FINE AND RARE STAMPS 2008, AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, QUEENSLAND

Lot 51		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $480 Old-time forgeries collection annotated on leaves with 'unused' and 'used' Chalons imperf and perf, few genuine for comparison with values to 1/-, 'Half-penny' on 1d genuine and forgery, the early issues as per Earee first and second types, and unlisted types (40). Interesting lot
Lot 52		Estimate: $350 1878 ½d Stamp-size Essay by William Bell in Carmine, void background, handstamped diagonally SPECIMEN in violet on Wmk Crown over Q, ungummed paper
Lot 53		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $260 1879-80 Sideface 2d Blue Die II Imperforate Plate Proof on Wmk Crown over Q paper, endorsed in black ink on front 'S/1880' and on reverse in blue '4-4-80'. 2007 Ceremuga Certificate stating '& notations cannot be proven'
Lot 54		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1882-95 Thin paper high values handstamped 'SPECIMEN' in black, 2/- (diagonal), 2/6d (2), 5/-, 10/- (vertical), £1 (2, one diagonal, other in violet - rounded corner), mixed condition (7)
Lot 55		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $400 1890-94 1d Orange-Vermilion 'Imperforate pair', SG 187a, unmounted
Lot 56		Estimate: $500T 1907-12 Wmk Crown over single-lined A (sideways) £1 Deep Blue-Green, SG 312c, BW Q65B, fine and fresh. Cat £450
Lot 57		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $95 Railway Stamps: 1897 Cairns - Mulgrave Tramway, 2d Red rouletted, C&I 9.031, unused
Lot 58		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $95 Railway Stamps: 1897 Cairns - Mulgrave Tramway, 6d Green rouletted, C&I 9.032, unused
Lot 59		Estimate: $65 Literature: 'Queensland Postal History' (1990), by H.M. Campbell, 326 pages, hardbound with dust jacket. New. Retail AU$82
Lot 60		Estimate: $400 Postal History: 1886 (19 Mar) cover to France bearing 2d Blue strip of five tied by Townsville datestamps and BN '59', French Paquebot datestamp on front, Brisbane, Lyon and Paris backstamps