SPECIMEN STAMPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, TASMANIA, PRESENTATION AND DISPLAY SETS

Lot 263		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $1,800 1900 Display Sheet (280 x 460mm) headed ‘POSTAGE STAMPS OF TASMANIA/ SHOWING YEAR WHEN ISSUED’ with printed spaces for 45 stamps, comprising 16 reprints, and original stamps optd SPECIMEN (8) or c.t.o. (21). Tear at top, but a very scarce sheet
Lot 264		1901 Federal Presentation Set, comprising obsolete stamps represented by optd Reprints (13, 1d - 1/- Chalons, 4d and 5/- Sidefaces, 3d - 10/- St. George and Dragon, 1d and 6d Platypus) and current issues cancelled-to-order with ‘HOBART/TASMANIA’ c.d.s for AP 17 1901 (21, 3d, 8d, 9d and 10d Sidefaces, ½d - 10/- Tablets, and ½d - 6d Pictorials), mostly without gum. This is the complete set lacking only the ½d on 1d and 2½d on 9d Reprints. Few small faults, still a very difficult assembly