Phoenix Auctions - Day 2 - Saturday 28th July 2012
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1849
1848 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853
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1850
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1851
10/- Grey & Deep Aniline Pink ACSC #48B, Cat $375. —- ACSC #48B, Cat $1,500, fresh and attractive. —- ACSC #48B, clipped tail on Roo, very slightly o/c right and as fresh as the day it was issued, Retail $850. 10/- Grey & Pale Aniline Pink ACSC #48C, light even gum toning, Retail $850. —- ACSC #48C, o/c SW, fresh, Retail $850. —- ACSC #48C, Cat $375, with nice double frame at left caused by kiss print, centred left, nice cds.
1854
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1857
A B2 A B2
—- break in 5th shading line below OS of POST [L47], ACSC #48C, o/c SE, fresh, Retail $850. 10/- Grey & Deep Aniline Pink vertical pair [R33,39] both kiss print through middle with doubling of top of map, top of value circle etc, NWPI overprint (SG #117), usual rough perfs. Ceremuga certificate. A great variety for the Roo collector. A —- wmk inverted, BW #28Ba, Cat $3,000. Odd shortish perf, fresh and rare. A/B C2 10/- Grey & Pale Aniline Pink perf ‘OS’ very fresh right marginal block of 4 [R29-30,35-36] 2**/2* BW #Cba. Sadly a diagonal crease affects three units, the upper left unit **is unaffected, Cat $5,500 (retail POR most lists).
1858
$250 $1,200 $350 $230 $350 $240
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$350 $3,000 $2,000 $1,250
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A B1 A C3
—- perf ‘OS’ BW #48Cba, Cat $500, commercially used in Canberra. 10/- Grey & Deep Aniline Pink perf ‘OS’ CTO, BW #48Bwa, Cat $75, light pink horizontal line though top of Australia, rough perfs. Most unusual. A- B1 —- optd ‘SPECIMEN’ type B, BW #48Bx, creased TRC. A- A2 —- overprinted ‘SPECIMEN’ Type B, BW #48Bx, Cat $350. Woolly perfs, perfect centring. A A2 —- optd ‘SPECIMEN’ type B, BW #48Bx, with white spot to left of P of POST etc [R16], short perf. A —- ‘SPECIMEN’ type B block of 4 [L15-16,21-22]. Unit 22 is actually an official substitution. Interestingly the substitution occured after the Specimen overprint was applied. Lower units MUH. Lovely and fresh a rare block and believed to be unique with the substituted unit.
$240 $135 $220 $180 $160 $7,500