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Australia, collection in cliplock holder stored on Hagner sheets, King George V - Elizabeth II, includes KGV heads complete range of shades (1d red, 11 shades noted) these mint or MUH (83), KGVI sets to pound included robes thick and thin papers, also arms, navigators pre-decimal and decimal including Specimen decimal series, 1971 Xmas (3x25 panes), AAT sets blocks of 4 of 1966 decimal birds, and others to 1971. Mostly MUH, a few only mint. (100s)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,400
Australia and Territories, in cliplock folder on Hagner sheets, Australia pre-decimal from 1953 including navigators set and Specimen set (illustrated £2), decimal from 1966 - 1979 including navigators, BCOF set to 5/- (5/- illustrated) (MUH), Norfolk Island issues from 1947 - 1970, Christmas Islands to 1966, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to 1966, AAT, PNG including 1952 set to £1 (mint) with issues to c.1970. MUH and mint. (100s)
Estimate $400
SOLD $550
Australian, 1913-1956, plus States and a page of Papua New Guinea, all hinged to leaves in spring back album, all annotated in owner's hand with varieties described. Fine used but heavily mounted by hinges. (approx 300)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
Australia, MUH and used in three albums: mint blocks of four with imprint 1950s, various issues used in Prinz album; selection of used, 1950s-1970s, mint issues including Melbourne Olympics in blocks of four in a Lighthouse album; various Australian and foreign in a VST album. Mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $30
SOLD $80
Australia, 1977 18c QEII Silver Jubilee imperforate block of 24. MUH. (24)
Estimate $400
SOLD $470
Australia, 1977 18c and 45c QEII Silver Jubilee imperforate pairs of each denomination. MUH. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
Australia, Post Office year books, with stamps from 1981 - 1996. MUH. (16)
Estimate $250
SOLD $180
Australia, Australia post year books with stamps for years 1988, 1989-1991 (2 of each), 1996 (3), 1997, 1998-2003 (2 of each), 2004; Sydney Olympics, Gold Medallists, 2000 (2), Prestige Album 2000. MUH. (27)
Estimate $600
SOLD $460
Australia, Australia Post year books with stamps for year 1981-2002, 2004-2007; The Collectors Year Books with supplements, 1990/1991 (2), 1992/1993; Golden Heroes stamp book 2000; A Selection of the Engraved Stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia (3); The Australian Territories Collection 1994, 1999, 2005, 2006. All in Deluxe albums, except Australian Territories Collections, MUH. (37)
Estimate $700
SOLD $600
Australia, Post Office packs (approx 80) all c.1980s - late 1990s, together with MUH stamps (approx $100 FV) in a blue cliplock folder. MUH. (lot)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
Australia, various post office packs for Cook Bicentenary 70, Expo 70, First Fleet, Bicentenary 88, Sydney Harbour Tunnel Opening 92; first day covers and pre-stamped envelopes (13); Togo, Princess Diana plate block of nine stamps, 1997; also fold-out card for Australian Memento of Royal Visit 1952 for students, signed at Grafton Boys School. Used - MUH. (23)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Australia, MUH, booklets and post office packs, a quantity of (approx. FV $500), together with a few FDC and mostly unused pre-stamped covers (approx. 200), a quantity of envelopes many address to Alan Bond and the America's Cup Challenge, MUH stamps from USA and Great Britain, old stamp albums etc. MUH, mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Australia, 50th anniversary of National Stamp Week, Australia Post and Perth mint issue in folder "The Classic Kookaburra" 2009, with 2009 specimen one dollar silver coin 'The Australian Kookaburra', and M/S of 55c (6d kooka) M/S 650/750 and 20c 3d M/S, another set 640/750. FDC and MUH. (2 sets)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Australia, first day covers, first day of issue envelopes and postcards, a few without postmark, a large collection mostly from 1980s; also Australian Paintings $2, $5 and $10 specimens in folder (issued at Ausipex 84); World Expo 1988 $2 (4) and $5 (4) dollar notes with issue envelopes for special release in 1993; promotional Australian $100 banknote copies overprinted in Chinese for use towards cost of joining aerobatic class (6). In prestigious leather Lighthouse album in slipcase with vendor's list of items, used - uncirculated. (192)
Estimate $300
Passed in
Australia, SG cover album of FDCs together with extras from PNG, NZ, Pacific Islands etc, together with loose envelopes some containing stamps and other covers including decimal navigators FDC. Used. (approx 100)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Australia, a large accumulation of FDC, used stamps, FDC are in four FDC folders and loose, together with an album of used stamps, quantities of used on paper all stored in a large container. Used. (1,000s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Australia, pre-stamped first day of issue postcards 1990-2000 (456); range of mint and used decimal stamps (approx 200); unused pre-paid envelopes (3). Used, and a few MUH. (approx 659)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Australia, Bound, slipcased volume by AP 'A Selection of the Engraved Stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia'. As new.
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Australia and world, a small group including PO packs for Xmas 1969, 1970 RV, National Development, FDC Xmas 1971, other Australian FDC c.1971 (15); NZ covers etc (6), Russia 1989 issues in envelope, other Russian issues, world covers etc. MUH, CTO used. (lot)
Estimate $60
Passed in
British Commonwealth, an incomplete extensive range of issues in a green Lighthouse stock book arranged alphabetically from 1953 - mid 1960s, countries include , Antiqua, Ascension, Bahamas, British Honduras, Cook Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Dependencies, Malaya, Monserrat, Niue, Nyasaland, St. Helena, New Zealand, and a few Australia including Arms to pound. Some MUH. (100s)
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
British Commonwealth, a small stock book of issues mostly on a thematic theme including West Indies islands, some PNG (including CTO's), incomplete 1953 Coronation, 1965 Churchill series of his life from all Brit. Comm. countries, West Indies Federation 1958, Freedom from Hunger series A -Z, ICU, Royal Visit to the Caribbean 1966, and other singles and short sets. Mostly MUH. (several 100)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Caroline Islands, 3 mark and 5 mark (SG 24, 25), dated 1916 each on pieces, (SG CV £640). Used with clear postmarks. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $180
China, an extensive collection of issues laid up and described in a large Lighthouse stockbook, Municipal Posts Treaty Port issues including Shanghai from 1866 and includes SG 16a (thin), 30a, 32-40 (mint), 93-5 (used) 97, 103, 105-112 (mint), Postage Due D130-2, 147-8 mint; other issues from Amoy (SG 1-5) mint; Chefoo mint and used including SG 11-13 mint; Chinkiang (4); Chungking (7); Foochow, mint set SG 1-10; Hankow, SG 1-2 used, 7 and 20 mint; Ichang SG 2, 8 used; Kewkiang SG 1-10, O/P 18-20 with extras; Nanking SG 1-9, 16 mint; Tientsin bogus issues; Wei Hai Wei, strip of 3 SG 3 mint and very rare (illustrated); Wuhu (2); China Expeditionary Forces 1900-1914, SG C1-10, C12-22 all mint, extras 3 used; British Railway Administration 5c on 1/2 cent mint SG BR133 (illustrated); Imperial Customs Post, SG 5 (illustrated), 9 rare thinned, 60th anniversary including SG 23-24 used; 1900 post cards with Chinese stamps imorinted (2); Chinese Imperial Post O/P used SG 36, others 1/2c - 30c O/P set of 1897 series; regular series 1897-1906 incomplete used to $1; range of issues for Hong Kong; German issues O/P for China, Kiautchou; France and Indo China issues O/P for regions in China; Chinese Republic 1912-1949 mostly used incomplete sets with extras; air stamps of 1921 SG 352-356 90c (illustrated) (set CV £525) etc., A great range of issues needing close inspection, noted also covers, post cards, cigarette cards scattered throughout. Mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,400
China, an extensive collection of Nationalist China, issued during the war and in the later period during the post-war inflation covering the period 1944-1949, all are described and placed on black Hawid mounts, each page written up and held within a brown spring back album with 167 album pages. It contains a study collection of 100s of issues some as sheets, many are briefly described below. Dr Sun Yat Sen series including a block of 2x10 $50 (SG 709) with misplaced perfs and imperf base; 5 imprint blocks of 8-15 stamps for $2 and varieties including a sheet of 50 (SG 758), imprint blocks of 1945 isues (SG 808-813) and varieties with misplaced perfs; 1947 issues (SG 947-950) including used in blocks etc; 1946 imprint blocks, other blocks and varieties, imperf., at base, double perfs etc. (SG 906A-911A, 906B-911B, 912-5), 1947 1st anniv. Nanking return, set with imprint and plate blocks etc (SG 942-6), 1947-8 set, imprint blocks and blocks of $150-$500,000 (SG 955-971, with high CV £1000s, also includes unissued values $100, $700, $350, (all illustrated), another (illustrated a printing fold on $1000); others to $5 million, includes imprint blocks, flaws etc., (SG 1032-1043), 1949 set imprint blocks (SG 1152 - 1160) including imperf., blocks and pairs with off centre and edge margins and folded paper flaws (one block $20 illustrated), others with imperf. varieties ($20 imperf used unlisted, illustrated), misplaced perfs, double perfs and prints, (including SG 885a CV £500); pages of multiples blocks etc (SG 759-761) together with imperf on edges, printing flaws, misplaced perfs., prints on both sides strips etc., (eg.SG 760b), other varieties; 1944 bank and money box issues blocks, part sheets, some printing faults (SG 731-734); 1945 death anniv. sets in blocks and additional imprints (SG 746-751); 1946 sets including 3x50 used and 1x50 MUH, sheets of $5000, imprints blocks etc of all issues, varieties; 1948 TB issues including imperfs and imprint blocks, misplaced perf (illustrated); CMSNC etc., Philatelic Exhibition imprint blocks (SG 1001); some commem sets blocks with imprints, Confucius set, Posts commem., (SG 981-992, 1001-4), a few 1948 O/P revaluations, etc. An extraordinary accumulation written up 60 years ago by a specialist, some original items previously removed, but appears to be a unique collection on about 167 pages. MUH, mint and used. (1,000s)
Estimate $7,500
SOLD $7,600
China, an extensive collection of Nationalist China issues in the war period 1941-1944 for Sinkiang Province, all described and placed on black Hawid mounts, and written up on each page in a green spring back album with about 99 album pages and three cards, contains a study collection of 100s of issues some as sheets, noted p.12.5 issues SG 150 (£160), imprint blocks of 4 MUH (SG 139 - 150) with two blocks in different postions for imprint (CV £840); together with larger blocks of all denominations, noted $1 (54 examples mostly as blocks) and a sheet of 50 (SG 148; $5 (23 examples] mostly as blocks) (SG 150); perf. 14 issues 1941 set to $20; 2x5c, 4x8c imprint block of 4 MUH 8c with star in button or without star (plain) in button, 4 x 10c both types, 4 x 30c (SG 151-157); vertical pairs $1 - $20 (SG 160-4); noted block of 4 of 5c olive green (cf.SG 151a) unlisted colour (illustrated); a few as imprints, 8c (SG 152) as blocks and singles, (SG 153 a single issue); 10c (38), 30c (30), 50c (50), $1 (46), $2 (43), $5 (45), $10 (52), $20 (49), blocks and pairs (SG 152-164); 3xsheets of 50 of $20 (SG 164); Martyrs issues near complete sets with extras (44 + 33 [on cards]), (SG 165-178) additional blocks of 4, (5) (cf.SG 179-186); some wmk paper blocks 2.5 c (4), 4x20c blue wmk. paper unlisted extremely rare ; no wmk. 40c with double perf block of 4 (illustrated); Air stamps of 1932 hand stamped in red 5c and 10 c mint, 30c used (all illustrated); 1943-4 air mail issues air stamps (14) with red O/P with extras complete (cf.SG 187-194); overprint errors doubled, inverted 25c - 90c; additional issues on with no wmk. others on wmk paper O/P in black, (70) (cf.SG 195-213) including (SG 208) very rare; used examples of (SG 187-194) (8), 25c (illustrated) (SG 188, CV £550); with special cancellations additional (7) these all on pieces; normal issues O/P red used 15c - $5 (15); additional blocks singles etc O/P in black on air stamps includes 25c imperf., between pair (illustrated); 1944 Thrift commem. issues O/P in red, set of 6 (SG 214-219 CV £1500) additionals (5) double O/P 21c and $1, 28c block of 4 with one stamp inverted O/P; strip of 2x10 21c with half with O/P and no O/P on other half, imperf set complete (SG -); M/S of imperf set no gum with red (cancelled at Tihwa) and another with black O/P unused (illustrated); very rare M/S (SG MS 219, 226), (CV £2250, £6000); imprint blocks of 4, 8c (3); 21c; 33c (4) and single O/P inverted (illustrated); $1. An extraordinary accumulation written up 60 years ago by a specialist, some original items previously removed, but appears to be a unique collection on about 99 pages. MUH, mint and used. (many 100s)
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $5,900
China, extensive collection housed in a large Lighthouse stock book, various issues including Chinese Nationalist issues from September 1945, noted victory issues, air stamp surcharges, a good representative series as sets some MUH, mint and some used, a few covers, 1948 revaluations, many used, gold currency, Provincial issues from Sinkiang, Szechwan, NW Provinces; Japanese occupation issues to air raid precaution August 1945, other occupationissues of Manchukuo, Nationalist and Communist 1937-1945 noted $12 Victory over Japan SG NC23 mint; Communist provincial issues, some Communist China issues from 1949 - 1997 including M/S, noted SG 1456-8 mint, flag 1465, 1467, 1520-2; Issues for Taiwan, including several 1895 issues. Mint or MUH and used. (100s)
Estimate $250
SOLD $1,700
China, collection, housed in an Official Chinese government stock book, containg issues of the People's Republic of China, from 1949 - 1965, also M/S of 1980 generals SG 5023-5032, includes all as used or CTO issues, noted Foundation of People's Republic 1950 (SG 1432-1435), a good range of issues as sets from 1949 including SG 1401-1411, 1464-1473, 1507-1512, 1519-1579, also a good range appears aabout complete for commemorative issues, noted SG 1861, goldfish SG 1911-1922, landscapes and others SG 2124-2139, 2166-7, 2184-2207, 2235-2237 these MUH (cat £200), 2240, etc. Fine used, a few of 1964-5 are MUH. (approx 300)
Estimate $400
SOLD $1,300
China, collection housed in a stock book, includes 1970 set taking tiger mountain (SG 2435-2440), 1971 (50th anniv. set) (SG 2446-2451 and 2452a horizontal strip of 3) (illustrated), shipping (SG 2485-8), a good range of issues from 1972- including SG 2480-4, 2489-2492, 2494-7, 2512-9, 2637-2652, also includes monkey stamp (SG 2968). Some toning noticed on some issues, otherwise all MUH. (approx 300)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $4,200
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Emergency overprints set of 6 and extra two $5 O/P issue and 95c issue overprinted without value (43c), 'Official Paid Mainland'. This used, other MUH. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
England - Australia 1932, First All-Australian Air Mail Xmas Greetings cover, left London 7th January 1932, arrived 21st January 1932, postmarked 'Post early for Christmas'; Germany - Australia, 1936, airletter to Australia, back stamped Sydney 25 December 1936; another Spain to Cuba, 1937 censored cover flown via Lisbon and New York. The last with some small faults, used. (3)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30