' (for H.L. Anthony, Postmaster-General), staining mostly on reverse and flap. Eight die proofs were prepared, one of which is in the Royal Collection. BW 249DP(1), cat BW AU$2500