AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KING GEORGE VI ISSUES

Lot 669		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $340 1937-1952 duplicated accumulation, mostly mint, large quantity of imprint blocks, 1941 surcharges in large blocks, 1/- Lyrebird Perf 13½ x 14 Ash imprint pair, coil perf pairs, Robes including 5/- imprint block, 190./- SPECIMEN opt, £1 thin paper, few perfins, largely MUH (412 M, 25 U)
Lot 670		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $125 1940s and 1950s KGVI accumulation of imprint blocks of 4, definitive and commemorative, denominations to 1/6d and heavily duplicated, virtually all with varying degrees of foxing (several hundreds of blocks)
Lot 671		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $340 Miscellaneous range (largely mint) of KGVI issues, with 1/4d KGVI block of 64, 1942 3d Brown sheet of 160, 6d Kookaburra, 8½d Aborigine plate varieties, 1950 3d Scarlet multiples from booklet plate, 10/- - £2 Arms two used sets, 5/- Arms solo usage on 1958 registered cover to USA, etc (few 100s)
Lot 672		Estimate: $350 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 2d Scarlet KGVI Die I top left corner block of 4 with large portion of partially inked Plate No. '8' mounted in selvedge only which also has two small tone spots. BW 187zk, cat AU$1750
Lot 673		Estimate: $350 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 2d Scarlet KGVI Die I block of 4 from top right corner of sheet showing lower portion of Plate No. '8', mounted in selvedge and on one unit only, small tone spot in right margin. BW 187zl, cat AU$1750
Lot 674		Estimate: $800 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 675		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 3d Blue KGVI Die I 'White Wattles' fresh MUH. BW 190, cat AU$400
Lot 676		1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 3d Blue KGVI Die I 'White Wattles' block of 4 fresh MUH. BW 190, cat AU$1600
Lot 677		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 3d Blue KGVI Die I marginal block of 4 MUH, few small tone spots on lower pair
Lot 678		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 1937-49 Perf 13½ x 14 Robes 5/- Thick Paper pairs (2), £1 Thick Paper Ash imprint block of 4 lower units MUH, and 10/- Thin Paper By Authority imprint block of 4 lower units MUH (12)
Lot 679		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $360 1937-49 Robes 5/-, 10/- and £1 Ash imprint blocks of 4, 5/- and 10/- with faint gum bends, £1 very fine and all MUH (12)
Lot 680		Estimate: $140 1937-49 10/- Robes Chalky paper + 1/6d Hermes + 4d Koala tied by GPO Sydney cds to 1941 (5 Jun) censored cover to USA (11/10d triple clipper rate for 1/1½oz letter)
Lot 681		Estimate: $220 Realised Price : $260 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 ½d Kangaroo study with both C of A Wmk and No Wmk printings with most of the major plate varieties and their subsequent retouches in positional pieces (incl the 'Foggy Hills Retouch' in a block of 80), some with coil perf, also a few blocks with varieties or imprints from the Perf 13½ x 14 issue. Virtually all very fine MUH and an excellent basis for further expansion (approx 1000)
Lot 682		Estimate: $280 Realised Price : $380 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 and 1948-56 No Watermark ½d Kangaroo comprehensive study of the printing electros, mostly in panes of 80 also with a number of sheets of 160, all with plate varieties noted, coil perfs blocks and sheets, wmkd 720 and 960 (2) coil leaders, No Wmk coil perf sheet of 320, and No Wmk sheet of 160 miscut with almost complete imprint at top. Virtually all very fine and MUH, an ex John Heath (1000s)
Lot 683		Estimate: $600 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 2d Scarlet KGVI gutter block of 8 from top of sheet with Plate No. '4' (complete) fine virtually full OG with only one unit hinged. BW 187zc, cat AU$2000
Lot 684		Estimate: $300 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 2d Scarlet KGVI Die II gutter block of 8 from top of sheet showing small portion of Plate No. '12' (Sheet A or B), two units mounted and with somewhat heavy fold through gutter. BW 188zj or zja, cat AU$1750
Lot 685		Estimate: $120 1937-49 Perf 15 x 15 2d Scarlet KGVI Die II 'No Imprint' block of 16, from surplus stock printed from, coil plate perforated and placed on counter sale. Six units mounted, slight gum toning and light crease through one vertical pair, and crease through lower right corner just touching stamp. BW 188zs, cat AU$550
Lot 686		Estimate: $200 1937-49 Perf 15 x 14 3d Brown KGVI gutter block of 8 from base of sheet with large portion of Plate No. '14' without dashes (Sheet C), two units mounted and small marks on reverse of two stamps. BW 196zc, cat AU$600
Lot 687		Estimate: $180 1948-56 1/6d Hermes block of 4 from left of sheet with Plate No. '1' without dashes (Sheet A), very fine with one unit mounted. BW 261z, cat AU$500
Lot 688		Estimate: $80 1948-56 Coat-of-Arms 10/-, £1 and £2 optd SPECIMEN, £2 with traces of hinge (3)
Lot 689		Estimate: $70 Realised Price : $55 1948-56 1/- Lyrebird with uncatalogued variety 'retouched shading lines right of tail' as lower stamp of a used vertical pair. Believed to be the only example so far recorded
Lot 690		Estimate: $80 1950-52 3d Scarlet KGVI Booklet Sheet of 144, fine apart from a few small tone spots, mostly in upper selvedge. BW 251c, cat AU$360
Lot 691		Estimate: $550 Realised Price : $420 1950 NSW and Victoria Stamp Centenaries 2½d Maroon gutter block of 8 from top of sheet with large portion of Plate No. '4' without dashes (Sheet B), very fine and mounted in selvedge only. BW 279zc, cat AU$2250
Lot 692		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $38 1952-65 2/6d Aborigine No Watermark ordinary paper MUH (2), white paper MUH (2) and U (10), and Emergency Printing MUH pair and U. Also variety 'Weak entry Around POSTAGE' (R10/4) in used pair (ordinary paper) and the retouch in used pair (white paper) (21)